#i will not tolerate catfa slander

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i actually liked/am more emotionally attached to catfa than catws (wasnt able to see catws in theaters so i saw it years later after everyone was done talking about it and i love it!!! but idk catfa just has more sentimental value to me) so like as a catfa stan i just wanna say even going from catfa directly to endgame doesnt make the movie make sense from Steve’s POV

so you have preserum steve who tries to enlist 5 times because “there are men laying down their lives i got no right to do any less than them” which shows that he is not content with staying in the sidelines, he argues about it with bucky! it establishes his core characteristics, along with:

“I don’t like bullies I don’t care where they’re from” - combined with the above, it means he will always do the right thing and the right thing is standing up to injustices no matter who’s committing them

“did you have something against running away” “you start running they never let you stop” - he will always face the problem head on

and “i can do this all day” but people have talked about it a lot already so im going to focus on the first two points

of course he shouldn’t be expected to fight all his life, he deserves retirement BUT living in the past isn’t retirement, instead it shows steve running away from the present. if you go by the russos explanation he escapes to an alternate universe where everything is alright and literally leaves everyone else to deal with the consequences of a post-snap world. just because he’s tired and doesn’t want to deal with it???? idk by that logic everyone should be able to break the rules of time travel to run away to an alternate universe where everything is fine it’s just that steve was the only one who got the opportunity to do it. anyway the bottom line is steve ran away

and not only that, he chose to live in the past knowing that he’s not allowed to interfere with anything. it means he’s literally living in the sidelines for 70+ years, that’s he’s content to just sit and watch tragedies and big world changing events and just so much death and NOT do anything about it at all. im not saying that he should be in the thick of it and save everyone, im saying that he willingly chose to put himself in circumstances that don’t allow him to interfere. he’s ok with doing nothing about 70+ years of injustices happening right in front of him

if steve rogers really was that man at the end of endgame he never would have become captain america in the first place because he wouldn’t have tried to enlist multiple times and been on esrkine’s radar, who btw specifically said “it’s not the exams that interest me, it’s the five tries”

idk it just feels like people who say catfa supports the endgame ending literally only watched the scenes with peggy in them and ignored everything else lol. anyway just wanted to say that catfa establishes steve’s core characteristics and endgame betrayed that in the worst possible way (ALSO had steve said hail hydra. it wasn’t ok in the hydra!cap comics a few years ago, it’s not ok now and NEVER will be ok)