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amarriageoftrueminds · 7 months ago

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thing about Steve's story that is getting right on my tits today:

why didn't Steve already know about Operation Paperclip before Nat told him?

fury in A1: there' a lot we have to bring you up to date on ...but not those hydra weapons. ignore those. 👀

fury in CATWS *before he has supposedly found out about hydra*: y'know the SSR did a lot of shady shit back in the day...

SIR? what do you mean??

what are these mysterious things the SSR did that we never saw which Steve is expected to know about and accept culpability for?

if you think the SSR was shady why are you working for SHIELD?? *something something devil's sacrament something something

where was all this info in Steve's 'pls come to work for me immediately the world is in danger' 🥺 briefing in A1?

It seriously looks like they just left steve to flounder and update himself on modern history all on his own... while conveniently neglecting to mention all the things they knew would make him uncooperative. 😒

#steve rogers #catws #catws meta #mcu critical #mcu salt #anti nick fury #steve meta #my meta #mcu meta #meta #dat's me #doylist answer: because they wanted it to be a horrifying surprise and steve wouldn't have worked for them if he'd known #but it also makes you wonder about SHIELDra ie. deliberately interfering with what steve is allowed to find out without steve realising it #and what about random ppl on the street? random fans wanting to come up and talk to him?#when you look back at sam's grimace (obviously expecting a maga-ty answer) when he asks if steve misses 'the good old days'#I wonder if captain america's public image had been so bastardised...#that random ppl wouldn't even bother to question steve about eg. 'hey so what do you think about that operation paperclip thing SHIELD did?'#because they think Captain 'Murica would be all in favour...#since his public image has been co-opted and tainted by SHIELDra and the ppl who run it #see: peggy inserting herself into an exhibition about a man WHO DID NOT DATE HER ...#after having dined out off 'knowing' him / built her whole career from associating herself w/ his accomplishments #see: howard stark mythologising himself as an american hero (see: tony BOASTING about the fact that daddy was on the manhattan project)#...crediting captain america's creation to... HIMSELF! like erskine didn't even exist! and steve's personality had nothing to do w/ it!#...mythologising himself as steve's friend when he actually spent all the war talking shit about steve both to his face and behind his back #...re-branding his Nazi-headhunter org and re-naming it after STEVE's PRE-ARMY trademark #like he didn't steal that vibranium from wakanda and wasn't the one trying to *dissuade* steve from even picking that shield...#(I wonder how phillips dined out off steve too? maybe he was too proud and prickly to do that??)

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