age of ultron is The Worst Movie Ever Made in many respects but steve’s nightmare scene is really well done and like…i hate how people misinterpret it as steve not wanting to live in a world without war cus if you like…watch it it’s about him being afraid that he doesn’t know how to exist outside of fighting/being cap because since coming out of the ice it’s all that’s been expected of him which really fits in well with how lost he is in winter soldier (”what makes you happy?” “i don’t know”). also the PTSD stuff is really well done and Chris acts it so well like he’s literally jumping and dodging out of the way at camera flashes and it’s just…idk it’s one of the movie’s few saving graces
I know it’s like no you dumb idiots, he doesn’t love fighting, he’s afraid he has no place in the world except for the fighting. Ultron is the bad guy, just because he says something, doesn’t make it true. The fact that they can’t tell the PTSD stuff is beyond me, I mean he’s jumping at flashbulbs, he’s seeing spilled wine and it’s reminding him of blood and gunshot wounds. It’s classic PTSD, it’s like the woman in Sam’s support group in The Winter Soldier, who talked about mistaking a plastic bag blowing into the street while she was driving for an IED.
EXACTLY.
We see him in CA:TWS trying to figure things out, does Steve Rogers still exist when everyone (until Sam Wilson) just sees Captain America?, how exactly does Steve Rogers fit into the 21st century?, then BAM! Project Insight, taking down Hydra, finding Bucky, no time to be Steve Rogers. And AOU finds him feeling like he missed his chance (“the world’s expert in waiting too long”) and resigning himself to being Captain America forever even though that was never his plan.
And then we have Civil War:
He’s done. Not with the fight, but with the fact that Captain America has become something that Steve Rogers is not. Somehow, Captain America became the image of the perfect soldier, and even Steve’s teammates can’t see him for himself instead of an image the world constructed of what is Captain America.
Steve Rogers is not a perfect soldier, but a good man. When he drops the shield, he is taking a stand. Steve Rogers can no longer be Captain America in the 21st century if Captain America no longer stands for what Steve Rogers does.
And this is why Steve Rogers is not a flat character like so many people think, but I digress.
the1timetraveller 