Vocally political and liberal Steve Rogers
Fox News has no idea how to handle it because he’s Captain America and he’s literally from the 40’s like how do that handle that
He refuses to go on half of the news shows because they lie
Mostly ends up on the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, and the Young Turks
Starts charities that focus on kids and the poor
Donations to veterans charities go through the roof
Treatment for PTSD in veterans suddenly gets addressed after he admits to being diagnosised with it
Steve Rogers starting a twitter specifically for linking people to horrible news stories and calling news stations out on their lies and scare tactics
Using his twitter to complain about the state of public news and how it should be a space of change and value and honesty for the American public, and how he’s so ashamed of it all
He accidentally becomes like public face for the new generation of politically savvy people
They make of shirts like WWCD “what would Cap do?”
Tony is thrilled and proud and hires of team of lawyers exclusively to handle the news stations screaming about Steve
Fox news gets slapped with so many libel fines and law suits
Going on a show and regretting it the moment an offensive question or comment comes up and decides he’s completely done and just tears the interviewer a new one. It goes viral.
The public face thing is just the start. It starts this whole new wave of people that shut down offensive shit during interviews and holding their own.
There is a short time period once he turns 35 where there is a rally cry of “Captain America for President” that he gracefully turns down.
But politicians starting courting him, trying to get him to publicly state that they support him because his influence is just so massive, and they keep getting shut down hard
Talks about growing up in the depression when people bring up financial issues – says things like “With all due respect, ma’am, what others may remember as being over 80 years ago was less then 5 ago to me. Things were supposed to get better. Those issues we thought we fixed were supposed to go away – we were supposed to work to a future where it was gone – and instead it seems to be worse then ever.”
And of course he’s a raging feminist and is absolutely appalled when Natasha tells him about rape statistics
Bruce takes a lot of time to fully educate him about the social and medical side of abortions, teaches him about the various birth defects and medical issues the mothers can face, shows him the demographic information of access and need, and Steve is horrified by that too
Then Tony walks him through gay rights and other LGBTQ issues, all of them helping him understand how sexuality can manifest differently and the difference between sex and gender identity
Steve just REAL FUCKIN DONE with everything.
Angrily stands in protest rallies and dares people to start something with peaceful protesters. Just DARES them.
Rolls his eyes at baby boomer articles about the newer generations. He’s heard that mess before. He’s done with it.
Understanding people have problems with medical bills, having been there himself.
Fucking standing up for single mothers becaUSE LIKE WHOA THAT’S HIS MOTHER YOU JUST DISSED.
Steve Rogers hating bullies. Hates that kids are actually KILLING THEMSELVES because of bullying and people are just “oh boys will be boys” about it and he’s just LIVID.
No, but that bit about single mothers, can you-, can you just imagine?
Before Steve ditches all the talkshows that can’t seem to stop spouting shit and starts enlisting the other avengers and Tony’s PR department to help him personally vet the shows he goes on, y’know, to prevent it form blowing up in everyone’s face, he goes on one of those shitty talkshows and the hosts?
they’ve heard about Steve just tearing into anyone whom he morally disagrees with, so they decide to play it safe. They decide to talk about families. Specifically, nuclear families.
(they really should have known better but what can you do?)
So naturally it comes down to talking about the rising number of single parents due to more people leaving their shitty and abusive partners and taking the kids with them, and then you get one of the male hosts with a stupid smarmy grin that just can’t seem to help himself,
“Honestly, single mothers should know better than to raise kids without a father to lead the family, I mean, those poor kids are growing up without any male role models in their lives! You can’t raise a kid like that! Nothing good will come of it! It’s almost like they want these kids to fail in life! Something should be done about it, don’t you agree?”
And the dude looks back to Captain America AKA Steve Rogers with that stupid grin on his face, just waiting for him to agree with him while the audience is still laughing and cheering, and he immediately knows what a horrible, horrible mistake he’s made once he sees the look on Steve’s face.
Steve is sitting perfectly still, perfectly poised on one of those ugly, bodily-fluids green, overstuffed chairs that the hosts use with a quiet look of absolute righteous fury on his face that not-so-long-ago sent hardend Nazis to their knees in surrender, rather than try their luck against the man that gave them that look.
And Steve just keeps looking at the idiot like that, quietly glaring a hole into skull of the unfortunate that was both dense and self-absorbed enough to make that remark in front of Steve Rogers, waiting for the audience to quiet down.
People start noticing the look on his face and abruptly go absolutely quiet, the other host notices and tries to lean as far away from their colleague as possible, not wanting to get caught in the cross-hairs, the cameras start zooming in on Steve, waiting for him to make his move.
It’s quiet enough to hear a pin drop in the studio before Steve even moves and as he slowly leans forward he can see that host Whatshisface McShithead is sweating bullets by the bucket at this point.
And with a look on his face that had once given the Red Skull a pause and a deadly whisper that spoke of a man who has killed far greater men for far less, Steve hisses out the eight words that would start a later iconic smackdown that would break the internet and literally go down in history:
“What did you just say about my mother?”
Later that day Tumblr, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and Facebook all crash and burn.
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