Steve Rogers’ battle experience and training make him an expert tactician and an excellent field commander, with his teammates frequently deferring to his orders in battle. Rogers’ reflexes and senses are extraordinarily keen. He has blended boxing, judo, karate, jujutsu, kickboxing, and gymnastics into his own unique fighting style and is a master of multiple martial arts. In canon, he is regarded by other skilled fighters as one of the best hand-to-hand combatants in the Marvel Universe.
In Deadpool 2, one of the rednecks talking about toilet paper is actually Matt Damon in four hours worth of prosthetic makeup.
In
Guardians of the Galaxy, when Peter Quill is arrested, it shows that he
has a translator in his neck, which is how he’s able to speak to
different alien species.
In
Spider-Man: Homecoming Bruce Banner’s face is alongside the other
“famous scientists” on the wall of Peter Parker’s physics class.
In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Michelle (MJ) is reading a book titled “Of Human Bondage”, a story of an orphan boy sent to live with his aunt and uncle.
Thor (2011). Thor calls Coulson “Son of Coul” in the same way he is called Odinson.
In Spider-Man: Homecoming, the url of the video that Peter watches on youtube is the exact same as the url of the second Spider-man: Homecoming trailer other than"P" being switched for “p”.
In Captain America First Avenger (2011) Johann Schmidt gets blood on his uniform staining the skull red foreshadowing his eventual turn into Red Skull.
In Iron Man 3, Tony Stark has a statue in his house containing pieces of the Formula 1 cars that were destroyed in Iron Man 2.
In Avengers: Age of Ultron and part of Ragnarok, Thor has a strain of Loki’s hair braided into his own.
In Captain America: The First Avenger you can see on Steve’s enlistment forms that he is born on the Fourth of July.
In Iron Man 2, whilst Tony is looking through his father’s notes a two page spread can be seen dedicated to the mathematical concept of a Tesseract. Two films later a cube called the Tesseract is introduced which goes on to play a major role in several MCU films.
#I love how clean cut and put-together Bucky looks next to Steve in this scene#he just parades in like a fucking dream and Steve is a total wreck#and as the movie goes on you start to understand that that’s just how Steve sees them#According to Steve Rogers he’s a wreck and Bucky’s a dream#And that makes the reversal when they march back to camp so heartbreaking#because that’s how Bucky’s been seeing Steve all along (sonickitty)
So I just saw a quote from the Russo’s and they basically said “He dropped the shield, he rejected the Captain America identity, and embraced the Steve Rogers one instead.” I, of course, started sobbing at this part, but when I read this quote it all became more clear.
When Tony says “I was wrong about you, the whole world was wrong about you” is 100% true. The whole world, even his friends, saw Steve as this selfless, patriotic hero, willing to save the day no matter what. But that’s not necessarily all Steve, that’s mostly Captain America. Yes, Steve is incredibly selfless and brave, but he was also just a kid from Brooklyn before getting the Cap persona. When he went under, he essentially lost everyone who knew him as “just steve” not “Captain America”.
So when Bucky comes back in his life, he’s more Steve Rogers. “When he said Bucky, I was the 16 year old kid from Brooklyn again.” Steve doesn’t have to be Captain America around Bucky. Steve doesn’t have to be this hero that everyone needs him to be. Because Bucky would rather be saved by Steve Rogers than Captain America.
Steve dropped the shield, rejected the idea of Captain America, because in reality, he isn’t just “Captain America,” he’s also Steve Rogers. And that scrawny kid from Brooklyn would do anything to save his best friend, even if that meant rejecting what the world saw him as.
i’ve been rewatching the early marvel films and steve uses a gun liberally in the early days. in tfa in the warehouse fight he punches schmidt, schmidt punches back and dents his shield, and then he reaches for his pistol. he realizes he’s outmatched and would absolutely have shot that fucker given a moment to keep his grip on it, possibly in the face. in avengers (2012) he also uses a semi-automatic weapon on the SHIELD ship. it’s interesting to think of the change and why he began moving away from guns. i imagine that by tws he’d spent enough times having an existential crisis about his role in the public eye that he was very conscientious of how he appeared
or maybe he was just trying very consciously to be a better man than he was a good soldier. either way, there was an obvious change as a result of some kind of internal struggle.
It’s so frustrating that with the quantity of useless garbage that made it onto the screen in AoU, Whedon decided this scene was expendable. In a few seconds, it illustrates how the influence of SHIELD/Hydra has shaped the Sokovians, and by extension, the Maximoff twins. It also plays into Steve’s growing unease with the role of Captain America and how it may conflict with his personal values, a development which culminates in his decision to drop the shield at the end of CW. Instead we get endless iterations of that stupid, out of character language joke.
there is only one reason steve rogers was not shot through the back of the head in this exact moment. a news helicopter. the only reason he was not killed by a strike team who he worked w, maybe even trusted, merely days before is because hydra couldn’t have captain america’s murder recorded and broadcasted on live television
it’s also interesting to note that this is steve giving up. this is steve stopping fighting. this is a broken man. this is a man who knows he’s going to die.
hydra has, whether intentionally or not, torn this man apart, attacking every aspect of who he is. project insight weakened his trust in the govt and what he’s been fighting for. Fury’s death and the realization that hydra had infiltrated shield and the very agents and teams he had been working with for years were potential enemies was another blow to the outer edge of steve; his career.
next, they attack his image & turn him into a fugitive. they turn his colleagues, they turn America, against him
then, the hits started to come closer to home. he’s led to the base he trained on, with photos of bucky and Peggy and stark hanging on the wall. & right below them, zola. zola, the man linked directly to bucky’s death, the man he let go in that first hydra base, was right there in front of him, untouchable and telling steve his life, his death, was pointless. hydra had persevered and flourished.
at this point steve is wounded. he has natasha, he has sam, but his life has been torn down around him, his values and beliefs are being questioned and challenged, and he is the number one fugitive in america. he’s on shaky ground, he’s swimming against a current that keeps getting stronger.
then, finally, a cumulation of it all, comes the winter soldier. the mask comes off and it’s all over. steven grant rogers has been attacked at his very core, and he’s been broken. shattered. he cannot fight, he cannot bring himself to save himself. w/o the news helicopter and Maria hill, steve rogers would have been killed.
REBLOGGING FOR TAGS: #and Steve is never really surprised by how shitty people can be#just disappointed#very disappointed#Captain America is very disappointed
*THOSE TAGS*
*now has many thinky thoughts about Steve Rogers and Night Watch and Young Sam Vimes*
The third gif is what keeps getting me.
He sees all these people getting on preparing to attack him, and they are all the faces of men he has worked with over the last few weeks and months, maybe years. Men he’s trusted. Lives he’s saved. Comrades in arms. His team, as much as he’s had one.
That is the look of bleakness, as someone else gets on and Steve thinks, “You? I liked you. I thought you were better than this. Oh god, don’t make me do this.”
(Sometimes the person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger)
But these aren’t people he’ll lie down for. This is a fight he’ll pick his shield up after. There’s nobody in this elevator he loves enough.
This whole scene is a masterpiece of subtle acting and one I don’t think Chris Evans gets nearly enough credit for. I mean, you can see the moment the penny drops and it’s minutes before everyone in that elevator thought it would. (I get the feeling he gets underestimated a lot at SHIELD—he’s big, he’s blond, he’s the man out of time, what can he know?) But that mind never stops working and the minute the penny drops, he knows what he’ll have to do to survive.
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