you ever remember that there’s going to be two trans male actors playing two of peter parker’s classmates in spider-man: far from home and get a lil emotional
We joke about Steve’s patriotism as his strong suit, but his actual strength was his sense of moral right. His whole philosophy is summed up in the line “I don’t like bullies” in the first movie. Steve loves his country. He loves it enough to be at the front of the line trying to fix what he sees as moral wrong in it.
steve rogers is patriotic in the most real sense: he represents the concept at the core of the american ideal, the concept of freedom that is the reason our political system is designed to adapt and alter itself for constant improvement.
he is not loyal to any momentary leader or agenda, and when those leaders and agendas stand contrary to his core ideal of self-determination and freedom from oppression, he’ll speak up without hesitation.
honestly, i never would’ve thought captain america would be my favorite superhero, but he’s the activist i aspire to be.
Captain America is loyal to nothing but the dream.
The problem with Captain America’s image in the public mind is that people recite the first line of his byword and ignore the last part :
“My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”
“This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree besides the river of truth, and tell the whole world—
—No, you move.”
Steve Rogers is a radical and that’s why I love him.
Steve Rogers *is* a radical, and hardly anybody realizes that. It’s freakin’ brilliant. 🙂
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ok but imagine peter not caring about his secret identity anymore and not making any effort to conceal it yet absolutely no one finds out he’s spiderman. peter wears the suit under his pants and a jacket but literally no one notices. he only gets a ‘cool shirt dude’ from a student he doesnt know. he does the iconic spiderman shooting-webs-from-his-hands pose in every single picture. no one says a word. he enters the classroom through the window. just as him, not spiderman. the classroom is on the second floor. no one cares.
What really rattles my chains about Hawkeye is that it would be literally so Easy to make him deaf but they won’t. Like they’ve set it up perfectly to have a scene where Clint just gets home to his family and signs “hey guys” or “I’m home”. They can just. Give him hearing aids. Just add hearing aids to his costume it’s not difficult. Also, do the MCU writers understand how many fun jokes you could have with a deaf superhero?? The clichés you could destroy??
Villain: *monologuing*
Clint: hey what’s that big claw thingy for? Kinda tacky.
Villain: I told you that literally ten seconds ago!
Clint: dude, you had your back turned. I have no clue what you’re saying. You took my hearing aids.
Villain: what? No we – okay which one of you shits was That Guy? Don’t take a guys hearing aids, damn, who raised you?
Honestly, my favorite thing at the moment is all the marvel headcanons where Hela wasn’t cray-cray homicidal, and she’s an overprotective bitchy sister.
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