Because I’m sick to death of anyone making Team Cap’s intention during the airport battle about anything other than Cap and company trying to get to Siberia to stop five other Winter Soldiers, here’s some dialogue from the movie for ya…
STEVE: Hear me out, Tony. That doctor, the psychiatrist, he’s behind all this.
TONY: Anyway. Ross gave me 36 hours to bring you in. That was 24 hours ago. Can you help a brother out?
STEVE: You’re after the wrong guy!
TONY: Your judgment is askew. Your old war buddy killed innocent people yesterday.
STEVE: And there are five more super soldiers just like him. I can’t let the doctor find them first, Tony. I can’t.
Then, later…
BUCKY: We gotta go. That guy is probably in Siberia by now.
STEVE: We gotta draw out the flyers. I’ll take Vision, you get to the jet.
SAM: No, *you* get to the jet! Both of you! The rest of us aren’t getting out of here.
CLINT: As much as I hate to admit it… if we’re going to win this one some of us might have to lose it.
SAM: This isn’t the real fight, Steve.
So anyone saying that Team Cap had any drive other than stopping five enhanced Hydra agents from being awakened by Zemo and wreaking havoc, or so they were led to believe, should probably get their ears checked.
Say it with me, folks. The airport battle was not about the Accords. At least not from Team Cap’s perspective.
This
^^^^ All of this.
Theres this common tumblr joke that Steve was allll about irrationally believing Bucky to be an angel, or inappropriately shielding him from the consequences of his actions.
When… that doesn’t happen. At all.
Steve was ready to believe Bucky could have set off that bomb, and went after him before the SWAT team got there in order to take Bucky alive and try to save SWAT lives doing it. Not because he was certain he was innocent. (He said to Nat, “If he’s this far gone, Nat, I should be the one to bring him in…”)
Steve, as you say, is motivated through the entire airport sequence to *stop the other soldiers,* the unleashing of which he fully believes is Zemo’s plan.
Steve does literally everything he can to simply stop Tony’s murderous rage, and only begins to lose his temper toward the end of the fight… a temper he relocates himself, before he goes too far.
Steve is consistently one of THE most level headed people anywhere in the film. Its the rest of the situation around him thats pitting his and Bucky’s needs against that of some of his friends. Steve’s morals around consent and authority and his position on the Accords may not line up with yours. But that doesnt mean he isnt sensibly following his own compass (and besides that, the Accords actually aren’t playing into his motivations for a surprisingly large chunk of the film. He’s got other fish to fry.) He may also have a reputation for sass and splashy actions. But that doesn’t make his motivations in CW that of a hothead.
I always found it a bit odd. Hilarious, but it raised too many questions. When did Steve make these? Why did Steve make these? How did he manage to be so cheesy and overly sincere knowing how much crap he would get from the other Avengers for it?
Well, today my sister told me her headcanon. Picture the scene. Steve leans on the back of a chair, as above. Peter immediately launches into ‘So, you got detention…’. Cap blinks. Peter awkwardly tries to explain. It turns out Cap has no idea what videos he means, and neither do any of the other Avengers.
So they get in touch with the company who made them, and they swear blind that it was really the real Captain America, and that it all his idea. That he came in and said how much he wanted to help the youth of today.And the Avengers all lose it because someone is running around doing an unbelievably good impression of Captain America, they could have destroyed his reputation, they could have infiltrated the Avengers; and instead all they are apparently using it for is to make silly, embarrassing videos.
It’s completely baffling. Who could possibly be behind it all?
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