i did love that exchange between sam and zemo "the serum corrupts everyone" "it didn't corrupt steve" "fair point. do you happen to have another steve rogers lying around?"
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Replying to @perdricof @jamari_oneal and
chis evans especially managed to sell the idea that steve /actually believed/ all that stuff about decency and courage and empathy he actually was a genuinely, profoundly decent human being from which so much of his moral authority derived
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Replying to @perdricof @jamari_oneal and
so in CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDER, when cap comes to sam's door and asks for help, sam just says "Captain America says my country needs me. I'm in." and the issue, of course, in TFATWS is that none of the prospective captain americas can do that.
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Replying to @perdricof @jamari_oneal and
You can see the anger just building up and building up inside of John Walker that despite how hard he's worked and everything he's achieved, and how on the surface he is an immensely popular beloved celebrity... he's still not Steve
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
i mean there's that little aside early on sam: you ever throw yourself on a grenade? walker: yeah, several times actually. you see i've got this reinforced helmet-- like he thinks the point is about strength and victory the point is that cap was willing to die, instantly
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
and walker comes back to this over and over "it must be so easy with that serum in your veins" "they weren't even super soldiers" as if the thing that made steve captain america was his strength first and foremost
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Replying to @perdricof @jamari_oneal and
When Steve signed up he fully expected that the only contribution he could ever possibly make to the war effort against the Nazis was being shot dead almost instantly Taking the bullet so someone more physically capable could advance up the field
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
And he still did it He *fought* to get the chance to do it Because in a world with Hitler in it it's better to die as cannon fodder than to do nothing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Anyway Walker kind of embodies the sickness in the American spirit and self-image that comes from being a hegemonic empire You're so spiritually impoverished you're incapable of understanding that "the good guys", "the winners", and "us" might not be universally synonymous
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
"I *must* win, because I *am* right, because I'm *me*, by definition" Utterly incapable of confronting error or weakness -- the mere possibility simply does not compute
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Walker cannot imagine going down nobly for a cause, nor can he imagine willfully abandoning his cause Either one is just unacceptable (Which is why he is completely incapable of processing grief in anything close to a healthy manner, when he experiences it the first time)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
I mean its notable that his friend acted more like Steve their. This normal human dude without even a vibrainum shield threw himself into a fight (after already sustaining massive physical trauma) to save his friend because "keep John safe" was the mission.
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Replying to @jamari_oneal @arthur_affect and
yeah, nobody says it out loud, but also absolutely nobody thinks it's a coincidence that the "new" captain america is also a blond-haired blue-eyed white dude
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