Chris Evans as Steve Rogers in Avenger’s Age of Ultron
The most heartbreaking part of this scene for me was how not one of his teammates noticed this moment when Cap looked at this happy family home, and felt he had no place there. That, like his hallucination had shown him, he’d only ruin it if he went in. That happy family homes were a thing that Other People got to have, not him.
“Carol falls down all the time, but she always gets back up — we say that about Captain America as well, but Captain America gets back up because it’s the right thing to do. Carol gets back up because ‘Fuck you.’“ – Kelly Sue DeConnick on Carol Danvers (x)
I want to thank you for recommending this, anon; it was delightful!
(I haven’t read a lot of 70s comics because even though I tell myself that one day I’m going to sit down and read Avengers/Cap/IM from the beginning that day has not yet come and I have stuck to reading Things I Need To Know About For Fanfic, which in practice means that, of all the 70s stuff, I’ve only read, like, Secret Empire/Nomad and Demon in a Bottle.)
Also, you didn’t mention that this issue opens with Steve working out on the rings, which is one of my favorite training things for Steve to do. Check out that splash page:
I don’t even know what Steve and Tony were fighting about but man do I miss the era of comics when they could just make up and be friends again instantly:
MORE OF THIS, PLEASE, MARVEL. Also, aww, he’s SO CLOSE to telling Steve his secret identity. (”Keep your secrets” is such an odd phrasing from Steve because it… kind of implies that he already knows? Even though we know he doesn’t. I mean, Tony hasn’t even mentioned that he’s telling him a secret; he just says it’s something that he should have told Steve and… somehow Steve knows it’s a secret?)
(Also I have to say that “you lead, I’ll follow” is putting me in mind of Tony’s recent “I can’t say no to Cap when he begs” and all the gentle dom Tony headcanons floating around and this is me looking longingly at my 24,000 words of notes about such a story and shoving it back under the WIP pile. Probably my brain should not even have gone there.)
The actual plot of this issue: Jocasta. I guess this is when Jan finds out that Jocasta is the Sexy Robot version of her? Awkward.
This is going into my “all the Avengers are robot fuckers” file. (I don’t actually keep one of those. I probably should.)
And, aww, Tony catches Steve:
I like how he just assumes Tony’s gonna be there. (This is not the only time he has ever done this, either.) It’s like the deadly version of trust falls.
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