[ SECRET POST #5678 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5678 ⌋

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Comments

[kallanda_lee]

See, I'm seeing the same things, but interpreting them differently. I think for Steve that would just meant a rehash of his original arc. He is essentially always willing to sacrifice himself - he already did, and came back from the dead. To have him do it again is...zero character development, just showing what we already know.

Tony went from being a hotshot from not caring much about anything, who'd take risks because he likes being the hero, while not really thinking about it much. Then along the way, he is faced with the consequences of his actions (Ultron, the mother of that boy who was killed, Rhodey being paralyzed) and genuinely starts to care for people (like Peter Parker) and eventually does choose to settle down with Pepper...and THEN he makes the sacrifice, which is then more meaningful, in my opinion. Steve dying, after losing Peggy and Bucky, would just be bordering on euthanizing himself.

I think the idea behing Steve's ending is legit (I.e. the eternal hero learning to put his weapon down), but I think the way it was executed was...poor. I think no way Steve could just stand by while Peggy was running SHIELD and Bucky was in cryo somewhere. So I'd have favored a way to do that with Steve in the current timeline somehow.

Basically, I feel this had more dramatic tension than the reverse would have had.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT, but I kind of agree with this? Tony's ending was a realistic (if depressing) cap to his character arc and also completely in character. Steve's ending, while not completely out of sync with his character arc, opens about 30 different plot holes and also feels wildly out of character for the reasons you stated. (Not only that, but it just seems like the kind of thing that's going to turn out to have destabilized the structural foundations of the multiverse and lead to another Event and a whole bunch of retcons.)