The simple life. You’ll get there one day.
Something frustrating suddenly sticks out.
Just…when did Steve ever want family and stability? When were those domestic desires ever a driving force for his personality? In what world was he sighing wistfully and dreaming of the wife/ kids/ picket fence combo? Positioning these concepts as some kind of fundamental goal he was fighting for makes no sense because he has never indicated caring about them.
SURE, Steve still feels out of time, and SURE Steve wants to find connections to who he was in 1945, and SURE, Steve probably suffers from emotionally crippling nostalgia, but the idea of Steve Rogers focusing his energy on creating a family and stability - aka the alleged hallmarks of 1940s tranquility - is nonsensical.
This is what angers me the most about Steve’s ending in Endgame. People argue that “Steve deserved to rest” but why is it that getting married and settling down? Why is that the only way of resting he could have had?
Steve never wanted it. It is presented to us over and over again in the movies, and then Endgame took a wild turn and gave us this. It is completely out of character for him. They took “happily ever after” and gave it to him without thinking about what it meant for him, what it meant for his character.
Not only that, but what about the message? This ending tells us tat getting married is the only way to “rest” aka the goal in life even if it does not make sense for Steve. This is telling all of us that the ultimate goal in life, the thing we should all be aspiring to, is to stop fighting and settle down in the past.
While I understand Steve wanted to, yeah, rest, it could have been done in so many other ways, while he stayed in the present. Let alone the fact that they could have killed him in the battle.
They ruined a character because they were too lazy, or maybe just completely out of touch, not only with Steve’s character, but with his audience and fanbase. Or, maybe, just maybe, they deliberately chose this message?












