What really hurts me about the Civil War is the painful degree of irony in Steve’s arc. Because he made his decision, and it was “No Registration!” and he stuck to that… but he got so invested in not compromising his decision AT ALL in any way shape or form that he didn’t even realize that he was compromising everything else he stood for. Steve and Tony both did awful things in that war, but only one of them was willing see his best friend murdered for it.

wingheadshellhead: that’s always been one of the things that struck me as vaguely suspect because time and again people make it out to seem that the narrative favored anti-reg and steve was the only way to go as the natural underdog to root for. but what’s intriguing abt that is if you read civil war…