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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

I don't get this call to make Steve homosexual. Firstly I feel like the news articles have probably overblown how many people actually want this and secondly the movies seem to have already established Steve as heterosexual. I totally get the call for there to be more representation of diversity in comics and comic book movies but wouldn't we be kinda forcing Captain America into this? They'd have an easier time establishing Spider-Man as gay since he's only been on screen for like twenty minutes and that was mostly in an action-scene capacity.

MCU steve can be bisexual. He was a sheltered youth in a repressive time. Other than Peggy, never really showed interest in women, only went on dates because Bucky dragged him or begged him to go. The detail there is that outside of Peggy, the only other times he dated is because Bucky asked him to go. So literally, only because it was Bucky that asked, and he was really spending time with. Outside of those two, Sharon is the only time he's actually asked anyone out on his own.

The only thing they've established in the MCU is that Steve loved Peggy Carter, may have the hots for Sharon Carter, and he loves Bucky.

And I mean loves Bucky enough he'd probably leave Peggy or Sharon for him as we saw in Civil War. That's farther than even brotherly love.

So nah, the articles weren't overblown. I was reading the twitter trend as it was going on, and I gotta say, they had some really valid points. Most laughed at the trend and were saying "doesn't he already have one?"

As for Hydra cap. He may stick around for a bit as eventually Sam Wilson's Red Skull. The embodiment of the dark side of america that Wilson fights against.

That seems to be what they are hinting at. Trying to make him as hated as Red Skull. I can see that as a story device working, but I do have to admit it is pretty harsh on the Rogers legacy. Maybe an AU version replacement would have been better, but hopefully they can use the secret wars shift to say this is because he was merged with the Ultimate Captain America version or something down the road so they can salvage the original Rogers in some manner. (Ultimate Captain America was a pretty die-hard Republican. Whereas 616 Captain America was always more Democrat/Liberal/Progressive leaning.)