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Originally Posted by snake5289

Nobody had a problem letting Loki wear his helmet for two movies.

Loki's helmet is iconic him. He needs the horns.

Thor on the other hand is a mixed bag. You have half his fans who hate his classic helmeted look, and half who don't. Plus as mentioned, the practicality of it doesn't quite work either with how easy it would fall off whereas Loki's is a full helmet.

Ironman they do enough in Armor shots that it can slide, but his face plate lifting is also to remind you that yes he is in his armor. (Especially after IM3 with the VR guided armor.)

Cap on the other hand has a lot of deep thought put into it. It varies depending on need. Like with AoU when it's strictly him vs a bad guy it stays on. When he's needed to actually relate and keep people calm etc. It's removed to allow for that more personal human to human connection needed for crowd control. (In the first Avengers film, it stays on more often because it's New York and he represents all that's good with America. In AoU, there's a spoiler point I can't mention, but also explains why the opposite is true for this particular mission.)

The same happened in Winter Soldier. He removes it in the Batroc fight to show that more man vs man aspect. The fight became more about personal skill than about representing what he stood for. Then the rest is a mixed extension of that from doubts of what he's being made to represent now all the way until he decides to go classic suit which kind of represented a more back to what he remembered captain america used to stand for alongside other reasons. There's actually a lot of praise that can be given to the various directors for their choices on when and where to unmask Cap if you pay attention to the surrounding details. It's to help let the audience see the distinction between Captain America the icon, and Steve Rogers the man behind the legend.