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[redbrunja]

I'm rereading my tagged avengers fic, and it's kind of surprising just how uniquely satisfying a good gen Steve Rogers fic is.

A good Steve gen piece is like a perfectly cooked steak.

On that subject, musesfool has a great post about Steve Rogers and justice and some things she keeps in mind while writing him, prompted by this meta post. The majority of these ideas were not new to me, mainly because people have been talking about this since the Avengers came out. (Not so much the Tony-political stuff, which is likely accurate my makes my soul bleed, but definitely talking about the myth of the conservative past, and Steve's likely political leanings.)

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[qualapec.livejournal.com]

Those metas are brilliant. I'll admit, my original view of Steve was strongly colored by Ultimates and my personal bias towards the modern focus of Catholicism/Christianity. Whedon didn't help with the "There's only one god, ma'am" line. Both authors did a good job of of summarizing/explaining the personality that makes the most sense for Steve and put some great context to the time/place he would have grown up in, and I think that's all consistent with his MCU characterization.

I've always seen Tony as fiscally conservative, but there's always been the expectation that he's a dick like that (and in other ways). I don't think he's socially conservative though, although he probably doesn't have enough emotional effort to care about social issues, he just assumes it'll all work out. He's definitely not pro-life or Bible thumping.

I do think Pepper is probably a bit more liberal/cares more. Honestly, though, of all the differences between them, that's sort of the smallest one.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I'll admit, my original view of Steve was strongly colored by Ultimates and my personal bias towards the modern focus of Catholicism/Christianity. Whedon didn't help with the "There's only one god, ma'am" line. Both authors did a good job of of summarizing/explaining the personality that makes the most sense for Steve and put some great context to the time/place he would have grown up in, and I think that's all consistent with his MCU characterization.

*nods*

i know my feels about Steve are very much influenced by the fact that my first experience of him was the movie and that was strengthened by having a lot of people like musesfools talk about and love a very 'stand up guy' version of the character.

[lokifan]

Thanks for the links! I love them. I actually really find it hard to enjoy Iron Man because it strkes me as so very neo-con, and I always assumed Tony as a Republican type even before I was aware of the whole Civil War arc. So it's lovely reading about Steve as a liberal, especially since I'm learning some interesting stuff about America then and now! The nuances of what it means to be from Brooklyn specifically, and America's framing of its story, otherwise tend to fly right over my English head :)