Royce's Random Thoughts

It's a pity the MCU didn't become a thing about ten years earlier. Because then I could write a crossover fic with Steve Rogers being a guest on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. Because it would be a beautiful thing. I might even shoehorn Tony in, because watching Tony Stark do his damned darnedest to not snark or try to get away with something even vaguely sexually suggestive, because even Tony would not do that to Fred Rogers, would be hilarious.

"Why are you so surprised, Cap? I got invited on when I was eight to show off my first circuit board and DUM-E. And he managed not to kill me for rewiring his trolley. The guy's a saint."

Screw it, it's the MCU. Fred Rogers can still be alive in the MCU. Because Reasons.

Summary: In this darker take on the MCU, man-out-of-time Steve Rogers is on the run after discovering that something is rotten in the center of SHIELD.


Review: This is the biggest, best MCU movie since the Avengers. Period. IM3 by comparison is an intensely personal story for Tony, but restored the status quo at the end. By the end of Winter Soldier a major portion of the MCU is turned upside down and there's no going back.

I like the fact that Falcon was presented as an ex-soldier counseling other veterans, which is a logical hook point for him and Steve to form a friendship, and that he served as a major character in the movie itself, equal to Natasha and a lot more than a stereotypical Black Best Friend. Also the set piece of the assassination attempt against Nick Fury in the middle of DC was incredible, even though by any logic it should have set the whole city on lockdown afterward.

Highly recommended.

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Just because Steve could dead lift motorcycles, it didn't mean he was immune to burning his fingers when he got his sandwich from the grill cheese press. When he let a brief, "Damn!" he found his right hand automatically reaching into his trouser pocket for the quarter that wasn't there.

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