Thinking about these two quotes in CA:TWS
One is said by Peggy Carter, one of the people Steve loves and trusts the most:
> The world has changed, and none of us can go back. All we can do is our best. And sometimes the best that we can do is to start over.
The other, by Alexander Pierce, who turns out to be a HYDRA agent and the villain:
> Despite all the diplomacy and the handshaking and the rhetoric, to build a really better world sometimes means having to tear the old one down.
And I find it fascinating that Steve ends up following principles from *both* ideas (though I don't think Steve's interpretation is exactly what Pierce had in mind when he was waxing eloquent about tearing things down).
Because at this point, Steve is trying to figure out not only the drastically changed world around him, but his place in it and his own purpose. Peggy says to start over - but how? How is Steve supposed to start over? Doing what?
And then, as he's trying to figure this out, he finds out that SHIELD has been thoroughly compromised. So he determines that the best thing for him to do is, indeed, to start over - and take SHIELD with him. To get rid of HYDRA and build something better, he has to tear SHIELD down.
And he does. He starts over, and attempts to build something better by leading the Avengers.
(The difference between him and Pierce, of course, is that Steve doesn't deliberately cause chaos and then push his own certain brand of "order" (i.e. authoritarianism, with himself in charge) as the solution. Instead, he focuses on stopping those who are causing the mayhem, protecting civilians and helping secure freedom as he is able.)
> The world has changed, and none of us can go back. All we can do is our best. And sometimes the best that we can do is to start over.
The other, by Alexander Pierce, who turns out to be a HYDRA agent and the villain:
> Despite all the diplomacy and the handshaking and the rhetoric, to build a really better world sometimes means having to tear the old one down.
And I find it fascinating that Steve ends up following principles from *both* ideas (though I don't think Steve's interpretation is exactly what Pierce had in mind when he was waxing eloquent about tearing things down).
Because at this point, Steve is trying to figure out not only the drastically changed world around him, but his place in it and his own purpose. Peggy says to start over - but how? How is Steve supposed to start over? Doing what?
And then, as he's trying to figure this out, he finds out that SHIELD has been thoroughly compromised. So he determines that the best thing for him to do is, indeed, to start over - and take SHIELD with him. To get rid of HYDRA and build something better, he has to tear SHIELD down.
And he does. He starts over, and attempts to build something better by leading the Avengers.
(The difference between him and Pierce, of course, is that Steve doesn't deliberately cause chaos and then push his own certain brand of "order" (i.e. authoritarianism, with himself in charge) as the solution. Instead, he focuses on stopping those who are causing the mayhem, protecting civilians and helping secure freedom as he is able.)
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One of the differences, I think, between, say, Steve/Avengers and Thanos/Ultron is that Thanos/Ultron thought that destroying everyone was necessary to create a better world. Whereas Steve/Avengers wanted to create a better world *for the people in it.* If that makes sense.
Sylvie: "Sometimes it's OK to destroy something..."
Loki: "... if there's a hope that you can replace it with something better."