#when steve literally saved her from being fired in catfa 🤦‍♀️

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#we’ll keep in mind that the MCU hands out their PhD’s to their characters like candy #in A1 her resume said that she dropped out of school at 15 and became a nurse #her high social standing got her into Bletchley #her brother got her into being a spy #and suddenly in the flashback scene in 1970 she had a PhD #in what? idk #and are we expected to believe that she took years out of her career to finish her education #when she’d already been given the lead role by Howard? #this is the thing about Peggy and why she appeals to her demographic #she gets all the results of someone who has worked hard #without actually having worked hard #it’s easy enough to tell us that Peggy deserves these things but they never show us why or how she earned it #because she didn’t #after EG a bunch of people discussed that this was an honorary PhD because of her lack of education #but they displayed a plaque on purpose #and it was to get the girlboss cred #that’s why this character is so frustrating #when she’s not vacuous she’s positively evil #anti peggy carter #+.+

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I always wonder why the mcu keeps trying to push their peggy carter oc,like I understand characters aren't always going to be comic accurate and can be changed for better or worse. But what the mcu did with peggy is so weird to me

Staring off with the fact that she takes inspiration from a nazi spy , they even said so themselves she just doesn't take inspiration form Cynthia tho most of he likable traits are from other characters as well.

Going back to the Cynthia glass thing it's also uncomfortable that this peggy is also an alternate version of captain america even though they call her captain carter you can't escape the fact that she's supposed to be an alternate version of captain america.

I can understand wanting to make an alternate version of cap but why would you use the character that you've stated has taken inspiration from a nazi spy to represent a Jewish symbol who was made to fight nazis and for the oppressed it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Thanks for the ask and sorry for the late reply!

I think the superhero genre, much like the Japanese equivalent of the shounen genre, is about power fantasies. That doesn't necessarily make them inherently trite or egocentric, though. A sensitive and knowledgeable writer can construct a power fantasy for marginalised folks, even those they are not a part of, and that's what people are asking for when they talk about "representation". People from all walks of life deserve an inspirational story and a power fantasy to project onto, to say that despite the barriers placed by society, it is still possible to fight against the restrictions and carve out a special identity for yourself. In a lot of the better written superhero stories, their powers are presented as something that is both a blessing and a curse/threat, and the story is about them accepting that difference and turning that into something good - as opposed to, often, their villains, who turn that into something used for bad.

And I think that's the key difference. Comics/manga are written for kids/adults who feel like they don't fit in (maybe manga especially, because of how suffocating Japanese society can be about fitting the norm). The fantasy lies in social odd-balls embracing their own uniqueness and doing good in spite of the world shunning them.

Once super-powered concepts hit Hollywood, the meaning changes. The writers are now (in general) people in positions of influence and affluence. They are confident in who they are, and in fact, they yearn to stand above the ilk. The power fantasy completely changes flavour - instead of an outcast learning to be happy with who they are, it is now about how a "normal" person gains something special that elevates them above the boring average folk.

The problem is - the former is usually sensitive to the struggles of marginalised folk ("we are different but we can be amazing"), while the latter is ignorant and self-serving ("I am amazing because I am not like other girls"). And because of the type of fantasy it is, it is not interested in exploring power as a potential flaw or a burden, it is simply about the celebration of strength.

This is all a long-winded way of saying, yes, PC is a power fantasy for a particular group of women - the middle-classed, primarily White, well-educated women, who do not want to be like other girls. She had to be made special at all costs - the private school/college education, the brother in MI6, the Howlies, the boxing champion, the directorship, and now finally the serum and the shield.

The implications didn't matter because the writers didn't care. She's their hero, this is a fantasy, and who cares if she recruited Nazis on her way to the top or that she wears a colonial symbol on her chest. Who knows, they (the writers) may even think of that as representation of her strength.

Remember how I said earlier how the heroes take their powers and make it into something good, while the villains use their strength and use it to do something bad? Welp.

[amarriageoftrueminds]

Lol, remember that one scene from CATFA where Steve saved Peggy from being run over by a Hydra spy and instead of thanking Steve for being saved, Peggy instead said "I had him!"? Lmao, what an ungrateful bitch she is.

Ugh, Nonny, how could I forget? She misses five(?) shots at the Nazi spy (when spotting and catching him is literally her job), including when he's in the same room as her.

But then they have her... nailing another guy in the back of the head from much further away, to prove she's a good shot.

So which is it, writers? Would she miss five times or nail a difficult distant shot? Because she can't simultaneously be both competent and incompetent at the same thing!

(And that isn't even her gun; she had to take someone else's, since she doesn't have one, since she's not a soldier.)

And she somehow managed to get outside, in high heels and a skirt, before any of the men or women manage to, even a superhuman like Steve.

...How, exactly?

(Why exclude everyone else? Why would it matter, to how cool she gets to look, if she is supposedly so competent?)

What struck me about it too, is: what she's about to try...

it's a Hydra move.

Starting a gunfight in an open street, and then standing in place after firing at a car.

That's exactly what Hydra and the Winter Soldier do to Nick Fury in CATWS.

The difference being, when the Winter Soldier calmly steps out of the path of an oncoming vehicle, he can do that because he's a superhuman.

They try to make a big whup about modelling her fighting style on Steve's, in her show, as if to 'show' their similarity as people… So how do they account for the fact that the Winter Soldier has her move, when she never fought in a battle alongside Bucky, and he has been exclusively in Hydra care ever since? 🤔

She, a nobody, is acting as if she can do in a skirt and heels what it would take superserum and cargo pants for Bucky to be able to do in the modern day, with a much faster car.

You could say: yeah, but cars were slower then.

Except that Steve, a superhuman, living in the slow-car times, who has seen her punching and seen her shooting, also thought she couldn't do it.

He rescued her, and not only didn't get thanked, but got blamed (!) for her continued failure to shoot the guy she's actually supposed to be angry about.

(How like her, though, to be too arrogant to admit she was out of her depth. And if she fails at something that's supposed to be her job, well of course it must be somebody else's fault. 🤦‍♀️)