16woodsequ
cloudbells

Yknow what, I actually do hate the narrative that Steve crashed the plane in the 40s because he was suicidal. It feels like an ugly erasure of Steve's sacrifice when he truly had no other options. The plane was autolocking when he took his hands off it. The longer he's distracted, the longer he keeps trying to find a way out - the closer those bomb get to killing people and the closer Hydra is to getting a win. So he plummeted the plane with the 100% guarantee that it was not making it to land. Sorry I guess that Steve didn't want to risk the lives of a ton of innocent people for the CHANCE that he might have found a way out alive, especially when he has so little time to spare.

Steve's heroism shouldn't even be up for debate here in favor of him giving up.

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