Captain America, by nature of his job as one of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, has had the - dare I say, opportunity? - of going where many Marvel heroes have only dreamt to go, the known and sometimes unknown areas of space being just one frontier that he and his colleagues have traversed. But space was not limited to just the usual walk in vacuum aboard a rocket circling Earth, or of picking up moon rocks either. Being the super soldier that he is, it seemed natural that many of his trips to the stars would involve participating in a conflict or another.
Not that Steve looked for trouble, mind you – but you might say that trouble had a way of finding and involving the Avengers. Then again, you aren’t called Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and expect to sit in the sideline, whenever Earth gets into trouble.There was the discovery, centuries back, by the Kree – relatively humanoid looking, very similar to terrans – (er… that means us human beings, in case you’re not a Sci Fi fan; with possible exception of some pure-bred Kree showing blue skin pigmentation as opposed to their mixed-bred, pink skinned populace) that the natives of this planet seemed ripe for experimentation on – and they did, leading to the creation of a variant race: the Inhumans.
Then, of course, there were the Skrulls – humanoid-shaped, with the ability to transform their features and body shape into anything. Prior to the Avengers experiencing any meeting with said race, the Fantastic Four had one brief encounter with Skrulls – ones that Reed later hypnotized into believing they were cows. The first recorded (as far as terran accounts) of the Kree, would have to be anyone who seemingly mingled with Captian Mar-vell, and the person seemingly most in contact with the Kree captain would normally be Carol Danvers.
Anyway, this is my roundabout way of leading to one event where the Avengers did prove that they were indeed Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Later called the Kree-Skrull war, this conflict involved the Avengers and Earth for the simple reason that our planet’s solar system happens to be close to a strategic worm hole (space pocket where space ships can take galactic shortcuts) between the two inter-stellar races. History buffs may compare it the missiles of October kind of scenario, though Earth was a more neutral ground than Cuba.
The Kree and Skrull hated each other and both wanted to keep Earth as a beachhead. Obviously, Earth’s heroes thought otherwise. Aside from conquest, both Kree and Skrull race wanted to tap the potentials of the local populace – the Kree wished to continue experimentation – maybe make more inhumans, and the Skrulls wanted to tap the mutants for certain brainwaves unique to them. The Kree Supreme Intelligence was likewise interested in one particular terran – Rick Jones. Apparently the Supremor, as he is called by his race, was aware of Rick’s potential, long before anyone else, and wished to tap into this. Hence they kidnapped him.
Naturally, the Avengers, being close friends of Rick – most notable Cap, since Rick was his one time sidekick, did not take this sitting down. But before they could act, the Skrulls also made covert and overt moves by first pretending to be a Mc Carthyist politician, accusing the Avnegers of hiding an alien (Mar-vell) and colluding with said alien against the Earth, once they (Vision, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and Goliath) left the mansion, the Skrulls ambushed and captured some Avengers – with exception to the Vision, who’s back-up programming for self-preservation made him intangible and sent him back to the mansion.
To backtrack a bit, these four Avengers, earlier faced their founding members - Cap., I.M. and Thor (later revealed to actually be said Skrull agents that were earlier turned into peaceful bovine creatures by Reed, then reawaken by other Skrulls), and these founders told them basically to leave, and that they were disbanding the team.
Needless to say, the real IM, Thor and Cap, showed up in the mansion – confused with the apparent empty mansion plus the resignation letters from Wanda et all, with a similar letter from Jarvis as well. Steve then called an emergency meeting with the founders – ther real ones, just as the Vision barges into the meeting room – then collapsing, and later being reanimated by the Ant Man. (but that is another story – and the details can be read in said Kree-Skrull War arc).
Steve Rogers showed that whatever the situation – no matter how ‘out-of-this-world’ it seemed, he was not one to hesitate. He always knew what to do. He could comprehend the situation and come up with appropriate solutions. Cap led the Avengers against the Skrull armada, since they found out their fleet’s whereabouts from a captured Skrull. It was the Avengers’ intent to rescue their team mates.
Rick Jones – who by this time, was linked to Captain Mar-vell, was apparently a prisoner of the Kree, while said Captain Marvel, as he was likewise known in Earth, was being coerced into creating a Nega-bomb – supposedly the Kree’s most powerful weapon, for the Skrulls in exchange for sparing the lives of both Wanda and Pietro.
Cap led the Avengers – with a revived Vision, to the S.H.I.E.L.D. space dock to commandeer a few crafts from Fury, in their attempt to bring the fight to the Skrull armada. Count them, five individuals against an entire armada, and what they lacked in numbers, the Avengers did make up for with skills and tenacity. Bear in mind that the Avengers were truing to stop a war and rescuing their team mates, hence the need to do things with speed. Hence the need for a relatively small but highly maneuverable strike force. Thor, Iron Man and the Vision would lead the assault for the armada’s command ship, with Clint and Steve covering the rear… and when the assault seemed to falter, Cap used his small ship to ram into the Skrull ship’s command post.
Literally speaking, the Kree-Skrull war may have been one instance where too many things were happening in all the same time for the Avengers to react. Fortunately, the Avengers’ needs for continuous action were circumvented when Rick – tapping into the unknown potentials of his mind, single-handedly stopped the war of two galactic powers – by freezing all the alien antagonists, giving Earth’s mightiest heroes some breathing room to sue for a détente.
It would be safe to say, however, that the Earth did not just become another far-off, back-water planet like Tatooine on everyone else’s stellar map… not after what had transpired. Now it was nto just a planet near a worm hole, it was a planet with beings of power. The war really did not subside… more likely, it was merely postponed. The addition of the Shi’ar, another galactic race –the third of three major galactic powers (aside from the Kree and Skrull), likewise seemed to be taking more than passing interest in the Earth since – well, at least, ever since a young married couple was abducted while in a plane during mid-flight leaving their two sons (Scott and Alex) to fend for themselves with a burning parachute.
Steve would experience more ‘not so Earth-shaking’ incident, though it would be (at least) the second time where Cap would feel like a chess piece (the first being as part of the Avengers involved in a game between the Grand Master and Kang), wherein he – with a handful of Avengers and other heroes, (the X-men, Spider-man and the Hulk) would find themselves transported to a makeshift planet ‘beyond’ all logic, and realize that on the other side of said amalgamated planet would be many known earth villains.
This event was, of course later referred to as the Secret War – and apparently though, not Cap’s last secret war. But this particular Secret War showed that Cap was once again a take charge guy – no matter how bizarre things seemed – how unimaginable and how powerful, the forces manipulating things were. As proof of this, having just landed on the planet – almost without thinking, Cap’s first move was to assign Avengers around the other heroes – taking strategic clock positions – being ready for anything… and even if other heroes may have decided to split (the X-men not feeling comfortable with the other heroes), Cap was still the obvious leader everyone followed.
One may wonder, how could he do it? Maybe Steve – through his training, could easily compartmentalize everything he saw – set the non-essentials aside and concentrate on the here and now, worrying about other things later on. Maybe he learned this as a coping factor to block out the horrors of war back in WWII… maybe it was his military training – either way, he could act when needed – and this training normally kicked in on an almost instinctive level. It would also be later revealed that Cap’s Super Soldier formula also removed toxins and battled fatigue from his body, hence his not feeling spent so easily or tired. So where others would eventually wear down, Cap would easily retain his stamina, focus and determination to get the job done – no matter what the situation.
These two events, however were not as challenging as another foray into yet another galactic war - one sometimes seen as the logical continuation of its precursor - the previously mentioned Kree-Skrull war, later dubbed as ‘Operation: Galactic Storm’.
Yes, it was still a war – and this time, it seemed to revolve around the Kree and the Shi’ar galaxies (this was happening while the Skrulls were too busy picking up the pieces of having lost their throne world to Galactus). Once again, the Avengers became reluctantly involved – starting with the abduction of Rick Jones, who had called Steve for help regarding some strange dreams he had been having.
Apparently, Rick had some limited predictive powers and they were manifesting at the right time… he was indeed taken by the Shi’ar, as they hoped that he somehow had latent knowledge of how to design the Kree’s Nega-bomb through his past association with Mar-vell. Rick was abducted while he was asking for Cap’s help and naturally, Cap decided to go after Rick.
By this time, Captain America could count on the help of two teams of Avengers – the East and West branches, plus the help of reserve Avenger Quasar, who also happened to hold the title ‘protector of the universe’. The Avengers, then realizing the scope of the mission, were split into three teams – the Earth protectors, the Shi’ar mission and the Kree mission – once again the Avengers hoped to intercede for a ceasefire and possible cessation of hostilities between these two galactic powers. Steve went with the Kree delegate to sue for peace.
Things did not go happen as planed, and at one point, (though it should be stressed that the Avengers contingent to the Kree wanted an audience with the Kree leaders, and if surrendering would help them achieve this goal, well…) a captive Steve Rogers faced the Kree Supreme Intelligence – a gestalt being of the Kree’s great minds, which then proceeded to try and absorb Captain America’s mind and will into itself – hoping to add Captain America’s body of knowledge within their collective database.
Unfortunately for the Supreme Intelligence – and fortunate for Cap, Steve’s will proved too strong and independent-minded and less likely a successful initiate into the Kree Supremor’s hive-mind mentality. The Supreme Intelligence thus discarded Captain America – his plans for assimilation a failure. Unfortunately for all, this was not his only plan. He also had a larger plan with respect to jump-starting their race’s genetic dead-end; you see, it was known to a select few that the Kree, as a race, had reached a genetic impasse… meaning they had no other evolutionary ladder to climb on).
This particular end was achieved, and the war was likewise ended when the Supreme Intelligence secretly manipulated some Shi’ar agents into creating and detonating the Nega-bomb (a Kree-designed WMD) in the heart of Kree space, killing many inhabitants of their home-world. To the Supreme Intelligence, it was a drastic way to jumpstart their race’s evolutionary dead-end, a long term and logical end justifying the means type of action – even if the means meant nearly obliterating their galaxy – to everyone else, it was plain and simple genocide at a near galactic scale. Only the quick thinking of Sersi prevented the Kree-assigned Avengers team from sharing the same fate as most of the Kree – that and the fact that she relied on Starfox in knowing what to do next, in properly reviving them.
The Avengers, by this time regrouped, were all horrified by what had happened, and many of them – led by Iron Man, were angered at what they witnessed, and they wanted the Supreme Intelligence to pay for the atrocity by avenging all the dead through the execution of the Supreme Intelligence. Steve did not want them to follow this path – to him, no matter what the crime was, they were in no position to act as judge, jury and executioner. What needed to be done was to capture the Supreme Intelligence and turn it over to the rightful authorities – whoever they may be (in this case, the Shi’ar). This idyllic thought did not sit well with nearly half the Avengers present.
Iron Man, superceding Cap’s field command, by right of his ‘founder’ status, proceeded with the plan to ‘punish the Supreme Intelligence’ and brought along any like-minded Avenger, while the others who saw Steve’s viewpoint stayed, awaiting Steve’s go signal to try and stop their wayward friends – wondering if they needed to fight fellow-Avengers to stop this plan.
Rather than stop them, however, Steve just told his like-minded set of team mates to let Iron Man’s group move on against the Supreme Intelligence. Why he did nothing at this instance may have been puzzling – maybe despite his capabilities, this was one time that Steve was just too spent in doing anything else, maybe he was secretly harboring the thought that these Avengers would not be able to kill, it might also be because they were too exhausted to act. Though some of Iron Man’s team did waver, others did not – hence the Black Knight delivered the ‘killing blow’.
To Steve, something changed that day – the Avengers now seemed to consider execution as a choice that they could use – never mind the fact that it could be argued that the Supreme Intelligence was a machine – he was still sentient, hence alive. Never mind the circumstance that genocide had been done by the Supremor, Avengers never killed – until now, that was a golden rule everyone tried to uphold. When Iron Man’s team returned, neither group felt like talking and they went home with an uneasy peace between themselves – though successful, a contrasting difference could be seen between this and the Kree-Skrull war.
In the Kree-Skrull war, the Avengers returned with heads held high as heroes, proud in having stopped an invasion – and though they too won in this second outing, no one was in a celebratory nature, and Steve was thinking deep and hard all throughout the trip back... part of him wondering if there would be a future for him in this type of Avengers.
Upon their return to Earth, Steve did decide to leave – but was persuaded by the others to stay. Clint even invited him out and brought him to a bar – in the context of having a talk in between drinks (which more likely meant that Steve would talk his frustrations off, while Clint drank and listened). Tony shows up, and apologized to Steve for his brashness, but not for the killing.
Despite their differing viewpoints, Tony told Steve that he still values their friendship and would not want that to end, and that despite how some Avengers may feel about Cap’s high moral stand (hence the possible poor attendance in Steve’s attempted lecture earlier that day), Tony feels that Captain America is still much needed by the Avengers, and with both Tony and Clint’s prodding, Steve decides to indeed stay and continue with the team.
Steve, seemingly accepted this more pragmatic outlook as to who the current Avengers were – after all, these were not young, inexperienced heroes like in his days with the kooky quarter, these were mostly veterans, with one particular Avenger actually having been around for ages (i.e. Sersi). If anything, this would be just another.
Next: Heroes Return, Triune, Kang War and Thunderbolts
Not that Steve looked for trouble, mind you – but you might say that trouble had a way of finding and involving the Avengers. Then again, you aren’t called Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and expect to sit in the sideline, whenever Earth gets into trouble.There was the discovery, centuries back, by the Kree – relatively humanoid looking, very similar to terrans – (er… that means us human beings, in case you’re not a Sci Fi fan; with possible exception of some pure-bred Kree showing blue skin pigmentation as opposed to their mixed-bred, pink skinned populace) that the natives of this planet seemed ripe for experimentation on – and they did, leading to the creation of a variant race: the Inhumans.
Then, of course, there were the Skrulls – humanoid-shaped, with the ability to transform their features and body shape into anything. Prior to the Avengers experiencing any meeting with said race, the Fantastic Four had one brief encounter with Skrulls – ones that Reed later hypnotized into believing they were cows. The first recorded (as far as terran accounts) of the Kree, would have to be anyone who seemingly mingled with Captian Mar-vell, and the person seemingly most in contact with the Kree captain would normally be Carol Danvers.
Anyway, this is my roundabout way of leading to one event where the Avengers did prove that they were indeed Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Later called the Kree-Skrull war, this conflict involved the Avengers and Earth for the simple reason that our planet’s solar system happens to be close to a strategic worm hole (space pocket where space ships can take galactic shortcuts) between the two inter-stellar races. History buffs may compare it the missiles of October kind of scenario, though Earth was a more neutral ground than Cuba.
The Kree and Skrull hated each other and both wanted to keep Earth as a beachhead. Obviously, Earth’s heroes thought otherwise. Aside from conquest, both Kree and Skrull race wanted to tap the potentials of the local populace – the Kree wished to continue experimentation – maybe make more inhumans, and the Skrulls wanted to tap the mutants for certain brainwaves unique to them. The Kree Supreme Intelligence was likewise interested in one particular terran – Rick Jones. Apparently the Supremor, as he is called by his race, was aware of Rick’s potential, long before anyone else, and wished to tap into this. Hence they kidnapped him.
Naturally, the Avengers, being close friends of Rick – most notable Cap, since Rick was his one time sidekick, did not take this sitting down. But before they could act, the Skrulls also made covert and overt moves by first pretending to be a Mc Carthyist politician, accusing the Avnegers of hiding an alien (Mar-vell) and colluding with said alien against the Earth, once they (Vision, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and Goliath) left the mansion, the Skrulls ambushed and captured some Avengers – with exception to the Vision, who’s back-up programming for self-preservation made him intangible and sent him back to the mansion.
To backtrack a bit, these four Avengers, earlier faced their founding members - Cap., I.M. and Thor (later revealed to actually be said Skrull agents that were earlier turned into peaceful bovine creatures by Reed, then reawaken by other Skrulls), and these founders told them basically to leave, and that they were disbanding the team.
Needless to say, the real IM, Thor and Cap, showed up in the mansion – confused with the apparent empty mansion plus the resignation letters from Wanda et all, with a similar letter from Jarvis as well. Steve then called an emergency meeting with the founders – ther real ones, just as the Vision barges into the meeting room – then collapsing, and later being reanimated by the Ant Man. (but that is another story – and the details can be read in said Kree-Skrull War arc).
Steve Rogers showed that whatever the situation – no matter how ‘out-of-this-world’ it seemed, he was not one to hesitate. He always knew what to do. He could comprehend the situation and come up with appropriate solutions. Cap led the Avengers against the Skrull armada, since they found out their fleet’s whereabouts from a captured Skrull. It was the Avengers’ intent to rescue their team mates.
Rick Jones – who by this time, was linked to Captain Mar-vell, was apparently a prisoner of the Kree, while said Captain Marvel, as he was likewise known in Earth, was being coerced into creating a Nega-bomb – supposedly the Kree’s most powerful weapon, for the Skrulls in exchange for sparing the lives of both Wanda and Pietro.
Cap led the Avengers – with a revived Vision, to the S.H.I.E.L.D. space dock to commandeer a few crafts from Fury, in their attempt to bring the fight to the Skrull armada. Count them, five individuals against an entire armada, and what they lacked in numbers, the Avengers did make up for with skills and tenacity. Bear in mind that the Avengers were truing to stop a war and rescuing their team mates, hence the need to do things with speed. Hence the need for a relatively small but highly maneuverable strike force. Thor, Iron Man and the Vision would lead the assault for the armada’s command ship, with Clint and Steve covering the rear… and when the assault seemed to falter, Cap used his small ship to ram into the Skrull ship’s command post.
Literally speaking, the Kree-Skrull war may have been one instance where too many things were happening in all the same time for the Avengers to react. Fortunately, the Avengers’ needs for continuous action were circumvented when Rick – tapping into the unknown potentials of his mind, single-handedly stopped the war of two galactic powers – by freezing all the alien antagonists, giving Earth’s mightiest heroes some breathing room to sue for a détente.
It would be safe to say, however, that the Earth did not just become another far-off, back-water planet like Tatooine on everyone else’s stellar map… not after what had transpired. Now it was nto just a planet near a worm hole, it was a planet with beings of power. The war really did not subside… more likely, it was merely postponed. The addition of the Shi’ar, another galactic race –the third of three major galactic powers (aside from the Kree and Skrull), likewise seemed to be taking more than passing interest in the Earth since – well, at least, ever since a young married couple was abducted while in a plane during mid-flight leaving their two sons (Scott and Alex) to fend for themselves with a burning parachute.
Steve would experience more ‘not so Earth-shaking’ incident, though it would be (at least) the second time where Cap would feel like a chess piece (the first being as part of the Avengers involved in a game between the Grand Master and Kang), wherein he – with a handful of Avengers and other heroes, (the X-men, Spider-man and the Hulk) would find themselves transported to a makeshift planet ‘beyond’ all logic, and realize that on the other side of said amalgamated planet would be many known earth villains.
This event was, of course later referred to as the Secret War – and apparently though, not Cap’s last secret war. But this particular Secret War showed that Cap was once again a take charge guy – no matter how bizarre things seemed – how unimaginable and how powerful, the forces manipulating things were. As proof of this, having just landed on the planet – almost without thinking, Cap’s first move was to assign Avengers around the other heroes – taking strategic clock positions – being ready for anything… and even if other heroes may have decided to split (the X-men not feeling comfortable with the other heroes), Cap was still the obvious leader everyone followed.
One may wonder, how could he do it? Maybe Steve – through his training, could easily compartmentalize everything he saw – set the non-essentials aside and concentrate on the here and now, worrying about other things later on. Maybe he learned this as a coping factor to block out the horrors of war back in WWII… maybe it was his military training – either way, he could act when needed – and this training normally kicked in on an almost instinctive level. It would also be later revealed that Cap’s Super Soldier formula also removed toxins and battled fatigue from his body, hence his not feeling spent so easily or tired. So where others would eventually wear down, Cap would easily retain his stamina, focus and determination to get the job done – no matter what the situation.
These two events, however were not as challenging as another foray into yet another galactic war - one sometimes seen as the logical continuation of its precursor - the previously mentioned Kree-Skrull war, later dubbed as ‘Operation: Galactic Storm’.
Yes, it was still a war – and this time, it seemed to revolve around the Kree and the Shi’ar galaxies (this was happening while the Skrulls were too busy picking up the pieces of having lost their throne world to Galactus). Once again, the Avengers became reluctantly involved – starting with the abduction of Rick Jones, who had called Steve for help regarding some strange dreams he had been having.
Apparently, Rick had some limited predictive powers and they were manifesting at the right time… he was indeed taken by the Shi’ar, as they hoped that he somehow had latent knowledge of how to design the Kree’s Nega-bomb through his past association with Mar-vell. Rick was abducted while he was asking for Cap’s help and naturally, Cap decided to go after Rick.
By this time, Captain America could count on the help of two teams of Avengers – the East and West branches, plus the help of reserve Avenger Quasar, who also happened to hold the title ‘protector of the universe’. The Avengers, then realizing the scope of the mission, were split into three teams – the Earth protectors, the Shi’ar mission and the Kree mission – once again the Avengers hoped to intercede for a ceasefire and possible cessation of hostilities between these two galactic powers. Steve went with the Kree delegate to sue for peace.
Things did not go happen as planed, and at one point, (though it should be stressed that the Avengers contingent to the Kree wanted an audience with the Kree leaders, and if surrendering would help them achieve this goal, well…) a captive Steve Rogers faced the Kree Supreme Intelligence – a gestalt being of the Kree’s great minds, which then proceeded to try and absorb Captain America’s mind and will into itself – hoping to add Captain America’s body of knowledge within their collective database.
Unfortunately for the Supreme Intelligence – and fortunate for Cap, Steve’s will proved too strong and independent-minded and less likely a successful initiate into the Kree Supremor’s hive-mind mentality. The Supreme Intelligence thus discarded Captain America – his plans for assimilation a failure. Unfortunately for all, this was not his only plan. He also had a larger plan with respect to jump-starting their race’s genetic dead-end; you see, it was known to a select few that the Kree, as a race, had reached a genetic impasse… meaning they had no other evolutionary ladder to climb on).
This particular end was achieved, and the war was likewise ended when the Supreme Intelligence secretly manipulated some Shi’ar agents into creating and detonating the Nega-bomb (a Kree-designed WMD) in the heart of Kree space, killing many inhabitants of their home-world. To the Supreme Intelligence, it was a drastic way to jumpstart their race’s evolutionary dead-end, a long term and logical end justifying the means type of action – even if the means meant nearly obliterating their galaxy – to everyone else, it was plain and simple genocide at a near galactic scale. Only the quick thinking of Sersi prevented the Kree-assigned Avengers team from sharing the same fate as most of the Kree – that and the fact that she relied on Starfox in knowing what to do next, in properly reviving them.
The Avengers, by this time regrouped, were all horrified by what had happened, and many of them – led by Iron Man, were angered at what they witnessed, and they wanted the Supreme Intelligence to pay for the atrocity by avenging all the dead through the execution of the Supreme Intelligence. Steve did not want them to follow this path – to him, no matter what the crime was, they were in no position to act as judge, jury and executioner. What needed to be done was to capture the Supreme Intelligence and turn it over to the rightful authorities – whoever they may be (in this case, the Shi’ar). This idyllic thought did not sit well with nearly half the Avengers present.
Iron Man, superceding Cap’s field command, by right of his ‘founder’ status, proceeded with the plan to ‘punish the Supreme Intelligence’ and brought along any like-minded Avenger, while the others who saw Steve’s viewpoint stayed, awaiting Steve’s go signal to try and stop their wayward friends – wondering if they needed to fight fellow-Avengers to stop this plan.
Rather than stop them, however, Steve just told his like-minded set of team mates to let Iron Man’s group move on against the Supreme Intelligence. Why he did nothing at this instance may have been puzzling – maybe despite his capabilities, this was one time that Steve was just too spent in doing anything else, maybe he was secretly harboring the thought that these Avengers would not be able to kill, it might also be because they were too exhausted to act. Though some of Iron Man’s team did waver, others did not – hence the Black Knight delivered the ‘killing blow’.
To Steve, something changed that day – the Avengers now seemed to consider execution as a choice that they could use – never mind the fact that it could be argued that the Supreme Intelligence was a machine – he was still sentient, hence alive. Never mind the circumstance that genocide had been done by the Supremor, Avengers never killed – until now, that was a golden rule everyone tried to uphold. When Iron Man’s team returned, neither group felt like talking and they went home with an uneasy peace between themselves – though successful, a contrasting difference could be seen between this and the Kree-Skrull war.
In the Kree-Skrull war, the Avengers returned with heads held high as heroes, proud in having stopped an invasion – and though they too won in this second outing, no one was in a celebratory nature, and Steve was thinking deep and hard all throughout the trip back... part of him wondering if there would be a future for him in this type of Avengers.
Upon their return to Earth, Steve did decide to leave – but was persuaded by the others to stay. Clint even invited him out and brought him to a bar – in the context of having a talk in between drinks (which more likely meant that Steve would talk his frustrations off, while Clint drank and listened). Tony shows up, and apologized to Steve for his brashness, but not for the killing.
Despite their differing viewpoints, Tony told Steve that he still values their friendship and would not want that to end, and that despite how some Avengers may feel about Cap’s high moral stand (hence the possible poor attendance in Steve’s attempted lecture earlier that day), Tony feels that Captain America is still much needed by the Avengers, and with both Tony and Clint’s prodding, Steve decides to indeed stay and continue with the team.
Steve, seemingly accepted this more pragmatic outlook as to who the current Avengers were – after all, these were not young, inexperienced heroes like in his days with the kooky quarter, these were mostly veterans, with one particular Avenger actually having been around for ages (i.e. Sersi). If anything, this would be just another.
Next: Heroes Return, Triune, Kang War and Thunderbolts
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