>>100365229I actually liked Steve's character in AOU. AOU was kind of a break from the Nomad progression even though there were obviously elements of his increasingly steadfast morality coming through with the "when you try to win a war before it starts, innocent people die every time." thing.
I liked the whole "Eternal soldier" aspect, the idea that Cap can't exist without a war anymore. I think it was a very natural progression of the "man out of time adjusting to the future" prospect of Avengers 1, because now he's adjusted to being in the future and coming to terms with the fact that he's lost his past, effectively. His life with Peggy, his life after the end of the war, was stolen from him. Now all he's got left is the war. The perfect soldier condemmed to a life of eternal battle.
By the end of AoU he ends up coming to peace with that. He's an eternal warrior, all that's left now is making sure the war he's fighting is one for the right reasons and the right people. I think that's a solid as hell backing to the continution of the Nomad arc in Civil War and IW. Threads of this arc come through in IW just in the idea that him and the Secret Avengers have just been living a life of constant Avenging for like 3 years, sleeping rough and basically living out of the Quinjet.
