Originally Posted by
capandkirby
Dude. Kobik had already done it. She did it to each and every prisoner at Pleasant Hill. The entire reason that prison was so heinous is that she changed people's lives - yes they were super villains, but even super villains deserve to not have their entire lives mind-raped from them and given a different life at someone else's will - without their knowledge. Which is exactly what she did to Steve. She did not say "Steven, I'm going to restore your youth but the caveat is that I'm going to change your entire history to make you believe that you were Hydra all along. I'm going to separate you from your mother at a far earlier age. I'm going to have you grow up in a Hydra boarding school to be brainwashed. I'm going to make Zemo your life-long BFF. I'm going to make "Elisa" your stand-in mother. And I'm going to convince that the Allies would have lost WW2 if they hadn't got a hold of me. That sound good to you?" What she said was "I'm going to make you a hero again". Steve who had just been fighting (and losing) to Crossbones. Steve who was still dealing with the Pleasant Hill situation. To Steve, at that moment, "being a hero again" meant he could take out Crossbones, whom he was just fighting, and dispose of the threat he, and the other pissed-off Pleasant Hill prisoners, possessed.
The only reason the 'narrative' doesn't make sense to you because you're biased against Steve. If it's not explicitly stated, it is not part of the story, and it is you doing a bad faith reading.
As for your AvX comparison. False Equivalence. First, Nova landed on Earth, barely alive, warning that "it's coming" then slipped into a coma. They also already had an experience with the Phoenix force, so they all knew already how much of a threat it possessed. If I had previously been bitten by a snake, I'm not going to assume that snake is benevolent. And then Steve had Logan telling him, in person, that the Phoenix was bad news. Logan specifically warned Steve about the threat. No one in their right mind could fault Steve being wary of a known threat whom an X-Men was specifically confirming was awful. It's ridiculous to even compare the two situations.
Honestly, I get it, you X-Men fans are determined to not let AvX go. To hang on to grudges from a story that was released YEARS ago even though both sides had a point. Whatever, that's your right. Be resentful, the only people that harms is yourself. But leave Steve out of it. You don't like him, don't talk about him, focus on what you love instead. Coming here and doing OBVIOUS bad faith readings on Steve is not productive and as a Steve fan, it only serves to piss me off and make it so I will never subscribe to and buy an X-Men title ever again if this is the way X-Men fans behave.