r/USAgent

So I am watching the Falcon and the Winter Soldier I am wondering what would Steve Rogers think of the new Captain America? He acts like a jerk. Steve never used legal force on anyone. Would he be surprised and angry at John for disrespecting the shield? I honestly think he would be offended. I know the new Captain America was upset about the death of his friend but he went crazy and killed a guy for murdering him. I remembering think Lemar wouldn't want him to kill someone and this goes agianst everything Captain America stands for.

Sometimes I see fics that have me wanting more of his character complexity but they almost never get continued or I see ones where it just makes me hate how he's treated both in and out of Universe even more.

That's only MCU John I'm talking about; I can't remember the last time I saw an ao3 of Comic John or if I ever have to be honest, he deserves stories for himself too in my opinion.

I know there's other websites for this stuff but the one I use the most is archive of our own and there's a few decent ones on there lately but nothing that really has me constantly checking to see if it's been updated or not.

I just wanted to hear what other people's pitches would be for his fan written stories because both the MCU and the comics will only do so much with a character like him.

(Honestly, I'm unfamiliar with Reddit and only made an account for this subreddit, so do let me know if this is not allowed.)

I freaking love John Walker. I've got most of his comics, have read all of his comics, watched everything with him in it (MCU, What If, Marvel Zombies...), I've got all the video games he shows up in, practically all of his merchandise, and my fan accounts are essentially dedicated to him.

One thing that has always bothered me is that John was just... never given any canon birthday. When I was a kid, I used to love making little edits for character's birthdays, and while MCU John Walker fans do that with Wyatt Russells birthday, I really wanted there to be a day for John himself as well.

So when someone asked me what his birthday was and I had to break the news, I decided we should make one up! I had decided his birthday would be August 17th. I have posted about this little celebration on TikTok, Tumblr, Instagram, and such, and I am a bit late here (Reddit scares me) but I wanted to make a post asking if anyone here would make any kind of John Walker content (art, edits, fanfics, even just a post) for his now made up birthday on the 17th on any platform!

And if you do, my user is starspangledmenace on practically everything, so feel free to tag me and I'll excitedly repost it all. :3

I'm scared! 😨

The Comics often forget that John's power broker enhancement made him stronger than Steve and that John has been trained by Taskmaster in Steve's style of fighting, he was also a superhuman wrestler, has military training and has probably trained with many people on all the teams he's been on. Obviously this doesn't guarantee that John is better because Steve still has more experience overall and he's faced far more powerful and skilled enemies. It's a shame that John has become more of a punching bag for pretty much any character that can be deemed more heroic than him though.

In the case of the MCU, he definitely felt like a character who's supposed to be formidable but the plot needed him to lose to show his inadequacy as Captain America first and then he got his moments to shine after becoming a super soldier. He went up against Sam and Bucky while he was mentally and emotionally broken and was out for blood. Obviously Sam and Bucky weren't trying to kill him but you would think their combined skill would be enough to take him down easily. Then the Flagsmashers were practically obstacles in his way in the Finale. Fast forward to Thunderbolts*, he's tossing Yelena and Taskmaster around in the Vault, jumping almost like the Hulk and he temporarily held up a piece of rubble that Spider-Man could probably lift on his own. You could only imagine how much better he's gotten after the 14 month time-skip.

I would like to think that John is the strongest base super soldier in the MCU so far but people are very protective over Steve's status as the only perfected serum user. There's also no doubt that Steve has had much better fight scenes and more wins throughout all his appearances while John is either getting humbled or putting up a challenge and then either losing or not getting to finish the fight. I do like to think that John is one of those soldiers that would practice even outside the military, so he wouldn't have to always be rushing to get a weapon just to win a fight. He was more than willing to fight Sam without the shield before the Dora Milaje walked in that one time, but maybe I'm just overestimating his capabilities, I don't know.