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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
So instead of being the guy who hit his wife, Hank Pym is now the jerkass who mistreats his daughter and blows up buildings.
Fuck. The guy can't win can he? I thought this movie would help Hank get away from that shit, but it seems to have given movie fans a reason something to latch onto now.
@Tucker: I knew that already. I meant out of the context of the movie, because it didn't give me any sign that he was evil before he revealed it.
@Handsome Rob: Well, there's no point in arguing he didn't mistreat his daughter, because the movie says that. Whether or not blowing up that building is bad or not is debatable. Personally, if they had explained it during the movie, instead of just expected us to accept it, perhaps some people would take it as badly.
EDIT:
I only watched Winter Soldier. I don't remember any buildings blowing up in it, but I could be wrong. Besides, was the evacuation his plan? I didn't get that from the movie. I thought the building alarm went off.
edited 22nd Jul '15 5:00:21 PM by Victin
I don't think there was anyone on the Helicarriers. They seemed like glorified drones for me. They were remotely controlled, had already enough tech to automatically choose thousands of their own targets in the city/state/country, and no one was sent to the main core or whatever to fight Cap or anyone else, other than the Winter Soldier. How did he get there, again?
Even then, they were about to use the helicarriers to murder most of the planet.
They'd make damn sure everyone on them KNEW that going in.
Which brings up a minor point: They'd have to re-run the algorithm afterwards, which would have meant they killed more people, until they've murdered too much of the planet to maintain a stable breeding population and WHOOPS we just went extinct.
HYDRA, do you even evil dictatorship?
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Fury said that, but that doesn't mean they believed it. Merely that the situation was desperate enough that they didn't have time to pick and chose. But Cap gave that warning anyway, and if that wasn't enough, we also see a shot of HYDRA soldiers killing the SHIELD personnel aboard, so most likely everyone must have found out by then.
edited 22nd Jul '15 5:30:23 PM by Tuckerscreator
He warned them of his plans about ten minutes before shit started blowing up. Even then he didn't say the building would get destroyed too. While that part was probably unintentional he still decided blowing up the Helicarriers and dismantling Shield was the right course of action without going through the chain of command.
Cap decides Shield needs to go without talking to any kind of authority figures and asking if it's okay to blow up government property. Fury doesn't count since he's supposed to be dead. Even if Fury did count he only goes along with the plan when his other agents decide Cap is right.
Edit: Basically what Cap did is the equivalent of an FBI agent deciding to blow up the Pentagon without talking to the President or any kind of military leaders. Regardless of whether or not he has good reasons for doing this it's still a questionable decision.
edited 22nd Jul '15 5:36:45 PM by Kostya

It'd make him dangerous.....more dangerous that's for sure.
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