problematic tropes are only problematic due to their prevalence, not bad in and of themselves; they are bad on a statistical level.
this complicates the discourse significantly as it means any individual application of a terrible trope is not very terrible at all, a subtlety that is hard to express and which most people don’t seem to get.
bold talk for a post that doesn’t even pass the bechdel test
If anyone wanted to know where the “Captain America was an agent of hydra thing because the world got rewritten by a little girl with the power of god,” thing went: the good Cap came back and kicked the living shit outta Nazi cap.