@pariston_hill said in X-Men The Animated Series is being revived!:
So I heard they mischaracterized Cap in the last episode to make the X-men look better (an awful trend in X-books). Of all the other supes Steve is the one that has been most supportive of them when against governments abuse.
I think it’s mostly MCU fans exaggerating how “poorly” Cap is written because they ALWAYS get mad when their hippie dippy libbie chris evans isn’t depicted as perfect. Copypasta-ing from what someone else said on a different place:
I don't agree with the idea anyone was torn down this episode. This kinda feels like the sense among fandom in that they want their characters to be perfect pictures of never-being-wrong-never-being-in-conflict that really destroys stories. Characters can have flaws and those flaws are not "tearing them down".
Steve and Rogue both have perfectly valid positions in this episode. Neither of them are morally incorrect and neither of them are acting perfectly. But those positions are still at odds and cause conflcit. That is literally one of the best forms of conflict.
Steve is right in pointing out that Rogue's rampage tips off the bad guys about how close she is getting and gives them time to escape. He is also right in acknowledging that Captain America, symbol of the American dream, going to Mexico unauthorized, beating up Mexicans and causing chaos in their communities is not a good thing and not going to go well. If anything, Steve's rigid morality is the best part about him because it can be a great thing and a flaw depending on the situation.
Rogue meanwhile is perfectly valid to be pissed and not playing nice given a genocide just occurred, she is perfectly valid to want Cap to stand up publicly for mutants and bring the people accountable, and perfectly valid to be pissed that he can't act immediately. That doesn't make Cap wrong, that just means that they have different positions that are opposed. They are both right and both flawed. That is good.
Of course that’s still better than most of 21st century (616) comicsCaptain America where he is written as either a bigoted government tool or a libertarian bombthrower.