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Peggy Carter | Captain America: The First Avenger | Not Reserved 2/5ish?
Colonel Phillips then orders Peggy to London with him for war-related stuff, but refuses to let Steve come since he’s an experiment, and one super solider does not an effective army make. So while Steve is convinced to sell bonds for the war effort and embarks on his 5-month tour of major cities, Peggy is off in London – and possibly at the front too – gathering intel and other important things which we don’t get to see.
And then it’s early November (1943) and Steve and his
haremperformers have been sent to Italy to try and entertain the troops. He fails miserably and goes to cheer himself up by doodling, when lo! Peggy appears. She doesn’t seem too impressed by Steve the Performing Monkey, telling him he was meant for more than that. During their conversation, it transpires that Steve had just been in front of what was left of the 107th – the Division(?) Steve’s best friend Bucky had enlisted in. Upon finding out that the majority of the troops were POWs and that Bucky was not amongst those who returned, Steve decides to launch a one-man rescue mission. Peggy intervenes, but rather than stopping Steve from going, she helps. She convinces Howard Stark to fly them over enemy lines, where Steve can parachute down at a safe distance, and then call them to come get him and the troops when he’s done.Obviously, the enemy doesn’t take too kindly to their plane and tries to shoot them down, which means Steve decides to jump out earlier than planned. Peggy tries to stop him, insisting it would be better to take him as far as possible, but Steve refuses and points out that he ranks at Captain level so he doesn’t have to listen to her.
Epic rescue mission is epic, but since Steve’s communicator ends up with a bullet hole in it, he can’t call back to base to let everyone know he’s alive and has managed to free the other soldiers. This leads Colonel Phillips to be seen writing a letter to Senator Brandt back in the U.S., informing him that Steve is missing, presumed dead. He blames Peggy for them losing Steve, but she stands up to him and says she doesn’t regret her actions. Steve and the rescued troops show up soon after, though, so all is forgiven.
And we’re back in the war rooms below London, where Steve tells everyone about a map of possible Hydra bases he’d seen back in Austria, and Col. Phillips instructs Peggy to coordinate with MI6 on the matter. I’m assuming this is now early 1944 since in the previous scene Steve was meant to be receiving a medal for his actions. The rescue took place around the 3rd of November, but considering the troops would have had to walk back to base camp, presumably that would have taken a while, so I’m guessing they’d get back a few days later, and debriefs and paperwork would have to happen...a bit of handwaving is needed, but personally I think the next events would have happened after Christmas.
Steve puts together a team (made up of soldiers he’d rescued) to destroy the bases. And by put together I mean he hangs out with them in a bar and they agree but only if he buys them all drinks for the rest of the night. Which he does. Peggy shows up looking pretty in...red, but apparently she’s not dressed up to go dancing since she has another conversation with Steve about finding the right partner. Or, it’s kind of a conversation with Bucky, but she spends the whole time staring lovingly into Steve’s eyes, which Bucky finds most upsetting. Poor bb isn’t used to being ignored. Anyway, Peggy was there to tell Steve he needs to be back at the war office prompt at 8 the following morning so Stark can equip him with his fancy new weaponry.
The next day, a horny secretary tries to make a move on Steve while he’s waiting to see Col. Phillips and Peggy catches them mid-make out session which, understandably, pisses her off a great deal. Steve gets defensive and starts blabbering about fondue, which he’s convinced is a euphemism, but Peggy just rolls her eyes at him and leaves him to it. Stark very kindly educates Steve on the real definition of fondue and then Steve picks his new shield, made out of vibranium. When Peggy happens to wander past and Steve asks her what she thinks, her response is to shoot a gun at him and let that do the talking. The shield isn’t even dented and Peggy feels better, while poor Steve just looks hurt and confused.
Steve and his Merry Men go off kicking butt and being awesome, trailed by some camera guy who sends footage back to the home front for people to watch and twiddle their moustaches at and nod and say “hm”. Or in Peggy’s case, blush when there’s a clear shot of Steve’s compass, which has a photo of Peggy taped to it. Who knows how he even got that.
Peggy Carter | Captain America: The First Avenger | Not Reserved 3/4!
Finally, the main base is found and an attack launched. Steve and other soldiers go in fighting, and at one point Peggy manages to save Steve from a guy with a flame thrower. They almost have a ~moment~ but Peggy reminds Steve he was in the middle of something, and he legs it after Schmidt, the bad guy. Although Steve is now a very fast runner, he can’t quite manage to catch up with the airship Schmidt is zooming away in... but luckily Col. Phillips and Peggy arrive in a car and Steve hops in so they can race after Schmidt. Steve’s just about to jump from the car to the plane when Peggy grabs him for a quick kiss, leaving Steve somewhat stunned.
Yadda yadda, big fight between Steve and Schmidt which results in Schmidt/Red Skull being disintegrated or something, and Steve ends up stuck on a plane that is en route to New York. Steve realises he has no choice but to force the plane down because otherwise it will blow up New York. He manages to get in contact with the base, where Peggy answers. She tries to dissuade him from his suicide mission but they both know it’s the only way. They talk and make plans to go to a dance when this is all over – but they both know the conversation is only to distract Steve from what’s about to happen, and Peggy struggles to play along. For the first time she can’t maintain her stiff upper lip and she’s fighting back tears as they talk, which she surrenders to when the feed goes dead.
Ultimately, the war is won and everyone celebrates V.E. Day. Peggy is seen helping clear out the war rooms and Colonel Phillips hands her a folder marked “Captain America: Inactive”.
That’s the last we see of Peggy, although of course the movie ends with Steve eventually being found in the ice and taking back to S.H.I.E.L.D. HQ in NYC, where he wakes up and is upset to find out he’s been asleep for nearly 70 years and thus missed his date with Peggy.
Personality:
Peggy is a strong woman who has worked hard to reach the position she’s in. She’s aware that it’s still pretty much a man’s world, despite all that the First World War did for women’s rights. As such, she doesn’t take kindly to people (mostly men) who give her attitude for being female and in the army – she punches one soldier when he tries to hit on her, showing she is definitely not someone to be messed with. She’s not afraid to get her hands dirty and has had hand-to-hand combat training as well as learnt how fire various models of guns.
She also doesn’t like to be seen as a “damsel in distress”; she is more than capable of looking after herself in a fight and when in the movie Steve pulls her out of the way of a speeding car, her first reaction is to angrily shout at him because he made her miss the shot she’d been going to take at an enemy spy. Of course, Steve didn’t do it because she’s a woman and he thought she needed rescuing, but because she genuinely was about to get hurt. Still, Peggy’s used to dealing with the attitude that women need a man to take care of them, so she assumes (at first) that that was Steve’s thinking, too.
She’s very much a soldier, strict and disciplined, but at the same time she isn’t afraid to break the rules if she thinks it’s necessary – and she will then defend her actions rather than simply accepting punishment.
Since most of her time is spent around men (and soldiers, at that), she works hard to come across as distant, almost uncaring of what they think of her. She has earned their respect and isn’t concerned about those that fear her (which some probably do. See: Howard Stark staring at her like she’s mad when she fires upon their star soldier, but not saying anything).
That being said, she does also have a soft side, but you have to be a special kind of person to see it. Basically, if you’re innocent and naive – like one Steve Rogers – she’s more likely to let you see past the walls she’s built up.
Other:
Here are a couple of quotes from the actress who plays Peggy, taken from the movie’s wikipedia page:
“She's an English soldier through and through, although she always looks fabulous. She might stand there with a machine-gun shooting Nazis, but she's obviously gone to the loo beforehand and applied a bit of lipstick. She doesn't need to be rescued.” and “I think she's quite stubborn, a slightly frustrated woman who struggles with being a woman in that time...she’s very much a fighter.”
Peggy Carter 4/4 ( I'm so sorry about that history section;; )
May 23.
A telegram arrived from Stark today. Nothing so far, but he will, of course, keep looking. If anyone can succeed it will be him. Meanwhile I am trying to keep busy since there's still a lot of work to be done here as well, though I confess it is rather difficult to concentrate. Part of me wishes I could have accompanied Stark...
But no matter. I must trust him to do what he can.
I've been invited to an event at The Red Lion at the end of the week. Their rebuilding work is almost complete and there is to be an evening of entertainment Friday night. I don't think I shall go, though. I'm not much in the mood for celebrations and I certainly don't want to go dancing. Not without him.
Third Person:
It had been difficult to hide her smile when Colonel Phillips was distracted from giving his pep talk when his gaze landed on the scrawny kid in the group. At least Erskine had kept everyone in the dark, not just her. She’d almost suspected him of choosing this young man on purpose, just to see how she’d react when she saw him, but chose to give him the benefit of the doubt. He seemed serious about the choice, but by the end of the first day of training Peggy was struggling to see his point of view. Rogers was determined, a hard worker, there was no doubt about that. He was also completely unfit and didn’t stand a chance up against these other lads. Especially not when the likes of Hodge was going out of his way to make things more difficult; if he thought no one saw the way he stuck his foot out when Rogers was running past or stood on Rogers’s fingers if he happened to catch up on the rope climb, he was sorely mistaken. (And if Peggy happened to make up some reasons to disqualify him from certain exercises so he had to redo them, it’s not like anyone said anything.) Rogers might not be the obvious choice at the end of the week, but there was certainly something...almost magnetic about him.
It was later that week when their eyes met yet again – this time while Rogers struggled to finish this batch of star-jumps – that Peggy realised that perhaps she wasn’t being as unbiased as she was supposed to be. Rogers flashed her a pained smile, favouring his right side where his muscles were clearly spasming from the effort, and Peggy quickly looked away, pretending to make a couple of notes on her clipboard before moving down the line. “Is that all you’ve got? Come on ladies, if this is the best you can do you might as well go home and get back to saving scrap metal. The army would rather send monkeys to the front than you miserable excuses for soldiers.”
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