Avengers: Age of Ultron
avenger : EndgamesawSteve Rogers / Captain America lift Mjolnirduring the last struggle against Thanos , proving himself worthy of it . But this was n’t always the case as see inAvengers : Age of Ultronwhen he tried and fail to pick it up . So what made the super soldier unworthy to lift Thor ’s pounding and what did he do to last be granted the power to use it eight long time later ? Directors Joe and Russo explain thatSteve has always been capable to pick up the mystical hammer , but the genuine reason may all boil down to his nigh relationship with Bucky ( Sebastian Stan ) .
There ’s no denying that Steve has always been a just man . Long before he ’s picked for the super soldier program and become Captain America , he has always had the core value of a principled humanity - in fact , this is the very rationality he was chosen for the scientific project amidst more physically open candidates . He ’s the Avengers ' moral grasp , and he ’s proven time and time again that he is the schoolbook definition of a hero . Despite all this , Steve is not perfect , as every hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe , and has made confutable decision throughout the years . Perhaps one of the biggest I was to intentionally hide the fact that he make out about Bucky dispatch Tony Stark / Iron Man ’s ( Robert Downey Jr. ) parent , Howard and Maria Stark .
This was the personal conflict that at last drive Steve and Tony aside , leading up the faulting - up of the Avengers inCaptain America : Civil Warfollowing their ideological disagreement regarding the Sokovia Accords - a contract that would put the superhero squad under the supervising of the United Nations . Interestingly , Captain America was against signing the accord , while Iron Man was all for it . But both side have valid points for justifying their stance about the Accords , but Steve lying about Bucky ’s involvement with the Starks ' death was just plain improper .
Captain America break this tidbit during the events ofCaptain America : The Winter Soldier , when he and Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow ( Scarlett Johansson ) were diving deep into how HYDRA was capable to softly grow inside S.H.I.E.L.D. in the last few decennium without being enamour . Steve did n’t see the magnetic tape of Howard ’s execution until Baron Zemo ( Daniel Bruhl ) played it inCaptain America : Civil War , but during his clash with data processor - operated Zola , it was heavily incriminate that the Starks ' accident was planned . consider when that catastrophe took place , coupled with the realization that Bucky was brainwashed to become the Winter Soldier , it did n’t take Steve long to put two and two together .
Steve kept this information for two years , although he was consistently in contact with Tony , both being part of the Avengers . He was keeping this monumental secret during the party in the Avengers Tower where everyone was given the opportunity topick up Mjolnir . Sure , he was able to move it ever so slightly because this lie did n’t scrub out the fact that deep down , he has ethical motive that no one else in the grouping can rival other than Thor and later , Vision . But that does n’t signify it ’s not still untimely for him to intentionally hide the truth to protect Bucky . When he was confronted about this in the bunker , he even assay to traverse direct knowledge about this , until Tony see through this and call for him again , to which he fully profess .
But with that out in the open for years by the time the events ofAvengers : Endgamerolled out , Steve no longer has anything in his sense of right and wrong . He ’s also patched things up with Tony as they both admit that rancor will bring them nowhere , peculiarly given their missionary post to bestow back everyone who was pass over out by Thanos ' ( Josh Brolin ) snap inAvengers : Infinity War . contribute all that , by the time he called onto the magical power hammer , it come to him , proving of his worthiness to wield the Mjolnir .
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