The debate about Captain America's virginity is now MCU canon thanks to She-Hulk
Look, as a Marvel Cinematic Universe fan myself, I’m here to tell you that MCU fans have some really strange debates. And the hills we choose to die on are sometimes so nonsensical and meaningless that you can’t help but be impressed at how wild these fan theories are.
One of the most divisive (and pointlessly fun) of these debates tries to unravel the personal life of workaholic superhero and love-sick puppy Steve Rogers. I’m going to cut right to the point:
MCU fans want to know if Captain America has sex.
I know! It’s crude. It means (almost) nothing in the grand scheme of the entire MCU storyline…..and yet the debate rages. It feels safe to assume that after Steve went back in time to ostensibly live out his prime days with Peggy Carter that the two fondued. But what about before then? Did Steve ever hook up with Natasha Romanoff or (gulp) Sharon Carter?
Credit where it’s due, Mallory Rubin and Jason Concepcion dove into this argument during their Binge Mode podcast season covering the MCU. And now, amazingly, the debate has become canon within the MCU itself.
It’s all thanks to She-Hulk, the newest entry into the MCU set to debut August 18 on Disney+. In an exclusive clip from IMDB, we see Bruce Banner and his cousin, Jennifer Walters (soon to become the titular She-Hulk) driving down a desolate highway discussing whether or not Captain America still had his, uh, service card before time-traveling back to Peggy.
Regardless of the answer (he didn’t), the fact that this silly fan debate has actually made it back into the writing room and onto the screen is wild. Shoutout to the She-Hulk writers for trying to get to the bottom of one of the biggest mysteries in the 616 Universe.