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winterstar95:

fuckyeahladiesofthemcu:

Betty Ross – The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Hmmm. Look at that Ross is a jerk. Maybe Tony shouldn’t have trusted him with those 3 inch thick Accords. Maybe Ross was playing into Tony’s guilt. Maybe Tony should have taken a minute and listened to the guy who worked for an agency that ended up being his arch nemesis. Oh but no, let’s all trust Ross now for NO GOOD REASON.

Agreed. So much. And the thing that gets me about fandom’s short-term memory loss when it comes to Ross is that there was so much contained within The Incredible Hulk that explains things for the entirety of the MCU.

For example: Ross’ ‘super soldier’ program that resulted in the Hulk was United States government funded program. In fact, it was heavily implied that Bruce wasn’t the first casualty. When General Gellar confronted Ross about the Hulk issue his exact dialogue was: “Are you telling me ANOTHER one of you super soldier experiments has gone haywire?! Is there ANYTHING that came out of that program that didn’t turn into a mess?!” (I posted the clip of that exchange here).

Secondly, Ross’ idea of dealing with the Hulk situation was to create Abomination, who then proceeded to take out half of Harlem (which makes Ross lecturing the Avengers on collateral damage freakin’ hysterical).

So how on earth was this man appointed Secretary of State? A job that puts him in-charge of (the quoted are directly from the state.gov site) “negotiates, interprets, and terminates treaties and agreements” (a power he used to further his own agenda via the accords) and “ensures the protection of the U.S. Government to American citizens, property, and interests in foreign countries” (which he didn’t do. No instead he locked up team Cap without due process, had shoot-on-site orders on James Barnes, an American citizen and veteran, and, when Bucky was caught, was perfectly willing to go along with Everett Ross and deny him a trial… and not only did all this go against the rights and privileges of US citizens, for which Steve Rogers, James Barnes, Sam Wilson, Scott Lang and Clint Barton most definitely are, it went against the Geneva convention, as James Barnes is a long standing POW thus any crime he committed during his decades of captivity are thereby accorded review).

And lastly, and this one is the one that should send up the MOST red flags… “The Secretary also serves as the channel of communication between the Federal Government and the States on the extradition of fugitives to or from foreign countries.” A power Ross used to build a prison in the middle of the ocean and lock up Avengers without due process. The “THE"part of "channel of communication” being the most telling part of that, as in he could hide bodies and no one would be the freakin’ wiser because his office is solely responsible for the ‘extradition of fugitives’ without so much as a check and balance.

We know via Winter Soldier that Hydra had infiltrated the Senate. We know via Iron Man 3 that the Vice President was involved in a plot to take out the President. We know that the world gave Alexander Pierce, Mr. Hail Hydra himself, a freakin’ Nobel Peace Prize. Conclusion: either Ellis is naïve as hell or the US government within the MCU is corrupt as the day is long and the appointment of Ross is a part of that. Either way, Ross is not a good guy and never will be.