Steggy

"Well, I couldn't leave my best girl. Not when she owes me a dance."

- Steve; The Winter Soldier.

Steggy is the het ship between Steve and Peggy from the Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom.

Peggy was assigned to Colonel Chester Phillips' training base at Camp Lehigh, where she met potential Project Rebirth candidates, including Steve. Peggy began to admire Steve during his training as he proved to be smarter and braver than the other candidates, such as knocking down a flagpole instead of trying to climb it to retrieve a flag, or instinctively jumping on a dummy grenade to protect others. After he was selected for Project Rebirth, she accompanied him to the Strategic Scientific Reserve Brooklyn Facility, where they discussed their struggles to gain respect in the war.

After the procedure began, Steve began to scream in pain. When Peggy heard his screams, she tried to tell Abraham Erskine to stop the process, but Steve insisted that it continue. After the procedure, Rogers was successfully transformed, growing over a foot in height and gaining large muscles. Peggy was one of the first to greet him after his transformation, providing him with a new shirt before attempting to touch his newly muscled frame. After Heinz Kruger attacked and stole a vial of the Super Soldier serum, Peggy gave chase and tried to shoot him as he fled in a car. Steve pushed her out of the way just before Kruger hit her with the car, though Peggy insisted she could have killed him.

After the attack, Peggy was sent overseas, while Steve stayed behind and joined the United Service Organization as a costumed Captain America. His show became a hit, and he was eventually sent to Italy to perform for the soldiers. After a disastrous show, Peggy greeted Steve, and the two talked, discussing Steve's role in the war. She told him that his friend Bucky Barnes' unit had been captured by HYDRA, and that he was either dead or imprisoned. With Phillips unwilling to risk a rescue mission, Steve set out on his own to save his friend. Peggy offered her help and convinced Howard Stark to fly them to the HYDRA weapons facility where the prisoners were being held.

When Steve returned days later with the rescued prisoners, Peggy remarked that he was late. Steve showed her his broken radio and told her he couldn't call his ride. Later, the two met at a bar where he was putting together a team called the Howling Commandos. She told Steve that Howard wanted to meet him the next morning to test some new equipment. Bucky tried to flirt with her, but she didn't give him the time of day, only looking at Steve.

The next morning, while Steve was waiting for Howard, a soldier named Lorraine kissed him. Peggy became furious when she saw this, although Steve tried to convince her that it wasn't what it looked like. He accused her of having an affair with Howard, and she reacted with annoyance. She dropped Steve off with Howard. When she picked him up later, she found him trying out the new shield Howard had provided for him. Steve asked her what she thought of it, and without warning, she picked up a gun and shot him, claiming she was just testing the shield. She walked away, leaving Steve and Howard shocked and impressed.

Steve kept a picture of her while he fought HYDRA with the Howling Commandos, which Peggy discovered while watching a newsreel of the team. After Bucky's supposed death, Peggy found Steve in the ruins of a bar, trying and failing to get drunk. She comforted him, telling him that Bucky's death was not his fault. Peggy joined the assault on the last HYDRA base. She shot a HYDRA soldier who was cornering him, saving him. Steve jokingly told her she was late, and called her back for their reunion after his first mission. She had to remind him to keep chasing Johann Schmidt. He was unable to catch up to Schmidt, who had boarded his plane and was flying it out of the hangar. Phillips and Peggy pulled up next to him in Schmidt's car and told him to get in. They caught up to the plane, and before Steve boarded, Peggy pulled him into their first and only kiss. Steve then boarded the plane.

Steve and Schmidt fought in the plane. Schmidt was defeated when he touched the Tesseract he was using to power the plane, which transported him to the planet Vormir. Steve then took control of the plane. With the plane full of bombs and no safe place to land, Steve knew he had to crash the plane into the Arctic to protect the world. Peggy begged him to reconsider, but Steve stood by his decision. Unable to convince Steve otherwise, Peggy stayed on the line with him until he crashed. After that the communication wrnt to static, and all Peggy could do was cry.

The Avengers
Seventy years later, while reading S.H.I.E.L.D.'s files on the Howling Commandos, Steve discovered that Peggy was still alive. He considered calling her, but ultimately decided against it.

The Winter Soldier
Steve visited Peggy in the nursing home where she lived. They talked about Steve's new life. She was lucid at first, but due to her Alzheimer's disease, she suddenly forgot all about their conversation and acted as if it was the first time she'd seen Steve since 1945.

Age of Ultron
Peggy appeared in the nightmare vision that Wanda induced in Steve. She told him the war was over and they could go home.

Civil War
Peggy died in her sleep. Steve was devastated by the news and abruptly left the discussion of the Sokovia Accords to mourn in private. He and Sam Wilson flew to London to attend her funeral, where Steve served as a pallbearer.

Endgame
Steve looks at a picture of Peggy on a ship before going to confront Thanos. Steve and Tony traveled back in time to 1970 the S.H.I.E.L.D. facility to retrieve the Tesseract and more Pym particles after failing in their original mission. To avoid being caught, Steve goes into an office and sees a framed picture of himself as a younger man on the desk. He then realizes he is in Peggy's office and sees her talking to someone through a window. Steve traveled back in time, originally to put the Infinity Stones back in their proper timeline, but ended up marrying Peggy and coming back to meet Sam and Bucky as an old retired man. They finally get their dance together. The directors of the movie have also confirmed that the father of Peggy's children in Captain America: Civil War is Steve.

TV
 Peggy had to convince herself and Howard Stark that Steve was not coming back and that they had to move on. Later, Peggy dumped a vial of Steve's blood into the East River while crying and whispering, "Goodbye, my darling." It was revealed that Peggy had feelings for Steve even before the. Peggy carried a picture of the skinnier Steve with her.



In the MCU multiverse, there is a universe where Peggy was forced to take the serum and become a super-soldier. Despite this, and the fact that Steve Rogers remains frail (he needs the HYDRA Stomper mech suit to fight), they still love each other. Peggy was devastated to learn that she had been gone for 70 years, as Steve had most likely died.

Comics

 * In the main Marvel Universe, Peggy joined the French Resistance during World War II and became a skilled fighter, serving in several operations alongside Steve. The two fell in love, but an exploding grenade left her with amnesia and she was sent to live with her parents in Virginia. She mourned Steve for years after his presumed death. She later joined S.H.I.E.L.D. When Steve first resurfaced, Peggy initially still had feelings for him, but the two decided to remain close friends.


 * In, Earth-58163 is temporarily merged with Earth-616. In this universe, Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter marry, but later divorce for unknown reasons. It is implied that their relationship did not work out.

Heroes Reborn Pocket Universe
 * In this pocket universe, Peggy Carter appears and mentions working with Captain America in the war, but no romance develops. She later marries Richard Barnes.

Earth-982/MC2
 * The events of Captain America's supposed death are still happening. In this universe, Peggy still thinks about Captain America and tells his stories to.

Behind The Scenes
"If I had the Time Stone, I think Steve Rogers would be interested in pursuing a relationship with Peggy Carter- honestly, the Time Stone, if he can go anywhere – I mean, he’s the man out of time. He’s had to reconcile the fact that he’s not from this place, and Peggy Carter really represents...Peggy is a lost love."

- Chris Evans on Steggy.

"I'm so sad today. You just died."

- Chris Evans' text to Hayley Atwell during Peggy's death in Civil War.

"I thought it was a fitting end to a story that has affected so many people. I thought it was very endearing, innocent and wholesome in the way that it keeps those characters in their time, I thought it was quite beautiful and very tasteful of Marvel to finish this 10-year story in a very simple storyline about two human beings — and one of them doesn’t even have any superpowers, so, I thought the tone of it, to end there, after some extraordinary things of trauma, action, effects and powers… to just have two people slow-dancing was very beautiful."

- Hayley Atwell.

"The kiss, obviously! Duh! He was so soft, and he smells so good. I think it was that, and also obviously the big reveal of his body … I had never seen him with his top off before that moment. And so — I’m sure they did this on purpose — I had to rush up to the pod when he comes out and goes, 'Oh God, I’m so tired.' He comes out of this pod looking like Adonis, and so I impulsively just grabbed his chest. And so they kept that in there. That was the highlight of my life, let alone the actual scene."

- Hayley Atwell on what her favorite scene was in The First Avenger.

"Probably, in a very awkward way, that probably meant there was a domestic, words were said, voices may have risen. Wouldn't that be hilarious? If they had a proper argument about it and she just slams the door and he goes off fishing for the weekend for something, I don't know, [laughs] Because it's the '40s I think it can have such a beautiful, wholesome, kind of screwball comedy tone to it, rather than a soap opera. Let's write it now, let's do it."

- Hayley Atwell on whether Steve told Peggy about his and Sharon's kiss.

Fanon
In the fandom, Steggy is a popular ship with the main fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After the Marvel's Agent Carter series, many other ships with Agent Carter like Cartinelli, PeggySous and Carter/Jarvis have come to the fore. Frequent fanart and fanfiction depict the events of Carter and Rogers' dance, which they organized before his apparent death. Some Steggy fans have mentioned that Steggy's ending is the best they could have hoped for, as it was what Steve always wanted, but was too selfless to pursue. They feel that Steve always put the world first, and that it was his turn to be happy, and that he more than earned his share of happiness - he deserved to be reunited with her.

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FAN FICTION
 * Peggy/Steve (Avengers movies) tag on FanFiction.net
 * Peggy/Steve (Captain America movies) tag on FanFiction.net
 * Peggy/Steve (Captain America comics) tag on FanFiction.net
 * Peggy/Steve (Captain America comics) tag on FanFiction.net

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 * In a dubsmash video, Hayley Atwell and Chris Evans share a kiss as their characters. This was part of a dubsmash battle with the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. cast.

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