Staron

"Sharon...so pretty...you...take my...breath.."

- Steve Rogers, Captain America #25

Staron is the het ship between Steve Rogers and Sharon Carter from the Marvel and Marvel Cinematic Universe fandoms.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Steve showed interest in Sharon (who at the time went by “Kate” as an undercover alias) and asked her out for coffee, but she gently turned him down to not risk her cover being blown. When Nick Fury was targeted and injured by HYDRA, Sharon helped Steve take him to a hospital and revealed she was an agent of SHIELD. Sharon calls him “Captain Rogers” and Steve calls her “neighbor”, when they see each other again.

Captain America: Civil War
Steve finds out Sharon is actually Peggy Carter's niece at Peggy's funeral. After the funeral, they have a nice talk about Sharon's spying on Steve when she was doing her job, and about Peggy. During the Civil War, Sharon was one of Steve's most trusted allies. She risked her life to save him and his friends, and fought against the Winter Soldier alongside him. She risked even more, when she gave Steve and Team Cap their weapons and costumes back. At the end of Civil War, Steve thanked Sharon for helping him, and they shared a kiss before parting ways.

Earth 616
Steve saw Sharon for the first time and realized she looked so much like the woman he fell in love with during World War II, but he knew she couldn't be her because she would look so much older. He starts to follow her, and they end up in danger together. He became impressed with her and her abilities of being a fighter and a spy, but most of all, her strong morality. As they became closer with her fighting at his side as his partner and biggest ally, she told him who she was and who she worked for, and they fell passionately in love. But there was a conflict within their relationship. Steve wanted her to give up on being an agent for her own safety, but Sharon refused. Sharon didn't let her heart sway over her head. She knew that if she quit, people would be in danger and she just couldn't do that. After all, she took this job so she could fight against evil and protect the world. When Sharon was taken by Steve's enemies, he did everything in his power save her, but when he arrived to do so, he found out that it was all a plan of Sharon's to infiltrate in their enemie's base and defeat them.

Steve had proposed to Sharon, but she could not accept because of a secret she was keeping from him that no one could ever know. Sharon's sister, Peggy Carter, was alive and she was the girl that Steve fell in love with in World War II, but he never found out her name.

Sharon and her parents told the truth about Peggy to Steve. She was in the madhouse because of her mental problems, and Sharon explained to him that the reason why she refused his proposal and broke up with him was because of Peggy who was still obsessed with Captain America after all these years in the madhouse. Steve met Peggy again and she recognized him, however, he was no longer in love with her anymore, he loved Sharon. He tried to tell her that the romance he had with her in the past was over, but she refused to accept his rejection. He asked her not to follow him on his missions for her safety, but despite his pleads, Peggy still followed him everywhere and fought with her parent's and her sister Sharon when they tried to stop her. At the time, Sharon and Steve got together in secret to not hurt Peggy.

Captain America 2005
In Captain America 2005, Sharon visited Steve at his secret home and the two talked and catched up with each other. Sharon fought alongside him to stop the Red Skull's henchmen, and eventually, she was sent on a mission to find Jack Monroe. Meanwhile, Steve returned to the place where he had "died" during the War. When he went back to the helicopter to go home, the cosmic cube gave him a vision of Sharon kidnapped and tied up, and he immediately raced to save her. When Steve had fought against the Winter Soldier (who was the one that kidnapped Sharon) and later made him regain his memories as Bucky Barnes, he disappeared and a year later, Steve and Sharon both started to look for him. Delighted by the news that he was alive, Steve kissed Sharon out of excitement. And after making up, they got back together. During the Civil War, Sharon was mind controlled by Dr. Faustus, and he forced her to shoot Steve. She cried while holding him as the doctor's escorted him to the hospital, and the last words of Captain America were how Sharon Carter took his breath away.

Fanon
On AO3, Staron is the most written romantic ship for Sharon and the tenth most written for Steve. There are many comic fans who ship Steve and Sharon, although many MCU fans disapprove the couple. This is mostly due to the differences between the dynamics in the comics compared to MCU. In the comics, the relationship between the two characters is well-established with both characters having mutual respect; while in the MCU, it doesn't get enough buildups and got overshadowed by Steve's other relationships. Furthermore, some MCU fans were disappointed that Steve didn't look for Sharon after she had become a fugitive for helping him.

Amongst the comic fans, Steve and Sharon are one of the most popular known couples in Marvel history. Marvel even put the two in the Top 10 Greatest Couples of Marvel video with them being #10.

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Trivia

 * Natasha's plot in the movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier was originally written for Sharon.
 * Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes) claimed that the kiss between Sharon and Steve started The Falcon and The Winter Soldier series.