People will continue to try and erase Peggy Carter and her significance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Even Captain America writer Chris Markus himself downplayed her influence by saying that she was “only a girl [Steve] kissed once in a moving car” to justify their decision to introduce a new romantic interest in Civil War — Sharon Carter, who just happens to be Peggy’s grand-niece. While it’s true that Sharon’s role in the comics is much bigger than Peggy’s, she was never properly established in the MCU. There is a jarring dissonance in the film where Steve drops everything to be a pallbearer at the funeral of the love of his life and then a few scenes later, he makes out with the grand-niece who gave the eulogy. It’s a romance beat critics are calling “unearned,” “slightly icky,” and “completely unnecessary.”