THE MARVELS Director Nia DaCosta Says She Blames Steve Rogers for "The Snap"

We are a couple of years out from the end of the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, also known as The Infinity Saga that culminated with Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. The two films dealt with the villain Thanos and his goal to eliminate half the universe so that resources would plentiful instead of scarce for the remaining beings. After Thanos succeeded in Infinity War, the Avengers dealt with the aftermath, ultimately reversing the snap, and restoring what the universe lost.

In a perfect scenario, they would have been able to go back in time and stop it from happening at all. But they did the best they could, and lost a couple of great friends along the way. It seems as though this whole ordeal was Thanos’ fault, as it was his idea, and he was the ultimate heartless bad guy, but according to The Marvels director Nia DaCosta, there was also an Avenger at fault.

In a recent interview with Inverse, DaCosta said:

"Something I like to say a bit flippantly about Captain America is that the Snap is all his fault because he was trying to do his best, trying to do the right thing. There is a world in which he's a villain because, at the end of the day, he should have just sacrificed Vision. He chose one robot's life, albeit a sentient one, over literally the entire universe. There's a sort of anti-hero in that if you want to look at it through that lens. People would say I'm crazy for thinking that way, but there's something connected to the journey of the anti-hero and the hero. The hero's pain is something that spurs them to martyr themselves, and an anti-hero's pain is a thing that kind of starts their journey as opposed to ending it."

That’s a bit of a stretch in my opinion. The scene she’s referring to sees Vision offering to sacrifice himself and the Mind Stone to keep it out of Thanos’s hands. Steve Rogers then famously said that the Avengers weren't in the business of trading lives, and instead decided to team up with Black Panther in Wakanda for one last stand against Thanos’s team of invading aliens.

Cap is a military man who leaves no man behind, and it just simply was not an option for him to sacrifice one of his own. I get what DaCosta was saying, but I think the fault only lies with Thanos in this situation. What do you think?