Steve Rogers/Relationships

The relationships of Steve Rogers/Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
==Romances==
===Peggy Carter===
Peggy was Steve's superior in the military and eventually became his love interest. Peggy showed great amounts of faith in Steve over the course of World War II and even kissed near the end. When Steve is forced to crash-land into the ice and presumed dead, Peggy is devastated. Upon awakening, Steve is both happy and saddened when he visits Peggy in her old age, and expresses regret at not having the chance to be with her. Due to her dementia, Peggy doesn't remember their previous conversation and becomes emotional upon seeing Steve sat next to her, expressing her amazement that he is alive; and Steve tells Peggy that he couldn't leave her. Peggy eventually dies of old age and Steve is crushed at her death. He attends her funeral, crying while he helps carry her casket down to the altar.
After the events with Thanos, he decides to retire from superhero work, so when he travels back in time to return the Infinity Stones, he stays in the 40s to live a peaceful life alongside Peggy, and they finally are seen dancing together. An elderly Steve Rogers returns to the main timeline after Peggy's death in 2016, and reveals to Sam Wilson that Peggy and Steve married, as Steve hands over the Captain America mantle over to Sam.
Steve and Peggy's relationship is paralleled in the What If...? series in the case of many different universes. In the pilot episode, Peggy becomes a soldier instead of Steve, but they still develop feelings for one another, agreeing on a date as she is sucked into a portal that takes her to the future. In "What if... Captain Carter Fought The Hydra Stomper?, it's revealed this version of Steve never got over Peggy and continued fighting to distract himself, much like the mainstream timeline. Peggy and Steve's relationship is very important to the series as shown when she refuses to fight a brainwashed Steve and just wants to be with him, even if he is a villainous person. Peggy later vows to find the man she loved as she sees the good in him. 
In another episode, "What if... The Avengers Assembled in 1602?", Captain Carter meets an alternate Steve Rogers in the year 1602, who reveals his Peggy Carter died sometime ago. Captain Carter and 1602 Steve connect, but before they can do anything romantic, it is revealed that this Steve Rogers is The Forerunner from 2018, who got transported from an alternate 2018, while he was fighting Thanos. Steve struck the time stone and was sent back to 1602 with his memory wiped. Peggy realises Steve must be sent back to his proper time otherwise it could end drastically for the universe. Peggy tearfully tells this Steve that they never get their happy ending, although he believes they do (their dance in Endgame) in another timeline, before departing to his own time.
== Friends and Allies ==
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Steve likes Russians igkes Bucky to Wakanda to have the Winter Soldier program removed from his mind. Two years later, when they reunite again, they fight together against Thanos. Bucky ends up being one of those casualties when Thanos snaps his fingers to erase 50% of the life in universe, and Steve seems distraught upon watching his friend turning to ash. When everyone is brought back to live 5 years later, Bucky supports Steve when he decides to go back in time to live a life with longtime love Peggy Carter, and also approves his decision to give Captain America's shield to Sam after he came back to the original timeline as an old man.
Steve supporting and believing in Bucky is shown to mean a lot to him and, 6 months following Steve's retirement, Bucky struggles without Steve being around him. When Sam gives Steve's shield to the museum and then John Walker is announced as the new Captain America, Bucky is really upset that his friend is being replaced by someone he did not choose. He later explains to Sam that he is worried that if Steve was wrong about Sam, it could mean that he was also wrong about believing in him.
===Tony Stark/Iron Man===
Tony is Steve's ally and friend. Despite their vast differences in personality, they clearly respect each other, eventually forming a close friendship, even though they argue quite a lot.
Their friendship is broken during the events of Captain America: Civil War, where they both have opposing views of the Sokovia Accords, a set of laws that would have the Avengers overseen by the United Nations. Steve and half of the Avengers refuse to sign the Accords, while Tony and the other half sign due to the collateral damage they caused in Sokovia. The Accords are signed at a United Nations meeting which is bombed, and security footage indicates that the culprit is Bucky. Tony is ordered by Secretary Ross to arrest Steve and his team, but fails after a long fight in an airport in Berlin. When Tony learns that Bucky was framed for the bombing, he strikes a truce with Steve and Bucky and meets them in an old HYDRA base to look for answers. Baron Zemo, the real culprit of the bombing, plays back footage that reveals that Bucky was the one who killed Tony’s parents while brainwashed. Steve reveals that he knew this, enraging Tony to the point that he tries to kill them both. He succeeds in ripping off Bucky’s metal arm before Steve disables his Iron Man armor. Tony hatefully tells Steve that he does not deserve his shield, as it was made by Tony’s father. Steve responds by leaving the shield with Tony before departing with Bucky. 
Steve sends a letter of apology for everything that happened, telling Stark that if he ever needs his help, he'll be there, showing Steve's regret of their fight. Tony, while still upset with Steve, forgives him enough to ignore Ross’s demand to help stop Steve from breaking his friends out of the Raft.
When Thanos’s army invades Earth in search of the Infinity Stones, Tony hesitates (and ultimately declines) to call Steve for help. When Tony returns to Earth at the beginning of Avengers: Endgame, he blames Steve for Thanos’s victory because the Avengers were scattered. 
Five years later, when Tony and Steve are given the opportunity to reverse the Snap, they finally set aside their differences, with Tony returning the shield to Steve as a gesture of goodwill. They, along with Thor, personally confront Thanos together when he attacks the Avengers Compound in a final bid to steal back the Infinity Stones. Steve is immensely sad when Tony sacrifices his life to destroy Thanos’ army and attends his funeral.
===Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow===
Natasha is Steve's close friend and teammate, becoming friends on their job as S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Natasha even tries to set Steve up on dates at one point and they worked together to stop Alexander Pierce and HYDRA from overtaking S.H.I.E.L.D., which results in them even sharing a kiss while undercover. Despite siding with Tony Stark over the Sokovia Accords, Natasha allows Steve and Bucky Barnes to escape upon seeing the destruction the battle between the Avengers causes. As a result, she becomes a fugitive like them, eventually assisting in breaking their teammates out of the Raft. Natasha is also the only one whom visits Steve to comfort him after the death of Peggy Carter. Natasha joins Steve on the run with Sam over the next two years and they work together to try to defeat Thanos' army with T'Challa and the Wakandians, until Thanos is successful in snapping his fingers and obliviating half of the universe. Over the course of 5 years after the snap, both Rogers and Romonoff work together to try and bring everybody back who was dusted. They form a team, which eventually includes their former ally Tony Stark and it is Steve who struggles the most with the news that Natasha has died during the mission, after sacrificing herself so her teammates can obtain the soul stone.
===Sam Wilson===
Sam becomes Steve's friend while they run together, and later recruited as an Avenger. Sam is loyal to Steve, helping Rogers with anything he needs, including locating Bucky Barnes who is on the run from the government. Sam and Steve work together to restore Bucky's memories and they work together, against Iron Man and his side of the Avengers during the civil war. Steve breaks Sam and his teammates out of the Raft. Sam then joins Steve and Black Widow on the run from the government over the next two years. In 2023, Sam offers to go with Steve back to the past to help him return the infinity stones back to their proper places in the timeline, but Steve declines, saying he needs to do this alone. Shortly afterward, Steve returns to the main timeline as an old man and passes the mantle of Captain America onto Sam with the shield, which Sam eventually takes on board and accepts the position of the hero. 
===King T'Challa/Black Panther===
When Steve meets T'Challa, the king of Wakanda threatens the captain over believing his friend Bucky Barnes was responsible for the death of his father T'Chaka. The two do not get along for a wile and Steve vows to protect Bucky against the ruler known as the Black Panther. However, T'Challa soon finds out that Bucky has been framed by Baron Zemo, and agrees to help Steve in Wakanda to remove the brainwashing from Barnes' mind, which takes two years. In 2018, Steve and T'Challa reunite in Wakanda, where it revealed they have been keeping in touch over Bucky's brainwashing removal. Steve thanks T'Challa for his service in helping his friend and they join forces when Thanos' army arrive in Wakanda to retrieve the Soul stone which in Vision's head. 
===Peter Parker/Spider-Man===
Steve meets Peter Parker as Spider-Man during the clash of the Avengers in 2016 and Peter introduces himself as Spider-Man, saying she he is a big fan of the captain. The two are on opposite sides of the Sakovia accords and fight each other, but Captain America does praise Spider-Man for his kind heart and they briefly bond over them both being from New York. 
The two don't interact again until years later during the Battle of Earth in 2023, when Captain America notices Spider-Man in danger and throws Thor's hammer to the young Avenger to get him away from the collision he is in during the battle, and Steve calls Peter Queens, a call-back to their first interaction. 
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