Why I dislike MCU movies

I guess I missed it. I don't remember Rogers being that worse for the wear. I knew he was scrawny and possibly asthmatic (I don't recall) but I sure didn't think he was on death's doorstep.

I suppose the logic would be to build up the pretense of how unfit to be a soldier he is so his transformation can provide contrast. As for why he wanted to join the army, I guess the answer is he wanted to make a difference. With or without knowing if he could, he wanted to so much that it trumped his judgment. It came on the heals of him losing his mother and having no one but Bucky. It also comes from a disposition of not letting one's weaknesses come at the expense of their strengths.

It doesn't just look good conceptually on paper. I thought Chris Evans did really well. He was clearly not about to be chosen to join the army for all the reasons that disqualified him before, but he ran into the scientist who felt people without the power won't take it for granted. It's been said throughout time if you want to test a man's character, give him power. One of the best decisions within that universe was that scientist's hunch this scrawny kid from Brooklyn was worth the most advanced serum ever developed.

That's very cute.

Regardless, he's not a brilliant man. He's a sad but cautiously optimistic mama's boy with no mama, no past, few characters in his life to live up to or disappoint, so he joined the army. In his mind, he was always saving people, rescuing people, helping people, then the experiment let his insides become his outsides and he matured into what he'd been all along. The man would rather be trying to get into the army for the umpteenth time instead of being on a date. He knows what his priorities are.