I mean, you have Rayshaun's history and actions up to this point, you know:
He watches the whole controversy of Rage being convicted of robbing a pawnshop, despite Captain America's best efforts to defend him. This enrages Rayshaun so much that he puts on Rage facepaint and joins the riots, firebombs buildings. Captain America calls for peace, obviously Rayshaun does not listen. Then later, he watches Captain America resign because Sam's given up on his methods and doesn't believe in wearing the flag anymore.
And then I ask you if you think Rayshaun's going to give up rioting and be a good clean patriotic superhero, or if he's going to continue on his path, and you just don't know. As if both options are equally likely to you.
Why do you do this, why do you reduce all things to their most generic formulation? The diametrically opposed methods of Reyshaun and Sam don't matter, what's really fundamental is that they're both fighting against the same thing, so maybe they agree - or then again, maybe they don't. At this point, why even bother reading a story then, when anything can happen next and make sense, where there's no momentum of the story leading in one direction or another? A tyrant can pardon the rebels or execute them immediately, and they're both equally sensible options. A villain can want to prevent a force field from being built, or depend on the force field being built, and they're both part of his master plan. A teen rebel can either reform, or keep going down his path, and based on the story so far I have no idea what's going to happen next! Why even bother with plot and buildup? Just flip a coin!
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He watches the whole controversy of Rage being convicted of robbing a pawnshop, despite Captain America's best efforts to defend him. This enrages Rayshaun so much that he puts on Rage facepaint and joins the riots, firebombs buildings. Captain America calls for peace, obviously Rayshaun does not listen. Then later, he watches Captain America resign because Sam's given up on his methods and doesn't believe in wearing the flag anymore.
And then I ask you if you think Rayshaun's going to give up rioting and be a good clean patriotic superhero, or if he's going to continue on his path, and you just don't know. As if both options are equally likely to you.
Why do you do this, why do you reduce all things to their most generic formulation? The diametrically opposed methods of Reyshaun and Sam don't matter, what's really fundamental is that they're both fighting against the same thing, so maybe they agree - or then again, maybe they don't. At this point, why even bother reading a story then, when anything can happen next and make sense, where there's no momentum of the story leading in one direction or another? A tyrant can pardon the rebels or execute them immediately, and they're both equally sensible options. A villain can want to prevent a force field from being built, or depend on the force field being built, and they're both part of his master plan. A teen rebel can either reform, or keep going down his path, and based on the story so far I have no idea what's going to happen next! Why even bother with plot and buildup? Just flip a coin!