It's even creepier/sader than seanchai's and my AU-bunny where Steve was kidnapped from the hospital by Red Skull and replaced with a cloned body--and has to watch Sharon and Bucky and Tony and the world fall apart over his "death" while powerless to help them, with Red Skull gloating the entire time (of course, because I'm incapable of doing anything that doesn't have a happy ending, he then bides his time until he's started to recover from being shot, knocks a guard out, and escapes, to show up on Sam's doorstep at three in the morning all, "Um, hi? I'm not actually dead.").

Ah, but you didn't even mention the best part, with the totally gratuitous open-heart surgery, and Red Skull being a mouth piece for every opinion that we don't like.

I didn't think it was possible, given how much I've always loved it, but I think Marvel may have reinvigorated my love for h/c in a way that fandom hasn't since I realized that other people watched Magnificent Seven.