'Agent Carter' Star Hayley Atwell NOT Impressed with 'Captain America: Civil War' Romance

Hayley Atwell's Agent Peggy Carter hasn't had the best year in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from her ABC show being canceled to how the character died in the summer blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. Still, that's not the problem she has with the recent movie, but rather the romantic twist to Steve Rogers' story.

In case you were weirded out at how easily Cap (Chris Evans) got over Peggy Carter to go for her niece, Sharon (Emily VanCamp) in Civil War, it turns out you're not alone -- Atwell isn't exactly thrilled with the MCU idea either.

IGN recently sat down with the English actress to talk about what Peggy would think of Steve Rogers being involved with her great-niece Sharon, and her response seemed quite characteristic.

"Well, first of all she'd be turning over in her grave," Atwell explained, joking that Peggy would "inject herself with the blue serum" used on Captain America to become a super-villain. "I just feel that, you know -- I wouldn't want to date my great aunt's guy. It just feels like it crosses an incestuous boundary. And Peggy just died. That's even more disrespectful, right? It's like, 'don't touch that."' You can't tap that!'"

It's definitely a valid point, but then again, your average "great aunt's guy" doesn't look 30 when he's in his 90s, and probably wouldn't look remotely like Chris Evans at any age. Atwell made another point regarding Sharon Carter's new love interest: considering Captain America recently revealed in the comics that he's been a HYDRA agent all along, he might simply not be good enough for her.

Since the announcement a few weeks back that Agent Carter had been canceled on ABC, Atwell has been very vocal about her desire to keep playing the SHIELD co-founder. Season 2 of the show ended on a cliffhanger, as one of the show's main characters, Jack Thompson (Chad Michael Murray) was shot, and it was unclear whether he was still alive or had died from the wound; even more interestingly, whoever show him then took a file branded "M. Carter."

This person is not, in fact, Margaret "Peggy" Carter, Atwell told Cinema Blend, and the third season of the show would have delved deeper into this mysterious new Carter character, besides studying Peggy's past in the process.

There's currently an online petition on Change.org asking Marvel Studios to revive Agent Carter on Netflix (joining other MCU shows like Daredevil and A.K.A. Jessica Jones), but so far Disney hasn't said a word -- let's hope that changes!