It was a really strange week for Captain America, and the diehard fans surrounding the character.

At the beginning of the week, it was proven that "The Angry Birds Movie" knocked "Captain America: Civil War" out of first place in the box office. Granted, "Civil War" still made an ungodly amount of money, but this is surely surprising, as I’m sure the folks at Marvel and Disney didn’t see an animated movie about an iPhone app from 2009 taking down their blockbuster so soon.

But, this wasn’t even the most interesting, or perhaps harmful, thing to happen to Disney this week.

Earlier in the month, GLAAD, an LGBT advocacy group, issued its annual study on the representations of gay people in films.

Of course, Disney received a failing grade from the group, which called upon Disney to use their most prosperous acquisitions – Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm – to begin to represent LGBT people more in their films, stating that “sci-fi projects have the special opportunity to create unique worlds whose advanced societies can serve as a commentary on our own."

In response to this, many people took to the internet, and two hashtags were started: #GiveElsaAGirlfriend and, of course, #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend.

This certainly isn’t the first time somebody has made the argument that Captain America is gay. Go to Tumblr and you’ll find a plethora of pictures and stories about whoever the creator thinks the star-spangled man with a plan belongs with, usually his lifetime best friend, Buck Barnes, or his teammate/adversary Tony Stark.

But the people that call for this are only serving themselves and what they want to see, and are ignoring the 75-years-worth of Captain America comics, that never allowed for much speculation on Cap’s sexuality. This could be because the trilogy of movies surrounding the character have greatly accentuated the friendship between him and Bucky, making it his entire motivation throughout three films to keep his pal safe.

Besides, all of this internet debate will most likely result in nothing, neither in the comics nor the films. If Disney can’t even give Black Widow her own movie, how could they be expected to make one of their most profitable characters gay?

Personally, I don’t think this change is necessary to Steve Rodgers in any medium. Calling for a change to the character in that regard alters the way he will be viewed in hindsight, especially since there was never cause to believe that he was gay. If the Disney execs did listen to the other hashtag and gave Elsa from "Frozen" a girlfriend, it wouldn’t change the first movie because she didn’t have a boyfriend. Or if they followed GLAAD’s advice and made a new "Star Wars" character gay (people are looking at you, Poe and Finn) that wouldn’t change anything because their sexualities were never blatantly determined in the movies.

While there are countless other LGBT comic book characters, none are as popular or beloved as Captain America. What I think would be more revolutionary for Marvel or Disney is to make an all new character, with all of the ideals and strengths and beliefs as Cap, but is also a member of the LGBT community. That way, the character can become a symbol for them, just as Cap has been for pretty much the entirety of the character’s existence. And nobody would complain about the changes made to a classic character.

Oh, and one other strange thing happened to Cap this week…

Apparently he’s Hydra, the very rogue Nazi science organization he set out to stop.

This ignited a whole different debate among Captain America fans when it appeared in the newest issue of "Captain America: Steve Rodgers" No. 1 on Wednesday, though surely Marvel has some kind of explanation for this change in character. Though, who knows? If they can change Cap’s allegiances so easily, who’s to say we won’t see him finally make somebody’s fan-fiction come true?

But more than likely this is just Marvel Comics riding the success of "Civil War" and trying to sell more comic books. We won’t really know what this revelation means to Captain Rodgers until the end of the story arc, but it still struck a chord with fans, some who even went so far as to send death threats to the writers of the story.

So, that’s it. He got beaten in the box office by some birds, people fought over whether he was gay or not, and he has been secretly on the side of the villains the whole time.

Sounds exhausting. The poor guy probably wishes he was frozen for another 70 years.