"Hell of a trick to play on people." Steve's still mad about it. A nice spread of food and drink to entice people into eating. Instead of just asking people if they would stay to help. Not everyone would but enough would say yes. They didn't have to do this.

He shrugs. "You know, the last time I tried to just talk to one of them Loki stopped me. We haven't seen how they'd respond and people are afraid of them."

Afraid of starting trouble. Maybe it's just because taking on all of Thanos' army alone was still in his mind but Steve was ready for a fight.