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I really like the positive reviews going around about Sebastian Stan 2025 Oscar's nomination.

Including praises about his performance and acting career, how this nomination would happen anyway for such a great actor and the prediction that this is just his first (of many) Oscar's nomination.

I hope he wins but even a nomination is enough to boost forwards any actor's career.

Another amazing realisation about this nomination is that Thunderbolts* could be promoted by claiming to have an Oscar's nominated actor!

How many actors can pull out a great performance with a character that almost doesn't speak in any of those MCU movies?!

He truly deserves this recognition for all his talent and hard work. ❤️

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I re-watched the Winter Soldier (again!) today as research for my next story. It’s always such hard work researching stories :-) 

Things I’ve noticed:

Bucky as the Winter Soldier gave orders on the bridge, telling the Hydra goons (in Russian) that he would go after Natasha and ordering them to find Captain America. (He is not completely a mindless drone as the Winter Soldier).

The only surviving member of the World Security Council was the woman that Natasha impersonated.

For some inexplicable reason, Steve was holding back when he fought Batroc.

Steve doesn’t hesitate to kill when innocent lives are at stake.

Steve understands and speaks French (and most likely German, too). He probably learned at least some French from Dernier (and the serum gives him an excellent memory).

Nick Fury’s left arm is the one in a sling, but in a scene in front of his headstone at the very last second when he turns to leave, it’s his right arm, it looks like.

Bucky’s goggles and mask offer ballistic protection (saving him from Natasha’s bullets).

When Steve calls his name for the first time, Bucky says, “Who the hell is Bucky?” (which we all know) but it always struck me as very colloquial and very Bucky (Bucky says “hell” several times in later movies. It seems to be his go-to thing) :) It shows us (and Steve) that Bucky is still in there beneath all that Hydra brainwashing and conditioning.

Bucky hesitates before shooting at Steve (and we assume this is when he starts to realize he knows Steve), until he seems to remember that he has a mission, and the mission prerogative takes over.

Bucky was almost taken out by the same pillar that sent Steve into the river, but he caught himself with his metal hand.

Things I still wonder about (every time I watch it):

How did Natasha recover within hours from the bullet wound to her left shoulder. There were less than 16 hours between her being shot and the Helicarriers going down. 

How did Steve get his shield back after the strike team captured him? 

Why didn’t Sam break his legs when Becky kicked him off the platform after tearing off one wing?

How did Natasha fight the Hydra goons to stop them from killing the council AND then catch Sam in the helicopter when she’d been shot 16 hour earlier?

When Steve is talking to Natasha in the hospital corridor, we see the vending machine open, being serviced by a man. Steve uses that open vending machine to store the drive. How did he do that without the worker noticing? I’m sure there are ten different ways he could’ve (pretending to grab and pay for a candy, distracting the man, etc. but I want to know the exact way he did it) :)

why wasn’t Sam were seriously injured when he took a role on the freeway? 

Were there any kids in that minivan that got shot up? And how many people were shot and killed in their cars during their firefight? And are those more deaths that weigh on Bucky? (I bet lots died, and I bet they do).

Why do people keep driving when they see all this happening around them?

How did Natasha not get hurt when she catapulted over the overpass?

Why didn’t Sam take off in the air as the Strike team was moving in to capture them?

Why didn’t Bucky crush the targeting chip when he had it in his hand during the end fight scene with Steve?

Why didn’t Steve hear the music coming from his apartment before Sharon mentioned it?

Why did Bucky throw the shield back to Steve on the rooftop? It’s a valuable item in more ways than one (an effective offensive and defensive weapon AND it’s made of vibranium).

Did Bucky not crush Steve’s throat when he had the chance because some little tiny part of his brain was holding back? Or are Steve’s throat muscles so strong they can hold off a metal hand? :)

There is a map of Bucky’s brain and body on the monitors in the bank vault. The body image has several square dots in places. Are these implants??

What is in the IV inserted into Bucky’s hand in that same scene?

Why are the only visible scars on Bucky’s body near his shoulder with the metal arm? In all his missions we would expect he would have gotten more serious wounds and had many more scars. Does the serum prevent scarring, and if so, since Zola injected him with something that promoted healing before he fell, why are those scars near his shoulder so nasty? What caused them? The fall? The surgery? Repeated surgeries? Tissue rejection of the early model foreign objects? Repeated attempts to claw it off his body?

Why did Hydra let Bucky’s hair grow so long?

In the first meeting of Bucky and Steve on the Insight Helicarrier, Bucky doesn’t move until Steve attacks…Just something I find interesting. 

Bucky goes wide-eyed and stops punching Steve a moment BEFORE Steve tells him to “finish it, because I’m with you ‘til the end of the line.” It shows that Bucky was breaking through the brainwashing and memory wipe even before Steve uttered those words.

And, finally: why the heck didn’t we get an emotionally-action-packed movie of Steve and Sam searching for and finding Bucky?

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Steve Rogers’ ailments

Before Steve got injected the serum, he suffered from a lot of diseases as you all probably know. But maybe you don’t know all of them or what they really mean for little Stevie.

At first I wanna say Steven Grant Rogers weighed 95 lbs or 43,1 kg. He was 5′4″ or 162 cm tall.

Now to his diseases. Many people seem to forget that he had more than only asthma and if you’re a writer like me (mostly fanfiction *cough* Stucky *cough*), you probably feel the urge to portray the characters as accurate as possible. So here’s a list of Steve’s diseases (of the MCU) so you can do that:

- He had scoliosis. This means his spine bends in a way that isn’t part of the typical S-shaped curve, so his spine would’ve bent to the side. It’s not a life threatening condition but it can be quite noticeable (like one shoulder is higher than the other, or one hip appears higher than the other one etc.). Pain isn’t a typical symptom.

- He was partially deaf. He could hear but his hearing was restricted so he might doesn’t hear you if you speak quietly…

- Steve had arrhythmia, an irregular heartbeart and he had also heart palpitations and the more generic heart trouble. All these have symptoms like shortness of breath, fainting, chest discomfort, dizziness or feeling light-headed, weakness and fatigue. 

- He had high blood pressure. Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood. High blood pressure, sometimes called hypertension, happens when this force is too high. It increases the risk of a heart attack or stroke and can also cause heart and kidney failure. When blood vessels in the eyes burst or bleed, the vision changes or it leads to blindness.

- This may is the reason of his astigatism. It means he had a poor eye sight.

- He had also rheumatic fever at some point. It is most common in 5 to 15 year old children. It can cause permanent damage to the heart (what Steve already had or the reason for his heart problems is the rheumatic fever) and can affect the brain. It is treated with aspirin (or was treated with aspirin at least in the 1930s) and unfortunately…

- Steve had also stomach ulcers. They are extremely painful and can be caused or made worse by drugs like aspirin. They occur when the thick layer of mucus that protects your stomach from digestive juices is reduced, thus enabling the digestive acids to eat away at the lining tissues of the stomach. The most common symptom is a burning sensation or pain in the area between your chest and belly button. Normally, the pain will be more intense when your stomach is empty and it can last for a few minutes or several hours. Other symptoms can be dull pain in the stomach, weight loss, not wanting to eat because of pain, nausea or vomiting, bloating, burping or acid reflux, heartburn (burning sensation in the chest) and the pain can improve when you eat, drink, or take antacids.

- He had another stomach complication as well: Pernicious arnemia, which until the 20s was basically a death sentence. It’s a condition where an protein called Intrinsic Factor, necessary to absorb vitamin B12 (which is important for cell devision, formation of blood, synthesis of hormones - it’s essential), is not produced and the patient becomes progressively more anaemic until they suffer complications such as neurological damage or simply die. Until 1928 the only treatment was to drink copious quantities of the juice from raw liver (more than a pint a day) or eat half a pound of raw liver a day. Poor Stevie!

- Steve had fallen arches. Also called flat feet. Less serious but I’m gonna list everything. Many people have flat feet and notice no problems and require no treatment. But others may experience the following symptoms:Feet tire easily, painful or achy feet, especially in the areas of the arches and heels, the inside bottom of your feet become swollen, foot movement, such as standing on your toes, is difficult or back and leg pain.

- He had scarlet fever as a child, which causes a sore throat, bright red rash and can kill - especially because it can cause heart complications. (Maybe another reason why Steve has them…)

- He had a higher risk for diabetes because his admission form states he has a parent or sibling with diabetes. As far as we know Steve had no siblings in the MCU, therefore it has to be his mother because his father has been a soldier (He couldn’t have enlisted with diabetes… well, except he has lied on his enlistment form…)

- Generally his respiratory system was struggling. He got sinusitis and frequent colds to go along with his…

- Asthma. Which is pretty dangerous for someone with heart condition since symptoms of a severe attack can include arrhythmia. In the 1930s, inhalers were difficult to use for one person (especially if that person was having an asthma attack), but asthma cigarettes were easily available and consideriably cheaper. But they were hallucinogenic. Beyond this, in the 30s, 40s and 50s asthma was considered a psychosomatic condition, so talking therapy was used as a treatment as well. Steve would have been considered both physically frail and mentally ill because of his asthma. 

- He had also “nervous trouble of any sort” and easy fatigability. That isn’t a surprise because it has to be tiring to be Steve. So many illnesses to fight with… It’s also no wonder that he’s so small, considering that his body was under so much sress while he was growing.

Steve always had been a hero. It hadn’t been the serum that had made him strong…

If you want to, I can also write about what it meant to live with so many diseases in the world of the 30s. Because you can probably guess that it wasn’t easy and definetely worse than it would be today…

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Christmas for Steve and Bucky

(I love the 20s, 30s and 40s so here's some information about what Christmas was like during this time and the things Steve and Bucky wouldn't recognise/be familiar with)

In their childhoods 'A Christmas Carol' was very popular, and decorating trees with handmade items and electric lights was common. Handmade Christmas cards complete with Christmas cookies would have been a very common gift. (Plus I bet Steve would continue to give them out now).

Oranges were an incredibly popular stocking stuffer during the 20s and 30s and represented an affordable luxury for many Americans.

Steve and Bucky would probably be shocked by how early people began decorating for Christmas, or seeing Christmas things in stores early. During their childhood trees were often only decorated on Christmas Eve.

Christmas tree lighting ceremonies were firmly established during their childhood so watching Christmas tree lights turned on in public parks and places would be familiar to them, typically accompanied by Christmas carols and choirs.

The Rockettes were still rather new but performed their Christmas Spectacular for years during Steve and Bucky's youth.

They likely wouldn't be familiar with advent calendars, which only gained popularity in America after World War 2. They also probably wouldn't know about the Nutcracker, which only made its way to the US in 1944. Candy canes also weren't popular until 1950s when they were mass produced so Steve and Bucky likely wouldn't associate them as heavily with Christmas as they are now.

During the 1920s Santa was referred to as both Santa and St Nicholas, so it's likely the two would use the names interchangeably.

Collecting and displaying snow babies was popular and they are adorable! They were a staple in Christmas decor. Crepe paper was very popular, including instructions on making crepe dresses for one time use!

Steve Rogers would never have heard 'Rudoloh the Red Nosed Reindeer ' before. He may have been familiar with the character, but that's unlikely (however infinitely cuter if he knew the character and got to hear the song for the first time).

Rudolph only became a household name after the song, but in 1939 was a part of a department stores promotions. Rudolph was the main character of a small childrens story they published that year. The most likely way for Steve to know about it is through Bucky and him receiving the book when buying gifts for someone else, maybe Bucky's sister.

Steve and Bucky may have been familiar with the radio show of "The Cinnamon Bear" a children's series where twins try find their missing Christmas star with the help of a teddy bear. Very cute, I could imagine they'd find listening to it now very nostalgic.

There's also a fairly solid chance that Steve and Bucky had been to a white elephant party before, as they have been fairly popular since 1901.

I definitely need to read/write some fics about Christmas time for them, and adapting to more modern Christmas's djekskek

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I should be working but instead I am thinking about Steve Rogers' living arrangements

So this concept art for Steve’s apartment.

It’s, like, maybe canon. Let’s get that out of the way. It’s in a canon grey area. I’m not telling anyone to consider it canon. If you’d rather not, cool, ignore this post. 

What stands out to me about these images is

the bathtub used as a kitchen table,

the interior windows, &

the way one room leads directly from the other, railroad-flat style, with an inner room that has two doors but no large visible window.

To start: that bathtub.

A bathtub in the kitchen is quintessentially tenement living. Not that people were assuming Steve was living in the Dakota, but, just as a starting point: he wasn’t spending big bucks on rent. He was probably not in a great neighborhood. He seems to have been lower middle class or poor. This can mean anything – you can be poor and still afford to eat and buy clothes, you can be poor and have none of that – there’s a lot of room in “poor,” and not everyone who lived in what we consider a tenement was huddling with others for warmth in the winter, sadly reflecting on their Extreme Poverty, or coughing and starving all the time.

But still. Here he lives in a tenement. Which doesn’t tell us a lot. What kind of tenement?

There were and are different kinds of tenements in NYC. They can be put into three distinct groups: pre-law tenements, old law tenements, and new law tenements. There are some variations, but generally they get summed up like this:

1. Pre-law tenements were built prior to 1879. They were mostly built in Manhattan, and they were usually 3 rooms per apartment, with little light and no ventilation. Only one room would face the street and have a window. The inner rooms would not have windows. In the 1860s, a law was passed mandating windows for each room. So builders inserted windows between the rooms, which, as you can probably guess, accomplished precisely nothing. 

2. Old law tenements were built after the first big tenement house law of 1879. They were a little stricter on the windows. After 1879, you had to have exterior windows. But the law didn’t specify where windows had to be, so somebody designed what was called the “dumbbell” tenement. The “dumbbell” tenement looked like this:

  Note that the kitchen has two doors, one to another bedroom, one to the hall. It also opens onto a room along the exterior of the building (the living room if you’re living in the front, and a bedroom if you’re living in the back). Also note that the window in the kitchen is tiny because even though it technically faces the exterior, that exterior is just a small airshaft. Which people ended up dumping their garbage in. So. So much for ventilation.

Finally, we get:

3. New law tenements. These were built after 1901, and maybe we can thank Jacob Riis for them, I don’t know. I have a lot of relatives who still live in what were once new law tenements, but they call them “pre-war” because that sounds nicer. They are still, strictly speaking, fairly crappy in terms of design, but they were an improvement. Any room in a tenement built after 1901 had to have at least one window opening directly onto the street or a yard or court. So no more garbage shaft windows. And no more design that rested on inner rooms with no possible air or light source.

Finally, the same 1901 act that created new law tenements upgraded the old law tenements. It required that old law tenement owners at least adapt their buildings a little to provide more ventilation. You know what that means: the addition of useless interior windows. 

So why is this all interesting to me in light of this concept art?

Because this art doesn’t just put Steve in a tenement; it puts him in an older tenement. I’d say an old law “dumbbell” tenement is likeliest, probably upgraded to include interior windows after 1901. His kitchen has two doors: one could open onto another bedroom (or two), and the door off to the side could access the hall. He doesn’t appear to have a window in his kitchen, but for all we know he could have a tiny aperture tucked behind the cabinets that accesses some kind of inner shaft – a “window” for purposes of the 1879 law.

Also, there’s a good chance that he doesn’t live alone. 

It’s pretty momentous that I’m saying this. I’m the biggest ever hater of Steve and Bucky’s Lovenest. Like. The biggest. When people tell me that it’s irrefutable “canon” that Steve lived with Bucky, I calmly nod and then resort to my hate corner sipping on my haterade throwing a hate ball, rolling in my hate. I won’t go over why I think the TWS film doesn’t mandate that they have to live together. I’ll just put it out there: I don’t enjoy a reading that insists on it. I like Steve and Bucky, I like them together, but a dynamic that insists they absolutely did move in together and that there was no other purpose for the flashback scene but to toss them into the same bed space is… not how I read that movie. 

But I have to give it to everyone who was writing that fic: they could share an apartment. Hell, Steve is probably sharing his apartment with someone, or maybe even two someones. Let’s look at that floorplan again, this time marked a little differently:

Whether you think he’s in the front of the building or the back, the bedroom for Steve appears to be what’s marked as the ‘parlor’ (which, hey, he gets fire escape access, good for him). So someone else will probably be in the other room, the room that the door in the kitchen/living room opens onto. Is it Bucky? Arnie Roth? Both of them? Bucky and Bucky’s sister? Two randos Steve met on the subway one day? Maybe the Barnes family lives in the front-facing apartment and Steve moved into the back to be close to them?

I figure any of these options will work if you want to write fic that takes this concept art into account; the point is really that Steve has a whole other room in there, and he’s presumably doing something with it. Maybe it’s an art studio and he does live alone. Maybe it is, in fact, Bucky’s room. I don’t think this stuff forecloses any possibilities; that’s what’s fun about it. Steve’s apartment can still say whatever you want it to say about him.

(For me, it’s interesting to think about him in an apartment that reflects decades and decades of the least amount of legally-mandated benefit to people. Welcome to the U S A. Would you like a garbage shaft building? Your options are a garbage shaft building.)

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sitwell got played so hard omg how did no one realize

“agent sitwell how was lunch? i hear the crabcakes here are delicious.”

in the scene in catws when they’re kidnapping sitwell, everything so serious. sam’s threatening, there’s the sudden knowledge given to the audience of other hydra agents in the government besides SHIELD, the music goes low and suspenseful as sitwell answers his phone.

“cause that tie looks really expensive, and i’d hate to mess it up,” sam wilson says as a red light shines on sitwell’s tie

only

no one has a sniper rifle. not sam, who had to steal a gun on the freeway, not steve, who isn’t carrying any guns, and not natasha, who only has two handguns on her

that means that when sitwell walks to the car and gets in, there’s steve waiting for him. and natasha slides into the car not with a gun, but with this

a laser pointer. “do you like it?” natasha probably asked with a wolfish grin. “i got it from staples. it was on sale.”

sitwell u fuckign nerd you fell for a fuckign laser pointer how did u even make it so long as a double agent

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Thinking about the past that was stolen from Bucky in the MCU

His broken family and angry...

His military training...

The life as the Winter Soldier and the importance of his relationship with Natasha...

Or his reunion with Becca so many years later...

Captain America and Bucky: The Life Story of Bucky Barnes #620-624

Writer:Marc Andreyko, Ed Brubaker Artist:Chris Samnee

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so ive done this before, im sure, but i wanna talk about Buckys scars. because i always see art with scarring all around the arm/metal line, and swear thats not what they are

five lines. yall do me a favor, and mimic clawing at your skin in that spot.

-the thumb would make the shortest line, and curve inward. -the pointer finger would have the most pressure on it from that angle, and the deeper the cut, the more likley it would get caught a bit and skip. see the break in that line? -middle finger would have the longest contact time -ringer finger a shot straight line, and the pinkey just a small gouge.

if he looked down and saw the arm, panicked, and tried to claw at it, thats exactly where he’d be looking and where he’d claw at it.

now (and if you could ignore the part where im severely obsessive and should probably get some kinda hobby), i painted my shoulder. just slapped some tempera paint on and tried to mimic what i think he did, and the results were actually pretty close.

(id have gotten a picture, but my roommate came home with guests and it was either walking back to my room to get my phone, or keep continuing my charade of making her think im mentally stable)

if anyone goes to a convention panel with him (or the Russos) i will pay you to ask about this

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And neither MCU. 😕

thinking about how Bucky probably rationalizes how fucked up his brain is by thinking it's his fault - he thinks he was broken before the war and the serum just made it even worse. he doesn't even argue when Zemo says only Steve was uncorrupted by the serum. when in reality, the serum amplifying Bucky's caring, resilient nature is probably why it took HYDRA twenty years to break him. the serum didn't corrupt Bucky, HYDRA did. but of course, Bucky can't see it that way.

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Yep! Those hips are killing me, Bucky! 🤣❤️

New Official Photos - Entertainment Weekly

Wyatt and Red Guardian are supersoldiers -- are those...ropes? Maybe vibranium cuffs?

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Yep! Those hips are killing me, Bucky! 🤣❤️

New Official Photos - Entertainment Weekly

Wyatt and Red Guardian are supersoldiers -- are those...ropes? Maybe vibranium cuffs?

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The Victim Blaming of Bucky Barnes…

The Victim Blaming of Bucky Barnes… https://englishlady01.medium.com/the-victim-blaming-of-bucky-barnes-1bad1c899350

And we are back to this subject in the Thunderbolts*. A movie that was heavy advertise as a team of SUPER VILLAINS. You can still find this description on the internet because it's the easiest way to describe a story that is meant to be the new Suicide Squad.

After much criticism, the description was tone down to a band of misfits and pushed to a grey area of not being villains but also not being heroes, and least not in a classic pure good way heroes.

I'm a sucker for long logical analysis and this one is really well put together.

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Rumlow & Bucky threatening people with a custom SIG Sauer P226 SCT

At first glance Bucky’s gun in TFATWS may not look particularly special or appear to have any narrative significance, but I’m here to tell you that’s almost certainly not the case, whether intentional or not.

I already thought the parallel was fascinating when I first noticed these guns looked similar, but the deeper I dug the more compelling the story got. They aren’t just similar, they’re the exact same gun. Which ordinarily wouldn’t be that all that special either, since many people use the same type of gun, but this isn’t some generic off-the-shelf model. In fact, I now think this custom P226 SCT is so unique as to be intrinsically linked to Rumlow, and I’m going to make the case that its reappearance in TFATWS is so remarkable that the gun (and therefore likely Rumlow himself) must hold some sort of significance for Bucky.

Buckle up, I’m about to overanalyze the shit out of this gun.

Keep reading

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It's been a while since I've spoken about how MCU Bucky is mainly based on comic character Arnie Roth, so here we go!

Arnie Roth is Steve Roger's childhood best friend, he's both gay and Jewish and 'dated around a lot' as a cover for being gay, often brining Steve on double dates. They grew up in a largely Jewish part of New York City. Of course, Arnie often protected Steve from bullies.

Here are a handful of other things he shares with MCU Bucky:

Steve and Bucky being only one year apart, with Bucky/Arnie being the older one, instead of being younger than Steve

Arnie took up boxing (this is a detail we learn about Bucky in the CATFA companion book) and protected Steve from bullies

The full extent of Bucky's torture/brainwashing in the MCU is not comic canon, but it does parallel is Arnie's capture and brainwashing

Both Arnie and Bucky were brainwashed and sent out intentionally to antagonize Steve and distract him from his mission

His identity as both gay and Jewish is essential to understanding all aspects of his character and his motivations, but the MCU has yet to acknowledge these details, and they often try to deny them completely.

His creator, J.M. DeMatteis, has also spoken on twitter about how the MCU took Arnie for MCU Bucky's backstory, along with the total lack of compensation or credit he has received from the MCU for use of his character.

Since the MCU seems determined to erase Arnie Roth's identity (though I hope this changes), while greatly benefiting from their use of his character in MCU Bucky, a great way to [ush back against that erasure it is to include his ethnoreligious Jewish identity and his sexuality in your interpretations and depictions of him.

It's additionally important to learn about Arnie Roth, to uplift and engage with his story in its own right, as well as making it more widely known among fans that he's the basis of MCU Bucky.

More information about Arnie Roth can be found here!

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@whumptober | Day #17: "Nowhere Else to Go" Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

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sitwell got played so hard omg how did no one realize

“agent sitwell how was lunch? i hear the crabcakes here are delicious.”

in the scene in catws when they’re kidnapping sitwell, everything so serious. sam’s threatening, there’s the sudden knowledge given to the audience of other hydra agents in the government besides SHIELD, the music goes low and suspenseful as sitwell answers his phone.

“cause that tie looks really expensive, and i’d hate to mess it up,” sam wilson says as a red light shines on sitwell’s tie

only

no one has a sniper rifle. not sam, who had to steal a gun on the freeway, not steve, who isn’t carrying any guns, and not natasha, who only has two handguns on her

that means that when sitwell walks to the car and gets in, there’s steve waiting for him. and natasha slides into the car not with a gun, but with this

a laser pointer. “do you like it?” natasha probably asked with a wolfish grin. “i got it from staples. it was on sale.”

sitwell u fuckign nerd you fell for a fuckign laser pointer how did u even make it so long as a double agent

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“That line was an interesting moment. At the time, the choice I was making is that [Bucky] had realized there was no way he was getting out of there, and someone was gonna die, whether it was gonna be him, Steve or Tony. When he says that line, to me, it was a turning point — he was, like, ‘Okay, I know what you want me to say, and I’m just gonna say it.’ When someone comes at you over and over again, and they can’t hear you, they can’t see you’re pleading with them, you’re trying to figure out how to get through to them and they just won’t accept it, at some point you just give in, and you go, ‘that’s right, that’s what you want.’ Of course [Bucky] didn’t remember them all.” —  Sebastian Stan