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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

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JUSTICE FOR ALPINE

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"I was trying to lose weight and I still felt I didn't lose enough weight," Stan tells EW ahead of the series [Pam &Tommy] finale. "And people were telling me I was crazy and going, 'You have body dysmorphia now' — which I always did anyway." Sebastian Stan Entertainment Weekly (2022)

"And I think I was like really overweight when I was in ninth grade high school. People were telling me if Leonardo DiCaprio was to ever get fat I was probably what he would look like." Sebastian Stan Australian Magazine (2009)

Some people are seeing that pic and posting things. And I'd just like you to see these quotes with that picture first.

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Sebastian Stan as The Winter Soldier Captain America: Civil War

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I always have your back

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Same hun

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Bucky knowing at least 31 languages according to CACW, super serum brain enhancements and the fact he learned Xhosa in Wakanda, leads me to believe he must have the fucking gnarliest of language blurring. You know when you can't seem to figure out how to word something in one language so you skip over to a different one but wait no one knows that...

I also don't think English would be Bucky's default language anymore. It's his birth language, sure, but Russian is probably the language he defaults to now after 80 years right?

So if Bucky's ever delirious for whatever reason, extreme tiredness, magic, super drugs or whatever who knows, do we think he talks in the most insane blend of languages, does he say a sentence in Japanese then switch to Korean and then to Polish, do we think he'd point blank say "I'm sorry I don't speak English" in English to his English speaking friends or teammates because he thinks in Russian and about fifteen other languages before he gets to English, and then goes "oh wait I do" or...?