#also deadpool and wolverine 100% did more than fight in that car

[pendragonsclotpole]

i’ve never felt more seen by a marvel movie than when B-15 was actively checking out peter wisdom in his deadpool outfit. like peterpool can 100% get it

[wightwulf-a]

so bucky is in fact a super soldier and i feel like that’s kind of a detail about him that’s kind of overlooked. but he did receive an knockoff version of erskine’s serum, which was of course made by zola and experimented with on bucky while bucky was captured by hydra in october and november of 1944. i think what makes it much less obvious is the fact that bucky didn’t really have any visible physical enhancements because of the serum, like steve did. of course steve was a special case, but bucky himself wasn’t an incredibly big dude back in 1944 (and he’d probably been in bad shape and malnourished when he was experimented on anyway). so what did this off-brand oreo version of the serum give bucky then?

Enhanced Strength :  we know bucky uses his bionic prosthetic to overpower and subdue people just because it’s a simple solution, but we’ve also see him deliver incredibly powerful blows with his bare right hand and arm too. add that up with the fact that he’s a big, muscular dude on his own and he’s a powerhouse. Enhanced Speed :  he can literally outrun cars, jump on top of them, and then jump off and continue to outrun them. also in infinity war, we saw steve and t’challa raising shoulder to shoulder toward the outriders. bucky 100% would have been able to keep up with them. Enhanced Durability :  the serum actually made bucky’s muscles and bones more dense than the average man so it requires a lot more force in order to seriously injure him. the biggest example we have is the fact that he survived the fall from the train. a fall like that, even in his condition with the serum, was a serious trauma which is why it led to him losing his arm, but any other normal guy would have died from a fall like that, no questions asked. muscle soreness is also a special case?? if that makes sense. serious injuries (i.e. steve dislocating his shoulder in winter soldier) or medical procedures (i.e. shuri removing the remainder of the metal plating from the first arm ; shuri attaching a new arm to his left shoulder) do cause soreness and pain for a moderate to extended period of time however because of the physical trauma. and in the case of the new arm, it’s a matter of the fact that he went without a bionic prosthetic for nearly two full years and it’s a long process to actually attach it to his shoulder and then connect it to him neurologically so it would leave a decent amount of soreness in his shoulder. Enhanced Stamina :  he can endure strenuous physical activities for longer periods of time than the average man. it takes a lot for him to experience much fatigue and when he does he can recover from said fatigue in a relatively short period of time. and yes that includes sex. Enhanced Agility and Reflexes :  we literally see bucky do flips to avoid gunfire. this dude’s at least on par if not better than olympic gold medalists ngl. his instincts and reflexes are crazy intricate so combat situations for him aren’t necessarily easy but he at least knows he can handle them with little trouble.  Regenerative Healing Factor :  of course this is very very small. we’re not talking wolverine or deadpool proportions here. it’s mostly just like bruises will happen but they fade pretty quickly, scars only happen through serious or repeated trauma, cuts and scrapes heal within hours (at most a day or two), and it takes a lot to get him drunk. we know steve can’t get drunk at all, but because bucky’s serum was a little different, i’m going to go ahead and say he can get drunk, but this dude has to consume a lot of alcohol for that to happen.

if you combine all of this with bucky’s extensive training (including being a master martial artist, master marksman, and being incredibly skilled in knife fighting) at the hands of U.S. Armed Forces (prior to his fall, of course), hydra, and the KGB he’s really not a dude to fuck with. of course he’s much less likely to use any of this lethally following winter soldier but if the situation calls for it, he’ll do what he needs to do.