#remember in a1 where nat - pro liar - said she came alone and bruce saw through it bc it was obvious bullshit? that

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#I'm still baffled that no one ever cared to explain why Howard and Maria were carrying super soldier serum in their trunk#and the fact that he was so friendly with Zola he had a nickname for him + Cap Brexit here worked alongside him even though she knew#what he had done to Bucky#for someone who supposedly loved Steve she didn't give a damn about what he would have wanted or what had been done to Bucky

here's my explanation: he wasn't. there's absolutely no reason to think that video was a depiction of anything that actually occurred.

first and foremost, the soldier knew the camera was there. he looked right at it. he fucking shot it. and yet somehow no one ever bothered to make sure the footage was erased? bullshit

second, the entire conflict is kicked off by zemo using technology to frame bucky for a crime. this happened to involve the murder of black panther's father (along with a bunch of other people). but for iron man's dad it was totally true? unlikely

third, the footage looked... too good. look, i wasn't alive in 1991 and i couldn't find any pictures of 1991 street camera footage online (not for lack of trying, mind you), but i can't imagine it would've looked so clear (if anyone's an expert on traffic cams, feel free to correct me, cuz all i know for sure is that they didn't start using digital cameras for traffic until the late 90s, so the cam that - allegedly - caught bucky wouldn't have been digital)

four, super soldier serum in the trunk. really. REALLY. guarded by two rich people with no notable fighting skills to speak of, seemingly completely unarmed? REALLY????

moreover, while sending the winter soldier after stark makes sense as a general dick move, it's completely impractical. there's no reason a run of the mill assassin wouldn't have been able to take him out, and there's no reason not to wait until he's alone. taking out maria with him makes absolutely no sense unless you're trying to draw attention to the totally-a-normal-car-crash-please-ignore-the-strangulation-marks-and-slashed-tires-and-the-skull-that-looks-like-it-was-crushed-by-a-metal-hand-kthx. it's not just ridiculous, it's sloppy. and while that wouldn't be too surprising irl or in the comics, the mcu's version of hydra was supposed to be so good that they infiltrated hydra and like a bajillion governments for decades completely undetected. even if every single person involved in the investigation was part of hydra somehow, that would require not only that tony never see his parents' bodies, but that no one who knew them ever did either - not peggy, not jarvis, not jarvis's wife, not any of stark's bots, not rhodey, no one. someone would've noticed something sooner.

lastly, steve and nat released everything on the internet. everything. stark lives in a house with an a.i. that's intelligent enough to hack into and retrieve satellite data and analyze alien artifacts. it has constant internet access at all times. if j.a.r.v.i.s. can access it, stark can access it. therefore, either zemo got that footage from the leak that stark literally couldn't possibly have missed, or zemo got the footage from somewhere else. where'd he get it and how'd he know to look? the simplest - and only rational - answer i can think of is that he just made it up himself. he has the means (clearly good with video editing) and the motives (sokovians in general don't seem fond of stark to begin with, and zemo happened to want to start shit with his in-group), so all he needed was a series of extremely contrived incidents to isolate stark with cap and bucky where he could show off his sokovia's funniest homemade videos entry. which was part of his plan whether the footage was real or not.

howard stark got what what coming to him and the fact that peggy carter didn’t implies that she was in deeper with hydra than anyone knows