#version: the winter soldier mcu

[juiche]

⚫🔴 b&w version of my Bucky illustration

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[mikeluciraphgabe]

I don’t think, as a fandom, we talk about Bucky and Steve fighting in one of the most gruesome and fucked up wars the modern world has seen enough (ontop of being raised by fathers who fought in the one before it)

While yes, they deserve and should be written as characters with PTSD because of what they do on the avengers/as the winter soldier/being placed in a whole new world without a say

We should also be writing them as characters who have fought in WWII and seen some fucking shit (Omaha beach, the bombs in Japan, people who where imprisoned at the concentration camp, their friends dying right next to them, helping out in the trenches, watching people loose a leg or arm, etc etc)

Ontop of this, bucky (in the comics and I think one of the cartoons) joined the army when he was like 17/18 years old. A fucking kid.

We should write more PTSD scenes of the two having flashbacks relating to WWII and not only the things I mentioned before

Steve is screaming and crying on the floor because Tony grabbed his arm from behind and- Buck is a fucking child and he’s stuck in the building, let go of me Sargent - let me go get my little brother before it blows and Tony is shushing him with “it’s okay hon, it’s just me”

Bucky is holding a gun up to his husband’s face because, just for a second, Sam (with a Halloween mask) looked like a gasser that killed a guy who pushed Bucky out of a window before said gas exploded on that floor and the guy died

More scenes of PTSD Bucky and Steve that goes to WWII

[airflowolf]

Those AUs where Sam finds Bucky or something

[batcavescolony]

a MCU/Percy Jackson crossover with Bucky Barnes as a demigod. Ik your already thinking, he's a soldier so Ares obviously but he's actually a child of Aphrodite. Reasoning: before the war and when he's healed he is dressed very well. He wasn't really into war. he's never really fighting for the fight, he's fighting for someone or because he has to. He was forced to be a soldier in both instances (drafted/brainwashed). Mcu Bucky doesn't give off Ares kid vibes. So Aphrodite kid.

[buckymilf]

no thoughts, just bucky with his hair in a man bun making eggs for steve while wearing an apron written "kiss the cook"

[smileything]

Every time i See Stucky SHIP Things But Its The Comic Versions Of Them

[goldrshr]

if you need to be mean,

be mean to ME

[ghostlyfleur]

♡ the fist of hydra

[meliake]

Little doodles from 'pre-serum steve is sent to the future' AU

[yourenotdonefighting]

It's truly impossible to decide which version of Bucky Barnes (post being TWS) I love the most. Every time I think brooding, angry, would-burn-the-world-to-the-ground-for-the-people-he-loves Bucky has my heart ...

(Yes... please show me all that leverage, James.)

... he gets all sassy and grumpy and smart-mouthed.

... and because that's just not enough, he goes and smiles and turns into *Soft Bucky*, and I just cannot handle it.

*swoon.*

[elspethdixon]

I'm a newbie to the Stony fandom by way of the MCU and was told the Resurrectionverse was one of my first must reads. Is there anything I should know going in that I wouldn't because I don't know the comics well?

That’s a complicated question. I’m going to post a short version that just lists major differences from the MCU and a long version that’s a summary of the comics backstory.

Short version: RR&R is a fixit fic for the 616 comics version of Civil War (and a previous event called Disassembled). The two biggest and most important differences between MCU and 616 Civil War are:

1) In the comics, Steve and Tony are much closer friends then they ever were in the movies/have been close friends for a decade, and

2) Instead of an international set of “accords” about superhero activity, the Civil War conflict is about the American government wanting to make every superpowered person join a registry and be subject to government oversight (this is thousands-to-millions of people rather than a few dozen because the comics also include mutants/the X-Men, and “Mutant Registration” is a political goal that anti-mutant conservatives in the comics have wanted for decades, we know from various X-Men storylines where people come back in time from alternate futures that in timelines where it’s implemented it often leads to very bad dystopian things), with Steve on the “fuck this idea and fuck you”/tear the system down side and Tony on the “if we cooperate maybe it won’t be as bad”/try to reform the corrupt system from within side. Bucky Barnes/the Winter Soldier has nothing to do with it. Also the conflict ends with Steve surrendering and then getting publicly assassinated by bad guys.

Other important differences:

Spider-Man is an early-20s adult who is married to MJ.

Tony Stark is about twenty years younger/the same age as Steve and is less of a manic-depressive quippy maverick and more of a clinically depressed control freak (who has never been romantically involved with Pepper). In the past he struggled with severe alcoholism and is now sober in the “I never drink alcohol ever” way.

Nick Fury is a white guy with a completely different backstory and personality from MCU Fury (and there was never an Agent Coulson, his right hand man is a guy named Dugan).

Hank Pym and Jan Van Dyne/Ant-Man and the Wasp were two of the original Avengers and are in their 30s with zero children (Hope doesn’t exist). Hank canonically has bipolar disorder and in the past has done both crazy mad scientist things and shitty relationship-destroying things while manic.

Luke Cage is married to Jessica Jones and they have a kid. There is a character named Spiderwoman/Jessica Drew. She is a physically enhanced former ninja who has nothing to do with Spider-Man.

Dr. Strange was involved in the whole Civil War thing on Steve’s/the anti-Registration side. The anti-Registration Avengers are crashing at his house (instead of in Wakanda) when the story starts.

Clint was never part of SHIELD and has a totally different backstory (he’s not in the first fic for reasons of temporary deadness but appears in the sequels).

Thor and the Asgardians are supernatural being/possibly actual deities rather than aliens. Thor was briefly dead during the whole registration fight but got better.

Jarvis is a human rather than an AI.

Sam Wilson/the Falcon has a pet bird that he’s psychically soul bonded to.

Bucky did not kill T’Challa’s father and T’Challa is not significantly involved in the Civil War conflict beyond glaring disapprovingly at it from Wakanda.

Wanda Maximoff/the Scarlet Witch is a mutant and one of Magneto’s kids. Prior to the whole Civil War thing she disastrously lost control of her powers and went crazy, destroying the Avengers’ headquarters and killing Vision and Clint (she later brings Clint back via those same powers). At the start of the story she is MIA.

[wewringmagicfromtheordinary]

#THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS WEEK#bucky doesn't have spy espionagey skills like nat other than what he learned as a sniper in WWII#the winter soldier is NOT a ghost he's a slow wrecking ball with a clean-up crew#also: MALICIOUS COMPLIANCE GOLEM BUCKY is SUCH a headcanon of mine#think sorcerers apprentice in fantasia#bucky barnes#bucky meta#meta#mcu#mcu meta#release the cracken#sidenote: if that copy of the tape in CACW was the only copy#then it implies hydra wanted proof of confirmed kills (like the tape)#especially given it was a 2 part mission of kill them and take the WS serum#but that also opens up the possibility...#that ALL of the existing proof of WS kills is in that bunker#tho tbh it never made any sense to me that MCU bucky was ever in russia#nazis aren't going to go to russia they ideologically hate russia they only went to south american countries cuz the rc. church sent them#but if all the nazis continuing hydra went to america under operation paperclip#including zola and fennhoff who work on bucky#then bucky never should've been in russia at all?? it's just inconvenient#it makes much more sense for him to be in america (in camp lehigh?) where all the relevant nazis are#he never should've been in russia at all??#maybe after the cold war ended and the nazis could expand sure#but otherwise??#anyway off topic... via amarriageoftrueminds

I’m re-watching Captain America Civil War and- They told Bucky to kill Tony’s parents without witnesses and he manages to find the probably only forest in the world with a random security camera by the road-side and kills them exactly in front of that security camera while looking right at said security camera when he disables it and also fails to make sure that the tape inside is destroyed how can you screw up so bad? 

[jonsnowisthesexiestbastard]

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is one of my comfort show

[kstarlitchaotics]

Despite of how everything went through with Civil War and my personal views on it Winter Soldier really was the best saga ever 🔥

[wewringmagicfromtheordinary]

#IMHO that nightmare wasn't about white picket life#because being at a party isn't a white picket life thing#it's about steve realising the 'war is over' party was a lie all along#he had what he thought was an okay post-war life in DC#but it turned out there was an ugly truth underpinning the apparent peace#and that's when we last saw peggy#who - like in the nightmare vision - was oblivious to the evil all around her#it's significant also#that in the same movie where a home-base party is gatecrashed by Evil#both steve AND thor have visions of home-parties#ruined by a reminder of Evil lurking in the shadows#and it speaks to a kind of guilt#maybe even a survivor's guilt#that maybe steve feels like he shouldn't be attending parties at all when there's still Evil out there in the world#it's exactly like in TFA when he felt it was unacceptable#for him to be on the USO tour instead of fighting#to the point where he now finds PARTIES a nightmarish experience rather than fighting#(he has also been forced into leading a kind of double-life;#pretending everything's fine with the avengers when really he's trying to find bucky before tony Finds Out)#so er yeah tl;dr: survivor's guilt steve feels he shouldn't be wasting his time enjoying life when Evil is still out ther via amarriageoftrueminds

People keep saying "Steve’s nightmare in AOU". What’s that. I’m drawing a blank.

It’s this part of Age of Ultron. It’s a strange one, pretty ambiguous. I’m never quite sure what they meant to convey with it. A lot of people seem to interpret it as “Steve finally gets his dance with Peggy but then it’s taken away from him again” (which... idk about that being his worst nightmare tbh). But actually, the whole scene is presented as Steve being visibly uncomfortable in that rowdy dancehall environment, and he doesn’t look happy at all. And then Peggy says “The war is over, Steve. We can go home, imagine it” and he still looks at her funny, and then it cuts to him twirling her around once, and then he’s standing alone in an empty dancehall. 

So like... what does it mean? If his worst nightmare was being so close to “going home” to a time where he could be with Peggy (again... if anyone is his home, it’s Bucky) only to have it taken away from him, why is the whole dancehall scene framed as something unpleasant? It could maybe be about the war being over, which may make Steve feel useless, because Captain America was basically created for the war, but I doubt that’s it. Another possibility, which I’m personally partial to, is that his worst nightmare is the idea of being forced to go back to the a time where he now feels horribly out of place (with all the customs and expectations that time entails, i.e. the white picket fence life). This reading is also supported by what Steve says later on in AoU, which is “I don't know. Family, stability... The guy who wanted all that went in the ice 75 years ago. I think someone else came out.”

So... basically, Steve’s ending in Endgame is literally his worst nightmare in AoU 🙃 Marvel said “Continuity in character development? Never heard of her.”

[wenellyb]

I love that Sam and Bucky's relationship is much healthier now.

They always used to look like they were physically unable to stay away from each other. Which is great to witness when you're a shipper, but not something you want in a relationship.

If you look at Sam/Steve or Steve/Bucky, they're always had the kind of friendship where they were able to do things separately. But Sam and Bucky? They've never been able to do that.

Sam and Bucky, have been "inseparable" (Sebastian's words not mine), ever since we saw them together in Captain America: Civil War. And they weren't even supposed to be that close but they were always paired up together.

It gave us these 2 iconic scenes:

We saw them getting even closer in Avengers: Endgame, with Sam comforting Bucky at Tony's funeral.

And who did Sam turn to when faced with the biggest decision of his life? Bucky. Not Steve, his best friend. He looked at Bucky for reassurance.

Even at the beginning of the Falcon and the Winter Soldier, when they were supposed to be angry with eachother, Bucky wouldn't leave Sam's side.

And at the end of the show when they solved all of their problems, Bucky basically moved to Sam's hometown.

It's not only their scenes together, but also the way the cast and crew talks about them, Sebastian said they were inseparable, in the Captain America: Civil War Press tour. Anthony said that Sam and Bucky "can't do without each other" in the FATWS press tour.

Anthony also had this headcanon that Sam visited Bucky every other weekend when he was in Wakanda, during the Avengers: Infinity War press tour.

Even the cast members see Sam and Bucky as an item, and never expects them to stay away from each other for a long time.

As Malcolm Spellman said; "they are family in a way that feels like will last forever in the MCU"

In Captain America: Brave New World we saw a much more mature version of Sam and Bucky's relationship. They're able to do their own thing, and still be there for one another when they need to.

They know where they stand in eachother lives and are comfortable with it. Bucky's picture is literally front and center in Sam's office.

There's no way tfatws!Sambucky would have been to do separately things for such a long time ... Bucky would have asked to go on missions with Sam or Sam would have stayed with Bucky during his campaign.

I really like that Sam and Bucky are now in a place where they can indeed be without eachother when necessary, but still know how important the other is in their life.