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Deconstructing Captain America: The Winter Soldier

“But I knew him.” – The Winter Soldier

This line from the Winter Soldier moments before he was about to be electrocuted is not just stating that James Buchanan Barnes has remembered his best friend Steve Rogers. It was more than that.

It was a plea.

Bucky Barnes was pleading Hydra. He was pleading them not to wipe him. He was pleading them not to make him forget again. He knows, after he’s wiped yet again, they’re going to send him back on the field to finish the mission. He was pleading them not to kill the man on the bridge, a man he knows he knew. He was pleading for help, because he knows, after he’s wiped, it won’t matter if Bucky Barnes knew you; he will definitely kill you if he was commanded by Hydra. 

He’s like a child, trying to argue with his parents when they told him not to play with the other children.

He’s been trying to fight Hydra. He’s been fighting Hydra since 1945.

And this fact makes me fall in love with both the character named James Buchanan Barnes and the actor named Sebastian Stan.