Tag: ca:tws

“Doesn’t matter what the press says. Doesn’t matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn’t matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. 

This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — ‘No, YOU move.’” 

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The Cast of Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Suits

whoops there go my panties

Clearly the cut-throat corporate raiders AU. 

Fury-Hill LLC is going to take down Shield Hydra Investments Corp. if it’s the last thing they do. But can the young turks Rogers, Romanoff, and Wilson put their takeover into action before James Barnes (General Manager of the infamous Winter Soldier hedge fund) catches on?

And just how legitimate is Winter Soldier, or is it a pyramid scheme being run by CEO Alexander Pierce? 

I know it’s not Monday yet, but maybe you could file this away for then? I was wondering if you knew what medals and honours Steve recieved back in WW2?

historicallyaccuratesteve:

From the archives: a list of the awards Steve wears on his uniform. Also, there’s a bit of controversy about why he’s wearing the American Defense Service Medal.

Sometimes you also wear medals or honors that belong to your unit. If he’s in the modern era wearing his uniform one of two things is happening – he’s on detached duty from his unit and still considered on active duty and part of that unit and would wear unit patches and awards that he’s required to wear as part of the unit.  [See special forces folks in particular for this.]  The other option is that he was retired out after his MIA status was resolved. In that case it’s not uncommon for vets to keep wearing the insignia and awards from the unit they were with during combat/felt most attached to. In the latter case it would be uncommon for him to wear an award he hadn’t earned. He might be asked to tho.

If you are talking about in WWII if it was a unit citation he would be expected to wear it when he’s in his dress uniform. 

So in the comics Bucky was an advance scout and did all the dirty stuff Captain America couldn’t or wouldn’t be seen doing, including sometimes wetwork operations, partly because everyone always underestimated Captain America’s sidekick. How do you think it translated to the MCU?

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I think it’s most evident in CA: TFA when we get the 2 minutes of Howling Commandos montage (and can I reiterate what a travesty it is that we’re not getting 3 hours of the HC on various missions, seriously, I couldn’t give a fuck, just, give it to me, marvel, make my HC mini series, good GOD).

Now bear with me here: I work in film, and I used to be an editor. There is nothing that makes it into a final cut of anything that is left to chance. Everything you show/not show is a constant uphill battle —with the director, with the producers, with the studio execs, with the stupid MPAA— in Avengers, they had to take out Loki’s spear going through Phil’s chest (it cuts away to his face) to keep the PG13 rating. So. Everything in that montage is there for a reason and the ~violence we see is very stylized. Yeah, they go in guns-a-blazing but you don’t actually see who they’re shooting at. Steve knocks people over with his shield, but you don’t see their skulls crack, you don’t see the whites of their eyes as they fall; they blow people up, but you don’t actually see body parts flying, blood and carnage strewn across the snow.

The only thing you actually do see? It’s when Bucky takes out the Hydra agent. You see it through Bucky’s POV — which is the only time we have a personal POV in the montage, as he looks through his rifle’s crosshair. He shoots the Hydra agent aiming for Steve, and we see the shot connect and the guy die. There’s no cutting away, there’s no ~~shoot to injure which is so typical in PG 13 movies. No. Bucky shoots that fucker in the head and he kills him specifically because he was aiming for Steve. 

That isn’t random. That is the only time we see any of the commandos actually hit a target and kill them dead. And it’s Bucky who does it. 

It’s not much, but it’s a clear choice and it’s there to tell us this is not the first time he does it, it won’t be the last time he does it, and we’re showing this to you because it’s Bucky, and that’s what he does. 

Bucky’s in the Howling Commandos because he’s following Steve. Bucky chooses to do the things he does —all of it, the bad and the worse— because he’s following Steve, not Captain America. There’s an unstable edge, there, I believe, the edge of ‘I’m doing this so you don’t have to’ because Bucky never wanted Steve in this war in the first place; he always wanted to spare Steve the horrors of war, and now that Steve’s here, the least Bucky can do is to take on the darkest side of it. He doesn’t see himself worth preserving. He’s lost his innocence a long time ago, but he’s going to fight for Steve to hold on to his as long as he lives.

This is exactly why it upsets me when Bucky and the Winter Soldier are presented as two completely separate entities when the only thing that actually separates the two (aside from a few decades of torture I mean) is the empathy Bucky shows and the motivations behind his actions.

Bucky killing for Steve and TWS killing for HYDRA are essentially the same thing but for the fact that Bucky’s motivations are powered by love and anger and a million and one other emotions, while TWS is powered by entirely the opposite.

TWS is powered by other people’s emotions.  There are definitely emotions involved, he’s just the wind-up toy weapon.