Posting the Winter Soldier Arsenal made me realize I’ve never made a rebloggable version of the other posts. You can find this (and all the other crap, JFC) on AO3. But here it is.
This is an M1 Garand rifle. And a Steve. Hi Steve.
It’s the rifle all US Infantry were issued, because it was sturdy and dependable. It’s the gun Steve went through his training with before he was turned into Captain America. They would have been issued to everyone and also all over the place to scavenge. It is not, however, the kind of rifle Bucky is ever shown shooting in The First Avenger.
Oh boy. I’ve been saving this one because the sheer number of things Bucky has used to kill people overwhelmed me, tbh. It’s going to be … a ride. Here we go.
Yeah. So first of all, The Winter Soldier undoubtedly comes prepared to kick your ass. He’s not going to find himself without a weapon. The thing is, even if he does somehow blaze through the frankly astonishing amount of accoutrements he arrays on his person, he’s still not going to find himself without something that will kill you. Even if his arm is put out of service (or blown off, RIGHT TONY) he’s not going to be without something that will kill you.
because bucky’s capacity to love is stronger than the evil done to him
Thank YOU.
Much has been made of the fact that Bucky Barnes is one of the few people to recognize the greatness in Steve Rogers before his transformation into Captain America. Much has also been made of the fact that, in The First Avenger, Bucky demonstrably feels conflicted about that transformation. Less noted, however, is how Bucky’s sense of conflict and resentment—and the way he dealt with those feelings—reveals the kind of person he truly is. The narrative motif of the man who can recognize greatness in another but not attain it himself, and who is therefore corrupted by his resentment, is a classic trope. It appears in such literary masterpieces as Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo, Melville’s Billy Budd, and Schaefer’s Amadeus. However, the story of Bucky Barnes is one of a man who recognizes a greatness he cannot himself achieve and is not corrupted by that recognition. Unlike the villains of the above-mentioned tales, Bucky Barnes comes to terms with the situation, choosing friendship over envy—and heroism over villainy—something that suggests a greatness within Bucky Barnes that Bucky himself is not aware of. But Steve Rogers, of course, is. Just as Bucky is one of the few people to recognize Steve’s greatness; Steve is one of the few people to recognize Bucky’s. Both of them know each other better than they know themselves, and it is that parallel knowledge that ultimately saves them both.
Bucky apprehended and imprisoned in container D23 in CA: Civil War
Someone’s tags inspired this: #he’s so used to this #waiting #god
So I have to bet that they dug up how to build the holding cube from the Hydra infodump, right? Or do we think this was just sitting around in a warehouse somewhere because in CA:TWS they certainly had the stuff ready that they put Cap into that you know was built for the Winter Soldier. He doesn’t even really try to break out until he gets hit with the words. You know he broke out before or tried to and it’s been engineered to suit him perfectly.
No, the plot to get the Winter Soldier back (and probably back under mind control of some sort) came the minute Ross and people like him took a breath after the fall of SHIELD.
And Bucky knew it. He’s the most cynical optimist we’ve seen in the MCU. I bet he and Bruce Banner would have a lot to talk about (re: the Hulk containment chamber on the Heliicarrier).
the accords make sense in the comics, in a world with eighty smajllion superpowered metahumans wandering around exploding each other and opening dimensions. in the mcu there are like….. twelve people to keep track of. twelve. half of them are current government employees
no wonder Oceantanamo only had like 8 fucking cells like what the fuck are you gonna do tie the Hulk up outside like a dog and watch him swim laps around idiot island
Look me in the god damn eyes and tell me that there isn’t a hint of ‘oh shit, what have you idiots gone and done?’ in his expression in the bottom gif. I think it’s fair to say that the Soldier must be at least semi aware of what he is and what he’s capable of, he’s not the totally unquestioning blank state many of us maybe thought. He seems to show subtle little emotions, such as when he looks torn af when he’s given his orders at the beginning of the movie, and it honestly intrigues the hell out of me. For him to realize that these new super soldiers are, in his own words, worse than him is fascinating to me and makes me wonder how much more he was aware of.
Can we talk about the gif where he sees that his arm is gone, again??? Can we talk about the dizzy way he comes up, already off balance with the lack of weight? Or the way his eyes widen and then he looks like he’s going to throw up?? I mean, guys. GUYS. This is fantastic portrayal. He’s seen his arm gone, again. Cue flashbacks, nausea, and fear. He’s a weapon, at least in his own eyes; the arm is at least one kinda big reason that he is a weapon. So that last flash of emotion is fear, because he’s lost a big advantage, he’s off balance, he’s experiencing some major ptsd and Sebastian gETS IT IN ONE GIF. He portrays all of this that Bucky is going through, clearly and emotionally, and I’m in the span of a few seconds. This is amazing.
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