I also read this and hot damn my feels
sparkyfoxandsuperwolf.tumblr.com/post/187268263263/the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-news-the-photoThe Falcon and The Winter Soldier news (the photo and the title) PISSED ME OFF. So I just wanna clear something up.
To all you “Captain America Fans”, I want you to realize that Steve didn’t get his happy ending with Peggy. He didn’t get a happy ending at all, because by that point, it wasn’t a happy ending for him. PEOPLE ARE NOT STATIC. Our wants and desires CHANGE, ESPECIALLY when FACED with change. Steve Rogers holds the same fundemental values but he is not the same man that barely knew Peggy and had a crush on her and went under. He is not even the same man that woke up. Steve got to know Peggy as an old lady, got his closure, moved on as we do in real life, with a story arc that was about moving forward and embracing the future. He had an entire list to help him do so. Crushes go in and our of our lives all the time, people we respect and admire might not always stay with us, WE ARE NOT STATIC.
But what Steve DID always have is Bucky. (IT WAS LITERALLY IN EVERY MOVIE AND EVERY ARC). (If you compare all the scenes of Steve and ANYTHING to do with Peggy and compare them with Steve and ANYTHING to do with Bucky…. it’s not even close) He had Bucky as a scrappy young adult. He had Bucky in his war experience. He was shaped by Bucky’s loss. He found Bucky again and once again DID EVERYTHING HE COULD TO SAVE HIM. He feuded with Tony over Bucky. HE WAS WITH BUCKY UNTIL THE END OF THE LINE. His BEST FRIEND and BROTHER IN ARMS.
He is NOT about to give Bucky up for a fleeting DREAM that was ROMANCING PEGGY CARTER. Even if he HADN’T moved on and accepted the dance wasn’t going to happen and neither were they (and that she had a good, full life), HE WOULD NEVER ABANDON THE MAN THAT WAS HIS BROTHER IN EVERYTHING BUT BLOOD. You don’t spend movie after movie SAVING BUCKY, PROTECTING BUCKY, DEFENDING BUCKY, SIDING WITH BUCKY, CRYING OVER BUCKY DISAPPEARING, to turn around and a) ignore Bucky’s existence the entire last movie b) mourn over a lost could-be love interest you’ve already said goodbye to and made peace with so you don’t have to think about Bucky because no homo c) barely say 2 words to the man you risked your life for more times than anybody who is d) still healing from the effects of his TORTURE, IMPRISONMENT AND MIND RAPE.
If you love Captain America, HOW do you not realize how important Bucky Barnes is to him? Over A CRUSH. Over LADY PARTS. Or are you all so other directed to you, you can’t FATHOM that deep a bond? He is NOT still mourning Peggy by the last movie, in maybe anything other than “Gee, that might have been swell”. But the point is CAPTAIN AMERICA DOESN’T LOOK BACK. So why you’re happy with a movie where he turns his back on everything he believes in (moving forward, the love for his best friend) is beyond my understanding. Why you don’t find it odd that, as much as they “can’t show everything” in a movie, Steve and Bucky couldn’t get the same TWO SECOND REUNION EVERY OTHER COUPLE (platonic, romantic, familiar, whatever) GOT, is MYSTIFYING (and then you DEFEND it because of “time constraints” when 2 seconds wouldn’t make much difference at all, and I don’t see any of those other duos (like, Groot and Rocket) who got ONE WHOLE MOVIE based on their relationship (CA: Winter Soldier).)
Or is it that men can’t have close bonds without being gay? Because another defense is that “You ship Stucky” as if THAT’S why we are flipping shit AND it invalidates our anger so you can continue living in your “Steve got a happy ending” DELUSIONS. (Oh god *gasps* I’M DYING *gasps worse* BUCKY AND STEVE DIDNT KISS *shrivels up* it’s like……
NO. Bucky Barnes is QUITE LITERALLY one of the MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE in the life of Steven Grant Rogers, one he grew up with, lived on the back of, fought in a war with, went into enemy territory to SAVE, MOURNED HIM TWICE, went against TONY to PROTECT and KEEP ALIVE, went hunting for FOR YEARS. FOR FRIGGING YEARS to FIND him.
AND YOU’RE TRYING TO CONVINCE EVERYONE WHO ACTUALLY APPRECIATES WHO STEVE ROGERS IS AND KNOWS HE ACTUALLY HAS LAYERS AND FEELINGS AND IS MORE COMPLEX THAN A COOKIE WHO WANTS TO SAVE THE WORLD AND GET IN PEGGY’S PANTS, THAT STEVEN GRANT ROGERS IS GOING TO ABANDON BUCKY BARNES FOR SAID PANTS OF A LADY HE ALREADY MOURNED AND MADE PEACE WITH?
PLEASE explain to me how you understand the human heart SO LITTLE, that you’re going to turn your back on someone who means THAT MUCH TO YOU? Because Steve Rogers wouldn’t do it. Not for Peggy, not for anybody. LITERALLY not even for fucking Hydra or FELLOW AVENGERS WHO TOLD HIM TO GIVE BUCKY UP. You don’t go against everything for a human and give that human up FOR LADY PARTS.
But not only was their bond that deep, PEOPLE ARE NOT STATIC. STEVE ROGERS IS ALSO HUMAN. He will not hold the same wants and desires he did in the early 1900s or even when he first woke up. Things CHANGED. Like finding Peggy, making peace with the life she lived, mourning her death. YES, he still respects the HELL out of her. YES, he would have wistfully watched her in the office like he did in the past. But he would NOT have undone everything by going back in time to boink her. ESPECIALLY if it meant leaving BUCKY. AND AFTER ALL THE PAIN HE WENT THROUGH WITH AN OLD PEGGY, DO YOU REALLY THINK HE WOULD TURN AROUND AND INFLICT THAT SAME TRAUMA ON HIS BEST FRIEND? NO. BECAUSE STEVE ROGERS IS NOT SELFISH. Not even for his ‘happiness’. Because PEGGY CARTER IS NO LONGER STEVES DREAMS OR HIS HAPPINESS.
And you should be PISSED he got cheated out of the ending his character would have chosen and thus an ACTUAL happy ending. This ending was no doubt to stop the homo between Steve and Bucky (because Bucky was so fucking stonewalled away from Steve in this last movie it’s not funny) and to get rid of Chris Evans because of contract, but keep Bucky because of this FUCKING SHOW.
Which brings me to the BULLSHIT AHEAD
The show is called The Falcon And The Winter Soldier. Which is a fucking stupid name, but also presumably because we don’t know his hero name as anything else besides a quick nod at white wolf or whatever by T’Chilla. But in the ad He has his short Bucky Barnes hair back. He is NOT the Winter Soldier, as my friend pointed out. Winter Soldier was a WEAPON and a TOOL and WASNT EVEN TREATED LIKE A HUMAN (nor was he seen as a human because again, “weapon”. The mind wiped him, the cyrofroze him, they tortured and punished him to keep in him line. THEY KEPT HIM IN LINE WITH PAIN. And ANY dissent was treated with LOSING HIS MEMORY. ALL WITH FORCE. He even had fucking CODE WORDS to fucking WARP HIS BRAIN. Shout out to the asshole who tried to say “Maybe Pierce had a reason for killing his maid in cold blood” so Bucky would be as bad as Pierce, who had no mind wipe, control words, his own damn free will, and was a sick fuck. And SHOUT OUT TO HAYMITCH who told Katniss that PEETA was the victim, after being treated this this same kind of abuse with the mind alterting yellow jackets. PEETA was the victim, NOT. KATNISS. Even when he tried to kill her. (And remember even YEARS after his torture Peeta STILL had to ask her what was real and what was not because HE DIDN’T KNOW).
I have no idea how this is going to go, but they’re calling him Winter Soldier which means he’s not gonna be able to distance himself from what he did (which he never wanted to do, as he told Steve “I still did it”, because he’s not a fucking horrible person like Pierce or Hydra AND HE LITERALLY HAD NO CHOICE OR SENSE OF SELF). And yet they’re making him look like Bucky Barnes, best friend to Steve Rogers (who fucking abandoned him). They didn’t allow Bucky Barnes ANY HEALING in the MCU, they just had him as a victim, a mind controlled killer, than OOPS ON THE RUN, and then FUCKING CRYOFREEZED and ANYTIME he wasn’t, he was having to FIGHT when all he wanted was PEACE (as seen when he had no problem working a farm with one arm, but as soon as Black Panther showed him the arm he looked RESIGNED and asked where the fight was). And he doesn’t join the fight like Steve, for what is right. He joins because that’s what he knows, that was what he was molded for, AND THATS WHAT EVERYBODY USES HIM FOR. In Civil War, he was also NOT FIGHTING, he just had a go pack and was on the run but LIVING HIS PEACEFUL LIFE. Because THATS Bucky fucking Barnes.
And this show. is probably going to blame him. for all the shit that wasn’t his fault. that he wants nothing to do with. Just like every fan of MCU who doesn’t love Bucky Barnes like those that defend him.
And the writers don’t love him either, because they made Steve Rogers abandon him.
And he hasn’t even had time to HEAL.
AND AS A VICTIM, HE NEEDS TO BE ALLOWED TO HEAL.