One of the things that struck me about the scene in the bank vault in CA:TWS is just who is in the room. There are two people who I will consider doctors, one of whom may be the “doctor in charge”. There is at least one technician who deals with the Winter Soldier’s arm. And then there are the guards.
The Winter Soldier is just sitting there, getting his arm fixed when the memories of the time when he was Bucky Barnes, of the time when he was just becoming what he is now, comes bleeding through. Up until that point, when he throws the technician across the room, he was behaving as they expected. And yet, despite this, they still have maybe half a dozen guards with guns in the room who draw on him the moment he acts and stay drawn on him until Pierce comes in the room and waves them down.
How does the Winter Soldier interpret the presence of armed guards? What does this mean to him? He certainly has enough tactical understanding to know that the very fact that the guards are there (even when the guns are not yet drawn) means that the men he serves do not trust him. They are telling him, he is dangerous, even to them.
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