You must promise me one thing: that you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier, but a good man.
Tag: gifs
Wait, is this…? I had never noticed this
realisation of Steve not needing his help anymore
was this really necessary
It’s also Bucky being more than a little upset that they turned his gentle, harmless friend—who Bucky wanted to PROTECT from the horrors of war—into a fighting machine.
was that really necessary
#*whispers*he’s also probably super annoyed and pissed that it took him going through that procedure for people to give a shit about him#coz bucky saw ‘captain america’ all along#that’s probably most of the anger there man
WAS ANY OF THIS NECESSARY
It’s the realization that not only has Steve been turned into a fighting machine, but Bucky was never able to actually save him from that. The artistic punk that got his ass knocked about in back alleys all over Brooklyn and had big visions for America and what it stood for got dragged into the same war that he did. (I’ve accepted the headcanon that others have produced, which is that Bucky got drafted and then told Steve otherwise to protect him.)
Bucky knew long before Steve that the world was shitty and cruel and that Steve was a specimen that needed to be protected, that his particular brand of grounded idealism was something worth keeping alive, and it was worth everything to keep it alive. He went off to the war, secure in the knowledge that whatever he was doing over here, whatever the mess of war that was fucking him over, whatever demons he would have carried back, it would have been worth it to come back home to Steve being as pure as he was before the war. And instead, the war’s dragged the best thing Bucky’s known into the dirt and grime and horror movie and it’s not just putting him through fighting, it’s going to saddle Steve with a slew of demons that he never deserved.
Bucky never deserved to stay pure, and he never tried. He knew what it took and he knew how to scrap and fight and fuck his way through life because that’s all he was meant for and that’s all he was good for. Steve, though? Steve was different. Steve was what he fought for all his life, was what he was fighting for in the war, was what America should have been fighting for. And instead, they sacrificed him.
So what the fuck does Bucky have left to fight for?
FUCK U SONIA I DIDNT NEED THIS
mcu parallels [1/?]
↳ steve/tony: “this is my choice.”
It’s the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life’s joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.
“Tony Stark ‘not recommended’ “
Everyone watching on t.v. everyone in the street and every person on the helicarrier bridge watched Tony fly that nuke through the portal and every single last one of them cheered when he disappeared from view….except Nick Fury.
For someone who wasn’t recommended, Fury calls on Tony a lot. Nick had told Tony about the Avengers Initiative years earlier. It was Tony they sent in to talk to Ross. It’s Tony whom Fury immediately calls for when the carriers engines go down and it’s Tony that Fury calls for when the nuke is fired. And each and every time, Tony responds instantly.
Nick would have been in his early twenties when Tony was born. Shield would definitely have had Howard Stark’s only child under surveillance, especially when Tony presented with a genius intellect and Nick when he joined Shield, would have had access to those files.. It is no coincidence that Shield just up and had a form of an antidote when Tony had palladium poisoning. This was Shield protecting a future asset. So Fury would have watched as Tony grew up. Watched as he lost his parents, as he forged his own path in the business world, been fully briefed on Tony’s kidnapping. There may be exasperation with Tony but there is respect and a certain fondness too. Fury is smirking with a definite ‘oh my god, this boy’ in the donut shop and he steps up and in between Cap and Tony when Cap gets in Tony’s space and tells him to ‘put on the suit’. He knows how Tony will react to a challenge. Fury’s been watching video of Tony since his birth. He knows this man.
When he tells Tony that the nuke has been fired Fury knows, he knows exactly what Tony will do. He knows that he is sending this man, this man he has watched grow from a child, to his certain death.
So while Shield, the WSC, the people of Manhattan and the rest of the country are celebrating, Fury is mourning. This isn’t the first time Fury has ‘lost a soldier’ and Tony isn’t a soldier but Fury knows he has just lost a good man who had the heart, courage and potential to be one of his best assets. A leader in his fledgling team.
He knows you don’t recommend someone to become a hero, it’s something they simply inherently are.
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*SOB*
It also explains why Fury and Natasha look like they’re doing that Disappointed Parents Who Got Called To The Principal’s Office About Their Kid thing in Iron Man 2.
I want fic where young Nick Fury babysat wee!Tony before Tony got sent off to boarding school. (Or maybe I’ve read it and don’t remember?)
krusca: #waJHHH #THANK U TUMBLR #I CAN FINALLY DISSECT THIS PERFECT FIGHT SCENE…. #can we just point out how steve literally grabs a guys face and flips him over his shoulder #and how the guy in question fuckign flips and lands on his feet while being flipped over by his face #just lands perfectly like #fuckkkkkk #cap 2 #steve rogers #who the hell is bucky #bucky barnes #gif
As someone who finds the whole ‘grabbing someone by the face’ thing in Earth’s Mightiest Heroes one of the funniest things ever, this pleases me greatly.
everynineyearsandthirtyfourdays:
George: I remember I wanted to wear a baseball cap because there was so much dust and I thought that’s what my character would do. The higher-ups fought me on it. They told me to take it off. But Billy immediately came to my defense. “Hey, he’s going to be the baseball-cap guy,” he said. And then right before the scene, Billy put on a hat, too, and whispers to me, “If you’re going down for this, I’m going down with you, buddy.”
Sam Wilson is KIND OF NEW to this superhero deal!!!!
[Knowing their luck, they get stuck solving a murder mystery or something]
Part 2 of doodlin out this post by actualmenacebuckybarnes. [Part 1]
Happy birthday, Tony Stark (May 29th)
Surprise!