not to be more dramatic than I usually am but the fight scene between steve rogers and the winter soldier is probably one of, if not the, most emotional scenes in the mcu
I haven’t seen catws in a little over a year and I had forgotten how raw that scene was. how painful. steve rogers, finishing his mission (to stop hydra and the helicarriers), stood in front of the winter soldier and said “i’m not going to fight you” and dropped the shield. steve “I can do this all day”, “always stand up” rogers looked at the tortured man in front of him and refused to hurt him anymore than he had already been. he lets bucky beat him bloody, doesn’t ask but TELLS him to finish it, to kill him….. he looks his best friend in the eyes, and says he is with him to the end of the line, and if this is it, than so be it. so be it. he himself falls into the potomac. he falls thru fire and water, and bucky saves him, soft piano music in the background ….. two loves separated by time and circumstance, reunited but torn so quickly apart…….whew