I can’t trust my own mind. So, until they figure out how to get this stuff out of my head I think going back under is the best thing…for everybody.
Sebastian Stan, honorary president of the Bucky Barnes Defense Squad.
↳ “I watched a lot of documentaries on post-traumatic stress and a lot of army documentaries about the training programs and some of the extreme sort of circumstances that some of those guys that are training to be Navy SEALs and some who are a part of it go through. I was trying to understand what it is, what it means for someone to be desensitised, to no longer question hurting something. I did as much research on all that stuff as I could in order to kind of know what that was like.”
Liveblog(ish): Captain America: The Man With No Face
I wonder the same thing, Natasha. Has Bucky Barnes ever slept 8 hours? I don’t think so
Natasha: Sharon isn’t to blame for what she did when she was brainwashed.
Bucky: Of course.
Natasha: Even if she blames herself, it wasn’t her fault.
Bucky: Yeah.
Natasha: So you aren’t to blame for what you did when you were brainwashed.
Bucky: …you lost me.
Bucky calling Natasha his best friend is so cute, and also why I like this ship so much. Yeah, they definitely do romantic things (roses, anyone?) but they’re also 100% okay with hanging out watching tv, or working out, or discussing their problems. You can tell they enjoy each other’s company in a way that goes beyond attraction and even beyond having history together
Bucky not knowing superhero tropes is hilarious. He has such a hard time adapting to being the one in the public view playing the wholesome hero role. It’s a really cool thing, because we get to see that you can have skills, you can have an uniform, you can even have public support, but you still don’t automatically become a superhero until you learn how superheroes are supposed to act. As someone who enjoys the superhero genre, I find that a very entertaining thing to be explored in a comic
Oh my god, I forgot that Bucky canonically literally gets so distracted translating useless supervillain banter in his head that he loses a whole fight. I can’t believe he lost a fight because he didn’t listen to the duolingo owl oh my god
Bucky: Botches 1 (ONE) mission
Natasha:
Let him live, Nat, not everybody has a near 100% effectiveness rate like you do
Well that looks comfortable
Namor! Namor! Namor!
Natasha living every girl’s fantasy of poisoning dudes who act creepy at the bar
You can tell Natasha didn’t spend time with sidekick!Bucky because this surprises her. Getting himself captured was almost his entire wartime career. It’s hard to forget old habits
Don’t we all love it when Bucky lets people almost kill him as a coping mechanism?
This literally sounds like a conspiracy theory on facebook
Namor saying Jim was one of the few men he’s ever respected makes me emotional
What a cheerful way to end a volume. Almost everybody our protagonist has ever loved is dead, the end.
MCU CHARACTER ARCHIVE: ┖ James “Bucky” Barnes a.k.a Winter Soldier
Bucky Barnes is extremely devoted, loyal, headstrong and patriotic and had a strong moral center. Due to his advanced physiology, however, Barnes survived his apparent death but was found by HYDRA instead. Trained as a living weapon, Barnes became a new man so to speak, as his memories and identity were constantly being wiped until he was augmented into the perfect assassin, the Winter Soldier.
While he still holds a mostly serious demeanor, he retains a sense of humor, his sense of humor can also be dry at times.
Even though Barnes has regained his identity and former values, he has also developed a guilt-ridden conscience, and became deeply ashamed and remorseful over his actions as the Winter Soldier. After being cured of HYDRA’s programming, Bucky Barnes appears to have come to terms with his past. [source]
Now there once was a man Who was tall and handsome The best shot in the land Not to mention good at dancing A hit with the ladies A heartthrob with the daughters Cool with the guys Regular Roy Rogers He was a man of his word And he did what he said That is, until an outlaw shot him dead
Re MCU contracts: I came across this article which lists all the movies/cameos for each actor so far and how many movies are left on their contracts (though I'm sure I read somewhere that Chris Evans' contract was extended by one movie when they decided to split Avengers 3 and 4 - maybe other contracts were extended too?) denofgeek (.) com/us/movies/marvel/249346/marvel-studios-when-actors-contract-expire
thanks for the link - here’s more for those concerned with Seb’s MCU contract :)
gimme more bucky
First of all...listing Bucky under “Villains”...
Bucky Barnes is not a negATIVE character! PREACH SEBASTIAN
in an alternate version of the mcu where civil war never happened, but bucky still came in from the cold, there is an episode of last week tonight with john oliver detailing the details of bucky’s time under hydra before the United States v. Barnes trial
you’ve read my diary
a selection of coverage the morning after, responding to the topic (and also steve’s surprise appearance, complete in too-tight avengers/spider-man: homecoming uniform):
FOX NEWS: Steve Rogers, John Oliver under fire for ‘treasonous’ show of support for alleged war criminal James Barnes
HUFFINGTON POST: Captain America and John Oliver Tell Sen. Stern to “Go F**k Himself”
BUZZFEED: Captain America Looks Hot AF on ‘Last Week Tonight’ Appearance
REDUCTRESS, responding to BUZZFEED: 18 Times James “Bucky” Barnes was #TorturedBae 😍
John Oliver: Hello and welcome to Last Week Tonight! I’m John Oliver, and am I glad I’m not American because THIS *picture of Steve’s back and ass in uniform* is the ideal I’d have to live up to.
While it took thousands of years of evolution to result in a face like an otter’s backside, not only is Captain America an insult to colonial powers, he achieved this in the space of 1 day of high dangerous, never to be replicated genetic experimentation.
However, the apple-pie-arsed superhero is not the biggest story. That would be his fellow de-frosted octagenarian friend, James Buchanan Barnes. Sergeant Barnes was captured, brainwashed by Hydra, and then used as a tool of the Soviet Union. He came out the other side of it looking like the terminator’s cousin who has finally discovered L’Oreal.
Sergeant Barnes was rescued and is now recovering from his decades of trauma and abuse with the help of psychologists, medical doctors, and of course, his best friend, Captain Tight Pants.
Of course, not everyone is as pleased as the Captain about Barnes’ recovery. Senator Stern, the glad-handing progeny of a blob fish *images of Stern and a blob fish* has led the campaign to charge Barnes with war crimes.
To share his side of the story, we’re joined by the Star Spangled Avenger himself, all the way from Brooklyn, iiiiits Captain America.
Chris Evans (via realchemistry)
Fear is for the Winter...
Award winning journalist and first class comic book nerd, Ta-Nehisi Coates
(via femme-werewolf)
there are about 100 things these two would rather be doing, yet here they are
I NEVER NOTICED BUCK RAN TO PROTECT SAME NSKSJJWKSNQKNS WHAT
a lot of people missed that, which is why I needed to share with the world - buck used his metal arm to shield sam, curled up into a little bucky shield roly poly
A LITTLE BUCKY SHIELD ROLY POLY!!! STOP IT! That is too adorable. Poor murder baby just wants to help.