Ok, I’m probably the last one to notice this, but even if I am, I’m bringing it up again bc it’s very important and very sad and I need to cry about it.
I’ve seen this scene about 50 times now and not once did I bother to take a closer look at Bucky. Specifically, his eyes. I always thought he was looking at Schmidt or in the general direction of the two while I focused on Steve’s face and what was happening. Now, obv, Steve is looking at Schmidt bc he’s being confronted and all that. But look at Bucky. Compare his gaze in the 4th gif to Steve’s. It’s not trained on Schmidt. He’s looking directly at Zola and his face looks like a mixture of fear, anger and like he’s gonna puke. All of which would make sense after you imagine the shit Zola put him through on that table before Steve showed up. Just try to imagine one scenario that could be happening in his head here. Like reliving the parts where they tortured him and experimented on him, slowly took away the control of his own mind, tried to take his memories so he had to keep reminding himself who he was and began the process of turning him into god only knew what. When Steve found Bucky, he looked like he had no idea what was going on around him. No awareness that the alarm went off, soldiers abandoning their posts, the doctors scurrying off to safety. He didn’t realize he was alone in the room and no one was looking after him anymore. He just repeated his name and number over and over again and if Steve hadn’t found him, he’d have went down with the building while completely lost to his surroundings. After Steve got him out I imagine he didn’t have much time to dwell on the things they did to him. Until now. Until he saw Zola’s face and it hit him like a truck and the result was that face above.
Little did he know that even if they do get out of here alive, he was eventually gonna end up right back where he was and Zola would get to finish what he started and if that doesn’t fuck you up…i don’t even. fuck this movie and fuck these characters i did not sign up for this painBut look at Zola
He stops and stares at Bucky. Out of surprise, of course, but it’s not cursory. He doesn’t look at Bucky as if he was simply another POW Erskine’s soldier has rescued.
He’s looking at his test results. He’s collecting data. He knows that Barnes should have never been able to climb off the table. He shouldn’t be standing. He probably shouldn’t even be conscious! Much less keep up with a successful serum test subject. Zola knows in that moment that his research is valid. It’s been proven. He can replicate it if need be.
He also now knows that Barnes is important to the American. He sought Barnes out specifically. And later, when he finds out they both survived, that Barnes did not return to America, but is still on the front lines with the Captain, he makes a note of that as well.
Goddammit – I do not need this kind of headcanon/observations…
Tag: meta
I think that “bucky is steve’s blind spot” is one way to look at it. another way is, bucky is the thing that steve sees most sharply. everybody has asked steve to give up on bucky, to turn aside. and that’s always a moment that steve looks around at whatever narrative they want him to play out, and says, “no.” steve was their dancing monkey until bucky was captured, and then they couldn’t hold him back: screw the rules, screw the idea of acceptable loss. hydra wanted them to kill each other, but steve refused to take it there. and I have to believe bucky’s treatment at the hands of hydra/shield was a factor in steve’s decision to say “shut it all down.” not because he’s blinded by pain or impulsive feelings, but because his love and compassion for somebody allowed him to see how deep the rot went. how broken the system was. and bucky’s still making things crystal to steve. “give him up,” the government’s saying. “he’s dangerous, we need our scapegoat.” and maybe if steve saw bucky differently, they’d be able to convince him, to get him to say “this is for the greater good.” but he knows any ‘greater good’ that sees bucky as a villain is a lie. because when he looks at bucky, steve’s eyes are clear.
But chris evans gonna be in infinity wars though? So wouldn’t cap need to be alive for that? As in not die in Civil War?
linzeestyle-deactivated20160712:
Well, remember that “dying” in this case is the equivalent of Han Solo in carbonite, or Jack Sparrow being taken down by the kraken. Presumably a few years will have passed between Civil War and Infinity Wars I, and in all likelihood the films in between Civil War and Infinity Wars will be increasingly interconnected. I suspect he’ll be resurrected fairly early on. It’s the mechanics of it, that I’m curious about: the comic resurrection was too absurd to be replicated (time gun!), but the Russos have stuck so much closer to realism than some of the other franchises. The Avengers franchise gives them more to work with – Wanda’s powers, for instance, eventually grow to the point of bending reality, and she has in the past resurrected Pietro and the entire Avengers team (after a run-in with Thanos, actually) – but they could also severely injure him and place him in suspended motion (using Strange to ‘bring him back’ a la Fraction’s Iron Man), or (this is a long shot I think, given the Whedon connection) make use of TAHITI.
I’ve gotten a few messages like this, though, and I sense that the larger question isn’t so much whether or not Steve will be in the other movies (because of course he will) but rather the desire to be told he isn’t going to die at all. And the thing is yes, I suppose it is entirely possible that Steve won’t die – all things are possible. But the films have been leading to this since quite literally The First Avenger.
it’s not like I want to watch Steve die… it’s just the potential for this story arc is EPICALLY AMAZING
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