you: Steve didn’t show enough emotion when Bucky died!!11
me, an intellectual: Steven G. Rogers was in shock. He’d just gotten his ass kicked, he thought Wanda had destroyed the Mind Stone, and he watched Thanos take an axe to the chest. Bucky disappears first. Steve, who hasn’t been allowed to properly process any sort of emotion since the 1940s, must now contend with the fact that A) he lost Bucky again and B) the nature of his death must mean they were defeated. The blank face and slow reach for Bucky’s ashes are Steve Rogers’ attempts at processing and the only clear choices for his character during that moment. They do not lessen the impact Bucky’s death has on him. In fact, the movie implies that many of the disappearances mirror Thanos’ earlier sacrifice of having to give up the person you cherish most in order to—