Can’t believe Steve Rogers literally had to pause mid-death-battle in order to let Thor know how fuckable he looked w/ his new hair
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—
no offence but the fact that bucky’s immediate reaction to being gifted a new arm was “where’s the fight” is heartbreaking. like this man is so used to being used as a weapon that he doesn’t see any other reason for t’challa to be giving him a new arm. not because they’re friends, not because shuri just felt like designing bucky an arm, but because he has to fight. his immediate assumption is that he has to fight again and go through it all again and i hate that. this man has lived through too much war @ marvel let him rest
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