stucky

It was going to be called “the Serpent Society”. Steve and Sam were going to be trying to find Bucky, and Natasha was going to be doing her usual badass spy shit.

We could have had flashbacks to Steve and Bucky as kids, flashbacks to Steve’s mother Sarah Rogers. We could have seen them growing up during the Depression. We could have seen the day Bucky was drafted, and the day Steve swore to follow him across the ocean no matter what. We could have seen the Howling Commandos in action, and seen how Steve interacted with them compared to how he works with Sam and the Avengers.

We could have had scenes in present day of Bucky hunting down HYDRA cells much like Magneto hunted down Schmidt in X-Men: First Class. We could have Team Cap kicking all kinds of Nazi ass, and a story about Steve and Bucky and Sam and Natasha, his closest friends in the modern era as well as his best friend from before the war.

But instead we got Iron Man 4. Avengers 2.5. T*ny got a flashback with his parents. Sarah Rogers got a single name drop and nothing else.

the kindest character in the mcu who right from the beginning has been one of the most empathetic voices that people can't help but listen to, who can relate to the struggles of those who are ignored or tossed aside in favour for the big battles and players, whose first option is peace and not violence, who sees someone getting hurt and steps in even though he's been disrespected by that person several times, is genuine and tries to make things right and cares.

— The Thirteen Letters