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Bonus

Ava - loves April Fools. It was one of the few holiday activities she could participate in while growing up in a lab. As a Thunderbolt Avenger, she takes her pranks to the next level, taking objects like tv remotes, shoes, John's sheild, and phasing them halfway through a wall and leaving them there. No one knows how to get them out but her.

John - does some classic switcheroos. He replaces everyone's shampoo with mayonnaise, switches the salt for sugar in the kitchen. Alexei gets trapped in the bathroom because John put vaseline on the door knob. Alexei breaks down the door.

Yelena - unbeknownst to the team, she has been preparing for this since January. She has been ordering duplicates of their shoes but a size and a half smaller. She spends March 31st sneaking through everyone's closets and switching all their shoes. The morning of April 1st, she denies even knowing about the holiday.

Bucky - forgot about April Fools until 6am when he was taking a shower and discovered his head was now slathered in mayonnaise. Swore vengeance on John. He goes to John's room and turns all his clothes inside out, hides half his socks, and rearranges all his furniture.

Alexei - makes everyone sandwiches for lunch. No one touches them as they smell a bit too fishy... literally.

Bob - does a half-hearted prank on the team during lunch with confetti poppers. They have been lulled into a false sense of security. The sun goes down, and the team gets a notification there's been a breach in the training center. They grab their guns and cautiously search for the intruder. They open the door and there, standing in the darkness, is Chicken Bob.

Yelena: Loves Halloween, always wears cozy onesie costumes. This year she is a guinea pig. In addition to the costume, she does some makeup to look like a guinea pig too.

Alexei: Doesn't quite understand, shows up wearing his Red Guardian suit. He covers the star with a napkin and declares himself Crimson Dynamo.

Bucky: Finds the shirts that say "this is my Halloween costume" hilarious. Refuses anything more costumey. Some time during the party, Yelena and Ava put cat ears on him.

Ava: Never got to dress up as a kid, so she and Yelena have a blast going to the Halloween Stores. Ava picks out a cheap Captain America costume and says she's John. Bucky loves it. John doesn't.

John: Comes dressed as Fred from Scooby Doo. Everyone asks him if he meant to ask for them to do a group costume. He insists he just genuinely like Fred and wanted to be him for Halloween. He gets third place in the costume contest.

Bob: Splurges on a high-quality Spiderman costume and stays in character all night. At one point he stops answering to Bob and only Spidey.

Bonus:

Mel: Shows up wearing a classic Bela Lugosi Dracula costume. She has makeup, a wig, and prosthetic teeth. She wins second place in the costume contest after Ava (it was popularity vote). Val does not attend.

Antonia: She hesitates to participate, but she decides to dress as Elphaba from Wicked. She forgoes green face paint because of her skin is sensitive due to the scarring.

Sam: Marvin Gaye or Micheal Jackson. Either way he won't stop singing.

Joaquin: Showed up late, also dressed as Spiderman. He and Bob do the meme and spend the rest of the night hanging out together.

Bonus Bonus:

Alpine: Gets put in a cute pumpkin costume but does that thing where cats don't move when you put them in a costume. A couple pictures are taken and Bucky takes off the costume.

Bucky - Luca and Coco. Luca made him feel seen, understanding the queer undertones and the fun and freedom of boyhood. Sam showed him Coco and it made him sob like a baby. Sam cries watching it too.

Yelena - Ratatouille. She watched only watched Toy Story as a kid but when she broke free of the Widows she watched Ratatouille and loved it. It inspired her to try cooking.

Bob - Fond of Toy Story, but his favorite is Wall-E. He liked to imagine his toys were alive when he was a kid. Wall-E is a comfort movie for him, he could watch it for hours.

John - Cars. Cars 2. Cars 3. He calls them masterpieces. He sings Life is a Highway. Cars 2 is his least favorite of the three because "there's too much Mater".

Ava - Toy Story and a Bug's Life. She watched them growing up in a lab and loved to see the toys and bugs brought to life. She doesn't like the Pixar movies about families because they make her sad since her parents were killed.

Bucky - Snow White. Steve dragged him to see some new animated movie and something about the magical colors and music just enchanted him and he enjoyed it more than he thought he would. Steve loved it too.

Ava - Grew up liking Ariel, but cried watching Tangled. Something about growing up isolated and used for your special abilities struck close to home with Ava.

John - Tiana. He hasn't really watched princess movies but likes Tiana the best because "she actually gets shit done".

Alexei - Anastasia. He can and will sing the whole soundtrack and in general loves the story of the lost princess of Russia.

Yelena - Pocahontas. Her parents took her and Natasha to see it in theaters. She admired Pocahontas and loved Meeko, the raccoon.

Bucky watches Oppenheimer because he's interested in the Manhattan Project. Gets lowkey radicalized knowing the US created nukes while he was on the front lines. Wasn't planning on watching Barbie but Yelena and Ava had it on after it came out on streaming and he stood in the doorway watching (that thing that dads do when they don't want to admit they're watching the movie).

John watches Oppenheimer with some buddies. He is bored but doesn't admit it. He later rents Barbie online and watches it at 3am on his laptop. At first he's offended by the Kens being the adversaries but is won over by the I'm Just Ken song. It's his go-to in karaoke now.

Yelena and Ava avoided both movies when they came out, but in the tower they decide on it for a movie night. Yelena recounts having a couple of barbies when she lived in Ohio. Ava learns this and goes diging in a box of belongings, pulling out a Barbie she had when she was confined to a lab. Bill Foster had given it to her to cheer her up.

Alexei gets roped into watching Oppenheimer for the history but falls asleep 20 minutes in. He watched Barbie opening day and loved it. He joins John singing "I'm Just Ken".