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psychoassassins:

I love love love this scene, but when I started thinking about it, I can’t help but feel like it shows so much about Sam

He runs a veteran therapy group

He knows loss and he knows pain and he knows war and sure no one knows quite what Bucky’s been through but this is as close as anyone normal can get

And sure when you think of veterans, when you think of people who have suffered and who have lost and been hurt so much, the world tells us that these people need extra special treatment, which can sometimes lead to them feeling further separated from the rest of society and make it harder for them to integrate back into the world

Bucky doesn’t want to be singled out or made to feel different or ostracised because he suffered

He wants to feel normal and he doesn’t want to feel as though everyone is treating him as a special exception and gives him everything he wants without having to do anything in return

And Sam knows this and he understands it and respects it

So when Bucky asks for something menial, Sam says no because it’s giving him the sign that he’s still normal. And that yes he went through hell but that doesn’t make him any better or worse than anyone else

Sam lets Bucky know that he doesn’t think he’s made of glass or that having been broken in the past means he’s fragile now

Sam tells Bucky no because dammit Bucky’s been managing by himself for a goddamn year now and obviously he’s been doing okay and he’s managed to bring himself back all by himself so why the fuck shouldn’t anyone treat him like they would anyone else, like any other human being

Sam and Bucky: Why the hate?

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eatingcroutons:

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hannahrhen:

Okay, I’m supposed to be working right now, but I got to get this off my chest and see what you guys think–

So, WHY was Sam being such a dick to Bucky? Yes, it’s funny as hell, but I keep finding myself chewing on it as a characterization choice and trying to decide what it says about Sam.

Because Sam works with emotionally damaged vets, and he has SEEN SOME SHIT. He also knows who Bucky Barnes was, and what he means to Steve. So are we to think that, because Bucky kicked his ass a couple of times, he’s going to be blatantly rude to Bucky? Really? Some have theorized he’s jealous of Steve and Bucky’s friendship, but … I highly doubt that, canonically. (Can make for fun fic, tho.)

What I WANT TO BELIEVE is that, in some cut scene, after they got in the bug, he tried to talk to Bucky, tried to put his VA counselor hat on and have a normal conversation, and Bucky told him to go fuck himself. Maybe repeatedly. Maybe kicking the back of Sam’s seat to get him to shut up. Because the only thing that works for me for Sam’s character is if he gave it the ol’ college try–having *some* kind of convo with Bucky–and Bucky shat upon him, and Sam was like, “Okay, so that’s how it is–good to know,” and turned that aggro up to 11. 

That is my favorite idea, but I’m curious what other people think?

I go with “Sam gives Bucky shit because he’s treating him like a human being.” Cause honestly, I saw their interactions less as hate or being a dick and more the way a couple of pre-teen siblings get along. As someone with three sibs myself, if one of us did something to piss the other off (”you flushed the toilet while I was showering!”), you’d better believe the petty war would start. That seat would not be getting moved forward, it’d be getting scooted backward as soon as the request was made. And this would go back and forth pretty much until our mom made us stop.

So to me, this is Sam’s way of showing Bucky that he’s not afraid of him, that he trusts him to react like a human being, that he’s not worried Bucky’s gonna turn into a murder-bot if Sam pisses him off. He’s not treating him like a ticking bomb, and at the same time, he’s acknowledging that their history includes some messy stuff. But by reacting to that mess with such little jabs, he’s also downplaying how big the mess was – he’s reducing what happened between them in Winter Soldier to the level of dumb shit that happens between siblings. He’s making it something deserving of petty little paybacks, instead of something Bucky needs to carry a heavy burden of guilt over.

It’s his subtle way of saying, “Okay, you’re on the team now. You’re part of the family, which means I would fight the demons of hell to keep you safe. But that doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to give you shit, just that nobody else gets to touch you. And I still owe you payback for that helicarrier crap, so screw you and your legroom.”

Are people unfamiliar with the concept of banter or something???

I mean seriously. This is one hundred percent Sam treating Bucky as an equal, letting him know there are no genuine hard feelings about what’s happened in the past. And it’s Bucky responding in kind. This is Sam and Bucky respecting and trusting each other enough to joke around over trivial shit. The “You couldn’t have done that earlier?” / “I really hate you.” exchange is them being bros.

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steveandsam:


[Putting the wings back on was very difficult] because when you look at Sam’s background, his partner in the Falcon programme got shot down the same way. I actually talked about that with the Russo’s, but it definitely affects him because it brings back all that stuff from his past. – Anthony Mackie

#whereisfalcon

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perspi-looks:

perspi-looks:

So I was thinking, related to this post about what happened to Sam on the Raft: 

How much does the rest of the world know what is going on here? How much does Sam’s family know?

What if Sam’s mom takes it upon herself to camp out in front of Stark Tower at first, to demand transparency from the only Avenger left publicly standing, to ask Tony Stark where is her son? What if, as the days since she’d last heard from him start to stretch, as it becomes obvious that the ‘controversy’ over the Accords was much bigger than they’re letting on, she gathers a whole following, she reminds everyone that the Avengers are people too, that they are citizens, and that their families deserve to know what happened? What if she learns (through some deliberate tip-off by Natasha or someone) that Stark isn’t the only one responsible, that Ross is the one she really needs to talk to, and she harnesses the media spotlight to start a march from New York to Washington, asking all the while, Where is my son?

What if, when Sam is finally out of the Raft, when Sam is finally safe in Wakanda (for a few moments, at least), he turns on the TV to find his mom, his family, his co-workers, and holy shit that is a lot of other people ranged behind her, all of them asking the same question:

Where is Falcon?

Just like that, Sam’s knees won’t hold him anymore and he collapses with a hard stop on the coffee table. She’s right there, in her five-foot-nothin’ glory and best Sunday dress, in a spot in Central Park that Sam recognizes is not far from Stark Tower. Her voice is that same stern-resounding tone that he grew up with, and Sam suddenly misses her so hard his chest hurts.

It takes a long moment for him to register what, exactly, she’s so stern about, for the scrolling words at the bottom of the screen to make sense. When they do, though, Sam’s heart hurts anew: Mama Wilson, his sisters, all those people, they’re looking for him. They don’t know why he helped Steve or refused to sign the Accords, they’re not even sure he’s alive. The more he listens, the more he realizes that they’ve been stonewalled at every turn but his family has been trying to get him a lawyer, a message, anything.

Sam takes a long, shaky breath and lets himself cry for a while, listening to his mother’s voice, letting her faith in him soothe over the places he let break to keep Steve safe.

When he’s done, though, he knows what he needs to do, knows Steve will help him ask for the resources he needs to make a statement to the press without giving himself away.

Sam won’t let his mama get all the way to DC without knowing whether or not he’s alive. And he’s done keeping the US Government’s secrets.

I thought, since I don’t have a tumblr and you seem to be quite aware of race in MCU and willing to talk about it, I would just point out something about CACW I haven’t seen anyone mention – when Tony goes to visit Sam in the weird prison thing, Sam says Tony will need to bring a bad cop – ‘you’ll need to go Mark Fuhrman on my ass’ is the line. Idk if fandom is a little too young to get the reference or if ppl just didn’t hear it? Anyway, I thought it was interesting, if maybe a throwaway line

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hansbekhart:

(2/2) The Fuhrman line is sort of interesting too bc (idk if you saw it) ‘The People Vs OJ Simpson’ brought Fuhrman back into the public consciousness recently – though possibly the CACW scene was filmed before the show aired

Haha friend I try to avoid painting a target on my back on the internet, but sure, let’s go with being aware of race in the MCU.

If anyone’s unfamiliar with the context of Fuhrman, he more or less torpedoed the prosecution of OJ Simpson by lying repeatedly on the stand about about horrifically racist statements he’d made between 1985 and 1994, as a consultant for a novelist writing a screenplay about the LAPD.  Some “highlights” of the transcript are here, but let me caution you before clicking, it’s real, real bad.  Fuhrman did make direct references to torturing black suspects on the tapes:

“Why don’t you give them the 77th lie detector test? You know, everybody–and a bunch of guys will laugh–old-timers, you know. And then one kid will ask his partner, ‘What’s that?’ You keep choking him out until he tells you the truth. You know it is kind of funny. But a lot of policemen will get a kick out of it. Anyway, so you are in the shadows like that. Now you’re–when you are talking to somebody it is not like you are really listening into their words because you’ll key on what is the truth and what isn’t. First thing, anything out of a n—–’s mouth for the first five or six sentences is a f—— lie. That is just right out. There has got to be a reason why he is going to tell you the truth.”

Fuhrman later pleaded no contest to charges of felony perjury, and served three years, and now is a regular guest on Fox News in stories involving (justifying) use of force by police officers. 

The LAPD did conduct an investigation into Fuhrman’s claims of institutional racism and sexism, and found one of these things to be credible – but I’ll let the fact that anti-black police brutality is still a conversation we’re having literally twenty years later speak for itself.

So that is a super interesting reference for Sam to make.  Not only is Sam drawing a direct comparison to Tony as a representative of a corrupt justice system, but a specifically anti-black one.  Does that mean Sam thinks that the Accords are anti-black?  Doubt it, but it shows the lens through which Sam sees the world: not just as a super hero, but as a black super hero.  He doesn’t divorce himself from being a black man just because he puts on a bird suit.  That’s a lot of complexity and characterization in an otherwise throwaway line.

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