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How FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER Villainizes Trauma
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“Is Bucky Barnes a victim or a villain?”
While the answer seems obvious to some, the MCU’s perspective is murkier. Fans hoped that
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier would allow Bucky to work through his victimhood; a meaningful project both in-universe and out. But this does not transpire onscreen. Instead, the show turns the trauma that Bucky suffered into trauma he caused. The story retrofits a previously nonexistent agency into Bucky’s past as the Winter Soldier. Rather than telling a story of survival and recovery,
TFATWS retcons Bucky’s history in order to more comfortably deal with it.
In the constant battle between good versus evil in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, some of the casualties aren t always so obvious. Some can take the form of the forgotten who are forced to forge their own path to survive and sometimes it ends up twisting their moral fiber as is the case of former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Sharon Carter played by
Emily VanCamp. Abandoned by the government she once served for daring to take the side of Steve Rogers (
Chris Evans), she became a fugitive from the world stage and as we found out in
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier survived as a dealer in the fictional mecca of Madripoor. Unbeknownst to the heroes Sam (
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Avengers: Endgame Star Robert Downey Jr. Celebrates Film s Two-Year Anniversary with New Video of Deleted Scene
Avengers: Endgame continues, the cast and crew have been paying tribute to the climactic chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe all day. Now it would appear to be Robert Downey Jr. s turn as the Oscar nominee has revealed a video from the set of the film showing off one of the many notable deleted scenes from the movie. Fans may recall that actress Katherine Langford was previously cast in a role in the film but didn t make it into the final cut, it was later revealed she would be playing the older version of Morgan Stark that Tony encounters in a vision after snapping the Infinity Gauntlet.
While the third film in the series,
Captain America: Civil War was pretty much
Avengers 2.5 considering how many other characters were there, the central struggle was still very much Cap’s story after all that had happened in
Winter Soldier and then the fallout from
Age of Ultron. Steve Roger’s story hit a crescendo with the two-part
Avengers film set with
Infinity War and
Endgame as we saw Chris Evans bring to a close his time with the character that began back in 2011’s
First Avenger.
Civil War did a strong $1.15 billion at the box office on its $250 million budget and there’s definitely been a curiosity to see what would happen from there. With the Russo brothers directing