narramin:

onyourleftbooob:

*Huge Captain America: Civil War spoilers ahead*

Reply from Markus and Mcfeely when they were asked why it was necessary to put The Winter Soldier back on ice in this podcast at the 5:30 mark:

“Well, because for one thing he is, give or take his intellectual capacity, 100% guilty and to have Steve just running around getting fruit salads with him on some island, it’s a little too unpunished in a way.
This is not a guy who should be running around happily, he may not be a 100% guilty but he’s damn sure not a 100% innocent”

So their way of punishing Bucky for being brainwashed and tortured and not having a say in what he could or could not do and not remembering who he was for more than 70 years was to put him on ice. Fucking hell.

I think you misunderstand what they said.

They could have set him up in a much more sinister way, a way that’d really make him look guilty.

Insted, the movie literally begins with a brutal torture scene, to remind everyone who might have forgotten since the CA:The Winter Soldier that he was incapable of resisting, that he was being treated like a piece of meat. That he literally had his fucking brain electrocuted every. singe. time he was dragged to the chair, not even capable of standing yet.

And don’t even get me started on the bank vault scene, with the flashback he had of having his arm removed and all the medical horror, and his desperate attempts to remember Steve. This movie referred back even to that, Rumlow literally saying ’…until we put his brain back in the blender’.

This is not how you set up a guilty person.

This is how you set up one that has to deal with a shitton of guilt.

Bucky is a good, a truly good man, one that could not get over the things he was made to do easily. He’s the guy who stopped fighting the moment he realised that Spiderman was just a funking kid for fucks sake. The ‘I don’t know if I’m worth all this/ I still did it’ lines illustrate it petty well. He still blames himself, even knowing that he was just another victim too.

The writers know that perfectly well, and when they say that it’d go a little unpunished, they only mean that a man like Bucky Barnes wound never let himself off the hook that easy, that it’d be a gross mischaracterisation to have him just shrug it off with an ‘ehh’.

No, they want to give him every step and moment of his own redemption arc he deserves, on his own terms, step by step and I’m fucking grateful for that.