when you successfully scam marvel into letting you make a blockbuster superhero movie that is actually a radical rebuke of imperialism and colonizers and also sneak in a part that implies loki canonically got fucked by jeff goldblum
BUCKY DOESN’T HAVE HIS STAR, STEVE DOESN’T HAVE HIS EITHER AND HE DOESN’T HAVE HIS SHIELD. THEY’RE NOT CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE WINTER SOLDIER ANYMORE. THEY’RE JUST STEVE ROGERS AND BUCKY BARNES: BEST FRIENDS SINCE CHILDHOOD, INSEPARABLE ON BOTH SCHOOLYARD AND BATTLEFIELD.