What if short hair bucky (catfa, tfatws) was a reference to a bucky where he like had someone and trusted someone (Steve, sam) then long hair bucky would be like... when he was betrayed and like bad times bc its not them who named themselves new avengers it was val right? Bc they were jncredibly confused when there was the press and all in the end so that woukd be steve-endgame, sam-thunderbolts (like bad times cos Steve left him lol and Sam sued him) PLUS SEBASTIAN CUT HIS HAIR WHICH MEANS WE COULD POTENTIALLY HAVE SHORT HAIR BUCKY FOR DOOMSDAY BC HE HAD THE THUNDERBOLTS BC- there's the poster of thunderbolts where buckys shadow is iron man bc they're the new avengers and each of them embodies one of the og avengers right? And in civil war Steve said that the avengers were for tony more so than him- so tony bucky avengers new avengers which is far fetched asf and way too referenced to the og avengers... if it were the Russian brothers it would be totally plausible tho- but still. So imagine it's not him that dies but it's the thunderbolts that somehow get lost to him bc doomsday is the prequel to secret wars, they're like iw and endgame (I think bc it's giving that vibe ig- idk but it's plausible) then he grows out his hair again and plays a Steve-like role in secret wars bc he has to get them back- it's insane and way too much ref to og avengers but it's just a though