THIS!!!! @iamnmbr3 speaks the truest truth to ever truth.
I think a lot of people missed the point of CATFA - the point of CATFA is that the serum simply enables Steve to not die doing the stuff he already does anyway. Steve would 100% walk to Austria or die trying. He’d crash that plane. He’d punch the Red Skull in the face if he got the chance. He’d flirt awkardly with Peggy and he’s fight the war like any other soldier. He’d do anything he does in the movie, except he would’ve died a lot sooner, so he wouldn’t get to do it all.
One thing that pisses me off about the fandom is that there’s this trope about how Steve gets to protect Bucky now that he has the serum. Bullshit. Steve gets to protect Bucky whenever the damn hell he wants. Bucky doesn’t stop having Steve’s back after the serum, Steve doesn’t start having Bucky’s back only after the serum. They just look after each other their entire lives, period. If you don’t think Steve would stupidly kill himself trying to save Bucky during the war, then clearly you and I haven’t been watching the same movie. And Bucky knows it too, and it’s totally why he wants Steve to stay home and help the war in a way that doesn’t include getting himself killed.
If you ignore the fact that Steve would walk to Austria, serum or not, you’ll automatically make Bucky an extremely patronizing friend, and Erskine a terrible judge of character. Pre-serum!Steve = Post-serum!Steve. Whatever differences he has come from the war fucking affecting him, not from him having physical strength.
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