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THE HOWLING COMMANDOS
It's been 14 years, and I am still waiting for a TV series that follows Cap and the Howling Commandos each week on their missions in the WWII European Theater.
....And also, of course, Steve and Bucky share a tent 🤭
oddly specific and incoherent howling commandos headcanons:
ages: hugely important for vibes here. mcu wiki does technically have ages for them but not all of them are real to me. to me, steve and bucky and peggy and gabe are like in their mid-20s and the rest of them are 30s and 40s.
gabe and morita are dummy smart like went back home after the war and got phds smart. they also worked on all of the civil rights movements.
^ just because morita is dummy smart does not mean that he carries brain cells.
morita-dugan-dernier get into jackass level hooliganry. its the combo of 'morita machine smart' and 'dernier explosives smart' and 'dugan down to clown'.
like technically steve is in charge but i think theyve got more of a community thing going on esp when it comes to day to day life. steve makes the battle plans and reports to the brass but everything else is a group effort because they're family.
bucky has that annoying big brother energy he's like messing with people and repeating the same phrases and singing all the time.
bucky and steve together are super annoying because they can communicate without speaking and everything they say is an inside joke and they have no idea how to interact socially with anybody but each other.
^^ when peggy is around this is worse. the three of them are insane and should never be put in charge of anything ever.
morita is full of rage (as he should be). dugan regularly exploits this.
dugan and bucky are bffls - if they were grade school students in the 2010s they'd exchange silly bandz and pass notes via paper airplane. i have no textual evidence to back this up other than that i believe it's true.
dernier can understand and speak english fine but he thinks its a stupid language so he makes them all learn french in order to communicate with him.
monty and steve have a similar vibe as dugan and bucky but like not as grimy and rowdy bc their personalities are different. but like monty is steve's no 2 after bucky and they do "high brow shit" like talk about art and books and political theory and nerd things.
^ in this similar vein, steve and gabe have a similar vibe as steve and natasha. idk how else to elaborate on this i just feel its true. gabe holds a large percentage of the group's overall brain cell, and he's clever and has a dry humor and when steve comes to him saying "i want to try this" he shrugs and says okay.
gabe is jacked asf cuz he carries the machine gun around like he's super strong, he and steve regularly exploits this.
dugan is like so indiana jones about his hat and they're all so annoyed about it. howard bulks it up though, makes it sturdier in case it gets shot. it's dugan's pride and joy.
james howlett (wolverine) joined up with them for one (1) mission and.....never again. don't ask what happened, just, never again.
^^ this becomes hilarious in like 2015
peggy went on a few missions with them but that got shut down real quick. it's not that they weren't successful, but the peggy-steve-bucky Circle of Stupidity (TM) makes the howlies drop productivity by at least 25% so they unionized and said no more sorry we love her but when she's here you three act like dumb idiots.
when steve goes on the azzano mission with peggy and howard, colonel phillips is like "i did not make it through the great war just to be put in charge of the stupidest idiots in the allied powers" and then when steve comes back and puts the howlies together, phillips gives up. he tries to resign, eisenhower wont let him.
the thing about peggy-steve-bucky is that all three of them think they're the level headed rational one of the group and all three of them are wrong.
Captain America: The First Avenger
The Howling Commandos
Captain America/Steve Rogers - Chris Evans
Bucky Barnes - Sebastian Stan
Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan - Neal McDonough
Gabe Jones - Derek Luke
Jim Morita - Kenneth Choi
James Montgomery Falsworth - JJ Feild
Jacques Dernier - Bruno Ricci
(Top left, with Kevin Wright)
Gifs not mine
If Doomsday doesn't show that in his imaginary life behind the picket fence, Steve didn't at least save that Bucky...
They're still alive.
All of them. Steve was important to them, they cared for him, but they also cared for Bucky, whom they'd known longer than they'd known Steve. They risked their lives for him and cared for him, they'd united for him in the POW camp...
They lost Bucky and then they lost Steve.
Maybe Steve, in his imaginary world, had never met them.
Or maybe he came back. Maybe he came back and even though he was a stranger, different, older, they could still celebrate, because their brother had somehow survived. Just one.
And then maybe they'd know that their real brother was still abandoned in the ice and no one would look for him anymore, because an stranger had taken his place.
And then maybe they'd know that Bucky had been alive all this time. He lived and suffered something far worse than death, and the one person who could have saved him, who could have allowed them to save him, consciously chose, CHOSE not to...
God, I hate this trashy ending...
Do you guys ever wonder if Bucky misses the howling commandos? And would he be ashamed just by imagining what they would think about him being the winter soldier? (This boy has severe anxiety)
Genuinely curious if you guys have any kind of headcanons about them
I do think that the howling commandos lived to see steve out of the ice. Not only because I want them to see him one last time but becuase it leads to figuring out how they lived that fucking long.
So here are my theories,
They lived so long cause they were trying to outlive eachother. (a personal fav)
Heaven didn't want to deal with them nor explain what happened to their Sargent or Captain. (Which I find funny)
They lived so long that they just didn't die and no one even know how.
Or their immortal
And they live to be crouchy ass bastards. (as if they already aren't)
But that's just a theory a film theory.
I always wondered if before Bucky got his memories back, if he ever expected other people without knowing why.
Like, he perk up when he heard heavy English or French accents? Did part of him just ache when he saw a group of guys laughing and enjoying each other's company? When someone brushed against him, did he turn around expecting someone else? And it's gone so quickly that he's not sure who he was expecting, but he's always disappointed.
Maybe when he was still the Winter Soldier, and they knew not to mention Captain America around him because that usually meant they would have to put him back in the chair, I wonder if they also had to learn to avoid things that reminded him of the commandos.
Was the Smithsonian exhibit hard because that was his life, and he doesn't remember it, and there's Steve, but also, oh... He knows them. God, he knows them.
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Someone write me an AU where Steve and the howling commandos end up in the future and it's all of them that help break Bucky out of his conditioning. And originally, Shield is thrilled to have so many heroes back but after Steve and the others find Bucky, Shield starts to wish they had stayed back in their time.
Shield is only able to snag him after he's run into the the commandos and Steve a few times, mainly because he's disoriented and hesitating because he knows Steve and the others, and why does he know them?
And Shield wasn't going to really do anything to Bucky... just run some tests and study how Hydra actually made him, and sure, they know about the trigger words and maybe they would have said them but it would have been to study it, to better understand. And maybe they would have taken the arm from him and yes, they know it was attached in a way that would have been very painful to remove but it would have been a safety measure and they could have studied it. They wouldn't have hurt him... not on purpose anyway.
So the commandos and Steve break him out, still looking lost and acting like he should be in a cage somewhere deep and dark because he's all wrong, and like fuck are they ever going to leave him with Hydra or Shield.
No one besides them gets Bucky anymore.
Everyone else keep breaking or losing him, and it's gone on long enough.
