Mel: Hah. It's kinda strange that it's all over now, right? I mean, the Avengers are gone? No one else is coming to save the day... Bucky Barnes: Maybe we could be the people that are coming...
The fact that Buck Barnes says this when he CANONICALLY KNOWS that Sam is AT THAT MOMENT rebuilding the Avengers. Because CABNW takes place BEFORE Thunderbolts, and in CABNW, Sam and Bucky were on good terms. And rebuilding the Avengers comes up in conversation. Bucky KNOWS Sam is moving there. And yet he says this. Yet he undermines Sam and then makes a shocked pikachu face when 14 months later, Sam is still not rolling over for the Thunderflops.
So the choice to write Bucky Barnes as fully not giving a crap about Sam and Sam's work, ignoring what he knows, and acting all wounded and surprised when Sam doesn't just rebuild the Avengers, but seeks to protect them for bad faith elements like the Thunderbolts who try to use the name and branding for personal gain in the name of the government, while colluding with a villain and criminal... Just fully undermining the only ACTUAL Avengers who are putting in the work.
And I'm supposed t o ROOT for that? Ew.














