[ SECRET POST #2709 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2709 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If he was a female character, nobody would like the fact that the character is defined by victimhood in fandom.

I don't think you're wrong (well, it wouldn't be "nobody," but it would be a relatively small number), but I also don't see why you have a problem with this. There are plenty of characterizations that are overdone cliches and/or that have unpleasant real-world implications: female victims, magical negroes, white saviors, farmboy heroes, dead lesbians, etc. This isn't to say that none of those characterizations can be written with nuance and in a way that breaks away from the usual well-worn narrative tracks. But doing so requires taking into account the very weighty history of those characterizations to avoid reproducing--whether out of subconscious mimicry or genuine ignorance of the trope's existence--those cliches.

And, bringing this back to the subject of Bucky, changing up the character type who experiences a particular narrative arc--in this case, by having a white male victim be broken and treated as sub-human by his (white male) "owners"--can sometimes be all that's needed to sidestep or subvert a trope.