[ SECRET POST #3994 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3994 ⌋

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Comments

[takaraikarin]

I'm not really shitting on anybody though, nonny, unless it's the writing in the movie, I guess. It's just a rather bland character to amass a significant following, and I figured that's because they're fans who know better of the character (due to additional canon from comics -- and 'assuming they've read or haven't read the comics' isn't a dig either).

[(Anonymous)]

different anon but

I think a lot of people identify with bucky because he wants to be a good person, he's done bad things, he's suffered and had his agency compromised

it's hard to identify with steve even if you like him, because it's hard to be that good and that determined all the time, yknow? so a lot of people invest emotionally in bucky instead

you're right that he's pretty secondary screentime wise, so there isn't a whole lot of unique there there, but he's well constructed for a certain kind of attachment/projection/sympathy that lets people fill him in with their own imagination,

other anon called him a cipher and I do think there's more to him than that, but it's also definitely a factor

I'm pretty sure there aren't as many people reading all of marvel comics as there are movie bucky fans, tho

[type_wild]

FWIW, I agree completely. I only bothered checking out the MCU after Thor: Ragnarok, and I seriously do not get how I, as a fandom outsider, would know that Bucky existed... but not Hawkeye, Black Widow, Falcon, or that this was where Hulk and Spiderman belonged. Storywise, Bucky serves as well as motivation for Steve's life choices as anything would. But as a person, he's... pretty non-descript, beyond the basics of "Steve's BFF who used to be brainwashed and evil". Like you, I've been assuming that the fanbase comes from the comics, not the films.