I’d Like To Add This To The Winter Guardian Tag…these Two Have Taken Up My Mind…I Have No Idea

Manifesting a massive uptick in Winterguardian shippers once Thunderbolts* comes out.

Alexei: Valentine’s day is just a consumerist holiday that holds no real value other than drive people insane buying heart shaped chocolates for their significant others and pos- Bucky: I wrote you a poem. Alexei, already crying:You did?

thunderbolts* (2025)

Alexei: Valentine’s day is just a consumerist holiday that holds no real value other than drive people insane buying heart shaped chocolates for their significant others and pos- Bucky: I wrote you a poem. Alexei, already crying:You did?

Headcanon: Alexei was able to partially overcome Bucky's brainwashing because he reminds Bucky of Steve. Not just the costume and the powers but the fact that he's a good man trying to fight for his ideals in a flawed system.

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This episode of What If... was living in my head rent-free. The ending destroyed me. How can everyone live their lives oblivious to the Winter Soldier's suffering? I love this nuance of the soldier being his own entity. For me, what we see in that episode is not Bucky Barnes, it's a non-robotic and humanized version of the Winter Soldier, which is very beautiful and dark. The fact that he has no idea that he is someone and Aleksei helping him with that is worth its weight in gold. It's a shame he couldn't free himself to be the hero of Deconey Island in the end, and this is the post.

Episode mentioned: What if the Red Guardian stopped the Winter Soldier?

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Winter Soldier vs Red Guardian | What If…? S3E3