mcu hides the best backstories is anyone else kind of…
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mcu hides the best backstories
is anyone else kind of bothered that we never actually get to see bucky and natasha’s backstories play out on screen?
and i don’t mean quick flashbacks or a couple lines of dialogue. i mean actually see it.
bucky arguably has one of the most traumatic arcs in the entire mcu. hydra experiments. decades of brainwashing. being frozen, dragged out, used to assassinate people, wiped, repeat. losing his identity over and over again. and what do we actually get? a few flashes of a table, the chair, metal tools, zola staring at him, then boom he’s the winter soldier.
even in thunderbolts when bucky comes into the attic and you can see that stark metal room behind him, it feels like such an obvious callback to the hydra conditioning chamber. like they’re right there. and then they just don’t go any deeper with it. it’s like marvel refuses to sit in his trauma for more than five seconds before cutting away.
and natasha too. trained as a child in the red room, forced into that life, shaped into an assassin. we see bits of it, especially through yelena’s void rooms and the red room flashbacks, but it’s not natasha’s time in the red room and even then it’s still pieces. and budapest gets referenced constantly. clint choosing not to kill her and bringing her into shield is supposed to be this massive turning point in her life. and we never actually see that moment happen.
it feels like someone saying “i’ll show you how to bake a cake” and then handing you a bag of ingredients. you turn around and suddenly the cake is done and everyone’s just like “oh my god yeah wow that was pretty intense yikes. anyway moving on.”
i just don’t get why two of the darkest, most psychologically complex backstories in the mcu are mostly off screen. i would absolutely watch a bucky movie that starts with the fall and ends right before catws. i would watch a natasha red room/budapest movie in a heartbeat.
does anyone else feel like we were kind of robbed here?
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is anyone else kind of bothered that we never actually get to see bucky and natasha’s backstories play out on screen?
and i don’t mean quick flashbacks or a couple lines of dialogue. i mean actually see it.
bucky arguably has one of the most traumatic arcs in the entire mcu. hydra experiments. decades of brainwashing. being frozen, dragged out, used to assassinate people, wiped, repeat. losing his identity over and over again. and what do we actually get? a few flashes of a table, the chair, metal tools, zola staring at him, then boom he’s the winter soldier.
even in thunderbolts when bucky comes into the attic and you can see that stark metal room behind him, it feels like such an obvious callback to the hydra conditioning chamber. like they’re right there. and then they just don’t go any deeper with it. it’s like marvel refuses to sit in his trauma for more than five seconds before cutting away.
and natasha too. trained as a child in the red room, forced into that life, shaped into an assassin. we see bits of it, especially through yelena’s void rooms and the red room flashbacks, but it’s not natasha’s time in the red room and even then it’s still pieces. and budapest gets referenced constantly. clint choosing not to kill her and bringing her into shield is supposed to be this massive turning point in her life. and we never actually see that moment happen.
it feels like someone saying “i’ll show you how to bake a cake” and then handing you a bag of ingredients. you turn around and suddenly the cake is done and everyone’s just like “oh my god yeah wow that was pretty intense yikes. anyway moving on.”
i just don’t get why two of the darkest, most psychologically complex backstories in the mcu are mostly off screen. i would absolutely watch a bucky movie that starts with the fall and ends right before catws. i would watch a natasha red room/budapest movie in a heartbeat.
does anyone else feel like we were kind of robbed here?
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