History Fanfic / BuckyBarnesGetsHisGrooveBackAndOtherInternationalIncidents

* HurtingHero: Steve drunkenly confesses to Sam that he feels like he's being eaten alive by the mantle of Captain America. Several chapters of HYDRA-hunting and Bucky-chasing later, this culminates in him [[spoiler:publicly announcing his retirement in the epilogue, stating that he'll only come out for things on the scale of the Chitauri invasion or greater]].

* HiddenInPlainSight: Various governments and entities that want to take Barnes to trial, put him to work for them, or both start setting up sensors that can detect Barnes and Motherfucker, as they put out similar energy signatures. Tony does some scans, and suggests that they just park Motherfucker right in the lobby of Stark Tower, since only like seven people counting Barnes know what Motherfucker even is, and that Barnes move to Manhattan, because it turns out they're basically indistinguishable energy-wise from the Chitauri detritus that's still turning up around Manhattan years later. If anyone asks, they can just call Motherfucker a really ugly modern art piece. [[spoiler:Barnes winds up not accepting the offer because Motherfucker has come to his aid of its own accord and he's accidentally commanded it before, and he's afraid that a stray thought or even a nightmare could make Motherfucker zip out of the tower and destroy Tony's lobby.]]

* RagingStiffie: While DrowningTheirSorrows in a seedy bar in Croatia, Steve mentions to Sam that back in the thirties and forties, Bucky used to sing popular music from the time while engaging in foreplay or having sex with little pre-SuperSerum Steve. The two things would connect in his mind, leading to poor Steve having to "fix [his] fuckin' pants in a hurry" if he happened to overhear some song Bucky sang during sex in public later. [[DoubleEntendre Dick move, Barnes.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithLlamas: Just after escaping with the spaceship, Barnes touches down in Peru, near where a few llamas are grazing. His narration describes them as a cross between a deer, a sheep, and a pile of dirt, and 50% overbite. After a moment of deep consideration, a llama spits on him, so Barnes, feeling utterly done with this day, lays back down on the ground and goes to sleep. He's woken up the next morning by a pair of llama farmers, bringing a llama with them that also spits on Barnes.

* CultureClash: Black Widow is annoyed that her name is officially Natasha rather than Natalia. What Americans don't realize is that the name 'Natasha' is the [[UsefulNotes/RussianNamingConventions diminutive]] of 'Natalia', so she likens being called Natasha to strangers unknowingly calling her 'sweetheart.'

* KnifeNut: Peggy Carter, apparently, according to the prequel side story ''Better than to Bend''. Enough that she's into utilizing one during foreplay.