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* DramaticIrony: Perhaps an unintentional case, but even so, Marvel had already decided to roll with it. By the time the movie premiered, almost everyone knew that the Winter Soldier was [[spoiler:Bucky.]] The tension and drama surrounding his identity doesn't come from the audience not knowing, but from Steve not knowing.
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* DramaticIrony: DramaticIrony:
** Perhaps an unintentional case, but even so, Marvel had already decided to roll with it. By the time the movie premiered, almost everyone knew that the Winter Soldier was [[spoiler:Bucky.]] The tension and drama surrounding his identity doesn't come from the audience not knowing, but from Steve notknowing.knowing.
** Nick Fury's memory of how Alexander Pierce turned down a Nobel Peace Prize by saying that "peace isn't a reward, it's a responsibility." The problem is that Pierce's idea of peace is one [[spoiler:enforced by HYDRA]].
** Perhaps an unintentional case, but even so, Marvel had already decided to roll with it. By the time the movie premiered, almost everyone knew that the Winter Soldier was [[spoiler:Bucky.]] The tension and drama surrounding his identity doesn't come from the audience not knowing, but from Steve not
** Nick Fury's memory of how Alexander Pierce turned down a Nobel Peace Prize by saying that "peace isn't a reward, it's a responsibility." The problem is that Pierce's idea of peace is one [[spoiler:enforced by HYDRA]].
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* DeconReconSwitch: The film deconstructs the superhero archetype of TheCape by showing that [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]]' ideals don't quite fit in the modern, pragmatic world. He wonders if his morals and values mean anything in modern society or even the old days, and his refusal to change them results in finding himself useless. The reconstruction kicks in when Steve [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece retrieves his old WWII uniform from the Smithsonian]] and finds hope in the allies that believe in him (i.e. Natasha and Sam). His RousingSpeech to SHIELD agents influences them to stop [[spoiler: Project Insight]]. Finally, Steve's belief in the good in people results in [[spoiler: Bucky going against his Winter Soldier programming and saving him from drowning in the Potomac River]].
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-->'''[spoiler:Rumlow]]''' Just want you to know, Cap, this isn't personal.\\
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** The shoes Natasha wears while on the run are Nike Dunk Sky Hi's.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: Steve and his allies have minutes in which to [[spoiler:sabotage the Project Insight helicarriers before they reach operational altitude and begin their mission for HYDRA.]]
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* WhoShotJFK: During the [[spoiler:HYDRA reveal montage]], a FreezeFrameBonus establishes that the Winter Soldier killed him [[spoiler:on HYDRA's orders]].
** It also insinuates that Hydra had something to do with [[DisappearedDad Howard Stark's]] death.
** It also insinuates that Hydra had something to do with [[DisappearedDad Howard Stark's]] death.
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** During the [[spoiler:HYDRA reveal montage]], a FreezeFrameBonus establishes that the Winter Soldier killed him [[spoiler:on HYDRA's orders]].
** It also insinuates thatHydra HYDRA had something to do with [[DisappearedDad [[spoiler:[[DisappearedDad Howard Stark's]] Stark]]'s death.]]
** During the [[spoiler:HYDRA reveal montage]], a FreezeFrameBonus establishes that the Winter Soldier killed him [[spoiler:on HYDRA's orders]].
** It also insinuates that
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! Spoilers for all Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse entries preceding this one, including ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' will be left unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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** A multi-film example: in ''First Avenger,'' Howard and Steve are testing out shields and Howard quips that HYDRA isn't going to attack him with a pocket knife. Not only does that become a Brick Joke in that movie itself, but the Winter Soldier also pulls a knife on Steve.
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* SoftWater: Invoked when Captain America leaps out of a Quinjet into the ocean for a stealthy insertion -- nope, he doesn't have a parachute. The movie is pretty clear that the only reason Cap can do it is because he's a SuperSoldier.
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* SoftWater: Invoked when Captain America leaps out of a Quinjet into the ocean for a stealthy insertion -- nope, he doesn't have a parachute. The movie is pretty clear that the only reason Cap can do it is because he's a SuperSoldier. Occurs again at the end of the film when Captain America falls off of an exploding helicarrier into the water far below, though this time he is at least knocked unconscious.
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* ImprobableAge: The Black Widow is implied to have started working for the KGB; however, the film shows her to be born in 1984, which would make her at most 7 years old when the KGB broke up (it might fit, however, depending on how the MCU handles the "Red Room" element of Widow's comic backstory, which would have her training from an ''extremely'' young age, if not birth). [[Film/BlackWidow Her own film]] [[spoiler:shows that this was indeed the case]].
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* ImprobableAge: The Black Widow is implied to have started working for the KGB; however, the film shows her to be born in 1984, which would make her at most 7 years old when the KGB broke up (it might fit, however, depending on how the MCU handles the "Red Room" element of Widow's comic backstory, which would have her training from an ''extremely'' young age, if not birth). [[Film/BlackWidow [[Film/BlackWidow2021 Her own film]] [[spoiler:shows that this was indeed the case]].
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* BeardOfEvil: [[spoiler:Bucky Barnes]] sports an unkempt beard, longer than PermaStubble. HYDRA hasn't been taking good care of him.
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* RunningBothSides: [[spoiler:Hydra has been instrumental in manipulating major crises throughout history on both sides of the conflicts, most notably the Cold War and the resulting Cuban Missile Crisis. This is part of their attempt to show TheEvilsOfFreeWill to the general populace, hoping that they would voluntarily accede their own freedoms for a more stable world. Presumably, this also applies to 9/11 and the War on Terror.]]
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* RunningBothSides: [[spoiler:Hydra has been instrumental in manipulating major crises throughout history on both sides of the conflicts, most notably the Cold War and the resulting Cuban Missile Crisis. This is part of their attempt to show TheEvilsOfFreeWill to the general populace, hoping that they would voluntarily accede concede their own freedoms for a more stable world. Presumably, this also applies to 9/11 and the War on Terror.]]
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** The Winter Soldier shoots Steve three times before he can get the card in to subvert HYDRA's firing sequence, and HYDRA has three helicarriers.
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* TheAce: Bucky proves that he's always been there right alongside Steve. He was kidnapped and brainwashed into being a super-soldier, but he deserves it as much as Steve does.
* AcePilot: Same proves he was born to fly once he puts on his wings.
* AcePilot: Same proves he was born to fly once he puts on his wings.
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* DeadlyDodging: During the elevator fight, Captain America gets one arm stuck to the wall by a magnetic wrist-cuff, limiting his movements. When a mook tries to take advantage of it with a taser baton, Cap grasps his arm with his free hand and redirects the attack, tasing another mook.
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** During the elevator fight, Captain America gets one arm stuck to the wall by a magnetic wrist-cuff, limiting his movements. When a mook tries to take advantage of it with a taser baton, Cap grasps his arm with his free hand and redirects the attack, tasing anothermook.mook.
** During the finale, Sam takes advantage of his small size and maneuverability to dodge a barrage of missiles and blow a hole in a helicarrier so he can jump inside and take it out.
** During the elevator fight, Captain America gets one arm stuck to the wall by a magnetic wrist-cuff, limiting his movements. When a mook tries to take advantage of it with a taser baton, Cap grasps his arm with his free hand and redirects the attack, tasing another
** During the finale, Sam takes advantage of his small size and maneuverability to dodge a barrage of missiles and blow a hole in a helicarrier so he can jump inside and take it out.
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* CivilWar: Cap launches one by revealing that S.H.I.E.L.D. has [[spoiler:been infiltrated by HYDRA]], taking down one of the strongest forces on Earth, for good or ill.
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* ArcWords: "Captain's orders."
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** "Captain's orders."
** "I'm with you to the end of the line, pal."
** "Captain's orders."
** "I'm with you to the end of the line, pal."
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* BadLiar: Steve Rogers, [[TheCape beacon of morality]] that he is, is truly a terrible liar. Not a single S.H.I.E.L.D. employee is fooled by his repeated claims not to know what is going on, and Black Widow even calls him out on it (in a cute adorable way). He's no better at other kinds of deception, either. His idea of a hiding a USB key with the fate of the world resting on it is putting it between two packs of gum in a vending machine that is being restocked.
* BadPresent: Zigzagged. Steve has trouble adjusting to the present, but he admits that there are a few good things about it such as better food, no polio, and the internet.
* BadPresent: Zigzagged. Steve has trouble adjusting to the present, but he admits that there are a few good things about it such as better food, no polio, and the internet.
* BadassBystander: A tech defies Rumlow. Just some dude at a computer refusing to let HYDRA take over the world.
-->'''Tech:''' Sorry, sir, Captain's orders.
-->'''Tech:''' Sorry, sir, Captain's orders.
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* BadLiar: Steve Rogers, [[TheCape beacon of morality]] that he is, is truly a terrible liar. Not a single S.H.I.E.L.D. employee is fooled by his repeated claims not to know what is going on, and Black Widow even calls him out on it (in a cute adorable way). He's no better at other kinds of deception, either. His idea of a hiding a USB key with the fate of the world resting on it is putting it between two packs of gum in a vending machine that is being restocked.
* BadPresent: Zigzagged. Steve has trouble adjusting to the present, but he admits that there are a few good things about it such as better food, no polio, and the internet.
* BadPresent: Zigzagged. Steve has trouble adjusting to the present, but he admits that there are a few good things about it such as better food, no polio, and the internet.
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* RuleOfSymbolism: Steve spends most of the movie in a DarkerAndEdgier uniform, with less color, working unknowingly on behalf of [[spoiler:the S.H.I.E.L.D. infected by HYDRA]]. When he finally leads the fight to take them down, he takes back his old uniform from WWII. Brighter, old-fashioned, from a time when we knew who the bad guys were.
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* FriendshipMoment:
** Steve and Sam meet while they're jogging around the Washington Monument's reflecting pond. Steve laps Sam a dozen or so times, then Sam asks him if he's okay, veteran to veteran.
** In a flashback, Bucky comforts Steve after his mother's funeral. Steve can't find his key, Bucky kicks aside a brick to find the spare.
-->'''Bucky:''' I was gonna ask...\\
'''Steve:''' I know what you're gonna say, Buck, I just...\\
'''Bucky:''' We can put the couch cushions on the floor like when we were kids.\\
'''Steve:''' [searches his pockets]\\
'''Bucky:''' It'll be fun. All you gotta do is shine my shoes, maybe take out the trash. [kicks aside brick for spare key] Come on.\\
'''Steve:''' Thank you, Buck, but I can get by on my own.\\
'''Bucky:''' The thing is, you don't have to.
** Steve and Sam meet while they're jogging around the Washington Monument's reflecting pond. Steve laps Sam a dozen or so times, then Sam asks him if he's okay, veteran to veteran.
** In a flashback, Bucky comforts Steve after his mother's funeral. Steve can't find his key, Bucky kicks aside a brick to find the spare.
-->'''Bucky:''' I was gonna ask...\\
'''Steve:''' I know what you're gonna say, Buck, I just...\\
'''Bucky:''' We can put the couch cushions on the floor like when we were kids.\\
'''Steve:''' [searches his pockets]\\
'''Bucky:''' It'll be fun. All you gotta do is shine my shoes, maybe take out the trash. [kicks aside brick for spare key] Come on.\\
'''Steve:''' Thank you, Buck, but I can get by on my own.\\
'''Bucky:''' The thing is, you don't have to.
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* ToBeLawfulOrGood: [[spoiler:Secretary Alexander Pierce's]] head of HYDRA, joined by [[spoiler:Arnim Zola]] back in the day, is dedicated to securing world peace by securing world ''control'', using Project Insight to kill millions of ''potential'' "threats" in minutes.
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* ProperlyParanoid: When [[spoiler:Rumlow]] and the other HYDRA agents hop out their trucks to dig three graves and execute Steve, Natasha, and Sam, they come around the back with guns drawn.
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* ChildhoodFriends: Steve will never, ''ever'' forget his best friend.
-->'''Steve:''' Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky.
-->'''Steve:''' Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Bucky Barnes]] survived the fall.
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* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: Because the characters Cap and the Winter Soldier are seventy year old legacies of the Cold War, their fight reeks of the classic Cold War movies from the sixties, seventies, and eighties.
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* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: A passenger can't throw the car from drive into park, but hell if it don't make for a good opening to an action sequence.
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* TheHeavy: Sitwell doesn't think throwing someone off a roof is Steve's style. It's not. It's Natasha's.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Arnim Zola]] was a somewhat reluctant sidekick to the Red Skull, but apparently he became a devotee of HYDRA after the war.
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** [[spoiler:Arnim Zola]] was a somewhat reluctant sidekick to the Red Skull, but apparently he became a devotee of HYDRA after thewar.war.
** Senator Stern was a jackass who wanted Tony's suits. [[spoiler:Now we learn he's a HYDRA agent]].
** Agent Sitwell has been a constant S.H.I.E.L.D. presence alongside Coulson. [[spoiler:Sumbitch is HYDRA, too]].
** [[spoiler:Arnim Zola]] was a somewhat reluctant sidekick to the Red Skull, but apparently he became a devotee of HYDRA after the
** Senator Stern was a jackass who wanted Tony's suits. [[spoiler:Now we learn he's a HYDRA agent]].
** Agent Sitwell has been a constant S.H.I.E.L.D. presence alongside Coulson. [[spoiler:Sumbitch is HYDRA, too]].
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-->'''Natasha:''' I owe you.\\
'''Steve:''' It's okay.\\
'''Natasha:''' If it was the other way around, and it was down to me to save your life, now you be honest with me, would you trust me to do it?\\
'''Steve:''' I would now. And I'm always honest.
'''Steve:''' It's okay.\\
'''Natasha:''' If it was the other way around, and it was down to me to save your life, now you be honest with me, would you trust me to do it?\\
'''Steve:''' I would now. And I'm always honest.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Secretary Pierce]] winces, shrugs, and murders his maid because she walked in at the wrong time.
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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: When Pierce sees the Winter Soldier sitting in his kitchen, he tells his maid she can go, then he offers WS some milk. [[spoiler:Then he starts giving the man orders for political assassinations]].
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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: When Pierce sees the Winter Soldier sitting in his kitchen, [[NiceToTheWaiter he tells his maid maid]] [[SubvertedTrope she can go, go]], then he offers WS some milk. [[spoiler:Then he starts giving the man orders for political assassinations]].
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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: When Pierce sees the Winter Soldier sitting in his kitchen, he tells his maid she can go, then he offers WS some milk. [[spoiler:Then he starts giving the man orders for political assassinations]].
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** Natasha quotes [[Film/WarGames "Shall we play a game?]] when she launches [[spoiler:Zola's platform]]. She tries to tell Steve what the reference is, but he cuts her off, telling her he's seen the movie. He's been watching movies since ''Avengers''.
