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* TeamMom: James, according to WordOfGod.

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* AmazonChaser: James, implied. All the women he expresses any attraction to are {{Action Girl}}s, and before he meets Seg, he's pretty enthusiastic about the idea of female Captain America with all the muscles and stuff.



* BigBeautifulMan: Padre's Bucky is a very solidly built guy, and it looks good on him.

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* BigBeautifulMan: "Barnes," Padre's Bucky Bucky, is a very solidly built guy, and it looks good on him.



* ICallItVera: Eloise the machine gun.



* NoSocialSkills: Sweetpea.

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* NoSocialSkills: Sweetpea. To be fair, the guy does have brain damage.
* NotGoodWithPeople: Barnes is pretty asocial, for Winter Soldier trauma-related reasons, but he is devoted to his dog.



* SympatheticSentientWeapon: All the former Winter Soldiers, as in canon. Sweetpea probably got it the worse.

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* SympatheticSentientWeapon: All the former Winter Soldiers, as in canon. Sweetpea probably got it the worse.worst.
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* NoAntagonist: For most of the story, the challenge comes from the universe-swapping, which was caused by a random anomaly and wasn't anybody's fault. Averted at the very end when the army of Captains America join forces with Honey and Sweetpea to take the fight to HYDRA.
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* VoidBetweenTheWorlds: The unnamed location used as a jumping-off point between dimensions. It's a picturesque forest, like the Wood Between The Worlds in the ''Literature/ChroniclesOfNarnia''.

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* NoSocialSkills: Sweetpea.



* SmarterThanYouLook: Sweetpea legitimately does have some cognitive problems, but people tend to assume he's lower-functioning than he actually is because he's acts kind of "off" and has trouble with verbal communication.

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* SmarterThanYouLook: Sweetpea legitimately does have some cognitive problems, but people tend to assume he's lower-functioning than he actually is because he's he acts kind of "off" and has trouble with verbal communication.

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* BlackComedyCannibalism: Sweetpea trying to snack on the Nazi soldier he just killed.



* EnsembleDarkhorse: Sweetpea.



* FluffyTheTerrible: Sweetpea and Honey. Sweetpea is everything terrifying about the Winter Soldier, but several inches taller and occasionally cannibalistic. Honey is a HandicappedBadass UnscrupulousHero alternate Captain America with a homicidal grudge against HYDRA. They're boyfriends.

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* FluffyTheTerrible: Sweetpea and Honey. Sweetpea is everything terrifying about the Winter Soldier, but several inches taller and occasionally cannibalistic.[[BlackComedyCannibalism not opposed to munching on the occasional dead Nazi]]. Honey is a HandicappedBadass UnscrupulousHero alternate Captain America with a homicidal grudge against HYDRA. They're boyfriends.


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* ImAHumanitarian: When a guy's an evil conspiracy's pet human hellhound and they don't bother to feed him, he picks up some bad habits.

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* CrackFic



* CreepyCute: Sweetpea, in his out-of-combat GentleGiant moments.



* OneTrueThreesome: Sam, Steve, and Bucky.



* TheWoobie: All the post-Winter Soldier Buckys have been through a lot, but Sweetpea and "original" Bucky (the MCU-based POV character) probably fit the trope best in-universe. Especially Sweetpea.

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* BadassPreacher: Padre. A Catholic priest who still works as Captain America part time.

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* BadassPreacher: Padre. A Catholic priest who still works moonlights as Captain America part time.a superhero.



* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Sweetpea, Honey, and Langston, because there are so many Steves and Buckys around. Inverted for James.

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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: ''Many'' examples, notably Sweetpea, Honey, and Langston, and Padre, because there are so many Steves and Buckys around. Inverted for James.James.
* OurOrcsAreDifferent: Sweetpea had shades of this when HYDRA had him - giant, super-strong, people-eating SlaveMook with yellow eyes (okay, hazel) and filed teeth.



* RaceLift: "Langston" (after the poet) and Jay are African-American, James Buchanan Bai is Asian, and Sweetpea is AmbiguouslyBrown.

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* RaceLift: "Langston" (after the poet) and Jay are African-American, James Buchanan Bai is and his Steve are Asian, and Sweetpea is AmbiguouslyBrown.



* SmarterThanYouLook: Sweetpea legitimately does have some problems, but people tend to assume he's lower-functioning than he actually is because he's acts kind of "off" and has trouble with verbal communication.

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* SmarterThanYouLook: Sweetpea legitimately does have some cognitive problems, but people tend to assume he's lower-functioning than he actually is because he's acts kind of "off" and has trouble with verbal communication.


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* SympatheticSentientWeapon: All the former Winter Soldiers, as in canon. Sweetpea probably got it the worse.
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* AwesomeArt: [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/7929577 Here.]] (A few of the illustrations are NSFW.)


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* BondVillainStupidity: If HYDRA had [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim just shot]] Honey instead of maiming him, dumping him in the river, and leaving him for dead, he wouldn't be coming back to his home universe with an army of superheroes.


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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Sweetpea.
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* BarbarianLonghair: Sweetpea.


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* EyeScream: Why Honey is a HandicappedBadass. (spoiler: It wasn't cataracts.) Courtesy of HYDRA.


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* SuperSenses: Honey isn't quite Daredevil, but his enhanced hearing is sharp enough that he can use human echolocation.
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->"We few, we happy few-" "We ''bad motherfuckers''."

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->"We -->"We few, we happy few-" "We ''bad motherfuckers''."
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* SmarterThanYouLook: Sweetpea legitimately does have some problems, but people tend to assume he's lower-functioning than he actually is because he's huge and muscular and has trouble with verbal communication.

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* SmarterThanYouLook: Sweetpea legitimately does have some problems, but people tend to assume he's lower-functioning than he actually is because he's huge and muscular acts kind of "off" and has trouble with verbal communication.

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* CrackPairing: Rebel {Appalachian Steve) is married to Nick Fury in his universe.

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* CrackPairing: Rebel {Appalachian (Appalachian Steve) is married to Nick Fury in his universe. Fury. Everyone in-universe finds this understandably surprising.


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* InSpiteOfANail: Frank is implied to be trans or intersex, and James's Steve was a standard-issue cis man, but despite this, the two men are virtually identical in all other aspects.
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* BadassCrew: The Steves and Buckys (plus a couple versions of Sam Wilson and a Natasha Romanoff) who team up to take down HYDRA in Honey and Sweetpea's home universe.
->"We few, we happy few-" "We ''bad motherfuckers''."


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* BigBeautifulMan: Padre's Bucky is a very solidly built guy, and it looks good on him.


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* CrackPairing: Rebel {Appalachian Steve) is married to Nick Fury in his universe.

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* {{Dehumanization}}: Poor Sweetpea got hit with this ''hard''.



* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Implied, but downplayed. Steve Rogers being "Steve Rogers," regardless of race, gender, or timeline, seems to inherently coexist with a certain level of innate decency. Honey is definitely an AntiHero - but still not a bad guy when he isn't dealing with the people who blinded and tortured him, imprisoned and dehumanized his boyfriend, killed his best friend, and ruined the world - and Stepanya was brainwashed into villainy, Winter Soldier-style. But, in all the universes represented, none of the Steves are willingly bad people.


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* MirrorUniverse: Averted. There are Steves and Buckys of a variety of races, genders, sexual orientations, and occupations, but no willingly evil ones, and HYDRA appears to be evil in every universe.
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* TheEndOfTheBeginning: After all the universe-swapping is sorted out, the characters who don't have urgent business in their home dimensions team up with Honey and Sweetpea to take on their world's HYDRA.

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* MundaneLuxury: Sweetpea genuinely enjoys eating ={MREs}=. It's better than what HYDRA fed him (or didn't).

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* MundaneLuxury: Sweetpea genuinely enjoys eating ={MREs}=.the [=MREs=] James hands out. It's better than what HYDRA fed him (or didn't).


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* OneTrueThreesome: Sam, Steve, and Bucky.


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* PhraseCatcher: "Sweetpea, no!"


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* SmarterThanYouLook: Sweetpea legitimately does have some problems, but people tend to assume he's lower-functioning than he actually is because he's huge and muscular and has trouble with verbal communication.

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* DeliveryGuy: Sam, for Stella. Justified since pararescue all have paramedic training, and none of the Steves or Buckys are medical professionals.



* FluffyTheTerrible: Sweetpea and Honey. Sweetpea is everything terrifying about the Winter Soldier, but several inches taller and occasionally cannibalistic. Honey is a HandicappedBadass UnscrupulousHero with a homicidal grudge against HYDRA. They're boyfriends.

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* FluffyTheTerrible: Sweetpea and Honey. Sweetpea is everything terrifying about the Winter Soldier, but several inches taller and occasionally cannibalistic. Honey is a HandicappedBadass UnscrupulousHero alternate Captain America with a homicidal grudge against HYDRA. They're boyfriends.



* MundaneLuxury: Sweetpea genuinely enjoys eating MREs. It's better than what HYDRA fed him (or didn't).

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* MundaneLuxury: Sweetpea genuinely enjoys eating MREs.={MREs}=. It's better than what HYDRA fed him (or didn't).
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* CrazyPrepared: James.
* CreepyCute: Sweetpea, in his out-of-combat GentleGiant moments.


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* DominoMask: James, who is based on Marvel 616 Bucky.


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* HorrifyingHero: Sweetpea, in combat.


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* MundaneLuxury: Sweetpea genuinely enjoys eating MREs. It's better than what HYDRA fed him (or didn't).
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* TheWoobie: All the post-Winter Soldier Buckys have been through a lot, but Sweetpea and "original" Bucky (the MCU-based POV character) probably fit the trope best in-universe. Especially Sweetpea.

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* TheWoobie: All the post-Winter Soldier Buckys have been through a lot, but Sweetpea and "original" Bucky (the MCU-based POV character) probably fit the trope best in-universe. Especially Sweetpea.Sweetpea.
* XMeetsY: ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' meets the Deadpool Corps.
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* SickeningSweethearts: Honey and Sweetpea are surprisingly demonstrative and affectionate for a couple of scarred-up killers.
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* FantasticRomance: James and Frank, since they come from different timelines.



* UnscrupulousHero: Honey has become this in the "HYDRA won" universe, which is a sign of how dire things have gotten there, since usually Steve is GoodIsNotSoft at worst.

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* UnscrupulousHero: Honey has become this in the "HYDRA won" universe, which is a sign of how dire things have gotten there, since usually Steve is GoodIsNotSoft at worst.worst.
* TheWoobie: All the post-Winter Soldier Buckys have been through a lot, but Sweetpea and "original" Bucky (the MCU-based POV character) probably fit the trope best in-universe. Especially Sweetpea.

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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Sweetpea. He doesn't look 100% white, but since he was born in a time when interracial relationships were frowned upon and raised in an orphanage, nobody knows the details. Based on his description, he may be part Native American or Pacific Islander.



* ButchLesbian: Seg is a muscular, tomboyish ActionGirl with very short hair - and a girlfriend.
* [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys Cast Full of Hunks]]: It's a story filled with alternate versions of two good-looking male superheroes: this is kind of inherent in the premise.



* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Implied, but downplayed. Steve Rogers being "Steve Rogers," regardless of race, gender, or timeline, seems to inherently coexist with a certain level of innate decency. Honey is definitely an AntiHero - but still not a bad guy when he isn't dealing with the people who blinded and tortured him, imprisoned and dehumanized his boyfriend, killed his best friend, and ruined the world - and Stepanya was brainwashed into villainy, Winter Soldier-style. But, in all the universes represented, none of the Steves are willfully bad people.

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* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Implied, but downplayed. Steve Rogers being "Steve Rogers," regardless of race, gender, or timeline, seems to inherently coexist with a certain level of innate decency. Honey is definitely an AntiHero - but still not a bad guy when he isn't dealing with the people who blinded and tortured him, imprisoned and dehumanized his boyfriend, killed his best friend, and ruined the world - and Stepanya was brainwashed into villainy, Winter Soldier-style. But, in all the universes represented, none of the Steves are willfully willingly bad people.people.
* LittleGuyBigBuddy: Sweetpea and the pre-serum Steves. It's pretty cute.


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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Downplayed. Historical racism and other prejudices are acknowledged to exist, but none of the main characters actually adhere to them. Justified in that this is consistent with Steve's canonical values and personality.
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* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: Frank and James function as this for each other.
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* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: James does this to Stepanya as a deprogramming technique.


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* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Implied, but downplayed. Steve Rogers being "Steve Rogers," regardless of race, gender, or timeline, seems to inherently coexist with a certain level of innate decency. Honey is definitely an AntiHero - but still not a bad guy when he isn't dealing with the people who blinded and tortured him, imprisoned and dehumanized his boyfriend, killed his best friend, and ruined the world - and Stepanya was brainwashed into villainy, Winter Soldier-style. But, in all the universes represented, none of the Steves are willfully bad people.

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* BadassPreacher: Padre. A Catholic priest who still works as Captain America part time.



* FluffyTheTerrible: Sweetpea and Honey. Sweetpea is everything terrifying about the Winter Soldier, but several inches taller and half-feral. Honey is a HandicappedBadass UnscrupulousHero with a homicidal grudge against HYDRA. They're boyfriends.
* GenderFlip: Stella and Seg Rogers and Becky Barnes.

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* {{Dystopia}}: The "HYDRA won" universe.
* FluffyTheTerrible: Sweetpea and Honey. Sweetpea is everything terrifying about the Winter Soldier, but several inches taller and half-feral.occasionally cannibalistic. Honey is a HandicappedBadass UnscrupulousHero with a homicidal grudge against HYDRA. They're boyfriends.
* GenderFlip: Stella and Seg Rogers and Becky Rebecca Barnes.


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* PairTheSpares: James's Steve is dead, as is Frank's Bucky. They end up together.
** Sadly averted for [[StarCrossedLovers Redhead Steve and James Buchanan Bai.]]
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* PsychopathicManchild: Sweetpea is a subversion. At first glance he appears to be vicious, feral DumbMuscle, but he's reasonably bright (he just [[HulkSpeak talks funny]] because HYDRA messed with the language centers of his brain) and he can be surprisingly sweet when he's treated gently.

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* RaceLift: "Langston" (after the poet) and "Jay" are African-American, James Buchanan Bai is Asian, and Sweetpea is AmbiguouslyBrown.

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* RaceLift: "Langston" (after the poet) and "Jay" Jay are African-American, James Buchanan Bai is Asian, and Sweetpea is AmbiguouslyBrown.AmbiguouslyBrown.
* ScrewYourself: Between Buck and James.
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* AmazonianBeauty: Seg is her verse's Captain America and has the muscles to go with it.


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* TheMultiverse
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[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/7910536 Except it Abide in the Vine]] is a CaptainAmerica fanfiction by spitandvinegar, the author of ''Fanfic/AintNoGrave''. It relies heavily on the idea of simultaneously coexisting {{Alternate Universe}}s. In the story, a magical accident has sent a few dozen different versions of Steve Rogers from their home universes to alternate ones, and it's up to Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes (and Bucky Barnes), to find the dislocated Steves and bring them home.

!!This story contains examples of:
* AlternateUniverse: The whole point.
* TheBadGuyWins: Sweetpea and Honey's home universe, in which HYDRA won World War II.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The "HYDRA won" universe.
* FluffyTheTerrible: Sweetpea and Honey. Sweetpea is everything terrifying about the Winter Soldier, but several inches taller and half-feral. Honey is a HandicappedBadass UnscrupulousHero with a homicidal grudge against HYDRA. They're boyfriends.
* GenderFlip: Stella and Seg Rogers and Becky Barnes.
* HandicappedBadass: Honey is blind and has a prosthetic right hand (thanks, HYDRA) and kicks a ton of ass anyway.
* OneSteveLimit: Literally and extravagantly averted. There are over a dozen Steves, as well as multiple Buckys.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Sweetpea, Honey, and Langston, because there are so many Steves and Buckys around. Inverted for James.
* RaceLift: "Langston" (after the poet) and "Jay" are African-American, James Buchanan Bai is Asian, and Sweetpea is AmbiguouslyBrown.
* UnscrupulousHero: Honey has become this in the "HYDRA won" universe, which is a sign of how dire things have gotten there, since usually Steve is GoodIsNotSoft at worst.

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