History TearJerker / TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier

** Given the series being consistent on showing Karli's increasingly LackOfEmpathy, no doubt the Super Soldier Serum amplifying her flaws, there's a very good chance Lemar's death indeed didn't matter to her at all.

** On a meta level, given the show was being developed at the same general time as the Black Lives Matter movement, Karli's line about not having wanted to hurt Lemar can hit doubly hard.

* Despite Sam's best efforts to not fight back, Karli is shot by Sharon Carter, a.k.a. the Power Broker, as a means to keep Sharon's true identity a secret.
* In her final fight with Sam, Karli tearfully begs him to fight back. Her worldview is collapsing and she needs him to validate her hatred for all Captain America stands for.

** Not only is he deluding himself, he's lying to Lemar's surviving family as well. His grieving parents and sister will ''never'' get the closure they need, because Walker would rather put his pride and delusions first before doing right by his fallen friend and admitting the truth.

-->'''Karli:''' I didn't mean to kill your friend. I don't want to kill people who don't matter [regarding my cause].
-->'''Walker:''' ...Lemar "didn't matter"?

Isaiah was one of a dozen African-American soldiers who were recruited against their will and without their consent for participation in human testing in pursuit of the super soldier serum. Most did not survive. The few who lived through testing were sent on secret missions during the Korean War. During the conflict, against all odds, Isaiah Bradley rescued his fellows soldiers and 28 other POWS from behind enemy lines.\\
However, fearful of the ramifications of a Black super soldier, some individuals within the government tried to erase Isaiah's story from history. His family was issued a falsified death certificate. And for decades, the truth of his unflinching bravery was buried.''\\

* Sharon's reveal as the Power Broker and her motives behind it. After being branded as a criminal and fugitive without Steve or the Avengers to vouch for her and protect her, Sharon became bitter and angry at the government she and her family served for generations, deciding to build an criminal empire so she could make the world suffer for what happened to her.

* [[spoiler: Sharon's reveal as the Power Broker and her motives behind it. After being branded as a criminal and fugitive without Steve or the Avengers to vouch for her and protect her, Sharon became bitter and angry at the government she and her family served for generations, deciding to build an criminal empire so she could make the world suffer for what happened to her.]]
** [[spoiler: Even more sad for Sam and Bucky. They felt genuinely guilty and remorseful for letting Sharon suffer all these years alone unable to contact her family or even find closure with Steve, and want to get her pardoned for all her help in fighting the Flag Smashers. However Sharon has become too vindictive and ruthless to care about being pardoned or redeemed for her crimes and now just wants to use her position at the CIA to get her hands on top secret weapons and technology to sell to her clients. Should Sam and Bucky ever find out, they'll no doubt feel heartbroken and betrayed.]]

* The monument to Isaiah Bradley's exploits is a wonderful thing, but the inscription is equal parts heartbreaking and heartwarming.

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* Bucky's face the entire time he was masquerading as the Winter Soldier. It can be interpreted as a moment of awesome (if he was just acting), or a massive tearjerker that he fell back into form as a weapon so quickly and easily (emphasized both by Zemo's remark to Sam and the Winter Soldier's theme playing at full blast during the bar beatdown). While Zemo is boasting to Selby that the Soldier would do anything she wants, Bucky/the Winter Soldier's dead-eyed stare is heartbreaking given the connotations pointed out elsewhere on this very wiki of the Soldier being a SexSlave. Bucky is put into an unsafe situation where he is forced to relive his TraumaCongaLine and possibly undo all his efforts of making amends (turning "I am no longer the Winter Soldier" into BlatantLies). He might well be going through PTSD triggers and dissociation in his head for the duration of the undercover mission. It's a combo of TearJerker and NightmareFuel for trauma victims and PTSD sufferers in general.

* Bucky's face the entire time he was masquerading as the Winter Soldier. It can be interpreted as a moment of awesome (if he was just acting), or a massive tearjerker that he fell back into form as a weapon so quickly and easily. While Zemo is boasting to Selby that the Soldier would do anything she wants, Bucky/the Winter Soldier's dead-eyed stare is heartbreaking given the connotations pointed out elsewhere on this very wiki of the Soldier being a SexSlave. Bucky is put into an unsafe situation where he is forced to relive his TraumaCongaLine and possibly undo all his efforts of making amends (turning "I am no longer the Winter Soldier" into BlatantLies). He might well be going through PTSD triggers and dissociation in his head for the duration of the undercover mission. It's a combo of TearJerker and NightmareFuel for trauma victims and PTSD sufferers in general.

* As Walker mourns for his friend, and contemplates his action, Sam and Bucky, at first, can do nothing but to watch as the man chosen as the new Captain America breaks down in front of their eyes. Some might even point out how they regret not helping him in the first place if they hadn't put their pride first.

** The fact that John says the line above indicates that he is still willing to give Sam and Bucky a chance to work with him but -- in his, somewhat skewed view -- they ruined it by venting their personal issues to him, and letting him be humiliated.

* Just after Bradley declares that no self-respecting black man would want to be Captain America, he looks away for a moment with an expression of deep regret. It's clear he wanted to be, but the government took that from him and punished him for no other reason than he ''was'' black.

** Bucky stating that the shield is "the closest thing he has left to a family," and that he felt like he was left with nothing when Sam gave it up. In spite of his new friendship with Sam, this scene just shows how lonely he feels without Steve, and that he's still not over Steve leaving him behind.

** While Zemo is rightfully put under arrest by the Dora Milaje, it's hard not to feel at least a little bit bad for him, considering that he's a man who lost his whole family and coin, and he still had a family butler who likely will really miss him dearly, and vice-versa.

** Afterwards, as John continues to contemplate on his actions, his wife can do nothing but try to comfort the grieving John, showing that even though he is now a public menace, she is willing to support him anyway she can. It conjures an image of her desperately trying to resituate a half-dead man, and that is a somber image.