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What’s the difference between:

Ayo stripping off Bucky’s vibranium arm, from TFATWS (2021)

[gif by @starlightcastiel]

AND

The Five Point Exploding Heart Technique, from Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (2004)

He did this to himself, even going so far as to think taking the serum (unauthorized) could mitigate failure.

So when he fails his badass partner Lemar Hoskins (who I was starting to like and refuse to believe is dead!) he avenges him the wrong way and kills a Flag Smasher with the shield in broad daylight, before witnesses...

Yikes.

I have a feeling Walker will be demoted. Or even fired.

Funny how the gun wasn’t used to kill anyone but rather the shield which has the sole purpose to protect is what’s covered in blood...

oh yeah and f*ck walker

Bucky: Get that vibranium spear of out here

Ayo: Get that vibranium arm out of here

Me: 😭

the falcon & the winter soldier | the whole world is watching

i got a vibranium arm. i can take them.

the falcon & the winter soldier | the shield

1x01 || 1x04

So I did some thinking about this scene and wanted to see both sides.

There was trust between Ayo and Bucky. She read his trigger words. She called him White Wolf when she first saw him at the beginning of ep 4.

“Eight hours, White Wolf.”

Note that she also warned him and give him 8 hours. She could’ve easily just attacked the home that him, Sam, and Zemo were staying at but she didn’t. She trusted Bucky and listened to what he had to say first.

Ayo opened up to him and expressed the deep personal shame that Zemo had brought to herself as a member of the Dora Milaje, appointed by T’Chaka. Nevertheless, she gave him a heads up despite the fact that he was running around with her king’s murderer.

So when he interfered in the fight she disarmed him as Zemo got away. I believe she said:

“Bast damn you, James.”

I think that means: “God damn you.”

He betrayed her trust and she called him James not White Wolf. That ain’t good, bro.

I think it’s also important to note that as a warrior of the Dora Milaje she don’t give a shit if he a sad boy or her friend. Okoye dropped her man so quick for Wakanda in the Black Panther movie. So, I’m NOT surprised that Ayo did this as Wakanda always comes first.

Bucky is shocked that they could do that to him. You know, take his arm off. But to Ayo, Bucky in this moment is a means to an end (like Zemo is for him). Now he knows and recognizes how it feels and what those words mean. All she wants is Zemo for killing her king.

She’s sat with this shame and guilt for 7 years. That is, if she didn’t blip out then it would be 2.5 years and would still be quite fresh. I’m also pretty sure she was at the UN when it happened because she accompanied her new king, T’Challa, in Berlin afterwards in Civil War. So this hurts.

So yeah, oh no Bucky’s autonomy... but the man had it coming. Sam straight up told him that they’d be hella mad in ep 3. Wakanda helped his ass even though they didn’t have to and he let the man that murdered their King free...

However, I understand Bucky’s behavior. He is desperate, trying to grasp onto some semblance of himself. He lost Steve, his final attachment to his former self. So, seeing Walker with Sam’s shield and the rise of super soldiers has him acting way out of line. Sam points this out in ep 3 when Bucky wants to break Zemo out of prison:

"I've been on the wrong side of that code and so have you. He blew up the UN, he killed King T'Chaka and framed you for it. Did you forget that? You think the Wakandans forgot about it? It's a rhetorical question. They didn't.”

"I know why this matters to you but c'mon... it's pushing you off the deep end."

Then his dumb ass does it anyways and breaks Zemo out of prison. But that’s how desperate he is. That’s how much the shield means to him. Steve saved his life just as much as Wakanda did, if not more. He wants to protect and preserve Steve’s legacy now. That’s his sole purpose. However, now he faces the consequences of his actions.

Also, she left that shit. She left the arm. A multibillion dollar Vibranian arm. So she’s mad that after everything and the warning that he didn’t take her side. But since she left it there’s still hope for reconciliation!

So I understand both sides of why this happened.

would love some feedback :))

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