#sam wilson meta

[staying-elive]

I'm so sick of Sam being left out of What if...? (In general, and also to legitimise Peggy as cap)

Is it because they think that without Steve and the morning run meet-cute, that there's no way to recruit Sam? Be real. Ffs.

Because with the tiniest shred of imagination they could make it work.

Take Rhodey. In Iron Man 1 he's the Air Force liaison for research and development, right? He's got a background in aerospace engineering, right? So presumably he'd know about the EXO Falcon program, yeah?

So when a world crisis is underway and the good guys need a little back up, or even pararescue to help civilians, Rhodey could be the one to say 'I know a guy.. Let's call in some help'.

If these are all alternate timelines you could even bring in both Sam and Riley, cos maybe Riley never died and that's why Sam is still active and on-call. A bonus great opportunity to see more of Sam's history and wingman dynamic (which was important enough to make him quit when Riley was killed.)

Point is, if the show creators wanted to, they would.

#sam wilson #sam wilson meta #what if #honestly fuck this show i'm glad i'm not watching #i was never an outright peggy anti but this show is making me one #this is my villain origin story #(also idgaf about st*cky never have never will so that's not my motivation. i'm just angry about sam) #what if season 2 #mcu critical #rhodey #james rhodes

[hugeegosorry]

That s7 episode where House is fangirling over that children author. you know which one i mean. „unwritten”. This one

Objectively hilarious premise, especially when we find out:

There are two love interests for a girl character and while Sam Carr,

(who is also a fangirl. Wilson has to put up with Two dearest to him people infodumping about their favorite kids book. autism real)

supports one of them, House says something along the lines of „Why can’t she have both?”, implying a polyamorous relationship between a girl and two guys.

Anyway, in this essay I will prove how the House/Wilson/Cuddy agenda is basically canon-

#house md #in da house #okay ill admit i havent watch the ep in a while but like i’m 80 percent sure #also the screencaps are from yt im sorry #this was the only way #gregory house #greg house #james wilson #hilson #huddy #lisa cuddy #hudson #as proposed by someone #meta #not really #sam carr #unwritten #s7 #season 7

[logicheartsoul]

MattJen & Sambucky Parallels (Finale Edition)

#meta #mattjen #sambucky #sam wilson #bucky barnes #jennifer walters #matt murdock #tfatws #she hulk #mcu #my screencaps #i've been meaning to make a parallels gif series for these two for ages and I thought I'd start with this coz stills are easier #honestly though it's kinda ridiculous the parallels #even down to how the dialogues and scenes are structured it's almost...the same it's a lot lmao

[imomnba-x07]

Me and my mutuals looking at leaked set photos like

#is this meta? #sam wilson #anthony mackie #danny ramirez #sam wilson captain america #captain america #marvel #captain america new world order #captain america 4 #joaquin torres #falcon #fatws #tfaws

[luna-rainbow]

CATWS and the theme of "trust"

I got about halfway through rewatching CATWS again and I keep seeing all the lines they've buried as foreshadowing for Zola's reveal and I just can't see it all as unintentional (even if they've tried now for 8 years to wind it all back).

One of Steve's major internal conflicts in CATWS is "trust". Right at the start, he makes a few humorous jabs at Sam, but as soon as he feels Sam starts to pry, Steve backs away.

Sam: Must have freaked you out, coming home after the whole defrosting thing. Steve: It takes some getting used to. It's good to see you, Sam.

It's not just the line that shuts the conversation down, Steve's entire body language closes off and he turns away from Sam. Sam, being the amazing guy he is, manages to draw Steve back by sharing his own personal experience of war. Steve then opens up because he recognises that Sam approached him as a fellow traumatised human being, and not for "Captain America", and not for any ulterior motive.

Natasha then whisks Steve away, and we enter the world of subterfuge that is SHIELD. Immediately during the Lemurian Star sequence we establish that Steve dislikes ulterior motives, double-crossing and people withholding information from him.

He and Fury then argue over Project Insight. There are other important themes there about freedom of choice ("this isn't freedom, this is fear"), innocence until proven guilty ("I thought punishment usually came after the crime"), and American imperialism ("holding a gun to everyone on Earth and calling it protection") which I won't go into here. They finish their conversation this way:

Fury: SHIELD takes the world as it is, not as we like it to be. And it's getting damn near past time for you to get with that program, Cap. Steve: Don't hold your breath.

What happens next is an important story moment, both emotionally for Steve and thematically for the overarching narrative. Steve makes three visits - I've said before how these represent his past (the mural of Bucky, the things he's lost), his present (Peggy, wizened and weary, secluded from society), and his future (Sam, youthful and energetic, moving past his trauma). But there's also something else key to these moments, and it is trust.

These are the three people Steve thinks he can trust in his life at that moment in time. He knows he can't trust Nat and Fury (they even told him this). He goes first to find Bucky, because that's his childhood friend and brother-in-arms, but of course Bucky can't give him any answers. He then goes to find Peggy, and it is this very brief conversation with Peggy that has all the foreshadowing for the big reveal.

Peggy: You saved the world, we rather mucked it up. Steve: You didn't. (*CEvans gave emphasis on the "you"). Knowing you helped found SHIELD is half the reason I stay. Peggy: The world has changed and none of us can go back. All we can do is our best, and sometimes the best we can do is to start over.

I'm just going to address the last line first. That line is often given as a mark of Peggy's words giving Steve's character direction. But on my most recent rewatch, I noticed this line.

Pierce: Despite all the diplomacy and the handshaking and the rhetoric, to build a really better world sometimes means having to tear the old one down.

Those lines, repeated only two assassination attempts 20 minutes apart, draw a disturbing parallel between Pierce/SHIELD-ra's intention with Project Insight, and Peggy's advice to Steve about what should happen next. Was it accidental? Or in the hands of a good writer, foreshadowing?

Going back to the first part of the exchange. Steve's emphasis on him staying in SHIELD because Peggy had found it...

Is it any accident that upon walking into the abandoned SHIELD facility, he first lays eyes on Peggy's picture - and is tensely silent when Nat asks him who the girl is - then less than 10 paces from her picture is the entrance to the hidden lift?

This was supposed to be a moment of betrayal. Steve is not stupid. Neither, supposedly, is Peggy.

Immediately upon seeing Bucky, Steve mused that "whatever (Zola) did helped him survive the fall". He already put two and two together.

The significance of what Zola said about Hydra growing inside SHIELD, and Bucky fighting for SHIELDra would not have been lost on Steve. Even without Bucky explaining the conditions of his imprisonment, it was easy enough to infer that Zola had recaptured Bucky and used him for Hydra's ends.

Now, going back to the theme of trust. Consistently, throughout this movie, Steve reacts badly when he finds out people have lied or withheld information from him. He's sarcastic when he finds out the Lemurian Star "isn't off course, it's trespassing". He is furious upon finding out Nat has been given a separate assignment that he didn't know about. He confronts Fury about it, and doesn't stop snarking at Fury about his "compartmentalisation" even in the end. And for Sharon Carter, who lied to him about being a nurse? His only acknowledgement of her greeting him is a terse "neighbour".

Do we really think he hasn't...at least questioned why a woman he has regularly visited over the last 2 years, who he trusted enough to go to for life advice (he literally gave a monologue to her about feeling lost, which is the most emotionally vulnerable we've ever seen Steve be aside from the post-funeral "end of the line" scene) has compartmentalised this vital piece of information about Zola? If not also about Hydra and Bucky?

At the end of the movie, Steve learns to trust again: it is in Sam, who had treated him like a fellow veteran, and who was open and truthful in all of their conversations; it is in Bucky, who had been steadfast and loyal in his friendship, and who saves his life upon hearing their childhood promise; and it is in Nat, who gradually sheds all her pretences through the movie and show him what she believes in.

But the organisation that he had once stayed in because Peggy had built it? Steve insisted on tearing it down even when Fury suggested to salvage it. CATWS was a story that built Peggy up to be a villain...then the MCU changed its mind and reneged on a Captain America 3.

#anti peggy carter #steve rogers #sam wilson #bucky barnes #catws #meta

[stevesbigbazoxngas]

You all are WRONG. Steve is not a DOG BOY....HE IS A CAT BOY. HERE'S WHY.

1) Has a favorite person whom he spends almost all of his time interacting with

2. He loves back pats (Natasha gives him back pats, Bucky gives him back pats, Steve gives ppl back pats)

3. Spends a lot of his time alone, in the quiet, in sun spots, curled up somewhere

3.5. On this note! Steve spends a lot of his time alone and in social situations where there are multiple people, he sticks to the fringes and is still pretty quiet, though he does interact alot with his FAVORITE. PEOPLE! Cat!! Thats what cats do!!

4. WHEN hes SAD he GOES AWAY and SULKS BY HIMSELF

5. Stubborn! Cats are not controllable animals, they are very independent and strong-willed...yknow who else is!?!?

6. Throws himself from tall places

7. ......look at him. He is literally a cat.

IN CONCLUSION.....STEVE ROGERS IS A CATBOY

A CATBOY I SAY!!!!

#meow #meow he says #steve rogers #steve rogers my beloved #bucky barnes #stucky #natasha romanoff #sam wilson #catboy #i will push my steve rogers is a catboy agenda!!" #steve rogers is a catboy #its the truth!!!! #also if ur wanting to know bucky is a dog boy I HAVE PROOF. #captain america the winter soldier #captain america: the first avenger #captain america #the winter soldier #does this count as meta? #idc im tagging it #steve rogers meta #mcu meta

[soliloquent-stark]

a symbol to the nation, a hero to the world. the story of captain america is one of honor and bravery and sacrifice.

#my colouring #these took forever #gifs by soliloquent #captain america #captain america gif #captain america meta #steve rogers #sam wilson #avengers gif #mcu gif #marvel gif #avengers #mcu

[evilhorse]

After all, what’s a masked super-hero without a pithy comment or two on his ever-lovin’ lips?

(Captain America #215)

#captain america #steve rogers #the falcon #falcon #sam wilson #pithy comment #meta #roy thomas #george tuska #marvel comics #comics #70s comics #bronze age comics

[buckys-metal-arm]

Kes's MCU Rewrites

Since I've made a few now, I wanted to make a compiled list of the "scenes that didn't happen but are canon in my heart" and "I will take a hammer and I will FIX the MCU" posts I've made because some of them kinda slap imo. I've linked the ones I have so far here but they'll also be under the tag #kes Rewrites the MCU for future reference!! You're more than welcome to use these for fics/art, no need to credit or anything, all I ask is you send me the link because I would love to see what you create!!

((they're very Bucky-related because I have a brand and I stick to it))

Meta/fixing or adding things:

On Changing the ending of FATWS/who the Powerbroker is revealed to be

On Flerken!Alpine

On Bucky's hair in FATWS

On Bucky/TWS's storyline in What If Episode 2x02

Headcanons:

On Bucky being friends with the Space Dwelling Heroes

On Carol and Sam being buddies

On Bucky's body temperature and how his body feels

On Bucky and Legos

On Bucky, and Zola's Algorithm

On Bucky making money in Romania

#kes rewrites the mcu #mcu #marvel #marvel cinematic universe #i will take a hammer and i will FIX the mcu #bucky barnes #carol danvers #sharon carter #the powerbroker #alpine the cat #sam wilson #mcu meta #mcu headcanons #guardians of the galaxy

[teenagepretentiousness]

whenever i watch age of ultron and civil war, i always wonder whether at some point steve and sam stopped looking for bucky all together. i know a lot of fanfictions will have the party in ultron as a plot point, but what gets me is we see sam 3 times, three movies in a row. ultron, at the party, ant man, at the compound when scott tries to steal that thing for hank, and again during luis’ monologue at the end, and throughout civil war as a supporting role to steve. in ultron, it is basically outright said that sam is looking alone. then, by the end of the movie, he’s confirmed an avenger. which, i know, obviously, he could do two things at once. but then, again, in ant man, he’s shown doing avenger shit. AND THEN, IN CIVIL WAR, WE OPEN THE MOVIE WITH HIM DOING AVENGER SHIT. then he sees they looked for 2 years. mind you, ultron and ant man are a few months apart, and ant man and civil war are almost a year apart, so i guess he has some time. it just feels like he’s a very concrete asset of the avengers, yet he’s said to have looked for bucky for 2 years. its just. its odd to me 

#i dont know #i know im reaching #im just very confused #sam wilson #meta #i guess #marvel #mcu #sambucky

[staying-elive]

Not really a hot take but Sam should've flown in with Rhodey and the cavalry at the end of Age of Ultron. When they're evacuating all the civilians from the city in the sky and Fury rocks up with a helicarrier.

Hello?! A former pararescue with WINGS!

(Just imagine him yeeting civilians onto the evacuation crafts like this. 🤣😂🤣🥰)

And it wouldn't really have taken anything away from the final swoop in shot of the "Avengers assem-" moment. Wanda and Vision and Rhodey were already in the film too, so who cares?

#not me obsessing about lost moments from 10 year old films lol #nope never #sam wilson #avengers age of ultron #mcu #mcu phase 2 #the falcon #sam wilson meta #sam wilson headcanons

[vidavalor]

Sam & Bucky are dorks and I really love that...

There is something just so sweet and adorable to me about how one of Sam and Bucky's main flirting styles is to try to woo one another with nerdiness.

Like... they both are flirted with in canon by women whose focus mainly includes the fact that they're objectively hot. Sharon hits on Sam something fierce in TFATWS and each time, it's about how good-looking he and there's nothing wrong with that. Bucky's the type who had all the ladies giggling "dance with me, Sarge!" back in the day because he's also hot and, like Sam, not an asshole. There's nothing wrong with flirting over physical attractiveness-- hell, Sam does that with Bucky in TFATWS ("look at you, all stealthy..."). There's a lot of physicality in their flirting, obviously-- you don't spend half the season trying to find every way possible to scissor your legs together for there not to be-- but I guess what I'm saying I find sweet about them is that they're secretly nerdy with one another. They're literally halfway in the middle of an argument in their first scene together in TFATWS when it pivots to flirting and it's all Sam being like here's my nerdy shower thought about The Big Three, what do you think? and all self-deprecating humor and rambling to which *The Once-Winter Soldier* responds with yeah well I read The Lord of The Rings in 1937 when it first came out! and it's like... these two are dorks. They are such dorks. And they've never been able to be this dorky with someone they're interested in before. Everyone else (not Sarah but everyone else lol) thinks they're these cool superheroes and these two are trying to get in each other's pants by having a nerd off. In the middle of their fight-flirt, they suddenly are like I READ BOOKS as an argument and I just love that.

I literally love that Sam has gone through hell and found himself a hot, good-hearted man who reads fantasy books to love. I love that Bucky survived everything and found his dream guy of the future who can literally fly and he's not this slick jerk but a sweet dork who will ramble, spitballing monikers for the groups of beings they fight in an effort to make Bucky laugh.

There's just something about the trust aspect of it to me. You have to really trust someone to take off your cool and show your true self to them. You're at your most honest. I like that Sam and Bucky are that for one another and how nerdiness is a part of how they flirt with one another. It's also different from how both of them were with Steve, if you ask me. They're not like that with other guys. It's something all their own and I think that shows a lot of intimacy between them.

#sambucky #winterfalcon #sam wilson #bucky barnes #tfatws #caatws #the falcon #the winter soldier #captain america #marvel meta #marvel #meta

[sleepynegress]

What did you think about the falcon and the winter soldier? I'm pissed because I keep seeing people who shit on Sam and say he was bad writing but I liked him and wanted to have your opinion on that.

It was okay-to-decent. I especially appreciated the efforts BTS to actively engage with black entertainment news reporters.  There is a goldmine of wonderful talks about the racial themes on youtube, with cast and Kevin Fiege(!) which surprised me in a good way. He’s a old school comic-head fan of Isaiah Bradley. I *did* think certain narrative strings were rushed and/or neglected, I’m sure, owing to COVID and Carl Lumbly should have gotten an Emmy nod (and win IMO). Fandom is another thing entirely... It’s not the show’s fault that people saw characters like Sam, Sarah, and Ayo as less or only of tangental importance because of their aversion to beautiful melanin, to the fandom bicycle that is the metal-arm dude and the other little yt dude with the techno-dance. Sam was written well, but again...certain character strings, in the end were rushed or neglected in order to prioritze certain things that *have to happen* in the MCU to keep the plot going a certain way in film (i.e. Valentina, U.S.  Agent...) The Flagsmashers in particular suffered the most... and that’s a shame, because the strength of a piece tends be uplifted by the villian. But the charm of black NOLA culture, family, music, and most important *joy* for me, ended that series on the best note possible. Sam was Sam. I wrote a meta at the time, that the revolutionary aspect of his character, especially as a black man, was just how normal and regular his decency, joy, emotional intelligence, and moral compass is... And how adept Anthony Mackie  is as an actor, at playing that as “easy/natural”. That’s regular black man stuff, that isn’t necessarily typically portrayed that way in media.  And I’ll add that his sister Sarah, (not Hollywood skinny, mixed, or light-skinned Sarah) being portayed as kind, gentle, an integral part of community helping, but also shy, sweet, and desirable to metal-arm dude for no other reasons except that she’s desirable, as just par for the course in the series, is also a normal thing that is revolutionary when portrayed in media. Those were my favorite takeaways from the show.

#meta #ask #anthony mackie #sam wilson #those aspects of sam's character are what makes him the best possible captain america #tfatws #the falcon and the winter soldier #sarahbuckylove #sarah wilson #isaiah bradley #adepero oduye #carl lumbly

[starlooove]

I only like black tim when y’all woobify him like you do white tim (which you don’t btw)

#if tim was black he’d be written worse than Jason and go from 10-20 in 2 years #fans would hate him and agree with Jason’s ‘replacement’ thing he never said #but not bc they’re racist but bc *meta reason that boils down to the writers are racist and I agree* #but also they’re racist #that Arkham misunderstanding would’ve NEVER happened #they’d call him delusional for the Bruce thing and dudebros would say him being right is plot armor #ooooh and don’t get me started on tim is the smartest robin #they’d prolly say the most driven or some shit #but actually maybe the residuals 2000s tech black guy think sticks around #so they actually don’t call him the smartest they just shoehorn him in with Barbara #OOOOH LMAOOO those textposts or incorrect quotes or fics tagged with tim that don’t involve him? #‘he’s with Barbara in the cave working on something’ #‘he got grounded by Barbara’ #etc. #whateverrrrr #And white Ppl will say this and go ‘making shit up to get mad about’ #but the beauty of it is I don’t have to make it up everything listed up above is how y’all treat black characters everywhere #half of it is literally damn near quotes and plots from fics with Duke in it 💀 #Sam Wilson and Gus Porter were the inspo for some of it too #it’s the same thing over and over and over #anyways idc about other black ppl bc tim as black that’s ur prerogative #but white ppl doing it? #it’s giving ‘I don’t see color 👍🏾’ #cause pretending ur excited about it or would treat him the same??? #even the MOST anti racist allies have internalized shit to go through #some of YALL can’t even admit WFA is racist as hell off rip #so like. I don’t trust y’all sorry #in conclusion i don’t like black tim sorryyyy

[feathersofvibranium]

Sam Wilson: *knows Arabic* Marc Spector: *knows Arabic* Steven Grant: *does not know Arabic(?)*

picture sam meeting up with moon knight and learns he speaks Arabic so they’re talking in Arabic while doing their thing and then marc switches to steven and they’re both really confused

#captain america #sam wilson #moon knight #marvel #marvel headcanon #marvel meta #if this isnt a scene when they meet that's a missed opportunity marvel #marvel heads up #mun babble #guess who just finished watching moon knight #marc spector #steven grant #feel free to reblog lol #tfatws #marvel tv

[amarriageoftrueminds]

PSA: I just added a quick manip of what Sam might look like in his air force blues to that old meta post about Sam's potential medals.

HERE 👈

#I *think* I've got it roughly correct #sam wilson #sam meta #my sw manip #dat's me #blog psa