When I see people saying Steve Rogers deserved “one selfish act” it’s so clear they don’t understand the character at all because this would be Steve’s one selfish act.
If Steve Rogers decided to use time travel to fuck up the timeline, this is how he would use it. He wouldn’t insert himself into the life of a woman whose full life he celebrated and who he’s already mourned. He would go back and save the best and closest friend he’s ever had from seventy years of torture and brainwashing. He would risk it all — Howard not dying and Tony not becoming Iron Man and everything else removing the Winter Soldier from the timeline would entail — if it meant saving Bucky.
Saving Bucky would be Steve’s one selfish act. Saving Bucky has always been Steve’s one selfish act. The whole damn Cap trilogy is about it for god’s sake!
Yeah, Steve did deserve one selfish act, but it wasn’t the one they gave him. It was one that actually fit his character. It was one that resolved the story they wrote. It was the one he’d repeatedly shown he would actually do. It was the one that would have been both selfish and selfless.
It was saving Bucky Barnes.
[commentary by crackdkettle]
In another parallel world Steve will find Bucky, before the last nightmare.
He will hug him, and all the futures will be rewritten.
[art and commentary
by vinbarnes]
Missing Endgame post credit scene. (Because after Steve had his lovely sentimental dance he went to rescue Bucky and they lived happily ever after, often visiting Peggy and her husband and kids and also hunting nazis and rocking the 20th century like the power couple they are.)
[art and text
by thewilfling]
Or perhaps Steve, Bucky and Peggy
would all three live happily ever after together?
["Then what are we waiting for?"
by founderofshield]
[by petite-madame,
excerpted from
larger work]
[by petite-madame,
excerpted from
larger work]
