That-old-man-with-a-shield - Forever Fight As One

Ok. But the level of gay in Captain America: The Winter Soldier continues to astound me. 

Like, not only do Steve and Bucky have a phrase like a wedding vow that they say to each other, which gets introduced to the audience in the context of Bucky asking Steve to move in with him, and that later is so emotionally impactful that it breaks through 70 years of brain washing and Bucky remembers it before he remembers his own name. Not only does Steve apparently spend his free time hanging out in his own exhibit in the Smithsonian, staring longingly at old photos and videos of Bucky. Not only does the issue of Steve’s love life get repeatedly raised in the set up before Bucky comes back. Not only do Steve and Bucky’s interactions fit really neatly into a lot of epic romance tropes. Not only is Steve literally willing to die rather than hurt Bucky more than he’s already been hurt, even though as far as he knows Bucky has shown no signs of recognizing him.  

But also on top of all that, there’s the whole “shared life experience” discussion (not “similar” - shared!!!) which could only refer to Bucky, which takes place shortly before the Winter Soldier’s true identity is revealed. I mean, it could hardly have been more obvious if they were like:

Steve: Believe it or not, it’s hard to find someone with shared life experience.

Natasha: Yeah. That makes sense. Where on earth are you going to find someone who lived through your childhood in Brooklyn and the war right along side you but who also understands what it’s like to get the serum and be frozen? I mean, I just have no idea who could possibly fit that description. Why don’t we ask that dude over there with the mask and the metal arm? Maybe he can help. 

Todoroki keeps getting portrayed as someone who’s quite aloof and detached when he’s about 5 seconds away from serious violence at any given moment

Throwback to the time when he froze the entire stadium cause he was just “upset is all”

deadass created a whole new ecosystem and a second ice age (not to mention poor, poor Sero) cause he was just UpSEt iS aLL

Also when he called the Chief of Police a “mangy mutt” and was an inch away from squaring up with him even though he just entered the room. Literally had to be restrained by Midoriya cause he was about to throw hands

but also like GODDAMN he really called the CHIEF OF POLICE a “MANGY MUTT” like the NERVE

Passive aggressively slurped soba in front of his abusive father

Slurp, slurp, bitch 

“ThATs A nAStY ScAR YoU gOt ThEre” 

SNARKS his teacher when he gets captured during the final exam “You think you’ve caught me? This is nothing. I could burn or freeze these restraints in an instant” like WOWOWOW way to give away that strategy Todoroki and undermine the intelligence of the person who assigns your grades 

 And then when Aizawa reveals the caltrops under Todoroki he goes “You’re pretending to be some kind of ninja?” DID NO ONE TELL THIS KID TO RESPECT HIS ELDERS?? WHO ALLOWED this ROASTMASTER to go unchecked for so long 

Todoroki was put in the back of the class cause he would obviously throw his pencils at Aizawa when he says something Todoroki disagrees with 

Even bakugou doesn’t talk back to his teachers but Todoroki clearly has no fucks left to give

Im just…shook

Todoroki would fight all of us in the UA parking lot and he’d probably win too cause he’s an overdramatic BITCH 

Not to be a weeb on main but I would die for Tohru Honda.

reki and langa, age 17: i love you so much, i want to be with you forever, let’s skateboard together infinitely

cherry and joe, age 20-30-whatever-the-fuck: ......... u are.. stupid and... i don’t like u..... *aggressively pines*

Grandpa must’ve caused a scene at the bingo. His hubbae is here to b@il him out.

Insp

STEVE ROGERS’ BOOBS

That’s it. That’s the post.

i bet in the mcu in the history classes they say steve and bucky were “really good friends” and then all the queer kids chuckle

Sincee multiverse is now canon AA! Steve coming and just decking MCU Steve is now a very (un)likely possibility

AA!Steve won’t ever deck anyone. He’d make MCU Steve sit through a 55-slide PowerPoint presentation explaining why he needs to get his shit together and ask Tony out already (he faked his death obviously, this is now canon because I said so).

616!Steve is going to chew into MCU Steve for abandoning his duty to protect the world by going off to play house in the past. His slight head shake, as his eyes dig directly into the other man’s soul, makes MCU Steve feel appropriately guilty.

Ults Steve will just be like, “If you aren’t tapping that ass, then move over, because I sure as hell am gonna 🗡.”

Earth 3490 Steve just gives MCU Steve a look of pure disgust for squandering away so many chances. He personally carries a very confused, but flattered, MCU Tony bridal style to bed and tucks him in, muttering angrily (and without a sense of irony) about stubborn blonds with huge sticks up their butts.

1872 Steve basically waves his pistol at everyone and says, “I’ve only had this Stark for a day and a half. If anything happens to him, I’ll kill everyone in this room and then myself.”

EMH Steve is just terrified af when he sees MCU Tony because “He is smaller than my Tony, I didn’t think that was possible. What the hell Rogers, why haven’t you been covering his six all this while?!?!”

Meanwhile MCU Steve’s like, “You guys don’t understand. I’ve been trying to ask him out for six years but he’s thicker than a bed of rocks. He thinks my gestures are threats and hasn’t stopped being a cantankerous idiot for two seconds to realise I’ve been asking him to dinner almost every weekend since we met on Nick Fury’s helicarrier!”