8 Ways The Winter Soldier Could Dominate The Marvel Cinematic Universe

3. The Character€™s Darkness

Similarly to the previous point, the Winter Soldier has a certain darkness to him that Marvel hasn€™t seen before in its cinematic universe. Sure, there have been excellent villains like the Red Skull and Loki, but even they, in their bright hues, lack the almost unsettling aura that the Winter Soldier brings onto the screen. To illustrate his disquieting presence, consider the scene in Alexander Pierce€™s home, where the cybernetic assassin sits, bathed in shadow with an eerie blankness in his eyes, silently and mindlessly awaiting his orders. The Winter Soldier€™s origins are more than just sad: they can be downright frightening, especially when looked at from his€”Bucky€™s€”perspective. The way he lashed out like a hurt child during the scene where his bionic arm is being repaired and then blankly and obediently accepts a mouth guard to let his memory be re-wiped in an agonizingly painful procedure--despite having the ability to kill everyone in that room three times over--shows the erratic, mechanized, and tragically terrorized nature of the character that makes his presence and the thought of how he came to be so very unsettling. In a cinematic universe that has largely featured €˜I€™m-going-to-dominate-the-world-but-first-I€™m-going-to-talk-about-it-a-lot€™ villains, the quiet darkness of the Winter Soldier€™s character is, though creepy, a welcome addition to Marvel€™s arsenal of antagonists.