8 Ways The Winter Soldier Could Dominate The Marvel Cinematic Universe
2. His Potential For Character Development
The Winter Soldiers three-dimensionality gives him something that only Loki, as a villain, before him had: the potential to grow as a character in further installments. The only truly memorable MCU antagonists can be counted on one hand, and Buckys story, with the characters tragic-hero quality, in this film teases his admittance into that prestigious hall. Generally, there are two ways an antagonist can go after their initial villainy: falling into obsolescence or entering the equally murky waters of the redemption arc. With the Winter Soldier, its clear theyre going the second way, and it has the potential to turn Bucky into one of the MCUs most compelling, complex characters. Bucky Barnes was a good guy whose body and mind was used to murder people for decades; thus, well undoubtedly see, once his memories return, a great deal of that delicious internal conflict, sprinkled with self-loathing and a long struggle for redemption. This layered quality of the Winter Soldiers character is what makes him so open to character development; any single one of the aspects of his multifaceted character and arc can be used to further his character growth, a luxury quite a few MCU villains, in their two-dimensionality, cannot afford.
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