The Best Moment Of Every MCU Film - Ranked
10. Bucky Is Alive – Captain America: The Winter Soldier
The second Captain America movie, and debut of the Russo brothers in the MCU, is still one of the best installments the greater franchise has to offer, even six years after its release. The titular hero taking on HYDRA and the downfall of the entire S.H.I.E.L.D. operation was incredibly compelling from start to finish.
Though lauded for its plot based around secrecy, conspiracy and espionage, its action sequences are nothing short of stunning. Cap's fight in the elevator with Rumlow and his goons is breathtaking, but his second battle with Bucky just about trumps it.
The Winter Soldier had made a couple of appearance throughout the movie before this interaction with Cap, 'killing' Nick Fury and being given a mission by Alexander Pierce, and already he was clearly a villain on a different level. When tasked with killing Cap and Black Widow, he came together with his boyhood best friend in one of the most skilfully choreographed fight scenes in the MCU.
Not only was it an amazing coming together of two ridiculously powerful characters, it was the first time Cap realised his friend was still alive. After the two beat the hell out of each other, the shock of the reveal took this already tense scene to a whole new level.