rellanka:

Hey, sorry for the wait (to everyone really) I had to get off tumblr for a few days, for… reasons. But yeah, pretty much this exactly. The strangest thing is that I just saw CACW again, and no one actually brings up that Bucky was brainwashed to T’Challa on screen. And the thing is, he has to know it, because Bucky gets his psychiatric evaluation right after he gets back to the base, so T’Challa is either deaf and dumb to what happens to Bucky after he gets brought in (unlikely, considering his obsession with killing him) or he finds out about Bucky’s situation off screen. It’s just the most bizarre thing considering that Steve literally is in a closed environment with this man who just tried to kill his best friend… and we never see him speak up to try to explain Bucky’s situation. Not once. I don’t know, it was just weird.

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So again, T’Challa either knows or is unobservant and oblivious (two things he isn’t in all other parts of the movie, so I will assume he knows). And yet… he still tries to kill Bucky. And I mean, seriously tries to kill him. In their first fight, he is about ready to bring his claws down on Bucky’s face. In their second, at the airport, he literally has his claws at Bucky’s neck before he’s yanked away. And these aren’t the, ‘I’m going to knead tiny sharp needle points of agony into your skin as a gesture of my affection.’ type of claws. These are the claws that managed to gouge through metal and scratch up Steve’s shield. They are literally as dangerous as razor sharp knives, and T’Challa had every intention of using them to tear open Bucky’s face or throat. Considering that the second time he does this is after he has to know about Bucky’s situation, I find it really fucking ironic that he’s allowed to do his damned best to try to kill Bucky up until the time that he overhears someone else basically confessing to his father’s death.

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Don’t get me wrong, I am damn glad that tumblr isn’t going after T’Challa like they do Tony. If I saw T’Challa hate, I would be pissed as hell. But it makes me angry that fandom chooses to be understanding for one character while Tony is hated for having an emotional reaction for 5 minutes after spending the movie trying to clean up after the Avengers’ mess and watching Rhodey be paralyzed. After being judged, harshly, for every single choice he makes even when he’s trying to help people. After having been emotionally attacked by Clint, who has worked for the government and knows that they don’t play when it comes to what they consider threats. (If Tony hadn’t been the one bringing them in, it would have been agents just like Clint was or even past coworkers who would have been sent. Ross implies that they would have been given kill orders. I wonder if Clint considered THAT before making his accusations.) After going through all that, Tony still goes to the facility to try to help Steve. And yet, people act like Tony is the worst villain ever for reacting like a human being. For having emotion. For not being able to watch the murder of his parents, the parents that he had previously believed had died in a car crash, and be able to be completely rational, because hey, everyone knows that people are able to be completely rational while watching their parents be killed on video, especially while the person shown murdering their parents is STANDING THERE WATCHING THE VIDEO WITH YOU.

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It’s not Bucky’s fault that Tony’s parents died, but it’s not Tony’s fault that he reacted like he did to watching them die. I will never be able to stress this enough. It’s possible to be empathetic to more than one character’s situation. It’s possible to not hate one character for what you excuse other characters for. And if some fans can get off their ‘let’s villainize this character to woobify this one’ mindset that keeps them from seeing that, that would be really great.

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And lets not even talk about tumblr’s convenient amnesia to the fact that after this fight, Tony not only doesn’t go after them again, he allows Team Cap to escape without even trying to stop them from escaping or hunting them down after they escape. Because that would give Tony to much credit as a person, and we can’t have that, now can we?