I'd rather have a good story about Steve's return later, that a shitty one now.
I'm more like a fanboy I suppose - I don't care how it's done, I just want him back as soon as possible. Inexplicable glowing pod on the ocean floor a la Jean Grey would be fine by me.
The other disappointing thing about the whole Fake!Bucky!Cap storyline is that it's ruined Bucky for me. I used to really like Bucky and Winter Soldier, but now I'm with those fanboys who resent him and want hom to die in a fire. Anything, just as long as he gets the hell out of a costume that no one but Steve will ever have the right to wear.
Much as I once liked him, characters like Bucky!Cap/Winter Soldier are a dime a dozen (oooh, I'm violent. Oooh, I'm an assassin. Ooooh, I have dark, broody angst and guns, like the Punisher's mini-me), but Steve is something much more unique (plus, he doesn't need guns to kick ass).
It probably doesn't help that I loathe legacies in general with a burning passion. Putting a different character in a dead character's costume sends the massage that the costume is all that mattered, and that the characters are interchangeable and disposable. It's a sign that the writers don't really respect the characters or the fans. It's also a DC tradition, not a Marvel one, and the relative lack of legacies was something I previously respected Marvel for and one of the reasons I always preferred them to DC.
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I'm more like a fanboy I suppose - I don't care how it's done, I just want him back as soon as possible. Inexplicable glowing pod on the ocean floor a la Jean Grey would be fine by me.
The other disappointing thing about the whole Fake!Bucky!Cap storyline is that it's ruined Bucky for me. I used to really like Bucky and Winter Soldier, but now I'm with those fanboys who resent him and want hom to die in a fire. Anything, just as long as he gets the hell out of a costume that no one but Steve will ever have the right to wear.
Much as I once liked him, characters like Bucky!Cap/Winter Soldier are a dime a dozen (oooh, I'm violent. Oooh, I'm an assassin. Ooooh, I have dark, broody angst and guns, like the Punisher's mini-me), but Steve is something much more unique (plus, he doesn't need guns to kick ass).
It probably doesn't help that I loathe legacies in general with a burning passion. Putting a different character in a dead character's costume sends the massage that the costume is all that mattered, and that the characters are interchangeable and disposable. It's a sign that the writers don't really respect the characters or the fans. It's also a DC tradition, not a Marvel one, and the relative lack of legacies was something I previously respected Marvel for and one of the reasons I always preferred them to DC.