Discussion Film / CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier

What happened to the Nightmare Fuel section? As I recall it had a rather extensive section

We need to talk about Thomas Paine.

There's a major aspect to the title which isn't noted anywhere (as far as I can see), which comes from the works of Paine. Paine was a philosopher who was deeply involved with the American Revolution, and in "The American Crisis" wrote of there being "Summer Soldiers" - people who only fight for a cause when the going is easy or the fight seems fun.

A Winter soldier by comparison is a soldier who fights for his cause even when he knows it is going to be hard and difficult. This is the twist in the title - because he stands up to Hydra, Cap *is* a Winter Soldier, as is everyone who stands with him. This attitude of still doing the right thing even when it's hard is basically MCU Cap's mantra ("I can do this all day") and as well as being why he stands up against HYDRA, but it's the reason he won't abandon Bucky.

So yeah. Thomas Paine. Summer Soldier. Major reference. We need to put it in the article.

By my account, Crossbones is NOT in this movie. We know that Rumlow is/will be Crossbones, and mentioning that fact is fine, but referring to his individual actions as things "Crossbones" did is just confusing, is it not? Barring noted objection, I will correct these when I have some free time.

So, I know that on the one hand, if someone is looking for fanfic involving specific characters it might be simpler to just go to the rec page for their movies, but doesn't it seem like it might be better organized in general to consolidate all of the recs onto one page, with different folders for different characters/movies/whatever, rather than checking four different pages for fanfic recs because there are so few on any given page, or because something might have been recc'd on multiple pages, or because someone is unsure of the correct page to rec something?

If, for example, someone were looking for Loki fic, they'd have four different pages to search (Thor, Thor 2, The Avengers and the MCU main page) and comparatively little actual content per page, because they're all split up. It gets even worse if you're looking for stuff involving Coulson or Tony Stark.

I'm just wondering if it wouldn't be easier to get rid of the individual movies' fanfic rec pages and group all of the existing recommendations on the MCU rec page. What does everyone else think?

I did explore the langages tropes but i don't seem to find a satisfying one to qualify the first sequence of the film: batroc's accent sounds very, very canadian; and we learn that he is french, born in Algeria, is there a trope that matches this accent failure? is it my accent is slipping? cause the actor didn't seem to bother, or wasn't even told that he was'nt supposed to be from Quebec.

I guess this applies more generally than just to Captain America 2, but since I'm here and it's a thing: do we really have to spoiler out conversations in the Headscratchers tab? (At least for a movie) I'm assuming that if someone is posting questions that bugged them about it they've probably already seen it, and the huge wall of white (well, greyish-blue) is kind of frustrating.