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- Captain America makes the decision to live in the past at the end of Endgame.
- Fans have suggested that Bucky/Winter Soldier knew that Cap would be doing this.
- On a new DVD commentary, Endgame writers and directors confirmed this theory.
A lot happens in Avengers: Endgamethat much is obvious. But now that we're in the home video stage of the movie's release, we're moving past the initial stunning revelations that the movie brought, and finally getting more of the small details clarified for certain by people who know what they're talking about. We already knew about Steve Rogers/Captain America's decision to live in the pastbut now we know that one of his friends knew ahead of time that he'd be doing it.
As you might remember, at the end of the movie, Captain America (Chris Evans) told Sam Wilson/Falcon ( Anthony Mackie ), Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), and Bruce Banner/Incredible Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) that he was going to travel back through time, placing the Infinity Stones exactly where they were supposed to be. While it was going to be a long time for them, for the three characters staying behind, it was only supposed to be a few seconds. Bucky tells Cap "I'm gonna miss you," which seems odd especially in retrospect, considering Steve was supposed to return in only a few seconds. When Cap ended up taking more than that handful of moments, Sam started freaking out, while Bucky remained calm.
Fans took this as a hint that Steve had told Buckyhis friend from way back in WWIIthat he planned to stay in the past. And as the Endgame commentary track says, according to ComicBook.com , they were right.
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"Now clearly Bucky knows something here right?" co-director Joe Russo says on the track, just before Cap steps onto the time travel platform.
"Yeah, I think it's clear from Sebastian's performance here that he's been clued into Steve's decision," writer Stephen McFeely says back. "Why would he say "I'm gonna miss you" if it's gonna be five seconds?"
"Mhmm. He knows. Now we don't know the extent to which what Steve told him, but clearly, he told him something," Russo says.
McFeely added that he doesn't think that Cap told Bucky every last detail of his planwhich makes sense, considering for Cap it would have to be a plan literally decades in the making.
"I don't think he said 'I'll go sit on the bench over there.' I think [Bucky]'s certainly surprised to see that," McFeely says.
When Men's Health interviewed Joe and Anthony Russo following the release of the film, they explained, too, why Sam was the better fit to get Captain America's shield than Bucky. Where Sam has earned the right to take the next step in his superhero career, Bucky is still working on himself, and getting himself right and back to normal.
Hes had his brain corrupted, Joe Russo says. Hes had trouble with that before, and it may not be the kind of person you want to trust with a new weapon.
We're eager to see how the next level of Sam and Bucky's story plays out in the next chapter of the Captain America story; The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will hit Disney+ in Fall 2020. It's times like these that we all sort of wish we had Captain America's time travel abilities, isn't it?