The Winter Soldier (2014): Captain America:

"I'm not gonna fight you," Steve said, battered and bleeding as the Insight carriers exploded around them. "You're my friend."

The Winter Soldier paused. The words triggered a fracture in decades of brainwashing. As the carrier plummeted into the water, Bucky dragged Steve’s unconscious body to the shore. He didn't stay. He vanished into the trees, leaving Steve alive—not just as a soldier, but as a man who finally had a reason to look toward the future: to find the piece of his past that was still worth saving. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

The year was 2014, but for Steve Rogers, it still felt like a blurry, fast-forwarded version of the 1940s. He sat in a dimly lit DC diner, his "to-do" list of pop culture— Star Wars, Nirvana, Thai Food —resting on the table. He was a man out of time, serving a world that traded the clear-cut villains of his youth for the murky shadows of espionage. "I'm not gonna fight you," Steve said, battered