{"id":167623,"date":"2015-02-15T16:31:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T16:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/15\/steve-bucky-can-i-just-the-strategy-displayed\/"},"modified":"2018-09-10T18:09:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T18:09:38","slug":"steve-bucky-can-i-just-the-strategy-displayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/15\/steve-bucky-can-i-just-the-strategy-displayed\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-167623 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/15\/steve-bucky-can-i-just-the-strategy-displayed\/attachment\/167624\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_na9tazWC8J1sc6eqeo4_r1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_na9tazWC8J1sc6eqeo4_r1_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_na9tazWC8J1sc6eqeo4_r1_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/15\/steve-bucky-can-i-just-the-strategy-displayed\/attachment\/167625\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_na9tazWC8J1sc6eqeo1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_na9tazWC8J1sc6eqeo1_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_na9tazWC8J1sc6eqeo1_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/15\/steve-bucky-can-i-just-the-strategy-displayed\/attachment\/167626\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_na9tazWC8J1sc6eqeo2_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_na9tazWC8J1sc6eqeo2_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_na9tazWC8J1sc6eqeo2_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/15\/steve-bucky-can-i-just-the-strategy-displayed\/attachment\/167627\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_na9tazWC8J1sc6eqeo3_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_na9tazWC8J1sc6eqeo3_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_na9tazWC8J1sc6eqeo3_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/steve-bucky.tumblr.com\/post\/98216974754\/can-i-just-the-strategy-displayed-in-that-final\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">steve-bucky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Can I just, the strategy displayed in that final gif is really excellent? The Winter Soldier uses one gun to aim at Steve\u2019s head and force him to guard that area, consequently exposing his midsection and allowing Bucky to wound him.<\/p>\n<p>And this was after he went for both Steve\u2019s head and his knee and had both attempts foiled by Steve\u2019s quick reflexes. The Winter Soldier probably thought,\u00a0<i>one gun isn\u2019t going to cut it<\/i> so pulled out the other and specifically thought to use the dual-pronged attack in order to damage his opponent.<\/p>\n<p>The question is then why he didn\u2019t go for a more damaging shot &#8211; knees, foot, thigh etc. which could have effectively crippled Steve.<\/p>\n<p>Possible elements that were under consideration:<\/p>\n<p>1. Midsection was an easier target to aim for compared to other areas considering the amount of time he had to line up the shot and Steve\u2019s proximity.<\/p>\n<p>2. Steve had gotten too close and Bucky wasn\u2019t confident he\u2019d get out of the way in time if Steve fell forwards. (Note that at this point they were virtually on top of each other).<\/p>\n<p><strike>3. Bucky didn\u2019t want to seriously hurt him, just deter him until it\u2019s too late.<\/strike><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>steve-bucky: Can I just, the strategy displayed in that final gif is really excellent? The Winter Soldier uses one gun to aim at Steve\u2019s head and force him to guard that area, consequently exposing his midsection and allowing Bucky to wound him. And this was after he went for both Steve\u2019s head and his knee &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/15\/steve-bucky-can-i-just-the-strategy-displayed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[31,4,191],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167628,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167623\/revisions\/167628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}