Film Theory: There's Blood on Captain America's Hands

Falcon and The Winter Soldier, or rather Captain America and the Winter Soldier, ended with a big speech from Sam about being better. Well Sam, I think you forgot a few things. You see, even Captain America has done some... less than stellar things - both Steven and Sam. I think he's got the right idea, but I think we need to workshop it a bit. Captain America, I'm about to fix your problem.

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[ShortHax]

I feel like MatPat is going to make another channel called The Economic Theorists where he’ll be held hostage by Shiba Inu instead of the FNAF animatronics

[You]

So basically Bucky is madly rich (not rlly) and Mat didn’t want to make a full video about it yet and just threw it in for fun, I love these videos 🤑

[comicfan]

Sam: “Do Better.”

Governor: “Okay? How?”

MatPat: “I got this.”

[Loki-skji]

The theory where Bucky is a millionaire, just sounds hilarious and genius

[LonelySandwich]

13:15 "Why don't we print money?"
Me, a german, who had the Weimarer Republic in school: Do better!

[jimwinship]

You have a problem with Bucky. He “missing presumed dead.” His pay stops there. His parents would get his $25, 000 government life insurance and his account would be closed. Now, if he were declared “missing presumed dead” his benefits would continue to grow for seven years. At that point, with no further evidence of him being alive, his payouts would be made and he’s back to zero. But let’s sat he is just declared missing. The minute he took up arms against the US, he loses everything. So no matter how you slice it, he broke.

[alichehab]

I’m glad to see that this is getting a video. I have to be honest, Sam being like “be better” felt a lot more like Disney just admitting that they don’t know how the problem should be solved

[MrJamess]

Your potential theory falls apart upon Bucky’s assumed death. His money would have all gone to his next of kin. Even when he would have been found alive years later. That money would be gone and probably spent.

[dr.plasma]

Theory: over the many seasons of icarly, the crew has done a fair amount of not very legal things that could have gotten them in a lot more trouble than they should, stealing, breaking an entering, sending a doorman to the hospital. How many years would the icarly gang have to serve by all the crimes they committed? Also HAPPY 10 MILLION SUBS been here for years and love your videos

[spencerrobinson]

As shown in CA: the first avenger, Bucky actually was doing very well for himself. In comparison to Steve he has a suit, and mentions a car while Steve is just scraping by. Bucky came from a very well off family and I want to know what that money would look like today.

[MidoriOfTheShuinsen]

This whole issue is why I honestly despised the whole "let's bring everybody back" idea. Even leaving alone the logistics... What about the people who came back after being dead for half a decade to find their families moved on? Their spouses remarried, their children grown up? What happens then?

[ImDemonAlchemist]

Bucky was also considered killed in action, I would imagine that would result in some kind of benefits or something for his next of kin, right? Also, I don't think any bank would keep an account open for 78 years of inactivity.

[witweg]

But you also have to remember that falcon in the Winter soldier was originally going to be about a virus and I think the flags Masters were trying to steal the cure for the homeless people so the reason that it doesn't make that much sense it feels rushed is because of the pandemic they had to basically in a way rewrite the whole thing in fear of people having a negative response to the original plot.

[helmuthelmlos]

the big problem in the "how rich is bucky" theory: he is officaly dead, so there is no money to grow intrest, when he "comes back from the dead" he is someone without a single dime.

[joelvannatta]

The biggest problem that phase 4 introduces is the fact that the Avengers blipped back half the universe without giving the world (or the rest of the universe) any notice whatsoever.

[chrisvossler]

You might want to look into the numbers again on how much Bucky would have now. I forget which law it is, but I'm pretty sure soldiers who are either POWs or MIA are compensated on their return based on the assumption that they had been in military service (and given the appropriate promotions) for the entire period they were missing. So both Steve and Bucky would have received a pretty substantial amount of back pay after being MIA in the ice and a POW of Hydra respectively.

[wasian]

On the whole Bucky getting rich thing. He never was officially discharged from the army (because the army thought he died) so the army would owe him back pay for every year since 1942 and what they owed would be whatever the pay scale is for sergeant in those years. So he’d be owed a lot of money

[alexandermyers]

I'm really impressed with Matt for taking on such a powerful topic and actually being real about it. Platitudes like "Be Better" make for great sound bites but don't help. We do a phenomenal job these days of pointing out problems endlessly, but it's crickets when it comes to real solutions. Thanks for this video!

[pastorgainz]

Its funny that Sam was so quick to blame the politicians like "Be better" i woulda said "its you heroes that failed us 1st, if you DID BETTER against Thanos this wouldn't even be a problem."😂

[OgreManGaming]

I’m glad to see that this is getting a video. I have to be honest, Sam being like “be better” felt a lot more like Disney just admitting that they don’t know how the problem should be solved