Originally Posted by
Teleros
Not seen the movie yet*, but wasn't he standing up for the man who was his friend :P ?
You know, before all the Hydra brainwashing and stuff. I mean, maybe the Winter Soldier ends up a good guy (again, I don't know), but Captain America is being very naive to risk the lives of so many others by trusting the Winter Soldier.
*I don't mind spoilers, but others might.
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It might not have been the "real" him doing it, but he (well, his body if you want to be pedantic) was still a terrorist/assassin/what-have-you.
Meh. He's a regular soldier when captured by Hydra, and then joins Captain America's little band of elites, quite possibly due to his personal connection to Captain America. By all means praise him as a good soldier, with all the courage and other martial virtues that implies, but don't cheapen "absolute war hero" that way, because honestly I don't think he did anything really exceptional: he shot well and he knew a superhero. He was no Horatio Nelson, or Major Tommy Macpherson, or Colonel David Stirling, to pick just a trio of my own countrymen.
If a raid member gets mind controlled, you CC/kill them. Or wipe, because it's one of those fights.
"Oh the poor victim. Look, he just killed some more good guys, how terrible it must be for him..."
:P
Realistic characters shouldn't be aware that they're operating under movie laws: if a guy has been brainwashed into being a killing machine for the bad guys, your first priority is to make sure he can't do any more harm, because your job is to protect the innocent, the civilians, and so on. Risking their lives and livelihoods on the chance that the evil brainwashed killing machine can be redeemed is totally irresponsible and ethically very dubious indeed.
From what I've seen/heard, Iron Man's problem is naively supporting the idea of a UN superhero oversight agency or w/e it was. Because trusting the Avengers to a group that (a) canonically decided to just nuke New York when the aliens invaded, and (b) IRL has such paragons of virtue as Libya or Saudi Arabia on the human rights council... yeah.