'Avengers: Age Of Ultron': Where's Bucky Barnes? Chris Evans Dishes On Caps Search For The Winter Soldier [VIDEO]
There is not much logic behind Captain America's suspended search for the Winter Soldier in The Avengers: Age of Ultron...
...other than the pressing need to destroy Ultron before he destroys the world. You know, Avengers before bros.
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"You have to kind of suspend those plotlines temporarily and find reasons to say 'Okay, we'll get to that in just one movie. We'll get right back to that.' It's hard to kind of say with too much logic why he's kind of putting that on the back burner," Chris Evans (Captain America) told Entertainment Weekly, briefly explaining why Steve Rogers isn't out scouring the earth for Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) in Avengers 2. "But he's addressing the matter at hand, and right now that's Ultron."
That's not to say we won't hear Earth's Mightiest Heroes mention the man who helped bring SHIELD to its knees. After all, the crew wouldn't have made Stark's home their HQ if Coulson's (and Gonzales') respective SHIELD's weren't still reeling from the HYDRA disaster.
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"You need to give a little bit of a nod to it because if you ignore it, it's insulting the audience's intelligence," Evans said.
Despite this, it viewers will have to wait until Captain America: Civil War to see the Steve/Bucky plotline reignited.
Find out more when Avengers 2 hits theaters on May 1. Click the video below to see a trailer.
