Civil War criticism really doesn't hold up.

[d21lewis]

Ganoncrotch said:

JWeinCom said:

But he didn't.  He was able to defend himself for about 10 seconds, then his allies jumped in to help him.  It's pretty clear had it been a one on one prolonged fight, Iron man would have been dead.

Was thinking the same thing... Lewis did you miss the fact that Stark was nursing a rather deep black eye and clearly had some broken ribs after the encounter without his suit?

Also from a blast of his suit towards the finale he removed Buckys robotic arm completely.... he... disarmed him! ba dum tis... (I'm sorry)

That's my point. Tony only had an Iron Man glove and he was able to hold his own (and catch a bullet) while going toe to toe with The Winter Soldier.

At the end, Tony was wearing a full Iron Man suit and Bucky was able to hold Tony's hand in the air with his normal arm and attack him with his robot arm (which was eventually blown off).

If Bucky was stronger at the end, Tony's glove shouldn't have kept up with him when he was in full "Winter Soldier" mode. If Tony was stronger during their first encounter,  he should have been way stronger at the end.