Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: Who’s this old Santa?
Alexei Shostakov: I’m Alexei Shostakov. The Red Guardian.
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: What?
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: People love a classic hero.
Yelena Belova: We’re all losers. And we lost.
Robert Reynolds: Why would a god take orders from anyone at all?
Yelena Belova: Daddy, I’m so alone. I don’t have anything anymore. All I do is sit and look at my phone and think of all the terrible things that I’ve done. And then I go to work. And then I drink. And then I come home to no one. And I sit and I think about all the terrible things I’ve done again and again. And I go crazy.
Alexei Shostakov: We all have things that we regret.
Alexei Shostakov: Do you remember why you want to be goalie on your terrible soccer team?
Yelena Belova: So I didn’t have to run as much.
Alexei Shostakov: No. Maybe that too, but you told me, “I want to be the one everyone can rely on if they make a mistake.” That Lena is still in you. I still see her.
Alexei Shostakov: [to Yelena] You’re stuck. You’re alone. You look only at the bad. When I look at you, I don’t see your mistakes. That’s why we need each other.
Robert Reynolds: You all know the truth. You can’t outrun the emptiness.
Robert Reynolds: Hi. What’s up?
Yelena Belova: Not much. You know, just watching New York disappear into a big maze of interconnected shame rooms.
Yelena Belova: You can’t stuff it down. You can’t hold it in all alone. No one can. We have to let it out. We have to spend time together. And even if it doesn’t make the emptiness go away, I promise you it will feel lighter.
Yelena Belova: We can find a way out of here together.
Yelena Belova: [as the void is making them confront their biggest shame] What did you see? Are you okay?
Bucky Barnes: Oh, I’m fine. I have a great past, so I’m totally fine.
Robert Reynolds: The most shameful thing of all was thinking you could be anything more than nothing.
Robert Reynolds: It will always be just us.
Yelena Belova: I’m here. You are not alone.
Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: For years, I have been working secretly to develop a new age of protection. Today, the citizens of the United States needed that protection. And thanks to my hard work, they got it. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the new Avengers.
Yelena Belova: We own you now.
Yelena Belova: [post-credit lines, referring to Sam] If he puts together a team, and then the team is called the Avengers, then who are the real Avengers?
John Walker: Well, that’s the question the Internet has been asking, and judging by the very nasty memes that I’ve read, they don’t think that it’s us.
Alexei Shostakov: I heard about Sam Wilson. He’s dumb, litigious man, but I am smart. I am smart man. I have smart solve. Avengerz. Avengerz. With a “Z”, there is no copyright.
Yelena Belova: [to Alexei] I don’t want to touch your baby seal butt.
Alexei Shostakov: Can you imagine Red Guardian riding on top of Sentry, cresting over the clouds?
Yelena Belova: This is why we are Avengers with a “Z”.