Winter knows what stopped Katie Dunn. It was also him and Steve, with Mjolnir and a gun and a metal fist. And a grenade killed the avatar in the circus. But maybe it didn't have to be that way. Winter just doesn't know those other ways. He doesn't think Steve does, either. Maybe Yelena will. Or Kate.

He shakes his head a little again, not in negation, but a kind of acknowledgement. "I'm a lot better than I was. I had to work to get better at seeming like a person. To. To feel a little like a person." He's not all the way there, but he's better. "Otherwise I'd have kept feeding the Stranger."