What were the magic words used by Zemo and what's it referring to?

pasta_paul

In Captain America: Civil War, Baron Helmut Zemo used some magic words to activate the brainwashing of the Winter Soldier. But these words seem a bit weird to me at first glance, I only remember one word which was "Homecoming", looks like a nod to the upcoming Spider-man film. But what were the whole list of activation magic words and what were they referring to?

Originally asked by Ankit Sharma on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

The trigger words, translated/subtitled from Russian into English, were: Longing Rusted Seventeen Dawn Stove Nine Kind-hearted Homecoming One Freight car No exact explanation has been given what the words actually reference, but hypnosis typically involves words and phrases in sequences that are unlikely to be randomly said in order. You would think that "homecoming" is an out-of-universe nod to the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming , but the screenwriters dismiss that that connection being made as "fairly accidentally". Terri Schwartz: There are some very obvious setting up for Spider-Man: Homecoming in this movie, which must have been really exciting for you guys. But maybe it was because...

Full answer by phantom42: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/52742 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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