Winter Soldier
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Modern, Comics: After Steve Rogers is killed, Tony Stark persuades Bucky to take up the Captain America identity.
Cinematic
James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes is Steve Rogers' childhood friend and a wartime sergeant who survived a fall from a train in 1945 and was turned by Hydra into the brainwashed assassin the Winter Soldier. Freed in 2014, he is cleared of the conditioning in Wakanda, fights Thanos, is lost to the Snap and restored in 2023, then makes amends, enters Congress and joins the New Avengers.
Comics
An Army camp mascot who became Captain America's teenage partner in World War II and a member of the Invaders. Believed killed in 1945, he was recovered by the Soviets and used for decades as the brainwashed assassin the Winter Soldier. Freed in the 2000s, he served as Captain America, later led the Thunderbolts, became the Man on the Wall, and stayed close to Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff in the Marvel Universe's later conflicts.
Timeline 26 events
- Golden · Comics: Bucky Barnes becomes Captain America's young partner and joins him in the war against the Red Skull.
- Silver · Comics: Bucky is seemingly killed in an explosion on a drone plane near the end of the war while Captain America falls into the sea and freezes.
- Modern · Comics: A Soviet submarine recovers Bucky's frozen body and the Soviets revive him as the Winter Soldier, giving him a bionic arm and decades of assassination work.
- Modern · Comics: General Lukin reactivates the Winter Soldier to kill the Red Skull, who has secretly taken over Lukin's body.
- Modern · Comics: Captain America uses a Cosmic Cube to restore Bucky's memory and Bucky destroys the Cube and goes underground.
- Modern · Comics: After Steve Rogers is killed, Tony Stark persuades Bucky to take up the Captain America identity.
- Modern · Comics: Steve Rogers returns and hands the Captain America mantle back to Bucky, who fights beside him in the Siege of Asgard.
- Modern · Comics: Badly beaten by Skadi in Fear Itself, Bucky is healed with the Infinity Formula and returns to the Winter Soldier identity, going underground.
- Modern · Comics: Bucky takes Nick Fury's place as the Man on the Wall, Earth's first line of defense against alien threats.
- Secret Wars · Comics: After the Pleasant Hill breakout, Bucky takes in the Cosmic Cube being Kobik and forms a new Thunderbolts team.
- Secret Wars · Comics: Bucky and Natasha Romanoff travel to the Moon to see Nick Fury, where Natasha gives her oxygen to save him.
- Secret Wars · Comics: Zemo launches Bucky on a replica drone plane during Hydra's takeover; he survives with Namor's help and later helps restore the real Steve Rogers.
- Fresh Start · Comics: With Steve framed for Ross's murder, Bucky works with the Daughters of Liberty to dismantle the Power Elite and the Red Skull's movement.
- 1943 · Cinematic: Captured with his unit by Hydra and forced to work at its weapons plant in Austria, Barnes was experimented on by Arnim Zola and then freed by Steve Rogers as the base was destroyed.
- 1945 · Cinematic: While trying to capture Zola on a train in the mountains, Barnes was thrown from the train and fell toward the Danube. He survived, lost his left arm, and was taken by Soviet forces and Hydra to become the Winter Soldier.
- 1951 · Cinematic: Unfrozen and sent to Goyang during the Korean War, the Winter Soldier fought the super soldier Isaiah Bradley and failed to kill him.
- 1963 · Cinematic: Among his decades of assassinations, the Winter Soldier killed John F. Kennedy on November 22.
- 1991 · Cinematic: On December 16 the Winter Soldier was thawed at a Hydra facility in Siberia and sent to Long Island to kill Howard and Maria Stark and take a supply of Super Soldier Serum.
- 2014 · Cinematic: Sent by Alexander Pierce to kill Nick Fury and then Rogers and Natasha Romanoff, the Winter Soldier was recognised by Rogers at the Triskelion fight, regained memories, pulled Rogers from the river and left Hydra.
- 2016 · Cinematic: Framed by Zemo for the Vienna bombing, Barnes was hunted by Black Panther, captured in Bucharest, triggered into Winter Soldier mode in Berlin, and fought Iron Man at the Siberian Hydra facility after Zemo exposed the Starks' murder.
- 2016 · Cinematic: Granted asylum in Wakanda, Barnes had his arm removed and chose cryostasis while Shuri worked to remove the Hydra programming.
- 2018 · Cinematic: Freed of the trigger words, Barnes received a new arm from T'Challa and defended Wakanda against Thanos' Outriders and the Black Order before being turned to dust in the Snap.
- 2023 · Cinematic: Restored by the Blip, Barnes reappeared in Wakanda and was portalled with Wakandan forces to the Avengers Compound to fight Thanos' alternate army in the final battle.
- 2024 · Cinematic: In April, Barnes, now pardoned, exposed the former Hydra asset and congresswoman L. Atwood as part of his list of amends.
- 2025 · Cinematic: In December Nebula came to Earth and took Barnes' vibranium arm to give to Rocket as a gift.
- 2027 · Cinematic: In April, Barnes, by now a campaigning politician, comforted Sam Wilson at the hospital after Joaquin Torres was gravely hurt.
enemy of
Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff), Nick Fury, Red Skull, Arnim Zola, Alexander Pierce, Helmut Zemo, Iron Man, Thanos, Howard Stark, Jasper Sitwell, Isaiah Bradley, Karli Morgenthau
allied with
Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff), Shuri, T'Challa, Rocket Raccoon, Yelena Belova, Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson (Captain America), Namor, Nick Fury, Sharon Carter, Peggy Carter, Red Guardian (Alexei Shostakov), Dum Dum Dugan, Sentry, U.S. Agent, Ghost
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