Falcon And The Winter Soldier 10 Things Only Comic Book Fans Know About Bucky Barnes
Falcon And The Winter Soldier: 10 Things Only Comic Book Fans Know About Bucky Barnes
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Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier sheds a light on Bucky Barnes. Here are some things comic book fans know about him.
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Bucky Barnes is one of the most complex characters in the MCU. The former Winter Soldier has a long and complicated history and based on the exciting first trailer for The Falcon And The Winter Soldier, his future is going to be as messy. His equally long comic book history can serve as a guide to what may happen in the series.
Bucky is one of the most important and longest-standing characters in Marvel Comics, predating the actual Marvel brand by two decades. Comic book fans might know a lot about where he’s been that could give some insight into where he’s going.
10 Sidekick
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes are a bit reversed from their roles in the comics. In the Captain America: The First Avenger movie, Bucky is a friend and peer of Rogers but in many ways more experienced than him. In the comics, Bucky Barnes was introduced as Captain America’s young sidekick.
He created by legendary comics writer Joe Simon and artist Jack Kirby for Captain America Comics #1 in March 1941, in which Captain America famously punches Hitler on the cover. The comic Bucky was a younger man and looked up to Rogers.
9 Death
The defining moment of Captain America’s backstory is the shocking death of Bucky. Bucky served much the same as many of the other best sidekicks in comics and comic book movies, like Robin in the Batman franchise, but when Captain America was brought forward into Marvel continuity in the early 1960s, Bucky was left behind.
Captain America was seen as more compelling with a tragic backstory, and Bucky’s death was retroactively depicted in The Avengers #56 in 1968.
8 Resurrection
Unlike most comic book characters that die in comics these days, Bucky’s death was permanent. Though he appeared in flashbacks here and there, Bucky would not return. At least until the early 2000s.
Like some of the best movie retcons in history, the return of Bucky in 2005 as a brainwashed, augmented assassin for the Russians during the Cold War worked perfectly. Instead of diminishing his death, his return jolted new life into the Captain America comic book and formed the foundation of the MCU movies that followed.
7 ‘Sputnik’
Writer Ed Brubaker brought Bucky back from the dead, inspired by his own childhood headcanon in which Bucky survived his fiery crash and was rescued by Russian soldiers. The Russians brainwashed an injured Bucky and activated his deadly skills with a simple phrase: ‘Sputnik.’
This was of course a reference to the first man-made satellite, launched by the Soviet Union. In the MCU, Bucky Barnes’ trigger words are more numerous and complicated.
6 Romance With Black Widow
Bucky Barnes had an entire life as the Winter Soldier that no one knew about. Part of it involved a romance with another major Russian spy, Natasha Romanoff, AKA Black Widow.
There are a number of Marvel heroes who love Black Widow, and Bucky, at least in the comics, counts among them. Their affair began while she was training in the Widow program when both were secret agents. After they both defected and Bucky returned to the Avengers fold, they briefly rekindled their romance.
5 Killed Wolverine’s Wife
Wolverine has been in love with a few women in the Marvel comics. A lot of those relationships ended tragically. One of the worst was at the hands of the Winter Soldier. During his tenure as a secret Russian assassin, Bucky Barnes murdered Itsu Ashkiro, Wolverine’s lover in Japan.
She was pregnant with their child at the time and Wolverine thought the child died as well. He would later learn that the boy survived, and he would grow up to become Daken, sometimes a villain and sometimes an ally of his father.
4 Became Captain America
Bucky’s past was very rough. His present wasn’t any better. Not long after he returned and came back to the side of truth and justice, his best friend Steve Rogers appeared to die. The MCU Civil War movie got a lot of things right but changed some circumstances of the comic book it was based on.
One was Steve dying and Bucky taking up the mantle of Captain America. Bucky initially takes the shield to prevent anyone else from missing it, but later learns that Steve Rogers always intended for him to take up the mantle.
3 Second Death
It was a rocky road for Bucky as Captain America. He handled things differently than Steve Rogers did, to say the least. But he also made the ultimate sacrifice, in a major crossover event called Fear Itself. Characters die in the MCU movies all the time, but Bucky has made a habit out of it in the comics.
Bucky was killed by the daughter of the Red Skull, Skadi. He wouldn’t stay dead for decades this time. Not long after, Bucky was brought back to life by the Infinity Formula, a drug created by S.H.I.E.L.D to slow aging. Rogers was also back at this point, and Bucky went back to being the Winter Soldier.
2 Ultimate Bucky
WandaVision is going to have major impacts on Phase 4 of the MCU it seems, including introducing the concept of the multiverse. The multiverse plays a role in the comic books and Bucky Barnes has already seen a few alternate lives.
One, in particular, is the Ultimate Comics universe of Earth-1610. He survives World War II while Steve appears to die. Bucky marries, has a family, and lives a long, good life into the present absent of the violence and tragedy of Earth-616.
1 The Liberty Legion
Bucky ‘died’ in World War II, but his comic book adventures expanded on his backstory over the years. In the 1970s, Bucky was retconned into being the leader of the Liberty Legion, a group of WWII superheroes who followed the classic war-era team the Invaders. This team featured a number of period heroes and heroines.
Notably among them was The Whizzer, the character who had been identified as Wanda and Pietro Maximoff’s father until it was later retconned in the 80s that Magneto was their father.
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-comic-book-facts-bucky-barnes/
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