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REAL NAME
James Buchanan Barnes
ALIAS(ES)
Bucky Barnes[1]
Winter Soldier[2]
White Wolf[3]
Buck[4]
Sarge[1]
Prisoner #56898[1]
Солдат[4][5]
The Asset[2]
The New Fist of HYDRA[2]
Fallen Comrade[2]
The Shooter[2]
Ghost[2]
Buddy[4]
Manchurian Candidate[4]
Broken White Boy[3]
Semi-Stable 100-Year-Old Man[6]
White Panther[7]
Cap's Wingmen (with Sam Wilson)[7]
Freaky Magoo[7]
Pet Psychopath[8]
Mr. America[8]
Bionic Staring Machine[8]
Avenger[9]
Uncle Bucky[10]
SPECIES
Human (Cyborg)
CITIZENSHIP
American
GENDER
Male
DATE OF BIRTH
March 10, 1917
DATE OF DEATH
Spring 2018 (victim of the Snap; resurrected by Hulk in 2023)
SER. NO.
32557038
56898
TITLE(S)
Sergeant (formerly)
AFFILIATION
United States Army (formerly)
* 107th Infantry Regiment (formerly)
Howling Commandos (formerly)
HYDRA (formerly, brainwashed)
*Winter Soldier Program (formerly, brainwashed)
*Winter Soldiers (formerly, brainwashed)
STATUS
Alive
APPEARANCES
MOVIE
Iron Man 2 (mentioned)
Captain America: The First Avenger
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Avengers: Age of Ultron (indirectly mentioned)
Ant-Man (post-credits scene)
Captain America: Civil War
Spider-Man: Homecoming (picture)
Black Panther (post-credits scene)
Avengers: Infinity War
Avengers: Endgame
Spider-Man: Far From Home (picture)
Black Widow (mentioned)
TV SERIES
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (picture & mentioned)
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (6 episodes)
Loki (archive audio)
Ms. Marvel[11] (mentioned; unreleased)
WEB SERIES
WHiH Newsfront (footage)
DOCUSERIES
Legends
*The Winter Soldier
GAME
Captain America: Super Soldier
Captain America: The Winter Soldier - The Official Game
COMIC
Captain America: First Vengeance
Captain America: The First Avenger Adaptation
The Avengers Adaptation (flashback)
Avengers: Age of Ultron Prelude - This Scepter'd Isle
Avengers: Operation HYDRA (picture)
Captain America: Civil War Prelude
Captain America: Civil War Prelude Infinite Comic
Spider-Man: Homecoming Prelude
Avengers: Infinity War Prelude
Captain Marvel Prelude (footage)
Avengers: Endgame Prelude
Black Widow Prelude (flashbacks)
ACTORS/ACTRESSES
PORTRAYED BY
Sebastian Stan
VOICED BY
Roger Craig Smith
MORE
For alternate versions of Winter Soldier, see Winter Soldier's Character Hub
I am no longer the Winter Soldier. I am James 'Bucky' Barnes, and you're part of my efforts to make amends.BUCKY BARNES TO L. ATWOOD
Sergeant James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes is a World War II veteran, a former officer of the 107th Infantry Regiment and best friend of Steve Rogers since childhood. Barnes enlisted in the army and assigned to the 107th in 1943. His regiment was captured by HYDRA, where Barnes was given a variant of the Super Soldier Serum by Arnim Zola. Barnes, along with whoever still remained from his regiment, was later rescued by Rogers, who had become Captain America during Barnes' absence. Upon joining forces with the continuing war, Barnes and Rogers formed their Howling Commandos, to battle Red Skull's forces. However, during their attempt to finally capture Zola, in the Austrian Alps, Barnes was caught in their ambush and plummeted hundreds of feet from a train. As no body was ever recovered, Barnes had then been presumed deceased.
Unbeknownst to his team, Barnes' enhanced abilities allowed him to survive the fall, albeit with the loss of his left arm. Once he was found by the Soviet Union and HYDRA, Barnes was subsequently brainwashed and armed with a new cybernetic limb in order to become their operative, known as the Winter Soldier. Over the next fifty years, he would eliminate anyone who posed any threat to HYDRA, including Howard Stark and his wife, Maria. Between all these assassination missions, the Winter Soldier would be put into a cryogenic stasis to ensure his longevity. In 2014, the Winter Soldier had been ordered by Alexander Pierce to assassinate Nick Fury, in order to ensure that all Pierce's schemes with Project Insight could go ahead. However, the Winter Soldier was challenged by Steve Rogers, which triggered him to begin remembering his prior life.
In the wake of their Battle at the Triskelion, Barnes, free from his brainwashing, deserted HYDRA in order to remember his past and end his long, violent history. Two years later, Barnes was then framed for the Bombing of the Vienna International Centre, which claimed the life of T'Chaka, among many other innocent lives. While Black Panther sought his revenge for his father's death, Barnes had been repeatedly saved by Captain America, which sparked the Avengers Civil War as a team of Avengers led by Iron Man was sent to capture him. However, they eventually learned that Helmut Zemo framed Barnes and reactivated his brainwashing, so that Zemo could reveal that Barnes had murdered Stark's parents years ago. Having just survived Stark's revenge attempt, Barnes was given amnesty in Wakanda by T'Challa and was placed in cryostasis, until all HYDRA's control triggers could be removed from his mind.
Barnes was eventually cured of his brainwashing by the efforts of Shuri. However, as Thanos had attempted to kill Vision for the Mind Stone, Barnes returned to combat to stop the Mad Titan's plans, receiving his new vibranium arm. Barnes joined T'Challa and the Avengers to help fight off the threat, only for Thanos to defeat them and assemble all of the Infinity Stones. Barnes was subsequently disintegrated as Thanos eliminated half of all life in the universe. In 2023, Barnes was resurrected by Hulk, as he had then participated in the final battle against Thanos' forces. In the aftermath of the battle, he attended the funeral of Stark with all the other heroes. Later on Barnes bid Rogers farewell, knowing of his true intention to travel back to the 1940s in order to live with Peggy Carter. Barnes was then present to witness Rogers, as a much older man, return home in order to then choose Sam Wilson to pass the shield onto.
With his name pardoned, Barnes sought atonement for all his actions as the Winter Soldier. His attempts were interrupted when John Walker was made the next Captain America, and the Flag Smashers emerged to act against the GRC's efforts to handle the aftermath of the Blip. He and Sam Wilson would then go on a mission to stop the Flag Smashers, temporarily working alongside Helmut Zemo and Sharon Carter. However, the mission was complicated by Walker's attacks, until Walker murdered a Flag Smasher over Battlestar's death. Barnes and Wilson were forced to defeat Walker to stop him from continuing to be Captain America. Barnes would then join Wilson and Walker in the final battle with the Flag Smashers, helping in their defeat and finally making amends with his past.
James Barnes was born on March 10, 1917 and was the eldest child of four. Barnes grew up to be an overachiever, having been an excellent athlete who also excelled inside the classroom.Sometime during his childhood, he met Steve Rogers when bullies were trying to steal his money. The two became best friends and stuck together for many years, with Barnes often defending Rogers from bullies who would have attempted to take advantage of Rogers' short height and small build.
After one of their trips together to Rockaway Beach, Barnes and Rogers had ended up being forced to get a ride back towards Brooklyn on the back of a freezer truck as they had used all their remaining train money to buy hot dogs, while Barnes had also inadvertently managed to spend three dollars as he attempted to win a stuffed bear for Dolores.Another time when they went to Coney Island together, Barnes convinced Rogers to ride the Cyclone, which resulted in Rogers throwing up due to the ride, much to Barnes' great amusement.