James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes Character Review
Bucky is the name of several fictional Characters that were masked superheroes in the Marvel Comics universe. The original one, James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes, was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby as a sidekick character in Captain America Comics (cover-dated March 1941), published by Timely Comics (Marvel's 1940s predecessor).
Decades later, the original Bucky was brought back from supposed death as the Winter Soldier in 2005 and then he becomes Captain America in 2008 after Steve Rogers was presumed to be dead, before returning as the Winter Soldier once more. More about James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes Character Review - keep on reading !!
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Fictional Character Biography
Origin and World War II - James Barnes (named after James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States), was born in Shelbyville, Indiana in 1925. He is an orphan, the son of a soldier killed in training at U.S. Army
Camp Lehigh in Virginia just before the United States' entry into World War II.
As a result, he is unofficially adopted by the camp as a mascot.
Nicknamed "Bucky," he takes to wearing a uniform and becoming savvy with
the ins and outs of military life, even though he is a teenager. It was
at Lehigh that he meets and befriends Private Steven Rogers, who by all
appearances is the clumsiest soldier in the camp. This was at the same
time that reports of the then-mysterious Captain America begin to appear in news magazines, and Barnes eagerly devours the accounts of this new hero.
In 1940, Bucky accidentally walked in on Rogers changing into his
uniform, thus discovering his friend was Captain America and insisted
that he join him. He underwent extensive training and was assigned to be
Captain America's partner. The military justified putting a 15-year-old
in harm's way by using him as a symbol to rally the youth of America
(as revealed in Captain America vol. 5, Dec 2005). They fight the Red Skull together, and Captain America accepts Bucky as his partner. Together, Captain America and Bucky fight Nazis both at home and abroad, as a duo and as part of the superhero team known as the Invaders, fighting Master Man in their first mission. Barnes also teams up with the sidekicks of other heroes in a group called the Young Allies. Additionally, Bucky was retconned in 1976 as the organizer of the flashback World War II super-team the Liberty Legion, set between the formations of the Invaders and the post-war All-Winners Squad. He was also briefly one of the Kid Commandos
at this time. Bucky served as an advance scout for Captain America and
the Invaders, often being assigned tasks that none of the heroes could
be seen doing.
In the closing days of World War II in 1945, Captain America and Bucky tried to stop the villainous Baron Zemo from destroying an experimental drone plane.
Zemo launches the plane with an armed explosive device on it, with
Rogers and Barnes in hot pursuit. They reach the plane just before it
takes off. Bucky unsuccessfully tries to defuse the bomb, and it
explodes in mid-air before reaching its intended target. He will be
believed to have been killed in action, as Rogers is hurled into the
freezing waters of the North Atlantic. Rogers' body, preserved in suspended animation in a block of ice, is found decades later by The Avengers when the Grandmaster was defeated.
It was only in modern times that Captain America would learn that
Bucky had a sister, Rebecca, whom he met at a veterans Christmas
celebration. Bucky also had one notable post-mortem appearance when the Grandmaster challenged the West and East Coast Avengers for the destruction of the universe, apparently resurrecting long-dead friends and foes for them to fight. Captain America battled Bucky, whom he defeated, and the apparitions disappeared.
Winter Soldier - After the plane explodes, General Vasily Karpov and the crew of a
Russian patrol submarine find Bucky's cold-preserved body, minus one
arm. Bucky is revived in Moscow, but suffers brain damage with amnesia as a result of the explosion. Scientists attach a bionic arm, upgrading it as technology improves.
Programmed to be a Soviet assassin for Department X, under the code name the Winter Soldier, he is sent on covert wetworks
missions, i.e., missions involving assassination, becoming increasingly
ruthless and efficient as he kills in the name of the state. While a
Soviet agent, he also has a brief relationship with The Black Widow. The
Winter Soldier is kept in a cryogenic stasis when not on missions, and
as a result has aged only a few years to a young adult since the closing
days of World War II. In 1968, the Winter Soldier was sent to kill
Professor Zhang Chin, whom he had met in World War II. Unfortunately, he
was pinned down by an intangible being called The Man with No Face, though he was able to escape. On assignment in the United States in the 1970s, he suffers a breakdown and goes missing for days after assassinating his target. It has also been revealed that as the Winter Soldier he aided in Wolverine's escape from the Weapon X laboratory and later murdered Wolverine's wife Itsu, seemingly killing their unborn son Daken who survived the attack after being cut from his mother's womb.
In the present day, the Winter Soldier seemingly kills the Red Skull and Jack Monroe (Nomad) under orders from former Soviet general Aleksander Lukin (Karpov's former protégé). The Soldier launches a terrorist attack on Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, killing hundreds, and charges the Cosmic Cube which Lukin sent him to retrieve. He kidnaps Sharon Carter, an agent of the international espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D.
and a former lover of Steve Rogers (Captain America). Upon her rescue,
Carter tells Captain America the Soldier looked like Bucky. S.H.I.E.L.D.
chief Nick Fury confirms the Winter Soldier's existence, but cannot ascertain his identity.
Captain America tracks down and confronts the Winter Soldier. Upon
gaining control of the Cube, he tells the Soldier, "Remember who you
are". Regaining his memories, Bucky becomes overwhelmed by guilt over
his past actions, crushing the Cosmic Cube and teleporting away.
He reappears shortly afterward in London, England,
where he helps Captain America fend off a terrorist attack. He asks
Nick Fury for employment and new equipment following the loss of his
bionic arm. Following the events of the superhuman Civil War,
the Soldier helps Fury plan the escape of an arrested Steve Rogers.
Before the plan can be implemented, however, Rogers is assassinated. Considering registration architect Tony Stark
(Iron Man) as ultimately responsible, the Soldier plans to kill Stark
in revenge. Deducing that Stark will oversee the appointment of a new
Captain America, the Soldier steals Captain America's shield from
S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Black Widow so that it cannot be handed down. Ultimately, he heads to Kronas's headquarters, where Lukin reveals he is the Red Skull and has the evil psychiatrist Dr. Faustus attempt unsuccessfully to brainwash the Winter Soldier.
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The New Captain America - After escaping from Faustus and being captured by S.H.I.E.L.D., Barnes learns from Executive Director Tony Stark
that Steve Rogers had left Stark a letter asking Stark to watch over
Barnes and that the mantle of Captain America should continue. Stark suggests that Barnes become the new Captain America. Barnes
agrees to become the new Captain America only if Stark guarantees him
complete autonomy. As this arrangement is illegal under the Superhuman Registration Act,
Stark keeps his support of the new Captain America secret. As Captain
America, Barnes wears a new costume laced with adamantium, and carries a
pistol and a combat knife. Barnes' first major adventure as the new Captain America has him,
Falcon, Carter and S.H.I.E.L.D. fighting against the original Red Skull
and Dr. Faustus who have revived the 1950s Captain America (Grand Director - William Burnside)
in a plot to secure one of their pawns attaining the U.S. presidency.
Barnes and his allies succeed in aborting the Skull's plans, and Barnes
saves the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates from
assassination, winning public applause. The adventure ends with Barnes
accepting himself and addressing himself now as "Captain America". He also restarts his relationship with Black Widow.
A still-teenaged Barnes is transported from 1941 and appears in the 2008 Avengers/Invaders miniseries alongside his fellow Invaders when a time travel incident takes them from a World War II battlefield to the present-day Marvel Universe, where they encounter both the Mighty Avengers and New Avengers. At the conclusion of Avengers/Invaders
#4, while attempting to break out of the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier,
which he believes to be a German base, Barnes encounters his future self
dressed as Captain America. During this meeting, the future Barnes attempts to change his history
by telling his past self to abandon the missile that he was 'killed'
trying to disarm, without ever telling his younger self his true
identity. Barnes decides to let his life turn out the way it should after witnessing the devastating risks involved in changing history.
During the "Secret Invasion" storyline, after most of the other heroes have fallen as the Skrull invasion of Earth continues, Captain America is seen watching Thor defend a group of civilians in Central Park. Later, after a brief confrontation with Thor, he joins the other group of heroes (the Mighty Avengers, the New Avengers, the Initiative, the Thunderbolts, Nick Fury and his Secret Warriors, Young Avengers, and the Hood's group) in battle against an army of Super-Skrulls led by Queen Veranke herself.
Following the "Secret Invasion" storyline, Barnes discovers that the remains of Jim Hammond, the original Human Torch (Jim Hammond), has been recovered and studied by the United Nations.
The body was stolen by Professor Zhang Chin who used the Torch to
create a virus to exterminate half the Earth's population. Teaming up
with Namor, they stop Chin and make sure that Hammond receives a proper
burial.
In the aftermath of "Secret Invasion", Barnes joins the New Avengers and offers his home as a base of operations. He later participates in the search for Luke Cage and Jessica Jones (Power Woman)' child, Danielle. He was considered a possible team leader but turned it down because he did not have the proper team experience.
In the Captain America: Reborn storyline, Barnes finds out from Sharon that she did not really kill Steve. As explained by Doctor Zola to Norman Osborn,
Rogers was trapped in a fixed position of time and space. But since
Sharon ruined the machine that was supposed to bring him back, Steve was
reliving his own past. Barnes and Black Widow attempt to steal the
device from H.A.M.M.E.R.
but are captured. Osborn sends the Black Widow back to Sharon with an
ultimatum: either she turns herself in, as Osborn had implicated her as
Rogers' second shooter, or he'll kill Barnes. Barnes was then sent into
the custody of the Thunderbolts who told him that he'll be inducted into their group once Rogers is brought back. However, Barnes is secretly freed by Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady) and then rescued by the Falcon. Barnes then teams up with Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff, the Falcon, Hank Pym, and the Vision to save Sharon. The group intercepts the Red Skull's ship beside the Lincoln Memorial
and attacks. The Red Skull has already taken over Steve's body, and
Barnes attacks him. The two battle while Hank saves Sharon and the
others battle Crossbones and a squad of M.O.D.O.K.S..
Sin shoots Barnes in the shoulders, giving the Skull the opportunity to
take Barnes' shield. He pins Barnes to the ground and cuts off his
cybernetic arm with the shield. However, inside Steve's body, Steve
prepares to kill the Red Skull to keep him from doing any more evil in
his body. The Skull's consciousness leaves Steve's body and returns to
his robotic body. Hank and Sharon manage to cause the Skull's body to
enlarge in size, and after Steve (who has taken control of his body)
leads an attack, Vision uses the Skull's ship's weapons to destroy the
Skull.
Leading up to the "Siege"
storyline, Bucky Barnes is shown still as Captain America talking with
Steve Rogers, who is in a dark body suit and standing next to him. In Invincible Iron Man
#21 Rogers is back in costume and seen alongside Barnes who is still in
his own Captain America costume. The two are helping restore Tony
Stark's mind by using the shield as a conduit for Thor's lightning. In the second issue of Siege,
Barnes teams up with Steve Rogers in Steve's team of heroes. Barnes
(still in his Captain America suit) pulls Rogers aside just before they
are about to leave for Asgard.
Barnes tells Rogers that they should "skip the argument" and insists
that Rogers use the shield. Rogers takes the shield, and Barnes is shown
with a large gun in his hands, ready for the fight ahead. In the following issue, Barnes is shown fighting alongside Rogers with
both wearing their respective Captain America uniforms in Asgard. After the events of Siege, Rogers returns the shield to Barnes and retires his uniform, leaving Barnes as the only Captain America.
Barnes is a member of the main Avengers team formed in the aftermath of the "Siege" storyline. Barnes was then put on trial for the crimes he committed as the Winter Soldier. He was found not guilty in an American court, but Russian officials
took him away, having convicted him of crimes against the state and
claiming that he had gone rogue and killed two civilians. But as Sharon
Carter and Black Widow discover, Barnes' victims were connected to
Russia's Department X's Red Room division. He escaped imprisonment with help from Black Widow and returned to the
USA, however it was decided he was too tainted by events to be allowed
to continue as Captain America.
Return as Winter Soldier - During the Fear Itself storyline, Barnes takes up the Captain America identity again, but is apparently killed in battle with Sin (the daughter of the Red Skull) (in her Skadi form). He survives because he had been injected with the Infinity Formula.
With the world believing him dead he returned to his former identity of
Winter Soldier to perform special jobs behind the scenes relating to his
earlier days as the Winter Soldier. Only Rogers, Nick Fury, and Black
Widow know the truth of his "death." Bucky and Natasha then pursue sleeper agents trained by Bucky during
his Winter Soldier days, awakened recently by an unknown ex-KGB agent, who turns out to be Ivan Kragoff, the Red Ghost and former prime minister of Latveria Lucia von Bardas.
Powers and Abilities (Bucky)
Having trained under Steve Rogers, the original Captain America in
World War II, and others in the time leading up to World War II, "Bucky"
Barnes is a master of hand-to-hand combat and martial arts, as well as
being skilled in the use of military weapons such as firearms and
grenades. He also used throwing knives on occasion and was a gifted
advance scout. His time as the covert Soviet agent known as the Winter
Soldier helped to further hone his skills, making him the equal to his
predecessor in combat skills and an expert assassin and spy. He is also
fluent in many languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese,
German, Russian, and Japanese. He can understand French.
Barnes' left arm is a cybernetic prosthetic with superhuman strength
and enhanced reaction time. The arm can function when not in contact
with Barnes and can discharge bolts of electrical energy from its palm.
The arm can discharge an EMP causing electronics to either shutdown or
become useless. The use of Barnes' EMP is shown when Barnes uses it to
shutdown a Nick Fury LMD and when he attempts to use it on Iron Man. The arm has a holographic function to disguise it as a flesh and blood arm.
As Captain America, Barnes possesses the original, indestructible, vibranium alloy shield used by his predecessor, as well as a Kevlar/Nomex
blend, shock-absorbing costume. He often carries several conventional
weapons such as knives, guns - mostly a Colt 1911-A1 .45 and a P08 Luger - and grenades.
In Other Media (Film/Movie)
- The Ultimate version of Bucky appears in the animated direct-to-video film Ultimate Avengers voiced by James Arnold Taylor.
- Sebastian Stan portrays James "Bucky" Barnes in Captain America: The First Avenger. In this version, Bucky is of equivalent age to Steve Rogers and is physically taller prior to the latter's Super-Soldier enhancements. He falls to his apparent death when a weapons blast knocks him out of a train and over a cliff into a distant frozen river.
- Sebastian Stan is set to reprise the role in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
- Captain America: The First Avenger director Joe Johnston has expressed interest in doing a Bucky solo film, saying "there is a character that I’m really interested in called ‘The Winter Soldier’ […] I just think that it would be interesting to take a character that was in ‘Captain America’ and build a story around him. Plus, I like Sebastian Stan a lot. I think he would be an interesting actor to build another feature around."
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