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Character James Buchanan 'Bucky' Barnes · Winter Soldier · Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier · James Buchanan Barnes · The Winter Soldier
Bucky Barnes
Steve's oldest friend, presumed dead in 1945 — and the reason that presumption keeps coming up.
- Status
- Alive
- Species
- Human
- First in print
- Captain America Comics #1 (1941); as the Winter Soldier, Captain America vol. 5 #6 (2005)
- On screen
- 10 entries
Who they are
Sergeant of the Howling Commandos, presumed dead in 1945, recovered and rebuilt by HYDRA into an asset with no memory between assignments. Everything after Wakanda is the slow work of separating what he did from what was done to him — the amends list, the therapy, and eventually a seat in government.
Connections
Ally
- Steve Rogers
Character
"With you till the end of the line."
- Sam Wilson
Character · from captain america civil war
- Isaiah Bradley
Character · from the falcon and the winter soldier
They fought once, in 1951. Bucky lost an arm to him.
Member of
- The Avengers
Organisation
- The Thunderbolts
Organisation · from thunderbolts
Enemy
- The Flag Smashers
Organisation
- Helmut Zemo
Character
Based at
- New York City
Place
Wields
- The Winter Soldier's Arm
Object
Was there
- The Sokovia Accords
Event
Appearances
Canonical timeline · 10 entries
Notes are veiled until you track what you have watched, or switch spoilers off in the header.
World War II
1943-
Captain America: The First Avenger2011 · Major role
After New York
2014-
Captain America: The Winter Soldier2014 · Major role
The Sokovia Accords
2016-
Captain America: Civil War2016 · Major role
The Snap
2018-
Avengers: Infinity War2018 · Cameo
The Endgame
2023-
Avengers: Endgame2019 · Cameo
Outside time
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What If...?2021 · Cameo · 0/26 ep
After the Blip
2024-
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier2021 · Major role · 0/6 ep
The Multiverse Saga
2027-
Thunderbolts*2025 · Major role
Not yet placed
No settled position on the timeline-
Avengers: Doomsday2026 · Cameo
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Avengers: Secret Wars2027 · Supporting
Beyond the screen1 from the comics · click to open
From the comics
Bucky stayed dead for forty years
Bucky's death was one of the few in Marvel comics treated as permanent, right up until Brubaker brought him back as a Soviet asset. The Winter Soldier is a genuinely recent invention — the films adapted it within a decade of publication.
Captain America vol. 5 #1–9, #11–14 (2005), Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting