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!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Bucky, Winter Soldier, Captain America

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: While he is only an extremely well-trained soldier, his bionic arm plus unaging Infinity Formula allow for being able to hold his own against anyone up to Type 3 in SuperWeight. In the movies, he was experimented on by Dr. Zola, giving him a similar skill set to Steve.

* HeroesWantRedheads:
** Gretchen Zeller, a resistance fighter Bucky met during the war.
** Bucky's love interest since he met her in the 1950s: Natasha.

* TheArtifact: Bucky as Captain America's KidSidekick in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII effectively made him a ChildSoldier with the implied knowledge of the US Miilitary, which required increasing justification from the writers over the decades.

* HeroWithBadPublicity: He was reviled by the public at large early in his stint as [[LegacyCharacter Captain America]], but understandably so, considering Steve Rogers [[ComicBook/CivilWar was assassinated]] not too long ago. And again after he was discovered by the public to have been a cold war assassin for the Soviets.

** ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf'' (2021) as the Winter Soldier

For a long time, it was fondly accepted among comic book fans that Bucky was one of the few [[DeathIsCheap comic book characters that actually stayed dead]], along with [[{{Franchise/Batman}} Jason Todd]] and [[{{Franchise/SpiderMan}} Uncle Ben]]. Since Jason ''also'' took a rain check on the Grim Reaper about the same time Bucky did, well...

!!Solos

[[folder:Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier]]
!!Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier

Bucky is the next [[Comicbook/NickFury Man on the Wall]]. He goes on space missions to eliminate threats to Earth.
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* ActionGirl: Daisy Johnson.
* ActorAllusion: Bucky has a Shakespearean side to him that hasn't been shown before. Creator/SebastianStan studied Shakespeare.
* {{Angrish}}: Loki subverts this, as when he is sufficiently angry he starts to form sentences like a normal person.
* ArcWords: "The lost glove is happy."
* ArtShift:
** The 616 scenes have a lot of water color and oddly-shaped panels with border breaks to make it feel surreal. The planet Pao'ree is downright psychedelic.
** The other universe has a more cartoonish art style.
* BlatantLies: [[spoiler:The two Buckys]] both claim not to be worried about Daisy's confrontation with Crossbones, but they both know the other is lying.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Daisy gets annoyed at [[spoiler:older]] Bucky's concern about [[spoiler:Alternate Universe]] Crossbones and whether she killed him. She tells him she shot him but avoided major arteries. [[spoiler:He points out that Crossbones has a healing factor.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:older]] Bucky accuses young people of making assumptions, then in the same breath admits that the present problems are caused by himself making assumptions.
* RiddleMeThis: Loki likes to use this phrase to point out that his attacks could always be illusions.
* RhymesOnADime:
** During their fight, Bucky rhymes a phrase with what Loki just said, because as Daisy pointed out, he went full Shakespearean.
** When [[spoiler:Ventolin traps him in a box]], Loki gets so angry that he forgets to rhyme.
* ShoutOutToShakespeare:
** Daisy knows Bucky is in a terrible mood when he uses Shakespearean insults on Loki.
** Loki himself quotes Theatre/TheTempest at Bucky.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: [[spoiler:Ventolin]] and Loki play telepathic chess.
* TrueLoveIsBoring: Apparently, [[spoiler:Bucky and Ventolin got a happy ending in most universes, but not the 616]].
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[[folder:TheBitter March]]
!!'''The Bitter March'''

SHIELD attempts to extract a couple of Nazi scientists who supposedly know how to create resources. Hydra comes after them, and so does the Winter Soldier. Set during Bucky's time as a Soviet assassin.
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* TheSixties: Takes place in 1966. Shen's SHIELD contact speaks slang, and SHIELD is experimenting on hippies.
* AbusiveParents: One of Drain's victim was beaten so badly by his mother that though he is an adult now, he never recovered.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Drain pokes Mr. Hitzig's insecurities until he shoots himself in the head.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Mr. Hitzig's entire character. He calls his wife a harlot, though he claims to feel entirely certain she would never cheat on him. He claims credit for his wife's scientific discoveries and berates her for her pipe dream ideology which were her reason for making said discoveries in the first place. He hates America for its capitalism, yet only wants to sell the formula his wife discovered.
* MeaningfulName: Mr. Hitzig has a temper. His wife, who married into the name, less so.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Lord Drain.
* {{Pun}}: When Nick Fury decides to sneak into a castle via the sewage system, and tells Shen it's because he's willing to do stuff like that that Nick is SHIELD's number one, while Shen is number two, Shen assures him there's a lot of number two where he's headed.
* SameSurnameMeansRelated: Averted with Mr. Hitzig, who as far as anyone knows is unrelated to the [[ComicBook/{{Magneto}} Nazi officer from Auschwitz]].
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Drain's power is basically sensing your darkest secrets and poking them to torture you.
* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: Drain tries to guilt Mila into surrendering by hurting people and blaming it on her.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Winter Soldier]]
!!'''Winter Soldier'''
->The Longest Winter • Broken Arrow • Black Widow Hunt • Electric Ghost

The first Winter Soldier solo. Written by Brubaker and Latour.

Bucky Barnes narrowly survived the events of Fear Itself, but chooses to let people think he's dead so he can settle a matter from his past involving KGB agents in cryonic storage on American soil, their activation codes auctioned off to the highest bidder.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Bucky is forced to do this to himself to save Natasha, by making Rodchenko reprogram him with the same type of machine the Soviets used on him.
* CallBack: When Bucky tries to connect with a brainwashed Natasha and tells her "it's me, Bucky!" she replies "Who the hell is Bucky?"
* TheBackwardsR: In the "Electric Ghost" arc, whenever someone speaks Russian, the words are English but the letters Cyrillic.
* DramaticIrony: After the Winter Soldier killed [[spoiler:Tesla's father]], his handler commented on how he had always been loyal to a fault while looking at a child's drawing of Captain America and Bucky.
* FanDisservice: At the end of her rant, Tesla [[spoiler:kisses Bucky, who is her prisoner, and whose prosthetic she has removed]].
* GodwinsLaw: Defied by Bucky, who thinks that if he has to compare everything to fighting Nazis, he won't be able to complain about anything.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** Jasper Sitwell throws himself between [[spoiler:Black Widow's bullets]] and Fury.
** Bucky sacrifices [[spoiler:his command over his own mind]] so that Leo will spare Natasha.
* ItsPersonal: After forgetting he was ever KGB and living as a homeless American for a dozen years before regaining his memories, Leo no longer cares about political targets, but only about getting revenge on the people he feels betrayed him, like the man who trained him, the Winter Soldier.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Professor Rodchenko does this to Natasha, to the effect that she forgets everything about Bucky.
* LoveTriangle: Zigzagged.
** Both Leonid and Bucky want Natasha, who no longer remembers that she wanted Bucky, and with Leo mostly wanting her because he wants to prove that he is just as good as Bucky.
** Invoked by Leo when he forces the Winter Soldier to fight Daredevil, both of whom are Natasha's exes. [[spoiler:While the Winter Soldier programmed himself with that mission out of love for Natasha, he no longer remembers that once he's been programmed. All he knows is that his mission is to kill Daredevil, not why.]]
* MeaningfulName: Tesla Tarsova [[spoiler:gains power over electricity, with her namesake Nicola Tesla being famous for his work on electricity.]]
* MirrorCharacter: Leo Novokov to Bucky. He was a KGB agent who was left with no memories but his insticts and reflexes after being cryogenically frozen by the Soviets. Bucky acknowledges this.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Tesla Tarasova is name for her father's favorite scientist, Nicola Tesla.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Tesla [[spoiler:''thanks'' Bucky for murdering her mother as the Winter Soldier, insisting that without that and the following hardships, her potential would have grown stale and she would not right now be on the verge of conquering the world]].
* {{Pun}}: Van Owen claims that "if" is at the core of life.
* TrainingFromHell: Tesla Tarasova and a number of other children recieved this at the hands of Father Hammer.
* VanityLicensePlate: Bucky's motorcycle has a license plate that reads "KNIGHT".
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[[folder:Forever Allies]]
* BlackGuyDiesFirst: Inverted. Out of the core Young Allies, Washington Jones is the last to die. Bucky was technically the first to die, but due to retroactive plot armor he's still alive.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The young allies have their minds hijacked by a powerful telepath and are sent to bomb a military target on American soil.
* CompanionCube: Lady Lotus talks to her gem and explains her plans to it.
* CoolPlane: The one Bucky borrows from Texas Jack.
* DeadpanSnarker: In the middle of a magically-induced earthquake, while Lotus screams aabout how only someone of the purest blood can wield her power gem, Wash points out that she ''just'' said that WASP Pat couldn't handle it.
* {{Flanderization}}: Inverted. Hank comments that his comic book version, FatComicRelief "Tubby Tinkle", is a lot more comically obese than he ever was. Wash points out that he got it worse, since "Whitewash Jones" is like something out of a minstrel show.
* FlashbackEpisode: All the issues are half present-day, half WWII memories.
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Lady Lotus's own [[spoiler:racism toward Wash is what enables him to break free of her telepathic control]].
* InSeriesNickname: All the young allies had one. James is obviously Bucky, and Thomas is Toro; Patrick "Pat" O'Toole is better known as Knuckles, Washington Jones as Wash; Geoffrey Worthington Vendergill goes by Geoff, and Henry Tinklebaum is simply Hank.
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Wash and Hank aren't impressed by their comic book depictions.
* ReimaginingTheArtifact: Pulls this on the Golden Age Young Allies, depicting them in a more realistic fashion with the original comic versions being in-universe {{Flanderization}}
* {{Retcon}}: This series retcons the Golden Age comic book "Young Allies" into in-universe war propaganda.
* SameSurnameMeansRelated: Averted with Geoff Worthington Vandergill, who is not mentioned to be related to [[Characters/XMenTheOriginalTeam Angel]].
* ShoutOut: An elderly Knuckles thinks Bucky's post-war experiences sound like something out of Magazine/AmazingStories.
* SueDonym: When present-day Bucky goes undercover as a journalist, Natasha takes a page out of Steve's book and makes his fake name "Barney Jamieson".
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* SpyFiction: Bucky's new ''Winter Soldier'' ongoing has shaped up to be this. Creator/EdBrubaker has played with EspionageTropes before, especially during Bucky's stint as ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, but he goes all out here. One could say the book is SpyFiction masquerading as a [[NotWearingTights Superhero story]]. It's primarily [[TuxedoAndMartini Martini-flavored]]; aside from Bucky's usual [[ActionHero hands-on approach]], he dons [[BadassInANiceSuit nice suits]] as disguises and uses some snazzy [[CloakAndDagger SHIELD]]-issue gadgets. There is a bit of [[TrenchcoatBrigade Stale Beer]] in there as well, considering the main conflict is a plot to depose a political leader (granted, said leader is Doctor Doom, but still). And then this plot is to be executed with the [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs liberal use of]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot machinegun-wielding fascist gorillas]].

* WritersCannotDoMath: The narrative can't seem to agree with itself on ''when'' three KGB sleeper agents were frozen in liquid nitrogen and hidden throughout the United States. They were all trained by Bucky, who mentions his relationship with Natasha taking place at that time, putting us in the fifties, but later he says it was the seventies, at which point he was only let out of cryo for missions; and newly awakened Leo thinks the President should be ''Reagan'', meaning he was frozen in the eighties.

* ''Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty''

* ''VideoGame/MarvelHeroes'': Playable DLC Character, as Winter Soldier, portrayed by Creator/DavidHayter)

* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite'': Playable DLC Character, as Winter Soldier.

* {{Retcon}}: As alluded to in Brubaker's run, the Golden Age comic book "Young Allies" was just in-universe war propaganda.

[[folder:Tropes found in ''Forever Allies'']]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' (Bucky portrayed by Creator/ScottMenville, Winter Soldier by Creator/JonCurry)
* ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'' (as Winter Soldier, portrayed by Creator/BobBergen)

* ArtificialLimbs: The Soviets replaced the arm he lost in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII with a cybernetic one. After he loses his Soviet one stopping the Red Skull's Sleeper, he gets a new arm from Nick Fury which has a lot of handy abilities, such as an {{EMP}}. It also allows him to handle and throw Captain America's shield properly, making him (alongside ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}) one of the only two non-super soldier serum-embued people to be able to use it.
** The arm Fury provided also turned the red Soviet star into a white star surrounded by blue and red.

* OlderThanTheyLook: He looks barely a day over 25, but he's actually 80-plus years old.