History ComicBook / CaptainAmericaWinterSoldier

* AuthorFilibuster / CharacterFilibuster: While taking a stroll with Sharon through Paris, Steve talks at length about his time fighting with [[LaResistance the French Resistance]], and how he resents Americans [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys calling the French cowards]] when Steve saw men, women, and children fighting with whatever scraps they could to get the Nazis off their land. It's actually not a bad speech, as Brubaker [[ShownTheirWork shows his work]] about the Western Front, and wrote it in response to [[UltimateMarvel Ultimate Captain America]]'s infamous "You think this A on my head stands for France?" taunt.

** Averted in the World War II flashbacks, where Bucky does grow up. When he first meets Steve Roger he's 16. By the time of his death from Zemo's plane he's nearly 21.

** ''Winter Soldier #8'': Imported to the film verbatim.

** Winter Soldier's handlers know something is seriously wrong when the assassin starts questioning their orders, and even [[spoiler:flat-out doesn't show up at the extraction point for his New York mission. After that they keep him in stasis longer, and try to avoid deploying him again in the US when possible.]]

* NeverMyFault: During the Battle of Kronas, General Karpov sends his men to claim Red Skull's abandoned superweapon, despite Cap's urging. The weapon promptly self-destructs, killing the soldiers. Humiliated, Karpov blames Captain America for trying to hold him back from taking it.

** After Winter Soldier [[spoiler:is revealing to be Bucky, Steve and Sharon argue about if it's right to kill him. Both agree that Bucky as they knew him would never murder civilians, but Sharon insists all that's left of Bucky's consciousness is gone, while Steve claims he's still buried there underneath his brainwashing.]]

** The first sign that the Cube is pushing Lukin off the deep end is when he casually threatens to castrate his friend Leo when he first insinuates something wrong with that thing. Later on he seriously claims he'll kill Leo if he speaks up about it again, [[spoiler:culminating in throwing a table at him. It turns out to be the effects og the Red Skull possessing his mind.]]

** [[spoiler:By the time he meets Steve as Winter Soldier, Bucky has reached 25 years of age. He's only gotten five years old in 60 years time, but it's justified by his handlers' use of cryogenic stasis.]]

* ItsPersonal: Sharon Carter has a personal reason for wanting the Winter Soldier dead, even after [[spoiler:she learns he's Bucky]]: Winter Soldier caused the bombing in Philadelphia that killed her boyfriend Neal Tapper.

'''''Captain America: Winter Soldier''''' is a story arc in Creator/MarvelComics' ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' comics. It was written by Creator/EdBrubaker, and published in 2005 as the first part of Captain America's Volume 5 series.

* CerebusRetcon: When Bucky was first introduced, he was a chipper early teens boy who accidentally discovered Captain America's SecretIdentity, and so was made into his sidekick by the Army. Here Steve Rogers reveals that was just propaganda. Bucky was sixteen when he first became Steve's partner, and he wasn't some lucky fanboy but a MilitaryBrat who was trained to be a deadly assassin. It was his job to do the black ops jobs Captain America couldn't be seen doing. Far cry from the cheery KidSidekick introduced in the [[TheForties 1940s]].

** The first sign that the Cube is pushing Lukin off the deep end is when he casually threatens to castrate his friend Leo when he first insinuates something wrong with that thing. Later on he seriously claims he'll kill Leo if he speaks up about it again, [[spoiler:culminating in throwing a table at him. It turns out to be the first signs that the Red Skull is possessing his mind.]]

** The first signs that the Cube is pushing Lukin off the deep end is when he casually threatens to castrate his friend Leo when he first insinuates something wrong with that thing. Later on he seriously claims he'll kill Leo if he speaks up about it again, [[spoiler:culminating in throwing a table at him. It turns out to be the first signs that the Red Skull is possessing his mind.]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A skeptical businessman at Lukin's bidding of the Cosmic Cube demands he show proof that this is really is the real Cube. Lukin responds by using its power to mind control all the execs there, who promptly sign documents that make all their companies subsidiaries of Kronas Corp.

* ShaggyDogStory: ''The Lonesome Death of Jack Monroe''. It starts depressing enough, as Jack Monroe is known to be dead in a previous issue. This issue however, drives the knife even further by revealing Jack was already doomed to die thanks to the deteriorating superserum in his body. He chooses to use his last year alive to apprehend a drug dealer named Gunnar believed to be poisoning his adopted daughter (now in the custody of another family). [[spoiler:As the serum drives him insane he ends up killing dozens of civilians over the following months, believing them to be gang members]]/ Then he's killed by Winter Soldier.

* ShaggyDogStory: ''The Lonesome Death of Jack Monroe''. It starts depressing enough, as Jack Monroe is known to be dead in a previous issue. This issue however, drives the knife even further by revealing Jack was already doomed to die thanks to the deteriorating superserum in his body. He chooses to use his last year alive to apprehend a drug dealer named Gunnar believed to be poisoning his adopted daughter (now in the custody of another family). [[spoiler:As the sreum drives him insane he ends up killing dozens of civilians over the following months, believing them to be gang members]]/ Then he's killed by Winter Soldier.

** Jack Monroe, aka 50s Bucky/Nomad II/Scourge becomes one of Winter Soldier's victims.

* CerebusRetcon: When Bucky was first introduced, he was a chipper early teens boy who accidentally discovered Captain America's SecretIdentity, and so was made into his sidekick by the Army. Here Steve Rogers reveals that was just propaganda. Bucky was sixteen when he first became Steve's partner, and he wasn't some lucky fanboy but a MilitaryBrat who was trained to be a deadly assassin. It was his job to do the black ops jobs Captain America couldn't be seen doing. Far cry from the cheery KidSidekick introduced in the 40s.

** Steve is hit with a whole host of these in ''Winter Soldier #8'', when Nick Fury shows him [[spoiler:photos dating back to the 50s, 60s, and 70s of a man who looks like Bucky Barnes at airports, under 25 each time.]]

* AccidentallyAccurate: Jack Monroe, going insane, starts to believe that his "Bucky Barnes" personality is trying to escape his mind. In the last moments of his life he hallucinates Bucky coming to life and killing him. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the man who killed him, the Winter Soldier, actually IS the real Bucky.]]

The events of this arc were loosely adapted in the 2014 movie ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. As a tie-in to the film, the comic was printed in a hardcover edition. Additionally, Brubaker himself made a cameo in the film.

The events of this arc were loosely adapted in the 2014 film ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''.

* CerebusRetcon: When Bucky was first introduced, he was a chipper early teens boy who accidentally discovered Captain America's SecretIdentity, and so was made in his sidekick by the Army to as to keep the secret hidden. Here Steve Rogers reveals that was just propaganda. Bucky was sixteen when he first became Steve's partner, and he wasn't some lucky fanboy but a MilitaryBrat who was trained to be a deadly assassin. It was his job to do the black ops jobs Captain America couldn't be seen doing. Far cry from the cheery KidSidekick introduced in the 40s.

** While visiting Arlington National Cemetery, Steve laments that he couldn't be around to see the Civil Rights movement or the Moon Landing during the 60s. In the real world, Cap's return to comics came in 1964, but the comic timeline keeps moving back the date of when he returned.

** While visiting Arlington Cemetary, Steve laments that he couldn't be around to see the Civil Rights movement or the Moon Landing during the 60s. In the real world, Cap's return to comics came in 1964, but the comic timeline keeps moving back the date of when he returned.

** While visiting Arlington, Steve laments that he couldn't be around to see the Civil Rights movement or the Moon Landing during the 60s. In the real world, Cap's return to comics came in 1964, but the comic timeline keeps moving back the date of when he returned.