Captain America: Forever Allies is a 2010 miniseries by Marvel Comics, written by Roger Stern with art by Nick Dragotta and Marco Santucci.
Starring Bucky Barnes as Captain America, the series follows Bucky as he reopens an old case from his day with the Young Allies, following the return of an old villain.
Captain America: Forever Allies provides examples of:
- Black Guy Dies First: 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.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: The young allies have their minds hijacked by a powerful telepath and are sent to bomb a military target on American soil.
- Companion Cube: Lady Lotus talks to her gem and explains her plans to it.
- Cool Plane: The one Bucky borrows from Texas Jack.
- Deadpan Snarker: 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, Fat Comic Relief "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.
- Flashback Episode: All the issues are half present-day, half WWII memories.
- Hoist by Her Own Petard: Lady Lotus's own racism toward Wash is what enables him to break free of her telepathic control.
- In-Series Nickname: 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.
- Other Me Annoys Me: Wash and Hank aren't impressed by their comic book depictions.
- Reimagining the Artifact: 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.
- Same Surname Means Related: Averted with Geoff Worthington Vandergill, who is not mentioned to be related to Angel.
- Shout-Out: An elderly Knuckles thinks Bucky's post-war experiences sound like something out of Amazing Stories.
- Sue Donym: 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".
