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The exploits of Bucky Barnes ( Sebastian Stan ) as the Winter Soldier in the decades betweenCaptain America : The First AvengerandCaptain America : The Winter Soldierare some of the most notorious in the story of the MCU . Yet , despite his malign deed ( which he performed under brainwashing and he deep regrets ) , Bucky is a beloved character among rooter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe . He will soon return to headlineThe Falcon and the Winter SoldierDisney+ TV series alongside Sam Wilson AKA The Falcon ( Anthony Mackie ) .
As seen inCaptain America : The First Avenger , Sergeant James Buchanan"Bucky " Barneswas born in 1917 and grew up as the best protagonist ( and occasional protector ) of Steve Rogers ( Chris Evans ) . Bucky enlist in World War II , but while he served in the 107th Infantry Regiment , Steve volunteered for the Strategic Scientific Reserve ’s Super Soldier Program . After the experiment to create a unexampled breed of A-one soldier prove successful , Hydra attacked the program and killed the discoverer of theSuper Soldier Serum , Dr. Abraham Erskine ( Stanley Tucci ) . However , Rogers emerged from the experimentation enhanced and he took on the name Captain America . After Steve enter the European theater of the war , he rescued the fascinate 107th from Hydra and was reunify with Bucky , who had been the subject of experiments by Dr. Arnim Zola ( Toby Jones ) . Captain America then led Bucky and the Howling Commandos on a slew of missions against Hydra , until Bucky was lose during a gear mission in the Austrian Alps in 1945 .
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After Bucky was presume kill In Action , Captain America himself was block in ice in 1945 and was n’t discovered until 2012 . After Steve was revived in the 21st century , he joined the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. , respectively . In 2014’sCaptain America : The Winter Soldier , Steve was shock to describe that Hydra had infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. since its inception and that the Hydra operative know as the Winter Soldier was actually Bucky , who also come through World War II . Steve made it his personal commission to deliver Bucky and repair his true personality ; ultimately , Cap was successful . However , his loyalty to his oldest friend tore the Avengers apart inCaptain America : Civil War , after the Winter Soldier was framed byHelmut Zemo(Daniel Bruhl ) for the assassination of the Wakandan King T’Chaka ( John Kani ) .
finally , Bucky began to piece his old personality and memories back together . After use up resort in Wakanda ( where he was called theWhite Wolf ) , Bucky fought alongside the Avengers against Thanos ( Josh Brolin ) and the Black Order inAvengers : Infinity War . Bucky was among the billions who drop dead thanks to Thanos ' Infinity Gauntlet snap , but he was bring back by Hulk ( Mark Ruffalo ) to fight and vote out Thanos alongside all of the MCU ’s heroes inAvengers : Endgame . However , despite his recent desperate deeds and his noble path to buyback , Bucky fears that he may never make up for the evil he was forced to confide by Hydra as the Winter Soldier .
How Bucky Barnes Became The Winter Soldier
When Bucky fell into the Danube River , he survive because of Zola ’s experiments , which had raise his physiology . Sadly , Bucky ’s left arm was rip off during the fall . He was notice by Soviet soldiers , who turned him over to Hydra ’s Soviet section . Zola continued to try out on Bucky to call on him intoHydra ’s superintendent - soldier ; he was ingraft with a new , metal prosthetic branch and he underwent severe brainwashing that efface his retentiveness and personality , thanks to a remembering stifling machine .
Bucky receive extensive fighting preparation and he was turn into a living weapon and assassin for Hydra and the KGB under the designation " The Winter Soldier" . Bucky was spark off using a accurate sequence of initiation Holy Writ , which , inCaptain America : Civil War , Zemo learned were:“Longing . Rusted . Seventeen . Daybreak . Furnace . Nine . Benign . Homecoming . One . Freight Car . Soldier " . Bucky ’s mind was wiped after every mission and , to forestall him from aging , he was routinely put in suspended animation in a cryostasis chamber . Along with his superhuman physiology , this allowed Bucky to survive for decade into the 21st hundred .
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Winter Soldier’s Missions For Hydra In The MCU
As the Winter Soldier , Bucky performed over two 12 assassinations for Hydra and the KGB over the next fifty years . As Natasha Romanoff ( Scarlett Johansson ) told Steve Rogers inCaptain America : The Winter Soldier , the robotic - armed bravo was considered a ghost story , and"most of the word biotic community does n’t think he subsist . "
Perhaps the most fateful killing that Bucky carry out was the assassination of Howard ( John Slattery ) and Maria Stark ( Hope Davis ) and the theft of a supply of Super Soldier Serum onDecember 16 , 1991 . The Winter Soldier ambushed the Starks as they were drive in Long Island and caused their car to clangoring . After the Winter Soldier secured the Super Soldier Serum from the Starks ' cable car , he beatHoward , who spot him as " Sgt . Barnes " , to last with his alloy arm before he turn his attention to killing Maria . Bucky then destroy the closet circuit camera recording the double murder before make his escape .
Once Bucky returned to Hydra ’s Siberian adeptness , he was used to train the next crop of potential Winter Soldiers that Hydra used the steal Super Soldier Serum to make . Under Hydra ’s rules , if the potential Winter Soldiers could defeat Bucky in fight , they would be take into the program . However , the new Winter Soldiers proved unstable and caused a riot . They were captured and placed in permanent cryostasis , where they remained even after the Siberian facility was abandoned . Meanwhile , Hydra continued to utilise Bucky as the Winter Soldier .
Black Widow Fought The Winter Soldier In 2009
In 2009 , S.H.I.E.L.D. agentive role Natasha Romanoff was assign to escort a atomic engineer out of Iran . The Winter Soldier was ship by Hydra to assassinate the scientist . As Romanoff recounted her meeting with the Winter Soldier to Steve Rogers , " Somebody shoot at my tires near Odessa . We fall back ascendance , move straight over a cliff . I force us out , but the Winter Soldier was there . I was covering my engineer , so he shot him straight through me . "
After the Winter Soldier successfully vote down his target despiteBlack Widow ’s protection ( leave her with a permanent scar in the unconscious process ) , Natasha went on the hunting of the closed book assassin but came up empty . The Winter Soldier prove to be more tough than anyone Black Widow had faced up to that point , and they would n’t meet again until Bucky Barnes was unleashed by Hydra after Nick Fury ( Samuel L. Jackson ) was target for blackwash as part of Project Insight inCaptain America : The Winter Soldier .
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