Bucky Barnes: Difference between revisions

And then in 2006, [[Ed Brubaker]] started writing a new volume of ''Captain America'', and the way the world saw Bucky was changed forever. While once viewed as a joke of a character, he was retconned to be a 17 -year-old highly-trained commando assigned by the Army to be [[Captain America (comics)]]'s sidekick to counter the Hitler Youth, but also to serve as a covert assassin, performing operations that Captain America himself could never be seen doing; what was initially believed to be his origin was simply a cover story cooked up by the Army press. Instead of dying due to the drone, he instead lost his left arm and a fair chunk of his memory. He survived submersion in the Atlantic Ocean only to be later picked up by a Russian submarine hoping to rescue Cap for the Allies. While he'd lost memories of his life experiences, [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|he retained skills honed through instinct, including his combat training]], and was thus [[Brainwashed and Crazy|molded]] into a Soviet assassin as sort of a sick joke by a humiliated Russian officer. As The Winter Soldier, he went on to become a [[Shrouded in Myth|legend of]] the [[Cold War]], performing acts of terrorism and sabotage on US soil under Soviet orders.