Bucky Barnes: Difference between revisions

* [[Anti-Hero Substitute]]: Bucky as [[Captain America (comics)]] subverts this, sort of. He's a [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type 1]], so he doesn't carry the same connotations this trope usually does.

** [[Classical Anti-Hero]]: Despite being a good person at heart and genuinely wanting to do right by his country, he is plagued by his desire to [[The Atoner|make up for the wrongs he did as the Winter Soldier]] and by doubts as to whether or not he can actually do the mantle justice.

** {{spoiler|Again after Fear Itself}}

* [[Badass Abnormal]]: After the war, Bucky gained a bionic arm that contained superhuman strength enabling him to toss Captain America's shield. However...

** [[The Atoner]]: What he decides to be after coming to terms with what he's done under Soviet brainwashing.

* [[My Greatest Failure]]: Steve regarded Bucky's supposed death at the end of [[World War 2]] as this for a long time after his revival in the modern day.

* [[Nineties Anti-Hero]]: Subverted. Bucky had the look, some of the attitude, but was a good guy through and through.

* [[Not Quite Dead]]: {{spoiler|Getting stabbed with Sin's hammer left him [[Only Mostly Dead]], and he was later revived through intensive medical care and the use of [[Nick Fury]]'s Infinity Formula. His death [[Faking the Dead|was faked]] by [[Black Widow (comics)|Black Widow]] who planted an [[Actually a Doombot|LMD with injuries identical to his]], and left it to be buried as a hero in Arlington, absolving him of the charges set against him during his time in prison}}.

* [[Renegade Russian]]: Aleksander Lukin, CEO of [[Mega Corp|Kronas]]. The discovery of the Winter Soldier's existence was due to Lukin recommissioning the Soldier after decades of [[Human Popsicle|suspended animation]] since the end of the [[Cold War]] to acquire the Cosmic Cube and enact a plan to use the Cube and Kronas to destroy the American economy from within. He is a protege of the Soviet officer who had Bucky brainwashed in the first place.

* [[Retcon]]: [[Ed Brubaker]]'s retooling of the Bucky character into a teen assassin, [[Brainwashed and Crazy|brainwashed]] into becoming a Soviet agent after secretly surviving [[World War 2]], paving the way for his reintroduction into modern day comics is often hailed as one of the most well done Retcons in recent history.

* [[Sealed Badass in a Can]]: The reason [[Older Than They Look|why he's so youthful]] is because the Soviets kept him in suspended animation while he wasn't out on missions.

* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: The Winter Soldier.

* [[Superhero Packing Heat]]: Justified as he's a thoroughly unpowered -though in good shape and well trained- hero going against Cap's still-powered rogues gallery.

* [[The Team Normal]]: He was this during his time in The Invaders; on a team with [[Super Serum|Captain]] [[Captain America (comics)|America]], [[Flying Brick|Namor the]] [[Sub-Mariner]], and [[Playing with Fire|The Human Torch and Toro]], he only had his black-ops training to his credit.

* [[Weak but Skilled]]: Aside from his cybernetic arm, Bucky doesn't have much in the way of superhuman abilities, but he still manages to hold his own quite well against powered opponents, owing to his [[Combat Pragmatist]] tendencies.