Bucky Barnes: Difference between revisions

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Played with. Women will once in a while express attraction to Bucky due to his reputation as the Winter Soldier, but he is decidedly not a bad boy.

* [[Artificial Limbs]]: The Soviets replaced the arm he lost in [[World War 2]] with a cybernetic one, which has a lot of handy abilities, such as an [[EMP]]. It also allows him to handle and throw [[Captain America]]'s shield properly.

** [[Classical Antihero]]: 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.

* [[Back From the Dead]]: After a fashion.

* [[Dead Sidekick]]: They used to say; "No one stays dead in comics except for Jason Todd, Uncle Ben and Bucky."

** Now it's down to just Uncle Ben, as DC brought back Jason Todd at almost the exact same time Marvel brought back Bucky.

* [[Depending On the Artist]]: Is his gun a .45 or a Luger?

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Just like his partner and the original Cap, he's no slouch in defeating foes way more powerful than himself. Of particular note is his takedown of [[Dark Avengers|Ares, Greek God of War]] in the pages of [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|New Avengers]].

* [[Kid Sidekick]]: Originally, but eventually subverted by the [[Ed Brubaker]] [[Retcon]], which revealed him to be handpicked by the Army to accompany Cap and perform wetworks missions.

* [[Military Superhero]]: Just like Cap.

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: His reaction upon getting his memories back.

** [[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.

** [[My Greatest Second Chance]]: After finding out of Bucky's survival and freeing the guy from Soviet brainwashing, Steve felt that he should do everything in his power to keep Bucky alive and a good man. This apparently meant persuading [[Sidekick Graduations Stick|Bucky to keep the]] [[Captain America]] mantle even after his own [[Back From the Dead|return from the dead]].

* [[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 (Comic Book)|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}}.

** [[Faking the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Only [[Captain America|Steve Rogers]], [[Black Widow (Comic Book)|Black Widow]], and [[Nick Fury]] know of his survival, because if word got out that he's still alive, it's back to the gulag for him.}}