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Bucky Barnes - the Winter Soldier

Bucky Barnes - the Winter Soldier

Childhood friend of Steve Rogers, James Buchanan ‘Bucky’ Barnes enlisted in World War 2, only to be captured and experimented on by HYDRA. While he was later rescued by Steve and became part of his Howling Commandos, he was once again lost on a mission after falling from a train into a valley, and while he survived thanks to his HYDRA enhancements it only led to his recapture by the organization. They further experimented on him, giving him a cybernetic arm and breaking his mind, turning him into a supersoldier assassin kept in cryostasis until HYDRA needed someone else eliminated, always ‘activated’ with a particular string of words. This continued throughout the decades until HYDRA overtook S.H.I.E.L.D., where Captain America managed to get through to Bucky, giving him enough pause to go off on his own and attempt to remember his old life. Bucky would later regain his memories but still find himself subject to HYDRA’s programming, electing to re-enter cryostasis in Wakanda until they could find a way to cure him.

Strength

  • Punches a man on a wheeled stool back (source) (WS)
  • Punches through a wall, taking out an armoured guard (source) (CW)
  • Cracks tarmac with a jumping punch (source) (WS)
  • Destroys metal and a chunk of a concrete wall with a punch (source) (CW)
  • A clearer shot from the comic (source) (SM:HP)
  • Kicks a man back through the air into a jet engine (source) (WS)
  • Kicks Black Panther off of his bike (source)
  • After repeated strikes, sends the reinforced door of his container flying off (source) (CW)
  • Sends Captain America through closed elevator doors (source) (CW)
  • In the comic, he’s punched back through the air before breaking through the elevator doors (source) (SM:HP)
  • Tears a wheel off of a car (source) (WS)
  • Pulls Falcon to the ground after hitting his wing with a grappling hook before using it to tear the wing off (source) (WS)
  • Tears the door of Nick Fury’s car off after it had been thoroughly damaged by bullets and an explosion (source) (WS)
  • Slowly tears the arc reactor out of Iron Man’s Mark XLVI suit (source) (CW)
  • Pulls a motorbike out from under its rider (source) (CW)
  • Throws a table across a room to block a door (source) (CW)
  • Pulls a man out of a car and throws him into a truck (source) (WS)
  • Throws Black Widow off of him and into a car (source) (WS)
  • Throws a man across a stairwell (source) (CW)
  • Catches Falcon as he jumps off a helicarrier before throwing him into the air and back a distance (source) (WS)
  • Throws Captain America’s shield, embedding it in the back of a van (source) (WS)
  • Throws Captain America’s shield back at him, making him skid backwards (source) (WS)
  • Rams Captain America through the barrier on the side of a helicarrier (source) (WS)
  • Slams a man through a desk (source) (CW)
  • Smashes a cinder block against a person (source) (CW)
  • Holds back Black Widow’s garrote wire (source) (WS)
  • Holds Iron Man in his Mark XLVI suit against a wall as he tears out his arc reactor (source) (CW)
  • Pulls his arm out of a thick restraint (source) (CW)
  • Catches Captain America’s shield when it was thrown at him (source) (WS)
  • Catches a leaping Black Panther by the throat (source) (CW)
  • Gouges lines in a road with his metal arm while skidding to a stop (source) (WS)

Durability

  • Takes hits from Captain America, some knocking him into a car hard enough to dent it (source) (WS)
  • No-sells several strikes to the back of the neck from Black Widow (source) (CW)
  • Sent tumbling by a flying kick from Falcon (source) (WS)
  • Bashed back with a shunt from Captain America’s shield (source) (WS)
  • Takes two headbutts from Captain America (source) (WS)
  • Gets up from being kicked across a room and into a wall (source) (CW)
  • Gets kicked through a walkway barrier by Spider-Man (source) (CW)
  • Is kicked into some crates by Black Panther (source) (CW)
  • Takes two hits from Black Panther, one hitting him into a wall (source) (CW)
  • Gets kicked through the air by Iron Man Mark XLVI (source) (CW)
  • Before becoming the Winter Soldier, drops a great distance into a valley, though he lost an arm and barely survived, needing to be ‘rescued’ by HYDRA (source) (CA)
  • Dives from a great height (source) (WS)
  • Jumps down to a lower rooftop, rolling on landing (source) (CW)
  • Drops from a bridge onto the road below (source) (CW)
  • Jumps down a building (source) (CW)
  • Drops from a bridge, crushing a car he lands on (source) (WS)
  • Presumably drops off of a rooftop (source) (WS)
  • Blocks bullets with his arm (source) (WS)
  • Thrown off of a car roof after the breaks are pressed, tumbling along the ground before recovering (source) (WS)
  • Takes Captain America’s shield edge to the face (source) (WS)
  • His metal arm is unharmed from catching Captain America’s shield (source) (WS)
  • Crushed by a large piece of metal on a Shield helicarrier (source) (WS)
  • His arm’s undamaged from dragging along tarmac while riding a bike (source) (CW)
  • Is close to a blast from Thanos’ ship as it rains fire. These blasts send people flying into the air and could kill Chitauri Leviathans (source) (End)
  • These blasts send people flying into the air and could kill Chitauri Leviathans (source) (End)

Speed

  • Likely aimblocks bullets with his arm (source) (WS)
  • Blocks bullets from an armed officer with his arm (source) (CW)
  • Dodges bullets from Falcon’s submachine guns (source) (WS)
  • Catches himself from falling when the floor beneath him is destroyed by falling debris from the helicarrier being destroyed (source) (WS)
  • Punches Captain America’s shield out of the air (source) (WS)
  • In the brief period when Captain America was distracted, disappears off of a rooftop (source) (WS)
  • Outruns cars in a Vienna tunnel (source) (CW)

Skill

  • Fights on an equal level with Captain America (source) (WS)
  • Shoots Captain America from a distance (source) (WS)
  • Rides a motorbike while it’s almost fully vertical, holding him up from the road using his arm (source) (CW)

Equipment

  • A pistol (source) (WS)
  • Submachine gun (source) (WS)
  • An assault rifle which can fire grenades that blow up a police car (source) (WS)
  • Fires a grenade that blows up a police car (source) (WS)
  • Fires a large amount while spinning on the spot with Rocket, killing a large amount of outriders between them (source) (IW)
  • Uses a massively extended clip (source) (End)
  • A sniper rifle (source) (CWP)
  • Ball grenades which created a large explosion when it blew up next to a car (source) (WS)
  • Used a grenade launcher that could blast Captain America back through the air after being blocked by his shield (source) (WS)
  • Destroys the engine of a SHIELD jet, taking it down (source) (WS)
  • A device which shoots disks which magnetically attach to the underside of Fury’s car, blowing up to launch it into the air (source) (WS)
  • It launched the car high enough to flip over the Winter Soldier in the comic (source) (CWP)
  • A knife (source) (WS)
  • A grappling hook which latches onto Falcon’s wing (source) (WS)

Other

  • Speaks Russian (source) (CW)
  • Gained a new, likely vibranium arm (source)
  • The original was destroyed by Iron Man Mark XLVI’s unibeam (source) (CW)
  • Was eventually cured of his Winter Soldier programming, with Shuri ‘rebooting’ him by getting rid of the influence of his trigger words while retaining the context and content of his memories (source) (IWP)
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