Winter Soldier (Marvel)

Winter Soldier is the alter-ego of James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes, he is a fictional character and superhero that appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. 
Originally introduced as a sidekick to Captain America, the character was created by Joe Simon and the late Jack Kirby and first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 (cover-dated March 1941) (which was published by Marvel's predecessor) as the original and most well-known incarnation of "Bucky".
The character is brought back from supposed death as the brainwashed assassin Winter Soldier (Russian: Зимний Солдат, translit. Zimniy Soldát; Belarusian: Зімовы Салдат translit. Zimovy Saldat; Uzbek: Qish Askari translit. Kish Askari), and later assumed the role of Captain America when Steve Rogers was presumed to be dead.
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the character is portrayed by Sebastian Stan. In Avengers: Assemble he was voiced by Bob Bergen.
==Powers & Abilities==
===Powers===
Bionic Arm: Bucky's left arm was completely destroyed when he tried to escape the explosion that put both him and Captain America in a coma, so his organic arm was instead replaced with a bionic one. That arm grants him the following ability:
*Superhuman Strength: Has some degree of superhuman strength in his bionic arm, enough to lift roughly 5-10 tons.
*Enhanced Reaction Time: His arm's reaction time is greater than that of any Olympic athlete who has and will ever compete.
*Stabilization Sensors: Bucky can detect the balance of objects (namely Captain America's shield) and throw items with pinpoint accuracy. He was able to throw Captain America's shield with perfect accuracy and cause it to return when he used his bionic arm.
*Sensory Array: The arm houses different sensors which allow him to pass through security such as metal detectors without setting them off. It can also shield other metallic objects from detection such as firearms and knives.
*Extended Reach: He can apparently either control his bionic arm even if it has been removed from his body (possibly by cybernetic implants), or his arm can be programmed to perform certain actions on its own while removed from his body.
*Electrical Discharge: He can discharge bolts of electrical energy from his arm's palm.
*EMP: He can discharge an EMP rendering electronic devices useless. He failed to use it on a prepared Iron Man.
*Holographic Disguise: The arm can create holograms to appear, look and feel like a normal human arm.
Infinity Formula: During the Fear Itself event, Bucky was beaten to near death by Skadi, so Fury injected him with the formula, which has granted him this following abilities:
*Enhanced Strength: James's physical strength has been enhanced, his strength is equal to the peak of human potential. His physical strength is above a normal human being, enough for him to lift more than 800 lbs, but no more than 2 tons.
*Enhanced Speed: James's speed is similarly enhanced, allowing him to run at ~ 50 mph.
*Enhanced Durability: James's body is more resistant to physical injury, his bones and skin are far denser, harder than that of an ordinary human. He seems capable of taking multiple gunshot, puncture wounds , massive explosions as well as beatings from superhumans and still stand on his feet.
*Enhanced Agility: James's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete.
*Enhanced Stamina: James's body eliminates the excessive build-up of fatigue-producing poisons in his muscles and his musculature generates considerably less fatigue toxins than the muscles of an ordinary human being, granting him superhuman levels of stamina in all physical activities.
*Enhanced Reflexes: James possesses superhuman levels of reflexes, he is reflexive enough to dodge bullets, arrows, and even lasers. His reflexes speed is 20 kph.
*Regenerative Healing Factor: He is able to heal broken bones, torn muscles, several gunshot & knife wounds and other severe injuries within a day and most lesser injuries like cuts, scrapes and burns within hours. He has come back from the dead thanks to his healing factor
*Semi-immortality: The Infinity Formula in James´s blood has granted him an ageless immortality.
*Enhanced Mental Process: Bucky's mental process has been enhanced, allowing his mind to; process information quickly, giving him an accelerated learning aptitude, a knack for quickly analyzing multiple information streams (e.g., threat assessment) and rapidly respond to changing tactical situations, eidetic memory (meaning that he never forgets anything and has perfect recall), speed read, and high deductive/reasoning skills.
===Abilities===
*Master Martial Artist: Barnes is a dangerously skilled martial artist and hand-to-hand combatant. He received training from World War Two hand-to-hand combat luminaries William Essart Fairbairn and Colonel Rex Applegate as well as Captain America (Steve Rogers) in multiple martial arts, and acrobatics as a teenager during WWII and was trained in more of them while being molded into an assassin by the Soviet Union. He has single-handedly beaten Crossbones, a squad of SHIELD agents, Wolverine and the Black Widow, defeated a regiment of Hydra agents alongside the Young Avengers, in combat and fought Captain America (Steve Rogers) and Iron Man to a standstill.
*Expert Marksman: He is an extremely accurate marksman. Skilled in sharpshooting and knife throwing.
*Skilled Shield Fighter: Barnes is becoming rapidly proficient with his former partner's shield. He is able to throw it with near perfect aim striking multiple targets in a single throw and achieving a boomerang-like return after throwing it at single person or object.
*Skilled Acrobat: He is an Olympic level athlete and acrobat capable of many difficult acrobatic feats.
*Peak Human Conditioning: Has shown Olympic to possible near peak human level strength, agility, endurance, dexterity, etc.
*Advanced Scout: Barnes is a very gifted scout and adept at stealth and concealment.
*Multilingual: He is fluent in English, Russian, German, Japanese, and a little French. He might be able to speak other languages.
*Expert Spy: He is an expert in the field of espionage thanks largely to World War Two hand-to-hand combat luminaries William Essart Fairbairn and Colonel Rex Applegate, his former partner, Steve Rogers, the United States military, British SAS regiment, and the Russian Government. He is skilled in stealth, demolitions, survival, deducing other persons ways of thinking and other fields.
*Expert Assassin: Barnes is an adept of his generation as Matthew Murdock and Elektra Natchios is of theirs, possibly the most lethal assassin in the Marvel Universe rivaling others such as Bullseye or Elektra. During an operation on the Russian Front with the Invaders, Barnes has from concealment thrown a 60 centimeters-long knife to penetrate the winter uniform outer garment of a German soldier with such accuracy as to pierce his heart in high arctic winds several meters. Barnes has mastered and implemented several methods to silently eliminate sentries with bladed weapons, garrotes or his bare hands, making him as lethal in his own way as his former Invader teammates, the Torches, Union Jack or Namor. He is a master at stealth and tracking and is very intelligent. He was able to render Wolverine's superhumanly acute senses such as smell completely useless by luring him to an abandoned warehouse that was completely soaked on the inside with oil and even soaking himself to make it so that Wolverine could not detect him. Barnes has made a habit out of constantly studying his surroundings and depicting what he can and cannot do in whatever situation he should fall in much like his former partner, Captain America before his death. During Barnes' visit to the Captain America exhibit that had been made to honor him after his death, he was constantly detecting potential ways to sneak in and out of the museum and the room without being detected and only taking out a small number of security to do so. The Black Widow stated to Tony Stark that he was one of the most dangerous men she knew.
==Paraphernalia==
===Weapons===
Captain America's Shield, a modified hand-gun capable of penetrating even fabric of the thickness and composition of AIM uniforms, a combat knife, and various other mission-special equipment. 'Formerly' (as the Winter Soldier) sniper rifles and various other automatic weapons, (as Bucky) conventional firearms, explosives, combat knives.
===Equipment===
A uniform composed of steel mesh and chain mail. 'Formerly' (as the Winter Soldier) body armor, (as Bucky) a bullet proof fabric costume.
===Transportation===
An "Indian" motorcycle.
===Others===
==Portrayals==
===Films===
*In the Ultimate Avengers films, he was voiced by James Arnold Taylor, who also voiced Ratchet in the Ratchet & Clank series, Johnny Test in the titular series, and Obi-Wan Kenobi and Plo Koon in the Star Wars franchise.
**Taylor reprised his voice for the character in Lego Marvel Super Heroes.
*In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he is portrayed by Sebastian Stan.
===Television===
*In The Marvel Super Heroes, he was voiced by Carl Banas.
*In The Super Hero Squad Show, he was voiced by Rod Keller.
*In The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, he was voiced by Scott Menville (who also voiced Ma-Ti in Captain Planet, Fred Flintstone in The Flintstone Kids, Jonny Quest in The New Adventures of Johnny Quest, Rattrap in Beast Wars, Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring tie-in video game, Robin and Red X in Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go!, Shaggy Rogers in Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!, and Marlton Johnson in Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4) and Jon Curry.
*In Avengers Assemble, he was voiced by Bob Bergen in "Ghosts of the Past", Roger Craig Smith (who also voiced Sonic the Hedgehog in the titular franchise and Chris Redfield in the Resident Evil series) in "Spectrums", Robbie Daymond (who also voiced Armadillomon in Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna, Mitsuki in the Naruto franchise, and Spider-Man in 2017s Spider-Man) in "Saving Captain Rogers", and Matt Lanter (who also voiced Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Clone Wars and The Prince in Prince of Persia) in "The Vibranium Curtain".
*In Marvel Future Avengers, he was voiced by Masayoshi Sugawara (who also voiced Toji Sakata in Fatal Fury) in Japanese and Yuri Lowenthal (who also voices Spider-Man in Insomniac's Marvel's Spider-Man series, and voiced Ben Tennyson in Ben 10: Alien Force, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien and Ben 10: Omniverse, Joseph Oda in The Evil Within, and Sir Galleth Cooper in Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time) in English.
**Lowenthal reprised his voice in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online.
===Video Games===
*In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, he was voiced by Crispin Freeman, who also voiced Alucard in Hellsing, and Helios in God of War III.
*In Marvel Super Hero Squad Online, he was voiced by Mikey Kelley.
*In Marvel Heroes, he was voiced by David Hayter, who also voiced Solid Snake and Big Boss in the Metal Gear Solid series.
*In Lego Marvel's Avengers, he was voiced by Scott Porter, who also voiced Luke in Telltale's The Walking Dead, Nightwing in Batman: Arkham Knight, and Lukas in Minecraft: Story Mode.
**Porter reprised his voice in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite and Marvel's Avengers.
*In Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, he was voiced by Ray Chase, who also voiced Heishiro Mitsurugi in Soulcalibur VI and Guile in Street Fighter 6.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*Ranked 8th in "The Top 50 Avengers".
*Ranked 53rd on IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes in 2011.
==See Also==
*Winter Soldier at the Villains Wiki
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