James Barnes (Earth-30)

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## Origin and Living Status

### Origin

Human Mutate; Unwillingly given a variation of the Super Soldier Serum known as Ad Astra

## Personal Information

### Occupation

Vigilante; former Mercenary, governmental hitman, US Marine

### Base of Operations

Brooklyn, New York City, New York
FormerlyMyrth, Africa

## Creators and Appearances

### First

The Invaders #1
(January, 1941)(As Battlestar)
Weapon 47 #2
(March, 1975)(As The Winter Soldier)

 Jesus **Christ**, you're serious.
—**The Winter Soldier**[src]
The reserved yet blunt **James Barnes** is known as the daring and prolific **The Winter Soldier**. Born in Brooklyn, Bucky joined the war effort with his best friend, Steve Rogers, during World War II. The two would rise into the heroes known as Battlestar and Captain America during this time. They would even form The Invaders and win the war, but at a high cost, as Steve became suspended in animation and the world believed he had died. Bucky boarded a train home after the war, but unbeknownst to him, the train was rigged to crash by Hydra. They captured him and turned the former war hero into the killing machine, The Winter Soldier.

Under Hyra's control, Bucky would be forced to kill several high-ranking members of all types, such as senators, foreign agents, and whoever else Hydra needed to be killed. To keep his youth, Hydra continuously put Bucky into suspended animation until the 70s when Hydra was required to travel to space. They did not have the resources to ensure their asset's survival, so Hydra recreated the Super Soldier Serum dubbed **The Ad Astra Project**. Shortly later, Hydra retired from the Winter Soldier Project and indefinitely placed Bucky in suspended animation. In the modern era, Bucky would be placed on a convoy attacked by SHIELD. This event resulted in Bucky washing up on the African coast and being found by his old war buddy, Dakari Onasi, who began to help him through his trauma.

Recently, Bucky would return to Brooklyn after fighting in the superhuman war against SHIELD after gaining the deed to his family's old brownstone. While he planned to relax, he found himself investigating the restarted Super Soldier Serum and learned that even though SHIELD was dissolved, Weapon Plus was still active and Bucky became hell-bent on destroying it.

## History

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## Attributes

### Powers

**The Ad Astra Project:** During the Cold War, the Soviet Union needed to halt the progress of the American government as they were winning the Space Race. This resulted in Bucky needing to kill an HVT in space; the problem was that Bucky's body could not handle the rigors of space travel. Thus bore The Ad Astra Project. Using remnants of Dr. West Carter's notes for the Super Soldier Serum, the Soviet Union created a similar serum but bolstered the outcomes, granting Bucky many abilities.

* **Superhuman Physiology:** Having been tested to the maximum degree, Bucky's peak upper strength is 15 tons before he begins to strain himself. He has used his strength to varying degrees, such as forcing a car to stop with his non-bionic arm, hurtling a man twice his size two blocks away, and, most notoriously, tearing open a space shuttle. At one point, Bucky was forced to race a lion and beat him with ease. Lions can run up to 50 mph, and Bucky out-paced the lion by a country mile. His speed record is 85 mph, but this was not tested as much as his other abilities. His proper upper-speed limit is unknown, but his most impressive speed feat is whenever he ran alongside Dakari and even out-paced him—the Original Vampire. Bucky beat him. Fucking nuts. Bucky has taken more punishment in his life than others will in several lifetimes. He has been tortured, nearly drowned, shot, brutally beaten, and survived entering orbit and reentry. His body is denser than his peers, placing him on par with individuals such as Shay, Jay, and many others, allowing him to take superhuman hits with such ease that it almost seemed nothing occurred. His stamina is unmatched by anyone in The Ad Astra Project and hardly matched by any modern superhero. He has been able to push himself for hours without food or sleep, almost autonomously. His agility and reflexes are so fine-tuned that during the convoy ambush to free Shay, Bucky can sense and see Ren in limited visibility, attack her, and dodge her swift movements.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor:** Bucky has been shown to possess an incredible healing factor that is on par with his peers and arguably even better. His healing factor has allowed him to heal from a broken bone in a few hours, cuts in a matter of minutes, and bruises in less than that. His most impressive feat of regeneration came whenever he was shot but an armor-piercing round, but once the bullet was removed, the wound healed the moment the doctor turned away. However, because the injury was already healing, the shot needed to be removed to be completed.
* **Longevity:** Bucky has stopped aging, essentially. He visibly looks and moves like a man in his 30s but is over a hundred years old. The Ad Astra Project gifts Bucky eternal youth, and if he stopped fighting, he would, in essence, live forever.

**Cybernetic Enhanced Physiology:** It is unknown if The Ad Astra Project bolstered his bionic capabilities, but Bucky has more abilities regarding his bionic arm. It was later upgraded by Dakari and Myrth engineers to be more durable as it is now made out of Myrtha, a rare metal only found in Myrth. Regardless, the arm has many abilities.

* **Stabilization Sensory Array:** Whatever Bucky picks up, the bionic arm allows him to be able to determine the way of it by cybernetic implants that are connected to his brain, giving him a rough estimate of it so that Bucky can perform actions with the object with near-perfect accuracy or ability. This also doubles as a base sensory array that allows Bucky to identify individuals regardless of camouflage or other forms of invisibility. Funny enough, Bucky can pass through metal detectors without setting them off because of this.
* **Palm Sensors:** All of the weapons Bucky uses are bio-coded to his signature, specifically the palm of his bionic hand. The results vary if anyone else attempts to take hold of his weapons. Depending on the weapon, it might be an electric shock that stuns the individual, the gun will simply not work, or the firearm self-destructs.
* **EMP:** The bionic arm can release a mighty but small-scale electrical, magnetic pulse wave that will render all technology in the area inherent and inoperable for several minutes. It has been theorized that if the pulse is charged, it could knock out power to a small city.
* **Retractable Blade:** Embedded in the arm itself, there resides a blade that can be unsheathed to be used for CQC. The blade is made from Myrtha, allowing it to cut through anything on Earth, and is light enough not to have any drawback weight on Bucky's arm.

### Abilities

* **Grandmaster Fighter:** Bucky is the greatest fighter that no one knows about, and this was done for a reason. Bucky has mastered every martial art three times over (due to mind-wiping done by Hydra) to the point that all forms of martial arts are built into him as muscle memory. His fighting prowess far exceeds anyone on Earth, living or dead, and he has fought in extreme conditions that only many others can imagine. Most notably, Bucky has fought successfully in zero gravity aboard a moving space station with nothing more than a plastic fork and a torn-off handlebar. His original teachings began during World War II when the United States Military taught him CQC. Still, his teachings evolved whenever he became unwilling to participate in the Soviet Union and later Hydra. His combat prowess ranks so high that he can efficiently dispatch other superhumans and take down an army of soldiers with nothing but his bare hands. His mastery over armed and unarmed combat is so great that he can predict movements before they happen, allowing him to move between attacks to find points of weakness.

* **Perfect Marksman:** Bucky has mastery over every weapon classification. His preferred classifications are pistols and ARs. However, he has been known to make impossible shots that should not have taken place. His only rival in terms of marksmanship is Valerie St. Lauren. Still, even then, Bucky outranks her with his superior abilities with ARs and pistols, having been able to hit targets on The Bullet Train with a DMR.

* **The Father of Modern Espionage:** Bucky is, in every sense of the word, a ghost. He is the most lethal assassin and greatest spy in history, arguably that ever will be. His mastery over shadows is unmatched, to the point that Bucky could invade the Pentagon at night, only using the shadows and did not appear on any cameras and did it without using EMPs or technology. Ever since his time with The Invaders, Bucky has made it a habit to look at all of his surroundings and always go into anything with an exit plan, regardless if it is a simple meeting with a contact. However, his perfect technique is what he created and called Headhunting. He finds a person's name and location and tracks them but does not track them and attacks them immediately. He follows their daily movements, records their tasks, gathers information about their jobs, lives, and family, and looks for windows of opportunity and gaps in their lives where they are alone. Then, Bucky eliminates the target during a least populated time and when the target won't have anyone asking questions. The American government and SHIELD have labeled The Winter Soldier as "The Most Dangerous Man Walking," other organizations, most notably Rainbow, have labeled him as "The Father of Modern Espionage" because of his extreme prowess in the field.

## Paraphernalia

### Equipment

* **Bionic Arm:** A by-product of his capture at the hands of the rising Soviet Union and the remnants of Hydra. Bucky lost his arm in the accident that led to his capture after World War II, which forced Hydra and the Soviet Union to develop a specialized bionic arm to give to Bucky, which grants him numerous abilities.

### Weapons

* Bucky has a large arsenal at his disposal of varying different guns and melee weapons.

## Notes

* James Barnes (Earth-30), and by extension, Donuts exist outside of mainstream Marvel Universe continuity. Themselves, their stories, and other characters are unrelated and not connected to the Marvel Multiverse and exist within solely within The Donuts Multiverse.

## See Also

* 6 appearance(s) of James Barnes (Earth-30)
* 4 image(s) of James Barnes (Earth-30)
* 1 quotation(s) by or about James Barnes (Earth-30)

## Links and References

### References

1. ↑ The Invaders
2. ↑ Welcome to the Show
3. ↑ Operation: Zero Tolerance #4
4. ↑ The Invaders (Vol. 2) #1