Bucky's Buds While under control of the Russians, Barnes meets and begins falling in love with Natasha Romanoff, who goes onto become the Black Widow. He reunites with her after regaining his senses in the modern era.
One of the few serious relationships that Bucky built outside of the MCU was with his love interest Natasha Romanoff. The two had a fascinating partnership, as Barnes was initially her trainer in the Red Room.
Earth-616. The relationship between Bucky Barnes and Natasha Romanoff dates all the way back to the Cold War in the Soviet Union where Bucky was one of Natasha's trainers at the Red Room Academy. It was here that their relationship blossomed into a romantic one. (Earth-616) Bucky training Natasha in the Red Room.
“Sam and Steve had a relationship where they admired, appreciated and loved each other,” Mackie said. “Bucky and Sam have a relationship where they learn how to accept, appreciate and love each other. You'd call it a bromance, but it's literally just two guys who have each other's backs.”
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Was Steve in love with Bucky?
He most definitely loved both Peggy and Bucky, with the latter considered to be in a romantic sense as well for many fans. While Peggy was his actual love interest, Steve's love for Bucky was such that they can be considered each other's true loves, even if it's seen in a platonic context.
One fan-favorite character that hasn't had any canon romances in the MCU so far is Bucky Barnes. While he has been romantically linked to characters in the comics, this was never featured in the MCU although this isn't completely out of the question to happen in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.
Surviving the war and believing Captain America's death, Bucky eventually marries Gail Richards and has a large extended family. During which, Bucky is diagnosed as having lung cancer from chain smoking back in the War. Barnes and Gail both live to see Steve's revival in the 21st century and renews their friendship.
James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes enlists to fight in World War II, but eventually literally falls in battle. Unfortunately, the evil Arnim Zola recovers him and erases his memory, turning him into a highly-trained assassin called the Winter Soldier.
This is the most popular MCU ship overall. The ship has over 50,000 fanfics on AO3, giving it more than 20,000 more than the next biggest ship! The stans will always love Stucky, no matter where in the timeline Steve and Bucky may be.
The Hydra experimentation on Barnes causes him to survive his fall, and he is recaptured by the Hydra wing of the Soviet Union, where he is tortured and brainwashed by Arnim Zola and turned into the Winter Soldier, a mind-controlled super soldier with a metal prosthetic arm.
Bucky Barnes, like Steve Rogers, has lived for several decades due to cryogenic freezing and the super-soldier serum. Bucky's life expectancy could potentially surpass Steve's 116 years, depending on circumstances. Despite outwardly aging at the same rate as Steve, Bucky can still live for at least another 80 years.
In an alternate 1949, Carter was met by Rogers after completing his tasks. They lived a happy life together and were married. Steve still wore his wedding band when he reunited with Sam Wilson in 2023, but Steve chose to keep the details of his life with Peggy to himself rather than sharing them with his old friend.
While never explicitly stated in the films leading up to Avengers: Endgame, Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton have a romantic connection in their relationship, though they couldn't consummate it for various reasons.
He's a little more than a year older than Steve, which makes him the oldest human Avenger at a chronological 106-years-old. This puts him in his twenties during Captain America: The First Avenger, as he would have been about 26 in 1943, when he and the 107th were captured by Hydra.
But Mackie insisted that theirs is a platonic relationship: “Bucky and Sam have a relationship where they learn how to accept, appreciate and love each other. You'd call it a bromance, but it's literally just two guys who have each other's backs.”
Bucky Barnes is a character who is queer coded in a variety of ways. The narrative of Bucky's story is inherently a queer one. Here are just a few of the ways that rings true. First of all, his relationship to Steve Rogers is often presented as one of distant longing.
Director James Gunn tweeted that Nebula simply tore the arm off Bucky's body, so it's not a fake of some sort. This means that Bucky is currently an arm down, but the Thunderbolts concept photo shows him with his prosthetic.
The writers of "Avengers: Endgame" confirmed that Steve is the father of Peggy's children and that they likely have super soldier DNA. While Steve's children have not appeared in the MCU, in alternate universes he has a son named James Rogers and a daughter named Sarah, both of whom inherit his superhero abilities.
History. Bucky Barnes was the side-kick of Captain America (Isaiah Bradley). Both survived the war and Isaish had a daughter Becky which he didn't have time to raise so she was adopted by Bucky.
While hero-and-sidekick relationships in comics have been interpreted as having a homoerotic subtext, in Marvel canon, the relationship between Rogers and Barnes is strictly platonic, and is not depicted as sexual or romantic.
Fans of the Disney+ show seemed to love whenever Bucky (Sebastian Stan) flirted with Sarah (Adepero Oduye) on the show — and some of them even got #ReleaseTheBuckyAndSarahCut trending on Twitter on Friday because the demand is so high.
Natasha has had a few romantic relationships with her fellow heroes, which all play important roles in her development and mean very much to her. Some notable ex-lovers include Clint Barton (Hawkeye), Matt Murdock (Daredevil), Bucky Barnes (the Winter Soldier), and Alexei Shostakov.
