Bucky Barnes is now primed to take on a new superhero moniker, which has been teased for several years already. The post-credits scene of 2018's Black Panther saw Bucky Barnes recovering in Wakanda, with Wakandan children naming him the White Wolf.
Adopted brother of Wakanda's King T'Challa and the leader of the Wakandan Secret Police, the Hatut Zeraze, Hunter, is an expert tracker and nicknamed the White Wolf.
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.
Bucky owes his youthful appearance to repeated cryo-freezes orchestrated by the Russians. He possesses no super powers and never received a form of the Super Soldier Serum as many assume, but continues to operate at peak human ability.
Conversation. Actor Sebastian Stan has shared this video of him and his friends celebrating the 107th birthday of Bucky Barnes (Bucky was born on March 10, 1917 in the MCU and would be celebrating his 107th birthday on March 10, 2024)!
In Infinity War, T'challa calls him the White Wolf, but we never hear the term again. With the new series called The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, I assume they're going to keep calling him the Winter Soldier.
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.
The fact that Bucky did wear the arm is why it disappeared according to the Russo brothers (via Comicbook), as they stated anything that was part of someone's identity would disappear when snapped.
In Brubaker's first stories it was insinuated that Bucky joined the Army in 1941 at 16 after already living on base for a few years. In his later run when Bucky was Capt. I recall him saying that according to the official records, Captain America and Bucky were listed as Colonel Steve Rogers, and Corporal Bucky Barnes.
Just a nickname... and a nod to the character Hunter from the comics. It is a reference to a different character in the comics who was a white kid raised by the Wakandan royal family and as an adult took a role as a spymaster. In context of the movie, the name still makes perfect sense.
Fan-favorite Okoye, portrayed by The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira, has perhaps seen more action in the MCU than most other Wakandans, protecting the nation in Black Panther, joining the Avengers during Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, and then becoming one of the MCU's Midnight Angels in Wakanda Forever.
Zola put him through the Winter Soldier Program, which used brainwashing techniques, physiological enhancements, and intense training to turn him into one of HYDRA's greatest weapons. In addition, Barnes was given a cybernetic arm to replace the one he lost.
Sebastian Stan will be returning as Bucky Barnes in Thunderbolts, alongside other MCU antiheroes such as US Agent and Yelena Belova. Thunderbolts is suspected to feature an invasion of Wakanda in the hopes of the United States government acquiring vibranium.
Sebastian Stan is set to make his next MCU appearance as Bucky Barnes in Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts*, which is expected to feature him in the titular team alongside Yelena Belova, Taskmaster, Ghost, US Agent, Red Guardian and Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.
Bucky had resentment towards Sam for giving up the shield. The therapy session showed the issues they had towards each other. Bucky wanted to know why Sam gave up the shield that Steve trusted him with and was Steve's whole legacy. Bucky emotionally says that if Steve was wrong about Sam then he was wrong about him.
Marvel Cinematic Universe. Bucky was injected with a counterfeit serum since Captain America's serum was not replicable, therefore, the result of Bucky's serum was bound to be lower quality.
Usually, Captain America is considered the best fighter in the Marvel Universe, but on this occasion Bucky beat him fair and square, even using Steve's own shield to deliver the final blow. The power levels of Marvel characters vary greatly according to writers' preferences and story needs.
At this point, Iron Man finally let out a quip, asking him to stand down and calling him "Manchurian Candidate." This was a reference to Richard Condon's novel of the same name about the American government brainwashing citizens to be assassins, which pretty much described what happened to Bucky.
T'Challa lost focus at seeing his ex-girlfriend again, and a terrorist took advantage of the moment, threatening to shoot one of the girls if T'Challa moves. Okoye, however, took out the final man, having expected T'Challa to freeze and dropped down herself to help.
Taking the experimentation, cryogenic freezing and time skips into consideration, Bucky is physically somewhere in his mid-30s by the time The Falcon and the Winter Soldier takes place, making him appear seventy-some years younger than his chronological age.
Bucky was born on March 10, 1917, so he was already older than Steve, who was born on July 4, 1918, even before they became enhanced. Further, Captain America was frozen and preserved as he was in 1945 without thawing for nearly seven decades before he was revived.
Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes, is portrayed by Sebastian Stan in the MCU with a height of 6'0" (1.83 m). The comic book height of Bucky Barnes is 5'9” (1.75 m). Bucky Barnes, also known as Winter Soldier, is a fictional anti-hero in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the extended Marvel franchise.
