Bucky Barnes

Bucky Barnes

James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes is a World War II veteran, former officer of the 107th Infantry Regiment and the best friend of Steve Rogers since childhood. Barnes had enlisted into the Army following the attack on Pearl Harbor and was assigned to the 107th in 1943. His unit was captured by HYDRA, where Barnes was injected with the Super Soldier Serum by Arnim Zola. Barnes was rescued by Rogers, who had become Captain America. Barnes and Rogers then formed the Howling Commandos to battle Red Skull's forces. However, during the attempt to finally capture Zola in the Austrian Alps, Barnes was caught up in the ambush and plummeted hundreds of feet. As no body was recovered, Barnes was presumed deceased and honored as a hero who died in service to his country.

Unbeknownst to his team, Barnes' enhanced abilities allowed him to survive the fall, albeit with the loss of his left arm. Once he was found by the Soviet Armed Forces and HYDRA, Barnes was brainwashed and armed with a new cybernetic arm in order to become their operative, known as the Winter Soldier. Over the next fifty years, he would eliminate anyone who posed any kind of threat to HYDRA. Between all assassination missions, Winter Soldier would be put back into a cryogenic stasis to ensure his longevity.

In 2015, he would be part of HYDRA's attack on New York City. However, Winter Soldier was challenged by Steve Rogers, leading to him to begin remembering his prior life.

He would eventually go by the name The White Wolf.

Powers

Artificially Enhanced Physiology

Barnes was one of the recipients of HYDRA's Super Soldier Serum. There were no apparent effects at the time of his rescue by Steve Rogers, but the changes the serum caused in Barnes' body were sufficient to let him survive a plunge into an icy river at the bottom of a fall that should have killed him.

Enhanced Strength

As a result of the Super Soldier Serum, Barnes' physical strength is enhanced to the early levels of a superhuman condition. The superior strength afforded by his metallic left arm aside, Winter Soldier's innate superhuman physical might alone rivalled that of Captain America's, allowing him to use his legs and right arm to deliver strikes of exceptional force that can casually incapacitate and launch his opponents several meters away, through walls, and knock them out even while holding back not to kill them.

Enhanced Durability

Barnes' bones and muscles are denser and more resilient than a normal human's.

Enhanced Speed

Barnes' speed is tremendously enhanced beyond the peak of human potential, moving into the early levels of superhuman condition.

Enhanced Agility

Barnes' enhanced agility surpasses that of normal human capabilities, even highly trained, Olympic gold medalists. Barnes can leap higher and further than normal humans.

Enhanced Stamina

Barnes' musculature produces far fewer fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of an ordinary human, allowing him to exert himself at peak capacity for hours before tiring.

Enhanced Reflexes

Barnes' reflexes have also been enhanced; they are responsive enough to catch Captain America's shield being thrown at him at a high velocity, as well as other projectiles such as enemy grenades, knives and poles.

Regenerative Healing Factor

Barnes' body is able to heal with extraordinary speed and efficiency, at a rate well beyond that of a regular human being; however, he is unable to regenerate missing limbs. Barnes’ rapid healing also prevents intoxication by alcohol, and may be one of the factors that allowed him to survive his fall in the Swiss Alps.

Longevity

As a result of the Super Soldier Serum, Barnes ages at a much slower rate than normal humans

Cybernetic Enhancement

Barnes lost his left arm and had it replaced with a cybernetic one by HYDRA. His cybernetic arm is incredibly resistant to physical damage, which is completely bulletproof, made evident when Barnes used the arm to block several gunshots from a German officer. However, it did have its limitations, as one shot of Iron Man's Unibeam cut right through it. After his original arm was destroyed, Barnes received a new vibranium arm from T'Challa. This new arm grants him even higher durability due to it being composed of vibranium, as well as the benefit of being vibration absorbent.