the Winter Soldier — now a mainstay of Marvel’s multi-billion dollar cinematic universe — might never have existed.It all goes back to the well-worn trope in superhero fiction that the dead never stay dead for long.
They always get resurrected by a magical regeneration matrix or some parallel universe mumbo jumbo.Except, that is, for Bucky Barnes — Captain America’s young partner who was introduced in 1941.
In the 1960s, it was revealed that he’d gone missing after attempting to diffuse a bomb aboard a plane. It exploded, sending him hurtling into the freezing water below.He was presumed dead.And Bucky stayed dead until 2004 when writer Ed Brubaker and artist Steve Epting resurrected him as a brain-washed assassin going by the name of the.
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