- name: james buchanan ("bucky") barnes
- alias: the winter soldier, white wolf*, prisoner #56898*, captain america, the man on the wall, revolution
- place of birth: shelbyville, in
- DOB: march 10, 1917* (1925)
- relatives: george m. barnes (F), winnifred c. barnes (M), rebecca p. barnes proctor (S)
- languages: english, russian, german, french
- affiliations: howling commandos*, strategic scientific reserve, avengers, strikeforce, thunderbolts, invaders, young allies, black widow ops, KGB, department X, us army
Summary
Special operative trained in weaponry, espionage, subterfuge, infiltration, and clandestine operations. Skilled in hand-to-hand combat and long-range sniper operations. Previous infusion of Infinity Serum (Super Soldier Serum*) has led to increased pain tolerance, regenerative capabilities, and super-human strength and agility.
Asset must undergo periodic reset protocol to maintain excellence in the field. Protocol includes electroconvulsive therapy and memory altering procedures to include alteration of both short- and long-term memory function. Periodic maintenance is also required of asset's arm, a cybernetic/bionic unit attached to Asset's left arm socket post-amputation at acquisition.
Detailed field report to follow.
timeline
1935: Winnifred Barnes dies of illness. (source)
1937: George Barnes dies in parachuting accident. Bucky is 12. His sister, Rebecca, is sent to boarding school and he lives on base at Camp Lehigh. (source)
July 1941: James Barnes spends a month in the United Kingdom with a secret S.A.S. project. (source)
August 1941: Returns to Camp LeHigh and is recruited to aid Steve Rogers, aka Captain America. (source)
1943: Los Angeles. War Bond Drive featuring the Young Allies (Bucky, Toro, etc). (source)
July 1944: Outside Stutthof, Germany. Cap and Bucky help Jewish, Roma, and gay camp escapees to flee the front. (source)
December 24, 1944: Steve and Bucky go to a Christmas Eve dance. (source)
Late April, 1945: Bucky and Cap prevent Baron Heinrich Zemo from using an explosive drone against the allies. The drone explodes and plunges Cap and Bucky into the Atlantic. (source)
May 5, 1945: Brought via Vasily Karpov's submarine to Moscow's Department X headquarters in cold storage. Found with severe lacerations on the left side of his body and his left arm is missing at the shoulder. (source)
May 7, 1945: Successfully thawed and revived using Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation. Awoke with no memory of previous life. (source)
May 21, 1945: Sedated for extensive testing and bloodwork, which confirms no presence of super soldier serum. (source)
April 1954: MI-6 agent Parsifal provides Vasily Karpov and Volkov with schematics for Advanced Robotic Appendages and Attachment. (source)
June 1954: Working prototype of robotic arm is finished and attached to the asset. Department X provides clearance for commencement of the Winter Soldier Project. (source)
June - September 1954: Training and preparation for the Winter Soldier Project. Underwent experiments in Mental Implantation during Sensory Deprivation to reprogram his mind and loyalty to the USSR. Commencement of combat and training for field evaluation. (source)
November 5, 1954: First Field Test. Infiltrated West Berlin nightclub and US/UK servicemen territory successfully. Jeep overturned at 02:45, killing three soldiers en route to base from nightclub. Crash assumed accident and not investigation. All objectives achieved, Winter Soldier crossed border and returned to handlers without incident. (source)
January 11, 1955: Cairo. Objective: United Nations Diplomatic Team. All targets eliminated without incident. Fire reported as accident. (source)
May 14, 1955: West Berlin. Objective: NATO General James Keller. Target eliminated with prejudice. (source)
1956: Berlin. Provided a super soldier serum to the Black Widow. (source)
January 1, 1956: Madripoor. Objective: British Ambassador Dalton Graines. Target eliminated, along with acceptable collateral damage. Madripoor authorities had no leads. (source)
April 1, 1956: Algeria. Objective: French Defense Minister Jacques Dupuy. Target eliminated with prejudice. Algerian Nationalist Movement implicated (source)
May 12, 1956: Paris. Objective: Algerian Peace Conference Envoy. All targets eliminated. (source)
February 17, 1957: Mexico City. Objective: United States Colonel Jefferson Hurt. Target eliminated with prejudice. (source)
June 7, 1957: Mental evaluation by Department X notes that the asset's mental state is becoming unstable. Had recently begun to exhibit curiousity, question orders from superiors, and hostility toward fellow operatives. The team recommends that the Soldier is kept in stasis between missions and undergoes Mental Implantation at every awakening to correct instability. (source)
1959: U.N. official eliminated. (source)
Unknown: Moscow. Sent to eliminate Sergei Ivanovich, a former KGB official planning to flee to the U.S. The Winter Soldier misses, not wanting to hit a child. In debriefing, yells at Mikhail and Andrei in English and shows cracks in coniditioning. (source)
Late 1950s-60s: Aided in KGB/Department X's special training operations, including the Red Room, the Wolf Spider, and the Black Widow projects. (source)
1966: Tasked with a mission to obtain Nazi defectors and the Alchemy formula that involved hijacking a train. (source)
1968: New York City. Completes mission to eliminate a defector; before exfiltration, threatens City Planning Commissioner Spyten to ensure safety of neighborhood park. (source)
Late April 1973: Target Senator Harry Baxtor eliminated and death appears accidental. Asset fails to appear at extraction point. Security footage shows asset boarding a train from Dallas to Chicago, then a bus to New York. (source)
March 12, 1973: After two weeks off-grid, asset is located in a flophouse on the Lower East Side and taken into custody. Recommended that the asset be excluded from future missions on American soil. (source)
September 1983: The asset travels with Major General Vasily Karpov as his personal bodyguard in the Middle East. (source)
August 4, 1988: Asset returns from years with Karpov in the Middle East and is placed back into stasis. Per Karpov's orders from his deathbed, Project Winter Soldier is decommissioned and the asset is stored at an undisclosed warehouse storing Department X experiments. (source)
details
+ Gets into a barfight over patrons insulting captain america. (source)
+ Volunteers in the cleanup efforts in philadelphia, where the winter soldier was forced to set off a bomb. (source)
+ Catches a purse thief he witnesses on the street. (source)
+ Visits the smithsonian captain america exhibit. (source)
+ Tony Stark (iron man) helped to remove implanted memories and trigger words. (source)
+ Remembers (and regrets) all of his actions as the Winter Soldier. (source)
+ Struggles to talk about his feelings. (source)
+ "A legend, a ghost" (source)
+ Formal charges were raised against bucky by the US government for his actions as the winter soldier. he pleaded guilty and his sentence was commuted to 20 years of time served. (source)
+ As a child, bucky likes snow white and carnivals. (source)
+ He's talkative at the movie theater. (source)
+ The last thing bucky's father said to him was that he was disappointed in him (for fighting). (source)
+ Bucky is a 'keyboard warrior' and online defending of cap. (source)
+ While stationed at camp lehigh, cap and bucky would frequent bev's diner. (source)
+ He loves meditating. (source)
+ He's very protective of natasha. (source)
+ Once freed, bucky visits his sister rebecca at the St. Francis Alzheimer's Hospital. (source)
+ As a teen, Bucky wants to be a forest ranger and see the Grand Canyon. (source)
+ Teen Bucky sold contraband on base and became the "camp mascot." (source)
+ Teen Bucky loved to charm the nurses. (source)
+ During WWII, Bucky hated the Cap propaganda and comics. (source)
+ Bucky favors driving a motorcycle. (source)
+ While Captain America, temporarily holds Avengers meetings in his Bronx apartment. (source)
+ Was the "Captain America with a gun." (source)
+ Has a soft spot for kids. (source)
+ Was the best sniper in his division in WWII. (source)
+ Once freed, he returned to hometown of Shelbyville, Indiana and bought a house. (source)
+ He also acquired a white cat named Alpine, took up meditation, journaling, and therapy, and started a service to help give people stuck in dangerous lives a second chance at a clean life. (source)
