![]() ![]() He offers to help Bucky and Cap and brings them to Wakanda. Black Panther believes Bucky is responsible and chases him down, only to discover Bucky was framed. Black Panther gets mixed up with the feuding Avengers after his father, T’Chaka, is killed in a bombing. ![]() Ĭaptain America’s obsession with restoring Bucky’s memory in Civil War drives a wedge between Cap and fellow Avenger Iron Man, and, well, starts a civil war. But we find out in Captain America: The Winter Soldier that Bucky was captured during World War II by the Nazi organization HYDRA, brainwashed and turned into the Winter Soldier, a super-soldier with a mechanical arm. Bucky, Captain America’s best friend turned nemesis turned best friend, was once a freedom-loving American who fought alongside Captain America in Captain America: The First Avenger. Until then, Bucky may need to fully shed his past identity as the Winter Soldier before he can embrace, and feel truly comfortable in, the well-rounded and harmonious nature of the White Wolf, a process that will surely be explored further on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.Scene 2: Bucky Barnes is alive and well in Wakanda, thanks to ShuriĪudiences last saw Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) at the end of Captain America: Civil War. Since Bucky found respite in that country, perhaps he will return in a future film, when he finishes making amends for his sins. For all intents and purposes, the White Wolf may be Bucky's endgame.īucky's MCU arc doesn't align with the comic-book version of the White Wolf, who survives a plane crash in Wakanda as a boy and is raised by King T'Chaka as his own, but they share a commonality, and that is their fondness and loyalty to Wakanda. He laments the possibility that perhaps Steve was mistaken in his belief he was a good and decent person, and that realization could undo any progress Bucky has made towards a happy, if not normal, life. In episode 2, Bucky accuses Sam of giving up Steve's shield and dishonoring Steve Rogers'/Captain America's legacy and friendship, saying " if he was wrong about you, then he was wrong about me." Bucky is still deeply affected by his friend's death and everything he did as Hydra's super-assassin. ![]() Judging by how Bucky has been handling his therapy sessions and the list of people he still needs to apologize to, the transformation into the White Wolf will be gradual. Bucky needs to face a lot of personal hurdles if he expects to attain that peace of mind again, but the fact that he even brings up the White Wolf suggests that such a transformation is feasible. Just as Steve had to move forward to catch up with the times and ultimately end up with his past love, Bucky must confront the past to move forward with his future. His court-mandated therapy sessions have set him up to grudgingly atone for his past mistakes, but these encounters do not relieve his nightmares. The White Wolf seems to represent a calmer, more reasonable side of Bucky Barnes, the anthesis of his ultra-violent Winter Soldier persona. His mind may be his own and he is free to do whatever he pleases, but he remains haunted by the past. Related: Why Falcon & The Winter Soldier Need Civil War’s Zemoīucky is a stranger in a strange land now that he is no longer brainwashed by terrorists. In Falcon and the Winter Soldier's episode 2 entitled "The Star-Spangled Man," Sam teases Bucky's stealth during an investigation of the Flag-Smashers, saying Wakanda made him the " White Panther." Bucky says it was a White Wolf instead. In Avengers: Infinity War, T'Challa declares that the White Wolf has had enough rest and presents Bucky with a new synthetic arm. Bucky is first referenced as the White Wolf is in the Black Panther post-credits scene with Shuri, where the children who come upon him in a hut call him that name in jest. ![]()
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