Captain America: Bucky...Yay or Nay?

[weezerspider]

I voted no, but it could work. The general public might think he's a rip-off of Robin though.

 

[DawnWarrior]

The Nazis weren't terrorists.

True.

 

[hippie_hunter]

The Nazis weren't terrorists.

True in reality.

But in the Marvel universe the Nazis consisted of terrorists such as the Red Skull, Baron Zemo, Baron Strucker, and former Nazis took part in the creation of HYDRA. So I think the Marvel Nazis qualify as terrorists in some way.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

True in reality.

But in the Marvel universe the Nazis consisted of terrorists such as the Red Skull, Baron Zemo, Baron Strucker, and former Nazis took part in the creation of HYDRA. So I think the Marvel Nazis qualify as terrorists in some way.

They certainly terrorized the European jewish population.

 

[Silvermoth]

I'ld like to see Joseph Gordon Levitt get the role as a sidekick during the war and then as a villian, a tool by General Lukin (Alan Rickman)

 

[HR-PUFF&STUFF]

I'd say no, for the first movie.

Keep it a solo film.

Once Robin was introduced into the Batman franchise, it went downhill quickly. Bucky just doesn't seem needed.

I would just mention him briefly as another soldier in the war, such as just using the name only, or something to that effect.

Would rather have the movie just focus on Captain America; that seems like enough work just to fit his character into one movie.

bucky and robin are not the same, just like batman and cap aren't the same. and it wasn't robin that made the franchise go down hill it was crapy movies with bad acting, over the top camp, and the need to sell toys over story telling that did that.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

bucky and robin are not the same, just like batman and cap aren't the same. and it wasn't robin that made the franchise go down hill it was crapy movies with bad acting, over the top camp, and the need to sell toys over story telling that did that.

Agreed. I never in a million YEARS believed that ANYONE could sell me on bringing Bucky back to the modern era, yet Brubaker did it.

Just goes to show what good writing can do.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Maybe in the comics, but not in the movie.

It would be like all of Superman's villains being from Krypton, only Cap's all come from WWII.

Bucky is a WWII friend and I think he should be old in today's world, ala the Ultimates...one of the good ideas they had for Cap in that book.

 

[HR-PUFF&STUFF]

keep bucky as he was in the comics make cap think that his one link to the real world died and this gives him a reason (only one of many) to keep on fighting.

 

[cain097]

I'm trying to get this on the front page. This is a pretty old poll.

I'm fine with a Bucky being present in the film, just not Robin Bucky. Maybe this poll needs to be updated to reflect alternate choices.

 

[co2]

bucky, ultimate style.

YUP. That's as much Bucky as I want to see.

 

[Katsuro]

Maybe in the comics, but not in the movie.

It would be like all of Superman's villains being from Krypton, only Cap's all come from WWII.

Bucky is a WWII friend and I think he should be old in today's world, ala the Ultimates...one of the good ideas they had for Cap in that book.

Bull, Bucky needs to die.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Bull, Bucky needs to die.

Why? Cap being jetted off into the modern world is enough to have eat at the guy. I fail to see why Bucky needs to die. Like I said, Bucky was one of the few ultimitization I approve of for the Cap film.

 

[Random490]

Not if its 616 Bucky, the teenage masked side kick. I really like how they did Bucky in Ultimate Universe

 

[HR-PUFF&STUFF]

i like the way that brubaker wrote Bucky as not being a "Sidekick" per say but a partner. Bucky was the guy that did the things that Captain America as a symbol of America couldn't do. that is the Bucky that i want to see.

 

[Bubonic]

If there is a potential for telling the story the way Brubacker did, then I have to say yes.
I never thought I'd be interested in the Bucky character, but as I got more involved in the series I really got interested in him, I just not big on the Bucky nickname.

 

[Hypestyle]

Bucky should be there, as a full partner, give him the backstory that Brubaker re-developed recently... then they can eventually have Bucky turn out to be the Winter Soldier in the modern era..
Marvel would be dumb to not sow the seeds for this.. don't ignore Bucky, and don't just have him be a grunt that grows old and marries his girlfriend...

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

Nope! I think he should be off to the side, not in a costume kinda like Jimmy Oslen just follwing Cap around taking pics and thats all.for me Cap should be a solo act. I never dug Bucky(the kid was named "BUCKY" for heavens sakes!) until he became the Winter Solider.Irregardless I'm seeing Captain American cause Cap is da man!

 

[The Question]

You have to have Bucky. He's not just Cap's side kick. He's his best friend. And Bucky's death is one of the major things that drives Cap once he's unfrozen. The best way to do Bucky: Back in the early 40s, he was a 16 year old kid who lied about his age to enlist. This would not have been surprising during WWII. Because he was younger than most of the men he was serving with, he trained his ass off to prove himself, especially after he found out that Steve was Captain America, just so he could keep up with him. By the end of the war, he's in his early 20s, and has been assigned to be Cap's partner and back up, simply because he's become one of the finest soldiers they have. They play the boy side kick angle for the sake of PR, but in reality he's a bad ass soldier who would have been a perfect candidate for the super soldier serum had Project: Rebirth not been set back with Reinstein's death.

 

[Raiden]

Like BB, Cap should go solo. Having a sidekick named Bucky will just invite comparisons with Batman & Robin.

 

[Iron_Stark]

Keep Bucky as his parter, no costume though, and have him at 18yrs old or older, not a teenager.(no comparison to Robin then) Have him get captured at the end but made too look like a death so he can come back as Winter Soldier in the sequels and eventually take over as Cap.

 

[The Question]

Keep Bucky as his parter, no costume though, and have him at 18yrs old or older, not a teenager.(no comparison to Robin then) Have him get captured at the end but made too look like a death so he can come back as Winter Soldier in the sequels and eventually take over as Cap.

18 year olds are teenagers. And people are forgetting that Bucky is around 21 by the end of the war.

 

[Mutagen]

Keep Bucky as his parter, no costume though, and have him at 18yrs old or older, not a teenager.(no comparison to Robin then) Have him get captured at the end but made too look like a death so he can come back as Winter Soldier in the sequels and eventually take over as Cap.

That's how I would do it, but make the kid a little older, but not too old. Actually I would prefer hints of the Winter Soldier rather than him actual be a major role.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I still don't get why this whole Winter Soldier thing is popular. I hated the story, personally.

 

[Sun_Down]

I liked what they did in the Ultimates. Have Bucky be his best friend during WWII, and when Cap is reawaken, we will have a scene where Steve visits a very old Bucky. I think that has more emotional impact than that stupid Winter Soldier story.

I agree. Bucky should be involved in a small, but important way.