Warning: SPOILERS for Thunderbolts* are forward!
Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes has been a part of the MCU stretching again to Captain America: The First Avenger, and up till this 12 months, we’d solely seen the character both struggle as one of many good guys or pressured to kill as a brainwashed HYDRA murderer. Then the 2025 motion pictures schedule delivered Thunderbolts*, which confirmed Bucky as a United States Congressman. For many who have been stunned to see Mr. James Buchanan Barnes elected to public workplace, Joanna Calo, who co-wrote Thunderbolts*, made a stable level about him working for Congress that makes plenty of sense.
In a dialog with Marvel.com, Calo talked about how she was drawn to the concept that “ Bucky remains to be genuinely making an attempt to determine methods to make the world a greater place, however he doesn’t slot in.” After all of the a long time of torment and cruelty he endured at HYDRA’s fingers, she nonetheless “hasn’t actually match into life” and “at all times been out of time,” which is what pushed him to Congress. Calo continued:
Individuals would vote for him! In case you noticed Bucky Barnes on the poll, you’d most likely vote for him! However he looks like he doesn’t actually have the abilities, and he feels prefer it’s not sufficient. I really like that first scene with him the place he doesn’t know methods to discuss to the reporters. He doesn’t have all of the strikes but. I believed that was very charming.
Bucky is unquestionably out of his ingredient for the temporary time we see him really finishing up his Congressional duties in Thunderbolts*. That mentioned, I do agree with Joanna Calo’s level that individuals would vote for him. Whereas The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (accessible to stream with a Disney+ subscription) confirmed Bucky nonetheless having the ability to keep a comparatively low profile, if his heroic efforts and ties to the Avengers have been revealed to the general public between then and his cameo in Captain America: Courageous New World (when it was talked about he was working for Congress), then after all individuals would need somebody like him representing them.
I’d prefer to suppose that given sufficient time, Bucky Barnes would acclimate to being a politician; one who really cares about serving to the residents of the USA. Nonetheless, I’m not so positive we’ll be seeing him again in Congress once more. The Thunderbolts* ending confirmed the staff turning into the New Avengers, and so they’re nonetheless collectively 14 months later in the course of the Marvel film’s finish credit scene. I can’t see how Bucky might successfully break up his time between his Congressional duties and ensuring the New Avengers are working easily.
However hey, if there’s a technique to make that balancing act work, I’m able to see it! The earliest that may occur is when Avengers: Doomsday is launched on December 17, 2026, because the New Avengers will probably be preventing alongside the unique Avengers, the Implausible 4, the X-Males, the Wakandans and varied different characters.