Before Falcon and Winter Soldier, Bucky fixes his mind in a strange comic

First episode of Falcon and Winter Soldier It takes an insurmountable pace as Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes walk back into the world. But there is so much to unpack! Both heroes are battling aftershock Avengers: Endgame And they are stranded out of existence, capturing the five lost years.

But it has a missing piece of information Falcon and Winter Soldier The premiere you only know if, no joke, you read a tie-in comic two years ago. Luckily, we read it.

[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for the first episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.]

Picture: Teagh Walker / Marvel Comics

When we first meet Bucky Falcon and Winter Soldier, He is back and forth with his doctor about what he is doing now that he is not fighting a war for the first time since 1940.

“I know you’ve done a lot,” she tells him, but you’ve regained your mind, you’re being forgiven. I mean, these are good things. ”

But wait how did Did Bucky regain her mind?

On the way back Captain america civil war, Bucky had a major brain problem: not only was his memories spotty, he was also implanted with an unconscious trigger phrase. Anyone who knew that phrase could turn him into an indiscriminate killing machine who would try to kill every person in sight. When the credit rolled Captain america civil war, The audience was shown that he agreed to be locked into cryostasis in Wakanda until Black Panther scientists could find a way to undo those unconscious triggers.

Falcon and Winter Soldier The first Marvel studio to call back to that specific plot point is the film or TV series. But just saying that Bucky has defeated his mind.

Which beat in 2018 Avengers: Infinity War Tie-in comic, Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War Prelude. The two-issue series originally gave the film an update on each Avenger just before it kicked off. And how to make sure Shuri helped Bucky get his mind back.

T’Challa’s royal younger sister developed an algorithm by getting Bucky’s trigger words right out of her brain without harming her personality, and her in developing some AI programming shortcuts to create better artificial intelligence than Tony Stark helped:

Will Corona Pilgrim, Teagh Walker / Marvel Comics

so there you go. Don’t stress out that you can’t remember how Bucky got his mind back. No one does

But at least Bucky Barnes no longer has to worry about being turned into a killing machine!

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