Stucky

Stucky is the slash ship between Steve and Bucky from the Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom.

Marvel Cinematic Universe
Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes grew up together in Brooklyn, New York. They met at a young age; Bucky, inspired by Steve's resilience despite his frail body, came to his aid when he was picked on by bullies. The two became inseparable best friends. Throughout their childhood, Bucky was there for Steve, standing by his side as he got into fights and stood up for what Steve believed was right.

After Steve's mother, Sarah, died of tuberculosis, Bucky offered his help, telling Steve that he was with him "to the end of the line".

Captain America: The First Avenger
Bucky rescued Steve from a losing battle. He told Steve that he had received orders to go overseas with the 107th Infantry Regiment and would be leaving the next morning. Steve expressed his regret that he could not go with him, as he had been rejected for the fifth time that day. Bucky tried to cheer Steve up by taking him on a double date to the Stark Expo. Steve quietly split off from the main group after spotting an enlistment office. Bucky, noticing Steve's absence, found him in the office and tried to dissuade him from trying to enlist again. Steve stood his ground, and eventually Bucky relented. The two hugged and parted ways.

They did not see each other for months, until Steve arrived in Italy to perform with the USO after receiving the serum. After a disastrous performance, Steve learned that nearly all of Bucky's unit had been killed or captured. Unwilling to accept the possibility that Bucky was dead, Steve went alone to the facility where the prisoners had been taken. Peggy Carter enlisted the help of Howard Stark to fly Steve to the facility.

Steve infiltrated the facility alone and rescued the prisoners, though Bucky was not among them. Steve eventually found Bucky strapped to an experimentation table, dazed and disoriented. Steve quickly freed him. Upon seeing Steve, Bucky expressed confusion at his new physique. The two tried to make their way out of the facility, but found their exit blocked by Arnim Zola and Johann Schmidt. With the facility set to self-destruct and their main exit gone, the only way out was across a narrow steel beam. Steve insisted that Bucky go first; he barely made it to the other side before the beam broke and fell. With no other options, Steve tried to tell Bucky to go on without him, but Bucky angrily refused. Seeing no other choice, Steve ran and jumped across the gap.

After the 107th returned to camp, they were taken to England for debriefing. Steve, who had been given permission to form a team to take down the HYDRA facilities, met with some of the men he had saved to invite them to join the team. When Steve asked Bucky if he was willing to follow Captain America, Bucky told him that he was not following the Captain, but his friend. Peggy then arrived at the bar to tell Steve that Howard Stark wanted to meet with him the next morning. Bucky tried to flirt with her, but she was only interested in Steve. After she left, Bucky complained that he was "invisible" and "turning into [Steve]".

Steve led his new team, the Howling Commandos, on numerous successful missions. In 1945, Steve, Bucky and Gabe Jones boarded a HYDRA train to capture Arnim Zola. Steve and Bucky were attacked by a soldier with a powerful HYDRA assault rifle. Steve managed to block a shot from the rifle with his shield, and the ricochet blew a hole in the side of the train, the force of which knocked him off his feet. Bucky grabbed Steve's shield and tried to shoot the soldier. The soldier fired back. The shot hit the shield again, the force of which threw Bucky back several feet off the train, leaving him hanging precariously from the damaged side. Steve quickly dispatched the HYDRA soldier and desperately tried to save Bucky, but the damage to the train was too great. The railing that Bucky was holding onto snapped, sending him plummeting to the icy mountains below.

Though the mission was a success, with Jones capturing Zola, Bucky's apparent death left Steve grief-stricken. Back in London, he tried to numb his pain with alcohol, but quickly learned that the serum had rendered him unable to get drunk. He was joined by Peggy, who tried to comfort him by telling him that Bucky's death was not his fault. The next day, Steve, determined to avenge Bucky's death, devised a plan to take out the last remaining HYDRA facility. He boarded Schmidt's plane, the Valkyrie, to stop him from dropping bombs on the world. After Schmidt was apparently vaporized by the Tesseract, Steve took control of the plane. Seeing no other way to stop the plane, Steve crashed it into the Arctic, sacrificing his own life to save the rest of the world.

Seventy years later, the crashed Valkyrie was found by scientists in the Arctic, with Steve still inside and miraculously alive due to the serum that put his body into cryostasis while in the ice.

The Avengers
Back in the world, Steve had a hard time adjusting to his new life. He eventually found S.H.I.E.L.D. files on his old friends, including one on Bucky that listed his status as Missing in Action, as his body was never found.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Steve continued to fight for S.H.I.E.L.D. After learning about Project Insight, Steve decided to revisit his past at the Captain America exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution. He lingered by the memorial that had been erected in Bucky's memory.

Steve returned to his apartment to find Nick Fury hiding there after a mysterious man tried to assassinate him. The same assassin tracked Fury back to the apartment and shot him dead in front of Steve. With his last remaining strength, Fury handed Steve a flash drive and told him to trust no one. Steve chased after the assassin and threw his shield at him, but the assassin caught it easily in his cybernetic arm. He threw the shield back at Steve and disappeared into the night.

Fury was pronounced dead at the hospital. Steve hid the flash drive in a vending machine before being recalled to S.H.I.E.L.D. for a briefing. After meeting with Alexander Pierce, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s STRIKE team attempted to apprehend Steve, but he managed to escape and make his way back to the hospital. He was dismayed to find the flash drive missing from the vending machine, but Natasha Romanoff appeared and revealed that she'd taken the drive. As Steve angrily confronted her, Natasha revealed that Fury's assassin had been a man known to the intelligence community as the Winter Soldier.

Steve and Natasha went on the run from S.H.I.E.L.D. to investigate the flash drive. They learned that HYDRA had been infiltrating S.H.I.E.L.D. since its inception, and that the Winter Soldier had been used to kill on HYDRA's orders. After a missile strike failed to kill the pair, they took refuge in Sam Wilson's home. They devised a plan to use Agent Jasper Sitwell's credentials to stop the launch of Project Insight's hellicarriers, but before they could carry out their plan, the Winter Soldier attacked them on the highway. Steve fought the Winter Soldier, eventually knocking off the muzzle that was hiding his face and revealing that he was Bucky Barnes. Horrified ин the revelation, Steve said Bucky's name, to which he replied, "Who the hell is Bucky?" He then tried to shoot Steve twice, only stopped by Sam kicking Bucky out of the way and Natasha firing a grenade launcher at him. He then disappeared, leaving Steve in a state of panic.

The three were captured by HYDRA agents and forced into a van. Steve seemed barely aware of his surroundings, still distracted by the fact that Bucky was alive. They were rescued by Maria Hill and taken to a secret base, where Fury was revealed to be alive. The five of them devised a plan to replace the Insight helicarriers' targeting chips with their own, which would list only three targets: the helicarriers themselves.

Bucky, meanwhile, was taken by HYDRA to the Ideal Federal Savings Bank, where scientists worked to repair his arm. Bucky was unable to stop thinking about the man he had fought, and fragments of memories began to surface despite his heavy brainwashing. When Pierce arrived to get his mission report, Bucky asked who the man was and said he knew him, indicating that he still had a faint memory of Steve. Pierce ordered the scientists to erase his memory and subject him to more brainwashing.

Pierce then ordered Bucky to stop Steve and Sam from sabotaging the Insight helicarriers. He managed to disable Sam's wing pack and fought Steve in the last helicarrier. Despite Bucky's best efforts, Steve managed to sabotage the helicarrier.

As the three Insight helicarriers fired on each other, a steel beam fell, trapping Bucky. Unable to see his friend in pain, Steve freed him and begged Bucky to remember him, refusing to fight him or even defend himself. Bucky refused to listen and instead tried to complete his mission of killing Steve. He brutally beat Steve, insisting that Steve was only his mission. Steve told him to finish it, and that he was with him "to the end of the line".

The words jogged Bucky's memory and he began to look horrified as he stared at Steve. The glass below them then collapsed, sending Steve plummeting into the water below. Bucky, who had managed to grab onto the metal frame to save himself, watched as Steve fell. He jumped in after Steve and pulled him out of the water, saving his life. Bucky then walked away, leaving his life with HYDRA behind.

Days later, Steve met with Sam and Natasha at Fury's fake grave. Natasha gave Steve a file on the Winter Soldier. Sam, knowing Steve well enough, then asked when they were going to start looking for Bucky.

Avengers: Age of Ultron
Steve and Sam searched for Bucky for two years without success.

Captain America: Civil War
During a fight with Brock Rumlow, Rumlow distracted Steve by mentioning Bucky's name. Rumlow tried to activate a bomb to kill both himself and Steve, but Wanda used her telekinesis to contain the explosion. However, she accidentally threw the exploding Rumlow into a building, causing an explosion and the deaths of twenty-six people, eleven of them Wakandan aid workers. Her actions led directly to the Sokovia Accords.

At the United Nations meeting where the Accords were to be signed, an explosion decimated the building. The attack was blamed on Bucky, who was apparently caught on the building's security cameras. Concerned for Bucky's safety, Steve convinced his friend Sharon Carter to give him Bucky's location in Bucharest, Romania. He and Sam traveled there, with Sam keeping a lookout while Steve entered Bucky's apartment. He found a journal on top of the fridge and flipped through it, finding a picture of himself tucked into the pages.

Bucky, meanwhile, after learning that he was a terrorist suspect, returned home to find Steve in his apartment. He denied remembering Steve and pretended not to know why he had saved his life two years earlier. Steve then helped him fight off agents of the Joint Counter Terrorist Center and later the Black Panther, though they were eventually caught and arrested. They were taken to the Joint Counter Terrorist Center in Berlin, and Bucky was separated from the others to be evaluated by a psychoanalyst. The psychoanalyst, however, was not who he appeared to be. While the building's power was out, he took the opportunity to reactivate Bucky's Winter Soldier programming and asked him for a mission report from December 16, 1991.

When Steve and Sam went down to investigate, the Winter Soldier attacked them and made his way through the building to the helipad on the roof. Tony Stark, Sharon, Natasha, and T'Challa tried to stop him, but overpowered all four. He got to the helipad and prepared to escape, but Steve grabbed the helicopter as Bucky started to fly away and pulled it back down to the roof. The Winter Soldier crashed the helicopter and tried to choke Steve. The roof then collapsed beneath them, sending them both into the river below. Steve managed to rescue Bucky, who had been knocked unconscious, and pulled him to safety on land.

Sam and Steve took Bucky to a secluded warehouse and locked his metal arm in a vise in case he was still in Winter Soldier mode. Fortunately, Bucky woke up as himself and immediately recognized Steve. When Steve asked if he was talking to Bucky or the Winter Soldier, Bucky replied that his mother's name was Sarah and that he used to wear newspapers in his shoes. The three then discussed the latest threat, with Bucky informing them that there were several other Winter Soldiers and that the man posing as the psychoanalyst was probably on his way to Siberia to activate them from cryostasis. Sam and Steve, who hadn't signed the Accords, were unable to ask their teammates who had signed for help, and decided to take matters into their own hands. They also enlisted the help of Scott Lang and Clint Barton, who rescued Wanda from the house arrest Tony had placed her under.

At Leipzig-Halle Airport, Steve and his team battled Tony Stark's team. The battle went on until Sam realized they couldn't all make it out, and told Steve and Bucky to go while the rest of them distracted their opponents. Steve and Bucky successfully escaped from the airport in a stolen Quinjet.

They arrived at the facility in Siberia to find that Tony had followed them and was willing to help. The three of them made their way through the facility as a team. They discovered that all the Winter Soldiers had been shot while still in their cryostasis chambers. Helmut Zemo then revealed himself, explaining that he'd wanted revenge on the Avengers ever since his family died in Sokovia. He showed Tony a video of Bucky killing his parents. Tony, in a fit of rage, went after Bucky. Steve fought Tony to defend Bucky. Steve and Bucky worked together to defeat Tony, but he was relentless.

During the fight, Bucky pinned Tony against a wall and nearly pulled the arc reactor out of his suit, but Tony fired a blast of energy that vaporized Bucky's cybernetic arm. Steve then fought a losing battle against Tony, but was never ready to surrender. Tony nearly won, but Bucky, who was on the ground in pain, grabbed Tony's leg to distract him. This gave Steve the upper hand he needed and he beat Tony's armor, disabling it and ensuring that he wouldn't be able to attack them again. When he was done, he grabbed Bucky's arm and helped him get up and walk away.

T'Challa had followed Steve and Bucky as well. He had overheard Zemo admit that he was the one who had bombed the United Nations and killed his father. Regretting that he'd tried to kill the wrong man, T'Challa offered Bucky refuge in Wakanda. Bucky decided to return to cryostasis until a method could be found to remove the Winter Soldier programming from his mind. Steve was unhappy with Bucky's decision, but ultimately he knew it was Bucky's choice, not his.

After several weeks in cryostasis, Shuri, T'Challa's sister and Wakanda's leading scientist, devised a way to essentially "reset" Bucky's brain to remove the programming. He remained in Wakanda for several years while he recovered.

Between the events of Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War, Steve often visited Bucky, and they even Skyped with each other.

Avengers: Infinity War
When the Avengers arrived in Wakanda for the upcoming battle with the Black Order, Steve and Bucky greeted each other with an embrace. They fought side by side during the battle in Wakanda.

After Thanos snapped, Bucky was the first to die. He called out Steve's name as he realized he was disintegrating and collapsed into ash on the ground. Shocked by his death, Steve knelt down to run his hand over the ashes where Bucky had once stood.

Avengers: Endgame
To bring back the half of the population eliminated by Thanos, Steve went back in time to collect the Mind Stone. He encountered his past self, who mistook him for Loki and had to fight himself. While being outmatched, he mentioned that Bucky was still alive. The statement distracted his past self and turned the table for him.

After the Avengers successfully brought back half of Earth's population and defeated Thanos, Steve had to go back in time again to restore the Infinity Stones and maintain the balance of the timeline. Steve went over to Bucky and told him not to do anything stupid until he got back. Bucky responded the same way Steve had responded to the same message back in the 40's. They then hugged each other. Bucky told Steve that he was going to miss him, and Steve assured him that everything was going to be okay. Steve then walked over to the quantum portal and disappeared.

As others panicked that Steve's return was overdue, Bucky turned around and saw Steve sitting on a log, looking old.

Comics (Earth-616)
In the Marvel Comics, Bucky was known as a troublesome child. He would often get into fights and get hurt, and his father would scold him angrily when he came home. After his father died, Bucky stayed on the military base and grew up there. At the age of 16, he finally met Captain America and became his kid sidekick in the war. Steve and Bucky developed a father-son bond, and the two had each other's backs. Steve would tell Bucky to stay out of trouble, and Bucky would sarcastically reply, "sure, dad," teasing him for his fatherly behavior. When Bucky died and became the Winter Soldier, Steve later used the Cosmic Cube to recover his memories. In Captain America 2005, Dr. Faustus narrated Bucky's thoughts, saying that Bucky was often reminded of his father in Steve.

Quotes
"Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky."

- Steve

"Rumlow said Bucky, and all of a sudden I was a 16-year-old kid again, in Brooklyn."

- Steve

Backstage
Marvel writer Mark Waid said of Natasha Romanoff and Bucky Barnes on Marvel's official website: "'[Both] have had a crush on Steve Rogers at some point in the past.' (MARVEL • November 28, 2016)"


 * Endgame's Stan Shares Criticism of Captain America Storyline; Boyega Approves (CBR • JANUARY 2020)

Fanon
On AO3, Stucky is the most written about ship within the Marvel Cinematic Universe tag; Steve's most written, as well as Bucky's most written about. This ship has over 60,000 fanworks on AO3 as of February 2023, making it not only the most popular ship in the entire tag, but also one of the most popular ships on AO3.

There are also over 400 fanworks on fanfiction.net. As such, there are many tropes and headcanons that avid shippers share about the pair.

Music
There are many pieces of canon evidence that support Stucky. Perhaps the most prevalent is the choice of music for certain scenes in the first two Captain America movies. In Captain America: The First Avenger, during the scene where Steve asks Bucky if he'll follow him into battle, followed by Bucky meeting Peggy, the song that plays is "There is a Tavern in the Town," a classic drinking song with Steve sitting down on "where my dear love sits him down," and Bucky meeting Peggy on "he left me for a damsel dark." The song is about a man whose male lover has left him for a woman. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Steve walks into his apartment before the scene where he unknowingly sees Bucky for the first time in almost 70 years as the song "It's Been a Long Long time" by Harry James plays. If the song had continued instead of the action music starting, the lyrics that would have played as Steve and Bucky's eyes met would have been "so kiss me once, then kiss me twice, then kiss me once again, it's been a long, long, time." The song is about a World War II soldier returning home to his sweetheart.

Childhood
These characters have lived for about 100 years in the canon, which leads many MCU fans who love history to gravitate toward their early years. In the comics, they met later in life. In the MCU, however, they met at a much earlier age and "were inseparable on both playground and battlefield," leading many to headcanon a much earlier first meeting than even the MCU canon prequel comics. Many Stucky shippers disregard the prequel comics due to the fact that the Bucky depicted is far rougher and less gentlemanly than the one Sebastian Stan portrays. The age at which the two met is unclear, though many shippers headcanon their first meeting to be sometime between the ages of 4&5-7&8. Many fan fictions, have them meeting while Steve is standing up to a playground bully or some older neighborhood kids tormenting an animal. Many fans also headcanon that Steve gave Bucky his nickname, though many also believe it may have been Becca or another family member.

Another aspect of the pair's early years that shippers like to speculate about is their family life. It is known that Steve was raised by a single mother, Sarah Rogers, after his father, Joseph Rogers, died in World War I while serving with the 107th. He had no siblings and his mother was a nurse. While Steve's family life is fairly well established in the canon, Bucky's is more ambiguous. His parents were George and Winifred Barnes. He was the eldest of four children, and the language used leads most fans to believe that he was the only boy with three younger sisters. This is generally how the Barnes family is portrayed in fan fiction and fan art. In the comics, he has a sister named Rebecca, who goes by Becca; she is the eldest girl in almost all fan fictions about the Barnes family. The other two siblings are usually OCs and are usually both girls. In many works, the Barnes and Rogers families are close because of Steve and Bucky's friendship, and many shippers headcanon that the two families even spent holidays together.

Ethnicity and religion is another topic that is explored in the Stucky fandom. While it is known that Steve is Irish, it is hotly debated in the MCU fandom whether he is Catholic or Protestant. Bucky's ethnicity and religion is unknown. Popular theories include black Irish Catholic, black Irish Protestant, Jewish, and Romani.

Adolescence
In Captain America: Civil War, Steve tells Wanda that when Rumlow said Bucky's name, "all of a sudden [he] was a sixteen-year-old kid again, in Brooklyn." Because of this line, many shippers believe that something significant happened between the two when Steve was 16, whether it was Steve discovering his feelings for Bucky or the two of them getting together. While it is widely believed that Steve graduated from high school, some believe that Bucky did, and some believe that he did not.

Adulthood
Steve is generally considered by fans to be bisexual due to his interest in women despite their lack of interest in him, and his relationship with Peggy. Bucky's sexuality varies depending on the personal headcanon. Many believe that Bucky may also be bisexual, as it is widely accepted that he was a skirt chaser. However, some believe that this may have been a front to hide the fact that he was gay and in a relationship with his best friend.

It is widely believed in Stucky fandom that Steve and Bucky lived together after Steve's mother died. According to canon, Steve and Bucky grew up in a rough neighborhood with a vibrant gay community, and so many shippers who accept the headcanon that Steve and Bucky lived together believe that they stayed in the same neighborhood. Many non-shippers, as well as post-war shippers, also believe that they shared an apartment for saving money, as this was during the Great Depression. Many postwar shippers also believe that Steve and Bucky shared a bed for warmth and/or to save money on a second bed.

An extremely popular topic in the Stucky fandom is the subject of Steve and Bucky in the gay community that thrived just down the street. Most agree that since they grew up right in the heart of the gay community while it was thriving in the 1920s, they would have participated in the Brooklyn gay community once they grew up and realized they were a part of it. Another aspect of the canon that fans believe plays into this is the mention of Coney Island, as this was a major spot for the LGBT community in the 1920s and into the early 1930s, while Steve and Bucky were just coming into themselves and their sexuality. Steve and Bucky grew up very close to the red light district, which meant they grew up very close to a hot spot for homosexuality and prostitution.

Another aspect of Steve and Bucky's pre-war lives that fans often examine is where they worked. Most have Bucky working on the docks to support himself and Steve, while Steve does odd jobs, makes art for money, or works in a grocery store.

Many popular headcanons arise from the existence of Steve's many health problems. An example is the asthma cigarette headcanon, where Steve smokes asthma cigarettes filled with belladonna and often cannabis due to his severe asthma. These cause some wild hallucinations and can make for interesting fanwork. An extremely common trope found in almost all pre-war Stucky fanfics that are longer than one shot, in addition to many one shots, is the idea that Steve got the last rights twice before the serum. Another common trope is Bucky taking care of Steve during his illnesses.

Many fanworks depict Steve in art school, due to the prequel comics in which both Steve and Bucky were in art school during the attack on Pearl Harbor. However, many fans disagree that Bucky is also an artist; many believe he was more skilled at writing or playing the piano.

War Tropes
Because of his serial number, many fans believe that Bucky was drafted, though many disregard that idea and instead accept that he enlisted in the war.

Letters between the two are also an area the shippers explore. It is canonically unknown whether or not Steve was allowed to send letters to Bucky while in basic training or on tour with the USO. As a result, this is a topic often explored in fan fiction. Some believe that they exchanged many letters, and that they were forced to hide the truth of the topics of conversation, as many gay couples who wrote to each other during World War II were. Others believe that Steve was unable to write to Bucky once he became part of a top-secret government experiment. Letters or not, almost all shippers agree that Bucky had no idea about the serum before Steve rescued him from Hydra.

Another popular headcanon is that Bucky told his war buddies about his sweetheart back home, pretending that Steve was a woman. There is much many fan fiction about Bucky telling the rest of his platoon about his sweetheart, "Stevie" or "Stephanie," occasionally even "Stella" a tiny, fiery blonde back in Brooklyn. This often leads to the Commandos, who were part of the 107th, discovering the truth about the pair once Steve becomes Captain America.

Another question on the minds of many shippers is whether or not Peggy and the Commandos knew about Steve and Bucky's relationship. Often they know and accept it, and agree not to tell anyone. Other times, they know and have a moral struggle over this information, sometimes with this kind of fan fiction, one of the Commandos tells Col. Phillips, who covers it up. Other times, the pair is very good at hiding their relationship. Due to the fact that Steve is the Commandos' CO and Bucky is his second in command, they share a tent in most wartime fan fiction, which can also arouse the Commandos' suspicions. In fan fiction where the Commandos know or suspect of Steve and Bucky's relationship, they try to comfort Steve after Bucky falls to his apparent death.

Post-War Tropes
Most fans believe that due to the non-canon nature of the ship, Steve kept his sexuality and relationship to himself after coming out of the ice. Although some fan fiction has him coming out to the world as bisexual before the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. However, many fans believe that Natasha did not know about Steve's sexuality before The Winter Soldier because she kept trying to set him up with women.

The Winter Soldier
S popular trope is "Up All Night to Get Bucky," in which Steve and Sam search for Bucky after he leaves Steve at the river. This trope focuses more on finding Bucky than on life after he is found. The recovery trope generally deals with the hard truth and anguish of Bucky's de-programming and memory recovery, as well as rekindling his relationship with Steve.

After The Winter Soldier, an extremely popular trope was the Avengers family trope, where Steve was living in Avengers Tower when they found Bucky, or when Bucky came to Steve or another Avenger for help. These fan fictions usually follow the Avengers as they help Bucky and learn of Steve's relationship with the ex-assassin. Within this trope, there are many popular headcanons and tropes, such as the banana trope, where Steve and Bucky discover that bananas are different than they were before the war. Movie/game night with the Avengers is another popular trope. Coming out fan fiction is another popular trope, as there are many directions it can go.

All fan fiction using these tropes became non-canon after the release of Captain America: Civil War. This does not mean that people stopped writing or reading them; they simply exist as alternate universe fan fiction.

Civil War
After Civil War, a lot of fan fiction dealt with the Steve/Sharon kiss, aa many were outraged by it. An even more popular trope, however, was getting Bucky out of cryo. Often this involved a reunion. Often Steve would stay in Wakanda while Bucky was in cryo. Much of this fan fiction is no longer canon after the release of Black Panther. Much fan fiction, including Shuri's friendship with Bucky, also became popular.

Comic Fans
While in the MCU Stucky fans ship them romantically, among comic fans their relationship is viewed very differently. In Marvel's canon Prime Universe in the comics, Earth-616, Bucky and Steve have a father-son relationship. Bucky first met Steve (who was already an adult) as an orphan in the military when he was 16, and the two became known to comic fans as a Batman & Robin-like duo. Steve thought of Bucky as his son, and Bucky thought of Steve as his father. He even referred to Steve as "Pappy," which was a nickname to call him Dad. As Bucky grew up, the two began to see each other in a more brotherly way, but the father/son dynamic still remained. Among the comic fans, "The Invaders" is the family ship between Steve, Bucky, Jim Hammond, Toro and Namor.

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 * Steve/Bucky (Avengers Movies) tag on FanFiction.net
 * Steve/Bucky (Captain America Movies) tag on FanFiction.net
 * Steve/Bucky (Marvel Comics) tag on FanFiction.net
 * Steve/Bucky (Avengers Cartoon) tag on FanFiction.net
 * Steve/Bucky (Avengers Cartoon) tag on FanFiction.net

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Variations

 * RogerWinterBones refers to the ship between Brock Rumlow, Steve and Bucky
 * SamSteveBucky refers to the ship between Sam Wilson, Steve and Bucky
 * Stukelmut refers to the ship between Helmut Zemo, Steve and Bucky
 * StuckyNat refers to the ship between Natasha Romanoff, Steve and Bucky
 * Stuckony refers to the ship between Tony Stark, Steve and Bucky
 * T'Stuckony refers to the ship between T'Challa, Tony Stark, Steve and Bucky
 * WinterShieldShock refers to the ship between Darcy Lewis, Steve and Bucky
 * World War Threesome refers to the ship between Peggy Carter, Steve and Bucky

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