WinterBaron

WinterBaron is the slash ship between Baron Helmut Zemo and James "Bucky" Barnes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom.

Captain America: Civil War
Zemo blamed the Avenger for his family's deaths. Knowing he could not hope to win by force, Zemo sought to manipulate the Avengers into destroying each other. One of his plans included using Bucky Barnes as a tool for pitting The Avanger against each other. To initiate his plan, Zemo located Vasily Karpov, one of the former leaders of the Winter Soldier Program, who was in hiding as HYDRA had been wiped out. Eventually, he killed Karpov and obtained Winter Soldier Book. Using all the information he had obtained, Zemo then proceeded to frame the former Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes, into taking the fall for a bombing which then killed the Wakandan king T'Chaka. Bucky Barnes was eventually caught and subdued. Once the Avengers' co-leaders had gathered forces for their factions and fought each other to a near-standstill over their continued tensions surrounding the Winter Soldier's escape and how it impacted the Sokovia Accords, Zemo continued his plans as he prepared to travel to Siberia. Zemo eventually arrived at the HYDRA Facility all of found some Winter Soldiers who were still held inside Cryostasis Chambers, peacefully awaiting their next orders. Zemo killed all those five soldiers in their sleep.

Later, Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, and Tony Stark arrived to the HYDRA Facility. Zemo played them a footage of the Winter Soldier tracking down and killing Howard and Maria Stark. Just as Zemo had planned, seeing his parents being killed by the Winter Soldier drove Stark into a fit of rage, made worse as Rogers revealed that he had always known this, resulting in Stark furiously attacking his former allies to kill the Winter Soldier, while Zemo then quietly escaped during all of the chaos. He was eventually found by T'Challa and then tried to killed himself to reunite with his family, but was stopped by T'Challa. Zemo then got arrested for his crimes in Berlin Prison.

The Falcon and The Winter Soldier
Seven years after Zemo got arrested, Barnes found that someone had been recreated the Super Soldier serum and now there are new super soldiers that exist inside an organization called Flag Smasher. Assuming that HYDRA had something to do with this, Barnes gets the idea to visit Helmut Zemo in prison who had been intensively studying the organization. Barnes and Sam Wilson went to see Helmut Zemo, who was in an isolated cell in the Berlin Correctional Facility. Barnes told Wilson that he had to see Zemo alone, and to trust him because he and Zemo had a history together. Zemo was surprised that he was there and recited the Winter Soldier Programming words, only for Barnes to say that did not work anymore. Zemo then told him that he knew that, but was just messing with him. Zemo had then apologized to Barnes, insisting that his actions in framing him for T'Chaka's murder had never been personal, while calling him a means to an end. Barnes changed the subject and told Zemo that someone had recreated the Super Soldier Serum which got Zemo's attention and believed that Barnes was desperate to have to have come for his assistance; much to Zemo's surprise, as he deduced that Barnes had assumed that it was HYDRA who was behind this, which was why he came to see him. Barnes then helped Zemo broke out of the prison. Wilson demanded that Zemo be returned to prison, but Barnes argued that they needed him.

Barnes and Wilson were brought by Zemo to his private plane and they flew off. During the flight, Zemo somehow had managed to get and read Barnes' amend/revenge book (which has his name on the list). Barnes launched out of his seat and grabbed Zemo by the throat, vowing to kill him if he ever touched the notebook again. Zemo apologized, noting that he understood that it was a list of names of the people he had wronged as the Winter Soldier. Zemo then informed them that they were going to Madripoor, and they could not walk into it as themselves, so Barnes would have to become the Winter Soldier once again.

While they got closer to Madripoor, Zemo insisted that they would remain in character, no matter what happened, as their lives depended on it. At a bar in Madripoor, Zemo acted as the Winter Soldier's handler causing a ruckus that earns the trio a meeting with Selby. Zemo explained that he wanted Selby to tell them everything they knew about the Super Soldier Serum, and in exchange, he would give her the Winter Soldier. Zemo caressed Barnes' chin while promising that he would do anything that Selby required of him. Upon offering Barnes as a bargaining tool, Zemo learns from Selby that Doctor Wilfred Nagel is responsible for the recreation of the serum. Before Selby can offer Nagel's location for a fee, Sam Wilson receives a call from Sarah and is forced by Selby to put it on speaker. The call blows Sam's identity, and as Selby declares the trio be killed, she is killed by an unseen gun. Wilson, Barnes, and Zemo flee the premises. The entirety of Madripoor is alerted to Selby's death, with a bounty placed on the trio's heads. The mysterious gun kills several bounty hunters, later revealing herself as Sharon Carter. Having stolen Steve Rogers' shield during the Avengers Civil War, she is now a fugitive living off the grid on Madripoor. Carter then helped them to find Nagel in exchange of goverment's pardon that Sam promised her.

Carter brings them to Nagel's laboratory, hidden inside several shipping containers. While Carter remains outside to fend the lab against the remaining bounty hunters, Nagel is interrogated at gunpoint about the serum. Nagel told them that he had created twenty vials of the serum, before Karli Morgenthau (leader of Flag Smashers) Sol stole them. Once they got the information they needed, Zemo took his chance and killed Nagel to make sure that the super soldier serum couldn't be recreated anymore. A firefight then occurred by more bounty hunters that was coming close in on the lab and erupts at the shipyard. Zemo, slipping on his purple mask, defeats multiple bounty hunters before stealing a getaway vehicle from inside a shipping container. Wilson insisting that Zemo would go back to the Berlin Correctional Facility, only for Zemo to note that they needed him to find Morgenthau. Barnes agreed that they need him and got in the front seat, sitting beside Zemo. Wilson the got in the back of the car and and Zemo drove off away to his private jet. Looking forward to meeting with Morgenthau, Zemo redirects them to Riga. There, Barnes separates from the two to investigate mysterious beads littered on the street. He comes face-to-face with Ayo, who demands Zemo's location.