Bucky Barnes’ role in Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues White Vision’s story from WandaVision – here’s how. The MCU’s highly-anticipated Phase 4 has already begun with WandaVision, and while fans wait for a new Marvel movie to be released, they will get to enjoy another Disney+ exclusive TV series with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. What makes the MCU’s upcoming TV projects so exciting is that they will be an active part of the MCU, unlike Netflix’s Marvel shows, and they are already exploring the arcs of heroes that were usually left aside in the Infinity Saga, as are the cases of Wanda Maximoff, Vision, Falcon, and Bucky Barnes.

Now streaming on Disney+ is The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which just like WandaVision, will drop one episode per week, and the first one has already given the audience a taste of the tone of the show and the current situation of the title heroes. Set a couple of months after the events of Avengers: Endgame, the series sees Sam Wilson/Falcon (Anthony Mackie) deciding whether to carry on with Captain America’s legacy or not, while Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) continues to deal with his inner demons. It’s this side of Bucky’s arc in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier that draws some parallels to that of White Vision (Paul Bettany) in WandaVision, and which pretty much sets his future in the MCU.

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Bucky Barnes’ history in the MCU has been a complicated one, as he went from a soldier fighting in World War II, to a prisoner of HYDRA and later “dying”, but he was actually handed over back to HYDRA so they could continue experimenting on him. Bucky became the first subject in the Winter Soldier program and became one of HYDRA’s most dangerous weapons thanks to multiple memory wipes and a lot of brainwashing and reprogramming. During his time as the Winter Soldier, he was responsible for many crimes and murders, among those the death of Howard and Maria Stark, and though he is now free from HYDRA’s control and has served as a hero alongside the Avengers and more, he hasn’t been able to fully escape from his past.

Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

White Vision’s story so far is on the same line as Bucky’s. WandaVision saw the introduction of White Vision, built from the body of the original Vision but with a completely different purpose (and, of course, without the Mind Stone), as S.W.O.R.D.’s plan was to use him to kill the Vision Wanda created in her fake reality and then pick White Vision from the rubble, claiming Wanda made it and taking credit for saving Westview. However, S.W.O.R.D.’s acting director Tyler Hayward (Josh Stamberg) wasn’t counting on Wanda’s Vision outsmarting his and transferring his memories onto him, sending White Vision into an existential crisis and leaving Westview without fulfilling Hayward’s plans. Bucky and White Vision, then, have become decommissioned weapons left to contemplate the fallout of their existence, which is a lot clearer in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as Bucky is going to therapy and doing his best to apologize and make things right with those he hurt during his time as the Winter Soldier, though that’s a lot easier said than done, as seen in how he has befriended the father of one of his victims but hasn’t been able to come clean to him.

White Vision is now in a similar position, but as his time in WandaVision was very brief, viewers haven’t really seen how he will deal with his existential crisis and more, especially as he’s a synthezoid, so his way of coping will be completely different to that of Bucky. These parallels between MCU characters are one of the things that make this universe so interesting, and there’s still a lot to see and learn about Bucky Barnes and White Vision in Phase 4.

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