Stucky (fandom)
depictions of a relationship between Captain America and the Winter Soldier
In fandom, Stucky (also Steve/Bucky or Bucky/Steve) is the pairing of Steve Rogers (Captain America) and James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes (the Winter Soldier), fictional characters who appear in comic books and related media produced by Marvel Comics. The pairing is a manifestation of shipping, a phenomenon in fandom wherein individuals create fan works that depict a romantic or sexual relationship between two characters whose relationship in the source material is typically neither romantic nor sexual; Stucky is an example of slash, a genre of fan works that focus on same-sex characters. In accordance with shipping naming conventions, Stucky is a portmanteau of "Steve" and "Bucky".
Though Rogers and Bucky have appeared in media dating to the 1940s, Stucky fan works grew substantially in popularity in the 2010s after the characters appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Several individuals associated with Marvel, including Winter Soldier co-creator Ed Brubaker, MCU director Joe Russo, and Rogers's and Bucky's respective actors Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan, have commented positively on Stucky and showed their openness to any interpretations of the relationship between the characters. Critics and commentators have used the popularity of Stucky in fandom to remark on a range of topics, including the lack of LGBT characters in superhero films and the nature of fandom on social media.
Background
Marvel Comics
Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941), which establishes Rogers as Captain America and Bucky as his teenaged sidekick. Bucky would be retroactively killed in 1964 in an Avengers comic which revealed he had died towards the end of WWII alongside the disappearance of Rogers and would not re-appear until Captain America (vol. 5) in 2005, where the character is brought back from his previous apparent death as the Winter Soldier, a brainwashed assassin. As a result of Bucky's extended absence from comics, and Rogers's initial characterization as an older fraternal figure to Bucky, the emergence of Stucky as a phenomenon in fandom is a relatively recent development.
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