Stone Gargoyle wrote:The issue is very disturbing, especially when you consider Bucky and Cap were the same age when Cap became a supersoldier and he kept his "friend" around, even to the point of endangering himself and Bucky. Apparently the super serum made cap appear older and much larger.
You are dead wrong, Cap was 18 when he transformed.
Barnes (named after James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States, and the only president to be an acrobat, hence the homage) was an orphan, the son of a soldier killed in training at Camp Lehigh just before the United States' entry into World War II. As a result, he was unofficially adopted by the camp as a mascot. Nicknamed "Bucky," he took to wearing a uniform and becoming savvy with the ins and outs of military life, even though he was a teenager. It was at Lehigh that he met and befriended Private Steven Rogers, who by all appearances was the clumsiest soldier in the camp. This was at the same time that reports of the then-mysterious Captain America begin to appear in news magazines, and Barnes eagerly devoured the accounts of this new hero.
One night, however, while peeping on Rogers changing in his tent, he saw that his friend was changing into the uniform of Captain America. Barnes made a deal to keep the secret of Rogers' dual identity if he could become his sidekick. Rogers agreed and trained Barnes appropriately. Together, Captain America and Bucky fought Nazis both at home and abroad, as a duo and as part of the superhero team known as the Invaders. Barnes also teamed up with the sidekicks of other heroes in a group called the Young Allies. Additionally, Bucky was retconned in 1976 as the organizer of the flashback World War II superteam the Liberty Legion, set between the formations of the Invaders and the post-war All-Winners Squad.
Damn ICE/BCP/BorderPatrol! Damn everyone who won’t damn ICE/BCP/Border Patrol!! Damn everyone that won’t put lights in his windows and sit up all night damning CE/BCP/BorderPatrol!!!
If you support ICE/BCP/BorderPatrol at this point, you would have called the Gestapo on the people surreptitiously moving into your neighbor's attic and huffed that you were only following the law.