And the only character who was actually using the name Robin was Damian, who’s just flat out dead.Īnd those are just the famous sidekick mantles. Dick Grayson has been a solo crime-fighter for decades as Nightwing and even Tim Drake is going by Red Robin these days, hardly ever showing up in the bat-titles. DC’s always got Robin but let’s go through that exhaustive list: similar to Bucky, Jason Todd came back to life as a badass adult only to pick up a gun and go out on his own. ![]() Now, by this definition the most famous sidekicks of all time don’t currently exist in either the Marvel or DC universes.īucky Barnes was certainly once the epitome of sidekicks but he came back to life as the Winter Soldier, an adult, trained assassin and now hero in his own right. ![]() Simply put, in the Marvel cinematic universe Bucky is not a sidekick and for good reason, because sidekicks are dead and the comic book industry seems intent to keep it that way.įirst of all let me explain my definition of a sidekick, which is a young hero who is mentored and trained by an older hero, working with them as a team to fight crime and/or evil. Now I use the word ‘sidekick’ because that has traditionally been Bucky’s role in the comic book universe but the Cap movies make a point of never calling him this, he’s always “Sergeant Barnes” or “Cap’s best friend”. Among other things the film marks the cinematic resurrection of Captain America’s sidekick, Bucky Barnes. A little movie opened this weekend that you might have heard of called Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
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