There are some spoilers for the end of Marvel's Thunderbolts. Stop reading now if you don't want to be spoiled.
At the beginning of this year, Captain America: Brave New World Kurz presented a new direction for James “Bucky” Barnes, a figure Sebastian Stan in Captain America: The First Avenger since 2011. In the Brave New World, the former winter soldier apparently retired out of the reformed hero and went into politics by ran for the congress. Thunderbolts reveals that Bucky won his choice as a house of representatives. But his stay in the congress was short.
Stan recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly about where Bucky's political career is now because he has joined the Misfit Heroes team in Thunderbolts. At the end of the film, the team's assets change drastically. And in the post-credits scene, Bucky is still in a team months after her renaming. This seemed to indicate that Bucky was a congress member, and Stan agreed that his short stay in politics was over.
“Yes, it's almost like crossing it out, right? “Ultimately, he realizes:” No, I am who I am and I do things how I do it, and I should just do that. “… the only problem I had was:” Well, why does he grow out his hair when he becomes a congress member?! “But I still wanted to expand it, so I thought: 'I don't care.' “
Jake Schreier, the director of Thunderbolts, also confirmed that Bucky's term in the congress was “pretty well done” before adding: “I think he found a new place that is much more sensible for him.”
Without spoiling the exact details of the end or the post-credits scene of the film, Bucky and his new teammates are ready to play an even greater role in Avengers: Doomsday than previously believed. This means that the stars of the Thunderbolts will be back in cinemas in about a year when the Doomsday arrives on May 1, 2026.
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