Why should Bucky know Black Widow specifically?

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In the movie Captain America: Civil War, Black Widow told Bucky: "You could at least recognise me". What does that mean? Did they know each other during WWII?



Best Answer

James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes has already nearly killed Natasha Romanoff at least twice by the time that Captain America: Civil War takes place.

The first time Bucky tried to kill Natasha was when she was on a mission with SHIELD.

Five years ago I was escorting a nuclear engineer out of Iran, somebody shot at my tires near Odessa. We lost control, went straight over a cliff, I pulled us out, but the Winter Soldier was there. I was covering my engineer, so he shot him straight through me. A Soviet slug, no rifling. Bye-bye bikinis.

The second time is in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, after Natasha, Steve and Sam have interrogated Agent Sitwell for information. There is an extended action sequence set on a motorway and an underpass that sees Natasha struggling to stay alive against Bucky.

Her line of "You could at least recognise me!" when they fight for a third time in Captain America: Civil War is simply a joke about how, despite having nearly killed her three times at this point, she seems to be mostly irrelevant to him, as she has never been the primary target in any instance - merely an obstacle to get past before his actual mission can be completed.




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Why does Black Widow know Bucky?

Natasha had idea, due to his fragmented memory and the curtain of secrecy, that her lover was once the sidekick to Captain America, or that his name is even Bucky Barnes. She knew him by his first name, James.

How do Bucky and Black Widow know each other?

They are both Russian (Natasha is actually Russian and Bucky was found by Russians at the end of Captain America: The First Avenger) and earned their reptuation by working for the same side (Natasha worked for the Red Room and KGB in Russia and Bucky became the Winter Solider for Hyda).

What is the relationship between Bucky and Black Widow?

The relationship between Bucky Barnes and Natasha Romanoff dates all the way back to the Cold War in the Soviet Union where Bucky was one of Natasha's trainers at the Red Room Academy. It was here that their relationship blossomed into a romantic one. (Earth-616) Bucky training Natasha in the Red Room.

Was Black Widow trained by the Winter Soldier?

During that time she had some training under the Winter Soldier, and the pair even had a short romance. Each Black Widow is deployed with false memories to help ensure her loyalty. Romanova eventually discovers this, including the fact that she had never, as she had believed, been a ballerina.



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Answer 2

He has nearly killed her at least twice.

As explained in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Black Widow was on a mission protecting someone when the Winter Soldier showed up and shot a bullet through her into his intended target.

Later in the same movie (meaning Winter Soldier) she and Captain America fought him out on the freeway and in the lower side streets (He stalked her).

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So that is at least two times prior to Civil War they had met, although neither were exactly on good terms.

Answer 3

I believe her comment refers to how Bucky has managed to avoid recapture by Hydra and the inevitable mind wipe that will follow.

As we know from Winter Soldier, Bucky is kept frozen and is occasionally defrosted for special missions, accompanied by hypnosis to compel him to obedience. When he originally meets Captain America, his oldest friend, he originally doesn't recognize him, or at least is incapable of expressing it and acting on it - he's a brainwashed soldier, and it takes him the rest of the movie to shake off the conditioning.

So when Natasha says "at least you recognize me", after he's met her at least twice before, she's saying "you've avoiding reverting into a psychopathic killing machine. Good for you!"

Answer 4

From IMDb trivia

While fighting the Winter Soldier, Black Widow asks him - "Do you even remember me?". Referencing the Soviet Scientist she was guarding when shot by the Winter Soldier. However, this may reference a storyline in the comics where they were romantically involved, or the story she told in Captain America: Winter Soldier of being shot by him while in a mission.

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