was 1610 Steve and bucky still close and friends, was there even a bucky in that universe?
Yes, they were, and yes, there was.
Steve and Bucky were childhood friends and then fought in the war together. The MCU versions take inspiration from Ults Steve and Bucky.
However, Bucky survived the war and eventually married Steve’s former fiancé, Gail Richards (a bit of a weird decision, I know), and lived a normal life and had kids, and eventually grandkids. By the time Steve was de-iced in the early 2000s, Bucky was diagnosed with cancer, but he lived long enough to reunite with Steve.
Ults Steve is a little…asshole-ish, but he struggled immensely after he came out of the ice in the 21st century. MCU Steve’s whole “man out of time” thing comes from Ults Steve because 616 Steve was originally de-iced around twenty years post-WWII. It’s not a long time, especially when so many of the people he fought with are still alive. Nick Fury, Bucky, Namor, etc. Even Ben Grimm was originally an ace pilot in the pacific theatre and Reed Richards worked for the OSS. Of course, with the sliding timeline of 616, Steve was in the ice for a lot longer now but the “man out of time” concept doesn’t really apply to 616 Steve, in my opinion. 1610, however, did not have a sliding timeline, all the comics took place in the early 2000s onwards.
Anyway, basically Steve wasn’t in a good mental space after he came out of the ice, and Steve and Bucky had this really touching moment.
Basically, Ults Bucky had a pretty chill life after WWII. He never became the Winter Soldier because Ultimates was written in 2002, and he only became the Winter Soldier in 616 in 2005. The concept of the Winter Soldier didn’t even exist at that point, so the concept of Bucky being alive and growing old when his most famous achievement at the time was dying, was something new.
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