- "HYDRA deserves its place on the ash heap, so your death would not bother me. But I have to use this book and other bloodier methods to get what I need."
- ―Helmut Zemo to Vasily Karpov[src]
The Winter Soldier Book is a handbook with information regarding the Winter Soldier Program, including how to access the HYDRA Siberian Facility as well as the trigger words needed to control Winter Soldier.
History[]
Winter Soldier Program[]
- "Желание. Ржавый. Семнадцать. Рассвет. Печь. Девять. Добросердечный. Возвращение на Родину. Один. Товарный вагон.[1]"
- ―Vasily Karpov to Winter Soldier[src]
During HYDRA's mental reconditioning of Bucky Barnes, a string of code phrases were implanted into his mind. The series of code words to make Barnes into a compliant killing machine were Желание, Ржавый, Семнадцать, Рассвет, Печь, Девять, Добросердечный, Возвращение на Родину, Один, Товарный вагон.[1]As Barnes was constantly frozen and unfrozen to perform assassinations throughout the generations, the words needed to trigger his brainwashing and control him were transcribed into the Winter Soldier Book and passed down over the years.
By December 1991, Vasily Karpov, a Colonel in the Soviet Armed Forces and a high ranking HYDRA member, was made Winter Soldier's handler and was given the book. Karpov used the book to control Winter Soldier, ordering him to steal the recreated Super Soldier Serum and murder Howard Stark and his wife Maria.[2]
Zemo's Revenge[]
- "Желание, Ржавый, Семнадцать, Рассвет, Печь, Девять, Добросердечный, Возвращение на родину, Один, Товарный вагон.[1] Солдат?[3]"
"Я жду приказов.[4]" - ―Helmut Zemo and Winter Soldier[src]
In 2016, Helmut Zemo planned to use the Winter Soldier book as part of his plan to make the Avengers fight each other. He went to Vasily Karpov's home in Cleveland and stole the Winter Soldier Book from him, after killing him.
In a hotel room in, Berlin, Zemo practiced the code phrases to control the Winter Soldier. Zemo kidnapped and murdered Theo Broussard, the psychiatrist hired by the Joint Counter Terrorist Centre to interrogate the captive Bucky Barnes, and disguised himself as the unfortunate psychiatrist in order to gain access to Barnes. During the interview, Zemo caused a power outage and read the code phrases from the book to control Winter Soldier. After gaining information on where the other Winter Soldiers were, Zemo sent Barnes on a rampage in order to use him as a distraction to escape the scene.[2]
Alternate Realities[]
Theft by Charmagne Sund[]
Zemo left the book behind in the boardinghouse room where he had been staying, where it was found by CIA agents working under Everett Ross and taken in as evidence after Zemo's arrest for his crimes against the Avengers. The Sokovian CIA agent Charmagne Sund, who had developed a deep grudge against Zemo due to his crimes destroying the good name of Sokovia, later entered the evidence room and stole the book while Ross interrogated Zemo, hoping to both get it decoded to learn about any of Zemo's potential future plans and to use it as a distraction for Ross's agents from her true plan to kill Zemo. A half-hour later, Ross discovered her crime and contacted T'Challa, who was still at the facility after turning over Zemo to the authorities. Ross informed T'Challa of the situation and, believing that Sund either intended to use the book herself or give it to someone more sinister to use, asked him to help him track down Sund and recover the book.
Sund brought the Winter Soldier Book with her to her hideout in the Berlin State Opera building, continuing to take it with her while she fled from the room after being discovered by T'Challa and Ross. She further brought the book with her during her attempt to kill Zemo by breaking him out of the Joint Counter Terrorist Centre Building and bringing him to the roof to shoot him, castigating him for his crimes while shaking the book with what she believed to be his future plans in his face. After both Sund and Zemo were captured by Ross and T'Challa, the book was taken back into evidence by the CIA.[5]
Alternate Versions[]
Origin | Status | Creators | Owners | Users |
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Black Panther: The Junior Novel | Inactive | - | HYDRA Helmut Zemo Charmagne Sund |
HYDRA Helmut Zemo Charmagne Sund |
Appearances[]
In chronological order:
Behind the Scenes[]
- In the original draft of Captain America: Civil War, Helmut Zemo's original goal was to retrieve the "Mind Crown", the key element of the Memory Suppressing Machine, that would have gave Zemo the control over Bucky Barnes's mind. Directors Anthony and Joe Russo replaced it with a book because they thought it would have been more convenient into the story.[6]
- Contrary to popular belief, the use of the word "homecoming" and "seventeen" is coincidental and is not a reference to Spider-Man: Homecoming.[7]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Translates from Russian to: "Longing. Rusted. Seventeen. Daybreak. Furnace. Nine. Benign. Homecoming. One. Freight Car."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Captain America: Civil War
- ↑ Translates from Russian to: "Soldier?"
- ↑ Translates from Russian to: "I'm ready to answer."; official translation: "Ready to comply."
- ↑ Black Panther: The Junior Novel
- ↑ Captain America: Civil War Commentary
- ↑ Is There Any Significance To Bucky's Trigger Words In Civil War? Here's What The Writers Say