The Falcon and The Winter Soldier's head writer, Malcolm Spellman, doesn't want fans fixating on Bucky still being called "The Winter Soldier" in the end title card as he believes the character has finally evolved into a hero.

"I hope people will forget that end title card as being an indicator of a commitment from Marvel," Spellman told ComicBook about Bucky's moniker remaining the same despite Sam being christened Captain America. "I think he has slayed that dragon, personally, and I don't think I'll be in trouble for that. So when Bucky enters the series, he's never ever shaken what he believes, which is, 'I remember everyone, murders, which means that part of me was there, which means a part of the Winter Soldier is me.' And if even a fraction of Winter Soldier is you, you are an awful person. You know what I'm saying?"

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For Spellman, Bucky entered the series still believing himself to be the Winter Soldier that Hydra would deploy. And even though there are nods to his White Wolf identity, he still spends the series trying to forge a new path.

"That was Bucky's identity coming in here, loaded with trauma on top of the fact that he doesn't feel like a citizen of any era," Spellman said. "We took him on this journey of trying to find ways to redeem himself and learning that avenging right is not the same thing as redemption. It is not the same thing as sort of a making amends or whatever, right?"

"I think Bucky enters this thing truly believing he is kind of the Winter Soldier no matter what anyone says," Spellman continued. "By the end, he has the moment with the old man, but more importantly, nobody has caught this... I've been saying it all day. In the scene with the Flag-Smashers in Episode 6, when one of those people gets out of that van and thanks Bucky, that's his first time being a hero. So by the end of this series, Bucky is emerging as having shed the burden of the Winter Soldier. He has found a new family, ironically, it's a Black family in Louisiana, you know what I'm saying? And he has tasted being a hero for the first time. And I think he's now free to become something amazing."

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Created by Malcolm Spellman and directed by Kari Skogland, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier stars Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Emily VanCamp, Wyatt Russell, Noah Mills, Carl Lumbly and Daniel Brühl. The series is available on Disney+.

Source: ComicBook