10 Superheroes Who Changed Identities For The Better

During WWII Captain America fought the Nazi's with the help of his teenage sidekick Bucky. However, when he was revived in the modern age, it was revealed that Bucky had been killed in the same explosion that had left Cap frozen in ice.

For years afterwards Bucky was considered to be a character that absolutely couldn't be brought back to life. That was until writer Ed Brubaker and artist Steve Epting managed to pull off the seemingly impossible and resurrect him in the incredible Captain America story The Winter Soldier.

The story retconned Bucky's death, revealing that he also survived the explosion (albeit missing an arm) and was fished out of the ocean by the Soviet Union. They then brainwashed him and turned him into a badass cybernetic assassin, kept young over the years by staying in cryogenic suspension between missions.

It also revealed that Bucky was older than originally portrayed in the comics and was actually a trained spy, explaining why exactly everyone was cool with Cap throwing a teenage boy into literally all of the warzones.

Winter Soldier started off a villain but Cap managed to break his old friends brainwashing and he now helps the heroes as an international (and sometimes extraterrestrial) secret agent.