where does the Bucky Bear thing even come from?

[ratcreature]

I know that Bucky Bear appears in that Marvel A-Babies vs. X-Babies crack (though I haven't read the comic), but is that the first and only "canon" (well some variety of official source anyway) with Bucky Barnes teddybear merchandise and fandom just really ran with it, as fandom does, or does it appear anywhere else?

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[lilacsigil]

That's the first and only appearance to my knowledge.

[musesfool]

Bucky Bear also appears in an issue of the Winter Soldier solo book (I think it's the last issue?) as Bucky Bear brand honey, though it's also possible that Bucky's still in the hallucination/time loop thinger. I can't find the panel, but Bucky's sitting all broody at a table and there's a container of honey shaped like a Bucky Bear on the table next to him. That was after A-Babies vs. X-Babies, so it was probably just an injoke/callback, but you can take it as Bucky Bear (and subsequent products) existing in 616.

Then there's the time Bucky wrestled a bear in Siberia... oh comics.

[beck_liz]

Then there's the time Bucky wrestled a bear in Siberia... oh comics.

... of course he did. Comics.

[ratcreature]

Then fandom certainly makes the most of it. Admittedly, it is rather cute.

[ratcreature]

Heh, that is cool. And wrestling bears seems relatively sane by comic standards. I mean, Supergirl dated (and AU-married) her pet horse (granted an ex-centaur from Ancient Greece), who got retconned as a guy turned partially into a horse by wacky science experiments making him a centaur, who then merged with a lesbian in a freak accident resulting in him/them being able to change gender (s/he could also still turn into a flying centaur) and it was then revealed during the merger of the guy with the lesbian that they had become an earth-born centaur-angel of love... and there are probably characters with even wackier stuff going on than Comet.

[baronjanus]

Cutest thing in the world I saw today:

[ratcreature]

Wow.

[sholio]

Someone else might come along with better information, but I'm pretty sure it's from A-Babies vs X-Babies, and fandom just latched onto it because it was cute (and happened to tie in really well with the idea of Steve and Bucky being famous enough to have their own merchandise/toys in the MCU).