History Fanfic / BuckyBarnesGetsHisGrooveBackAndOtherInternationalIncidents

* HiddenInPlainSight: Various governments and entities that want to take Barnes to trial, put him to work for them, or both start setting up sensors that can detect Barnes and Motherfucker, as they put out similar energy signatures. Tony does some scans, and suggests that they just park Motherfucker right in the lobby of Stark Tower, and that Barnes move to Manhattan, because it turns out they're basically indistinguishable energy-wise from the Chitauri detritus that's still turning up around Manhattan years later. If anyone asks, they can just call Motherfucker a really ugly modern art piece.

* HasAType: Sam starts to suspect he has a type- big white blond dudes, which describes both Riley and Steve. The main difference, however, is that Riley's face looked like he'd been run over by a truck, while Steve looks like "a sad pink pickaxe".

* {{Hallucinations}}: While detoxing off of whatever cocktail of drugs HYDRA had him on, Barnes starts hallucinating Bucky taunting him, in various states of being- in his military dress uniform, just after losing his arm, head shaved just after brain surgery from HYDRA, and more. He also continues hallucinating Bucky while recovering from malnutrition. Hallucination Bucky is mostly annoying and shows up just to remind him that Barnes isn't the real deal, and Bucky tries to French-kiss him a few times for no apparent reason beyond knocking Barnes off-kilter.

* BadDreams
** Steve's nightmares aren't about crashing the ''Valkyrie'' or the ice or anything like that- they're always about getting shelled during the war, hiding uselessly in trenches praying desperately to not die. Whenever he wakes up from these, he's very stiff and silent.
** Barnes's most notable nightmares (and hallucinations) feature Bucky circa 1943, looking all pressed and perfect in his dress uniform, and trying to kill or otherwise destroy the person that Barnes has cobbled himself into.

* GoodIsNotSoft: The HYDRA World Revenge Tour brings out Steve's ruthless side, because this is Bucky he's avenging. He happily uses guns and knives, gets halfway decent at espionage, and kills a hell of a lot of people ([[AssholeVictim who were working for HYDRA, so they deserved it]]). When he returns to the states in the sequel, the FBI gets on his and the Wilson family's collective asses, and to say he's not pleased is an understatement.

* RagingStiffie: While DrowningTheirSorrows in a seedy bar in Croatia, Steve mentions to Sam that back in the thirties and forties, Bucky used to sing popular music from the time while engaging in foreplay or having sex with little pre-SuperSerum Steve. The two things wound up connecting in his mind, leading to poor Steve having to "fix [his] fuckin' pants in a hurry" if he happened to overhear the song in public later. [[DoubleEntendre Dick move, Barnes.]]

* BigEater: Barnes realizes that as a result of Zola's knockoff serum, he should be eating somewhere around 9000 calories a day. He's so mentally disorganized he has to set reminders to eat, but once he gets that squared away, the hallucinations largely stop and he starts really bulking up, to the point of being almost unrecognizable compared to how he looked in DC.

* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Steve's had some issues on and off with forgetting just how strong he is post-Serum. These days, it seems to happen only when he's either not paying attention or deeply emotionally compromised. Not long after the procedure, he tried drawing again and accidentally snapped his art pencil in two, causing him to [[ClusterFBomb swear up a storm]], and Clint mentions seeing him leave fingerprints in a lead pipe while on an op. Clint also mentions that [[EvenTheGuysWantHim he would totally have a one-night stand with Steve just on account of how attractive he is]], if he were sure Steve wouldn't get too far into the moment and accidentally break Clint's pelvis.

* ShoutOut: All of the chapter titles in ''If They Haven't Learned Your Name'' are the same as the title of a different song. The accompanying [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8190439/chapters/18766054 podfic]] opens and closes the recording of each chapter with an excerpt from the song in question.

* GoingCommando: As Steve discovers firsthand, Barnes never thought to procure, let alone wear underwear during the whole time he was on the run. After getting over his initial shock, Steve cringes about how bad the chafing must be with his heavy tactical pants. ([[PlayedForDrama Of course, given how mentally disorganized Barnes is, it's possible it never occurred to him to wear underwear because HYDRA never provided him with any in seventy years.]])

* ForeignQueasine: It probably doesn't actually look that bad in reality, but a seriously hungover Sam vomits at the mere sight of Steve's Croatian mystery meat pastry-thing. (It might be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burek burek]], which is basically just a meat pie.)

* BlessedWithSuck: Sure, Barnes now has access to a cool semi-sentient NighInvulnerable spaceship with powerful enough weapons to qualify it as a WMD, but the mental piloting style and later mind-meld wreaks havoc on his brain, and would probably majorly suck even for a pilot that doesn't share Barnes's poor mental health. Every flight leaves Barnes reeling and exhausted, and his taking the spaceship honestly puts a bit of a halt on his mental and physical recovery.

* BlessedWithSuck: Sure, Barnes now has a cool semi-sentient NighInvulnerable spaceship with powerful enough weapons to qualify it as a WMD, but the mental piloting style and later mind-meld wreaks havoc on his brain, and would probably majorly suck even for a pilot that doesn't share Barnes's poor mental health. Every flight leaves Barnes reeling and exhausted, and his taking the spaceship honestly puts a bit of a halt on his mental and physical recovery.

* WetwareCPU: Motherfucker [[spoiler:was created to operate interconnectedly in a hive mind of sorts with other spacecraft of its model, but if it loses that connection, it requires an organic pilot to give it orders via psychic link]]. In return, it pushes all of that data straight into the pilot's brain. Later on, the two sort of gain a seemingly permanent psychic link of sorts, one that [[spoiler:allows Barnes to know instinctively where Motherfucker is and what it's feeling, and call it from a distance, wherever it is in the world]].

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: At one point, Barnes winds up breaking into Sam's hotel room and presenting him with a container of macaroni and cheese with bacon. Sam's been craving macaroni and cheese for weeks, so he nearly snaps up the container before remembering that Barnes's allegiances are still unconfirmed, and asks Barnes if he put anything funny in the food. [[SubvertedTrope Barnes looks baffled and genuinely offended, and calmly asks Sam why he'd poison him when he has a perfectly good sniper rifle.]] Poison's tricky because the associated biochemistry isn't a sure thing, while a bullet to the head almost never goes wrong. Sam winds up eating the food.

* GoodIsNotSoft: The HYDRA World Revenge Tour brings out Steve's ruthless side, because this is Bucky he's avenging. When he returns to the states in the sequel, the FBI gets on his and the Wilson family's collective asses, and to say he's not pleased is an understatement.

* SeriouslyScruffy: Barnes is technically homeless for the full duration of ''If They Haven't Learned Your Name'' in addition to being severely mentally ill, and doesn't usually have access to clean clothes, or facilities where he can bathe. So for most of the story, when he's not in his tac gear, he goes around dressed in a fuzzy pink sweater and Victoria's Secret yoga pants with 'PINK' emblazoned down the side. [[GoingCommando And no underwear.]]

* DorkKnight: This fic makes it absolutely, abundantly clear that Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, Natasha Romanoff, and Bucky Barnes are just ''humans'' under their superhero identities and abilities, and total dorks. Steve had a DragQueen phase back in the thirties, swears himself blue if he breaks an art pencil, attempts to leave the hospital with a catheter still in, and once cut himself trying to shave his crotch with a straight razor. Barnes develops a taste for trashy ParanormalRomance novels, unironically listens to dubstep (the harsh sound helps to quiet his mind), names a spaceship with enough destructive power to qualify as a WMD Motherfucker, and loves hot baths and washing his hair. Natasha plays Never Have I Ever on long road trips, once tried jerryrigging her own hair dye while on an op, organizes HYDRA intel in a glittery pink notebook with a fuchsia pen with pompoms and a charm dangling from the top, and nearly squees in delight when Barnes, Steve, and Sam steal her a monster truck snowplow. Finally, Sam develops crushes on jacked white blond dudes, the dumber the better, changed his parents' dog's name to Barf, gave his iPod Touch to a mentally unstable super-assassin in exchange for macaroni and cheese with bacon, and has placidly accepted his new life of spying, wetwork ops, and government watchlists.

* AllLowercaseLetters: The titles of the main sequels, ''come as you are'' and ''sun falls moon lights''.

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: When Barnes's (stolen) iPod gets broken, he hunts down Sam and offers to trade a container of macaroni and cheese with bacon for his iPod Touch, which Sam barely uses. Sam's been craving macaroni and cheese for weeks, so he nearly takes Barnes up on the offer before remembering that Barnes's allegiances are still unconfirmed, and asks Barnes if he put anything funny in the food. [[SubvertedTrope Barnes looks baffled and genuinely offended, and calmly asks Sam why he'd poison him when he has a perfectly good sniper rifle.]] Poison's tricky because the associated biochemistry isn't a sure thing, while a bullet to the head almost never goes wrong. Sam winds up eating the food.

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Most people seem to be under the [[SubvertedTrope breathtakingly mistaken]] impression that Steve's childhood was pure character-building Dickensian poverty that helped turn him into the moral paragon that he is now. Not only is Steve Rogers, as a man, not even close to a paragon of anything save for maybe stubbornness, he and Bucky spent their childhoods aiding against Prohibition. Steve kept books for multiple speakeasies, and Bucky's family auto shop used to serve bootleggers on the down-low, where he'd help install secret compartments for contraband and learned how to soup up engines a bit. Given that Prohibition wasn't lifted until both were in their late teens, they were both minors when they were breaking the law, and Bucky could have been helping out with bootleggers' cars as young as his preteen years.

* AdaptationalUgliness: A very, ''very'' slight example with Steve that was likely inserted solely to set up a joke- in this fic, Steve broke his nose in a fight (or possibly several fights) prior to the war, and the Serum didn't completely put it back to the way it was before. It's noticeable enough to get a bunch of nosy grandmothers to urge him to get a nose job (he declines), but aside from that, it doesn't diminish his attractiveness.

* SapientShip: Motherfucker is at least partially sentient, to the point of having a personality, of sorts. It seems to like Barnes well enough, and will happily show him, in excruciating detail, the precise molecular composition of whatever it's pointed at, even if it doesn't quite understand what he is or wants from it. Barnes compares it to a drunk puppy and idly wonders if it's actually being powered by a sentient mind, perhaps even the mind of the alien equivalent of a puppy, which sends him into a thought spiral about the ethics of shutting it down all the way, whether it dreams while powered down, and the possibility that it might like him ''because'' he orders it around the way HYDRA ordered him around.

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: When Barnes's (stolen) iPod gets broken, he hunts down Sam and offers to trade a container of macaroni and cheese with bacon for his iPod Touch, which Sam barely uses. Sam's been craving macaroni and cheese for weeks, so he nearly takes Barnes up on the offer before remembering that Barnes's allegiances are still unconfirmed, and asks Barnes if he put anything funny in the food. [[SubvertedTrope Barnes looks baffled and genuinely offended, and calmly asks Sam why he'd poison him when he has a perfectly good sniper rifle.]] Poison's tricky because the associated biochemistry isn't a sure thing, while a bullet to the head almost never goes wrong.

* VillainTeamUp: In turns out that [[spoiler:AIM, as depicted in ''Film/IronMan3'']], is in cahoots with HYDRA, and that the events of that film were most likely coordinated with Insight Day, in order to [[spoiler:keep Tony and Stark Industries occupied and prevent their interference, if not end it altogether. If AIM kills Tony, that leaves SI floundering either to topple on its own or for HYDRA or AIM to take, and if not, they've hopefully stalled Tony long enough for Insight to launch all the way, and a Helicarrier can just take him out then- win-win. The partnership continues even after the failure of Insight, with AIM harboring a lot of ex-HYDRA R&D and scientific personnel intermixed with non-HYDRA personnel in a way that makes it hard to run ops against their bases.]]

* HowDoIShotWeb: There's a learning curve to piloting a spaceship that only interfaces with Barnes's metal arm. In order to actually move the spaceship, he has to think about the end result he wants, not about just moving it or deploying weapons or whatever, which according to Barnes is way harder than it sounds. Barnes learned about all of the ship's capabilities by accident, and through trial and error.

* AdaptationalUgliness: A very, ''very'' slight example with Steve that was likely inserted solely to set up a joke- in this fic, Steve broke his nose in a fight (or possibly several fights) prior to the war, and the Serum didn't completely put it back to the way it was before. It's noticeable enough to get a bunch of nosy grandmothers to urge him to get a nose job (he declines), but it doesn't diminish his attractiveness.