Latest / Vigilante Vibes Podcast / Ep. 247. Who is Buck in Marvel Comics?!

Transcript

Ep. 247. Who is Buck in Marvel Comics?! · Vigilante Vibes Podcast

• 0:09
  Hello Marvel fans, comic geeks, and all nerds in between.
• 0:11
  My name is Megan and today I'm coming to you with another
• 0:14
  character breakdown of someone who has been a very big deal and
• 0:18
  Daredevil Born Again and I didn't see it coming.
• 0:21
  So with how much hype Daredevil Born Again season 2 has created,
• 0:24
  we have to talk about some of the characters in the show
• 0:26
  because their comic counterparts are somehow even more
• 0:29
  interesting than them. In this episode, I want to talk
• 0:31
  about Buck. Honestly, Buck didn't leave a
• 0:33
  lasting impression for me in the first season.
• 0:36
  He just kind of seemed like Fisk's yes man.
• 0:39
  And once you're coming off Fisk having Wesley as his right hand
• 0:44
  guy, then it's really hard to live up to those standards.
• 0:47
  But now I think he's captured what made Wesley so diabolical
• 0:51
  and even surpassed it in this second season.
• 0:53
  So let's talk about his history of Marvel Comics.
• 0:56
  So Buck first appeared in Marvel Comics in daredevil #250 in
• 1:00
  September of 1987 and was created by Ann Nocenti and John
• 1:04
  Romita Junior. Buck was basically a top tier
• 1:07
  covert agent for the US government, handling secret
• 1:09
  missions nobody really wanted to know about and holding the
• 1:13
  highest clearance possible. Also, he goes by Bullet in the
• 1:17
  comics, so if I say Bullet, that is Buck.
• 1:20
  He had a young son named Lance who was kind of obsessed with
• 1:23
  the idea that World War 3 was right around the corner, which
• 1:26
  I'm not going to judge your parenting, that's not on me, but
• 1:28
  I do think you should check gout therapy.
• 1:32
  The problem was Buck was almost never home.
• 1:35
  His official residence wasn't even the same as Lance's, so
• 1:38
  Lance was often left alone and would even lie to cover for his
• 1:41
  dad. Lance's mom Gloria didn't
• 1:44
  exactly step up either, which really frustrated Buck at one
• 1:47
  point. AUS Army general working on
• 1:50
  behalf of Wilson Fisk, AKA The Kingpin.
• 1:52
  You may have heard of him assigned Buck to a shady
• 1:55
  operation targeting an environmental group called Save
• 1:58
  the Planet. The plan was for someone else to
• 2:01
  bomb their headquarters, then have Buck swoop in and arrest
• 2:04
  the terrorists, who would later walk free thanks to legal
• 2:08
  loopholes the Kingpin way. That plan got messed up when
• 2:12
  Matthew Murdoch, who was secretly Daredevil, but he was
• 2:14
  not in costume at this time. He was just Matthew Murdoch
• 2:18
  caught the guy instead. He ran into Bullet, who claimed
• 2:22
  he'd make sure the guy went to jail, but Murdoch could tell
• 2:25
  that he was lying thanks to his enhanced senses.
• 2:28
  They fought, but in the end, Murdoch let Bullet take the
• 2:31
  suspect anyway. Not long after, Buck killed a
• 2:35
  man using toxic waste and framed the environmentalists, and
• 2:39
  although Buck realized Daredevil was the same guy he'd fought
• 2:42
  before, he still didn't know his real identity.
• 2:45
  When the cops showed up, Bullet actually confessed, but one
• 2:49
  phone call later and all the charges disappeared, and he
• 2:51
  walked away free. Later, Buck teamed up with other
• 2:55
  criminals recruited by the assassin Typhoid for an attack
• 2:58
  on Daredevil that nearly took him out.
• 3:00
  Wanting payback, Daredevil tracked down Lance, helped him
• 3:03
  deal with some bullies, and earned his trust.
• 3:05
  Lance invited Daredevil home and tried to convince him not to
• 3:09
  fight with his dad. Buck walked in, assumed
• 3:13
  Daredevil was threatening his son, and then he just
• 3:15
  automatically attacked. Lance cleared things up and Buck
• 3:19
  admitted he actually liked Daredevil, he'd only fought him
• 3:22
  because he was paid to. Daredevil basically decided the
• 3:25
  whole thing just wasn't worth it and left.
• 3:28
  Buck kept working for Kingpin, including a job where he had to
• 3:32
  stop a man named Mr. Zheng from giving info, and a highway map
• 3:36
  to reporter Ben Urich since it would mess up Kingpin's plans to
• 3:39
  profit off Chi planned, Buck roughed Zheng up, got the map,
• 3:44
  and shut things down. But Daredevil stepped in again,
• 3:47
  fought Buck publicly, got the map back, and boosted his own
• 3:51
  reputation. Buck backed off, but warned that
• 3:54
  he wouldn't go easy next time. After Daredevil eventually took
• 3:58
  down Kingpin and claimed control of Hill's kitchen, a small time
• 4:02
  dealer named Mikey J tried to use Buck as a figurehead to take
• 4:05
  over. They met up with their crews,
• 4:07
  including Mikey's associate Lynn, who mocked Buck for not
• 4:11
  even having an online presence and tried to shut the whole
• 4:14
  thing down. Daredevil crashed a meeting,
• 4:17
  wiped out the gangsters, saved Lynn, and convinced her to leave
• 4:21
  that life behind. Buck's career kept getting
• 4:25
  messier and messier. He joined the Assassin's Guild
• 4:28
  to fight X Force and got stabbed in the chest by Warpath.
• 4:31
  Whether he died or not was unclear, since a healer named
• 4:35
  Elixir was patching people up right after.
• 4:38
  Later, an FBI agent named Joy recruited him to help track
• 4:42
  Bullseye, offering to restore his revoked US citizenship if he
• 4:46
  helped. Even though he was older and
• 4:50
  more seasoned, Buck was still in insane shape.
• 4:54
  At one point, he literally wrestled a tiger in Colombia and
• 4:56
  killed it with a chokehold. So if that tells you anything.
• 5:00
  After sneaking back into the US, Buck was captured and tortured
• 5:04
  by Bullseye, who was looking for someone called Shotgun.
• 5:08
  Bullseye was also kidnapped and seemed to kill Lance the son.
• 5:13
  But you know, Despite that, Bullets still ended up working
• 5:17
  alongside Bullseye later when they were both hired by the
• 5:20
  Stromwinds to cause chaos in Hell's Kitchen.
• 5:22
  So we love you, Lance. I guess.
• 5:26
  I don't know. Eventually, Buck went off grid,
• 5:29
  living in a remote cabin with his dog Mitch.
• 5:32
  What he didn't know was that Mitch had bonded with the Phage
• 5:36
  symbiote. When Carnage reached out through
• 5:39
  the symbiote hive mind, Phage took over, attacked Buck, tore
• 5:43
  out his throat, and partially ate him before bonding with him.
• 5:46
  Instead. Under Phage's control, Buck
• 5:49
  joined the Friends of Humanity and became head of security for
• 5:52
  Senator Peter Crane. Carnage sent him to kill Andy
• 5:55
  Benson and he nearly succeeded, even beating her when Anti Agent
• 6:00
  Venom showed up. Who is Flash Thompson?
• 6:03
  He threw her through a wall and impaled her, but she survived by
• 6:06
  bonding with a new symbiote called Silence and used it to
• 6:10
  critically injure Phage, sending Buck plummeting to what looked
• 6:14
  like his death. But Buck is a bad guy and do
• 6:18
  they ever stay dead? No they don't.
• 6:21
  Buck survived again. He recovered, got arrested, and
• 6:25
  ended up in prison until Daredevil broke him out and
• 6:28
  convinced him to join the 1st. During that time, Daredevil
• 6:32
  revealed that Lance was actually still alive, that Buck had
• 6:35
  secretly hidden him after the Bullseye incident.
• 6:39
  Later on, Buck joined a group of lower tier villains recruited by
• 6:42
  Hank Pym as a part of a new anti Ultron team called the Lethal
• 6:46
  Legion, and since then we haven't heard much about him.
• 6:51
  So you understand his history, but what exactly can he do?
• 6:55
  Unlike his live action counterpart, this Buck is
• 6:57
  actually powered. So what exactly can he do?
• 7:00
  Buck's got a bunch of low level superhuman abilities that make
• 7:03
  him way more dangerous than a normal person.
• 7:06
  He can move insanely fast, way faster than even the best of
• 7:11
  human athletes, both in running and general movement.
• 7:14
  On top of that, he's super strong, with enough power to
• 7:18
  lift around 1000 lbs without much trouble.
• 7:21
  His stamina is also on an entirely different level.
• 7:25
  His muscles don't build up fatigue toxins as quickly as a
• 7:28
  regular person's, so he can keep going for hours before he even
• 7:32
  starts to slow down. He's also incredibly tough.
• 7:36
  His body can take a lot more punishment than a normal human.
• 7:40
  Probably tied to his enhanced strength.
• 7:42
  I'm assuming things like falling from several stories, getting
• 7:46
  hit with heavy objects like wooden planks, even taking blows
• 7:50
  with superhuman force do not affect him nearly as much as
• 7:53
  they would someone else. He's even shown that he can
• 7:56
  handle long exposure to toxic chemicals without it really
• 7:59
  taking him down. So as you can see, Buck
• 8:04
  physically, he is very, very different from the Buck in
• 8:08
  Daredevil Born Again. But in ways of, I don't know how
• 8:14
  to say it, of viciousness, of seriousness, of I don't know the
• 8:19
  word for it. But in terms of who he is as a
• 8:22
  person, you can see a lot of similarities between this Buck
• 8:26
  and the live action Buck. They do not care what they have
• 8:29
  to do to get the job done. They will do it.
• 8:32
  And they don't sit around and cry about it.
• 8:35
  They don't care who they have to take out.
• 8:37
  They clearly they don't. So that is Buck in Marvel
• 8:42
  Comics. I hope you enjoyed this episode.
• 8:45
  I hope you learned something and I hope you will like and
• 8:47
  subscribe because I drop a lot of different character
• 8:50
  breakdowns like this and also reviews, trailer reactions, just
• 8:55
  a bunch of random stuff that I like and I think you'll like
• 8:59
  too. So with that being said, I hope
• 9:01
  you have a marvelous day.