it's fun for me to play him from any later canonpoint because in 616 continuity his whole awful backstory is public knowledge & was on the news, he went to trial, and decided like the responsible thing to do is to be completely transparent about how he used to murder people for the kgb
stick him into a game setting where there's a theoretical fresh start, he can take it, or he can stupidly confess to every evil thing he's ever done at the drop of a hat, because Bucky logic