Enemies: (Counter-Earth (Franklin)): Advanced Idea Mechanics (Baron Zemo, MODOK, others), Anomaly (Koyami Sazaki), Atlanteans (Queen Dorma, others), Daemonites, Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom), Galactus, Proteus (Kevin MacTaggert) of Earth-58163, Rebel, Skrulls, Silver Surfer, Sons of the Serpent (Nicholas J. Fury LMD, numerous unnamed racists), Tiamut (Celestial) (indirectly; see comments), unidentified sniper, World Party (Crossbones, Gus, Master Man, Red Skull)
   formerly Redeemers (Beetle/Leila Davis, Captain America/Steve Rogers, Charcoal, Citizen V/John Watkins III/Helmut Zemo, Fixer/Paul Norbert Ebersol, Jolt/Helen Takahama, Meteorite/Valerie Barnhardt, Scream/David Angar, Smuggler/Conrad Josten - all main 616), the Rip (O & K)
   (Counter-Earth (Franklin) Reborn)): "Masters of Evilly Lethally Legion Persons. Or something" (Enchantress, Executioner, Loki, Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff), Ultron V, Wonder Man/Simon Williams), Onslaught
   ("Main" 616): Aiken Garvey High School student body (especially Natsuki Ozawa, Matthew Surman, Manuel, two other students), Bastards of Evil (Aftershock/Danielle Blunt, Ember/Jason Pierce, Mortar/Liana Feeser, Singularity/Devin Touhy, Superior, Warhead), Bernard Carroll, Desmond Daniels, Flag-Smasher (Guy Thierrault), Maker's Prison Team (Kl'rath, Maker/Reed Richards (Earth-1610), Phyllis (Kronan), Warbird/At'li Vidua), nameless Neo-Nazi hate group (Chris Berg, Chris Berg's father, others), Onslaught, Second Shadow, Secret Empire (Mad Dog/Buzz Baxter, Professor Power)
  (Earth-79723): Bank Robbers, Confederate Soldiers, Griever at the End of All Things (see comments)
  (Earth-18248): Nazis, Griever at the End of All Things (see comments)
  (Earth-86315): The Bushwick boys, Exiles (Captain/Steve Rogers of Earth-35429, Iron Prince/Nathaniel Richards of Earth-14181, Khan/Kamala Khan of Earth-81111, Killmonger/Shuri of Earth-52191, Thor of Earth-19110, X-2/3rds of Earth-24530), Hydra, Nazis (Adolf Hitler, others), rogue Watchers of Reality-616 (Acitua, others);
  Earth-38191 natives: Caliph Doom, Mephisto; formerly Black Cat and her Forty Thieves (Sayeed, others)
  (Earth-66881): Admiral Gyrich, the Juggernautical
  (Earth-15061): The Maker (Reed Richards-1601), Griever at the End of All Things

Known Relatives: Franklin Richards (creator);
   (Counter-Earth (Franklin)): Unidentified Parents (both deceased), John Barnes (brother, deceased), Richard Barnes (grandfather, fate unclear), Peggy Barnes (grandmother, fate unclear);
   ("Main" 616): Unidentified parents (deceased), John Barnes (616 equivalent of her brother, deceased), Rikki Barnes (616 counterpart, miscarriage/deceased);
   (Earth-79723): Unidentified parents (deceased), Sheriff Steve Rogers (adoptive father)

Aliases: Bucky, Nomad, "Girl without a World", "Rikki Baines", "Buck", Becky Barnes, Deputy Barnes, First Mate Barnes

Base of Operations: Unclear, presumably mobile
    formerly mobile (body-hopping) across the multiverse, including stints on Earths-79723, 18248, 86315, 38191, 66881 and 15061
    formerly abandoned apartment in New York ("main" 616)
    formerly Attilan (Counter-Earth (Franklin))
    formerly mobile on Counter-Earth (Franklin)
    formerly Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Counter-Earth (Franklin))

First Appearance: (promotional) Heroes Reborn #½ (September, 1996);
   (Rikki Barnes) Captain America II#1 (November, 1996);
   (Bucky) Captain America II#6 (April, 1997);
   (Nomad) Nomad: Girl Without a World#2 (November, 2009)

Powers/Abilities: High School graduate, S.H.I.E.L.D. Training, Epic Hacker Skillz, years of dancing practice (not good enough to get into Julliard, but good nonetheless). During her time with the Young Allies on her original earth, Rikki possessed pilot goggles which she could use to scan the environment, and a vibranium based arsenal which increased her combat abilities. It is unclear if she still possesses that. During her time as Nomad she had access to throwable discs. Following a team up with Black Widow, her discs were updated from merely being metal to having a variety of abilities, such as sonic blasts or flashbangs. In more recent years she seems to no longer have these. She also possesses a photon shield which has been traditionally a solid triangular object, while recently it has been a throwable circle.

Height: 5'4"
Weight: 98 lbs
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Brown; formerly reddish brown (see comments)

History:
(Captain America II#1 - BTS) Ever since Rikki was 4 years old, she fervently practiced dancing, to such an extent that she would frequently blow off social events and saved money to go see ballets.

(Captain America V#615/2 (fb) - BTS) - Rikki and her parents used to frequent local Philadelphia coffee shop Rob & Jeph's.

(Captain America II#1 - BTS) - Eventually, Rikki's parents both died, leading Rikki and her brother John to be sent to live with Richard and Peggy, their grandparents.

(Captain America II#11 (fb) - BTS) - Rikki's best friend was named a cheerleader named Mandy. They drifted apart around the time that Mandy became pregnant. Rikki never found out if Mandy and the quarterback who had impregnated her got married.

(Captain America II#2 (fb) - BTS) - Rikki had been talking self-defense classes.

(Captain America II#1 - BTS) She made a deal with her grandparents that if she got a scholarship, she could go to Julliard. Unfortunately, she was turned down.

(Onslaught: Marvel Universe #1 - BTS) - When most of the avengers and all of the Fantastic Four sacrificed themselves to stop Onslaught, Franklin Richards created a pocket dimension for them to live in, a world fully populated with people who have lifetimes worth of memories, despite having just been created. As such, all preceding details about Rikki are, in fact, fabricated, and never really happened.

(Captain America II#1) - Rikki was sitting around Philadelphia, contemplating her unfortunate circumstances in life, when her brother John and his friend Gus came to tell her about how they were going to the World Party rally that night. She tried to dissuade them, but her efforts failed, and they left unabated.

(Captain America II#2) - The next day, Rikki awoke to the sound of her brother, newly shaved, taking his things to leave and join up with the World Party permanently. She tried in vain once more to convince him not to do this, but in the end, he left, jumping out of the second-story window of her bedroom.

(Captain America II#4) - Deciding to check up on the obviously bad things the obviously evil World Party is doing, Rikki snuck into their warehouse headquarters and spied on them, where she overheard that they had captured the recently revived Captain America in the basement. Her brother John and his friend Gus then found her, and held her at gunpoint. She tried one more time to get John to stop this, pointing out that the World Party are clearly nazis, and once more failed. Eventually, she knocked the gun out of his hand and ran away to call the cops, but before she could escape she ran directly into the Red Skull himself. After she mocked him, he had her strapped to one of the nuclear warheads the party was planning to launch in order to bring down democracy, which was guarded by John and Gus.

(Captain America II#5) - Still tied to the warhead, she kept talking to John. When informed that the warhead was aimed directly at Los Angeles, she once more did her attempts to talk them down from this. Just when it seemed like she might be getting to Gus, the World Party's frontman Master Man entered the room. Just as he was about to launch the bombs, Captain America's shield came flying through, severing Rikki's bonds. As Captain America took on Master Man, Rikki used her dancing self defense skills to knock out both John and Gus. She then chose to bravely leap in to help Cap in the fight knocking Master Man off balance and the detonator out of his hands. As Master Man stood over Rikki, about to take the detonator, Sam Wilson triumphantly came in and knocked him out, before he and Cap worked together to knock MM into the silo. When Nick Fury arrived from SHIELD to pick up afterwards, she gave Cap the detonator.

(Captain America II#6 - BTS) - Following those events, Captain America took her on as his new protegee, giving her the name and costume of his World War II sidekick Bucky.

(Heroes Reborn I#½) - The Watcher looked at the goings on of the Heroes Reborn universe, including those of Rikki.

(Captain America II#6 - BTS) - Rikki Barnes was in the bathroom when Baron Zemo and MODOK took control of the SHIELD Helicarrier for A.I.M.

(Captain America II#6) - Bucky and Cap, along with an interdimensional traveler named Cable, worked together to defeat the forces of AIM, before Cable was sent back to his home dimension.

(Captain America II#8) - Rikki was left behind by Cap as he went off to search for the spirit of America.

(Captain America II#12 (fb) BTS/Captain America V#603 (fb) - BTS) - Rikki got top-notch training from SHIELD.

(Captain America V#613/2 (fb) - BTS) - This training included Muay Thai from agent Erica Fowler.

(Captain America II#10 (fb)) - Following the trail of racist hate-group the Sons of the Serpent, Captain America briefly returned to the SHIELD Helicarrier, where he and Rikki briefly exchanged words. They agreed that after Cap had gotten to the bottom of this case, they would try to get to know each other and become friends. He also encouraged her to discover what was going on with the strange coldness she felt regarding SHIELD.

(Captain America II#10) - While Captain America investigated the Sons of the Serpent, Bucky stayed behind to snoop around the Helicarrier.

(Captain America II#11) - While sneaking around on the Helicarrier, Bucky found out about a restricted cell with a prisoner in it. After steeling her nerves, she beat up the guards in 23 seconds, promising herself that she would get Captain America to train her to be better. She opened the cell and found the "real" Nick Fury. She freed him, and brought him to the SoS headquarters, where he shot down the LMD duplicate who had been impersonating him the whole time.

(Fantastic Four II#12 - BTS) - Rikki was among the citizens of Counter-Earth who was eaten by Galactus, before Doctor Doom time traveled back to try again.

(Avengers II#12 - BTS) - Rikki was destroyed once more before Doom traveled back in time and undid it.

(Iron Man II#12 - BTS) - Doctor Doom downloaded secret SHIELD files which marked Rikki as a "temporal anomaly" before he travelled back in time to before Galactus attacked.

(Captain America II#12) - Rikki Barnes decided to return to her grandparent's house for advice, but when she got there Doctor Doom had blown the place up.

   Doom then proceeded to grab and threaten Rikki; she escaped his grasp with surprising ease. After Doom implied he had killed her grandparents, and then got her on the ropes again, Cap came to her rescue. Doom described the battle being waged by Galactus' heralds and the Fantastic Four, before he and Cap went to get the Avengers and help in the fight. As the Knights of the Atomic Round Table (Doom, Reed Richards, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Rebel O'Reilly) formulated a plan to save the world, Rikki hung out at Avengers Mansion, feeling out of place. She wandered outside, where she met with the Silver Surfer.

   He tried to convince her that, in order to save anyone, she had to convince the heroes that Galactus could not be stopped. She disagreed with this idea, chasing after the Surfer as he tried to leave. She grabbed hold of his board, and Captain America noticed, chasing after on his motorcycle; creating a scene which mimicked the death of the main universe's Bucky Barnes. Galactus zapped her off the Surfer's board with his eye lasers, causing her to fall into a nearby lake. Cap dove in to rescue her, and brought her near-death body back to Avengers Mansion, where she was rushed to medical help. Her near-death inspired the Silver Surfer to help the heroes against Galactus, sacrificing himself to stop Galactus once and for all.

(Captain America II#12 - BTS) Richard and Peggy, alive and well, were assured by the SHIELD medical staff that Rikki would survive.

(Captain America II#12 - BTS/Fantastic Four II#13 - BTS) - Because of Doctor Doom's efforts to defeat Galactus, the timestream of the Heroes Reborn pocket dimension was fractured, merging with another nearby universe: The Wildstorm Universe.

(Iron Man II#13 (fb)) - In the warped timestream created by Doctor Doom's efforts to defeat Galactus, Captain America led many people, including Bucky, into a battle against the Skrulls and Demonites. This battle went horribly wrong, killing Bucky and leading to Captain America quitting being Captain America and becoming Nomad.

(Captain America II#13) - The Rick Jones of Counter-Earth (Franklin) destroyed the machine keeping the universes merged, restoring Counter-Earth (Franklin) to its former state.

(Captain America V#610/2 (fb) - BTS) - Rikki and Cap used to go bowling; Rikki always felt that Cap was going easy on her.

(Heroes Reborn: The Return I#3) - Bucky and Falcon were patrolling the streets of Manhattan, stopping looting and searching for Captain America. They were struck by the sudden appearance of a Celestial in the sky.

(Heroes Reborn: The Return I#4) - Captain America explained to Rikki that he and Falcon would be leaving, but that she could not come along with. He refused to explain why, so she was quite annoyed, although she'd never admit it. Later, Rikki was the only one who did not join in the celebrations of the end of the terrible weather.

(Heroes Reborn: Doomsday I#1 - BTS) Despite the promise made, due to the malignant influence of the Tiamut, the Dreaming Celestial, the disasters returned and the world fell back into chaos.

(Heroes Reborn: Young Allies I#1 - (fb) BTS) - Following Counter-Earth (Franklin) plunging into Chaos, Rikki continued to fight the enemies, eventually founding a team of Young Allies alongside Toro (Benito Serrano) and I.Q. (Ishmael Questor). At some point she stole Vibranium soled-boots, Vibranium Brass knuckles from the remnants of Wakanda.

(Heroes Reborn: Young Allies I#1) - Under the advice of I.Q., Bucky and Toro went to rescue human/Kymellian hybrid Elric Freedom, who went by the name of Kid Colt. After they rescued him from the SHIELD agents who were pursuing him, he gave some food to the locals, and he agreed to join up with them.

   Using a hijacked SHIELD plane, they travelled to Rikki's Grandparent's apartment in Philly. Rikki introduced her grandparents to her new friend, and then she went upstairs to contact I.Q. while Benny and Elric stayed downstairs for some food. Using I.Q.'s telepathic abilities, they talked about the dangerous energy signatures that I.Q. was detecting in Muir Island. Rikki convinced Elric to allow I.Q. to telepathically communicate with him and strengthen his power, which he did, and so Elric teleported the Young Allies to Muir Island.

   After an awkward landing, Elric accidentally triggered the alarm system, causing guards to come and try to stop them; Rikki singlehandedly took down the guards, joking that when an actual threat came she would be unable to do anything. In any event, they went inside of the main building, where Leland Walker was attempting to summon and tap into the "Rip" energy, in an effort to defeat Doctor Doom. I.Q. informed them that the Rip was actually a living being that Leland was killing, and so Rikki rallied the Young Allies against him. Using a strategy developed by I.Q., they split Leland into two beings, who Kid Colt named Order and Kaos [sic], who were guardians and judges of Counter-Earth (Franklin). They agreed to join the Young Allies to figure out what the fate of Counter-Earth (Franklin) would be.

(Heroes Reborn: Doom I#1 - BTS) - Along with the rest of Franklin Richard's duplicate earth, Rikki was moved from its pocket universe to the main universe by Doctor Doom so that it would not be destroyed by the Celestials.

(Thunderbolts I#52 (fb) - BTS) - The Young Allies opposed Dr. Doom's tyrannical rule on Counter-Earth a.k.a. Planet Doom.

(Thunderbolts I#52 (fb) ) - Kid Colt opened a portal for Bucky and Toro to Earth. Bucky and Toro used it to get to Latveria and threaten the land with a biochemical gas to force Dr. Doom to retire from his rule on Counter-Earth.

(Thunderbolts I#51 - BTS) - Dr. Doom showed Captain America and the Redeemers a holographic image of the terrorists threatening Latveria: the Young Allies (Bucky, Kid Colt and Toro) from Counter-Earth.

(Thunderbolts I#52 - BTS) - Rikki hijacked Doctor Doom's security robots, turning them against the Redeemers. When they defeated the robots, she had Benny launch a rockslide to delay them.

(Thunderbolts I#52) - Rikki and Benny resigned themselves to the morally questionable plan of threatening Latveria, and as Rikki was about to begin to plant the biochemical weapon, she was hit from behind by a blast from the Fixer. A fight between the members of the Young Allies who were there and the Redeemers ensued. Eventually, When Captain America stepped in to the battle, Rikki and Benny stopped fighting briefly. Then, Toro tossed Rikki over to the gas canister, which she broke open with Captain America's shield. After Captain America, who did not remember his time on Counter-Earth anymore, implored Rikki not to kill the people of Latveria, she shot back by telling him about the state Counter-Earth fell into after Cap and the rest of the Heroes left. She then revealed that the gas threat was a fake, and returned to Counter-Earth.

(Thunderbolts I#60 - BTS) - When the Thunderbolts got stranded on Counter-Earth Jolt mentioned the Young Allies as some of the few remaining heroes forced to deal with natural disasters and cosmic threats.

(Thunderbolts I#62) - The Young Allies witnessed on TV the take-off a rocket carrying a satellite to grant Germany sole access to global communications. The stranded Thunderbolts destroyed the rocket to prevent Germany taking full control over the world economy.

(Thunderbolts I#72 (fb) - BTS) - The Young Allies learned a giant alien ship on both planets at the bottom of the Mir diamond mine in Russia had become a connection between Counter-Earth and Earth. The Rip concluded that Earth had to die for Counter-Earth to keep existing. The other Young Allies didn't like the idea to sacrifice an Earth for the other and traveled to the ship's location to find a way to save both Earths.

(Thunderbolts I#72) - The Young Allies confronted the Thunderbolts at the ship in the Mir mine. Rip revealed that Earth had to be sacrificed angering the Thunderbolts. While Bucky told Jolt that the Young Allies were actually searching for a way to save both Earths while their teammates fought each other. During the fight Moonstone nearly knocked out Toro with a single punch. Anomaly stopped the fight explaining once again that only one Earth could survive. Baron Zemo offered him his help!

(Thunderbolts I#74) - Toro brought Bucky, who woke up last, up-to-date of the occurrences at the ship. While the others worked on the ship, Rikki convinced I.Q. to contact Zemo and came up with a plan to save both Earths by covering the ship in a bioelectro-ionic field, using the powers of Atlas and Jolt, to cut off the connection between the ship on Counter-Earth and its counterpart on Earth. A short time later the Young Allies witnessed the plan succeed. Fixer saved Jolt's life, who would have lost her life in the process, by grounding her and as a result stranding her on Counter-Earth. Toro caught Jolt, who only wanted to know if the plan had worked. It did!

(Thunderbolts I#75) - Kid Colt teleported the Young Allies to Attilan in front of a cheering crowd, who recognized Jolt as one of their saviors the Thunderbolts, but not the others. Jolt asked the team to keep saving Counter-Earth and they agreed to her plan.

(Young Allies II#3 (fb) - BTS) - At some point Bucky entered into some sort of romantic relationship with Toro.

(Exiles I#81 - BTS) - The Young Allies continued to work with Jolt to make the Counter-Earth more livable.

(Exiles I#72 (fb)) - Bucky and Cap were glimpsed by Proetus when he saw glimpses of other universes.

(Exiles I#81) - Bucky and the other Young Allies were waiting for Dorma when the Statue of Liberty, animated by Proteus of Earth-58163, stranded on Counter-Earth after Earth-3470's Heather Hudson, a member of the Exiles, tricked him to go there instead of Earth in Reality-616. They took Proteus back to Attilan after he handed over the Atlanteans' missile and offered them his aid against their enemies in return for their aid against his enemies: the Exiles. Bucky told Proteus everything to there is to know about Counter-Earth. When the Exiles arrived on Counter-Earth to capture Proteus they were opposed by the Young Allies, who were shocked when Proteus turned out to be utterly evil. The Rip, deciding Proteus was the being able to judge Counter-Earth once and for all, then took Proteus away, leaving the Exiles and the Young Allies behind on Attilan.

(Exiles I#82) - The Young Allies explained to the Exiles who the Rip was. When both teams arrived in Atlantis they found the Atlanteans including Dorma dead as they city had been lifted from the ocean by Proteus and the Atlanteans couldn't survive outside the water. Proteus fired the Atlanteans' rockets and Jolt and Kid Colt did their best to stop them, while Bucky and the rest attempted to defeat Proteus before his reality altering powers defeated them. Meanwhile Blink had put a behavior modifier into Dorma's crown, which the proud Proteus put on. Proteus' mind was modified to only access its host Morph's memories, defeating him.

   After the Exiles' Heather Hudson sent the remaining rockets into space the Young Allies thanked the Exiles for their aid against Dorma and Proteus.

(Future Foundation I#3 (fb)) - The Young Allies continued to operate after that, and while on a mission Rikki was shot by an unidentified sniper and died.

(Onslaught Reborn I#1 - BTS/Future Foundation I#3 (fb) - BTS) - When Franklin Richards created a new pocket dimension to escape from the return of Onslaught, he took Rikki's soul from Counter-Earth (Franklin) and placed it into the new dimension, giving her another history.

(Onslaught Reborn I#2 (fb) - BTS) - Rikki Barnes had always thought Captain America, the greatest hero of World War II, was the coolest thing. After Rikki Barnes failed to get into Julliard, she got taken on by Captain America as his new partner. She got the title of Bucky after Cap's (male) WWII partner. In this role, she became a member of the Avengers.

(Onslaught Reborn I#1) - Rikki was out on patrol one day, when, on top of the George Washington Bridge, she found a small boy named Franklin Richards. Franklin said he was hiding, and that he was the child of the Invisible Woman and Mister Fantastic, which confused Rikki, since Reed Richards and Sue Storm aren't even married as far as she knew. Upon asking him what he was hiding from, Onslaught appeared, shocking both her and Franklin.

(Onslaught Reborn I#2) - Rikki took Franklin and ran away from the monster, they feel off the bridge. Rikki used a rope to save both her and Franklin from falling to their death. Once Captain America, followed by Iron Man and Thor, arrived, they got back on top of the roof. After the Avengers knocked Onslaught off the bridge, a quinjet arrived and Rikki and Franklin went with the rest of them to the Baxter Building. Upon arrival, Rikki asked Franklin how she existed, since she post-dates Cap and the rest of the Avengers. She didn't get a response, as Franklin first went off to hug his "mom", and then the Hulk threw Thor, who was secretly possessed by Onslaught, through the building. Captain America then had Rikki bring Franklin to Avengers mansion while the rest of the Avengers took on the possessed Hulk.

(Onslaught Reborn I#3) - While the Heroes launched an offensive against Onslaught, Rikki and Franklin stayed behind at Avenger's Mansion. As Rikki was bringing Franklin some cheerios, Loki, along with a menagerie of other Avengers villains, appeared in the study. This caused Rikki to drop the tray of Cheerios on the ground.

(Onslaught Reborn I#4) - Rikki and Franklin stood against Loki, before Wonder Man, who Loki had sent to search the mansion previously, returned. Then the Vision, came up out of the floor, incapacitating Wonder Man before Ant-Man and the Invisible Woman, who had been hiding, also attacked. They very nearly took out Loki's group before Loki managed to get the upper hand until Thor and the Avengers arrived and knocked him over. Under Thor's threat, Loki divulged his plan of killing Franklin Richards to save the world from Onslaught's attack. A plan which, to Rikki and Franklin's shock, Reed Richards had no choice but to agree to.

(Onslaught Reborn I#5) - After some debate, all the heroes and villains, including Rikki, returned to the Baxter Building to finish Onslaught once and for all. Rikki was given the very important task of using the Fantasticar to drive Franklin away from the fight if things started going poorly. Rikki had to have Franklin explain to her who Wolverine was, once Hawkeye took off his mask and revealed himself. Finally, all the heroes, along with the villains, launched a concentrated assault on Onslaught. As a last-ditch effort, Onslaught reached out to grab Franklin...

   And then Rikki pushed Franklin out of the way, and triumphantly used the Fantasticar to push Onslaught into the Negative Zone, sacrificing herself. Captain America and all the rest grieved for her and created a statue in her honor.

(Onslaught Unleashed I#3 (fb)) - Rikki found herself alive, but floating in the Negative Zone until Onslaught reached out and took control of her, sending her to the main universe as his emissary.

(Onslaught Reborn I#5/Onslaught Unleashed I#3 (fb)) - Rikki found herself alive and well in Philadelphia of the main universe; until she looked over to see a newspaper reporting that Captain America was at that time deceased following the events of the civil war.

(Nomad: Girl Without a World I#1 - BTS) - Rikki discovered that there existed a duplicate of her brother in the new universe, so she forged papers to get enrolled at Aiken Garvey High School under the name "Rikki Baines".

(Captain America V#600) - Beginning to settle in to the new universe, Rikki used her computer skills to find out about Isaiah Bradley, the secret attempt to recreate Captain America in WWII. She also found out about his grandson Elijah, who she deduced was the new Patriot.

(Captain America V#600) - Rikki sneakily eavesdropped as Elijah was told off by the school principal for wanting to honor Captain America at the school assembly. Later, ditching school, she followed him home, watching through the window as Elijah's grandmother fed Isaiah his food. She was saddened by what had become of this former Captain America when she noticed Elijah leaving as Patriot, running across the rooftops. She followed him, until eventually he got the drop on her, striking her with his shield.

   Eventually, they got to talking, and she explained who she was. He understood her circumstances, but did not want to introduce her to the new Captain America. Eventually, they agreed to go to the vigil later that day, along with the rest of Elijah's friends.

(Captain America V#600 - BTS) - Rikki, along with Patriot and the Young Avengers, attended the vigil held on the one year anniversary of the death of Captain America.

(Nomad: Girl Without a World I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Checking out the fate of her family (strictly speaking their counterparts) in this world, Rikki learned that this world's version of her brother John seemed to be a better person that her world's dirtbag version. Hoping to forge a better relationship with this John, in part because doing so would help her feel she belonged in this different Earth, Rikki chose to stay in Manhattan and forged documents to become Rikki "Baines" and attend John's school, Aiken Garvey High.

(Nomad: Girl Without a World I#1) - In order to make money in this new world, where she legally did not exist, Rikki got a job washing dishes for cash under the table. She also got herself a small apartment, where she was when she heard on the police scanner that Captain America was fighting some goons outside a concert. She suited up as Bucky and rushed over there, to introduce herself to the new Cap. Before she could do so, however, she was interrupted by the Black Widow. Natasha told her off and said that this Captain America meeting a Bucky was a bad idea (because he was James "Bucky" Barnes, though the Widow did not mention this to Rikki), delaying Rikki long enough for Cap to ride away on his motorbike.

   The next day, Rikki went to school, where she met with the counterpart to her brother. They talked briefly, before heading to class. While in Mister Doctor Powers' Political Science class, they received an impassioned speech about the importance of democracy, before then going to the school assembly. There, they heard from two people: a girl who delivered a long dry speech, and Desmond Daniels, who delivered an impassioned speech about civic responsibility which got wide swaths of the student body enthused.

   Suspiciously wide swaths. Five students, all from vastly different social strata, actively stood up and cheered, which Rikki found suspicious. As she was talking about this with John, Manuel (a big-time nerd) and Naomi (a popular girl) teamed up against two other students' public display of affection. Rikki proceeded to follow them throughout the rest of the school day, noticing that this is a pattern. After the school day ended, she followed them into the school, which they were accessing after hours. She followed them into a secret lair underneath the custodial supplies... where Mad Dog was lurking and them slashed her. She fought him briefly, and then ran away, straight back to her apartment, without looking back. Upon arriving back up, she found someone had broken in and left a suitcase with a Nomad costume and a file on Nomad.

(Nomad: Girl Without a World I#2) - A day or two later, Rikki was in line at a local coffee shop, but realized she had insufficient funds to pay for anything with her limited funds. Thankfully, John showed up and paid for her. They talked for a while, and John explained how his parents were both dead (as was the Rikki equivalent in this universe). As Rikki fought back tears at this news, a bomb went off, blowing through the window. Leaving an unconscious John in the care of an off-duty EMT who had also been in the coffee shop, Rikki rushed out to go stop the bomber, the radical anti-nationalist known as the Flag-Smasher. They fought until the Falcon showed up, ending the fight with a boot to the Flag-Smasher's face. After confirming John was in the care of an ambulance crew Rikki and the Falcon talked briefly; she surprised him by revealing she knew his true identity, and she explained her backstory. After offering her reassurance, he flew away.

   Later, Rikki was sitting in Mister Doctor Powers' class, where was giving a lecture about the Flag-Smasher, until it was interrupted by the information that Desmond Daniels was giving a speech in the lunch room, which all the students rushed out to see. Later, once John had been released from the hospital, she went to see him. They talked, and he, misinterpreting the signs Rikki was sending, leaned in to kiss her. She didn't let this happen, since she is, you know, his sister kinda sorta, but the interaction was still incredibly awkward and sent her into a funk for the next couple days. She went out for patrol come nighttime, just missing seeing John talking to that suspicious group of students.

(Nomad: Girl Without a World I#3) - A week later, Rikki attempted to talk to John, who, still feeling resentful over the previous events, refused to speak to her. So, Rikki focused herself into her superheroing, beating up some drug dealers. She was running across the rooftops, trying to clear her head, when she subconsciously ran to Desmond's home. Wondering why she did this, and if she was really going to break into and rummage through his home, she was interrupted by a flying cloaked figure, who somehow knew her name (albeit not her real name, the one she had given the school, but still). The figure then launched green energy balls at her, which she bounced off using her photon shield, jumping up towards him. She was then blasted back, falling on a nearby rooftop where Mad Dog was waiting... who then slashed her again. She fell unconscious.

   When she awoke, she was in an underground lair, where she had a brainwashing machine used on her until she eventually broke. She was then made to go Desmond Daniel's rally, where she endorsed him and then publicly unmasked in front of the student body. When John tried to talk to her, she was removed by two of the original five students. Finally, she was in the room with the cloaked figure as he called with his superiors. They ordered him to kill her, a task which he proceeded to prepare to follow through. However, first she recognized that he was, in fact, her teacher Doctor Powers who then revealed himself to actually be Professor Power of the Secret Empire.

(Nomad: Girl Without a World I#4) - Due presumably to the shock of finding out that her teacher was in fact a supervillain, Rikki snapped out of the mind control. As Professor Power called with his superiors in the Secret Empire to caution them against continuing the program, Rikki broke free of her bonds. She expertly took down both Mad Dog and Professor Power, before running into another room, which had her goggles in it. It also had a TV screen, which showed the rioting currently occurring due to Desmond Daniels' successful election. While berating the members of the Secret Empire who were also calling into this room, Rikki had a realization, and ran off to get help.

   Rikki got the Young Avengers, and worked with them to subdue the rioters. Eventually, since the direct approach was not working, she got Speed to run and get Desmond Daniels. Desmond delivered an impassioned speech about how he never wanted this, and the rioting stopped. Rikki searched the crowd for John, unable to find him until she heard a gunshot. Rushing over to where the shot occurred, she found Matthew Surman, one of the original Desmond Daniels supporters, standing over John with a gun, having just shot him. She punched Surman in the face, before weeping over John's dead body.

   Later, Rikki went to John's grave in Philly, bringing him flowers and apologizing for getting him killed. Having heard about Rikki from Patriot, the new Captain America (James "Bucky" Barnes) came up behind her, told her not to blame herself and gave her an inspirational speech, and then left. As he left, Rikki asked him if he had been the one who gave her the Nomad suit, to which he replied no, leaving Rikki unclear as to who her mysterious benefactor was - unaware that the benefactor, Black Widow, was watching them through binoculars. Later, Rikki used a bank ATM to contact the Secret Empire and warn them that she was going to be coming after them. She then ran across the rooftops, happy that she'd finally found a semblance of purpose.

(Captain America V#602/2 - BTS) - Since she couldn't return to where she had been as Rikki Baines, person of interest in the riots, Rikki moved into a tiny abandoned, boarded up shack of an apartment. Rikki also did her research on the Secret Empire and Mad Dog, finding out that Mad Dog was in fact Robert Baxter, and he was married to Rachel Ford.

(Captain America V#602/2) - Rikki was watching outside Rachel's house, waiting to see if Mad Dog would arrive there. As she attempted to talk to him and get through to the man inside the beast, Araña came leaping in. This caused Mad Dog to throw her at Rikki, before he ran away into the sewers. Despite Araña's reservations about entering the sewers, they both followed Mad Dog. After Rikki detailed strategy, they arrived at a central location in the sewers, where, you know, the stuff that's in sewers congregates. Mad Dog snuck up behind them, and when Araña noticed, she pushed Rikki away before he could attack, unfortunately into the sewer water. Between them the two heroines forced Mad Dog back, and Rikki attempted to talk him into betraying the Secret Empire. However, just as she seemed to be getting through to him some Secret Empire drones showed up and zapped Mad Dog with green energy.

(Captain America V#603/2) - After three minutes of fighting, Rikki and Araña managed to take down one of the three drones. Through managing to overcome some of their differences, they took down the second one much faster, but not fast enough to prevent the third one from taking Mad Dog away. Angry at what she perceived as Araña getting in the way, Rikki angrily stormed off, telling her to stay away.

   Later on, Rikki was unable to find any further information on the Secret Empire or Mad Dog while at a local internet cafe. Distraught, she walked around town, got a snack, and then sat on a park bench. While she sat there, she had a revelation, and rushed off to return to the sewers. While noticing that it was all empty with no evidence that the Secret Empire had never been there, she met Araña again. Aran asked to be able to help Rikki, since she had found a lead.

(Captain America V#604/2) - Rikki and Araña ran across rooftops to an ad agency which Araña had found was paying Mad Dog's ex-wife a stipend, and so therefore was likely involved in the Secret Empire. They broke in fairly easily (suspiciously easily, Rikki thought, since she still didn't fully trust Araña at this point). Rikki used her SHIELD training to look through the agency's computers, as Araña went off to keep lookout. But once Araña exited the room, the door slammed down. Rikki took this as confirmation of her suspicions about Araña. Professor Power appeared on the TV in the room, and taunted Rikki, while releasing gas intended to kill Rikki. Rikki managed to break the telescreen before falling unconscious, but she did eventually start succumbing to the gas. Eventually, Araña broke into the room, and found Rikki lying on the ground, foaming at the mouth.

(Captain America V#605/2 - BTS) - Araña rushed Nomad to the Night Nurse, who treated her for five days before finding a way to wake her up.

(Captain America V#605/2) - Rikki had a dream of the good old days on her original universe. However, she woke up to find herself in the Night Nurse's underground clinic. The Night Nurse informed Rikki that she had been unconscious for five whole days.

(Captain America V#605/2 - BTS) - Rikki used her awesome hacker skills to find out Araña's secret identity as Anya Sofia Corazon, and then left a note for her in her school locker. She also used them to forge her way into Araña's school.

(Captain America V#605/2) - Nomad and Araña talked on the roof of the school. The Secret Empire had removed all evidence from the Ad Agency, covering their tracks very well, so Nomad's hit a dead end. They talked; Araña admired Nomad for having a purpose, a goal in taking down the Secret Empire, and they agreed to work together more in the future. Nomad leapt off the roof, happy to have finally found something in this world (Araña) that made sense. Later, Rikki arrived at Araña's school, and introduced herself to her unmasked, and they shook hands.

(Captain America V#606/2 - BTS) - Rikki acclimated herself to life at the new school fairly quickly. She became kind of a social outcast, but ah well. She also continued living in the abandoned apartment.

(Captain America V#606/2) - At school one day, Anya and Rikki talked a bit, Rikki continues to refuse to Anya that's she's secretly homeless. While Rikki sat at lunch, some girls mocked her behind her back for being poor. That evening, Rikki went to a soup kitchen. She attempted to get an under the table job, but was rejected, just as she rejected the manager's offer of government assistance. Afterwards, as she was walking away, Bernard, a somewhat creepy older guy, came up to her. He offered to, if she did some odd jobs around his apartment, he'd give her some of his dead daughter Sophie's clothes. Rikki agreed to the job. She did some general cleaning and repairs, and Bernard was impressed by her work ethic. They talked a bit about what happened with Sophie, and then Bernard showed her to the basement, where he kept Sophie's old clothes. Rikki went down there, and while she was looking at the clothes, the door closed behind her. Berating herself for blindly trusting this guy when she found a skeletal hand on the ground.

(Captain America V#607/2) - Rikki continued to search in the basement, finding five different sets of remains. Eventually, she heard Bernard's voice coming from upstairs, calling her "Sophie", and saying it was time to talk. Rikki tried to tell him that she isn't Sophie, but he was having none of it. Eventually, he opened the door. Rikki waited five minutes for him to come down, before finally going upstairs herself. Rikki went into the kitchen, told him she wouldn't be leaving to get his guard down, and then knocked him over. She called the cops, who came and found four additional bodies, a total of 9. She burned the clothes of the girls Bernard had killed. The next day, Rikki was once again mocked by some girls at school for wearing the same clothes again.

(Captain America V#608/2 (fb) - BTS) - Rikki overheard some neo-Nazis bragging about how they had beaten a gay couple near-death, so she followed them to a larger meeting.

(Captain America V#608/2) - Nomad beat up a large number of neo-Nazis. Eventually, she grabbed one and interrogated him about their larger plan. As she did so, another of their number snuck up behind her with a gun. He was defeated by none other than Steve Rogers, the former Captain America. Shortly thereafter, the two of them talked at a diner. Rikki talked about how she felt her involvement had led to this universe's version of John Barnes' death, and Steve reveled that, while he didn't fully recall his time in the Heroes Reborn universe, he still had some memories of it. Crying, she hugged him, and he told her that she can give up being Nomad.

(Captain America V#609/2 (fb) - BTS) - Rikki told him she'd think about it, and Steve gave her a card she could use to contact him.

(Captain America V#609/2) - Three days later, Rikki and Anya were walking around school, and they discussed the decision Rikki was having to make. Anya cautioned her against it, since Rikki had no idea what she'd even do if she gave up being Nomad. In any case, Anya gave Rikki a burner phone that they could use, to stay in touch while doing the superheroing. Not that that would be useful, if Rikki did give it up. Later, Rikki sat in the cafeteria, considering calling Steve to say yes when she noticed a fellow student who she had beaten up the previous night. She followed him home, discovering that his dad was in fact the leader of the group. Nomad followed them to a meeting later that night, where she listened to them detail their plan to kill a congressman.

   Rikki's phone started ringing, alerting them to her presence in the rafters. Just as they were about to shoot at her, Steve came crashing through the door and started beating them up. Nomad joined in to help him, but when she saw Steve being shot at, she froze up, allowing Chris (the student from earlier) to sneak up behind her and knock her unconscious.

(Captain America V#610/2) - After Steve took out the rest of the group and called the authorities, Nomad recovered consciousness. They talked a bit, and Rikki decided that she was going to continue being Nomad. Later, her and Araña leapt across rooftops a bit, discussing the events of Nomad's day. Later, at a local bowling alley, her and Steve also talked and bowled together.

(Captain America V#611/2) - Rikki was sleeping in her apartment when the Black Widow awoke her. Black Widow enlisted her on a mission to defeat the Second Shadow, a rich people doomsday cult that had made a compound that causes people to be able to explode. Nomad and Black Widow snuck into the Second Shadow's base. Eventually, though, they were overwhelmed, and Nomad was knocked out and put into an interrogation room.

(Captain America V#612/2) - During the interrogation, Rikki was beaten into unconsciousness multiple times. She traded barbs with her attacker, but mainly she got beaten up a lot. Eventually, the interrogator took out a gun, and she used her SHIELD training to break her thumbs and escape the handcuffs. She then grabbed the gun, and shot it.

(Captain America V#613/2) - Rikki used the gun to weaken the door enough for her to break through it. She ran over to Black Widow, who had also managed to escape her bonds, although without injuring herself. Black Widow admitted that she was impressed that Rikki had managed to escape, before the two of them broke into the computers. They were then contacted by SHIELD agent Erica Fowler, who had been undercover at the Second Shadow for four years. Rikki recognized her, as in her universe Erica had trained her. As Widow and Fowler entered into the room where the weapon samples were, Nomad fought a Second Shadow reinforcement. She took him down, but not before she was infected with the "makes you explode" bioweapon.

(Captain America V#614/2) - Rikki was rushed into a freezer, with the plan that if she had her metabolism slowed by being frozen, it would counteract the bioweapon. Erica Fowler, and then later Black Widow, watched over Rikki as she froze into unconsciousness. One of the last things Rikki could recall before falling into unconsciousness was Black Widow saying that she too was a dancer. Eventually, Rikki was removed from the freezer to awaken at her "home". She needed casts for her thumbs, but she was overall alright. She tried to look for the Second Shadow, even getting Anya to help, but she was mostly unable to do such things. Black Widow had also taken her costume.

   Later, Rikki was sleeping in her abandoned apartment, when Erica broke in. She brought Rikki a new and improved Nomad and costume, and also revealed to Rikki that Black Widow had been behind Rikki being Nomad in the first place. After Erica left, Rikki felt that maybe things in this new world weren't so bad.

(Young Allies II#1) - Nomad and Araña, who now had a new costume and without powers, broke up a robbery at a bodega by some middle schoolers. They then went out across the rooftops, talking about their personal lives. Anya missed a jump across rooftops, and Nomad helped her. Rikki comforted her about how she's still doing the right thing, even without powers. They proceeded to the top of a bridge (I don't know which one, I don't live in New York; it seems to be whichever one Gwen died on) where they spotted an explosion over in New York. They rushed over to help, and ended up engaging with the Bastards of Evil, alongside some other heroes, including a multiversal equivalent of Toro. Rikki used her photon shield to help civilians, before Warhead exploded at the site of 9/11.

(Young Allies II#2) - Later, Nomad and Araña met up with the new version of Toro, who Nomad kind of weirded out, since she knew who he was and all. Since both he and Araña could speak Spanish, they talked, and Toro agreed to work with them to stop the Bastards. Later, they went to an internet cafe to find out more about the bastards. Araña found security camera footage showing the location of Ember, one of the bastard's members, and they rushed over to that location. They attacked him as he attempted to commit a hate crime, and Toro almost killed him until Nomad and Araña both held him back.

(Young Allies II#3 (fb)) - Nomad stood back and watched as Araña berated Toro (in Spanish) for almost killing Ember.

(Young Allies II#3) - Rikki and Anya met up in school after class. They discussed what further information Anya had managed to discover, and they made a plan. Anya used her journalist skills to find out the identity of one of the Bastard's members. Later, they were contacted by Gravity, one of the other heroes who was there in the initial battle. However, the communications were hijacked by the Bastards, and so Nomad and Araña were captured.

(Young Allies II#4) - Nomad and Araña were tied up, and the Bastards broadcast what was to be their death over the wavelengths. Araña gave evidence that Aftershock was not actually Electro's daughter, and while the Bastards were infighting, Nomad and Araña broke free of their bonds. They started fighting the Bastards, when Gravity, Firestar, and Toro arrived to help. Rikki knocked out Ember, before Aftershock knocked out the rest of the heroes, save for Araña, who took out her. Later, once Nomad recovered, the heroes all talked about their success, until the Bastard's leader, Superior, arrived and telekinetically threw Nomad against the wall, back into unconsciousness.

(Young Allies II#5) - After the Superior revealed himself and killed Singularity, Nomad briefly recovered consciousness long enough to throw her phone at him, breaking his concentration and freeing the rest of the heroes. Nomad seemingly fell back into unconsciousness, as the rest of the heroes fought the rest of the Bastards, who also recovered. Araña used Rikki's shield to protect her from Ember, and later Toro administered first aid to Nomad while Firestar took out Superior. Rikki recovered right before the Avengers showed to contain the Bastards. Nomad introduced Toro to Cap, who remarked upon the similarity of this group to the WWII group of Young Allies he had been a part of. Nomad suggested that they form such a group like she had previously on her earth, but no one else agreed to that.

(Young Allies II#6 - BTS) - A photo of Rikki, along with the rest of the heroes, fighting the bastards made the first page of the Front Line. Rikki also took Toro in to move in and live with her in her apartment, and e-mailed Firestar about her idea of forming a team.

(Young Allies II#6) - Rikki called Anya to complain about Toro ignoring her boundaries and refusing to go outside. Later, Nomad ran into Firestar on a roof, pitched her idea of forming a team once more, but was very forcibly turned down again. Rikki brought Benny an English for beginners book for him and a Spanish for beginners for her, and they studied together. Rikki and Anya talked in school about Firestar's new decision to do an interview for the newspaper. Rikki, Anya, Benny, along with the other "Young Allies", attended the memorial for the people killed in Warhead's attack on Ground Zero.

(Spider-Girl II#2 - BTS) - Rikki got a key to Anya's new apartment after she moved.

(Spider-Girl II#1) - Rikki and Anya passed each other in the halls and waved.

(Spider-Girl II#2) - Rikki heard about the death of Anya's dad, and called her to see if there was anything she could do. Later, she, along with Anya's new friend Rocky Flint, visited her father's body in the funerary home.

(Spider-Girl II#2 - BTS) - Rikki let Rocky borrow her copy of the key to Anya's apartment.

(Spider-Girl II#3) - In a show of support for her friend Anya, Rikki attended Gilberto Corazon's funeral.

(Avengers Academy I#13) - Nomad, along with the rest of the "Young Allies" attended Avengers Academy's school dance. Striker hit on Nomad and grabbed her butt, making her furious.

(Captain America V#615/2 - (fb) BTS) - Growing tired of always feeling somewhat out of place, Rikki decided to return to this world's version of Philadelphia, to see if maybe her hometown would give her some perspective.

(Captain America V#615/2 (fb) ) - Standing outside coffee shop Jeph & Rob's, Rikki overheard some people getting mugged. She leapt into action as Nomad, quickly subduing the muggers and interrogating them, getting a lead to their drug dealers.

(Captain America V#615/2) - Rikki broke into the drug dealers' hideout, gave them a big speech about how she was gonna kick their butts, and then did. She then leapt out of the window, and ran out across the rooftops, finally content with not fully fitting in to this world.

(Onslaught Unleashed I#1 (fb)) - For three days, Onslaught tormented Rikki, sending her strange dreams depicting her friend Toro and many other heroes dead in the Colombian rainforest, and sending her information about "Project Power".

(Onslaught Unleashed I#1) - After the dreams persisted for three days, Rikki told Steve about them during a meeting between them in a coffee shop. He made a feeble effort to get her to give up being Nomad again, and then told her he'd look into it. Later, Rikki and Benny were attending a Columbian Pride Festival. As Benny told Rikki about his tragic past, El Dragon, Benny's "Brother", kidnapped him right in front of Rikki.

(Spider-Girl II#6) - After a long day of school, Rikki walked home from school along with Anya and Rocky, when Anya went off to go talk to the Red Hulk.

(Onslaught Unleashed I#1) - Later that same day, Rikki was told by Steve that Project Power is real and in Columbia, and he would be going. But he forbade Rikki from going, which made her really mad. So once he had left, she contacted Gravity, Firestar, and Anya (now going by Spider-Girl) to come with her to Columbia. This was accomplished via having Gravity fly a car down there. As the rest of them entered the Project Power facility and fought the brainwashed children defending it, Nomad ran off searching for Benny. Instead, she ended up finding a central room, where Beast was looking at the energy rift. A glowing hand came out of the rift, struck Rikki then Beast. The hand was Onslaught, and he possessed Nomad.

(Onslaught Unleashed I#2) - Onslaught took control of Rikki's physical form, while conversing with her in the mindscape. (From here on out, events in italics are the mindscape, non-italicized events are Onslaught-Controlling-Nomad): Onslaught explained to Rikki that there was nothing she could do to stop him, since she was "his puppet". Onslaught taunted Beast, and took control over El Dragon's child army. Onslaught revealed to Rikki the "truth" of her existence, causing her to cry. Onslaught took control of Ant-Man, nailed Beast to the wall, and called Steve and his team to his area.

(Onslaught Unleashed I#3) - Onslaught "revealed" that Rikki had died in the Negative Zone, and it he had sent her through to the main universe to serve as his tether. Onslaught taunted the heroes, before displaying his power by blasting them. Rikki, seeing this, urged Onslaught to stop hurting her friends, to which Onslaught replied that she wasn't real and therefore did not have friends. Onslaught continued controlling Ant-Man to harass Sharon Carter, and had Firestar and Gravity fight each other. Rikki secretly influenced El Dragon into draining on the power source Onslaught was drawing from, so that Onslaught was weakened enough Rikki could fight him herself. However, this backfired, and the strengthened Dragon was beating up Toro, which Rikki detected and rushed to help Benny. This distracted her enough to allow Onslaught to enter the world himself, erasing Rikki.

(Onslaught Unleashed I#4) - After Onslaught was disrupted by an EMP, Rikki was able to reassert herself temporarily. She explained that the only way to defeat Onslaught, now that they were tethered, was to kill her. Completely, Gravity had to fully destroy her so that virtually every atom was destroyed. As Onslaught began to reassert himself, Gravity sadly killed Rikki, thereby defeated Onslaught once and for all. Later, Onslaught taunted Steve with dreams of him and Rikki fused, killing all the heroes.

(Fear Itself: Youth in Revolt I#1 - BTS) - Gravity remembered Nomad's death as one of the terrible things that had been happening to heroes recently.

SECRET WARS III HAPPENED

THIS IS ACTUALLY IMPORTANT THIS TIME

(Future Foundation I#3 (fb) - BTS/Future Foundation I#5 (fb) - BTS) - During the recreation of the multiverse by Franklin Richards, he subconsciously placed a Rikki in each of the worlds he created, namely all of them. This somehow resulted in the real Rikki's mind/soul/astral self being sent bouncing around to temporarily possess/merge with her multiversal versions. These included, but were not limited to:

(Future Foundation I#3 (fb)) - Rebecca "Buck" Barnes (Earth-79723) (Cowboy universe) further information in subprofile

(Future Foundation I#3 (fb)) - Rebecca "Bucky" Barnes (Earth-18248) (WWII) further information in subprofile

(Exiles III#3 - BTS/Future Foundation I#3 (fb)) - Rebecca "Becky" Barnes (Earth-86315) (Peggy Carter Captain America)  - further information can be found in this incarnation's own profile.

(Exiles III#4 - BTS/Future Foundation I#3 (fb) - BTS) - First Mate Rebecca "Becky" Barnes (Earth-66881) (Pirate universe) Rebecca "Becky" Barnes (Earth-66881) (Pirate universe) - further - further information for incarnation this can be found in its own profile

(Future Foundation I#3 (fb)) - Rebecca Barnes (Earth-15061) (~30 Years in the future) further information in subprofile

(Future Foundation I#3 (fb) - BTS) - [Non-specific zombie universe] - At some point Rikki traveled to a universe of zombies. (Future Foundation I#3 (fb)) - Rebecca "Rikki" Barnes (Earth-91155) further information in subprofile

(Future Foundation I#1 - BTS) - Eventually, Rikki returned to Reality-616 (see comments), where she was imprisoned on prison planet L'ar Gath Five. Her energy signal was detected by the Future Foundation while they were trying to find the Molecule Man.

(Future Foundation I#1) - Rikki, now disillusioned from dying countless times, was initially doubtful of Julie Power's plan to rescue her from the space prison. However, after hearing that Julie had attended Avengers Academy, she asked a few more questions, and decided that this is indeed the main universe. They began to head towards the showers to do the prison break, but Rikki had them go to the storage room to retrieve her stuff. The power was turned off by the Future Foundation, and Lightspeed flew Rikki to the storage room, past the guards.

(Future Foundation I#2) - They entered the Confiscated-Property Room. While Lightspeed was able to instantly change into her costume due both to it being Unstable Molecules and her being able to move at superspeed. Rikki, however, took longer to change, so Julie went off to distract the guards. Eventually, Julie's powers got turned off and she got surrounded by guards when Rikki came and rescued her using her photon shield, which was now a more normal Captain America shield. Rikki escorted Julie out of there, pushing her into the secret water escape tunnel before following. Julie flew them back to the ship, where Rikki noticed the Maker, who had killed her in a previous life.

(Future Foundation I#3) - Rikki held the Maker at laser-gun point. Eventually, an accord was reached between the Future Foundation and the Maker, so as to be able to survive and get off the planet. Once the ship was under attack, Rikki rushed Julie to the automatic infirmary following orders from Alex Power. She hooked Julie up to the table, and looked away while it did its stuff on Julie. Eventually, leaving the table to work on its own, Rikki used her space-guns to help shoot down the attackers. The Future Foundation rocketed away from the planet.

(Future Foundation I#4) - Rikki held the Maker at gunpoint briefly, before everything on the ship descended into chaos. The Shi'ar Warbird that was on the Maker's side held one of the Future Foundation at knifepoint, and Rikki then used her awesome soldiering skills to fight her. But Rikki ended up getting pinned down, and was only saved when Tong the Moloid ran through with a piece of the molecule man. Rikki found Artie and Leech, and made a plan. Rikki tracked the Maker, trapped him in an airlock, and beat him up a bunch while Leech neutralized his powers. But then the Maker blew up the Future Foundation's ship, leaving them all, including Rikki, stranded in the vacuum of space.

(Future Foundation I#5) - Julie awoke from the healing, and then flew out and saved Rikki. They kissed. Then, they escaped into Bentley-23's pocket dimension/evil lair, which they were trapped in, since the door would just empty out into space. While Alex Power was making a plan, he found out that Rikki had gained the ability to see where pieces of the Molecule Man were; and then Leech explained to her the whole "multiversal constant" backstory she now had. Rikki, with her giving off the Molecule Man's signal, was able to operate the machine that allowed them to escape the pocket dimension. They escaped, and Rikki and Julie got to sit on the beach and kiss.

(Fantastic Four VI#26) - When the Future Foundation returned to Earth, Rikki met and spoke to Franklin Richards before heading back home for Philly.

(Power Pack V#3 (fb)) - Rikki and Julie at some point shared coffee.

(Power Pack V#3) - Rikki videocalled with her girlfriend Julie while Julie was at home with her family.

(Champions IV#9 - BTS) - Rikki was among the young heroes who aided the champions in the repealing of the anti-teen vigilante "Kamala's Law".

(Champions IV#9) - Rikki was seen dancing with Julie at the party the champions threw for successfully repealing the law.

(Love Unlimited Infinity Comic I#43 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, Rikki and Julie Powers broke up.

Comments: Created by Rob Liefeld and Jeph Loeb.

For reference: In publication time, Rikki was alive on Counter-Earth from 1996 to 2008, so roughly 12 years; she was then alive in the main universe from 2008 to 2011, so roughly 3 years; then was dead from 2011 to 2019, roughly 8 years; and finally has been alive ever since. Based on my understanding of Marvel Time, that's roughly 3 years Counter-Earth, another year of being alive main earth, and then two years of being dead. (She's been alive since for roughly 1 ½ years, as of the time of this writing.)

Fun fact: Rikki coming to the main earth predates my birth. Feel old yet?

Rikki was also one of the heroes seen in the introduction to Girl Comics II#1. 

Strictly speaking both Counter-Earth (Franklin) and the Counter-Earth (Franklin) Reborn (introduced in Onslaught Reborn) are in Reality-616, just pocket dimensions thereof initially and then in the former case regular space but on the opposite side of the Sun; however, for ease of reference above, whenever 616 is mentioned it is referring to the main Earth of that reality, the one most Marvel comics are set on. - Loki

The Earth-616 Young Allies never properly joined into a group with a name and stuff, but it's simpler to just them that.

Things are actually quite unclear on how everything relating to Rikki works, but here's the working theory this profile was compiled under:

• Following the hero's sacrifice to defeat Onslaught, Franklin Richards created what would come to be known as Counter-Earth in a pocket dimension. This involved creating all its residents, including Rikki.
• After the Heroes Returned, Rikki was left behind in the alternate dimension, since she didn't exist in the main universe.
• When Doom moved that planet to the main universe in Heroes Reborn: Doomsday, it occupied the same spatial dimensions that the High Evolutionary's Counter-Earth once had.
• She fought on that planet for years, until eventually dying in the Future Foundation #3 flashback to an unidentified sniper.
• When Franklin took her "soul" and moved it to the Onslaught Reborn universe, he also destroyed Counter-Earth (Franklin). (Thus allowing for all-furry Counter-Earth to surface in Uncanny Avengers II#1?Or the High Evolutionary waged war on Counter-Earth (Franklin) at some point, which would be really interesting since 2 members of the Young Allies (Toro and Kid Colt) are already coincidentally animal people...)
• Onslaught moved her to the main universe, while also linking with her in some unclear way.
• Gravity killed her dead, but when Franklin fixed the multiverse she ended up traveling the universes. It's very unclear how this worked; I like to imagine it was basically Quantum Leap but with Onslaught (who would still be linked to her) as the Al figure.

Anyways, now she's alive, and also has black hair, presumably due to the same multiverse effects that resulted in the scar she now has, and her new costume. This is probably not the place for me to gripe about the Future Foundation story, but essentially, my complaints boil down to this: She's not Nomad anymore, she's writing Bucky. And not even the Bucky she was back on Counter-Earth, just a full fledged post-Brubaker depiction of Bucky. Also, she's somehow heard of the Spider-Mobile as being something that existed in Earth-616, even though she literally never met Spider-Man. Maybe one of her various allies has regaled her about the story as a humorous anecdote - "Hey, did you know Spidey once owned a Spider Mobile? Dude doesn't even know how to drive!"

The physical changes might have something to do with the unexplained manner she returned to Reality-616. To explain - Rikki bounced around the multiverse apparently merging with her counterparts on various Earths. But in 616 she had no body to merge into - her 616 counterpart had died while being born, and her original body had been slain by Gravity. So either that corpse got resurrected (not unknown to happen), or she got a new body generated wholesale for her (and if that happened, then any number of physical characteristics might change). It's also worth noting that Rikki mentioned that as she skipped through realities she gradually began to remember more of her past "leaps" and to bring random things along, including weapons, clothing and scars - so if she brought along one physical attribute like scars, she might have also picked up another counterpart's brown hair to replace her original color.

While the Earth-66881 "First Mate Barnes" was never specifically stated as having been the main Rikki, but due to her in story role as a counterpart of Earth-86315's Becky Barnes, who is specifically mentioned, it is safe to assume that she was also at some point our Rikki. I'd agree that she likely did at some point, but since CE Rikki doesn't mention her as one of the bodies she inhabited, she definitely wasn't possessing First Mate Rikki when that version appeared in Exiles, because CE Rikki was possessing this Rikki during that time period, as confirmed by CE Rikki mentioning WWII Rikki's romance with Exiles' Valkyrie. CE Rikki might well have possessed First Mate Rikki at some later juncture. As such, her specific placement in the timeline is speculative - it had to be after being the partner of Peggy Carter, since most possessions seem to end with the death of the Rikki in question, but beyond that we're guessing on the relative placement. - Loki

Tiamut the celestial is indirectly an enemy of everyone living on Counter-Earth (Franklin), and the Griever at the End of All Things is seemingly destroying the worlds Rikki goes to, so she's listed as an enemy in all of the alternate universe lists.

As for how Steve was able to remember who Rikki was in Captain America V#608, when he very specifically wasn't able to back in Thunderbolts I#52, I presume that he remembered during the time travelling he was doing during Captain America: Reborn.

Nomad received a profile in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update A-Z#3 (October, 2010).

Profile by WaddleDeo.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Rikki Barnes - "Bucky" should not be confused with:

• Bucky (James Barnes) - Captain America's sidekick--Captain America Comics I#1
• Bucky (Fred Davis) - WWII Bucky Replacement--Captain America Comics I#49
• Bucky (Jack Monroe) - a.k.a. Nomad, 1950's Bucky Barnes--Young Men I#24
• Rick Jones - Perpetual Sidekick, prospective Bucky one time--Captain America I#110
• Bucky (Lemar Hoskins) - a.k.a. Battlestar. US Government sanctioned version of Bucky after Steve Rogers quit--Captain America I#334
• Bucky (Julia Winters) - that baby Nomad used to carry around on his back for a while in the 90s--Nomad I#3
  
• or any of the several dozen Bucky robots/imposters/alternate reality duplicates/whatever that permeated Captain America back in the day.
  

Rikki Barnes - "Nomad" should not be confused with

• Nomad (Steve Rogers) - see CAPTAIN AMERICA (Rogers). Identity briefly used after lost faith in America following his discover of the secret identity of Number One of Secret Empire--Captain America I#180
• Nomad (Jack Monroe) - former partner of Captain America of the 1950s and Steve Rogers--Captain America I#282
• Nomad (Edward Ferbel) - former actor and Red Skull agent, who took up the Nomad name in a ploy to destroy Captain America's reputation--Captain America I#261
• Nomad (Ian Rogers/Leopold Zola) - son-clone of Arnim Zola's, adopted and raised by Captain America (Steve Rogers)--Captain America VII#10
• or any other "Nomad" characters.

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Future Foundation#2, p10, pan1 (main image)
Captain America V#606/2, p2, pan4 (head shot)
Captain America II#4, p1 (proto-Bucky)
Captain America II#12, p24, pan2 (original Bucky costume)
Heroes Reborn: Young Allies#1, p13, pan5 (as Bucky)
Young Allies II#1, p7, pan2 (leaping across rooftops as Nomad)
Nomad: Girl Without World#4, p22 (original Nomad costume)
Onslaught Unleashed#3, p15, pan3 (in mindscape)

Appearances:
Heroes Reborn I#½ (September, 1996) - Rob Liefeld (plot & pencils & editor), Jeph Loeb (script), Mario Alquiza (inks)
Captain America II#1 (November, 1996) - Rob Liefeld (plot & pencils & editor), Jeph Loeb (script), Jon Sibal (inks)
Captain America II#2 (December, 1996) - Rob Liefeld (plot & pencils & editor), Jeph Loeb (script), Jon Sibal (inks)
Captain America II#4 (February, 1997) - Rob Liefeld (plot & pencils), Jeph Loeb (script), Jon Sibal & Larry Stucker (inks), Eric Stephenson (editor)
Captain America II#5 (March, 1997) - Rob Liefeld (plot & pencils), Jeph Loeb (script), Jon Sibal (inks), Eric Stephenson (editor)
Captain America II#6 (April, 1997) - Rob Liefeld (plot & pencils), Jeph Loeb (script), Jon Sibal & Larry Stucker (editor), Eric Stephenson (editor)
Captain America II#8 (June, 1997) - James Robinson (Writer), Joe Bennet & Al Rio (pencils), Sandra Hope & Al Rio (inks), Mike Rockwitz (editor)
Captain America II#10 (August, 1997) - James Robinson (Writer), Joe Bennet (pencils), Sandra Hope (inks), Mike Rockwitz (editor)
Captain America II#11 (September, 1997) - James Robinson (Writer), Joe Bennet (pencils), Sandra Hope (inks), Mike Rockwitz (editor)
Captain America II#12 (October, 1997) - Jeph Loeb (Writer), Joe Bennet (pencils), Ed Benes & Homage Studios (inks), Mike Rockwitz (editor)
Iron Man II#13 (November, 1997) - James Robinson (Writer), Larry Stroman (pencils), John Dickenson & Homage Studios (inks), Ruben Diaz (editor)
Heroes Reborn: The Return I#3 (December, 1997) - Peter David (writer), Salvador Larroca (pencils), Art Thibert & Bud Larosa & Andrew Pepoy & Mark Prudeaux (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Heroes Reborn: The Return I#4 (December, 1997) - Peter David (writer), Salvador Larroca (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Bobbie Chase (editor)
Heroes Reborn: Young Allies I#1 (January, 2000) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Mark Bagley (pencils), Al Vey (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Thunderbolts I#51-52 (June-July, 2001) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Patrick Zircher (pencils), Al Vey (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Thunderbolts I#60 (March, 2002) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Patrick Zicher (pencils), Al Vey (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Thunderbolts I#62 (May, 2002) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Patrick Zicher (pencils), Al Vey (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Thunderbolts I#72 (November, 2002) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Chris Batista (pencils), Rich Perrotta (inks), Andrew Lis (editor)
Thunderbolts I#74 (January, 2003) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Chris Batista (pencils), Rich Perrotta (inks), Andrew Lis (editor)
Thunderbolts I#75 (February, 2003) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Manuel Garcia (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Andrew Lis (editor)
Exiles I#81-82 (July-August, 2006) - Tony Bedard (writer), Jim Calafiore (pencils), Mark McKenna (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
Exiles I#72 (January, 2006) - Tony Bedard (writer), Paul Pelletier (pencils), Rick Magyar (inks), Mike Marts & Nick Lowe & Sean Ryan (editors)
Exiles I#81-82 (July-August, 2006) - Tony Bedard (writer), J. Calafiore (pencils), Mark McKenna (inks), Mike Marts & Nick Lowe & Sean Ryan (editors)
Onslaught Reborn I#1 (January, 2007) - Jeph Loeb (writer), Rob Liefeld (pencils & inks), John Barber (editor)
Onslaught Reborn I#2 (February, 2007) - Jeph Loeb (writer), Rob Liefeld (pencils & inks), John Barber (editor)
Onslaught Reborn I#3 (March, 2007)  - Jeph Loeb (writer), Rob Liefeld (pencils & inks), John Barber (editor)
Onslaught Reborn I#4 (September, 2007) - Jeph Loeb (writer), Rob Liefeld (pencils & inks), John Barber (editor)
Onslaught Reborn I#5 (March, 2008) - Jeph Loeb (writer), Rob Liefeld (pencils & inks), John Barber (editor)
Captain America V#600 (August, 2009)- Ed Brubaker (writer), Rafael Albuquerque (pencils & inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Nomad: Girl without a World I#1 (November, 2009) - Sean McKeever (writer), David Baldeon (pencils & inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Nomad: Girl without a World I#2 (December, 2009) - Sean McKeever (writer), David Baldeon (pencils & inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Nomad: Girl without a World I#3 (January, 2010) - Sean McKeever (writer), David Baldeon (pencils & inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Nomad: Girl without a World I#4 (February, 2010) - Sean McKeever (writer), David Baldeon (pencils & inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Captain America V#602 (March, 2010) - Sean McKeever (writer), David Baldeon (pencils), Sotocolor's N. Bowling (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Captain America V#603 (April, 2010) - Sean McKeever (writer), David Baldeon (pencils), Sotocolor's N. Bowling (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Girl Comics II#1 (May, 2010) - Colleen Coover (writer & artist), Jeanine Schaefer (editor)
Captain America V#604 (May, 2010) - Sean McKeever (writer), David Baldeon (pencils), Sotocolor's N. Bowling (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Captain America V#605 (June, 2010) - Sean McKeever (writer), David Baldeon (pencils), Sotocolor's N. Bowling (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Captain America V#606 (July, 2010) - Sean McKeever (writer), David Baldeon (pencils), Sotocolor's N. Bowling (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Young Allies II#1 (August, 2010) - Sean McKeever (writer), David Baldeon (pencils), Sotocolor's N. Bowling (inks), Lauren Sankovitch (editor)
Captain America V#607 (August, 2010) - Sean McKeever (writer), David Baldeon (pencils), Sotocolor's N. Bowling (inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Young Allies II#2 (September, 2010) - Sean McKeever (writer), David Baldeon (pencils), Sotocolor's N. Bowling (inks), Lauren Sankovitch (editor)
Captain America V#608 (October, 2010) - Sean McKeever (writer), Filipe Andrade (pencils & inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Young Allies II#3 (October, 2010) - Sean McKeever (writer), David Baldeon (pencils), Sotocolor's N. Bowling (inks), Lauren Sankovitch (editor)
Captain America V#609 (October, 2010) - Sean McKeever (writer), Filipe Andrade (pencils & inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Young Allies II#4 (November, 2010) - Sean McKeever (writer), David Baldeon (pencils), Sotocolor's N. Bowling (inks), Lauren Sankovitch (editor)
Captain America V#610 (November, 2010) - Sean McKeever (writer), Filipe Andrade (pencils & inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Young Allies II#5 (December, 2010) - Sean McKeever (writer), David Baldeon (pencils), Sotocolor's N. Bowling (inks), Lauren Sankovitch (editor)
Captain America V#611 (December, 2010) - Sean McKeever (writer), Filipe Andrade (pencils & inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Young Allies II#6 (January, 2011) - Sean McKeever (writer), David Baldeon (pencils), Sotocolor's N. Bowling (inks), Lauren Sankovitch (editor)
Spider-Girl II#1 (January, 2011) - Paul Tobin (writer), Clayton Henry (artist), Nate Cosby, Tom Brennan, & Mike Horwitz (editors)
Captain America V#612 (January, 2011) - Sean McKeever (writer), Filipe Andrade (pencils & inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Spider-Girl II#2 (February, 2011) - Paul Tobin (writer), Clayton Henry, Ray-Anthony Height, Walden Wong, & Jerry Paris (pencils), Clayton Henry & John Livesay (inks), Nate Cosby & Tom Brennan (editors)
Captain America V#613 (February, 2011) - Sean McKeever (writer), Filipe Andrade (pencils & inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Captain America V#614 (March, 2011) - Sean McKeever (writer), Filipe Andrade (pencils & inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Spider-Girl II#3 (April, 2011) - Paul Tobin (writer), Clayton Henry, Tim Seeley (pencils), Sergio Cariello (inks), Nate Cosby & Tom Brennan (editors)
Captain America V#615 (April, 2011) - Sean McKeever (writer), Pepe Larraz (pencils & inks), Tom Brevoort (editor)
Onslaught Unleashed I#1 (April, 2011) - Sean McKeever (writer), Filipe Andrade (pencils & inks), Lauren Sankovitch (editor)
Onslaught Unleashed I#2 (May, 2011) - Sean McKeever (writer), Filipe Andrade (pencils & inks), Lauren Sankovitch (editor)
Onslaught Unleashed I#3 (June, 2011) - Sean McKeever (writer), Filipe Andrade (pencils & inks), Lauren Sankovitch (editor)
Spider-Girl II#6 (June, 2011) - Paul Tobin (writer), Clayton Henry (pencils), Sergio Cariello, Ray-Anthony Height, & Walden Wong (inks), Tom Brennan (editor)
Avengers Academy I#13 (July, 2011) - Christos N. Gage (writer), Sean Chen (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Bill Rosemann
Onslaught Unleashed I#4 (July, 2011) - Sean McKeever (writer), Filipe Andrade (pencils & inks), Lauren Sankovitch (editor)
Fear Itself: Youth in Revolt (July, 2011) - Sean McKeever (writer), Mike Norton (artist), Lauren Sankovitch (editor)
Future Foundation I#1 (October, 2019) - Jeremy Whitley (writer), Will Robson (pencils), Will Robson & Daniele Orlandini (inks), Sarah Brunstad & Tom Brevoort (editors)
Future Foundation I#2 (November, 2019) - Jeremy Whitley (writer), Will Robson & Paco Diaz (pencils), Will Robson & Paco Diaz & Daniele Orlandini (inks), Sarah Brunstad & Tom Brevoort (editors)
Future Foundation I#3 (December, 2019) - Jeremy Whitley (writer), Will Robson & Paco Diaz (pencils & inks), Sarah Brunstad & Tom Brevoort (editors)
Future Foundation I#4 (January, 2020) - Jeremy Whitley (writer), Alti Firmansyah (pencils & inks), Sarah Brunstad & Tom Brevoort (editors)
Future Foundation I#5 (February, 2020) - Jeremy Whitley (writer), Alti Firmansyah (pencils & inks), Sarah Brunstad & Tom Brevoort (editors)
Fantastic Four VI#26 (January, 2021) - Dan Slott (writer), R.B. Silva (pencils & inks), Tom Brevoort, Martin Biro, & Alanna Smith (editors)
Power Pack V#3 (April, 2021) - Ryan North (writer), Nico Leon (artist), Sarah Brunstad, Wil Moss, & Tom Brevoort (editors)
Champions IV#9 (November 2021) - Danny Lore (writer), Luciano Vecchio (artist), Martin Brio & Alanna Smith (editors)
Love Unlimited Infinity Comic I#45 (April, 2023) - Jeremy Whitley (writer), Bailie Rosenlund (artist), Alanna Smith (editor)

First Posted: 01/20/2026
Last updated: 01/20/2026

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