8 Worst Things The Winter Soldier Has Ever Done

1. Wiped Out And Framed A Former Bucky - Out Of Time

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Not content with setting off a bomb in Philadelphia, the Winter Soldier covered his tracks by pinning the blame on Jack Monroe.

At one point in time, Monroe became the third person to take on the mantle of Bucky, with him working with a new Captain America - a Cap who would later go on to become the Grand Director - before both lost their marbles and became babbling messes.

After decades of being left frozen in animation or shot dead - depending on who was writing the comics of the time - Jack Monroe resurfaced in 1983. For the next couple of decades, Monroe took on the Nomad moniker and worked alongside Captain America, even going on to get his own comic book series in the nineties.

Unfortunately for Jack, he ended up going on the Winter Soldier's hit list. A drunk Monroe was shot dead and bundled into a car by the newly resurrected Bucky Barnes. From there, Winter Soldier would dump Jack Monroe's corpse next to the Philadelphia bomb as a way to peg the blame on his replacement, assured it would work based on his troubled past.

Making the death of Jack Monroe even more tragic, the follow-up The Lonesome Death of Jack Monroe story explained how Monroe was terminally ill, was a depressed alcoholic, and had been refused access to his daughter. What an awful way to go.

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