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Captain America has long struggled with heroes and anti-heroes who kill. 1 / 9

When he first met the Punisher, he gave him a lecture about killing. 2 / 9

Cap also has long had an uneasy relationship with Wolverine from the X-Men. 3 / 9

When they meet up in a Cap Annual, he automatically gives Wolverine grief. 4 / 9

At the end, he tells Wolverine he'll never be an Avenger (little does Cap know). 5 / 9

When Cap himself is forced to take a life soon after, it WRECKS him. 6 / 9

Cap writer Mark Gruenwald shows Cap's unsettled nature in the "Grim and gritty" era. 7 / 9

Cap is shocked to learn that his comic book sells worse than Punisher and Wolverine's. 8 / 9

Gruenwald cleverly uses the metafictional angle to challenge Cap's place in the modern world. 9 / 9