10 Controversial Comic Book Deaths Fans Hated

Death is something that superhero

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s have struggled to deal with practically since they began. Writers constantly strive to strike the perfect balance between ensuring death has consequences and retaining the fantastical nature of fun superhero

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s. This has had the unfortunate side effect of making every appointment. Without quotes, death in the pages of both Marvel and DC tends to seem a bit meaningless with resurrections plentiful and almost instantaneous, since it doesn't take much for a death to be completely botched and if you take into account the obsession of mediums for hitting women. in refrigerators that actually effect

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are hard to find, for example, heroes in crisis who will probably kill Pamela Isley and even sported a creepy cover to add insult to injury, superhero

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are pretty stupid so it's time for me, you and from what culture. to list 10

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number 10 black widow secret empire secret empire was many things, most of them bad the events that saw captain america turn against the world as secret agents of hydra were clumsy bad times in its focus and fizzled out in a miserable anticlimax, ironically in an attempt to do something new, the series actually perpetuated several client book clichés, the most notable being that of superfluous death in Secret Empire number 7, the champions Led by Black Widow they try to end evil.

Steve, once and for all, Romanov begins to deal with his idol Frank Castle before turning his attention to Kat, who quickly crushes his neck with a blow from her shield. It was bleak and, in the grand scheme of things, did little to serve the comics. In essence, all the story did was reiterate Steve's own evil and even when it happened,

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predicted that she would return within a year or two anyway and lo and behold, she was number nine in the war games. of spoilers. Stephanie Brown may not play a central role in the Bat Family like she wants, but when she did, the character was adored.

Stephanie adopted the spoiler identity to put an end to her father's bad habits as a vigilante in Gotham without Batman's supervision. Brown found himself in conflict with the Bat Family and even developed a romance. with Tim Drake leading to a storyline where she temporarily assumed the identity of Robin, unfortunately for Stef and her fans, the character was killed off during the final stages of the war games event where Black Mask brutally tortured her. . Stephanie manages to escape and falls into the care of Dr. Leslie Thompkins, who then intentionally decides to let her die even as Stephanie's passing felt unnecessarily cruel and Thompkins' involvement in her death felt sudden and jarring, it seems DC felt the same way several years later, however.

When the character returned from The Dead it turns out that she never died in the first place and became the latest incarnation of Batgirl #8, Wally West. The new Wally West 52 may not have been the first Flash, but during the '90s and early 2000s, she was probably the most popular character. had taken over after Barry Allen died in the epic crisis of DC's defining event on Infinite Earths and Wally had led the way since then with Bart Allen and Jay Garrick working alongside as the First Flash and Kid Flash respectively when the character appeared. on WB.

Justice League cartoon animations, which was the best because of the way it seemed like this would be the case forever, however, when Barry returned in 2008 with a spinal crisis in a cool way, it has to be said, I mean the guy literally overcame death itself. It means it's really cool that DC moved away from Wally once again, the character even got his own TV show and when DC decided to reboot everything in 2011 with the new 52 Wally the irony of fans exclaiming was nowhere to be seen. Where is Wally? It doesn't make the world of the West easy to deal with, and although a version of Wally was introduced into that continuity several years later, it wasn't until the DC revival that the original character returned only to potentially be killed off in Heroes in crisis, hooray!

Whether Wally has died again or not remains to be seen, but in terms of color book characters taking the brunt, not many have had to deal with one as lowly as Wally West #7 Bruce Banner Civil War to civil war . Making war tougher was somehow worse than before, this time the premise would revolve around a Minority Report figure who could predict crimes before they even occurred. A group led by Carol Danvers believes it is ethical to arrest the culprit before he has committed the Tony act. Stark, on the other hand, considered this a massive violation of civil liberties, apparently forgetting the terrible game he had to play in the first conflict.

Everything comes to a head when the Ulysses figure predicts that the Hulk will be enraged when the Avengers leave. to confront Bruce Banner, an arrow comes out of nowhere hitting the doctor in the head and killing him instantly. It turns out to be Hawkeye, who reveals that Bruce had asked Clint to kill him if he ever lost control, which he was apparently about to do to Bruce. Being one of Marvel's most popular characters, his return was inevitable and now the Hulk is practically immortal anyway, well for Bruce number six, the WASC ultimatum. If you ever want a great example of how to completely destroy something very good, look no further than Jeff.

Lobe and the David Finch Ultimatum, a story that would eventually prove to be the death knell for the ultimate universe as it existed at the time. There was a time when the definitive line of Marvel comics surpassed the original six one six in terms of popularity with Brian Bendis Mark Miller. and several others modernizing classic Marvel characters like Spider-Man, The Avengers, and the the Ultimate Universe. the most joyous interpretation of the Marvel world, but there were times when it surpassed the ultimatum mark, it marked the most egregious occasion in which I said, pronounced in the deaths of dozens of alternate Marvel characters, no more infamous, the wasps, how does it die?

Well, they corner her. the blob that this blob who then decides to cannibalize his corpse, a giant outraged man, picks it up in his hand and quickly decides to bite its head off in response, oh well here we go, let's make some fireworks noises here, congratulations , ultimatum, you just won my patent, but I want to die award of the week for emotes everything on this page look at it is horrible number five Identity Crisis by Sudipta some consider Identity Crisis to be a well-paced story driven by the characters that take advantage of the strengths of a cast of superheroes from the DC universes.

While others have considered it to be a harsh and unnecessarily cruel story that ruins several heroes and fits a long-standing trend of an editor putting women in the refrigerator, whatever your opinion, it's hard not to see how his Dib's death in the knee upset readers. how she developed in the events of the book hers was the elongated man's wife but she is found burned to death at the beginning of the book in her search for the culprit green arrow reveals that hers was raped by dr. Light during the early years of the League, which led several members to convince Etana of Mindwipe and changed Light's personality, hence his depiction as a bumbling fool in every other DC book ever published, but Death itself It still persisted and it was later revealed that the gene that attracts atoms ex-wife was the culprit in an attempt to win back Ray Palmer.

The floor stole one of her suits, shrank it, and killed Divini by increasing her mass while she was in her brain, resulting in a major hemorrhage. Loring is then sent to Arkham and the league's trust is completely broken. issue 4 Lee Ann Harper The Justice League's cry for justice from a traumatic event involving Green Arrow and Black Canary to a completely different one now this time with the Justice League's cry for justice infinitely less divisive and more Universally ridiculed. The cry for justice was published in the wake of final prices that saw the death of Martian Manhunter and Batman in response to Bezzie's perennial companions, Oliver Queen and Hal Jordan, leaving the league to demand a more proactive type of justice against those who conspired. against the league during Darkseid's invasion.

The book was criticized at the time for betraying both Queen and Jordan in unknown terms, but ran afoul of controversy during the finale, where Roy Harper loses his damn arm and his daughter, leading Green Arrow to murder the responsible man in revenge. Prometheus, it's not so much Prometheus's death that turned out to be the sticking point for fans (after all, Oliver had killed him before and would almost certainly do it again at some point in the future), but rather what happened: Roy and LeAnn's family in particular over the course of the series, it turns out that Prometheus has devised a plan to destroy Star City, it is partially successful and Leon is crushed under the falling debris, resulting in his death.

It was just unnecessarily cruel and a perfect example of a superhero book focusing on the worst elements of the genre #3 Peter Parker, The Amazing Spider-Man Peter Parker actually died twice in the comics since the beginning of a decade, he bit the bullet for the first time in Ultimate Spider-Man, leaving the door open for Mars Morales to take on the mantle and was brilliant both in terms of closing the door on a character and introducing an entirely new hero who will take the world by storm, which Miles later he did. The second death took place in the main 6-1-6 continuity and involved Doctor Octopus.

The aftermath of the death itself actually led to one of Dan Slott's most interesting periods. Spider-Man, but the way it happened was pretty traumatic. Doc Ock, plagued by disease, is at death's door because of this, devises a plan to swap bodies with Spider-Man, which he then does. Peter is trapped in Ock's old body as he slowly passes away. but not before he can impart some words of wisdom to his former adversary that convince him to do good as a new, superior Spider-Man again. It wasn't so much the aftermath of the event that had readers concerned about how Peter died, but rather Really Dark and it would take a lot to convince his fans to back the man who ended up killing him.

Most eventually would, but at the time it would have been difficult to find anyone who thought this death was appropriate. STI number two from poison ivy. Death in Heroes in Crisis Poison Ivy fans, like those who have come to love Wally West over the years, haven't had the best couple of years. BC's publisher rarely seems to know what to do with the character with the figure depicted as an Environmental Antihero in some comics and a ruthless villain in others, it's been frustrating and when Clayman's cover for Heroes and Crisis number six leaked online last December, well, the reaction was palpable.

Pictured here is the redesigned cover that DC released after the backlash. and while the original was a little worse if you know the actual criticisms of the picture have been completely overlooked, the main problem is that it depicts Ivy and her suggestive life even when she's lying on the floor bleeding and dying from sex a tragic event. This way is pretty strange no matter how you look at it and while the man has been doing an incredible job on DC's latest crisis comic, this cover felt and still feels like a misstep, there's still a good chance that There may be a bit of deception going on here with the identifications, the death has been telegraphed from the beginning of the series, but either way, it's still hard for Pamela fans to feel like the characters are being tossed around to adapting to several different roles since the new 52 and the revival began, and it's about time.

DC to find out which one she will fail sooner rather than later, don't kill her either, please number one Superman, the death of Superman, there is no denying how iconic the death of Superman is as an event in the DC universe and in the comic book industry, but to say that fans enjoyed Kal-el's bite in Bullitt vs. the End of the World would be wrong of course. Superman's demise in battle against the Kryptonian super weapon turned out to be a huge hit and fans lapped up every cover they could. However, his death was also the perfect example of everything that is wrong with the genre's attitude towards it, with a clearly planned roadmap for his return being established long before his demise, the reign of the Super menfollowed him into an iconic story, but it was only There Will Ever Be a Result lo and behold, when Kal-el returned with a black suit and a spiffy new mullet, literally no one was surprised that Superman's death might not be the archetypal resurrection. of death Jean Grae Professor X and almost half of x -Men are equally responsible here but they don't get much worse.