for the world’s greatest hero he sure
can be an asshat sometimes
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down the top ten times that
Superman was a dick before we begin we
publish new videos every day so be sure
to subscribe for more great content for
this list we’re looking at instances
when the Man of Steel was way off base
we’re counting instances that happened
in an imaginary story or due to outside
circumstances as well as times when
Supes was just being jerky number 10
when he used mind games to test
Supergirl Superman went a bit too far
when testing his recently arrived cousin
Supergirl to see if she was ready for
the superhero life he made her keep her
existence a total secret at first and
when she revealed it to his dog Krypto
he exiled her to a barren planet
light-years away she stayed there
heartbroken and full of sorrow until he
allowed her back during that time she
passed a secret test of his and he
revealed he had set up everything
including meeting crypto and exiling her
just as one big mind game to test her a
dick move if ever we saw one number nine
when he made out with mr. miracles wife
sleaze was a character so depraved that
even Darkseid couldn’t handle him and
kicked him out of apocalypse and
banished him to earth in this story he
kidnapped mr. miracles wife big Barda
and used mind control to make her his
slave Superman tried to rescue her
but he got the same treatment from
sleaze who then decided these two would
be great in a porno flick yes seriously
hiring a director who specializes in
x-rated fare he puts soup Zimbardo in
bed and commanded them to go to it
Superman was able to resist enough to
limit the action to some heavy-duty
kissing still not exactly what we expect
from our super-powered Boy Scout number
eight when he acted like judge and jury
Kingdom Come was an else world story so
it’s not part of the official Superman
Canon but it contains a very noteworthy
jerk move by our hero a new breed of
Heroes has taken over who are a lot
darker and a lot less committed to pure
justice and Superman decides to do
something about them that something
basically involved rounding them up and
without due process sentencing them all
to a giant gulag naturally the prisoners
eventually escaped initiating a war with
Superman and the Justice League in
response the United Nations launched a
bomb which destroyed thousands and
thousand
of the superhumans which you know
wouldn’t have happened if Supes hadn’t
taken the law into his own hands
number seven when he waged war on cars
look nobody likes idiots who get behind
the wheel of a car and go too fast
causing accidents and deaths they should
definitely be stopped but Superman’s
reaction when a friend was killed by a
reckless driver was a little excessive
basically he decided to take it out on
the cars themselves
he destroyed impounded cars and then
cars that weren’t safe when he found out
that a particular manufacturer made
substandard cars he tore down the
factory
almost injuring innocent employees in
the process all of this may have come
from good motives but it still was a
heavy-handed way to attack the problem
number six when he made out with another
woman on Lois Lane’s grave as longtime
comic book readers no you can’t judge a
comic book by it’s cover
often the scene depicted on the cover
doesn’t depict an actual event from the
story on the inside and that’s exactly
the case here the cover shows the
gravestone of Lois Lane Kent indicating
that she had married Clark and died
giving birth to their child
it also shows Clark as Superman kissing
a scantily clad redhead who is sitting
right on top of the gravestone none of
this actually happens in the actual
story which is set in an alternate
timeline where Superman leaves earth but
the cover is simply too much of a dick
move not to be included on this list
number 5 when he tried to destroy all
tenements Superman is at his best when
fighting evil villains with a clear
agenda to conquer the world where he’s
not so good as complex social issues
that can’t be solved with a few punches
and a little heat vision case in point
after realizing that tenement life
practically forces kids on a path that
leads to crime
Superman decided the best thing to do
was simply destroy all tenements in
Metropolis which he proceeded to do even
as the National Guard tried to stop him
true his plan did result in the
government rebuilding the slums as nice
new affordable housing but such a plan
could only work in the comics number
four when he killed Green Arrow and
Shazam
anyone else in the injustice series
which is based on the video game set in
alternate world
Superman takes jerk hood to a whole new
level that’s kind of the point of the
whole thing
to show what a tyrannical Superman would
be like there are plenty of asswipe
moments from the big guy but the two
that really takes the cake is when he
killed Green Arrow and Shazam arrow had
a battle with Supes in the fortress of
solitude during which an arrow
accidentally wounded paw Kent and Batson
Superman way over the edge and Shazam
tried to dissuade Superman from his path
of killing a destruction with dire
consequences injustice indeed number
three when he made Lois think Clark was
dead the very first story in the first
issue of Lois Lane’s own comic book
established a pattern that would be
followed for years Superman has to teach
Lois a lesson for her own good in this
instance Lois pretended to be a famous
tempestuous French film star in order to
get a scoop from a politician Superman
sees through her disguise and sets up an
elaborate ruse to trick her along the
way he has his alter-ego Clark Kent
seemingly jumped to his death and lets
Lois think it’s because Clark was madly
in love with the French star she was
impersonating not the case at all just
Superman being a jackass number two when
he mistreated Jimmy Olsen Jimmy Olsen
may have been Superman’s pal but that
doesn’t mean he always got treated like
one for years the writers tended to put
Jimmy in a subordinate position with
Superman acting like a smug and cocky
older brother
refusing to help Jimmy lose weight
marrying him to a gorilla not nice worst
of all was a story where Superman
adopted Jimmy and then treated him like
total trash and made him feel horrible
and unwanted sure there was technically
a reason for it but a guy with
Superman’s intelligence could have found
a better way around the problem number
one when he just planed tormented Lois
Lois and Superman have a strange
relationship there are so many times
when he has tormented her supposedly for
her own good including making her obese
so a killer wouldn’t get her don’t ask
or letting her think he was letting her
die again moving on but the most bizarre
example has to be when he cruelly put
her through a whole range of emotional
traumas why because he wanted to help
her get cast in a movie and the director
needed to be convinced she could emot–
properly duh sure maybe Lois wanted to
be in the
but she probably would have preferred a
route that didn’t involve potentially
being mauled by a lion do you agree with
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can be an asshat sometimes
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down the top ten times that
Superman was a dick before we begin we
publish new videos every day so be sure
to subscribe for more great content for
this list we’re looking at instances
when the Man of Steel was way off base
we’re counting instances that happened
in an imaginary story or due to outside
circumstances as well as times when
Supes was just being jerky number 10
when he used mind games to test
Supergirl Superman went a bit too far
when testing his recently arrived cousin
Supergirl to see if she was ready for
the superhero life he made her keep her
existence a total secret at first and
when she revealed it to his dog Krypto
he exiled her to a barren planet
light-years away she stayed there
heartbroken and full of sorrow until he
allowed her back during that time she
passed a secret test of his and he
revealed he had set up everything
including meeting crypto and exiling her
just as one big mind game to test her a
dick move if ever we saw one number nine
when he made out with mr. miracles wife
sleaze was a character so depraved that
even Darkseid couldn’t handle him and
kicked him out of apocalypse and
banished him to earth in this story he
kidnapped mr. miracles wife big Barda
and used mind control to make her his
slave Superman tried to rescue her
but he got the same treatment from
sleaze who then decided these two would
be great in a porno flick yes seriously
hiring a director who specializes in
x-rated fare he puts soup Zimbardo in
bed and commanded them to go to it
Superman was able to resist enough to
limit the action to some heavy-duty
kissing still not exactly what we expect
from our super-powered Boy Scout number
eight when he acted like judge and jury
Kingdom Come was an else world story so
it’s not part of the official Superman
Canon but it contains a very noteworthy
jerk move by our hero a new breed of
Heroes has taken over who are a lot
darker and a lot less committed to pure
justice and Superman decides to do
something about them that something
basically involved rounding them up and
without due process sentencing them all
to a giant gulag naturally the prisoners
eventually escaped initiating a war with
Superman and the Justice League in
response the United Nations launched a
bomb which destroyed thousands and
thousand
of the superhumans which you know
wouldn’t have happened if Supes hadn’t
taken the law into his own hands
number seven when he waged war on cars
look nobody likes idiots who get behind
the wheel of a car and go too fast
causing accidents and deaths they should
definitely be stopped but Superman’s
reaction when a friend was killed by a
reckless driver was a little excessive
basically he decided to take it out on
the cars themselves
he destroyed impounded cars and then
cars that weren’t safe when he found out
that a particular manufacturer made
substandard cars he tore down the
factory
almost injuring innocent employees in
the process all of this may have come
from good motives but it still was a
heavy-handed way to attack the problem
number six when he made out with another
woman on Lois Lane’s grave as longtime
comic book readers no you can’t judge a
comic book by it’s cover
often the scene depicted on the cover
doesn’t depict an actual event from the
story on the inside and that’s exactly
the case here the cover shows the
gravestone of Lois Lane Kent indicating
that she had married Clark and died
giving birth to their child
it also shows Clark as Superman kissing
a scantily clad redhead who is sitting
right on top of the gravestone none of
this actually happens in the actual
story which is set in an alternate
timeline where Superman leaves earth but
the cover is simply too much of a dick
move not to be included on this list
number 5 when he tried to destroy all
tenements Superman is at his best when
fighting evil villains with a clear
agenda to conquer the world where he’s
not so good as complex social issues
that can’t be solved with a few punches
and a little heat vision case in point
after realizing that tenement life
practically forces kids on a path that
leads to crime
Superman decided the best thing to do
was simply destroy all tenements in
Metropolis which he proceeded to do even
as the National Guard tried to stop him
true his plan did result in the
government rebuilding the slums as nice
new affordable housing but such a plan
could only work in the comics number
four when he killed Green Arrow and
Shazam
anyone else in the injustice series
which is based on the video game set in
alternate world
Superman takes jerk hood to a whole new
level that’s kind of the point of the
whole thing
to show what a tyrannical Superman would
be like there are plenty of asswipe
moments from the big guy but the two
that really takes the cake is when he
killed Green Arrow and Shazam arrow had
a battle with Supes in the fortress of
solitude during which an arrow
accidentally wounded paw Kent and Batson
Superman way over the edge and Shazam
tried to dissuade Superman from his path
of killing a destruction with dire
consequences injustice indeed number
three when he made Lois think Clark was
dead the very first story in the first
issue of Lois Lane’s own comic book
established a pattern that would be
followed for years Superman has to teach
Lois a lesson for her own good in this
instance Lois pretended to be a famous
tempestuous French film star in order to
get a scoop from a politician Superman
sees through her disguise and sets up an
elaborate ruse to trick her along the
way he has his alter-ego Clark Kent
seemingly jumped to his death and lets
Lois think it’s because Clark was madly
in love with the French star she was
impersonating not the case at all just
Superman being a jackass number two when
he mistreated Jimmy Olsen Jimmy Olsen
may have been Superman’s pal but that
doesn’t mean he always got treated like
one for years the writers tended to put
Jimmy in a subordinate position with
Superman acting like a smug and cocky
older brother
refusing to help Jimmy lose weight
marrying him to a gorilla not nice worst
of all was a story where Superman
adopted Jimmy and then treated him like
total trash and made him feel horrible
and unwanted sure there was technically
a reason for it but a guy with
Superman’s intelligence could have found
a better way around the problem number
one when he just planed tormented Lois
Lois and Superman have a strange
relationship there are so many times
when he has tormented her supposedly for
her own good including making her obese
so a killer wouldn’t get her don’t ask
or letting her think he was letting her
die again moving on but the most bizarre
example has to be when he cruelly put
her through a whole range of emotional
traumas why because he wanted to help
her get cast in a movie and the director
needed to be convinced she could emot–
properly duh sure maybe Lois wanted to
be in the
but she probably would have preferred a
route that didn’t involve potentially
being mauled by a lion do you agree with
our picks check out these other great
clips from WatchMojo and subscribe for
new videos every day
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