turns out comics can be pretty grim
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 darkest moments in superhero comics
before we begin we publish new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
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notified about our latest videos for
this list we’re looking at the darkest
scenes ever illustrated in a superhero
story as quite a few of these moments
are significant to the overall story
please be advised there will be spoilers
number 10 blob has wasp for dinner
death is no stranger to both Marvel and
DC but 2009 ultimatum decided to test
its readers gag reflexes with arguably
the most disgusting murder of all time a
crossover event triggered by magneto
reversing the Earth’s polarity ultimatum
featured many shocking deaths but wasps
demise at the hands of the blob stood
out among the corpses as she was eaten
ultimatum does not clarify whether wasp
was alive when blob got peckish but
either way he eventually got what was
coming to him number 9
Joker skins and humiliates Monte out of
all of DC’s villains nobody revels in
sadism quite like the Joker told from a
henchmans perspective 2008 self-titled
comics sought to explore the deranged
criminal psyche and presented the Joker
as more of a crime boss than a
cartoonish prankster following a stint
in Arkham Asylum that coincided with the
villains gang losing ground to penguin
and Harvey Dent Joker retaliated by
skinning Monte the owner of a strip club
and forcing the dying man to dance in
front of a shocked audience nobody puts
on a show like the Joker
number 8 Rorschach’s origin Rorschach is
one of the first characters introduced
in issue number one of Watchmen but
readers had to wait until the sixth
issue to learn more about this
mysterious and dark vigilante during his
session with dr. Malcolm long we learn
of Walter Kovacs rough childhood and his
path to becoming a masked vigilante and
of the night where he truly became
Rorschach after investigating the
disappearance of six-year-old Blaire
Roche Rorschach discovers the girl has
been killed by her captor and fed to his
dogs Rorschach handcuffs the man to a
stove covers him in kerosene and offers
him a hacksaw to cut his own hand off in
order to escape he doesn’t the look on
dr. Long’s face says it all number 7 dr.
light assaults
Divini identity crisis tends to be
considered among DC’s darkest story
lines and this reputation is completely
justified 2004 s miniseries is a murder
mystery centering around the death of
elongated man’s wife sue Dib knee
despite generally being treated as
nothing more than a joke villain the
Justice League suspect dr. light to be
the culprit green arrow reveals that dr.
light once raped sue but Zatanna
Mindwipe and alter the villains
personality to prevent a repeat
besides rewriting the histories of
multiple characters identity crisis
shows Sue’s assault in graphic detail
number six kid miracle man commits mass
murder often credited with launching the
modern age of comics one of Alan Moore’s
earliest works was a deconstruction of a
Golden Age superhero called marvel man
who was basically a thinly veiled ripoff
of Captain Marvel renamed miracle man
outside of the UK this fiercely graphic
series includes a realistic childbirth
countless bloody bodies and kid miracle
man the heroes former sidekick
massacring thousands of people the most
harrowing moment comes at the start of
his rampage when he considers sparing a
young nurse who’d been kind to his meek
alter-ego Johnny only to return moments
later for fear that people would think
he was going soft number 5 Green Lantern
finds his girlfriend’s stuffed in the
fridge
the phrase woman in refrigerators or
fridging refers to romantic partners
injected into a story solely to be
killed off as a means of providing the
protagonist with motivation lasting less
than 10 issues
Alexandra DeWitt was Kyle rayner’s
girlfriend before the Green Lantern
power ring fell into the guy’s lap but
the photographer is mostly remembered
for being strangled to death by major
force and stuffed in a refrigerator
after taking care of some thugs Green
Lantern returns home to find Alex on ice
and this incident helps mature Kyle into
a better superhero number for the death
of Jason Todd unsure whether to axe off
a character or not thankfully democracy
was created exactly for this type of
situation bringing an end to Jason
Todd’s run as Robin a death in the
family is among Batman’s most famous
storylines and DC carried out a ballot
to decide if the Caped Crusader’s
sidekicks should survive to fight
another day
a highly unpopular character at the time
fans voted in favor of Todd’s demise
leading to the Joker senselessly bashing
the hero with a crowbar just to
guarantee the mission was a success the
villain also blew up the building number
three
Joker tricks Superman into killing a
pregnant Lois if there is one villain
crazy enough to break Superman’s spirit
the Joker would have to be it set five
years prior to the events of DC’s
fighting game with the same name in
Justice Chronicle Superman’s
transformation from benevolent guardian
to tyrannical overlord
Joker kidnaps a pregnant Lois and using
a variant of Scarecrow’s fear gas trick
Superman into mistaking Lois for
doomsday in a fit of rage and ironically
trying to protect Joker and Harley from
the monster Superman flies doomsday into
space eventually the gas wears off and
Clark learns the truth number two
Logan tricked into killing the x-men old
man Logan bounces from one deranged and
heartbreaking moment to the next
but Wolverines darkest hour precedes the
present-day storyline by decades back in
the day dozens of super villains
suddenly attacked the x-mansion forcing
Logan to go on a rampage to protect the
students once the attackers were all
killed Mysterio revealed this to be
nothing more than an illusion and
Wolverine had actually slaughtered the
other x-men these panels clearly
illustrate the corpses of the Fallen
Heroes due to the x-men being taken out
the United States was effectively
conquered by the supervillains number
one The Killing Joke yes all of Alan
Moore’s graphic novel the definitive
Joker and Batman comic Mohr’s one-shot
sees Batgirl crippled and possibly raped
by the Clown Prince of Gotham
while Commissioner Gordon is stripped
naked and forced to watch the carnage
these vile acts are intercut with a
sympathetic flashback outlining the
Joker’s origin story but this contrast
only makes the villains actions all that
more repulsive a highly influential
comic mores own opinion on The Killing
Joke has worsened with age with author
believing the story was too nasty and
regrets popularizing a trend where
superheroes have to be brooding
Psychopaths do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and
ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 darkest moments in superhero comics
before we begin we publish new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
Channel and ring the bell to get
notified about our latest videos for
this list we’re looking at the darkest
scenes ever illustrated in a superhero
story as quite a few of these moments
are significant to the overall story
please be advised there will be spoilers
number 10 blob has wasp for dinner
death is no stranger to both Marvel and
DC but 2009 ultimatum decided to test
its readers gag reflexes with arguably
the most disgusting murder of all time a
crossover event triggered by magneto
reversing the Earth’s polarity ultimatum
featured many shocking deaths but wasps
demise at the hands of the blob stood
out among the corpses as she was eaten
ultimatum does not clarify whether wasp
was alive when blob got peckish but
either way he eventually got what was
coming to him number 9
Joker skins and humiliates Monte out of
all of DC’s villains nobody revels in
sadism quite like the Joker told from a
henchmans perspective 2008 self-titled
comics sought to explore the deranged
criminal psyche and presented the Joker
as more of a crime boss than a
cartoonish prankster following a stint
in Arkham Asylum that coincided with the
villains gang losing ground to penguin
and Harvey Dent Joker retaliated by
skinning Monte the owner of a strip club
and forcing the dying man to dance in
front of a shocked audience nobody puts
on a show like the Joker
number 8 Rorschach’s origin Rorschach is
one of the first characters introduced
in issue number one of Watchmen but
readers had to wait until the sixth
issue to learn more about this
mysterious and dark vigilante during his
session with dr. Malcolm long we learn
of Walter Kovacs rough childhood and his
path to becoming a masked vigilante and
of the night where he truly became
Rorschach after investigating the
disappearance of six-year-old Blaire
Roche Rorschach discovers the girl has
been killed by her captor and fed to his
dogs Rorschach handcuffs the man to a
stove covers him in kerosene and offers
him a hacksaw to cut his own hand off in
order to escape he doesn’t the look on
dr. Long’s face says it all number 7 dr.
light assaults
Divini identity crisis tends to be
considered among DC’s darkest story
lines and this reputation is completely
justified 2004 s miniseries is a murder
mystery centering around the death of
elongated man’s wife sue Dib knee
despite generally being treated as
nothing more than a joke villain the
Justice League suspect dr. light to be
the culprit green arrow reveals that dr.
light once raped sue but Zatanna
Mindwipe and alter the villains
personality to prevent a repeat
besides rewriting the histories of
multiple characters identity crisis
shows Sue’s assault in graphic detail
number six kid miracle man commits mass
murder often credited with launching the
modern age of comics one of Alan Moore’s
earliest works was a deconstruction of a
Golden Age superhero called marvel man
who was basically a thinly veiled ripoff
of Captain Marvel renamed miracle man
outside of the UK this fiercely graphic
series includes a realistic childbirth
countless bloody bodies and kid miracle
man the heroes former sidekick
massacring thousands of people the most
harrowing moment comes at the start of
his rampage when he considers sparing a
young nurse who’d been kind to his meek
alter-ego Johnny only to return moments
later for fear that people would think
he was going soft number 5 Green Lantern
finds his girlfriend’s stuffed in the
fridge
the phrase woman in refrigerators or
fridging refers to romantic partners
injected into a story solely to be
killed off as a means of providing the
protagonist with motivation lasting less
than 10 issues
Alexandra DeWitt was Kyle rayner’s
girlfriend before the Green Lantern
power ring fell into the guy’s lap but
the photographer is mostly remembered
for being strangled to death by major
force and stuffed in a refrigerator
after taking care of some thugs Green
Lantern returns home to find Alex on ice
and this incident helps mature Kyle into
a better superhero number for the death
of Jason Todd unsure whether to axe off
a character or not thankfully democracy
was created exactly for this type of
situation bringing an end to Jason
Todd’s run as Robin a death in the
family is among Batman’s most famous
storylines and DC carried out a ballot
to decide if the Caped Crusader’s
sidekicks should survive to fight
another day
a highly unpopular character at the time
fans voted in favor of Todd’s demise
leading to the Joker senselessly bashing
the hero with a crowbar just to
guarantee the mission was a success the
villain also blew up the building number
three
Joker tricks Superman into killing a
pregnant Lois if there is one villain
crazy enough to break Superman’s spirit
the Joker would have to be it set five
years prior to the events of DC’s
fighting game with the same name in
Justice Chronicle Superman’s
transformation from benevolent guardian
to tyrannical overlord
Joker kidnaps a pregnant Lois and using
a variant of Scarecrow’s fear gas trick
Superman into mistaking Lois for
doomsday in a fit of rage and ironically
trying to protect Joker and Harley from
the monster Superman flies doomsday into
space eventually the gas wears off and
Clark learns the truth number two
Logan tricked into killing the x-men old
man Logan bounces from one deranged and
heartbreaking moment to the next
but Wolverines darkest hour precedes the
present-day storyline by decades back in
the day dozens of super villains
suddenly attacked the x-mansion forcing
Logan to go on a rampage to protect the
students once the attackers were all
killed Mysterio revealed this to be
nothing more than an illusion and
Wolverine had actually slaughtered the
other x-men these panels clearly
illustrate the corpses of the Fallen
Heroes due to the x-men being taken out
the United States was effectively
conquered by the supervillains number
one The Killing Joke yes all of Alan
Moore’s graphic novel the definitive
Joker and Batman comic Mohr’s one-shot
sees Batgirl crippled and possibly raped
by the Clown Prince of Gotham
while Commissioner Gordon is stripped
naked and forced to watch the carnage
these vile acts are intercut with a
sympathetic flashback outlining the
Joker’s origin story but this contrast
only makes the villains actions all that
more repulsive a highly influential
comic mores own opinion on The Killing
Joke has worsened with age with author
believing the story was too nasty and
regrets popularizing a trend where
superheroes have to be brooding
Psychopaths do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and
ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos
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