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deaths and Marvel Comics
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of a list we’re looking at the times
when characters from Marvel Comics met
with tragic and unfortunate deaths and
we’re still not over any of them so it
goes without saying but here’s your
spoiler warning we’re adding a special
exception for what we call death by
origin story characters like
spider-man’s Uncle Ben or the Punishers
family who were created to die from the
start so we can hardly call their
passing heartbreaking we’re also talking
specifically about deaths from the
comics so no movie specific deaths sorry
Logan fans number 10 Wolverine
not many Comics characters spend as much
time dodging the reaper as this one but
in 2014 Logan’s years of shrugging off
certain death caught up with him after a
virus originating in the Microverse shut
off Logan’s famous healing factor he
spent a short while still on active duty
but without his ability to bounce back
from fatal injuries naturally all of his
old enemies came out of the woodwork and
a bounty is placed on his head
Logan’s search leads him to dr. Abraham
Cornelius founder of the Weapon X
program and the battle ends with the
previously immortal mutant fatally
encased in adamantium reflecting on the
full life he lived number nine Betty
Ross it’s become a sadly tired trope
that female characters associated with
heroes have a tendency to get killed off
to generate pathos and the Hulk’s main
squeeze sadly fell victim to this trend
though it doesn’t make this moment any
less tragic in an act of revenge four
years of defeats Hulk’s frequent enemy
the abomination secretly poisoned Betty
making it appear as though her years of
association with the Jade giant had
caused her to contract gamma radiation
poisoning she eventually succumbed to
the poison and perished in her beloved’s
arms when the Hulk eventually learned
the truth about what happened the
results weren’t particularly pretty
though like many comics characters she
later returned to the land of the living
number eight the wasp for years this
pint-sized hero was a stalwart member of
the Avengers having even been a founding
member of the legendary team but during
the Secret Invasion storyline her story
came to a temporary end
when it was revealed that many Marvel
characters including her ex-husband
ant-man were secretly alien imposters
she and every other still human hero
sprang into action to halt the invasion
however it was revealed during the
battle that she had secretly been
transformed by the invaders into a
living bomb in the end it took Thor
destroying her with a bolt of lightning
to prevent a disaster that would have
meant the end of the world
number 7 Captain America the Marvel
Civil War turned friend against friend
and hero against hero as the push to
register all superhumans with the
government split the Marvel Universe
into when the dust settled
Captain America had surrendered and
ordered the anti-registration forces to
stand down
fearing the collateral damage the
ongoing war might cause but this noble
decision would result in tragedy when
the courageous hero was shot down by a
brainwashed Sharon Carter in an
assassination orchestrated by the Red
Skull the star-spangled Avengers death
cents all caves through the Marvel
Universe with friends and enemies alike
mourning the passing of a true living
legend number 6 Karen page after years
as Daredevils assistant and later lover
this beloved character fell on hard
times becoming addicted to heroin and
selling out her then ex-lovers identity
she later got back on the straight and
narrow and even rekindled her
relationship with horn head they did
however break up again during an
intricate plot by Mysterio that involved
a messianic baby tragedy struck again
when she was trying to protect the baby
but was killed by a billy club thrown by
bullseye and died in the arms of her
on-again off-again lover number 5
spider-man following the breakout
success of the spider-man and x-men
films in the early 2000s Marvel decided
to launch a new line of comics meant to
draw in new readers the ultimate
universe or earth 1710 presented younger
cooler versions of classic characters
more in line with their cinematic
counterparts the ultimate version of
Peter Parker returned the character to
his roots as a high school student and
this iteration spent years fighting
crime and doing whatever a spider can
but sadly in his final battle with the
Green Goblin he succumbed to his
injuries while protecting Aunt May and
perished surrounded by his family and
friends he lived as a hero and died as
one too number 4 Jean Grey the
long-running loop of Jean dying and
coming back to life has become a running
gag at this point but we still can’t
help but feel all the feels when it
comes to Marvel girls selfless sacrifice
in
hany x-men 137 after gene came to her
senses following her time as the Dark
Phoenix and becoming the host to the
powerful Phoenix force
she and the other x-men were detained by
the Shiar a race of aliens who feared
her newfound power would lead to mass
death and destruction Jean ultimately
sacrificed herself to prevent the Shiar
from destroying the entire solar system
bidding a tearful goodbye to her
teammates and longtime romantic partner
Cyclops
number three Electra it might be a good
idea if people just stopped dating
daredevil another of the man without
fears lovers to get the axe this college
sweetheart turned deadly assassin always
brought trouble when she blew into
Matt’s life and out of it
her story seemingly came to an end when
she was killed by the assassin bullseye
after he sliced her throat with a
playing card before stabbing her with
her own Sai spider injuries she managed
to make her way to Matt’s apartment to
die in his arms she was later
resurrected by the hand but that still
doesn’t change the impact or tragedy of
her brutal untimely death number 2
Captain Marvel this crease superhero was
one of the Marvel Universe’s best and
brightest a universally liked hero who
fought alongside the Avengers and the
rest of the Marvel heroes numerous times
but after years of defending earth the
cosmic hero died of cancer brought upon
by exposure to nerve gas rather than die
in a heroic act of self-sacrifice this
beloved hero passed on in a hospital bed
surrounded by his allies and enemies
even as arch-nemesis Thanos showed up to
pay respects to his fallen enemy
appearing as a vision to escort his old
foe into the hereafter alongside the
embodiment of death herself number 1
Gwen Stacy Peter Parker’s life has been
fraught with loss and hardship with his
career a spider-man beginning in the
wake of his beloved Uncle Ben’s death
but if any tragedy is as important as
his uncle’s is the death of his longtime
love interest after being kidnapped by
Spidey’s arch foe the Green Goblin
Spidey squeeze was thrown from the
George Washington Bridge the webhead
managed to catch her with a web line but
the sudden deceleration tragically broke
her neck much like her father Captain
George Stacy a relationship with
spider-man ultimately sealed her fate
it’s one of the darkest chapters in
Marvel history and with good reason do
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