sometimes creators like to shake things
up in a superhero’s life often with
results that don’t go down well with all
readers
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks to the top ten
most controversial superhero story line
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 stories which generated
significant controversy due to their
handling of a touchy subject or the
manner in which the characters were
portrayed in the story instead of going
against Hydra and the typical Captain
America villains he’s going up against
conservatives that’s his new enemy
number 10 the death of Captain America
nowadays for Heroes get killed off the
regularity and they rarely stay dead
readers knew this when the massive
Marvel undertaking known as the Civil
War killed off the star-spangled
Superman many felt that killing off a
pop-culture symbol of American
patriotism while the country was engaged
in a real war in Iraq was a poor choice
in taste add to it that it all came
about because of Iron Man support of a
registration law and the death felt
classically tragic sure cap came back to
life a year or so later but that didn’t
stop fans from howling in rage and from
debating whether Marvel had gone too far
this time
number 9 The Watchmen prequels Alan
Moore’s original Watchmen series is one
of the sparkling jewels in the comic
book worlds crown
ardent fans consider it perfect and
basically untouchable so just imagine
their outrage when DC announced it was
releasing a series of prequels to the
classic series and it was doing so with
neither the involvement nor the blessing
of war who had unceremoniously parted
ways with them years earlier the
resulting books focused on many of the
major characters from the series filling
in some details and fleshing out their
origin but even with some fine
individual issues
none of the prequels compared to the
quality of the original making like the
whole exercise just seemed like an easy
way for DC to milk a good franchise
number 8 the female for everyone knows
who Thor is right that’s under God the
son of Odin the Goldilocks guy with a
massive biceps easy spotnik route sure
there have been periods when someone
else may have taken the mantle of Thor
beta ray bill anyone what about that
time the Thor is a frog huh but pass the
mantle to a woman however and boy some
fans are going to be really upset
in 2004 Jane Foster Thor’s on-again
off-again romantic interest took up
hammer and was greeted with a vocal
outcry the new Thor series did very well
however both critically and commercially
so it seems that most fans were more
than willing to accept this fresh
approach and for the others well first
faced daily and no problem frog that’s
ok woman get out
number 7 Lois Lane goes undercover as a
black woman when Lois Lane wants a scoop
she will stop at nothing to get it as
this story from 1970 demonstrates first
published in the midst of DC’s relevancy
period it took a look at racial issues
Lois is assigned to do a story on
metropolis is poor black neighborhood
but she feels shut out because of her
race she then uses a machine to
temporarily turn herself blank and
experience what discrimination feels
like many readers at the time objected
to an oversimplification of a
complicated issue
others resented any contact between the
races while still others felt that the
issue implied that simply being black
was a problem suffice to say that this
story managed to piss off pretty much
everyone at once good job number 6
speedy became a junkie
DC’s relevancy period also affected the
adventures of the Green Lantern and the
Green Arrow the two parts snowbirds
don’t fly storyline was critically
acclaimed and raised a huge ruckus for
its depiction of grog abuse what made it
so shocking was that the abuser in this
case was speedy the Green Arrow’s Ward
although the writing is a bit preachy
and makes drug recovery and
rehabilitation seem a lot easier than it
actually is
the story still packs a punch not least
because of how it points out hypocrisy
in the Green Arrow’s character number 5
Captain America is an agent of Hydra in
2016 Marvel launched a new Captain
America series for the first issue that
generated a ton of buzz like buzz from a
hornet’s nest why because the end of
issue number 1 revealed that Steve
Rogers America’s true blue ideal was in
fact an agent of the evil organization
known as Hydra the mainstream media
literally lost its shit
accusing Marvel of betraying its
longtime fans what the is wrong with you
Marvel what the fuck of course they all
look pretty silly just a short time
later when it was revealed that caps
timeline was changed by the Red Skull
and the real
warping cosmic you’d love or hate this
storyline all you want but Hydra cap
doesn’t replace the hero we all know and
love
number four rape of Nightwing the rape
of a man doesn’t always get a lot of
attention which is one reason that this
story really stands out the heroine
tarantula has a crush on the hunky
Nightwing after they have been battling
the hard to defeat villain bane for
quite a while
tarantula decides the easy way out is to
just kill the guy wow that murder
combined with intense weariness puts
Nightwing into a state of shock
it just makes tarantula feel all kinds
of crazy and so she decides to just sort
of take Nightwing then and there
this is all despite the fact that he
keeps saying don’t touch me
readers were outraged some because of
the rape some because they claimed it
couldn’t be raped in either case it
definitely got people talking number
three the first woman in a refrigerator
nowadays people are quick to point out
female characters with oversimplified
roles one of the turning point examples
of this goes back to the 1994 Green
Lantern story Alexandra DeWitt was
introduced as a new love interest for
the Green Lantern but six issues later
she was counseled II killed and
literally stuffed into a fridge the
phrase women in refrigerators was coined
to describe female characters whose
entire existence is intended to enable a
male character to go through m-man pain
feelings of anguish vengeance anger etc
the wheats murder was such a blatant
example of this that it took on a
significance its creators definitely did
not expect number two the Joker was too
wild the treatment of Barbara Gordon aka
Batgirl got a lot of attention when it
made her the victim of one of the
Joker’s latest crimes in order to break
her father Commissioner Jim Gordon The
Joker shoots his daughter Barbara and
then kind of kidnaps her she is stripped
beaten and shot all for the sake of
creating a spectacle when the story was
finally adapted into a movie in the
animated feature in 2016
DC tried to address the controversy by
showing Barbara as the empowered Batgirl
but then they screwed it up by having
her bang Batman good stuff guys
[Music]
number one ms Marvel’s forced pregnancy
in a 1980 Avengers storyline Carol
Danvers aka Ms marvel became pregnant
despite not having knowingly had sex
with anyone it turns out an asshole
named Marcus and previously kidnapped
Carol warped her mind and manipulated
her into having sex with him that alone
is kind of strange but not all that bad
at Joe Carroll now with full knowledge
of the truth about her rape and forced
pregnancy decides to stand by the dude
and then the Avengers just kind of go
along with it
outraged over the whole situation later
led to some convoluted plot lines
attempting directed by the whole
situation and things just got even more
complicated for poor Danvers do you
agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from WatchMojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
up in a superhero’s life often with
results that don’t go down well with all
readers
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks to the top ten
most controversial superhero story line
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 stories which generated
significant controversy due to their
handling of a touchy subject or the
manner in which the characters were
portrayed in the story instead of going
against Hydra and the typical Captain
America villains he’s going up against
conservatives that’s his new enemy
number 10 the death of Captain America
nowadays for Heroes get killed off the
regularity and they rarely stay dead
readers knew this when the massive
Marvel undertaking known as the Civil
War killed off the star-spangled
Superman many felt that killing off a
pop-culture symbol of American
patriotism while the country was engaged
in a real war in Iraq was a poor choice
in taste add to it that it all came
about because of Iron Man support of a
registration law and the death felt
classically tragic sure cap came back to
life a year or so later but that didn’t
stop fans from howling in rage and from
debating whether Marvel had gone too far
this time
number 9 The Watchmen prequels Alan
Moore’s original Watchmen series is one
of the sparkling jewels in the comic
book worlds crown
ardent fans consider it perfect and
basically untouchable so just imagine
their outrage when DC announced it was
releasing a series of prequels to the
classic series and it was doing so with
neither the involvement nor the blessing
of war who had unceremoniously parted
ways with them years earlier the
resulting books focused on many of the
major characters from the series filling
in some details and fleshing out their
origin but even with some fine
individual issues
none of the prequels compared to the
quality of the original making like the
whole exercise just seemed like an easy
way for DC to milk a good franchise
number 8 the female for everyone knows
who Thor is right that’s under God the
son of Odin the Goldilocks guy with a
massive biceps easy spotnik route sure
there have been periods when someone
else may have taken the mantle of Thor
beta ray bill anyone what about that
time the Thor is a frog huh but pass the
mantle to a woman however and boy some
fans are going to be really upset
in 2004 Jane Foster Thor’s on-again
off-again romantic interest took up
hammer and was greeted with a vocal
outcry the new Thor series did very well
however both critically and commercially
so it seems that most fans were more
than willing to accept this fresh
approach and for the others well first
faced daily and no problem frog that’s
ok woman get out
number 7 Lois Lane goes undercover as a
black woman when Lois Lane wants a scoop
she will stop at nothing to get it as
this story from 1970 demonstrates first
published in the midst of DC’s relevancy
period it took a look at racial issues
Lois is assigned to do a story on
metropolis is poor black neighborhood
but she feels shut out because of her
race she then uses a machine to
temporarily turn herself blank and
experience what discrimination feels
like many readers at the time objected
to an oversimplification of a
complicated issue
others resented any contact between the
races while still others felt that the
issue implied that simply being black
was a problem suffice to say that this
story managed to piss off pretty much
everyone at once good job number 6
speedy became a junkie
DC’s relevancy period also affected the
adventures of the Green Lantern and the
Green Arrow the two parts snowbirds
don’t fly storyline was critically
acclaimed and raised a huge ruckus for
its depiction of grog abuse what made it
so shocking was that the abuser in this
case was speedy the Green Arrow’s Ward
although the writing is a bit preachy
and makes drug recovery and
rehabilitation seem a lot easier than it
actually is
the story still packs a punch not least
because of how it points out hypocrisy
in the Green Arrow’s character number 5
Captain America is an agent of Hydra in
2016 Marvel launched a new Captain
America series for the first issue that
generated a ton of buzz like buzz from a
hornet’s nest why because the end of
issue number 1 revealed that Steve
Rogers America’s true blue ideal was in
fact an agent of the evil organization
known as Hydra the mainstream media
literally lost its shit
accusing Marvel of betraying its
longtime fans what the is wrong with you
Marvel what the fuck of course they all
look pretty silly just a short time
later when it was revealed that caps
timeline was changed by the Red Skull
and the real
warping cosmic you’d love or hate this
storyline all you want but Hydra cap
doesn’t replace the hero we all know and
love
number four rape of Nightwing the rape
of a man doesn’t always get a lot of
attention which is one reason that this
story really stands out the heroine
tarantula has a crush on the hunky
Nightwing after they have been battling
the hard to defeat villain bane for
quite a while
tarantula decides the easy way out is to
just kill the guy wow that murder
combined with intense weariness puts
Nightwing into a state of shock
it just makes tarantula feel all kinds
of crazy and so she decides to just sort
of take Nightwing then and there
this is all despite the fact that he
keeps saying don’t touch me
readers were outraged some because of
the rape some because they claimed it
couldn’t be raped in either case it
definitely got people talking number
three the first woman in a refrigerator
nowadays people are quick to point out
female characters with oversimplified
roles one of the turning point examples
of this goes back to the 1994 Green
Lantern story Alexandra DeWitt was
introduced as a new love interest for
the Green Lantern but six issues later
she was counseled II killed and
literally stuffed into a fridge the
phrase women in refrigerators was coined
to describe female characters whose
entire existence is intended to enable a
male character to go through m-man pain
feelings of anguish vengeance anger etc
the wheats murder was such a blatant
example of this that it took on a
significance its creators definitely did
not expect number two the Joker was too
wild the treatment of Barbara Gordon aka
Batgirl got a lot of attention when it
made her the victim of one of the
Joker’s latest crimes in order to break
her father Commissioner Jim Gordon The
Joker shoots his daughter Barbara and
then kind of kidnaps her she is stripped
beaten and shot all for the sake of
creating a spectacle when the story was
finally adapted into a movie in the
animated feature in 2016
DC tried to address the controversy by
showing Barbara as the empowered Batgirl
but then they screwed it up by having
her bang Batman good stuff guys
[Music]
number one ms Marvel’s forced pregnancy
in a 1980 Avengers storyline Carol
Danvers aka Ms marvel became pregnant
despite not having knowingly had sex
with anyone it turns out an asshole
named Marcus and previously kidnapped
Carol warped her mind and manipulated
her into having sex with him that alone
is kind of strange but not all that bad
at Joe Carroll now with full knowledge
of the truth about her rape and forced
pregnancy decides to stand by the dude
and then the Avengers just kind of go
along with it
outraged over the whole situation later
led to some convoluted plot lines
attempting directed by the whole
situation and things just got even more
complicated for poor Danvers 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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