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the page welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be counting down our picks
for the top ten shocking moments in
comics in this list we will focus on the
way moments unfolded from the comic book
issues regardless of how they were
portrayed or changed for TV or cinema
number 10 magneto rips out Wolverine’s
skeleton the remarkable metal doesn’t
run through your entire body as fire is
weak against water so too should the
outcome of a battle between Magneto and
Wolverine not shocked anyone
Wolverine skeleton is entirely coated in
the fictional metallic alloy adamantium
meaning that Magneto’s mutant ability to
manipulate magnetism is especially
deadly to him you point those claws of
yours in a safer direction
however since magneto has never actually
crossed the line by killing an x-man
this moment came the closest the sheer
horrific image of Wolverine’s skeleton
being torn from his body would shock
anyone and the implications for one of
Marvel’s most popular characters were
equally as troubling what horrific
onslaught with this unleash
number nine Archie dies okay so it’s
maybe not the first name you think of
when you hear comic books but this one
was still a doozy
when Archie introduced the first gay
character Kevin Keller to Riverdale’s
idyllic 1960s time bubble of a
small-town America
it caused a storm but when Archie is
killed protecting Keller from an
assassin’s bullet it set off an
earthquake he was a risky move to kill
off the series’s namesake Archie Andrews
with no sign of a Superman like
resurrection
Archie’s altruistic act was unmistakably
relevant in a time when the American
consciousness was still wrestling with
gun control and gay marriage number
eight Joker kills Robin I think you may
have a collapsed lung that always
impedes the Oratory a death in the
family is no laughing matter
in this tragic Batman series Robin aka
Jason Todd is abducted beaten tortured
and then blown up by the bats arch
nemesis the Joker wow that looked like
it really hurt readers were actually
allowed to call in to vote on the fate
of Jason Todd who had become
increasingly unpopular in the comics
although voting was closed the sheer
extent of the torture Todd is put
through before his untimely end was
enough to make everyone take pause what
hurts more a or B this B in comics it
really wasn’t the end for Jason Jason
yes as this series of events set the
groundwork for the equally popular Red
Hood series what bothers you more that
your greatest failure has returned from
the grave or that I’ve become a better
Batman than you number seven
Marvel’s Civil War this isn’t freedom
this is fear
this was Marvel’s war on terror as it
challenged our comfort level about
national security following the wake of
9/11 the assassinations of members of
the Avengers
set into motion a government program to
rein in costumed heroes and villains
pitting hero against hero the shocking
moments came thick and fast in civil war
iron man became the tyrant for big
government spider-man is unmasked on TV
and Captain America dies
although it’s full of heavy-handed
symbolism civil war is still one of the
best what-if scenarios to come out in
recent years it’s stuff like this that
gives me trust issues number six the
watchman’s twist ending 15 million
people killed considered to be many to
be the greatest comic of all time
fathers to murder economist the
watchman’s gritty realism and prismatic
depth make it a serious page-turner from
start to finish but perhaps the most
shocking was when ex caped crusader
Ozymandias is revealed as the true
villain behind an alien attack on earth
Adrian we know everything then what’s
that a discussed and funny
millions were murdered under the pretext
of an alien invasion that would come to
unite the earth already on the brink of
a nuclear holocaust
Ozymandias then convinces the watchmen
to see his plot through to the point
that dr. Manhattan kills fellow masked
crusader Rorschach who threatened to go
public with the truth
number five Batman meets Superman it’s
been the subject of comic bookstore
theory for generations
finally legendary writer Frank Miller
answered our prayers you say you answer
to some sort of authority they only want
to be dead because I’m an embarrassment
because I do what they can’t what kind
of authority is that in this titanic
battle The Dark Knight TKO is the Man of
Steel in a surprise upset sure he used a
power suit but he’s also well into his
50s at this point Superman’s beat down
his bill did modern comic Laura as the
mortal without powers who defeated a god
if it isn’t me it’ll just be someone
else really who do they send after you
and with these badass lines the bat
immortalized his victory and then passes
away or does he in all the years to come
in your most private moments I want you
to remember the one man who beat you
number four the Joker paralyzes Barbara
Gordon Allen more delivers yet another
provocative panel seared into comic-book
lore when Barbara Gordon aka Batgirl
opens her door with her morning coffee
she is gunned down by the Joker as her
father Commissioner Gordon
watched helplessly it’s one of the most
hauntingly effective uses of silent
panels in comic history as Barbara lay
in her pool of own blood
the violent image of batgirls exposed
state and violated home gasped
generations of comic readers paralyzing
Barbara ending batgirls career and
beginning Oracle’s number three Bane
breaks the bat I was wondering what with
ray first
no spirit
oh you’re running and yet another iconic
scene from the Batman tales Bane arrived
on the scene to claim his place as the
new force to be reckoned with in the
rogues gallery after discerning Batman’s
identity Bane forced Batman into
fighting criminals throughout the night
as he waited for him to return to Wayne
Manor when Batman emerged from the
Batcave exhausted and exposed Bane
surprises him beats him to a pulp and
snaps his back leaving Batman a
paraplegic and unlike in the movie there
was no miracle prison chiropractor to
help fix him it has to be put back
number 2 doomsday and Superman kill each
other in 1994 the DC Universe and the
rest of the world along with it for
reeved the death of the last Son of
Krypton Superman after their epic battle
the most iconic superhero in comic book
history was killed by the super adaptive
and highly evolved monster experiment
doomsday thankfully Superman’s death
like his subsequent K+ blue costume was
short-lived before his resurrection not
only iconic in and of itself this
formula began a precedence of regularly
occurring high-profile superhero deaths
and subsequent resurrections in comics
before we unveil our top pick here are
some honorable mentions lucky
who the hell is Bucky number one when
Stacy’s death find me let her go when
the Green Goblin threw Gwen Stacy off a
bridge Spiderman was in fact able to
catch her however the sudden stop from
being caught by the webbing snapped her
neck and killed her instantly forever
changing the comic book universe in the
process this was a major event for a
number of reasons not only did Spiderman
fail to save the girl but he technically
succeeded in what he was trying to do
which was catch her and she was killed
because of it the death was so sudden
and out of place that many marked this
as the moment that ended the Silver Age
of comic books starting comics off on a
path to darker and more disturbing
themes making it an easy pick for our
number one most shocking moment in comic
book history
do you agree with our list with shocking
moment would you have put on the list
for more unbelievable top 10s published
daily be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
you
the page welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be counting down our picks
for the top ten shocking moments in
comics in this list we will focus on the
way moments unfolded from the comic book
issues regardless of how they were
portrayed or changed for TV or cinema
number 10 magneto rips out Wolverine’s
skeleton the remarkable metal doesn’t
run through your entire body as fire is
weak against water so too should the
outcome of a battle between Magneto and
Wolverine not shocked anyone
Wolverine skeleton is entirely coated in
the fictional metallic alloy adamantium
meaning that Magneto’s mutant ability to
manipulate magnetism is especially
deadly to him you point those claws of
yours in a safer direction
however since magneto has never actually
crossed the line by killing an x-man
this moment came the closest the sheer
horrific image of Wolverine’s skeleton
being torn from his body would shock
anyone and the implications for one of
Marvel’s most popular characters were
equally as troubling what horrific
onslaught with this unleash
number nine Archie dies okay so it’s
maybe not the first name you think of
when you hear comic books but this one
was still a doozy
when Archie introduced the first gay
character Kevin Keller to Riverdale’s
idyllic 1960s time bubble of a
small-town America
it caused a storm but when Archie is
killed protecting Keller from an
assassin’s bullet it set off an
earthquake he was a risky move to kill
off the series’s namesake Archie Andrews
with no sign of a Superman like
resurrection
Archie’s altruistic act was unmistakably
relevant in a time when the American
consciousness was still wrestling with
gun control and gay marriage number
eight Joker kills Robin I think you may
have a collapsed lung that always
impedes the Oratory a death in the
family is no laughing matter
in this tragic Batman series Robin aka
Jason Todd is abducted beaten tortured
and then blown up by the bats arch
nemesis the Joker wow that looked like
it really hurt readers were actually
allowed to call in to vote on the fate
of Jason Todd who had become
increasingly unpopular in the comics
although voting was closed the sheer
extent of the torture Todd is put
through before his untimely end was
enough to make everyone take pause what
hurts more a or B this B in comics it
really wasn’t the end for Jason Jason
yes as this series of events set the
groundwork for the equally popular Red
Hood series what bothers you more that
your greatest failure has returned from
the grave or that I’ve become a better
Batman than you number seven
Marvel’s Civil War this isn’t freedom
this is fear
this was Marvel’s war on terror as it
challenged our comfort level about
national security following the wake of
9/11 the assassinations of members of
the Avengers
set into motion a government program to
rein in costumed heroes and villains
pitting hero against hero the shocking
moments came thick and fast in civil war
iron man became the tyrant for big
government spider-man is unmasked on TV
and Captain America dies
although it’s full of heavy-handed
symbolism civil war is still one of the
best what-if scenarios to come out in
recent years it’s stuff like this that
gives me trust issues number six the
watchman’s twist ending 15 million
people killed considered to be many to
be the greatest comic of all time
fathers to murder economist the
watchman’s gritty realism and prismatic
depth make it a serious page-turner from
start to finish but perhaps the most
shocking was when ex caped crusader
Ozymandias is revealed as the true
villain behind an alien attack on earth
Adrian we know everything then what’s
that a discussed and funny
millions were murdered under the pretext
of an alien invasion that would come to
unite the earth already on the brink of
a nuclear holocaust
Ozymandias then convinces the watchmen
to see his plot through to the point
that dr. Manhattan kills fellow masked
crusader Rorschach who threatened to go
public with the truth
number five Batman meets Superman it’s
been the subject of comic bookstore
theory for generations
finally legendary writer Frank Miller
answered our prayers you say you answer
to some sort of authority they only want
to be dead because I’m an embarrassment
because I do what they can’t what kind
of authority is that in this titanic
battle The Dark Knight TKO is the Man of
Steel in a surprise upset sure he used a
power suit but he’s also well into his
50s at this point Superman’s beat down
his bill did modern comic Laura as the
mortal without powers who defeated a god
if it isn’t me it’ll just be someone
else really who do they send after you
and with these badass lines the bat
immortalized his victory and then passes
away or does he in all the years to come
in your most private moments I want you
to remember the one man who beat you
number four the Joker paralyzes Barbara
Gordon Allen more delivers yet another
provocative panel seared into comic-book
lore when Barbara Gordon aka Batgirl
opens her door with her morning coffee
she is gunned down by the Joker as her
father Commissioner Gordon
watched helplessly it’s one of the most
hauntingly effective uses of silent
panels in comic history as Barbara lay
in her pool of own blood
the violent image of batgirls exposed
state and violated home gasped
generations of comic readers paralyzing
Barbara ending batgirls career and
beginning Oracle’s number three Bane
breaks the bat I was wondering what with
ray first
no spirit
oh you’re running and yet another iconic
scene from the Batman tales Bane arrived
on the scene to claim his place as the
new force to be reckoned with in the
rogues gallery after discerning Batman’s
identity Bane forced Batman into
fighting criminals throughout the night
as he waited for him to return to Wayne
Manor when Batman emerged from the
Batcave exhausted and exposed Bane
surprises him beats him to a pulp and
snaps his back leaving Batman a
paraplegic and unlike in the movie there
was no miracle prison chiropractor to
help fix him it has to be put back
number 2 doomsday and Superman kill each
other in 1994 the DC Universe and the
rest of the world along with it for
reeved the death of the last Son of
Krypton Superman after their epic battle
the most iconic superhero in comic book
history was killed by the super adaptive
and highly evolved monster experiment
doomsday thankfully Superman’s death
like his subsequent K+ blue costume was
short-lived before his resurrection not
only iconic in and of itself this
formula began a precedence of regularly
occurring high-profile superhero deaths
and subsequent resurrections in comics
before we unveil our top pick here are
some honorable mentions lucky
who the hell is Bucky number one when
Stacy’s death find me let her go when
the Green Goblin threw Gwen Stacy off a
bridge Spiderman was in fact able to
catch her however the sudden stop from
being caught by the webbing snapped her
neck and killed her instantly forever
changing the comic book universe in the
process this was a major event for a
number of reasons not only did Spiderman
fail to save the girl but he technically
succeeded in what he was trying to do
which was catch her and she was killed
because of it the death was so sudden
and out of place that many marked this
as the moment that ended the Silver Age
of comic books starting comics off on a
path to darker and more disturbing
themes making it an easy pick for our
number one most shocking moment in comic
book history
do you agree with our list with shocking
moment would you have put on the list
for more unbelievable top 10s published
daily be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
you
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