Super Heroes and internal strife and suffering
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Just about every hero faces some internal issues, it's part of the allure of the genre. To see one overcome their personal issues to save the world.
But what hero suffers/ed most?
Capt. America?
Batman?
The Hulk?
Wolverine?
Who has to overcome the most troubling life?
But what hero suffers/ed most?
Capt. America?
Batman?
The Hulk?
Wolverine?
Who has to overcome the most troubling life?
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Batman suffered the most, this dude loose kids, girlfriends, parents, robins I'm like Damn, lol
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Wolverine doesn't know his life. He is the most tortured
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? Daredevil owns this thread.
Mom abandons him
Blinded
Dad Killed
Elektra gets killed (comes back mind you)
First major girlfriend Heather Glenn commits that
Gets life destroyed by the Kingpin in Born Again (gets better mind you)
Typhoid Mary, another GF, is actually a paid assassin who nearly kills him
Long time love interest Karen Page gets killed
Gets outed as a superhero
Wife gets driven insane
Goes to prison
Gets possessed by Demon
Echo, one of his side chicks, gets killed in LA
Best friend currently has Cancer
Disbarred/banned from practicing law in NY
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Welp, I was gonna say spidey after being indirectly to blame for his (pops damn near) uncle being killed, his aunt (basically his moms) constantly being sick, his ? boss' pops and one of his main villains 'doc ock' smashed his aunt, his first loved got murked in front of him by his best friends father, and his fire crotch soul mate and him just can't seem to make it......but after reading daredevils problems, I think Spiderman will just have to suck it up.
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Knives Amilli wrote: »? Daredevil owns this thread.
Mom abandons him
Blinded
Dad Killed
Elektra gets killed (comes back mind you)
First major girlfriend Heather Glenn commits that
Gets life destroyed by the Kingpin in Born Again (gets better mind you)
Typhoid Mary, another GF, is actually a paid assassin who nearly kills him
Long time love interest Karen Page gets killed
Gets outed as a superhero
Wife gets driven insane
Goes to prison
Gets possessed by Demon
Echo, one of his side chicks, gets killed in LA
Best friend currently has Cancer
Disbarred/banned from practicing law in NY
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Welp, I was gonna say spidey after being indirectly to blame for his (pops damn near) uncle being killed, his aunt (basically his moms) constantly being sick, his ? boss' pops and one of his main villains 'doc ock' smashed his aunt, his first loved got murked in front of him by his best friends father, and his fire crotch soul mate and him just can't seem to make it......but after reading daredevils problems, I think Spiderman will just have to suck it up.
another good choice. another thing he has to deal with is his alter ego actually knowing some of his most ruthless rogues. -
Knives Amilli wrote: »? Daredevil owns this thread.
Mom abandons him
Blinded
Dad Killed
Elektra gets killed (comes back mind you)
First major girlfriend Heather Glenn commits that
Gets life destroyed by the Kingpin in Born Again (gets better mind you)
Typhoid Mary, another GF, is actually a paid assassin who nearly kills him
Long time love interest Karen Page gets killed
Gets outed as a superhero
Wife gets driven insane
Goes to prison
Gets possessed by Demon
Echo, one of his side chicks, gets killed in LA
Best friend currently has Cancer
Disbarred/banned from practicing law in NY
Damn.....DD's life is dogshit -
you know how difficult it is to ALWAYS be the good guy?
? , i had to play infamous for almost 3 months straight to get some of those good trophies -
Batman the only character who's parents and his kid is dead - that's 100% of his blood relations.
Jean-Paul Valley and *Jason Todd also died. He also had Harold the loyal mechanic, who was killed by Hush.
not to mention the times he's been killed himself and brought back. or Knightfall.. that ? sucked too. -
its hard to feel sorry for a billionaire, even though Bats is deeply flawed.
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Damn. Daredevil has a ? up life.
The Hulk is a contender, too.
Bruce Banner was an abused child.
His mother was murdered in front of him.
Accidentally killed his father and repressed the memory of it for years.
He transforms into a raging monster when he gets agitated, and usually has no control over it.
Usually has no memory of what he's done as the Hulk.
The people closest to him have either been killed or turned into monsters themselves because of him.
He literally had hundreds of Hulk personalites in his head. -
Might need to throw Rogue in there as well
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not this again! wrote: »Damn. Daredevil has a ? up life.
The Hulk is a contender, too.
Bruce Banner was an abused child.
His mother was murdered in front of him.
Accidentally killed his father and repressed the memory of it for years.
He transforms into a raging monster when he gets agitated, and usually has no control over it.
Usually has no memory of what he's done as the Hulk.
The people closest to him have either been killed or turned into monsters themselves because of him.
He literally had hundreds of Hulk personalites in his head.
TBH I would say that Banner has had it worse.
But the thing with the Daredevil is that for about 15 years(?), DD's book was depressing as ? . Starting with Kevin Smith all the way to Andy Diggle, every DD story arc ended in some crazy Pyrrhic victory where Matts life would be saved yet somehow more ? up than when the story arc started. Also doesn't help that David Mack and Alex Maleev were the definitive artists on DD's book around this time and they're not exactly known for their bright and sunny art styles. -
Welp, I was gonna say spidey after being indirectly to blame for his (pops damn near) uncle being killed, his aunt (basically his moms) constantly being sick, his ? boss' pops and one of his main villains 'doc ock' smashed his aunt, his first loved got murked in front of him by his best friends father, and his fire crotch soul mate and him just can't seem to make it......but after reading daredevils problems, I think Spiderman will just have to suck it up.
also his ex bosses wife(j Jonah jameson) gets killed because of him and he has to attend her funeral as his alter ego. -
Knives Amilli wrote: »? Daredevil owns this thread.
Mom abandons him
Blinded
Dad Killed
Elektra gets killed (comes back mind you)
First major girlfriend Heather Glenn commits that
Gets life destroyed by the Kingpin in Born Again (gets better mind you)
Typhoid Mary, another GF, is actually a paid assassin who nearly kills him
Long time love interest Karen Page gets killed
Gets outed as a superhero
Wife gets driven insane
Goes to prison
Gets possessed by Demon
Echo, one of his side chicks, gets killed in LA
Best friend currently has Cancer
Disbarred/banned from practicing law in NY
Bruce banner the only other one I'd think about that's been through some inner termoil ? literally battling hulks in his head but dd gotdamn why even bother being a superhero?? -
damn, ya'll just wrote Batman off like that huh? his character is like the eternal epitome of internal strife and suffering.
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not this again! wrote: »Damn. Daredevil has a ? up life.
The Hulk is a contender, too.
Bruce Banner was an abused child.
His mother was murdered in front of him.
Accidentally killed his father and repressed the memory of it for years.
He transforms into a raging monster when he gets agitated, and usually has no control over it.
Usually has no memory of what he's done as the Hulk.
The people closest to him have either been killed or turned into monsters themselves because of him.
He literally had hundreds of Hulk personalites in his head.
Hulk Smash!, he lost his wife on a planet he finally called home, he was the king and he lost her and the planet. Betty Ross his wife came back transformed to Red She Hulk and basically said I don't want ? to do with you.
Bruce Banner also have over hundreds personalities in his head -
Yo when the rumors was swirling that They DC was going to ? Damien, I was like naw they ain't going to ? his only known Alive blood relative, his only son. They are not going to do it, if there's a ? they not going to do it.
SMH they did it, I was like damn how much ? they going to put Batman in, and the cold ? after everything that happened Batman ain't brake.
Batman life got Joker thinking ? over, Joker done touched, killed, crippled, ? everything that's dear to Bruce heart and Batman still ain't killed him. -
waterproof wrote: »Yo when the rumors was swirling that They DC was going to ? Damien, I was like naw they ain't going to ? his only known Alive blood relative, his only son. They are not going to do it, if there's a ? they not going to do it.
SMH they did it, I was like damn how much ? they going to put Batman in, and the cold ? after everything that happened Batman ain't brake.
Batman life got Joker thinking ? over, Joker done touched, killed, crippled, ? everything that's dear to Bruce heart and Batman still ain't killed him.
I personally think DC killing Damian was Grant Morrison putting all of his toys back in the toybox now that he was done with them.
But given that Damian seems to possibly be coming back....I could be wrong...
