Superhero comics are full of death - defying action at law … that sometimes results in genuine death . And for every epic , brilliant last stand , there ’s a demise that ’s less than satisfying . There are pot of nominee for the bad superhero and scoundrel deaths of all time . But here are the 10 stupidest ways that comics role have died .
In the utterly deplorable Ultimatum , stacks and dozens of superheroes exit , most in stupid , awful ways , none more awful than The Wasp . The Avengers find her body being eaten by the Blob , who remarks “ Tastes like poulet ” in the most frightful , blatant attempt at seismic disturbance note value the comic humans has ever run across . But it receive bad ; Hank Pym , enraged at the Wasp ’s dying , uprise giant , picks up the Blob , and bites his head off in retaliation . A baddie eating a supervillain ? Cheap , exploitative and dumb . A “ superhero ” eating a supervillain in revenge ? Still somehow spoiled .
When Brian Michael Bendis decided to break up the Avengers , not everyone got equally magnificent deaths . While the Vision was literally exploding with Ultron robots , Hawkeye ’s quiver manage to get shot by a random optical maser flak , dress off one of his volatile arrows . Rather than taking the thrill off — or , you know , sprout the goddamn arrow somewhere — he decides to pass over on a Kree starship and blow up . The nobleness of his sacrifice is somewhat offset by how altogether unneeded it was .
The Green Lanterns are some of the most powerful warriors in the beetleweed ; they each wear rings that countenance them to make anything their minds can imagine , and their only weakness is ( on occasion ) the colour yellowness . Squirrels are small rodents whose weakness are in general motor vehicles . Ch’p , while he look like an Earth squirrel , is an alien whose courage and science have stimulate him to be named a Green Lantern , whose powers help him not a smidgin when he was fly the coop over by a xanthous hand truck on the Green Lanterns ’ home planet of Oa .
I hypothecate experience your caput punch off by a superhero - gone - bad is technically a middling nerveless way for a superhero to go ; if you fight in an larger-than-life battle that terminate with a super - being using his full power to perforate you , bring in your head break loose like a balloon full of Lycopersicon esculentum juice … well , you ’ve probably achieved something , right ? Unfortunately , the low - level DC heroine Pantha oversee nothing except tapping the volatile super - putz Superboy Prime on the shoulder in his initial comeback during Infinite Crisis , causing the distracted Superboy to plug her , full - strength … and make her head break loose like a balloon full of tomato juice . Sigh .
Mr. Sinister is one of the X - Men ’s gravid enemy , having slaughter the Morlocks , unleashed the Legacy Virus , and all sorts of other ugly things . But he die by falling onto an unconscious Rogue in Endangered Species . Sure , Rogue ’s life / power - engross abilities had been super - augmented for some ridiculous reason , and Mystique helped Sinister fall by pressing his face into the unconscious X - Man , but still . This is the supervillain tantamount of tripping , hit your head on the boundary of the coffee table , and shed blood out .
During the impetuous hijinks of Spider - Man : The Other — which should always be best remembered as the time Spider - Man ate a lamia ’s face — Spider - Man fought another receiver of the Spider - Totem appoint Miss Arrow ( do n’t ask ) who had Spidey ’s superpower but was also made of spiders . After being battle to a impasse , Spider - Man lures Miss Arrow into an Aviary where she is eaten , spider by spider , by birds . If one were made of spiders , one would suppose one might be more cognisant of entering places full of creatures who consider you their primary beginning of nutrition . Of course , if you may fight ( and mostly beat ) Spider - Man , you might think you have the power to defeat a bunch of pigeons . Guess not .
When Abin Sur first crashed on earth and bestowed his Green Lantern halo to Hal Jordan before dying in 1959 , no one think anything of it . An noncitizen crash his spaceship on Earth ? Could happen to anyone . But as the Green Lantern mythos grew , so did its tycoon , including the gang ’s ability to let its wearer aviate through outer space … without a spacesuit . DC has tried urgently to make this incongruousness make sense over the years , including Abin Sur being wounded and needing a ship , Abin Sur earshot prophecies his pack would break him , Abin Sur once having his mob really die him , result in him pay heed out in the vacuum of blank space , and it ’s still all very silly . Why DC has n’t just retconned Abin Sur into not coming to earth on a ship we ’ll never know .
Stephanie Brown was pop as the young vigilante Spoiler , and equally popular during her abbreviated incumbency as Robin . There were only a few the great unwashed who did n’t like her , but unfortunately those people were Batman , Dr. Leslie Thompkins and DC . After being fired by Batman , Stephanie manages to get herself captured and tortured by Black Mask , only to die unceremoniously in a hospital seam , mostly off - panel , with Batman sitting beside her . To add insult to atrocious injury , DC went out of the way to make her destruction even more nonmeaningful , by revealing that one Dr. Leslie Thompkins could have saved Stephanie ’s life-time , but chose not to as a warning to other unseasoned sidekicks who wanted to campaign alongside Batman . That monition : “ I am a lousy physician . ” ( This was later retconned , but is still horrible . )
Mystek was an odd character with vague energy powerfulness who kind of lucked her way into the Justice League Task Force after DC decided to drum up some bombination for her upcoming solo title . Unfortunately , DC deepen their minds about sound out title , meaning Mystek was no longer needed in JLTF , where she was en route to a remote planet on a tiny spaceship . The solution ? Decide Mystek has ugly , debilitating claustrophobia so that she shoot herself out an air lock into the stale vacuum of space , all off - dialog box . After she , you know , accepted the confined spaceship trip in the first situation .
As mentioned antecedently , Marvel ’s Ultimate funnies ’ Ultimatum consequence was full of awful death , but none quite so mindbogglingly mute as Ultimate Dr. Strange ’s head explode from his cape getting too stiff . for sure , the mantle was helped along by the demon Dormammu , but for good ’ saki , he ’s Dr. Strange . agitate Dormammu is middling much his integral job description . If his secret arts do n’t extend to keeping his own costume from becoming a back up hazard , what the sin can they do ?
Note : A version of this clause originally appeared in 2012 .
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