You cant use things that happen before they became a hero like Bruce's parents getting shot or Peter's uncle getting shot. It has to be things that happen after they decided to become a hero.
What hero has suffered the most?
Elongated Man is up there, in my opinion. Dealing with the death of your wife, botching an attempt to resurrect her, developing a drinking problem, being led along by Felix Faust, getting killed by a Demon Prince, getting raised as a zombie, getting disintegrated so the white lantern rings can't bring you OR your wife back to life, and then when the reboot comes, being completely left out of canon is pretty rough.
@corpsecraft said:
Elongated Man is up there, in my opinion. Dealing with the death of your wife, botching an attempt to resurrect her, developing a drinking problem, being led along by Felix Faust, getting killed by a Demon Prince, getting raised as a zombie, getting disintegrated so the white lantern rings can't bring you OR your wife back to life, and then when the reboot comes, being completely left out of canon is pretty rough.
Yeah, i'd have to go with this. The way Elongated Man was treated by DC makes Hostel look like Herbie Goes Bananas.
What no mention of Spider-Man? Dude saves the city on hundreds of occasions, protects everyone he sees who needs him, then gets hated and ostracized for it. He indirectly caused the death of both his girlfriend, her father, AND the closest thing he had to a brother. The man he saw as a father figure, a fellow Avenger no less, betrayed him and turned him into a criminal, then Spidey's number one bad guy BECAME the quintessential government, and turned not only Spidey, but all of his friends into wanted criminals. THEN a known psychopath impersonated him on the Avengers. Oh, and let's not forget said psychopath was wearing a sociopathic symbiote which itself was brought to Earth by Spidey, then left him and created TWO SEPARATE PSYCHOPATHS all on it's own, both of which have a body count that Spidey is entirely to blame for.
Let's not forget his Aunt is constantly dying, the love of his life has died on occasion, only to be brought back, he constantly has money problems, the aforementioned number one bad guy possibly killed his unborn child, AND slept with his previous girlfriend. Let's see, what else... OH! Remember that brother I mentioned earlier? Yeah, he was a clone designed to drive Peter off his rocker by convincing Pete he WASN'T THE REAL PETE. Oh, and there's the recent misfortune of him DYING IN THE BROKEN, FAILING BODY OF ONE OF HIS ARCHNEMESES, the very people he's saved SPITTING ON HIM AS HE DIED, while said archnemesis WALKED AROUND IN HIS BODY, LITERALLY STEALING HIS LIFE.
WHO HAS SUFFERED MORE THAN SPIDER-MAN?!
DON'T GET ME STARTED.
Superboy Prime
The stuff that happen to him was ridiculous all he wanted to do was go home and that seemed to be too much to ask for. When he finally gets home which from his perspective could have been decades his family and girlfriend are terrified of him this scan is about the only good thing to happen to him.
Bucky Barnes. Both parents died when he was young (like most heroes). He was blown up in WW2. Then he was programmed to be a soviet assassin and unwillingly killed many people including blowing up part of Philadelphia killing hundreds if not thousands. He is a man out of time just like Steve Rogers except he has the memories of all the horrible things that he did. He was almost killed again and only survived by Fury giving him the last of his Infinity Formula. Just about everybody thinks that he is dead so he has very few friends. The only good thing that he has going for him is Natasha . . . but I doubt he will even have that after the issue that comes out today.
@corpsecraft said:
Elongated Man is up there, in my opinion. Dealing with the death of your wife, botching an attempt to resurrect her, developing a drinking problem, being led along by Felix Faust, getting killed by a Demon Prince, getting raised as a zombie, getting disintegrated so the white lantern rings can't bring you OR your wife back to life, and then when the reboot comes, being completely left out of canon is pretty rough.
Dang that's pretty tough. I did know about the first one though from Identity Crisis.
@Cap10nate said:
Bucky Barnes. Both parents died when he was young (like most heroes). He was blown up in WW2. Then he was programmed to be a soviet assassin and unwillingly killed many people including blowing up part of Philadelphia killing hundreds if not thousands. He is a man out of time just like Steve Rogers except he has the memories of all the horrible things that he did. He was almost killed again and only survived by Fury giving him the last of his Infinity Formula. Just about everybody thinks that he is dead so he has very few friends. The only good thing that he has going for him is Natasha . . . but I doubt he will even have that after the issue that comes out today.
This
Anyone who comes back from the dead (and retains their prior consciousness, being a mindless zombie doesn't count) has no right to complain about anything. YOU CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD. THAT IS AN INCOMPARABLY HUGE WIN.
But yeah, probably Spider-Man. Though he doesn't remember much of it. And a lot of his issues are retconned, so...
Rick Grimes from TWD doesn't exactly have it easy.
Dead Man, It's like everytime he has a chance to be alive again, something kills him, he's like Kenny from South Park.
Rick Grimes. There is no other story more worse than his and it keeps getting worse.
His character was literally made to suffer.
Finds family, meets friends and allies, most allies die, wife gives birth, wife and baby daughter are both shot in front of him before being forced to evacuate his heavily fortified and supplied fort, his young son gets shot... twice(once in the head), is forced to kill love interest and her son in order to save his own, forced to abandon a whole group of survivors, forced to watch helplessly as friend is bludgeoned to death in front of him, young son is almost raped in front of him, right hand is cut off, tortured, driven insane twice, abandoned at the start of a zombie apocalypse by family and best friend after being shot and put into a coma, best friend sleeps and impregnates wife, has to kill zombified best friend, watches helplessly as son becomes an obvious sociopath... i'm sure there is much more. He basically the poster child for suffering. Every waking moment of his existence is continued just so he can suffer more while we watch. It should be called "The Walking Suffering Rick Grimes" because that is basically what it is all about.
@corpsecraft said:
Elongated Man is up there, in my opinion. Dealing with the death of your wife, botching an attempt to resurrect her, developing a drinking problem, being led along by Felix Faust, getting killed by a Demon Prince, getting raised as a zombie, getting disintegrated so the white lantern rings can't bring you OR your wife back to life, and then when the reboot comes, being completely left out of canon is pretty rough.
Agreed - though he was never really led along by Faust. If memory serves, he was able to deduce that it was Faust relatively early on.
Savage Dragon has lost his identity/memory (series starts and he has no idea who or where he came from) his wife , the mother of his child (his long time girlfriend), his first lover, his new born son (death was a fake), his planet of his own dimension. (his earth was destroyed so he went to another earth.) Countless teammates, his sanity (his mind has been controlled numerous times)) his reputation (he went from savior of earth to public enemy number 1) his mentor and police captain, and finally his step daughter.
@Pyrogram said:
Hulk in a stompp, his whole existence is a fail and fail... after fail and killing random people and being hunted,
Jewel/Powerwoman is the worst. Before she became a hero she was more unpopular then Peter, fell into a coma for a few years after radioactive waste was dumped on her. Then she decided to become a hero and ended up in a fight with Purple-Man man who used his pheromones to force her to become his slave and practically rape her for years before she managed to break free of his mind control.
Hulk got nothing on that.
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