It was Babs' article about DoomWar yesterday that sparked this idea of comic characters getting divorced. Let me say, I'm not the biggest fan of Storm and Black Panther's marriage. Since she's been married, she seems to have gotten weak, as a character. This brought on the idea of could they get divorced. Babs brought up the point whether or not comic book characters actually get divorced. This is also something Inferiorego suggest Lois and Superman do back in March.
Divorce does happen in comics (see Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne). It just doesn't happen too often. Why is that? Divorce is something that (unfortunately) does happen in real life. If comic characters get divorced, are they being bad role models? Does that give the characters a bad stigma?
Divorce seems to be something the publishers avoid with the major characters. What happened when it was decided to end the marriage between Spider-Man and Mary Jane? She makes a deal with the " devil" and the marriage is over. What happens when Cyclops mentally cheats on Jean Grey with Emma Frost? Jean ends up getting killed by Xorn and the marriage is over. It almost seems that comic book characters literally remain married "until death" do they part.
No one really wants to read about comic characters going through a divorce. It just seems a little weird that writers and publishers tend to avoid the subject. Unless I'm forgetting a bunch of characters that have gone to divorce court, it just rarely happens. Characters can turn evil, have psychic affairs, make deals with the devil or even kill but get divorced? That isn't something they want to put on a character's shoulders.
