Which superhero do you think has taken the most abuse in their career?

[Freakzeek]

which superhero do you think has taken the most abuse in their career? Not just physical but emotionally as well. Who's given up more for the sake of justice and peace than anyone else and has the scars to show for it?

I'm going to have to go with Daredevil. That guy has the shittiest luck ever.

1. Mom leaves him.
2. Dad gets killed for being noble.
3. Blinded by radiation.
4. Girlfriend 1 (Elektra) becomes crazy ninja enemy, killed by Bullseye.
5. Born Again: Girlfriend 2 (Karen Page) becomes heroin addict porn star, sells him out to Kingpin, killed by Bullseye. House blown up. Disbarred.
6. Identity revealed to everyone, crapshow.
7. Does jail time
8. Current lady friend is driven into a near comatose state of crazy by Mr Fear -
9. - After Mr Fear has made DD's life pure unadulterated hell for months.
9. Willingly killed and resurrected by the Hand.
10. On Osborne's list.

...then again that's balanced out by the MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF ASS HE TAPS. Seriously, dude bangs booty every night and all day.

[Karl O'Neill]

Howard the duck.

[daveageallen]

i thinkthere was thread like this a few months back.

alot of people said Hulk, and hank pym. i agree with both of those.

[Shellhead]

...then again that's balanced out by the MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF ASS HE TAPS. Seriously, dude bangs booty every night and all day.

And with his heightened senses, he probably enjoys sex more than we can imagine.

[Monty_Cristo]

Eric O'Grady has been hospitalized several times in his short career (by Mister Hyde and the Hulk). after he woke up from one hospital stay he was tortured by a vengeful SHIELD agent/serial killer. his stay at Camp Hammond was interrupted by the KIA attack and skrull invasion. now he's stuck on a Thunderbolts team with a bunch of hardcore killers. even before he became Ant-Man, he was aboard the Helicarrier during Enemy of the State and lost his best friend to it; being showered in blood and brains.

[bigbluntz]

Spider-man has taken some serious abuse from writers.

[bebopeva88]

Wolverine, Daredevil, and Spider-man, roughly in that order.

[Aziz Abbasi]

Howard the duck.By magic force he leaves his home planet unwillingly. Check
Gets insulted. Check Check
Forced to lose his clothes then stolen to escape a horde of peace fanatics. 3 checks
Gets all lousy jobs. 4 checks
There are still so many I don't know
alot of people said Hulk

Father abuses him because and experiment went wrong on him
Loses his mother in an early age & accidentally kills his father on her tombstone
A spy let Banners bomb explode on him while saving Rick
Trying to cure himself he makes matter worse by transforming to a child minded beast by stress, at least not as murderous as his previous smarter version
His identity went public and he is hunted
The woman he loves married a guy he hates while he was banished in orbit
His stepfather wants to extract the monster within
Becomes a public hero, but after a trip with Dr. Strange he loses it completely and gets banished to a different realm of Nightmare
Gets back, gets separated from his monster but he needed to get back with him or he will die
His old friend and professor betray him because he enjoyed this Hulking power
His worst enemy ills his wife
Gets banished to space and there he gets enslaved before freeing the planet and becoming king
His pregnant wife dies, and he doesn't know his child is alive
He has two daughters and knows absolutely nothing about them being related to him
His son wants to kill him

The Hulk Beats DareDevil on many levels

[ddqfpluskick]

Slipping out of mainstream.

I'm going to have to say Laurie Collins a.k.a Wildflower

Birth is the result of her mother getting raped. (legal term)
Developes the same powers as her father which mean what she wants she has to wonder if she's getting it by merit or her powers.
Gets stabbed
Has her hand disintigrated by over zealous paramour.
Gets the back of her head blown off by Willian Striker.
So let her name be never mentioned again.

In retrospect her mom got a lot of suffering too.

[Iron Theurge]

Well .... poor Jean Grey. Hopefully she didn't feel all that death.

Wolverine of course. His entire shtick is being abused by the Man.

Captain America (to a point). He's America's hero but look at the toll that could have taken on him; did he not have such steel confidence and inro will (them of themselves are heroic). Displaced from his own time, been shot, unstuck in time, labeled an illegal combatant. He's been shatted on hard and he's supposed to be America's ICON.

IT

[XPac]

I'd say Hulk off the top of my head.

Though Daredevil is up there too.

[mgs]

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1. Mom leaves him.
2. Dad gets killed for being noble.
3. Blinded by radiation.
4. Girlfriend 1 becomes crazy ninja enemy, killed by .
5. Born Again: Girlfriend 2 becomes heroin addict porn star, sells him out to Kingpin, killed by . House blown up. Disbarred.
6. Identity revealed to everyone, crapshow.
7. Does jail time
8. Current lady friend is driven into a near comatose state of crazy by Mr Fear -
9. - After Mr Fear has made life pure unadulterated hell for months.
9. Willingly killed and resurrected by the Hand.
10. On Osborne's list.

This happens to Wolverine just about every 7-10 years or so, and considering he's like 8,000 years old now, that's a LOT of abuse! :wink:

[Aziz Abbasi]

This Marvel comics, everyone of their heroes had a very high dose of abuse

[Syrant]

Eric O'Grady has been hospitalized several times in his short career (by Mister Hyde and the Hulk). after he woke up from one hospital stay he was tortured by a vengeful SHIELD agent/serial killer. his stay at Camp Hammond was interrupted by the KIA attack and skrull invasion. now he's stuck on a Thunderbolts team with a bunch of hardcore killers. even before he became Ant-Man, he was aboard the Helicarrier during Enemy of the State and lost his best friend to it; being showered in blood and brains.
Not to mention that unspeakable incident that ruined his life...
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I agree with practically all the upper posts. I think Magneto had a pretty hard life. I mean, his origins include Nazis. 'Nuff said.

[Chiasm]

Ms Marvel

First off she's keeps getting stuck in a costume that would make a stripper blush.

Then there is whole rape storyline where she gets raped, gives birth to the person who will turn out to be her rapist, and then is shunted off to live with her rapist by her fellow Avengers. Then in an attempt to undo the damage done to her character the writers have her get lobotomized by Rogue.

[explicit]

Spider-man has taken some serious abuse from writers.
co-sign. I think Spidey has it the worst.

[RolandJP]

Spidey but iron man is a close second.

[ShredHead]

Wolverine and The Hulk abuse and torture is pretty much there whole shtick. Although I got to admit that Ms. Marvel rape storyline that puts her up there. I mean wow just wow.

[Make Mine Mar-Vell]

Oh, come on, guys.... really is there any more abused or misused character than the real Mar-Vell?

Yes, I know there's ups and downs, but LOOK~!

At least you have a monthly or a book to even begin bitch about. The original Captain Marvel doesn't even get that.

Even when it's been shown it could be viable, economically, and I believe creatively, it gets not any real return.


Only puppets and sidekicks and pretenders.

I'm sorry, but that's true.

I feel your pain.

[nieman]

Pym. 2nd rate powers/ability that get passed around amongst the team, 2nd rate intelligence always overshadowed on his team. No wonder he changes his name every year and beat his wife

[JaredMilne]

Spider-Man, full stop.

Dead parents? Check.

Routinely abused at school by everyone ranging from arrogant jocks (Flash Thompson) to out-and-out sadists (Carl King)? Check.

Having his father figure die due to his own thoughtlessness? Check.

Having his mother figure constantly suffer through one type of illness after another? Check.

Being unable to fully pursue his scientific dreams because of his sense of responsibility? Check.

Risking his hide time and again to protect a city full of ungrateful douchebags who, quite frankly, don't deserve to have the heroes protecting them, and continue supporting superhero registration and mutant persecution, reacting with hate and spite to the very people who have saved them? Check.

Beating himself up for things that quite clearly are not his fault? Check.

That said, the Hulk, Wolverine and the X-Men all have it pretty bad, again because of the pricks who by all rights ought to be thrown to the wolves, considering how they treat their protectors.

Quite frankly, your average citizen of the Marvel Universe, especially if that citizen is a New Yorker, deserves a good punch in the face for all the abuse he/she has heaped on their protectors over the years.

Especially if that person's name just happens to be Sally Floyd.

Of course, there are ways of coping, like making Ms. Floyd a meth-addicted prostitute who gets cut into dog food by a modern-day Jack the Ripper in fanfiction...but I digress.

[JaredMilne]

Oh, and for the record, Sleepwalker has also had it pretty rough over the course of his short career.

-Trapped in an alien dimension, leaving behind his family, his beloved, his kin, pretty much everything that defined his entire existence? Check.

-Trying to make the best of it by becoming a superhero, only to be mistreated by the same whiny crybabies that have been making Spider-Man's life hell for the last few years? Check.

-Eventually developing the alien equivalent of a severe heroin addiction as a means of trying to cope with his anger and loneliness? Check.

-Being framed by his archnemesis Cobweb for the mass murder the demon committed during an invasion of New York? Check.

You don't have to be a big name to have it rough in the Marvel Universe.

[Cthulhudrew]

Mr. Immortal.

Not only has he had practically everyone he truly cares about in his life die (usually horrifically), but he's got to die at least once every time he makes an appearance himself (union rules).

Seriously, though, if tragic stuff doesn't happen to and around this guy, he's pretty much got no point in actually existing.

[pryde15]

Wasp, furreal, she lacks in the respect department.