Greetings nerdy list aficionados now being a hero to some that would sound like a dream
come true but to others well it’s a it of a nightmare or at least something that changes
their life for the worse or the more complicated.
We’re going to be taking a look at heroes who wish that they could just live normal
lives there’s a decent amount of them so we’re going to look at some prominent examples
out there.
I’m Sasha and these are the Top 10 Superheroes who wish they were normal let’s get started.
Number 10 - Ben Grimm - Ben Grimm a.k.a the thing is a member of Marvel’s first family
the fantastic four.
The team created as a response to DC’s success with the Justice league and also the comic
that relaunched timely as Marvel comics cause marvel was not marvel until the 60s.Ben Grimm
suffered the most physically unappealing it could be argued of the transformations.
And it’s not one that Ben Grimm enjoyed at all he felt like a monster in fact that’s
why he names himself the thing.
He doesn’t feel human.
One of the core struggles for Reed for a bit was finding a way to transform him back into
Ben Grimm.
And this has happened a few times usually for other reasons than Reed, like Doom and
Ben is always thrilled.
He’s come to terms with being the thing, made friends, found love, but at the end of
the day he would still 100% rather not be the thing.
Number 9 - Rogue - Now these days Rogue is pretty much fine with who she is, heck sometimes
she can even control her powers which allows her to touch people and have sex with Gambit,
I’m not sure what her struggle is at that point but I’m not writing her.
But in her early days Rogue had a lot of self hatred because of her powers especially when
one of the first manifestations involved her putting her boyfriend in a coma with a kiss.
Rogue would come to put up a face of bravado but really her isolation saddened her, to
not be able to do something so simple that so many other people could, just to touch
somebody especially when she found people she desperately wanted to.
In the animated series this even led to her contemplating having them removed when on
muir island there was talk of a cure.
It turns out that it was a good thing she didn’t cause that cure was a ruse designed
by Apocalypse who was looking for his next horsemen.
Rogues power is useful but it sets her apart when written right it;s quite compelling stuff.
Number 8 - Starfire Teen Titans - Starfire is lower on this list cause she definitely
struggles a bit less with fitting in thanks to her tameranian upbringing which causes
her most times to have an attitude of this is who I am deal with it.
However, there are times when Koriand’r wishes she understood humans more.
She comes from a warrior culture and is almost devoid of compassion in early titans, having
to stop her from killing was a regular occurrence and she has a hard time figuring out why her
teammates are so horrified.
She also can’t always connect with traditions this aspect was more played up in teen titans
and teen titans go one with a more serious the other with a more comedic slant of wanting
to fit in.
All of course to make her relatable to the desired teen and under audience.
Wanting to fit in is a powerful theme and actually never goes away for most people fun
fact.
Number 7 - Raven - On the same team we have Raven daughter of Trigon but for very different
reasons.
Raven is the daughter of a demon lord from another dimension a being created to help
facilitate her father’s takeover of worlds his power courses through her veins and she
has to constantly keep herself under control to keep it at bay.
Raven has to be careful and on guard most of the time and it sets her apart from her
teammates so she too at times wishes she could just be normal not constantly battling with
her father’s will or her conflicted feelings about it.
Raven being taken over by her dark side has been a plot before and will be again.
It ruined dick and starfires wedding, it was an entire arc on teen titans.
It’s a joke that she’s into the idea on titans go.
It’s part of the titans mythos at this point as much as if she knew she’s probably wish
it wasn’t.
Number 6 - Beast first class verse - Beast has also had his fair share of struggles with
being a mutant, one if the original x-men when beats first debuted he did not look how
he does today in fact he just looked slightly devolved.
But that would change when his mutation kicked into high gear this occurred in 1972 because
writers and artists felt he just wasn’t visually distinct enough and also they wanted
to cash on the success of werewolf by night after the lifting of the supernatural creatures
ban.
Beast at the time took the transformation in stride but later writers would add some
angst to this playing with several beauty and beast style plots of romantic interests
not being able to get past this.
Or other plots of him being rejected in the scientific community because of it.
The fox universe specifically first class would see him so put off by his minor mutation
that his attempts to correct it would cause him to mutate even further into his blue form.
In a case of ironic transformation.
Number 5 - Captain America - So Captain America doesn’t have any physical mutations or the
like that set him apart unless an 8 pack counts.
He’s surprisingly in stride with the culture for being frozen as long as he was and he
doesn’t have a demon dad.
So why does he wish he was normal well for a time Captain america became disillusioned
with the mantle he was holding because of certain actions occurring politically at the
time and hung up the mantle of Cap.
He truly did just want to be Steve rogers for a bit but that was super shortlived and
he came back as nomad , man without a country.
It must be like an addiction you go from that level of high intensity and action and energy
all the time time to nothing, I imagine it must leave with the shakes.
Better to get a really silly costume and do all the things you always wanted to do but
couldn’t like have your hair out.
Number 4 - Peter Parker - Peter Parker complains about being Spider-man all the time it;s the
great burden on his life that;s ruining his rep, his job his health everything.
Peter has never been able to find a balance between being spider-man and peter because
being spider-man is such an emotionally fraught thing for him, because of the death of his
uncle which he has assumed responsibility for.
So because of this even when he doesn't want to be spider man he is spider man setting
aside everything else cause he “has to” and oh boy does he complain about it.
Some marvel fans feel like peter is selfish and a lot of his problems he kinda creates
himself regardless of whether that is true or not Peter often wishes he was never bitten
by that radioactive spider.
Especially cause he believes if he hadn’t his uncle would still be alive.
Number 3 - Wolverine - You ever notice how when given the chance to settle down, have
a fam Wolerine lowkey jumps at it, you know why cause he wishes he was living a normal
life.
Lots of Wolverine’s nature comes from the brutality, the brainwashing all that cruelty
he’s endured.
But that’s Logan, what does James howlett want well it often seems especially in elseworlds
stories for example old man logan that given the choice he would live a peaceful life with
a family.
In main canon member when he wanted to settle down with Mariko which went horribly and she
became lady deathstrike.
It’s part of the tragedy of Wolverine story that his very nature seems to preclude him
being able to have a quite life.
His past is always there just waiting to catch up to him.
Number 2 - Cyborg - Is he a man or a machine?
Cyborg absolutely hated what he had become when it first occurred.
Cyborg didn't become what he is by choice, his father turned him into a cyborg after
a terrible accident that would have left him dead.
At first for a time Cyborg kinda wished that is what had happened his life as he had known
it before was completely ended.
He couldn’t play football anymore couldn’t go back to school.
When he found the teen titans he was bitter and it took him quite awhile to not only adapt
to his cyborg body but to see it as an asset.
Number 1 - The Hulk - I’m sure some of you were waiting for him, chomping at the bit
getting ready to write a omg you forgot.
X comment.
Well here is is Bruce Banner transformed into the Hulk after a blast of gamma radiation.
Banner’s transformations into the hulk were at first completely uncontrollable and his
kill count if he were allowed to kill would have been staggering as was his devestation
count was off the chart.
Banner went into hiding after this hunted constantly by friend and foe alike just trying
to keep the world safe from his other half.
In modern continuity he can now no longer die because of the hulk there is just no respite
he is doomed to walk the earth with a creature he considers a monster.
So yeah he definitely wishes he was normal.
I’m Sasha