Greetings nerdy list aficionados and welcome back to top 10 nerd today we’re about to
do a list that well it pained me.
So this is the Top 10 Superheroes who deserve the hate they get now let’s get to the caveats
right away you may love these characters I love a lot of them some genuinely and some
I like hating.
This is going to focus on in canon reasons mostly with sometimes a side of the real world
spilling in but it’s going to be predicated and hate they have garnered in universe.
So also wibbley wobbley timey wimey continuity we’re past some of these things now but
for their time they were valid.
Also it’s cool to hate or love who you want to don’t let any list sway you like I said
I love some of these people but they totally deserve the hate, also half of them were people
Amanda said didn’t deserve hate.
Amanda cameo banter banter.
Alright let’s do this get ready to take a sip from your haterade.
Number 10 – Fight Man – So Fight man is designed to be a character that everyone hates.
He’s meant to be brash annoying and awful.
His one shot comic demonstrates this perfectly which I mostly want to tell you about cause
the tagline is one shot is all he needs.
Which is so corny yet memorable it’s infuriating.
Fight Man regularly destroys the city injures the very people he’s trying to help.
Is broke so is constantly trying to sell merch that no one wants.
He had to move back in with his parents and he doesn’t even appreciate them.
He had 15 sidekicks that he got killed and the whole city eventually sues him.
So yes the hate we have consensus deserved he’s a terrible hero.
Who gets the job done but at tremendous cost to the city.
He also has frekazoids haircut.
Fight Man is very 90s he’s meant to be a joke and some of them do land.
I think my favourite is when one of his villains comes down to the legal offices where he’s
dealing with his ex wife trying to get out of alimony breaks down the wall and is all
you better come out or she’s dead.
And fight man is just like k fine do it.
So his villain goes oh ok let’s just have a normal fight then.
The 90s was way more self aware than people give it credit for.
Number 9 – Guy Gardner – So guy gardner is a green lantern he first debuted in Green
Lantern vol. 2 #59 (March 1968) and he wasn’t always the brash
jerk he is known as today.
That happened in the 80s when his character was completely revamped from well mild mannered
and not really being used to a and I quote jingoistic parody of an ultra-macho "red-blooded
American male.
Quote time When I took over [Green Lantern], John Stewart was the GL, but everybody expect
Hal Jordan to come back and relegate John to backup duty once again.
I decided that John deserved better, so I asked myself, 'Why can't there be two GLs?'
And that led to, 'Why can't there be more than two?'
That eventually led to the GL Corps, but along the way, I decided to resurrect the lost GL,
Guy Gardner, who had been terminally bland and then brain-damaged—a completely useless
character, as things stood.
I was being a good soldier, trying to help my friend Dick Giordano sell the book, and
it turned out to be the second biggest mistake of my entire career because ever since, DC
has claimed that since Joe and I didn't create the original Guy Gardner, our completely new
take counts for nothing.
If I had called the new guy Joe Smith we would have earned major royalties, but as it is,
we get nothing, and we get dissed by the people we helped.
So adding it all up, I wish I hadn't done it But the damage was done guy was the jerk
of every team he was on knocked out by batman with one punch.
They’ve toned it down in recent years but he’s still considered hot headed and a bit
of a loose canon and well rude.
So it’s understandable why some people hate him particularly in canon.
Still not over that him ice and superman love triangle.
Lots of people like how guy is cause it makes him different he definitely stands out but
when you need a hero do you need someone who’s going to moon you or be happy when allies
he doesn’t like get hurt.
Still he’ll get the job done in a pinch.
Hey when you pull a massive character 180 like that and make it something other characters
react to it lands for some people and not for others.
Number 8 – Starfox – Now whenever I put starfox on the list people have strong feelings.
And some people think I’m talking about the game for a moment just a flash.
Starfox first debuted in ron Man #55 (February 1973) he is Eros brother of Thanos and well
people didn’t think a lot about his pheromone date rape powers at first.
This would become a plot point Starfox would be put on trial for sexual assault when married
women came forward claiming that he had used his powers on them to seduce them.
The panels are quite horrifyinf they don’t even remember and he’s all you’re welcome
you just banged a superhero.
He’s being defended by Jennifer Waltersd aka the she hulk but then she starts to suspect
that he used his powers like this on her and you know what she’s not right she just has
poor judgment starfox really Jennifer.
But she has to hulk out and get him mind probed to find this out which also mind probing that’s
a whole other kettle of fish but what he did do was make her fall in love with and marry
john jameson you see what they did there this way they could retcon out another marriage.
Comics hate marriage unless you’re reed and sue.
But wait this was all thanos’ fault he implanted a memory in his mind that made him unstable
and that’s why he used his powers this way.
So not his fault…yeah that solved nothing and whenever you make a character a rapist
you’ve given the next writer such a curve ball cause in canon the characters don’t
want anything to do with this character now and fans yeah hard to get behind that especially
with such a weaksauce explanation.
False memories from a thanos clone made him do it.
If the memory is a fake we cannot litigate.
He’s still being sidelined because of this.
People get mad about people not liking starfox for this cause they feel he was a good character
who got dealt a bad arc.
Or also cause of the insert current year comics climate.
Let’s leave starfox alone for now.
Number 7 – Deadpool – So Deadpool is a fan favourite with many people but in universe
other people can’t stand the merc with a mouth they think he’s insane.
He has few friends but you know who’s friendship he didn’t have to bribe cable.
He had to bend over backwards for spidey’s, but that is neither here nor there.
Most people in the marvel universe find Deadpool annoying at best and dangerous at worse.
Deadpool can be dark and he kills regularly and is up for hire just because oh he was
married or oh he had/has a daughter kids are always just one reboot away from being retconned
out of existence less so at marvel though at marvel it’s more likely they’re going
to be sent outside the timeline to be hyper aged again cable.
At different points of deeadpool’s history he hadn’t remembered what he was doing even
killing and not recalling it.
In his alternate universe stories he’s killed all the marvel universe even breaking the
fourth wall to come for the writers.
He can be abrasive intrusive and hinder rescue situations.
So yeah it’s completely understandable why other characters find him hard to be around.
Even people that do like him need a break.
It’s why characters who can stand him stand out so much and of course shipping.
Spideypool is huge bigger than cablepool even after Deadpool 2.
I need more cablepool their teamup comic before they get divorced is everything.
And they call it a divorce that’s not me doing it.
Number 6 – Booster Gold – Booster Gold has had quite the journey in comics and is
confession time one of my favourite heroes for a time he was my favourite.
But especially at the start the hate I get it.
Also heroes in crisis did him no favours or that batman arc the gift but I blame tom king
for that not my booster.
He first debuted in Booster Gold #1 (February 1986) and was from the future the 25th century
so the same time as the reverse flash.
Fun fact.
Booster came back to the past to pretend to be a hero cause his life was falling apart
he’d been caught throwing sports matches so he was working as a security guard at a
museum where he teamed up with the security robot stole a bunch of tech and went back
in time with one goal get famous.
Booster was in it for the money and the fame and he wasn’t shy about showing it.
This led many to dislike him that and his untrained nature meant he wasn’t the best
in a fight and he drew so much press to them by always staying for interviews clamouring
for them actually, yeah batman hated him at the start.
But over time Booster would come to take his responsibilities seriously and get cauqht
up in some serious time travel shenanigans and learn that well he can’t just do what
he wants and the fame aren’t worth anything without the people you care about.
The death of ted kord really shook him but then rebirth.
Rebirth booster is not ok he’s unstable he’s less responsible and a bit back to
not being as liked by the rest of the heroes.
Poor booster he’s taken back to base so often, and whenever he’s adapted he’s
just straight up 80s booster.
So yeah depending upon the era the hate for booster 100% justified especially by heroes
with a very defined moral mission.
Number 5 – Raven – So Raven has a very specific complaint usually by other teams
not the teen titans though it does happen and that’s that she can’t be trusted because
of her father Trigon and how she is a conduit for him.
And also she has been overtaken by her dark half before like the time she trashed Starfire
and dick’s wedding and made out with starfire.
Kelly talked about it in her scary teen titans facts video.
Raven is an empath and has immense power she is a powerful villain when she gives into
her darker impulses so it’s understandable that certain heroes don’t trust her and
if you go evil well I’d be cautious too I’m with Batman like not up to that level
of what if I had to kill my teammates but if you went evil once.
It could happen again.
Number 4 – Captain Marvel – Carol Danvers you need to specify there have been multiple
captain marvel’s and shazam was actually the first captain marvel.
So Carol’s introduction to the mcu was controversial but we’ll leave that aside for now and focus
on comic carol captain marvel.
So carol became captain marvel in 2012 it was super recent in comic terms before that
she was ms marvel.
Her and tony were friends that matters in a minute bear with me.
When she became captain marvel her character changed she was made more assertive and dominant
but the real big changes came during civil, war 2 listen you don’t come out of civil
war looking good.
And Carol was pretty fadcistic in civil war 2 she played the roll tony played in civil
war 1.
From commanding Ms Marvel to set up essentially a teenage gestapo and also very much overstepping
boundaries in the life of a girl who admires her to the point that she will lie to her
parents and family for her so that she can patrol at night rather than do homework.
Also she beats tony into a coma and tony was on an upswing people were liking tony since
his mcu revamp.
So yeah not a good look and just like last civil war people just had to get over it.
The thing is Captain Marvel is a little different and this is a bit more fan hate because most
people in the marvel universe got over it fast a few bring it up now and then but she
has like post rebirth his coming back to life rebirth not dc rebirth Hal Jordan protection.
This happens when writers want a character to do well so they can’t have other characters
bring up their past mistakes.
Captain Marvel has been rebooted numerous times.
At this point with multiple number ones in the span of 6 years.
She’s ended up becoming a controverisial character and some people stay away cause
they just don’t want to deal with it.
I really liked her past arc with tony where he helped her overcome alcoholism but those
days are long gone.
Number 3 Reed Richards – If you’ve watched my videos for awhile you know that me and
Reed we have beef I’m a closet fantastic four villain.
But reed has done a lot that has made many in the superhero community side eye him.
He was on the illuminatti that secret team that was trying to pre-emptively stop threats.
He was part of that council of reeds which had far to many evil versions of him on it
for comfort.
He has a cache of some of the most powerful items in the marvel universe well had.
There was the portal to the negative zone in the Baxter building.
He exposed the members of the fantastic four to cosmic rays on purpose.
He helped build that alternate dimension prison for heroes who wouldn’t register during
civil war.
Him and the rest of the fantastic four were put on trial for all the things they’ve
caused.
But and it’s a big but he has recently been turned into nice guy reed you know after god
emperor doom and seeing his whole family die.
He’s turned over a new leaf.
Seeing the maker the 1610 ultimate verse reed who is now evil helped with that too.
But he is reed his inventions and genius are calling when people side eye him I get it.,
Deserved.
Number 2 – Hal Jordan.
I love hal Jordan this is no secret.
I also wish he had stayed dead this too is no secret complex I know.
So Hal, Hal went rogue after the destruction of coast city during the whole death rebirth
of superman in the 90s.
He grew reed Richards hair streaks always a bad sign ended up killing the corps and
sinestro.
Died in a quasi redemption arc burning up in the sun.
Then was the spectre then came back to life and the return was awesome there was an emotion
spectrum eventually a sinestro corps war but here’s the thing if you still distrusted
him you got flack for it in universe Batman is treated like he’s being extra for not
trusting hal when he literally killed the whole corps.
But what’s happening with hal these days well he just destroyed the corps again after
he tried to arrest god and punched him in the face then killed an innocent man.
Green Lantern is interesting right now they’re all going to be blackstars and it’s cause
of Hal yeah I can see them being pretty mad about that.
Hate justified again.
Number 1 The Hulk – The Hulk first debuted in The Incredible Hulk #1 (May 1962) and he
well he’s caused a lot of damage the hulk is a monster something the immortal hulk shows
off to great effect.
Yes he has been heroic and when in control he can do great things but that slips a lot
and pretty much all his friends have tried to hunt him down and faced off against him
at some point he has whole task forces designed to take him down.
He is feared by even his loved ones.
He has multiple hulks within some more deadly than the ones people normally face, and yet
she hulk recently told him he was petty for being jealous of her cause people hoot at
her in the street so yeah even his family isn’t sympathetic to him.
Hulk is most hated there is.
Poor hulk but yeah it makes sense.
There’s an in canon thing where he doesn’t kill but it’s very much an ok sure this
is so we can still like him thing.
Like hal was parallax or the phoenix was a force or it was thanos’s clones memory.
They’re all alive like the people in man of steel or all of ollie’s victims from
season one of arrow.
So those were the top 10 superheroes who deserve the hate they get it was a doozy share your
passionate disagreement down below and which hero do you think deserves more hate?
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