Superheroes aren’t without their flaws - while a hero can be a vision of hope or an inspiration
role model for us to look up to, sometimes they’re capable of some pretty embarrassing
or awkward stuff.
Cringe worthy stuff, that is.
So today we’re counting down the top 10 cringest superheroes.
For this list, we decided to veer away from dumb or silly cringe-y superheroes and focus
more on moments where more main stream superheroes - but don’t worry - if you guys want a part
two, we can get a little more obscure.
We’ll be dabbling in both superhero cinematic adaptations and the comics, so get ready to
get your cringe on.
10 Superman Starting off this list with one of DC’s
staple heroes, we’ve got the man of steel himself, Superman.
Superman has had quite the long and intricate history since his creation back in 1938.
So it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that he’s dabbled in some cringe worthy moments.
First off, there’s a series that doesn’t portray him in the best light - superman’s
girlfriend lois lane.
And then there’s all that spanking.
While some of the cringe-y man of steel moments are due to the sentiments of the times during
the golden age and the silver age, they’re still chock full of good ol undeniable cringe.
At least we don’t have to worry about him being cringe-y these days-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_93l5q7AWDM - 0:45
Oh wait, damnit.
9 Buffy I love Buffy.
It’s one of my favourite shows to watch over and over again.
It’s definitely up there in greatest sci-fi/horror shows.
Which by the way would be a rad list, if y’all would wanna see that.
ANYWAY despite all of that, it’s not without it’s flaws.
And one of those flaws is the cringe-worthy story arc of Buffy when she’s working at
the Doublemeat Palace.
Now we’ve talked about other heroes who have worked at fast food chains and all of
their cringey glory, but Buffy’s is particularly fun, since it was actually a painful progression
in Buffy trying to normalize her life outside of school, and generally coping with all of
that season 6 trauma - no spoilers here on that though, go watch the show.
8 Bird Brain While we said we weren’t going to get obscure,
I had to include Bird Brain on this list.
So Bird Brain had a pretty tragic upbringing - he was created by a nefarious scientist
named Ani-Mator, who tortured his creations with some pretty awful experiments.
Bird Brain escapes the island that Ani-Mator used as his base, and joins the New Mutants.
They eventually go back to the island to free the other creations and take down Ani-Mator,
but not before we get some delicious cringe from Bird Brain when the New Mutants try to
assimilate him into regular society.
That being said, he’s still pretty sweet in a terrifying kind of way.
6 The Wonder Twins A hanna-barbers creation, the Wonder Twins
were so jam packed with cheese that watching them on Super Friends practically made you
lactose intolerant.
Well, okay, thats going a tad too far.
But they were definitely painfully cheesey.
They were later introduced into the DC universe, where they got to do things like hypnotize
aquaman.
Luckily for them, their cringe has actually been embraced, with Adult swim cradled in
it’s sweet loving arms, giving us gems like MAKE OUT MOUNTAIN.
Which existed near pregnant point and cop a feel canyon.
Actually.
USE CLIP AROUND 24 SECONDS. and then again at 30 seconds ‘mature enough to handle it’.
Always looking out for the greater good.
6 Spider-man in spider Man 3 Emo Peter Parker.
If you’ve yet to watch the gem that is the 3rd Spiderman film from the original set of
films in the franchise, brace yourselves.
So at this point in the film, Peter isn’t doing all too well.
He’s going through a bit of an identity crisis.
And there’s oh so many hair flips.
It’s awkward and painful and he becomes exactly the kind of person you just want to
punch.
Those dance moves on the street?
Kill me now.
5 Robin - Golden Age Oh the boy wonder.
You know what’s pretty wondrous?
All of the weird sexually awkward moments with Batman he had during the golden age - and
a few in the silver age.
You can see why Fredric Wertham would claim that the two had homosexual undertones.
But fun fact - this wasn’t something Wertham deduced himself - gay men had pointed out
the subtext to him.
http://www.smosh.com/PC/smosh-pit/articles/15-most-sexually-awkward-batman-moments - leather thong, shirtless robin, wobbly knees
http://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/6/3/4/26634.jpg?v=1 He can’t even avoid the cringe on other
earths - Earth 2 Robin, we got a grown up Robin who stole Batman’s look when he retired.
And rode around on Superman’s back like a carpet.
Yeah.
4 Catwoman Catwoman is a phenomenal character.
But she had some less than dignified moments at the start of the new 52.
Which was a whole lot of bat cat sex.
I also can’t get over how many rippling muscle lines Bats has in this panel too.
And who can forget that suggestive cover?
Yeah, I see what you’re doing with those diamonds there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxm1hCJL_ws - OR ANY OF THIS, 2:47 she drinks milk it’s
lulz or the dancing afterwards, its fucking hilarious
THEY’RE JUST TOTALLY FINE WITH A CHICK SWINGING AROUND A WHIP DRESSED AS A CAT IN A NIGHTCLUB?
This is just too much.
3 Green Lantern - 2011 Green Lantern gets a double whammy of a number
on this one.
First off, have you seen the 2011 Green Lantern film?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I_F4a-oUyA - 1:00 hot wheels
Speaks for itself, really.
But Hal has been up to some good ol cringe in the comics too.
While most people remember the 1992 Death of superman arc for being memorable because
of DC’s tom foolery with killing then resurrecting the man of steel, Hal Jordan was off doing
cringe worthy things while everyone was trying to figure out which of the superman imposters
who had popped up were actually the real deal.
Anyway, during all of this, Coast City was destroyed, Hal comes back to earth and has
a complete breakdown because of this, and through the reign of the supermen arc and
emerald twilight, Hal attempts to rebuild Coast city with his ring, prompting the guardians
to punish him and break his ring since he used it for personal gain.
So he LOSES HIS SHIT. and destroys the green lantern corps, becomes parallax and gave us
this cringe worthy image to fill our hearts with.
2 Every character in the show Gotham All of the Riddler’s riddles
Kid who might be the joker doing joker-esque stuff
Barbara Gordon fulfilling the horrible crazy bisexual trope
Jim Gordon basically just being a wet blanket And Baby Bruce being THE WORST CHILD.
And the show’s writers for constantly reminding us that all of these characters are Batman
characters and that we’re watching a show about Batman.
Yes Batman.
It’s about Batman in case you forgot.
Got the memo?
Great.
Moving on.
1 Everyone who appeared in Marvel Swimsuit Specials
Hey, you know what would be a great idea?
Putting all of your favourite Marvel characters into a swimsuit special.
Sex sells, right?
That won’t be cringe-y AT ALL.
Oh nooo.
It was.
It totally was.
So who was a part of this uncomfortably erotic atrocity back in the 90’s?
Black Widow, Captain America, Northstar, Wasp, Colossus, Namor and my personally favourite.
Ghost Rider.
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For now I’m Kelly Paoli for top 10 nerd and I’ll catch you all in the next one!