Every now and then a hero ends up being tricked into falling in love with a superhero or sometimes
they truly believe that hero could be redeemed.
When it happens once it might seem like a fluke but some superheroes don't know when
to call it quits.
Today we are going to be taking a look at some of the superheroes who have been trapped
into these moments and beyond that some who seem to go out of their way to seek out darkness
in their romantic partners as we count down the top 10 superheroes who hooked up with
villains.
Be sure to stick around to the end of this video where I will have some bonus content
coming your way in the form of comments.
Alright, let's get counting.
10 Power Girl
In the Worlds' Finest comics volume 1 issue 11, multiple worlds being the stipulation
here, Power Girl gets tricked into hooking up with Desaad.
He is under the guise of the handsome, Michael Holt aka Mr Terrific.
As such Karen Starr while at a party ends up in his arms until he reveals his true identity
to her.
Huntress and Power Girl both see that it is not truly Holt though but Desaad in disguise
and attacked him.
But apparently not everyone could see what they saw, resulting in them being attacked
by guards who think they are attacking Holt.
Desaad and Powergirl definitely makes a squicky picture.
Ick.
9 Supergirl
While Supergirl mostly likes to keep her relationships on the good side of things, she didn't start
off on the best foot.
Poison Ivy was actually her first kiss, attempting to bring her over to the dark side.
Or rather the green side.
The other thing about the issue where this happens is Harley even makes a pass at Supergirl
too, offering to kiss her boo boos better after smashing the hero with a hammer.
8 Starfire
These two are a pair that constantly get shipped and for good reason, there is a lot of love
between these fellow Teen Titans.
Love that gets pretty brutally sexy in the wedding issue of New Titans.
Issue 100 of volume 3 focuses on the wedding between Dick Grayson's Robin and Starfire.
It's off to a rocky start as the pair have their love protested against because of Starfire's
alien heritage but ends up being filled with love and beauty.
Until a demonic Raven crashes it that is.
Raven has lost control of soul and as such has turned pretty evil.
What's a girl to do but crash your old friends' wedding, confess your love for the bride and
then make out with her, injecting her with another soul of one of Trigon's children.
I mean hey, if that isn't true love then what is?
7 Daredevil
Matthew Murdock has a tendency to dally with women who are living on the more dangerous
side of life.
Not all the women he dates are like this, just most of them.
He has gotten cozy with the former assassin, Black Widow and while she is definitely a
hero who was formerly a bad guy and never threatened Matthew's life, he has also been
involved with women who have threatened his life.
Echo attempted to kill him before, after being manipulated into thinking Daredevil was to
blame for the death of his father.
All this also happened after their first date.
Matt was able to convince her of the truth, causing her to double cross Kingpin but still
attempted murder is attempted murder.
Typhoid Mary is another woman who Matt began to see before his Daredevil persona came in
and also messed that up by becoming her enemy after accidentally pushing her out a window
during a scuffle.
And then of course there is Elektra.
And heck, even Karen Page in the Netflix and Marvel's Daredevil series was kinda shady.
6 Wolverine
I feel like being a male member of the X-Men means you are bound to fall into the trap
of falling in love with some kind of villainess at some point.
That is if you're a straight male X-Men member.
Granted almost all of them are so...
Pretty much applies to all.
Wolverine is no exception.
As a straight male member he had fallen into the arms of the famous shape-shifting villainess,
Mystique whose charms have allowed her to find herself involved with many male and female
mutants.
But beyond that he also had a thing with Madame Hydra, aka Viper.
She ended up kidnapping him and reminded him of a debt he owed her.
Our of honour, Wolverine agreed to repay the debt by doing as she asked and marrying her.
She wanted Wolverine for more than just his personality and looks though.
She was after his influence more than anything.
And her marriage to him succeeded in getting her what she wanted, to become the Princess
and ruler of Madripoor.
Later in exchange for saving her life, Wolverine was able to negotiate a divorce
5 Spiderman
Just like Batman has his Catwoman, Spiderman has his Blackcat.
Is it crazy that both Marvel and DC have superheroes who evoke the look and abilities of a creature
and then both also coincidentally have feline-inspired criminal loves?
While Blackcat may not be as big of a main squeeze for Spiderman as Catwoman is for Batman,
the two have still had a long standing on again off again relationship.
And just like it's pretty set that Peter Parker will always go back to MJ, he will also always
run off at some point with Blackcat.
Originally a criminal and thief, Felicia has gone from being a very bad kitty to a full
out superhero but she always seems to be seduced back into the world of power and crime.
And while Peter may have a ton going on in terms of his romantic life, for Blackcat,
he is her main squeeze.
She often mentions how she isn't a huge fan of men in general except when it comes to
the web-crawler.
4 Storm
Ororo Munroe isn't someone who struck me originally as having a draw to the more evil side.
Despite how Stormy she was made to look when you using her powers in the X-Men films.
Like out of context, seeing Halle Berry's eyes go all white and watch her start creating
storm clouds and lightning bolts makes her look like some kind of villain out of a horror
film.
"Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning?"
So while many of us comicbook nerds may now think of Storm as one of T'Challa's true loves,
it's no surprise that she has felt the pull towards those less good once or twice.
Like the time she spent with Dracula or better yet the time Doctor Doom kidnapped her and
she actually seemed to think Victor a gentleman and remarked that she was actually having
a pretty good time.
Is it weird that I ship Doom and Storm?
Doomstorm!
3 Professor X
Based on my description earlier of Wolverine, I think you know where I'm going with this.
Do you know where I am going with this?
The secret romance between Professor X and Mystique.
Which many originally thought had to be some kind of trick of Mystiques.
We see her giving birth to Charles Xavier the second, her and Charles' son after Professor
X's death but under the guise of Moira Mactaggert.
Many though that her disguise could be used as proof that she was up to no good.
But we later found out that this was not the case during the reading of Xavier's will wherein
it was explained that he had married Mystique and had left his school to her.
2 Rogue
It's true that Rogue spends most of her time pining after Gambit but she has also had a
really creepy relationship with the Shadow King.
Seriously.
At one point he even manages to tempt her into kissing him though I use the term tempt
lightly here as Rogue seems to be weirdly into it.
He has also offered to have her become his Shadow Queen.
But the Shadow King isn't the only villain that Rogue has seemed to have weird feelings
for.
During their time together on Savage Land, Rogue also seemed to express feelings for
Magneto.
Though the two had to part ways as Magneto felt they were simply too different.
1 Batman
The ultimate lover all ladies villainous.
Batman is definitely known for his love of the darkness and apparently this love has
extended to bedroom.
He has been mind controlled by Poison Ivy, has had Harley Quinn pine after him, fell
for Nocturna and almost married Catwoman and Jezebel Jet.
And depending on what you're reading or watching, he maybe did marry Talia and also has a son
with her.
Making Batman definitely the one who is spending the most time in bed with those who could
be deemed criminals or evil.
The weird thing is as a master detective, he also generally knows what everyone is really
up to, so I guess it's just something he enjoys.
Thank you so much for watching, nerd squad.
I hope you enjoyed exploring with me some heroes who seem drawn to the dark or just
frequently trapped there when it comes to their romantic life.
I guess some superheroes are just so hot even villains want a piece of that.
I mean, you know what they say opposites attract.
Who are some of your favourite superheroes who have ended up with a villain?
Are there superheroes who you think are even more attracted to the darkside than those
listed here?
Or do you agree?
If you could get romantic with any villain who would you pick?
Let us know in the comments below.
And speaking of comments, it's time to turn to some comments from on of my latest videos
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Shawn Schliepp comments, "Anyone remember how nuts, calculating Jack Nicholson was?"
Yeah, his version of the Joker was pretty scary at the time.
The Tim Burton films are my favourite Batman films.
Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?
Quann Sharp says, "1st of all you like Adam Scott... 2nd the way you say process like
"process" is grinding my gears!"
Hahaha.
I find I go back and forth between both pronunciations on the word actually pro-cess vs pracess.
A lot of my pronunciations actually seem to stem from the UK for certain words but then
I guess we here in Canada were a colony longer so that makes sense.
Except that my grandparents migrated here from Ireland and Scotland so I'm sure some
their pronounciations also got somewhat mixed in there too.
Do I look like Adam Scott?
I could kinda see that.
Maybe like his redheaded Canadian cousin.
I'm watching the Good Place right now and he is hilarious in it.
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