When great threats are posed to the planet, the universe or all of existence, superheroes
often need to come together in order to deal with them.
They form groups or team up with another hero in order to take on this threat.
Some heroes however work better than with others.
And some don’t trust one another at all but are forced to work side by side.
Or can’t see eye to eye and are forced to try and compromise or fight over whose ideology
will win out today.
Today we’ll be taking a closer look at some of these relationships as we count down the
top 10 superheroes who hate working together.
Be sure to stick around till the end of the video where we will have some bonus content
coming your way.
Alright, let’s get counting.
10 Spider-Man and Deadpool
This may be a bromance to Deadpool but for Spider-Man this relationship is mostly a nuisance.
The two do seem to share some sincere moments of feeling between them, like when Spiderman
and Deadpool bonded over talking about their incompleteness, the hole inside of them.
But of course, Deadpool ruined it by offering to help Spiderman with hole-filling whenever
need be.
Yeah.
Most of their moments are like that.
Wade aspires to be a good guy like Spider-Man but he struggles.
He’s stuck with an anti-hero mentality.
And it took a long time for Peter Parker to even accept that a murderer like Wade was
capable of goodness.
When Deadpool was hunting down a Daily Reporter from the Bugle who was in the car with Peter,
Wilson just tossed Parker out of the car and off a bridge without thinking.
Considering after that he may have just killed an innocent man.
And when Parker returned in his Spider-Man guise to fight Deadpool, Deadpool claimed
that he knew Spider-Man would be around to save that guy he threw off the bridge, much
to Parker’s frustration.
9 Wolverine and Cyclops
These two often bump heads and really do not enjoy fighting with one another.
But they do it because they are a family, albeit a somewhat dysfunctional family, X-Men
always have one another’s backs and Logan and Summers are no exception.
So why don’t they get along?
Sometimes it has to do with the fact that they both love Jean and that gets in the way
of their friendship.
But what it ultimately boils down to is that they are just different.
Wolverine represents the brash and bold tactics.
He operates on instinct.
He kills people.
He goes feral and has to be held back.
Scott is usually perceived as being more strategic.
The goody goody.
Wolverine’s stick in the mud, in some cases.
The two don’t really agree with each other’s tactics but still have respect for one another.
Though that respect doesn’t stop them from taking a dig at each other or arguing constantly.
8 Bishop and Gambit
Bishop comes from a future where the X-Men have been destroyed as a result of one of
their own betraying them.
This lone survivor goes by the name of the Witness but used to be known as LeBeau.
Bishop believes the Witness is the betrayer and upon traveling back in time and meeting
Gambit aka Remy LeBeau, that Gambit in turn in is the Witness.
Bishop attempts to warn the X-Men about Gambit, telling them that he will betray them but
they all seem pretty puzzled.
The two work out their differences during their time fighting alongside each other which
all starts when Gambit has to come to Bishop’s rescue after he’s been captured by some
villainous X-Men.
You can check it out in the little series Gambit & Bishop: Sons of the Atom.
It’s actually pretty adorable to see these two different personalities come together.
7 Bishop and Cable
Yeah.
Bishop doesn’t really get along with a lot of people.
Maybe it’s due to him being from the future?
But in this case Cable is also from the future so… hmmm.
These two get off on the wrong foot in the events of the X-Cutioner’s Song, where Bishop
mistakes Cable as the person who made an assasination attempt of Charles Xavier by shooting him
with a bullet that had the techno-organic virus in it.
Both Bishop and Wolverine locate Cable and the three get in a fight.
But eventually they all decide to work together to find Jean and Scott.
Ultimately they discover that Stryfe is behind all of this, Cable’s evil clone, who is
going on a villainous spree of torture and attacking others as punishment for slights
they have made against him, even when they don’t seem to know what the heck he is talking
about.
Bishop later from frenemies to straight up enemies when they disagree on what should
be done with Hope who is the first mutant born after the events of House of M and Decimation.
6 Daredevil and Punisher
These two really don’t enjoy working together when it comes to resolving issues.
Namely that when it comes to dealing with criminals, Punisher believes he is above the
law while Daredevil being a lawyer as his day job, still firmly believes in the law.
Castle also straight up uses guns and kills people and Daredevil just really badly beats
them up with his fighting sticks.
The crazy thing is that both are quite violent, both are against crime but that final decision
in regards to what to do with a criminal, means they usually don’t like working together
unless they have to.
5 Batman and Green Lanterns
While it has been insinuated in the comics that Batman has an issue with all Green Lanterns,
I’m not sure if that is actually true.
It was coming from Guy Gardner so slightly biased for sure.
Batman definitely does not enjoy working with Guy or with Hal Jordan.
Guy because he tried to usurp his leadership of the Justice League International, years
ago.
Granted Batman definitely got him back for that one almost immediately.
Guy challenged Bats to a fight and got knocked out in one punch.
With Hal it has more to do with the fact that he has killed an insane amount of people and
although he got better, Batman still doesn’t trust him.
Even John Stewart and Batman got into an argument!
Granted Batman doesn’t seem to take issue with John, but John himself tells Batman off
for disrespecting fellow Lantern Hal Jordan, accusing Batman of disliking Hal simply because
Hal isn’t afraid of Batman.
John get’s right up in Batman’s face and states, “what is the Batman when you’re
not afraid of him?
Just a man.”
4 Damian Wayne and Tim Drake
A lot of the Robin’s in truth have issues with each other but these two really take
the cake.
Understandably as Damian did try to kill Tim the first time they met.
Still when Ra’s Al Ghul shows back up and is attempting to use Damian’s body for himself,
the Robin’s must fight together to fend off all of the ninjas that arrive to capture
them.
Just in time too as the two were at a point where Tim was ready to beat Damian senseless,
being quick to not trust him on his return to Wayne Manor.
Even fighting together, they still get on each other’s nerves and end up not being
great at it as they do get captured.
Fighting with people you really don’t like can often result in failure.
Unfortunately almost all the Robin’s seem to initially dislike Damian Wayne.
3 Rogue and Scarlet Witch
After the events of House of M, Rogue was really not happy with Scarlet Witch, whom
she blamed for Xavier’s death.
The two would end up both being kidnapped by Red Skull.
Rogue discovered that Red Skull had captured them more to target Wanda, and despite her
grudge, Rogue escaped and rushed to save her.
However when she came upon Wanda, it seems like she was making a deal with the Red Skull
and Rogue when right back to that hate she was carrying and actually fought Scarlet Witch
instead.
Eventually the two managed to work together and escape but when Wanda offered Rogue an
olive branch and said that she wanted to be friends, Rogue refused.
This was also an interesting time for Rogue in the comics who steadfast in her grudges
and just generally moody.
She even went back to donning a look similar to her Brotherhood days.
However whether Rogue liked it or not--spoiler alert: she didn’t like it--she and Wanda
were both appointed as part of the Uncanny Avengers team which brought members of both
X-Men and Avengers together after the events of an even bigger fight with Red Skull who
had acquired Xavier's telepathic abilities after stealing his brain from his corpse.
2 Black Panther and Namor
It’s hard for these two to get along due to the fact that their ideaologies seem different.
They both are rulers of a nation but one on land and the other below the sea.
And their nations constantly seem to be in a state of conflict with one another.
In a sense I think the two rivals and jealous of the other, what they have and how they
handle a problem.
Both are a part of secret superhero group the Illuminati, which has gone up against
some of the world’s greatest threats.
In the event of an incursion, the two heros held a detonation button for the alternate
world, in the event that they had no options left but to destroy it.
When it seemed like all other options had disappeared and they had to make that ultimate
choice, their world or the alternate world, Black Panther could not bring himself to push
the button so Namor did, much to Black Panther’s shock and disapproval.
1 Emma Frost and Jean Grey
The awesome thing about these two characters is that rivalry actually transcends fighting
for attention from Scott Summers.
They are both each other’s foil.
Emma brings out the darkness in Jean.
Around Emma, Jean’s cruel side comes out and she definitely has one of those, even
though many other characters in the comics don’t see it, Emma Frost certainly does.
Like just after Jean found out about Emma and Scott’s psychic affair and Jean telepathically
beat the life out of Emma within the confines of her mind, tearing down any defenses Emma
tried to put up.
Jean brings out the jealous side in Emma though.
Emma seems to constantly feel like she is living in Jean’s shadow.
Both are telepaths but Jean is often presented as being stronger due to her connection with
the Phoenix force and unlimited potential and beyond that Emma is in love with the man
who has always been presented as the one true love of Jean’s.
While Scott may have more than one love, for Emma and Jean, there seems to often only be
Scott.
Too bad they can’t all just get along and be a happy little love trio.
While we might get to see something like that happen in House of X, maybe just maybe though,
any other time these two have had to work together in the comics, it’s met with a
lot of sassy remarks from Emma and a mixed bag of feelings from Jean who struggles to
be compassionate around Frost.
Even when Jean saves Emma in the events of Planet X, Emma still has nothing kind to say
about her fellow X-Men and nemesis.
Thank you so much for watching, nerd squad.
I hope you enjoyed this list.
Are there any team ups that you would love to see in the comics?
Are their superhero rivals that you dream of finally seeing get along?
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