Greetings nerdy list aficionados and welcome back to top 10 nerd superheroes and their
relationship with one another.
So we tackled superhero rivalries a little while back but this, this is something different
this is heroes who actively dislike each other of course with the caveat that things can
change but these heroes have had a pretty intense hatred of one another that has been
key to the plot and well that’s interesting the idea that all heroes should just get along
simply because they’re all heroes doesn’t track everybody has different personalities
so it makes sense that people would butt heads on a fundamental level none of this super
friends stuff friendship is earned not handed out on a street corner like avengers membership
cards.
I’m Sasha and these are the top 10 superheroes who hate each other.
Let’s see how many of these people like each other now I’m excited.
Number 10 - Black Widow Invisible Woman starting off our list with something new and mild from
the Invisible Woman’s solo series that recasts her past as a secret agent.
So before she married reed she worked for shield and ran covert ops which with her power
set actually makes a lot of sense.
The story thus far is that her past partner has gone missing and she’s gonna break all
the rules and go behind enemy lines to find him this involves her teaming up with black
widow who suddenly has a massive chip on her shoulder about superheroes so sue has to prove
herself to her she has to prove that she’s not like other super heroes.
Ummm natasha are you ok you’ve been on so many superhero teams I know you’re a clone
but you have all the memories of the other nat who hydra cap killed.
So yeah these two just have beef until sue proves herself to her so it’s low cause
it’s not full hate or sustained but it’s just odd.
Manufactured conflict is manufactured just nat not remember the time sue fought the entire
avengers team to a standstill after the government took her kids and forced them out of the baxter
building.
Reed just noped out of that he knows better than to try and stop an angry sue.
Number 9 - Hal Jordan/Batman -So green lantern and batman since they started teaming up in
latge silver age brave and the bold there was friction batman has never appreciated
hal’s attitude which ranges from cavalier to I’m doing exactly what the guardians
tell me.
But this really came to a head when Hal went evil and also there’s some beef from hal
from the time he was desperate enough to go to bruce for help with his alcoholism and
just got turned away.
Post parallax Bruce wanted nothing to do with spectre hal and didn’t trust him at all
and when he came back to life he still didn’t trust him with honestly good reason just cause
all the people you killed came back to life doesn’t mean you didn’t kill them in the
first place.
Eventually these two would find an even keel through an in my opinion contrived sequence
where Bruce couldn’t handle a power ring despite having wielded one multiple times
before.
All of this ended up being shifted more into frenemyship mode in the new 52 where all of
a sudden the two were all about each other bruce was even letting hal fly him places.
I dunno I have questions I notice things other people are like oh where’s darkseid and
I’m like is hal’s hand around bruce waist enhance image.
No shame in my game we all make out own fun.
Number 8 - Hawkman/ Green Arrow so carter hall and oliver queen hate each other for
the same reason hal and ollie should hate each other but the comics insist they don’t
a fundamental difference of opinion.
Green Arrow leans really left to the point where he just yells at him for being a space
cop and for listening to the guardians ever.
Seriously he just yells at him all the time and calls him stupid a stick in the mud all
kinds of things but they’re best friends.
Like what is going on with hal’s self esteem you don’t have to take that.
Anyway Hawkman leans more right these terminologies are stateside ones by the way these terms
mean different things depending upon where you are in the world.
So these two butt heads or they did pre flashpoint post flashpoint and the new 52 etc we mostly
forgot this was a thing.
Largely because the struggle was on what do we do with these characters in the first place.
Just never forget oliver queen will scream in your face if you have a different opinion
than him on social issues but when push comes to shove and he finds out his ward is a drug
addict he will slap him the face and kick him out so all talk huh.
Number 7 - Jean Grey/Emma Frost this comes to us from new x-men the Grant Morrison run
and the genesis oh well we’ve talked about it numerous times at this point.
Jean and cyclops were having problems emma fresh off surviving the genoshan genocide
starting giving him psychic therapy in of which the two started having an affair.
An affair where she would masquerade as jean as the phoenix.
It was all kinds of messed up so when Jean found out about all this she was understandably
upset less understandably she psychically tortured emma because of it.
When jean let’s her powers go she;s terrifying full stop.
Anybody who questions how she uses them has a long history to call back upon.
This conflict would be solved through plot convenience jean would just kinda become the
phoenix and poof away now that description will bother some people who really felt the
gravitas of her sacrifice but different strokes for different folks.
Maybe I’m Xorn.
Number 6 - Captain Marvel iron man This is Carol Danvers captain marvel who is currently
having a villain arc in the comics at the time of this recording a purposeful one not
one by accident and it’s a good play lean into it.
Play with it that’s smart marketing.
Anyway despite years of friendship her an tony fell out over minority report I mean
an inhuman Ulysses who could tell the future and when rhodey died as a driving plot force
he was dating carol at the time it was on.
Tony was all I don’t agree also I was the antagonist in the last civil war it’s not
a good look don’t do it and she was all screw you I’m starting a teenage gestapo
and getting several people killed get ready to be beaten into a coma carebear.
He calls her carebear so I’m flipping it back.
Yeah this was intense the civil war arc go hard you go from fighting alongside someone
to contemplating murdering them.
However unlike the first civil war they scrambled to undo any lasting character damage so Tony
just got over it.
Number 5 - Namor Black Panther – Two kings fighting over who’s kingdom is better and
who should have mastery also they just really clash personality wise it takes a decent amount
of ego to rule and t’challa handles his with more grace namor can fall into megalomania
at times and slip into straight up villainy as well.
Still these two can also respect each other you can make their relationship fairly malleable
but well they’ve fought for decades and fans have a very let them fight mentality
alongside a who would win.
Black Panther stabbed namor.
Namor’s been killed a few times actually.
Number 4 - Batman / Red Hood So this is a more one sided hate as when Jason Todd came
back to life batman’s feelings were very conflicted but Jason had had years to nurse
his hate a festering rage started long before he died exacerbated by seeing that his death
had changed nothing in bruce’s methods that he’d been replaced by another robin that
the Joker still lived.
Red Hood was more than happy to kill to accomplish what he felt batman could not and go up against
the rest of the bat family it made him dangerous as did the fact that bruce still cared about
him.
Batman doesn’t do feelings the best so the anger eventually manifested mutually.
These days Jason is in more of a black sheep capacity, but these two still aren’t that
good.
Batman backhanded him why do people keep having him do this stop it.
Number 3 - Hawkeye/ swordsman – Yeah classic beef.
So Hawkeye was a villain before he eventually had a change of heart.
Now the swordsman actually started off as a villain as well but for hawkeye he had actually
trained hawkeye at that point he was called trick shot.
So when he wanted to join the avegers obviously clint didn’t trust him and kept a close
eye on him so he was denied entry which led to him kidnapping captain America.
So yeah hate justified Swordsman has been on the avengers since though so he got what
he wanted.
Number 2 Reed Richards Thor – So this occurred during the first civil war while Thor was
dead so on their side of the pro registration act the illuminati felt they needed some muscle
the hulk was in space kept there by them.
So reed thought what if we just clone thor I have the tech I can do anything really and
tony was like yeah go for it this is why we’re such good friends.
Needless to say when thor found out about this he wasn’t happy nay he was furious
this messed up their relationship for awhile and justifiably so stop cloning people most
people don’t want to be cloned.
Bad blood.
Also he didn’t even want to be on that side so double blow.
Civil War what a time, both times.
Number 1 She Hulk Starfox – So She Hulk hates star fox for a couple of reasons like
influencing her emotions into believing she was in love with john jameson werewolf jameson
and had to marry him.
She found this out while she was trying to discover if he had used his powers on her
to make her sleep with him while she was defending him for his other rapes that he committed
canonically cause thanos implanted memories in him that made him doubt himself but not
even the real thanos.
It was yeah it was not the strongest plot.
Jen is justifiably angry about all of this but also at herself cause he hadn’t influenced
her in the defending him or sleeping with him department.
She changed her whole life after finding out about john divorcing him it hurt how she could
perceive her own thoughts.
I’d hate him too cupid powers showcased in the grossest way.
This is the plot that ruined starfox for a lot of fans while others are like it’s the
writers fault not starfox share your thoughts.
So those were some superheros who hate each other can you think of some who hate each
other more if so please share down below.
I’m Sasha and thanks so much for watching top 10 nerd.