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Greetings nerd squad, welcome back to top 10 nerd.
Im your host connor munro and I say these things at the beginning of videos to make
you think.
We look up to superheroes, they’re incredible.
They show us what kind of person we should be and they inspire us to be better.
But heroes are humans too, and they have their flaws.
And their flaws are accentuated by their powers because with great power, comes great screw
ups.
But which blunders make these heroes worse than the foes they face?
That’s what we’re exploring with this list of the Top 10 superheroes worse than
their super villains part 2.
Let’s get started.
?#10 Reed Richards We all know the story of the Fantastic 4,
and their leader, Reed Richards has not been the best companion to his group over the years.
His problem solving skills usually involve him making a bad decision and not consulting
everyone else, even if it involves their lives too.
In the 2013 Fantastic 4 series by Matt Fraction, Mark Bagley and Mark Farmer, Reed discovered
that the powers the Fantastic 4 had gotten during their mission was ultimately killing
them, but he hides this fact until sue’s powers kick in without her wanting them too
to reveal that they’re all dying.
Not his call to make, and speaking of Sue holy crap this man is a handful, he’ injected
their son with nanomachines to track him without consulting her.
Sure it was with good intentions but still.
There was also the time where he hit her.
Yeah, while this panel is usually taken out of context, the context doesn’t make it
much better.
If anything it makes it worse, While Sue was being manipulated by Psycho-Man, turning her
into Malice, Reed notices that all her feelings were flipped.
So in an effort to make her love him, he had to get sue to hate him.
He does this by hurling insults at her.
This was clearly working already, and was about to work entirely, but then he puts the
cherry on top of the crap cake and slaps her in the face.
Sure he wasn’t Sue, but he was doing all of this to make Sue hate him.
So he definitely did intentionally hit her.
Not Malice.
#9 Namor While Namor might be a member of the Illuminati
this isn’t the version of Earth im talking about.
On earth 1610, Namor was sealed away in a tomb at the bottom of the ocean.
The fantastic 4 found it and freed him, he put up a fight when released, but they managed
to beat him.
The translations they got of him said that He was the last king of atlantis, but he wouldn’t
reveal any secrets unless he was alone with Sue.
After revealing some things he attempted to seduce Sue, who is married to Ben Grimm on
this earth, but she rejected.
In rage he attacked her, and was too much for the group, his final demand was a kiss
from Sue as a recognition of his victory.
She complied, claiming that its because he was holding New York hostage with a giant
Tsunami, but this can later be challenged.
Since after being attacked by Agatha Harkness and the Seven, they throw her into the sea
leaving her for dead.
But Namor rescues her and brings her to Sestanivan.
He continued to try to seduce her and she ended up giving in slightly, hugging and then
kissing him.
While she was married to Ben, mr steal your girl may be bad you’re saying but that’s
not worse than a villain.
Well let me tell you that before all of this, the Fantastic 4 learnt that he was actually
behind the destruction of atlantis.
And that the translation really meant the worst super criminal of atlantis.
Yeah.
#8 Hulk I know you guys love the hulk, but come on
he’s done some pretty terrible stuff in the past.
He’s hunted the avengers, assaulted his cousin resulting in like 6 mini hulks, concurred
the world and even destroyed Las Vegas.
But one of his worst and darkest moments was when he betrayed and destroyed the avengers.
The Last Avengers Story by Peter David was really dark, when a nuclear bomb blows up
over avengers mansion.
It kills the people who were going to take over Thor, Cap and Iron Man’s places.
Then ultron thinks it’s a good idea to visit Hank Pym, who tells him to assemble the avengers
for one final showdown, or every supervillain will hunt them down one by one.
Pym rounds up everyone he can, but not Hulk, because as it turns out during The Great Cataclysm
Hulk went with Thor and Hercules to Asgard, when he came back alone he wasn’t the same.
Then during a battle with Ultron 19, he betrayed everyone.
He tore Tigra in half, telling wonderman to make a wish, and then during a battle with
Wonderman ended up breaking his impenetrable skin, causing an explosion that willed Wonderman
but also blinded hawkeye.
#7 Ant-Man Ant-Man has committed crimes for his own self
gain, betrayed the avengers, created ultron and helped create a Thor clone that ended
up killing several avengers members.
The O’Grady version of Ant-man has attempted to ruin Scott Lang’s legacy and, when confronted
by Scott’s daughter about the situation ended up beating her and throwing her to the
floor saying *who’s your daddy now*.
He also watched Captain Marvel shower, he also did this to several women he wasn’t
able to close the deal with persay.
He ain’t no Barney Stinson.
Well going over to earth 1610 and the Ultimatum storyling, while searching for his missing
wife, Hank found the blob eating his wife’s corpse.
Obviously this enraged him, but then he decided that he would bite off blob’s head and spit
it onto the ground, all in front of his team.
In one of the darkest moments in the series.
#6 Robin (Damian Wayne) Considering how the Reimagining of the Teen
Titans started with Damian Wayne kidnapping them in order to form the team, helps to show
me what the hell I’m dealing with when I talk about this version of Robin.
While their relationship may be filled with tension, no trust and betrayal, nobody expected
Damian to leave his father in order to train with him.
See what I did there?
Damian left Bruce to train with Bruce’s former training partner nobody.
The first thing Nobody tells Robin to do Is shoot a corrupt ambassador, he does, but the
gun has no bullet.
But it shows that without hesitation, Damian was willing to abandon his father and the
famous rule he has.
He then takes this training and decapitates the spook and his whole gang while they have
Arkham hostage.
I didn’t really need to explain this one you all know he’s a bad boy.
#5 Superman The injustice storyline shows us a side of
heroes we never thought possible.
A regime set in place by superman after he kills the Joker causes several heroes and
villains to join him.
These heroes including green lantern who goes yellow, cyborg, the flash, wonder woman, and
shazam just to name a few.
After this, superman goes on a killing spree killing anyone who opposes him, he also outs
bruce’s identity, seizing his assets and even bringing Damian over to his side.
He even kills Shazam after he so much as questions the holy ruler of the world.
Yeah, this guy is a freaking monster, and his ways even continue in the second game
after batman imprisons him.
Even getting Kara to break him out and even betrays batman again after the defeat of Braniac.
This is why everyone Is afraid of him.
Because this can happen!
#4 Scarlet Witch In the 2005 storyling House of M by Brian
Michael Bendis, Scarlet witch suffers a mental breakdown after the loss of her children.
This causes her to use her incredible abilities to alter the very fabric of reality, and recreate
the world in an effort to get her children back.
The story consisted of 8 core issues and several tie ins and miniseries, and replaced the main
earth 616 continuity for a time.
But was later revealed to have taken place on earth 58163.
The world was created by Scarlet Witch and Charles Xavier combined their powers to give
the new avengers and xmen their hearts desires, this includes Magneto, who gets sovereignty
over the island of Genosha and is deemed leader of the world’s mutants.
This does end up reverting back after a time, but still.
Recreating an entire world in the way you see fit is never a good idea.
Remember what flashpoint did?
#3 Green Arrow After capturing Prometheus in the Justice
League: Cry for Justice storyline, Prometheus reveals that he has planted a bomb in the
home cities of each person who aided in his capture.
When green arrow returns to star city he finds Lian, the daughter of Red Arrow, dead.
Crushed under a building that was demolished by the bomb.
Later on the blackest night story occurs, and after this Oliver Queen decides its time
for revenge.
Where he hunts down Prometheus with the specific purpose of making him pay.
And the version of justice Ollie has in mind, in an arrow right between the eyes for killing
Lian, but also cutting off Red Arrow’s arm.
The story line called The Fall of Green Arrow shows the consequences of his actions.
This is often considered the worst Green Arrow story ever, and with Arrow they adapted it
in a different and more compelling way, making Prometheus kill himself at the end of season
5 and Roy lose his arm in the episode before Crisis.
He doesn’t have a daughter in the show however.
But damn, Oliver hunted down Prometheus with the purpose of revenge, That’s something
nobody expected.
#2 The Flash In the Flash: The Fastest Man Alive story
in 2006, Bart Allen who was the flash at that time, died due to a clone from the future
tricking the rogues into helping.
Just an hour after this happens, Wally West, who was previously thought to be dead realizes
he has greater control over the speed force than he ever has before.
He was able to pull the speed from inertia (the clone from the future) and prevent him
from moving as he interrogated him while running.
While being questioned, Inertia shows hoe much he enjoyed his part in killing Bart,
which made Wally absolutely lose it.
He claims that the only reason he’s alive is because he’s at least part Bart.
So instead he runs him into the flash museum, and using his incredible control over the
speed force, freezes Inertia In place.
Trapping him in a frozen body, forcing him to stare forever at the statue of the man
he killed.
That’s terrible, that’s worse than death.
That’s something no fan ever thought the flash could do.
#1 Dr Strange In Jason Aaron’s Dr Strange run, its revealed
that conjuring spells can cause immense suffering on the body and mind.
So as a way to try and manage and even negate the pain, allowing him to be immensely more
powerful, Strange takes all the suffering he feels and locks it into the basement of
the Sanctum Sanctorum.
But eventually that pain takes its own physical form after being trapped for so many years,
and grows more and more powerful in this form.
Until eventually it gets freed my the Sorcerer Supreme, and decides it should inflict pain
on everyone who is devoted to the Sorcerer.
The pain then feeds on the pain of everyone while terrorizing them as Mister Misery.
Each and every victim of this horrific and terrible beast is due to Strange wanting to
have consequence free magic.
But as we learnt from Rumple Stiltskin in Once Upon a Time, magic always comes with
a price.
There we have it nerd squad the Top 10 superheroes worse than their super villains part 2.
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