Greetings nerdy list aficionados and welcome back to top 10 nerd today we’re going back
to superheroes going too far and this time oh this time I have a fun mix of chicanery.
Today I’ve got heroes going too far in combat, emotionally and domestically we’ve got it
all.
Just like last time you may feel that all these were justified as always that’s fine
different strokes for different folks.
I’m Sasha and these are the Top 10 Times Superheroes Went Too Far part 2.
I have such sights to show you.
Number 10 - Hal Jordan Recreates Coast City – So let’s take this Hal going parallax
thing from a different angle.
Let’s got back to the beginning of the descent, and it this occurs after coast city is destroyed.
So coast City was his city his family was from there and 7 million died when Mongol
detonated a bomb but it turned out he had been ordered to do it by hank Henshaw cyborg
superman.
Hal Jordan had been in space at the time so returned to find it destroyed this completely
unhinged him and after it was all settled he was so rattled he tried to use his ring
to recreate the city he obviously could not do it.
But this was the beginning of the instability and a sign that he was cracking that, that’s
a creepy abuse of ring power that hadn’t been thought through.
You know first you’re recreating cities then you’re growing reed Richards hair streaks
next thing you know you’re killing the green lantern corps and blowing up in the sun.
It’s the natural progression of things.
But don’t worry he was “possessed” so none of it counts.
Number 9 - Iron Man Sending Hulk Into Space – So most people are vaguely aware of planet
hulk.
But did you know how he got there iron man shot him into space in the lead up to civil
war.
This was because him and some of his friends Reed, felt that the hulk was getting out of
control he was causing too much collateral damage too many potential deaths cause marvel
has this thing that the hulk never kills civilians….it’s a modern thing and was a comics code thing
and to that I say sure Jan. Anyways they felt they couldn’t deal with him on earth so
they shot him into space.
So why is this too far you may ask, are they wrong you may be asking.
Well Marvel characters know that space is full of aliens so it’s fine for them to
have to deal with the hulk a creature who can’t be stopped that’s ice cold tony.
This was the tony going into civil war so yeah maximum douchery engaged.
Number 8 - Jean Grey Outs Ice Man – Let’s get controversial let’s talk about an event
people are oft times afraid to talk about.
So Ice Man in modern continuity is gay this was accomplished via retcon that featured
time travel but here’s the thing this wasn’t a reveal bobbi came to himself.
In the issue wherein this is revealed Bobbi is conflicted about his sexuality.
In fact it appears more that he’s leaning towards expressing bisexuality which would
have lined up with the past big female loves of his life which were genuine but then Jean
Grey just reads his mind and goes bobbi your gay.
So she read his mind without his consent then interpreted what she saw there though her
own lens then told him what he thought in his own mind.
That’s a big off from me, can we get some cringes in the chat please.
Yeah many felt this was a mishandled but a lot of that got lost in the crush of if you
don’t like this there’s something wrong with you.
It became a thing you couldn’t talk about and in some circles still can’t.
But no one silences me I’ll talk about what I want.
Number 7 - Jason Todd Replaces Nightwing – So Dan didio has long had issues with dick grayson
as nightwing he doesn’t get it.
He’s like he’s not robin and he’s not batman what is this.
Flips table.
So he wants two things him dead and his name changed ideally dead but he got rick grayson
which is pretty much the same thing.
So in infinite crisis Dick was supposed to die and Jason was going to become nightwing.
But the editors saved him and also writers protested and so he got to live another day
but Jason was already nigthwing cause this was pretty much a done deal his city exploded
while he was In it he was dead.
So Jason was also nightwing for a bit and he was unhinged he was killing people and
tried to kill Dick this was prime insane Jason when what they were doing with him was continuing
the great regret angle before the black sheep angle.
Jason was slicing people’s throats leaving blood notes on walls it was too far too much.
Most people have blocked this arc from their memory that and the time Jason was a tentacle
monster.
Number 6 - Cyclops Doesn’t Tell Jean About His Wife – Let’s talk about cyclops and
jean they are one of the iconic x-men couples but like wanda and vision they have a pretty
messed up history.
After Jean died as Phoenix before phoenix was retconned to being a force and not mad
with power jean so basically the first parallax retcon.
Scott would pick up with Madelyn pryor a woman who looked strikingly similar to jean cause
it would turn out she was her clone.
He married her and the two had a son Nathan summers or nate summers who would become cable
after he was raised in the future.
However, during all this jean came back and scott was so thrilled he went to see her,
but he not only didn’t tell his wife and newborn son where he was going but also didn’t
tell jean he was married and had a kid.
He would then join x-force without telling Madelyn.
He would be spending the entire time convincing himself he was doing the right thing.
For many fans this was the start of their hatred of Cyclops.
Number 5 - Batman Puts Dick In Traction – This is from the superman/batman crossover comic
from 2003 about 54 issues in when Batman and superman switched powers and batman went off
the deep end just non stop crime fighting chasing the night across the globe as he fought
crime.
Dick eventually tries to take him down by waiting til he has been away from the sun
for quite some time which meant he would be less powerful, but dick can’t take down
a super powered bat and Bruce attacks him brutally crushing his jaw and nearly breaking
his spine.
The injuries are so horrific Alfred doesn’t know if he can forgive him even if is less
stable than usual cause of the powers.
Batman smacks robins far more than I’d like but when he does it it’s normally a le gasp
moment let’s talk about a smack that many people forget about in at number 4.
Number 4 - Green Arrow Punches Speedy – This occurs in the famous green arrow green lantern
team up comic with the cover my ward a junkie wherein Green Arrow who has a very harsh stance
on drugs which is the complete opposite of how he has been the rest of the series which
pitted Hal and ollie against each other ideologically.
Often with ollie as the more leftist just berating Hal for being a space cop and doing
what the guardians tell him.
But in this when he discovers that Roy Harper is on drugs he flips out and Speedy goes fine
hit me if it’ll make you feel better guess you don’t know everything and so Ollie does
hit him he can’t handle it how could someone under his tutelage be on drugs.
He doesn’t lift a finger to help him no it’s black canary and hal who help him out
and see that he gets help than ollie shows up all oh sorry I overreacted.
Pfft why does no one remember this they remember the cover but not the contents.
Too far be better to your wards.
Number 3 – Dick Grayson Kills The Joker, this happened for real in canon not an elseworlds
story.
This happened in Joker’s Last Laugh a storyline wherein the joker convinced everybody that
he had a brain tumour and he decided he was going to go out with a bang he’s going ham
he creates crazy joker rain like falling from the sky.
But Dick snaps when he finds robin at the time tim drake’s costume shredded and he’s
had enough at this point Jason is dead and Barbara was paralyzed cause of the joker for
tim to be gone too was too much for dick to contemplate.
Dick beats him to death only for Tim and Batman to show up and for him to realize it was a
ruse he starts to have a breakdown but Batman is able to restart the joker’s heart.
But Dick killed him over the line.
Number 2 - Jean Grey Spider-Man wolverine mind swap – This happened in the ultimate
verse the 1610 so here Wolverine was hitting on jean and it was not appreciated so she
swapped his mind with the person he would least like to be and that turned out to be
Peter Parker and while Wolverine was there he hit on MJ just this whole thing was too
far.
Jean can play pretty fast and lose with her powers poor peter had no idea what was going
on he just wakes up wolverine.
I wouldn’t want to wake up as wolverine he has lots of enemies.
Also hitting on mj gross but I mean wolverine and squirrel girl never forget.
Number 1 - Ant Man Creeps On Carol Danvers now this ant man isn’t hank pym and it’s
not scott lang so get ready to get out your torches and pitchforks for someone else.
This is eric o’ grady and this happened in the irredeemable ant man so well they named
it right.
This ant man is just a creeper and his thing spying on girls in the shower he does it to
a woman he saves from a purse snatcher follows her home shrinks creepin’ in the shower.
Now Eric wasn’t supposed to have a suit he was just a low level shield agent but he
got a hold of it and he used it to fight crime a bit so he counts.
So how did he end up peepin’ on carol well this was cause he hid in a random woman’s
purse for shower purposes and he spies on her and takes pictures before she notices.
Gross, grady would later vow to change and become a better hero but this, this is hard
to come back from.
So those were 10 more times superheroes went too far I hope you were more taken aback last
time some of you were like pah child’s play well not this time.
I’m Sasha and thanks so much for watching top 10 nerd don’t forget to like share comment
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