who are you
me
i'm hit girl
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and that's
big daddy welcome to watch mojo and
today we're counting down our picks for
the top 10 controversial superheroes
ever the connotations of the word
snowflake in our culture right now are
something fragile and this is a
character who is uh turning it into
something sharp for this list we'll be
ranking characters who have generated
heated debates upset fans or didn't age
well for one reason or another we'll be
saving anti-heroes and villains for
another list down the road which of
these heroes shocked you the most let us
know in the comments
number 10.
ben reilly
although some comic fans are more open
today towards the idea of someone other
than peter parker adopting the
spider-man persona this wasn't always
the case i don't think i even want to
hear your story all of you must hear the
scarlet spider story ben reilly could
tell you about it he was introduced as a
clone of parker developed by one of
spidey's enemies marvel riders initially
intended for riley to take up the mantle
of spider-man while fans were warming up
to the idea a plot thread was introduced
saying that peter was a clone the whole
time i'm his clone or maybe he's my
clone we're not sure backlash to this
twist led to parker resuming his career
as new york city's favorite web crawler
although riley has returned to comics
and back to life a few times he's
unlikely to ever take the mantle from
peter
number 9. jin genie
during an interesting time for the x-men
franchise a mutant named jin genie was
introduced as a member of the x-force
this heroine possesses a superpower with
very troubling requirements in order for
jin genie to emit seismic waves she
needs alcohol in her system as she gets
increasingly more loaded her attacks
become more dangerous it was a little
problematic to introduce a character who
was encouraged to drink more to feel
powerful fortunately she didn't last
very long this character was actually
killed off in the very first issue of
this new x-force we wonder if jin genie
would have had better luck joining
deadpool's x-force in his sequel film
number 8 power girl a number of
controversies have followed power girl
one of her initial obstacles occurred
when a retcon turned her from being
superman's cousin to the granddaughter
of an atlantean sorcerer while that's no
longer the case fans are still very
split as to how much power girl has been
sexualized as a character why aren't you
with the boy i'm close enough right here
and he's not really that much of a boy
you know he's 13. on one hand the hero
born cara zorel is badass powerful and
definitely her own heroine with a
stellar reputation but her revealing
costume has been accused in the past of
undermining these qualities riders have
tried to create various reasons for why
she wears a suit that highlights certain
assets but no matter what the
explanation is her original costume is
always likely to stir up conversation
it's me
um
a little more
mature than you but i see your point
number seven
hank pym
hank pym is notable for not only being
the first superhero to adopt the alias
of ant-man but for also becoming goliath
giant man and yellowjacket however this
brilliant biophysicist also has a dark
side that was demonstrated when he
changed suits his most infamous moment
came when he was still using his
yellowjacket persona not only did pym
mentally torment his wife but he also
struck her it was hard to see him as a
hero after doing something so criminal
to his own spouse pym's reputation for
angry and reckless behavior may have
been one of the reasons mcu chose to
make scott lang the main face of the
live-action ant-man franchise hi
i'm scott did he just say hi i'm scott
what are you doing here first off
i'm a big fan appreciate it so who the
hell are you
i'm ant-man
ant-man number six
hit girl and big daddy the film
adaptations of the kick-ass franchise
were already controversial due to the
levels of violence on display
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but the origins of hit girl are even
more disturbing once you dig a little
deeper her father damon mccready aka big
daddy seems to think nothing of pushing
his young daughter towards a dangerous
life of crime fighting how was that
not so bad
kind of fun huh
now you know how it feels
you won't be scared when some junky
pulls a glock i wouldn't have
been scared anyways
that's my girl the violence hit girl
faces on a daily basis is all due to
damon's comic book fandom and his desire
to live out his fantasies in real life
this backstory was slightly shifted once
the pair made it to the silver screen
however hit girls course language and
brutal actions still turned heads once
footage of the film was released how do
i get a hold of you you just contact the
mayor's office he has a special signal
that shines in the sky
it's in the shape of a giant number
five captain america
there was a time where negative asian
stereotypes were placed next to images
of superman to promote the purchase of
war bonds back in world war ii but he's
not the only patriotic superhero who
appeared in questionable stories after
captain america appeared in comics with
racial caricatures he was involved in a
controversial storyline while the device
of vietnam war was occurring when the
secret empire storyline from 1974 hit
shelves and depicted a not so veiled
reference to sitting president richard
nixon on the final panel it was not
taken well any changes to cap also can
cause immediate blowback just ask fans
how they felt when it looked like cap
joined the nazi organization hydra
number 4. extrano dc comics didn't get
off to a great start by naming an openly
gay character extrano in the 1980s
because the name translates to strange
unfortunately that's not the only aspect
of the character that was bungled the
character's personality mannerisms and
dress were all meant to embody lazy
stereotypes about gay men any hopes of
extrano being a part of a revolutionary
panel were continually dashed because he
never got to enter a relationship to add
insult to injury the character died
after the stupidly named and almost
equally offensive hemogoblin gave the
hero hiv thankfully xtrano has since
been resurrected and treated with more
respect in modern times
number three
snowflake and safe space
in 2020 marvel comics decided to bring a
bunch of fresh faces to their new
warriors team the new roster included a
non-binary hero named snowflake and
their sibling safespace the pair were
supposedly given those names to make
terms that had been used as insults into
inspiring heroes it's this idea that
these are terms that get thrown around
on the internet
that they don't see as a derogatory to
take those words and kind of wear them
as badges of honor however many audience
members thought it was either insulting
or far too cringe-worthy to use
characters just to put a spin on those
terms snowflake is the person who has
the more offensive power and safe space
is the person who's the more defensive
power the idea was that they would
mirror each other and compliment each
other within the first two years of
these characters being announced fans
started seeing less of them around it's
unclear whether the company will try to
rename these characters or let them fade
into obscurity either way the pair's
history definitely got off to a rocky
start
number two
the black bomber
the black bomber was a racist white man
who was exposed to a chemical during his
time in the vietnam war this exposure
caused him to turn into a black
superhero with no memories of his other
identity thankfully this horrifically
tone-deaf black bomber idea was
justifiably scrapped and unreleased and
as a bonus his failure actually pushed
creator tony isabella to bring the
groundbreaking hero black lightning to
the world
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however the idea around black bomber
wasn't exactly forgotten the legendary
creator dwayne mcduffie would later make
fun of the character in a justice league
comic his brown bomber tried to show the
heroine vixen that he could help but
just like most people she saw him as a
big joke
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number one
big bertha
although marvel's ashley crawford aka
big bertha can be very likable and funny
it quickly became apparent that there's
an uncomfortable part of her character
she has the power to greatly increase
her body mass so that she can endure
heavy hits and strike back just as hard
outside of heroic work big bertha works
as a model during her downtime she
initially got into the shape of a
stereotypical model by getting rid of
her mass in an uncomfortable way
bertha's methods of shedding pounds made
it seem like the writers were making
light of people who struggle with
conditions like bulimia although the
heroine does often comment on double
standards of beauty in society her
disturbing methods are still rough to
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