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Tragic Origins
#10 Doctor Strange Doctor Stephen Strange was once a world renowned
surgeon.
With such a high ranking position in his field many viewed him to be a bit of an egotistical
jerk from time to time.
In a freak car accident that nearly took his life, the doctor woke up in a hospital bed
with his hands floating in casts before his very eyes.
His entire profession depended on just how steady his hands were and now with such terrible
nerve damage he would never be able to operate on patients ever again.
You can imagine the psychological toll this would play on your brain.
Having your entire livelihood ripped away from you after one accident.
Luckily in his search for a cure, which just seemed like a pipe dream, he soon found himself
in the Himalayas.
After meeting the Ancient One and undergoing rigorous training he was finally able to let
go of the pain this accident had caused him.
#9 Superman We all know the story of Superman, but the
majority of people gloss over just how tragic this origin truly is.
Perhaps its because after his ship crash landed on Earth he was raised by such a wholesome
family that fostered him and his alien powers.
When you really think about it though, his home planet had exploded which completely
wiped everyone that loved him.
A whole world full of people just like him was now gone.
He now has the awful task of being raised in a world where he is the obvious outcast.
Imagine finding out you were adopted and then discovering that you're this mysterious alien.
Its hard enough to discover your own life's purpose, but for Clark Kent most of the time
he would be dealing with split personalities his entire life.
He has to be both Clark Kent the average human while simultaneously exploring his powers
to rid the planet of evil.
#8 Daredevil As the story goes in the first issue of the
1964 Daredevil series a young Matt Murdock is walking home from school when in the distance
he sees trouble brewing for an elderly man.
Little did the man know, a truck was heading in his direction and death was knocking at
the door.
Not on Matt’s watch though, in a heroic act the teenager throws himself in front to
save this elderly man.
In the process of doing such a selfless act though his eyes are sprayed with these radioactive
chemicals.
The man was saved, Matt survived, but the chemicals had left him permanently blind.
Nothing says tragic like a teenager with his whole life in front of him being told by a
doctor that he would be blind for life.
Luckily this is the comic book world so he was able to spin this into a strength and
become the superhero known as Daredevil.
However, in any other world this story of a hero sacrificing himself for the betterment
of others is inherently a tragic tale.
#7 Spider-Man The majority of these tragic stories begin
with the hero having no powers for which a tragic occurrence then leads to them either
discovering or developing them.
For Peter Parker he had already been bitten by a radioactive spider that gifted him with
his powers.
Although with his new found powers he believed this was his way to make some money in show
business.
However with this distraction now in his life it pulled him away from being at home to watch
over his elderly Aunt May and Uncle Ben.
As fate would have it an intruder burst into the home attempting to rob the place only
to fire a single fatal shot at Uncle Ben.
Peter largely blamed Uncle Ben's death on himself for being too late to save him.
Even tossing his Spider-Man attire into a closet wishing that he never left This is
a tragic story not only because Peter takes the full blame of this freak occurrence but
it soon fills him with vengeance which is not a great way to start a heroes journey.
#6 Doctor Manhattan Born as Jonathan Osterman, the doctor had
lived a very normal life.
Its July of 1959 and Dr. Osterman was in love with a woman named Janey Slater.
She was a physicist like Jon.
At 30 years old he had his whole life in front of him.
They were first introduced by a good friend of his from college named Wally Weaver.
After leaving the intrinsic field laboratory with Wally and Janey, Jon realizes that he
left his watch inside.
Little did Jon know was that the intrinsic field room was on a timer and when he entered
the door closed, locking Jon inside.
When he tries to open it Wally is on the other side and is quickly turning very pale.
Wally realized that there was nothing they could do to save him.
After being blasted by radiation his colleagues watched helplessly as it essentially vaporized
him.
This tragedy could be the origin of when Manhattan really separated himself from humanity.
Additionally he was blamed for the death of his friend Wally who would pass away from
cancer 20 years later.
#5 Rocket Raccoon Imagine a little raccoon running free, rummaging
through trash cans and building a home in the forest.
Now take those innocent beginnings and throw an unknown creepy mad scientist into the mix.
This is Rockets tragic origins.
Once a free animal doing his thing, he was kidnapped and experimented on.
First they surgically attached cybernetic implants and then gave this innocent animal
the mental capacity for not just self-awareness, but consciousness as well.
Then the newly armed and murderous Raccoon became a violent space pirate known simply
as just 89P1.
Never a good start when your new name starts with numbers.
Combined with the psychological effect this would have on his new identity Rocket was
also aware that he was the only one of his kind.
Now he leads the lonely life of being possibly the universes only talking raccoon.
#4 Spawn Typically the rule of thumb when it comes
to origins is that the more terrifying the hero, the more tragic their story must be.
Spawn fits this formula to a tee.
Born Albert Francis Simmons, Al was a contract killer and after being betrayed by his best
friend he was murdered on the job.
Soon the once highly capable CIA operative is having his soul sent to the bowels of hell.
While there he strikes up a deal with a demon allowing him to return back to Earth.
However he never returned in the way he left.
Instead he was a disfigured demonic entity known as Spawn.
To make matters worse and beyond tragic in the five years that he had been dead, his
wife remarried.
Although she didnt just marry anyone, she married the man that killed Al while also
letting this killer father a child.
Needless to say Spawn was more than a little bummed out about this.
Not to mention this deal he struck up was really a ruse to further the demons unholy
war against all life.
#3 Batman As sad as Superman's story was and the whole
not knowing his parents thing, a much more tragic story would be knowing them, loving
them and losing them right before your eyes.
This is Bruce Waynes story for all of eternity.
He must live with the recurring nightmare of watching his entire life be destroyed in
a dark alley.
Something that would mentally break even the strongest of human beings.
When a common street thug robbed the Waynes at gunpoint they refused to give into the
criminals demands causing the man to shoot them both.
Leaving a young boy alone with his deceased parents in the dangerous streets of Gotham.
This was a pivotal moment in Bruce's life and became the obsessive driving factor for
the rest of his life.
Training day after day he sought to destroy Gothams entire criminal underworld that took
his parents.
#2 Rorschach Ranking near the top as one of the more tragic
origin stories we have Walter Kovacs.
Born into a terrible home his father was extremely abusive and his mother was a prostitute.
Walters parents never allowed him to truly experience the world.
As such his view was that the majority of life on Earth had evil intentions.
His father would mercilessly beat him while also taking away any form of education in
his life.
Ironically Walter was born as a very intelligent child who actually was excelling in his classes
and had displayed interest in religious education.
His fathers violence beat any longing for knowledge out him though turning his life
into a series of heinous crimes.
For example at just 10 years old he shoved a lit cigarette into the eye of an older child
who was bullying him.
Leaving the boy partially blinded and sending Walter to jail This was the turning point
where he became the homeless vigilante who wears a literal psychiatric experiment for
a mask and goes by the name Rorschach.
#1 Eric Draven This makes our number one spot because the
tragedy in this comic book stretches beyond the pages and into the authors real life.
The character of Eric Draven in the story of The Crow is extremely dark and was the
way for James OBarr to channel his anger and pain of losing his fiancee to a drunk driver.
In the story Eric and his girlfriend Shelley are returning from a romantic vacation when
their car breaks down on the side of the road.
A gang notices and decides to capitalize on the couples misfortune.
After shooting Eric in the head hes forced to watch them brutally beat and murder his
girlfriend before he too finally dies.
Soon Eric is resurrected from the dead, given the gift and curse of immortality while being
guided by a supernatural crow.
Eric then begins tracking down each of these thugs and makes them each suffer the same
brutality that his girlfriend went through.
And that has been the Top 10 Superheroes With The Most Tragic Origins.
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