TOP 10 SCARY SUPERHERO KIDS
Stan Lee once said that he disliked the plot device of kid sidekicks, calling it a pet
peeve.
The idea of endangering minors, even in fiction, has consistently been something Marvel, among
other forms of media, have avoided.
But there definitely are exceptions.
Some of which we’ll be exploring today with this top 10 scary superhero kids list.
So some of these heroes aren’t quite kids - they’re young adults.
Teens.
Pre-teens.
Just not full fledge grown ups.
And some of these heroes aren’t innately scary - some have scary aesthetics, others
are capable of pretty terrifying things.
Scary is a diverse words friends.
So with that being said, let’s jump into this list.
10 Jimmy Neutron Here’s an example of a child hero who fits
the description of both of those versions of scary I was talking about.
Alright, alright, sorry, I won’t make fun of his atrocious hair.
Hair style aside, Jimmy Neutron is capable of some pretty terrifying stuff, from a technological
and scientific level.
A young boy having that kind of intellect could have major repercussions.
Based on what he’s capable of now, think of what he could be capable of in a handful
of years.
While yes, that’s venturing into the realm of science fiction now, seriously think about
it.
Could be pretty damn messed up.
9 Beast Boy He isn’t scary innately, but the creatures
he can transform into definitely are.
A rhino.
A tiger.
A bear.
Wolf.
Octopus.
Electric Eel.
T-Rex?
Definitely.
I mean, he can also turn into a kitten and do “the face” but hey, the other stuff,
pretty darn scary.
Just saying.
8 Bucky Barnes Look at that face.
Tell me that’s not what nightmares are made of.
Alright, jokes aside, Bucky was a bit of a Captain America fanatic - or I suppose fan
boy, whatever - prior to becoming his side kick.
His over eagerness would go on to get him essentially killed.
And then he would move on to become the winter solider.
Scary shit my friends.
7 The Powerpuff Girls Sugar spice and everything nice?
The juxtaposition between sweet little school girls and serious butt kicking superheroes
is not only impressive and awesome, but, if we’re being honest, mildly unsettling and
scary.
Let me further elaborate -Blossom Bubbles and Buttercup are sweet adorable cartoon characters
meet serious ass whipping.
If I ran into the powerpuff girls in real life, I’d be damn scared.
Wouldn’t you?
6 Tim Drake in Batman Beyond: The Return of The Joker
Tim Drake as Robin isn’t scary.
Tim Drake as Joker Jr is.
So major leniency on Drake’s part for this number, considering the transformation into
something quite horrific wasn’t his fault.
He was tortured by the Joker.
And almost killed Batman when putting his newfound loyalty - and brainwashing - to the
test.
Luckily he shot the Joker, and killed him.
But not without traumatic repercussions.
5 Maggot Maggot is a mutant who has a hollow digestive
system that harbours to giant slugs that can eat through any substance.
He’s like matter eater lad but way more cool.
And that’s being generous.
So I think it’s safe to say that anyone who has massive slugs pop out of their abdomen
and consume food that then gives you energy is a little scary.
Like horror monster movie scary.
Maggot was once a part of the X-Men and Generation X teams, and when he foresaw his death, he
gave away one of his slugs to two kids at a concentration camp owned by the Weapon X
program.
He was also resurrected from that, by the way, with both his slugs in tact.
You can’t take a boy’s slugs away from him, that’s for damn sure.
4 Nico Minoru aka Sister Grimm Created by Brain K Vaughn and Adrian Alphona
in the Marvel series Runaways, Nico is a witch.
When she finds out that her parents are part of a group of super villains called the Pride,
she runs away with the children of other Pride members, forming a group called the Runaways.
So why is Nico scary?
Since everything I’ve just described is pretty bad ass and cool.
So her parents are dark wizards, and she inherited their gifts.
Whenever she bleeds, a powerful staff emerges from her chest.
And let’s be honest, that’s a little scary.
3 Raven I feel like Raven generally takes the cake
for ‘scary superhero’.
Just because her aesthetic is pretty menacing.
But let’s talk about the implications of that preconceived notion of her character.
So Raven is an empath.
Who was taught to control her emotions, despite it being the core of her abilities and power.
So do people perceive Raven as scary because of her ability to control extreme emotion
at her will?
Or maybe it’s just that grim reaper aesthetic she’s got going on.
Could likely just be that.
2 Franklin Richards The son of Reed Richards and Sue Storm, Franklin
Richards is scary powerful.
He’s a mutant beyond Omega Level, with incredibly strong reality manipulation and psionic powers.
He’s potentially immortal.
He can warp reality, manipulate matter and energy, is telekinetic and telepathic, can
astral project, is capable of precognition, AND can create pocket universes.
Yeah, what the shit.
Kid also has a ton of unrealized potential, making him the most powerful mutant on earth.
Yep.
Thank god he’s fictional.
1 Hit Girl - Mindy McCready KickAss Hit Girl takes our top spot for one very particular
reason.
She’s unhinged, a nihilist who is completely desensitized and when she fights crime, she’s
a terror.
A criminal’s worst nightmare.
She’s willing to go as far as she needs to; she’s been trained by her father to
be able to take a bullet, knows all you need to know about firearms, and damn right she
can wield one.
Yet she’s a very young girl with interests in hello kitty, comic books and Clint Eastwood
movies.
When the Kick Ass film came out, there was a ton of controversy about the fact that Chow
Grace Moretz, barely 12 at the time, was throwing around words like cunt and performing quite
violent acts.
But many people had issue with obscene vocabulary more so than the excessive violence.
There we go!
Whose your favourite kid superhero?
And which ones do you think are scary?
Give us a shout in those comments below and let us know.
But for now thanks for watching guys.
I’ll catch you all in the next one.