Greetings nerdy list aficionados and welcome back to top 10 nerd today we’re looking
at when superhero friendship goes wrong as a hero at some point you end up making friends
with other members of the superhero community and well sometimes you have to kill them.
Some of these heroes turned evil some did it after being manipulated and one cause he
was asked to oooh are you intrigued now you need to know.
I’m Sasha and these are the Top Superheroes Who Killed Their Friends.
Let’s get started!
Number 10 - Hal Jordan Kills The Corps – That’s right it’s Hal Jordan as Parallax time.
In the 90s after the destruction of coast city during the reign of the supermen arc
Hal Jordan was grief stricken and so were his white reed richard’s hair streaks he
would go mad and try to use his ring to recreate coast city and eventually go full supervillain
using the name Parallax.
In the process of getting all the rings he would end up killing the corps and Sinestro.
The green lantern corps were his friends and pre his face heel turn or rather the reveal
that he was a tyrant Sinestro had been his mentor and teacher as well.
Hal snapped his neck.
All of this was because in this time period the idea was that the green lantern mythos
had grown too large and they needed to rein it back in.
So we would have one green lantern for awhile Kyle and Hal’s legacy would be sullied despite
kinda redeeming himself dying in the sun.
Later Hal and corps would be brought back to life and we would pull the classic it wasn’t
his fault he was possessed it fed on his fears and made him kill his friends no one can resist
it look it got superman in fact he was better than most of them cause he held it off for
longer.
Sure Jan the man killed all his friends cause he was sad you can retcon it away but I was
there Gandalf.
Number 9 - Booster Gold The Gift – Booster Gold has the ability to time travel and with
that ability comes the potential to radically alter the timeline and erase people from existence
or just create scenarios where they end up dying.
Don’t change timelines this has been a PSA leave them alone.
So in the tom king story arc the gift leading up to the fake out batcat wedding Booster
decided to get bruce a present what every little boy wants for his parents not to have
been brutally murdered in front of him.
However this resulted in some ripple effects throughout the timeline.
People erased from existence and if Hal makes it one more week after fight clubbing himself
I’d be shocked he beat himself up because he could.
Bruce destroys skeets and skeets ok it sounds sad but that’s booster best friend he got
his friend killed yes we can rebuild him they have the technology but still Booster did
you not learn from the ted kord debacle oh wait that got retconned so nobody learned
anything.
Number 8 - Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe – So this is a mini series from 2012 and
presents one of those scenarios you just need to go with namely that Deadpool could kill
the entire marvel universe.
Some points for his meta knowledge but still so how did this happen well Wade was committed
to Ravencroft institute where a doctor would cure him of his inner voices unfortunately
the asylum had been in infiltrated by the psycho man who was brainwashing patients to
do his bidding however when it came to Deadpool he only succeeded in making his voices tell
him to kill everyone.
Deadpool had friends in the marvel universe and you know what happened Dead murdered in
elaborate ways.
And because it’s Deadpool he can even exceed the reach of just his own universe.
Early era Deadpool was a different beast than the one most people know today.
Number 7 - Captain America Black Widow – Now the Captain America we’re talking about
is Hydra Cap but never forget hydra cap was real cap cause the timeline was altered and
the cap they went and got was from the unaltered timeline but he was brought to this new now
status quo one where all the people in it are from that one don’t let them erase that.
We know what happened.
Anyway Steve had been a sleeper agent for years biding his time and when he was unveiled
he went hard hail hydra.
And that involved killing Natasha black widow who had been his friend for years.
He was actually fighting spider-man miles morales but natasha inserted herself in between
them to stop the killing blow which instead landed on her neck snapping it.
It’s the only way to go.
So this wasn’t intentional he didn’t want to kill her but you know what friend dead
thanks a lot hydra cap.
Take the time it was released out of it does this story read better now for you or just
conceptually will it never be for you.
Number 6 - Deadpool Spider-man – Spider-man and Deadpool had a teamup comic spider-man/Deadpool
and the slash was intentional it was a cue for shippers of Spidey pool to pick the book
up.
The book pandered hard.
There was even a villainess who called them her daddies.
The first run was written by Joe Kelly tho the author of the Deadpool run that made him
into a popular character largely cause well he was a throwaway character at the time.
So in this run Deadpool is teaming up with spider-man and even taking him to meet his
daughter showing him his hangout pad you know friend things but he also hates peter parker
as parker were pulling a tony stark like oh I know him he’s my body guard.
So Deadpool was tricked into believing that peter was part of some clandestine dealings
and so went to his apartment and shot him point blank in the head now he didn’t know
he was killing his would be bestie but he did it anyway.
He would go to bring peter back to life tho still not knowing he was spider-man.
Number 5 - Spider-Man Kills Deadpool – That’s right cause turn around is fair play Peter
also killed Wade in this book.
After his whole I was dead thing one more day reared it’s ugly head again.
One more day was the storyline where in Peter and Mary Jane’s marriage was dissoved and
his identity was reset post that reveal in civil war and just cause the writing staff
hated his marriage and mary jane in general who did she think she was being a character.
Ok hate is a string word were not interested in writing there we go.
So after being dead peter began to have an inkling that there was something missing in
his life something wasn’t quite right and he would become darker because of it even
contemplating killing Deadpool who was horrified at the path his friend was heading down tried
to show him what he was turning into and in a fit of rage he stabbed Deadpool through
the chest and also did a little bit of throat slicing this killed Deadpool.
Of course deadpool’s healing factor allowed him to come back to life but that is not cool
you don’t kill people who are just looking out from you even if they will just get better
in a few hours.
Number 4- Doctor Manhattan Kills Rorshach – Now some of you may be saying were doctor
manhattan and rorshach friends and well as much as doctor manhatten could be friends
with anybody at that point in a way him killing him demonstrated that.
Also if you take into account the extended canon which I know for some people is blasphemy
there was a timeline where they were partnered together not doctor Manhattan and laurie.
So at the climax of the watchmen spoilers for a comic from the 80s it was revealed that
Ozymandias had set a plan in motion spanning years to engineer a threat that would unify
the people of earth against a common energy hence averting nuclear Armageddon pushing
back the doomsday clock.
All of the characters in watchmen are meant to represent different philosophical viewpoints
when it comes to crime fighting so Rorshach has a very rigid view of truth and as a result
viewed the idea of keeping what Ozymandias had done which had resulted in the death of
millions a secret was abhorrent.
And he would have ahd to tell it was not a viewpoint shared by the others or for those
who felt that way they weren’t willing to act on it instead burying their convictions.
Rorsahch knew he couldn’t live with the secret so when doctor manhatten followed him
out into the snow cause Adrian had a whole fortress of solitude thing going on he told
him to do it to kill him and so doctor manhattan does.
It’s a really powerful moment one of the watchmen’s strengths is its ambiguity and
nuance how it allows the reader to draw their own conclusions a choice that whether you
enjoy any spinoffs or not is absent in most of them.
Number 3- Wolverine Old Man Logan – Old Man Logan is a now famous alternate universe
storyline who’s very premise for the protagonist logan rests on him killing his friends it’s
a big reveal.
Wolverine is tricked by Mysterio into murdering all of the x-men which requires trhe reader
to believe that is something he could do even storm.
The idea here is that they hesitated because he was a friend but in a world.
Ha in a world where people get possessed and body swapped all the time I have a hard time
believing they wouldn’t know how to put a teammate down hard but maybe that’s just
the batman in me.
After so brutally killing his friends and surrogate family Wolverine vowed to never
unsheathe his claws again.
Which obviously did end up happening but it was years later he kept that promise for a
decent amount of time.
Number 2 - Scarlet Witch No More Mutants – No more mutants scarlet witch in a bout of instability
nearly eliminated the entire mutant race except for people’s faves cause we needed them
to sell books.
This was after the house of m storyline where she had remade reality after hers had been
shattered by the realization that she had altered in ways she hadn’t even realized.
So this would lead to a resetting of the entire marvel universe and an attempt to portion
it down but she eliminated some of her friends and while many would forgive her not all would
and well it’s understandable she almost committed genocide.
Number 1 - Superman Kills Batman – Superman and batman have an interesting history when
it comes to friendship they started off as best friends and it would get more complex
over time with their differences in personality would result in some conflict etc.
However the canon is that they are good friends be it instant or hard fought.
And when it comes to killing Batman Superman has done that way more than once.
He killed him in the new order timeline with his heat vision this was because he was under
the influence of black kryptonite.
This would result in a dystopian timeline set in motion by Dick Grayson would establish
the new order.
And he seemingly killed him in dark knights metal 2 but psyche that was clayface.
Why is this above all the mutants well it’s cause these two are best friends, it’s shocking
friends shouldn’t kill friends don’t do it they won’t appreciate it.