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While most superheroes prefer to stick the super crowd when it comes to potential partners,
some find themselves falling head over heels for those who don’t even have any powers.
Sometimes it’s non-powered humans who they’ve known since before they got their powers and
sometimes it’s just a non-powered person who has come into their life recently and
stole their heart or caught their eye.
Either way, just because someone has superpowers, don’t expect them to dismiss all civilians
when it comes to the world of romance and dating.
Today we’ll be taking a look at some of the supers who were not afraid to date those
without powers as we count down the top 10 superheroes who hooked up with civilians.
Be sure to stick around till the end of this list where I will have some bonus content
coming your way.
Alright, let’s get counting.
10 Rogue
One of Rogue's first loves was Cody Robbins who was just a normal young boy.
This was of course before Rogue's powers manifested.
But like many mutants before and after her, her powers then decided to manifest at the
worst possible times.
As if first kisses weren't awkward enough, her powers activated just as she and Cody
leaned in for their first kiss.
As a result of her powers manifesting during the kiss, she drained Cody of his life energy,
leaving him in a coma.
This experience would haunt Rogue for years, causing her to be afraid of her powers and
thereby be unable to fully control them until she came to realize her fear and trauma were
exactly what was holding her back.
9 Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel
Although at the time Carol wasn’t Captain Marvel yet, she was Ms Marvel.
While her original Ms Marvel series has some really great stuff in it, her dating life
was pretty weird.
Though to be honest, I’ve always found a lot of Carol’s dating choices to be weird.
Except for Rhodey.
That is a love that will last forever in my mind.
When it came to dating your average Joe though, Carol was all over the place.
Her main squeeze though seemed to be her therapist, Mike Barnett.
Which, yeah, is kind of wrong for a lot of reasons, mainly because Carol continued to
see Mike as her therapist while dating him.
Eek.
Mike violently met his when he was randomly being murdered by Mystique in his own office.
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8 Starfire
Although in the end he wasn’t truly a civilian in regards to him being just an innocent guy
with no ulterior motives, Starfire believed that Franklin was pretty much the entire time
they were together.
Franklin Crandall was someone Starfire had met through her job as a model which her pal,
Donna Troy, aka Wonder Girl, had helped her to land.
Starfire actually fell hard for Franklin, creating tension between her and her ex at
the time, Dick Grayson's Nightwing in regards to their working relationship on the Teen
Titans.
In the end Franklin was revealed to have been a spy for HIVE but he has also fallen for
Kori as well.
He refused to betray her and as a result HIVE eliminated him.
Tragically he died in Starfire's arms.
7 Kyle Rayner / Green Lantern
Since becoming a hero and having a really bad experience when it comes to his relationship
with a civilian, Green Lantern Kyle Rayner has aimed to stick to dating those with powers
usually.
So he’s really only had one major relationship with a civilian.
But it ended so tragically that it’s likely informed the rest of his choices when it comes
to dating.
Alexandra DeWitt was actually Kyle’s ex whom he was living with when he was given
his power ring and with it the powers and responsibilities of being a Green Lantern.
Alex helped him during his transitional period in learning how to be a hero.
And the change actually brought the two back together again, allowing them to rekindle
their romance.
Unfortunately while he was away on a mission, Alex’s closeness to Kyle caused his enemies
to target her, killing her and brutally stuffing her in their fridge along with a note that
signed from Alex that read, “Surprise for you in the fridge.”
Although Alex passed away she has never been far from Kyle’s thoughts and he has frequently
created constructs of her.
8 Hal Jordan / Green Lantern
Outside of the fact that Carol Ferris was originally a civilian when the two first found
themselves falling for one another, Hal has also dated women who stayed civilians as well.
Carol herself was originally Hal’s boss which was why they could never be together.
In fact Carol was not just in love with Hal but with his other persona as well, the Green
Lantern who she originally did not know was actually Hal himself.
Later she would become the violet lantern known as Star Sapphire and the two would have
an on again off again romance throughout the years.
But in and around that love story, Hal would also get involved with normal girl and ginger
Eve Doremus and fellow Air Force pilot, Jillian Pearlman known by her call sign Cowgirl.
5 Wolverine
Wolverine has had almost as many non-powered lovers as he’s had powered lovers.
And a lot of these romances have tended to be his happiest and also his most tragic.
Because a lot of his non-powered loves have ended up dead.
Are we noticing a pattern yet?
Among some most important and most dead of his ex lovers are: Itsu, who was also the
mother of Daken, but died before he was born, Daken was horrifyingly cut from her womb and
taken by her killer; Maureen, his wife from the Old Man Logan universe; Mariko; and Silver
Fox.
Dead, dead, dead and super dead.
4 Superman
While Superman may not have a ton of romantic hookups with civilians--I mean it’s Superman,
he’s not big on hookups to begin with, more of the settle down with one gal type--he has
had one pretty big one.
And that is his great love story with Lois Lane.
Although in the new 52, DC really tried to make Superman and Wonderwoman a thing, the
fact remains that Lois will always be his main squeeze.
And if he’s not with Lois then it’s got to be great-love number two, Lana Lang, Superman’s
canonically very first high school sweetheart.
3 She-Hulk
She Hulk actually ended up with more than one civilian.
She has a very strange relationship with a dud named Rory who basically was one of the
most pessimistic people I’ve ever met in the comics, especially given his random luck.
He ends up winning big at a casino and running into the gorgeous, brilliant and strong Jennifer
Walters.
He also ends up as pal of the Man-Thing and yet he can’t help but always focus on the
negative.
Which is likely why everything always ends up eventually going south for him.
It’s rumoured he was based on Steve Gerber who was actually the writer for the issue
of Man-Thing that Rory first appeared in.
She-Hulk has also gotten romantic and physical with other civilians, some of who were problematic
and some of whom were great, such as Zapper, Wyatt Wingfoot and Mika, an underwear model.
2 Spider-Man
Peter Parker has had many famous civilian love interests.
His two primary ones being Mary Jane Wattson, MJ, and Gwen Stacy.
But even before there was Gwen Stacey there was another normal person that he was romantically
attached to Betty Brant.
Betty Brant was JJ Jameson’s secretary.
The two met at work and began dating as early as issue 9 in the very first Amazing Spider-Man
comic.
Gwen Stacy wouldn’t even be introduced until issue 31.
1 Batman
While Batman has had a number of supervillain and superhero pairings when it comes to his
relationships--though likely more villains than heroes have been with Batman to be honest--he
also been with some pretty normal people as well.
Quite a few actually.
His list includes the first love we were introduced to of Batman’s, Julie Madison, his fiance.
She was originally an actress but was also retconned quite a few times.
One of the reasons why the two didn’t tie the knot was that Bruce found out she was
just after his fortune.
Batman has also been with civilians, Vesper Fairchild, a Gotham radio host; the famous
reporter and photographer Vicki Vale; he almost tied the knot with socialite Silver St Cloud;
and he even briefly dated, Supe’s main squeeze, Lois Lane.
Yup.
Oh yeah and dating Batman if you are a civilian is as dangerous as you’d expect.
A lot of his lovers and ex-lovers end up dead and often murdered by his foes.
Thank you so much for watching, nerd squad.
I hope you enjoyed this list.
Who are some of your favourite non-powered romantic partners who have hooked up with
superheroes?
Do you like it better when superheroes hook up with other superheroes, civilians or supervillains?
If you could date a superhero, would you?
Let us know your thoughts and feels in the comments below and speaking of comments, it’s
time to turn to some comments from one of our latest videos, top 10 shocking Cable facts.
Shawn Schliepp says, “When Cable had his first volume back in the 1990s in issue 8,
Cable and Domino are in Florida.
They fall in love.
This is the one I wrote a book report on for my English class.
I got a B.” Yo, you should have gotten an O for Omega.
Or at least an A. For Alpha.
Okay, I’ll stop.
I ,actually really loved their love story though.
I wish it had stayed real.
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