Top 10 Most Controversial Superhero Stories
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00:35 #10. The Death of Captain America (2007)
01:10 #9. The Watchmen Prequels (2012)
01:47 #8. The Female Thor (2014)
02:29 #7. Lois Lane Goes Undercover as a Black Woman (1970)
03:11 #6. Speedy Became a Junkie (1971)
03:42 #5. Captain America is an Agent of HYDRA (2016)
04:27 #4. Rape of Nightwing (2004)
05:05 #3, #2 & #1: ????
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Female Thor is just hated because her story messes with Thor's passed comics, and the writers input SJW politics into her character.
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I c dat thumbnail where my killing joke fanboys at?
I'd add the rape and murder of Sue Dibny storyline from DC…went down plot lines I never thought DC would ever do.
What? No Moon Knight from 1981 "Hit It!" AkA the child abuse poem?
The Tarantula actually killed Blockbuster the long running villain of the series not Bane then proceeded to rape Nightwing.
you missed the part where black lois reveals her whiteness to the black people who then say they where wrong for not letting her into the communiaty when they knew she was white .so the issue gets flipped. I had that issue i still have Legion of Superheros that introduced Tyroc and WOW lol! Speedy also turns to Drugs again after his daughters death another very fucked up story line u missed. Batman was also date raped by Talia, where
Damian comes from.
Don't forget what Marvel did to Carol in Civil War II as well
I disagree with your comment about the killing joke movie. Everyone acts like the whole romantic relationship and sex thing just came out of nowhere, but it was building up for years off screen. Plus a relationship between Barbra and Bruce has graced a few continuities. Everyone makes it out to be some kind of creepy statutory rape thing. How dare a rich billionaire have sex with someone and he not be Christian Gray. The amount of double standards when it comes to sexual expression of a female character is appalling. Barbra is a smart, independent woman who is capable of making such a choice. I think most of you naysayers on the matter are just butt hurt your waifu actually took the initiative and pursued a relationship with someone she had feelings for. Everyone makes Bruce out to be a manipulative creep who steals his own adoptive son's girl and best friend's daughter…news flash Dick Grayson is a player. He sleeps around with multiple partners in multiple continuities, and is often called a dog because of it. as for the best friend's daughter thing, again she is a fully consenting adult, plus Bruce is a lot closer to Barbra's age than he is to Jim Gordon's. Everyone is like "What would Jim think" well a little history lesson, there was a time when men actually tried to marry their young daughters off to their rich friends for reasons far from noble. I don't think Jim would be happy mind you, but he loves and respects his daughter enough to trust her decisions. My only qualm about what happened in the Killing Joke movie is that less time was spent fleshing out things before she gets shot.
The problem with female thor is she is not fucking Thor. Not in personality not in name. It's not a woman's name. That's like some MRA dude calling himself Gloria or Batgirl.
I really like the Hydra cap and Jane foster Thor stories
What about Iceman turning gay?
A couple points.
First, the Watchmen prequels were going to be controversial no matter how you swing it. That said there are a some things going on that need to be put in perspective. The biggest one was that Alan Moore did not create the characters out of thin air. He modified existing characters that DC already owned and at the time were not using. So him or anyone having a fit over the use of characters he didn't 100% create are a little disingenuous.
Second, the female Thor thing a lot more complicated than this video suggests. The argument that other beings have wielded Thor's hammer is so it's ok for Jane Foster to become Thor is thin at best. None of those other characters were ever literal replacements for him. A replacement for Thor is going to anger people no matter who it stepping in. The idea that it's a woman is negligible. People have invested in him as Thor and replacing him with a woman looks more like their are filling a quota rather than making good stories.
Nightwing and Tarantula were fighting Blockbuster not Bane in that comic.
Yes people were pissed at a Female Thor, but the major problem was the bad writing and her character is not written well
Left xvideos for this shit…
"Lois Lane Goes Undercover as a Black Woman"
OOOUUHHH DIS GUN BE GUD!
Umm…Tarantula killed Blockbuster not Bane XD
What about the green goblin impregnating gwen stacey then killing her when she threatened to go public?
Watchmojo went all out passive agressive
#Regime is ending
tTHE RAPE OF NIGHTWING= LOL!
Other HM's:
The Clone Saga
Demon In A Bottle
Death Of Gwen Stacey
Gwen Cheats & Gives Birth To Harry Osbourne's Children
Mary Jane Dies Due To Peter's Radioactive Sperm
The End Of The Ultimate Universe
The Attempted Suicide Of Hank Pym & Rape Of Mockingbird
Muslim Mr. Marvel
Black Captain America
Northstar Comes Out As Gay
Northstar Gets Married
Iceman Gets Married
Black Spider-Man
Mixed Race female Ironman
Death Of Spider-Man
Avengers Disassemble
The Death Of Wolverine
Peter Chooses Aunt May Over His Marriage
Batman Takes Venom To Enhance His Strength
Superman Is A Soviet Spy
Lex Luthor Joins The Justice League
Superman Makes An Adult Film With Big Barda
Hal Jordan Kills The Green Lantern Corps
Identity Crisis
Amazons Attack Washington DC
Count Down To Final Crisis
Final Crisis
The Death Of Lian Harper
The Ninja Turtle's First Issue
The Saint Of Killers Kills God
I do think you are misinformed on the Thor bit to be honest.
I actually liked that Jane took up the Thor mantle for an extended period of time. Thor still had appearances in other comics so it wasn't like he was just nonexistent. Plus, she had some really good issues.
Fans hated Female Thor? I thought she was pretty popular?
This is the reason why I watch anime and read manga. They can handle mature subject matter like this shit and then get controversial and make more money
I don't mind Cap being a Hydra agent. I mean, we all know it won't be long before his status as a patriot will be restored.
Like a certain reviewer would say: "Comics are weird." One moment, you became a threat to humanity and died, the next, you became back to normal under some mumbo jumbo.
That really pissed me off Marvel making Capt.America a agent of Hydra
you forgot the other most controversial superhero story and that was well I know he is not a hero but this is one thing DC will never do again and that was there was a different version of black manta that had autism so if you never know that black manta was an African American because all these years I was young I thought that he was a white because he had a weird voice but I later on found out that he was black which made me say oh now I know why he was called black manta AND NO that is NOT the  Controversial thing I am talking about because in 2003 DC made a version where black manta was autistic and this was so wrong because having an autistic person become a supervillain was just a really bad Idea and DC had to fix this and this was thing that DC would want you to forget of about black manta
There have been 2 female Thors, Thor Girl and Jane Foster…
Tarantula and Nightwing were going up against Blockbuster, not Bane…
I still don't understand why DC just didn't adapt the Batgirl special that came out a few months before the Killing Joke was released as a prequel, instead of coming up with a new story…
This guy is right. People r okay when a cosmic horse is Thor or even when its a FROG but they r angry when its a woman.
your voice has the tone of somebody who has given up in life and upset where they are, INB4 "Why I left WatchMojo"