Comic Panels of Superheroes Killing People

http://i.imgur.com/n9tZatm.png

this has the potential to become more gruesome than funny, unfortunately

https://i.redd.it/iw7wx9b5lg511.jpg

oldie but a goodie there
i was just about to post a few punisher panels but gawd they're grim.

https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/8/83050/3129741-superman_v2_22__016-017.jpg

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_original/oy67dwtut6jl3o5dx9cq.jpg

(are aliens people? U DECIDE)

jeffrey brown's wolverine killing kitty pride
http://i.imgur.com/1B3OIsC.png

gonna FP everyone who posts hideous digital recolouring itt, you are murdering my eyes like superheroes

xp if yr gonna include non-corporate killings then this may as well be a thread of Ennis & Millar Wish They Were Veitch & O'Neill

from the oddly titled "Wolverine: Saudade"
http://i.imgur.com/PaFRn4r.png

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pYzqkUS9FIk/T0WkRCZBjtI/AAAAAAAAAWc/sCjUNAh5hPY/s1600/mutantleader14.jpg

That was I believe a comic set in Brazil and originally written in French specifically for the European market which was later translated and published stateside.

I'm sure you absolutely needed all of that info.

xpost

I think I have the story with that OG Batman post included in this anthology, which I have owned since I was maybe 8-9 years old:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/All_Star_Comics_03.jpg

or else it's that "Batman from the 30's to the 70's" anthology

technically doesn't the Joker kill himself in Dark Knight (via the superhuman ability to break his own neck or something like that?)

xp

Yes — with a devil's strength, he twists... and twists... what's left of his spine... goes.

https://comicnewbies.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/hawkeye-kills-bruce-banner-civil-war-ii-3.png

every now and again when i'm in a library i just will loudly say "SOMETHING TELLS ME TO STOP WITH THE LEG... I DON'T LISTEN TO IT"

On the real, I often say to myself — "This... would be a stupid death" (even though I'm not actually in a life-or-death situation).

technically doesn't the Joker kill himself in Dark Knight (via the superhuman ability to break his own neck or something like that?)

Batman murders dozens of ppl with machine guns in Dark Knight tho

my google skills are failing to find a panel of stardust the super wizard actually killing someone :(

technically doesn't the Joker kill himself in Dark Knight (via the superhuman ability to break his own neck or something like that?)

― Οὖτις

only a fool breaks his own neck

https://lowbrowcomics.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/img_7260.png

Clone-Thor killing Bill Foster pissed me off more than just about any other story element Marvel's put out.

The Gwen Stacy scene up there reminded me of this interesting little analysis / deep dive I stumbled across recently: https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-questions-answered-just-how-did-gwen-stacy-die/

Batman killed someone in his very first appearance
https://static3.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Batman-punches-man-acid-Detective-Comics.jpg?q=50&fit=crop&w=738&h=369

swamp thing murders a guy
http://i.imgur.com/ouPX0u3.png

Swamp Thing is basically a plant-based Punisher, though. He's never had any qualms about killing. Presumably because he views humanity through the eyes of a rutabaga.

potato, surely

lots to pick from here: https://www.cbr.com/16-times-green-lanterns-murdered/

What's the worst murder of the Green Lantern Corps? Let us know in the comments!

lol i'd forgotten that hal jordan committed genocide once

the 90s, man, wtf was that all about

I don’t think that first Batman appearance fits, as it’s not a deliberate kill; but rather the classic self-defense punch which causes the attacker to fall to his death.

he's more like the spectre than the punisher, no?

(speaking of which so many spectre panels... fleisher spectre to thread)

superman dgaf
http://i.imgur.com/rSwoHL9.png
http://i.imgur.com/ecpQ6A9.png

dgaf working-class-hero superman ruled, honestly

Otm

http://i.imgur.com/gexPx9T.png

marvin martian just off panel, cleaning his shiv

https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/original/10/109146/2608979-murder_.jpg

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gbsn8umnSLk/UsW8UrnCL0I/AAAAAAAATNw/EqW5KLfZE10/s1600/Plot+2.png

https://i1.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/23_5.png

what is that?

Moon Boy and Devil Dinosaur accidentally squashing a highly intelligent mutant lobster in the New Mutants spinoff series Fallen Angels iirc

(are highly intelligent mutant lobsters people? U DECIDE)

it's one of the most continuity-battered series of all time, so Don might be doing ok somewhere

Do covers count

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/image/t/trimpe_herb/trimpe_covergi1b.jpg

robots aren't people

And gi joe aren’t really superheroes. Man I’m terrible at this

Moon Boy and Devil Dinosaur accidentally squashing a highly intelligent mutant lobster in the New Mutants spinoff series Fallen Angels iirc

heh, i bought those books off the rack!

it was real and very charming... at least if you like the more laid-back "teens hanging out" aspects of Claremont's new mutants. Jo Duffy had bigger plans for the title that didn't materialize, so it ended up being kind of a curio. maybe most important for giving Multiple Man several of his ongoing concepts/issues with regard to the dupes having individual lives/experiences. (PAD would then re-do all this in X-Factor without acknowledging the source material.)

one of the new characters, Ariel the teleporter, made minor appearances in the late 2000s san francisco period. the other ones - Gomi and his lobsters, and the power-altering Chance, were never seen again AFAIK. i assume that either claremont or marc silvestri liked the idea of a streetwise, asian-american teen hero, and cooked up Jubilee on the premise that she should have combat-ready powers, or something. i guess we should be grateful Liefeld never saw fit to introduce pouch-laden, rifle-toting lobsters when he brought Siryn in for X-Force.

claws too hard for liefeld to draw iirc

Oh man, Colossus offing Riptide was formative for me

Marvel has been evoking Fallen Angels in the run-up to Hickman so I wouldn't be surprised if some long-lost characters made a return (plus, yeah, the upcoming Fallen Angels title).

pouch-laden, rifle-toting lobsters

this is a bad idea... or is it?

jordan peterson to thread

yeah i always found that colossus scene really harrowing. a rare case where it was so clearly a break from the character's established nature/code that it felt like an intentionally traumatic breaking point, and at least in that one issue, not like a gratuitous "grim n gritty" turn as it would for similar developments in the early 90s (see green lantern mention above).

unfortunately this was followed by a sort of drifty period for the title, with colossus recovering from injuries off-camera for a year, then showing up just in time to die in dallas and be reborn in australia. iirc it never *really* felt like it got followed up on.... one of many casualties of claremont's late-80s storytelling and the growing x-stable.

(and yeah colossus had already killed proteus a hundred issues back but idk this just seemed so intense!)

http://i.imgur.com/xXTTvMH.png

what comic characters do you think HAVEN'T been shown killing someone

Richie Rich

the injustice books (bad, mostly web based "gritty" comics based on the fighting game) are overflowing with murders as that's the using-the-term-loosely plot point the whole series runs on.
http://i.imgur.com/tMvfTNc.png

xp:
http://i.imgur.com/Rs3PJaz.png

That was a really quick turnaround ulysses!

i've been waiting for this thread a long time

loool

I will note that Richie Rich does not actually kill anyone in those panels

He throws his fiancée in front of a hail of bullets!

Dang, forks beat me to the Richie Retch.

He literally throws his bride into a shotgun blast

lol xp

Can anybody find a panel with sugar and spike killing someone?

Along similarly fucked-up lines: http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix6/kasparcrazy.htm

oh is that what's happening there? sorry, the art is kinda shitty!

has the Dove ever killed anyone

http://i.imgur.com/f4Fe7TC.png

*sigh*

I don't think Gateway ever killed anyone

what was the little baby kid in Power Pack, who has he murdered

I assume Franklin Richards has grown up to be a grim homicidal maniac

my memories of gateway were that he really didn't talk or move?
though you can trace some deaths to him nonetheless:

http://i.imgur.com/9mlhGBL.png

re: Power Pack
http://i.imgur.com/neXIZav.png
http://i.imgur.com/iKCUqv8.png

i've been waiting for this thread a long time

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses)

I can tell!

flash famously killing professor zoom aka "REVERSE FLASH""
http://i.imgur.com/KblPWpv.png

scott snyder's krypto killing some people
http://i.imgur.com/3i9Q84a.png

omg Jack from Power Pack murdered someone

i guess the larger point of this thread for me is that if you are a superhero, almost without exception, someone is going to draw a picture of you killing someone else.

Ambush Bug!

who has Forbush Man killed

omg Jack from Power Pack murdered someone

Clearly it was manslaughter at worst, not murder.

what about Lockjaw, he wouldn't kill anyone right? he's so lovable...

Ambush Bug!

Ambush Bug's MO in his first appearance was throwing bombs recklessly around Metropolis, hard to imagine nobody was at least seriously injured

also Richie Rich cannot be tried for the crimes of Ritchie Retch #justiceforrichie

ambush bug killed a guy in his very first appearance!
http://i.imgur.com/7YyEwhC.png

lockjaw killing "supergiant" in Infinity
http://i.imgur.com/ViIyszU.png

Forbush Man's murderous attack from Nextwave
http://i.imgur.com/AaQSrwf.png
http://i.imgur.com/LXhnndN.png

now do Bat-mite

Legends of the Dark Knight #38
http://i.imgur.com/9psU2fF.png

http://i.imgur.com/9fH7wEw.png

is that Kevin O'Neill?

how about Quisp, did Quisp ever kill anybody

The two Dark Mite stories were by Alan Grant and Kevin O'Neill, yes

the Injustice comics ruled, sorry forks you are ded wrong

I assume ulysses took a break to pitch DC on a grim-n-gritty Quisp miniseries where he murders Aqualad in a fit of jealous rage over Aquaman's affections

quisp is a breakfast cereal.

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/quisp/4005-31297/

safe to assume some bad shit went down lol

A few years later he visited Atlantis again to find his friend with more grim and violent than before. He decided to change his own personality and appearance to better match Aquaman. The process actually turned him into a malevolent being and manipulator.

Qwsp! I don't know if he killed anyone but in true DC fashion he did ultimately go from this

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/6/6f/Qwsp_0002.jpg

to this

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/aquaman/images/e/eb/Qwsp.jpg

Zooks!

Also I didn't know this had happened but of course this happened

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61rj2%2BP-oPL._SX321_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Morrison, of course, turned qwsp into a demonic madman; here he is sowing war among the 5th and third dimension, presumably killing billions
http://i.imgur.com/6hAcEL4.png

(i think DC had to change "qwsp"s name because of the cereal!)

ok how about Comet the Super-horse

A few of the newer examples are very Movie-Movie: The Comic.

https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_small/1/15776/1946762-comet1.jpg

(not pictured: Beppo the Super-Monkey being cut in half by Comet's eye-beams.)

well WHAT IS THE POINT THEN, SIR?

shakey, you are obliged to do a quick search before requesting here as these are easily found murders in googe image search!

Eh whats the fun in that

man, i'm amazed but not surprised with what people have done with Comet the Super Horse over the years.

This one was heavy, I still think about it sometimes...

https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_medium/11127/111275309/5829484-jeangreymeme.jpg

Here’s Mon-El killing the Time Trapper, and triggering the first of many reboots/retcons:

https://braveblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/mon-el_versus_time_trapper_01.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/6IeXCdA.jpg

Here’s Star Boy killing a dude (despite the Legion’s no-kill policy):

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5e4QQ8kJ7vo/WwCQwLkwJFI/AAAAAAAAFLw/PB--XFmKzGc05VYmirPS1S4ufJYMPwCZwCEwYBhgL/s1600/ADV342_5%2B%2528798x800%2529.jpg

... and after a trial (in which S.B. is ineptly represented by Superboy):

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K6VvfZoFN-o/WwCQypOhnrI/AAAAAAAAFL0/kv79qWUEj_IH3nIPJis6uxsg0O6OM1JTQCEwYBhgL/s1600/ADV342_15%2B%25284%2529%2B%2528292x420%2529.jpg

I like when Dream Girl says to him, “When your weight’s back to normal....” Why you gotta fat-shame, Dreamy?

loooool at fretting Superboy in bg

i read ‘bg’ as ‘bizarro gazzara’ at first and for a split-second i was like ‘wow maybe fretting superboy is the perfect metaphor for my anxiety’

Up-the-arse corner

the fact that the last three posts in that thread are from me seems significant

*tiny letters* by the white wolf

http://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/scans16/SMVW1_KilledCharlie.jpg

In "Spider-Man vs. Wolverine", Spidey thinks he's punching Wolverine, but he actually hits Charlie, a non-superpowered woman, who dies. It's revealed Charlie intended that to happen though, so it was suicide by cop.

the '80s, man

Comic Panels of Superheroes Talking About Killing People And Giving Specific Body Counts
http://i.imgur.com/YnFBY8y.png

I was going to ask about Super Turtle but but...

His most recent comic book appearance was in issue #3 of the 2008 miniseries Ambush Bug: Year None, in which he plays a role like the one Superboy-Prime played in Infinite Crisis; after living in limbo with Kal-L and company, Super-Turtle (who now calls himself Clark Kent) starts destroying anyone he considers to be a phony Super-Turtle, including Bat-Mite and Connor Kent.

btw, going back to Comet the Super Horse, let's discuss what Peter David did with the character post Crisis:

http://i.imgur.com/sA4itiY.png

Soon, it was learned that Comet's male form was originally Andrew Jones, a (male) jockey, who had been trampled by horses and "rebuilt" by an organization called "The Stable" as a superhuman with equine DNA. He rebelled against the organization and began operating as a superhero. On one of his first missions he attempted to save a despairing Andrea Martinez (who had just come out to her parents, and been rejected) from an avalanche, but they both died. As with Matrix and Linda Danvers (who had merged into Supergirl, the Angel of Fire), this caused them to combine into one being: the Earth Angel of Love. Comet originally was in love with Supergirl, and since he was the Angel of Love, made her have feelings for him too, but she rejected him when she learned he was also a woman. This opened the door for the third Angel, Blithe, the Angel of Light, to use her powers to exploit Comet's heartbreak, and turn them against Supergirl. She enabled Comet to fully embrace their angel powers, transforming him/herself into a winged centaur. Blithe deceived Comet into joining forces with the Carnivore (a powerful demonic creature who despised the Earth Angels, and sought their power). The Carnivore lost control, however, when Andrea abandoned her anger, learning that her mother had died, and had left a video apology for her actions. The three Earth Angels worked together to stop the Carnivore. Comet began a relationship with Blithe, since she loved both their forms (revealing that Blithe is bisexual).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(DC_Comics)#Post-Crisis_Comet

i’m having a hard time parsing all the twists and turns in that but i’m pretty sure it’s proto-bronyism

what the actual hell

it's sort of furry Ranma 1/2 + sitting in at three undergrad gender studies classes + lol late 90's

http://i.imgur.com/P3ZUre5.png

also here's some very subtle imagery for you, see if you can discern the implication
http://i.imgur.com/JMoXXzh.png

meanwhile, back in murderville, here's super turtle decapitating a rando and then throwing their head at ambush bug
http://i.imgur.com/Y7a1W7X.png

He rebelled against the organization and began operating as a superhero

i also did this

decapitating a rando

FP'd you for racism, that is clearly Pantha from the Titans

FP'd you back for virtue signaling; Pantha IS a rando

omg #cancelled, cat lives matter

both of those stories look absolutely hilarious and i want to read them now

fair warning: the final issue of the Ambush Bug story was axed by Didio and never came out

Bookmarking this thread has totally paid off.

holy moly that Ambush Bug series was awful

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nAk6c7eaOqA/XWSWOu9fKcI/AAAAAAAABww/CCBH9dSt044CoiENnrpCD7rZFSFBLKePACLcBGAs/s1600/LEGION.4.5.jpg

bad guys killing ppl is probably a richer vein tbh

at least pre-Geoff Johns

Feetal's... gizz?

https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/images/20091123-nastybits-comparison.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gE6s3m8.png

NOT AN IMAGINARY STORY!

god that spider-man logo sucked so much

i was gonna say: lol '90s animated series spidey logo

holy moly that Ambush Bug series was awful

― Nhex, Wednesday, August 21, 2019 12:08 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

I was just catching up and saw discussion of this upthread but you beat me to exactly what I wanted to say (re: Year None). It's kind of shocking that the OG Ambush Bug crew was responsible for that POS.

It should have been on matte paper, but it's definitely one of the greatest jokes in the history of Ambush Bug that issue by issue Didio was reading it and going "Making fun of Identity Crisis? Ha ha, so true, we didn't know what we were doing back then! Hey, Infinite Crisis too? Well, there were some excesses, in hindsight. Taking the piss out of 52? Boy, were the plates spinning on that one!"

And then it got to gags about Final Crisis or whatever was current and he freaked out and pulled the entire final issue of this six-issue making-fun-of-DC miniseries.

stretching the "superhero" part but here's peter criss killing the darklord with - - - - PURE HATE!!

http://i.imgur.com/0bwtwRV.png
http://i.imgur.com/Kv1PjFq.png

the darklord swapped them into each other's bodies, and Criss used his pure hate for Paul Stanley to kill him, so that Stanley would be trapped in Criss' pathetic form and lower royalty entitlement forevermore?

(also, judging from the balloons, this is one of the 1970s Kiss comics traced over digitally and recoloured in the early '00s? whose appalling notion was this?)

why marvel's of course! it's the back-up story in the 1995 "Kiss Classics Collectors Edition" with JR jr likely making some quick cash off some old pencils

I'm reading those words over and over and scrolling back up to the images and I can't make them make any sense

He's listed as the penciller!

this was a reprint of a 1970s Kiss comic that included a traced version of the same comic as a backup feature?

there is no possible way that those are scans of a 1995 comic book

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/kiss-classics-1-the-secret-origin-of-kiss-the-marv/4000-174145/

Darklord seems to have a lot to say for someone who has literally been ripped in half by the power of pure hate

“AND ANOTHER THING:”

that link supports exactly none of forks' supposed facts about this comic!

good old Mort Todd though. here's a video he made for Steve Fisk and Pete Bagge's band, apparently on his phone

quality Peter Bagge guitar faces there

that link supports exactly none of forks' supposed facts about this comic!

there is no possible way that those are scans of a 1995 comic book

Cover Date - January 1, 1995

I meant that I cannot believe those 2 embedded images upthread are not native digital files, vs scans of a paper comic book printed in 1995

oh. yeah, no idea on that one; not my specialty!

You know what, guys? It's a stupid old Kiss comic, it matters not.

I want to know who traced over and recolored it and when, and also whether it’s a marvel unlimited digital original or a purchased on comixology digital original

and party every day

party all the time

http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix6/masteroftheworldaf09.jpg

I'm rereading Busiek's Avengers run, and I totally forgot Warbird/Carol Danvers kills the Master of the World! The MotW actually tries to use the superhero no-kill-code for his advantage, saying that as an Avenger Carol wouldn't kill her, but she replies that since there's a war going on (this in the middle of the "Kang war" arc), the rules are different. Makes sense for the character too, at this point it'd been already revealed that before her first appearance in Captain Marvel she'd been working in military Special Ops, so she probably has less qualms about killing enemy combatants than the other Avengers.

ohhh that explains why the Master came back in that Capt. Marvel run recently. kind of. i had no idea who he was

*SHUKKK*

Pretty graphic stuff, including extreme violence against a woman, so a genuine trigger (er, quiver) warning — this page and the following pages from Mike Grell’s Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters depict Ollie Queen freeing Dinah Lance from some very bad dudes... and he ain’t using “trick” arrows this time.

(was wondering when this thread would cross into fridge content)

I had never heard of that Grell book, it’s pretty shocking content, actually — I didn’t know DC ever “went that far”

Donald Duck murders Goofy.
Vintage Disney comics. pic.twitter.com/QmklDucCaz

— 41 Strange (@41Strange) September 18, 2019

good one!

Deathlok shoots a guy in Columbus Circle

http://i.imgur.com/ck2uvRq.png

do u really consider Deathlok a superhero tho

here he is rescuing agent coulson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRYx_u_w8Mc

he also helped me find my keys one time.

he's not called Savingliveslok

tangential question here: what comic is this panel from? it makes me laugh. hopefully not some deadpool nonsense

When I see someone trying to correct a joke I made pic.twitter.com/ewGVhCIJ6A

— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) October 1, 2019

Something called "Cosmic Ghost Rider Destroys Marvel History" issue 6:
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gdQ_ZbJooU4/XUqkSq4NdGI/AAAAAAAFQb8/zjxE6xTWm6Y2R4L4uveMMzYdld3ZQZ3SwCLcBGAs/s1600/036_017.jpg

Thats a fun series!

heh nice. i'm picking up the trade when it comes out soon

Miracleman throws a whole bus full of people at Johnny Bates in issue 15

http://www.eruditorumpress.com/media/uploads/mm15-14.jpg

thx. the actuality is more nuanced and better written than my recollection. there was, iirc, a different panel with people in a bus that wasn't being thrown.

https://screenrant.com/iron-man-rhodey-war-machine-murderer/amp/