Comic Panels of Superheroes Killing People

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.

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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?)

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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

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

holy moly that Ambush Bug series was awful

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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

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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/