Comic Panels of Superheroes Killing People

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

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/