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Post by sabongero on Aug 28, 2019 8:40:38 GMT -5
I remember reading over a decade ago somewhere about superheroes behaving badly. And after recently reading a couple of early X-Factor issues, Scott Summers/Cyclops suddenly leaving his then wife, Madelyne Pryor, and son, just so he can be "reunited" with his original love, Jean Grey, is an example of a superhero behaving badly. (Uncanny X-Men #201 he tried to go back to lead X-Men, before being soundly defeated by a depowered Storm for leadership. And then X-Factor #1 leaving his wife and son upon finding out Jean Grey was still alive and to join the original X-Men teammates.).
Also, of note, I loved Geoff Johns' Green Lantern Rebirth series back in the mid 2000's. It allowed the Hal Jordan character to be rebooted and have a redemption story, giving him a second chance. But hey, let's not forget before the "Rebirth" storyline, what Hal Jordan did as Parallax which was greenlit by the DC editor(s) at the time. You talk about a superhero behaving badly... that is an understatement. Killing off fellow members and teammates in the FL Corp and waylaying the HQ at Oa... holy smokes that maddening look on his face when he had all those GL rings on his fingers. (This was like Green Lantern in the issue #50's of the second volume I think).
How about you guys. What comic book(s) issue(s) have you come across where the superhero was behaving badly?
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Post by brutalis on Aug 28, 2019 9:21:04 GMT -5
Hawkeye always comes to mind. He was always the big jerk quitting the Avengers whenever he didn't get things his way.
Spidey ignores a thief running away from a Police officer to end up having the thief killing Uncle Ben was a very big bad.
The entire Mutant Registration Act and Civil War concepts of "registering" is one major FUBAR of bad behavior of Heroes and Government Officials.
The JLA behaved poorly when making Wonder Woman have to "prove" herself when she had lost her powers to remain on the team.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 28, 2019 9:42:59 GMT -5
I guess you can include the entire Illuminati for thinking they knew better than everyone else.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2019 9:49:32 GMT -5
A case COULD be made for Batman acting badly by keeping files on his JLA teammates, which Ra's al Ghul put to use in "Tower of Babel".
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 28, 2019 9:56:57 GMT -5
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Post by sabongero on Aug 28, 2019 11:20:11 GMT -5
The JLA behaved poorly when making Wonder Woman have to "prove" herself when she had lost her powers to remain on the team. Would you happen to know which JLA issues or around what date these comic books came out? I'm just curious which of the team members asked her to prove herself. |
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Post by sabongero on Aug 28, 2019 11:23:00 GMT -5
I guess you can included the entire Illuminati for thinking they knew better than everyone else. Jettisoning the Hulk to Skaar was not cool from those Illuminati members. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 28, 2019 12:18:24 GMT -5
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Post by Crimebuster on Aug 28, 2019 13:12:43 GMT -5
The JLA behaved poorly when making Wonder Woman have to "prove" herself when she had lost her powers to remain on the team. Would you happen to know which JLA issues or around what date these comic books came out? I'm just curious which of the team members asked her to prove herself. If I remember right, she actually asks them to make her prove herself before letting her back in. She had recently regained her powers and wanted to make sure she was in top form. Or something, it was pretty dumb in my opinion, but it made for a decent gimmick in terms of allowing them to bring in the Justice League every issue for like 2 years. |
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Post by tarkintino on Aug 28, 2019 14:54:18 GMT -5
Who is behaving badly here? In the story, GA is obviously the one with less-than-caring reactions, but I was curious if that's what you meant. |
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Post by rberman on Aug 28, 2019 14:59:23 GMT -5
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 28, 2019 15:01:05 GMT -5
Who is behaving badly here? In the story, GA is obviously the one with less-than-caring reactions, but I was curious if that's what you meant. Getting hooked on smack is not a very good idea. Being a self-righteous asshole about it isn't very good either. Plenty of behaving badly here. |
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Post by rberman on Aug 28, 2019 15:32:28 GMT -5
Who is behaving badly here? In the story, GA is obviously the one with less-than-caring reactions, but I was curious if that's what you meant. Getting hooked on smack is not a very good idea. Being a self-righteous asshole about it isn't very good either. Plenty of behaving badly here. I kind of like it that GA is an obnoxious liberal. Usually only conservatives get tarred that way, but in real life, self-righteousness comes in all stripes.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2019 16:44:12 GMT -5
That run under the direction of Steve bothered me a lot and I did not enjoy it that much and can't wait for that run to end. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 28, 2019 16:48:15 GMT -5
Getting hooked on smack is not a very good idea. Being a self-righteous asshole about it isn't very good either. Plenty of behaving badly here. I kind of like it that GA is an obnoxious liberal. Usually only conservatives get tarred that way, but in real life, self-righteousness comes in all stripes. Depends on whose hands. O'Neil tend to have him go overboard, while others were a bit more pointed with it, like in JLU. Grell turned him into more of a Libertarian. One of my favorite elements of bongo Comics' Radioactive man mini-series was how the Purple Heart, a middle of the road kind of Silver Age hero, becomes the Bleeding Heart, when they moved into the bronze Age, for the GL/GA spoof.  The best element, though, was his love interest, the Black Partridge....  Now we know what Mrs Partridge's day job was!  |
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