Who has suffered the most when it comes to comics (Emotional Pain)
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byrdgang21
Thor. They changed his whole mythos
Flyattractor
Old Marvel Comic Book Fans that continue to read Current SJW Marvel Comics?
Mindship
Surfer? The burden of whole planets, whole civilizations, billions of beings being murdered resting on his superpacifistic conscience?
Hard to say, given Soarin' Norrin is not an acting-out type.
Prof. T.C McAbe
Wolverine
Seeing Jane with Scott every day...
Badabing
Superman, because he's not Batman.
SquallX
Originally posted by Mindship
Surfer? The burden of whole planets, whole civilizations, billions of beings being murdered resting on his superpacifistic conscience?
Hard to say, given Soarin' Norrin is not an acting-out type.
Didn't he help Galactus destroy some of those worlds?
Mindship
Originally posted by SquallX
Didn't he help Galactus destroy some of those worlds? At the very least, he found them and notified his boss, "Dinner's ready."
WolverineX25
Just off the Top of my head I have to go with:
5. Batman
4. Wolverine
3. Thanos
2. Spawn (Al Simmons)
1. The Silver Surfer
Surtur
Superman suffers the emotional pain of being better than everyone else.
cdtm
Eternity.
Every other event he's body jacked or destroyed.
Digi
It's kind of Spider-Man's schtick to be emotionally put-upon, but I'm not sure he's objectively above some of these other excellent answers. Most heroes have lost a TON, so quantifying it becomes impossibly subjective.
Damborgson
Volstagg tried to kill the entire fire demon race for what happened to those elven children.
ghostman
superman during the end of the emperor joker arc. taking on all of batmans pain and suffering because he is too weak of a character to do so.
WolverineX25
Originally posted by WolverineX25
Just off the Top of my head I have to go with:
5. Batman
4. Wolverine
3. Thanos
2. Spawn (Al Simmons)
1. The Silver Surfer
Wanted to expand on this:
Batman
-Death of his parents at an early age
-Isolation from society, secret identity causes constant interference in his life
-Romantic attachments to unstable women such as Catwoman
-Romantic attachments to evil woman such as Talia al Ghul
-His son Damian hated him for a long time
-Lost many loved ones along the way (Jason Todd)
-Never sees eye to eye with the rest of the Justice League
-Wants peace, but can't bring himself to kill dangerous enemies like the Joker
-Feels completely responsible for the safety of Gotham City
-May not be entirely mentally stable himself
-Possible confusion over his own sexuality, but that's debatable...
Harley Quinn
-Unstable to begin with, never had any real friends
-Has never fit into society, has never been understood
-In love with the Joker, a complete psychopath
-Suffers from abusive stockholm syndrome
-In denial of her own insanity and relationship with the Joker
-Fell in love with Poison Ivy, another psychopath
-Has never really achieved anything close to mental stability
Wolverine
-Has lived longer than he's wanted to, and has seen many loved ones die
-Hates Cyclops, has a love hate relationship with Xavier
-Loves Jean Grey, even though that was a tormenting relationship
-Has been physically tortured numerous times
-Has been through emotional torture his entire life
-Has never found peace
-Has faced discrimination as a mutant his whole life
-Has been treated as an experiment / animal by powerful forces
-The X-Men do not understand him, neither for the Avengers
-He's been a lone wolf most of his life
-Died a painful and lonely death
Thanos
-Born with Deviant Syndrome and thus was an outcast on Titan
-Fell in the shadow of his favored brother Eros
-Never understand why he existed or why Life was so painful
-Fell in love with Mistress Death, an entity who can never truly love him back
-Committed genocide against his own people
-Killed his own mother, the only person who ever really loved him
(and he knows that)
-Has died multiple times
-Has achieved Godhood several times, and STILL has no happiness
-Subconciously feels unworthy of existence
-Hates himself, and always has
-Tried to change, to become a good person, and failed
-Regrets leaving offspring behind on several worlds
-Is virtually immortal and does not want to be
Spawn (Al Simmons)
- Suffers from severe PTSD from his brutal military past
- Suffers subconscious PTSD from killing his unborn child
- Has been to Hell and back numerous times
- Has died numerous times
- Rejected by Heaven, and hunted by Heaven many times
- Has always wanted Wanda Blake, but never truly had her
- Has been harassed, stalked, and tormented by the forces of Heaven and Hell
- Held prisoner by the Greenworld several times
- Met God only to find out that God was evil (was retconned since)
- Loses every woman he loves
- Lost his best friend Terry Fitzgerald
- His unborn daughter turned out to be a demon (Morana)
- His mother belonged to a demonic cult
- His brothers were pawns in a demonic plot
- His father never really knew him, didn't care about him either
- Wanda Blake, the love of his life, died in a riot
- Angela, his angelic lover, was killed by Malebolgia (before Marvel bought her)
- He has no one, not even himself
- No matter how many times he dies, he is never FREE, not may he ever be
- He knows the Universe doesn't care about him, that he's just a pawn and nothing more...
The Silver Surfer
- Gave up his cherished life in order to save his world
- Lives with the torment of killing hundreds of worlds while he served Galactus
- Lost Shalla Bal, the love of his life, too many times
- Was harassed and tormented by the demon Mephisto endlessly
- Has been harassed and tormented by the Mad Titan Thanos too many times
- The people of Zenn-La hate him
- He was caught up on the Kree / Skrull conflict for years
- He lost Nova, another herald whom he loved
- He lost the Mantis, a cosmic entity whom he loved
- He's lived longer than he's wanted to
- He lived in so much torment, he asked Galactus to wipe his memory clean
- His empathy levels make him far more susceptible to pain than normal
- He already achieved Enlightenment on Zenn-La, and even that was not enough to free him of his tormented life
- He is so tormented that even Moondragon admitted she never met anyone with more suffering than the Silver Surfer in all her travels
- He is so tormented that Adam Warlock tried numerous times to help him find peace, even though Warlock has his own torment
- He is so tormented, that even the psychopath Thanos felt sorry for him
Mindset
Robin.
Any of them.
-Pr-
Cyclops:
https://i.imgur.com/gxcdxo6.png
All jokes aside though, he definitely has a case for being one of the worst-off X-Men.
DarkSaint85
Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Mr Immortal
Everyone he has ever known, or will know, will eventually die.
There's nothing he can do about it.
Not just random strangers like with Surfer.personal contacts.
Stoic
Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Everyone he has ever known, or will know, will eventually die.
There's nothing he can do about it.
Not just random strangers like with Surfer.personal contacts.
But the Hulk is fueled by emotions. It would have to be an emotional character that takes this IMO.
DarkSaint85
People deal with it in different ways.
Hulk gets angry,then stronger.
Mr Immortal gets sad,and sadder. Doesn't mean just because he doesn't go on a rampage that he's not feeling it.
Except he will be the last person left in the universe when it dies.
Philosophía
Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Everyone he has ever known, or will know, will eventually die.
There's nothing he can do about it.
Not just random strangers like with Surfer.personal contacts. So Superman.
http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx28/PhilosophiaKMC/supermanisimmortal.jpg
DarkSaint85
When Flash outruns Death to the end of the Universe, he sees a guy with red boots.
Philosophía
At least he gets some sort of happy ending in DC 1Mil when he revives Lois, but he still dies alone, and is the last one in the Universe to feel pain.
krisblaze
Fanboys will keep Superman going.
Someone post the scan of him listening to Lois get railed by that other guy.
abhilegend
Non canon. Now only Superman has railed Lois.
Prof. T.C McAbe
Originally posted by Badabing
Superman, because he's not Batman.
Almost. Lois Lane because Superman is not Batman.
celeyhyga17
What else is non canon? Everything seems a mess right now continuitywise.
Philosophía
Originally posted by celeyhyga17
What else is non canon? Everything seems a mess right now continuitywise. His relationship with Wonder Woman is non-canon, and he's been with Lois throughout his whole New 52 phase, which chronologically now comes after Byrne-era.
That's basically it.
abhilegend
Originally posted by celeyhyga17
What else is non canon? Everything seems a mess right now continuitywise.
His relationship with Diana and whole SM/WW book. Hence why Superman was surprised to see Zod out of phantom zone.
Thanks God for retconning out that garbage.
celeyhyga17
A huge portion of N52 was spent fighting along side Diana while they were coupled.
Makes one's head spin.
krisblaze
Originally posted by abhilegend
Non canon. Now only Superman has railed Lois.
Superman and those 50 guys when she was in college
Philosophía
Originally posted by krisblaze
Superman and those 50 guys when she was in college Well, Lana seems like she'd be wild in the sack, so Lois must've come with some experience to keep him.
abhilegend
Originally posted by celeyhyga17
A huge portion of N52 was spent fighting along side Diana while they were coupled.
Makes one's head spin.
Those stories did not involve them being couples. So those happened but they were not couples.
celeyhyga17
https://media.giphy.com/media/tLql6mMHC6wvK/giphy.gif
deathslash
Originally posted by krisblaze
Fanboys will keep Superman going.
Someone post the scan of him listening to Lois get railed by that other guy. https://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/18lqo7lcup5m1jpg-600x916.jpg
Got your back bro.
quanchi112
Cuckolding. Omg this is so embarrassing.

quanchi112
Originally posted by deathslash
https://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/18lqo7lcup5m1jpg-600x916.jpg
Got your back bro. Saving this.
cdtm
Happy Terrill dumping everything on his wife at the conclusion of "The Ray" is a real tearjerker.
This really needs to be seen, and I can't post them just now, so if anyone has scans available feel free to post them..
I will say, Ray Terrill himself was forbidden from revealing who he was to his own mother by Happy. Whom he visited frequently.
Raisen
Originally posted by deathslash
https://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/18lqo7lcup5m1jpg-600x916.jpg
Got your back bro.

krisblaze
Originally posted by deathslash
https://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/18lqo7lcup5m1jpg-600x916.jpg
Got your back bro.
There's just no coming back from this

-Pr-
Originally posted by abhilegend
Non canon. Now only Superman has railed Lois.
You said that like it's something to be proud of.
abhilegend
Originally posted by -Pr-
You said that like it's something to be proud of.
It isn't?
-Pr-
Originally posted by abhilegend
It isn't?
I can only speak from my own experience, but it's generally better to be the best than the first.
Unless you can be both. Then be that.
-Pr-
It was a shit-show either way. If it wasn't Morrison or Johns, Superman was abysmal for a good chunk of the New 52. And it only got worse.
Even now, he's still recovering as a character. JL has not been great (I don't know what the hell happened to Brian Hitch, he used to be far better than this), and the Superman book... The less said about that the better.
abhilegend
Hey current Superman is the best thing in Superman books for years.
Johns wrote a shit Superman in New 52. It was obvious he didn't like new 52 Superman.
-Pr-
Originally posted by abhilegend
Hey current Superman is the best thing in Superman books for years.
Johns wrote a shit Superman in New 52. It was obvious he didn't like new 52 Superman.
Not saying much, considering what came before.
Johns likes Superman fine. He just likes Barry, Hal and Arthur more.
Flyattractor
I vote for Little Jimmy because He is the biggest Emo in comics.
I mean all the X titles are bascially Drama Bombs on the level of Day Time Soap Operas so...
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