Which comic book character has the best origin?

A big part of any character is their origin, how they came to be who they are. Which character in your opinion has the most interesting origin?

Galactus.

Hal Jordan, Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker and Frank Castle.

Something about the tragedy they endured that had an effect on them becoming heroes. Hal's dad, Bruce's parents, Pete's uncle and Frank's family.

Wolverine, it was really hyped up with the enigmatic past and really paid off with a well written story in Wolverine: Origin. I remember reading that at least four or five years back and going "WOW, his real name's not Logan, he's James Howlett and a sickly rich kid who turns into one of Marvel's most famous characters."

VandalSavage is one of my favorites. Especially in the story where he talks about how the color green is always stalking him.

Galactus is great and fairly original too.

JayGarrick, just for the era appropriate oddness of his origin.

Metron has a pretty cool origin, or lack thereof.

Angel

I know its not an official comic first character but I just always found the entire origin of Angel/Angelus to be just incredibly well done. This punk kid in 17th century Ireland gets turned by a vampire seductress and proceeds to become the greatest evil vampire of all time without his coincidence holding him back as it would any normal person. Only to have it returned to him as a curse for all the evil he'd done and continue to spend his immortality trying to gain redemption for sins he was never able to truly be responsible for.

Whedon is just incredible with that shit IMO. 😄

Wolverine, Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker, Kal-El, and Bruce Banner (depends on how it's done with him).

Sublime

Galactus, Batman, Iron Man, Spider Man, Wolverine, Moon Knight, Black Adam(modern interpretation) - first ones that come to mind.

I'd list Superman, but they keep changing many fine details over the decades(the 'Retcon Punch' didn't help.) I'll go with the version seen in the movies.

And there's been some fine work recently on Thor's origins in series like Thor: Son Of Asgard, that gives us more background on his younger days.

As previously mentioned, Galactus, in addition I like Doctor Doom's origin, Magneto's, and Silver Surfer

Originally posted by roughrider
And there's been some fine work recently on Thor's origins in series like Thor: Son Of Asgard, that gives us more background on his younger days.

That was probably one of the bigger retcons in marvel "origin history"

Originally posted by Bada's Palin
That was probably one of the bigger retcons in marvel "origin history"

How's that? I don't recall seeing any series before in his teenage years, showing the trials he went through to possess mjolnir.

superman- i doubt i really need to explain why.

kyle rayner- mainly because a ring was just thrown at him by the last guardian, yet he eventually became one of the greatest GL's in the corps history.

speedball's transformation into penance- seeing the emotional/mental changes he endured after the first casualties of civil war was quite something.

Martian Manhunter
Adam Warlock
Batman
Magneto
Darkseid
Orion
Superman

Originally posted by willRules
Wolverine, it was really hyped up with the enigmatic past and really paid off with a well written story in Wolverine: Origin. I remember reading that at least four or five years back and going "WOW, his real name's not Logan, he's James Howlett and a sickly rich kid who turns into one of Marvel's most famous characters."

I just finished that comic. Good story (and origin)

Originally posted by The Pict
I just finished that comic. Good story (and origin)

👆 The art's good too.

Martian Manhunter
Jason Blood
Lucifer

Ghost Rider(Blaze)
Hellboy

Originally posted by Martian_mind
Martian Manhunter

Origin Story: Teleported to Earth, becomes superhero

Complex, intriguing really. The layers of meaning are . . . 😂 I'm just screwing with you. His original origin was lame though.

Originally posted by Priest
Galactus.

Also Superman. There's a lot you can do with it; no wonder it gets tweaked/retconned over and over.

Batman, because it can happen, and here was one (fictional) child's response when it happened to him.