Originally posted by Juk3nIf it makes you feel better, the wife is revealed to have survived. She was the Insect Queen during the Liberators invasion and she joined Fury's Black Ops squad as the reformed Red Wasp. In the aftermath of the Ultimate Red Skull story when he lies bedridden and helpless, she comes in and shoots him in the head.
The family Red skull killed in Ultimate Avengers.Cant be arsed to scan, basically a wife , a husband and a baby taken hostage, red skull tells wife to stab husband to death with scissors or he drops the baby out the window. Wife does it, Red Skull drops baby out the window, then henchmen proceed to rape the wife all night and then kill her.
Only one page in the book, but ****ing dark and sad shit.
Originally posted by ODG
If it makes you feel better, the wife is revealed to have survived. She was the Insect Queen during the Liberators invasion and she joined Fury's Black Ops squad as the reformed Red Wasp. In the aftermath of the Ultimate Red Skull story when he lies bedridden and helpless, she comes in and shoots him in the head.
As I was reading, I thought "why would that make ANYONE feel better?" Then I got to the end. Nice.
Not explicitly a death, as she didn't end up dying, but Kitty Pryde's at the time supposed death in the giant bullet at the tail end of Astonishing X-Men was very well executed and really got to me. The artistic depiction of her determination and pain juxtaposed to Emma's very real and rarely depicted sorrow was nothing short of "astonishing."
I think everyone is starting to hit on a common note here: the death can't be cheapened by subsequent retcons.
And the Gwen Stacy and Jean Grey deaths unfortunately suffer from retcons.
I was thinking about Uncle Ben as it's very much a Greek tragedy in pulp comic form. But when you read Amazing Fantasy #15, it's off-panel and it isn't very well-foreshadowed or milked at all. I don't know if there's ever been a definitive re-telling of Uncle Ben's death.
For recent ones, I'ma go with my sig:
Originally posted by Digi
Cap's death in the Earth X series, as he protects Marvell. It may have sullied with age some, but at the time, that one held more resonance with me than nearly any other death I'd read.I'm sure I could come up with others, but it's late. I'll give it some thought.
This is the WORST death in the history of comics!
Captain America, killed by MUTANT WEREWOLVES!!!
You disgust me!