Someone mentioned invincible, I think that's a good origin also. Plays out rather nicely.
Magneto I think can be considered a hero at this Point so I think he is easily in the top 5 best origins.
I also like wolverines origin. Glad they brought dog back into the comics, at least so far.
When I read Dreadstar's origin as a kid, I thought that it was the stuff of legends. I've been looking for that type of feeling in a comic series for a very long time, and nothing has quite captured the same feel.
Oh, and Planet Hulk was a great set up origin story for Skaar... sh!t come to think of it, the story filled in many gaps for several characters all at once.
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Created from a genetic sample of the most powerful man in the world, and one of the most sadistic mofos around. Yet he choose to be good, gain a family in the Kent's and friends in the TT, and actually got a pretty good girlfriend.
Though some writers sometimes sucks in writing him the right way.
Magneto
Spider-Man
Batman
Iron Man
Kyle Rayner
Captain America - only because they can continually age how long he was in the ice and still have him be a part of WW2, whereas Magneto being connected to WW2 won't make any sense 100 real life years into the future.
I've never understood Superman's need to feel like a loner - he's never known anything about Krypton, doesn't remember anything about it and for all intents and purposes, he's just a really powerful meta-human. To pretend that losing his entire race holds any emotional impact on him doesn't make sense when he never had an emotional connection to them in the first place, at least IMO.
Nice picks guys.It seems Spiderman's and Batman's origin story are popular.To me, I think the best origin story would be Ghost Rider(Noble Kale).If you read his origin story, you would be sympathizing him and the situation his in.
Knowing he has such a legacy, learning about his people and parents, and there Death, yet he still can't find a way to save them.
Worse yet, after believing he's the last one of his kind, only for Zod to show up and wanting to gave his skull in instead is a giant load to carry.
Also, Clark doesn't need to know who is parents were, he knows he's there legacy, his parent went through a lot to save him. It would be a slap in the face of his dead parents if he didn't strive to be a better man.
I honestly completely disagree. For years he was definitely a loner, and still is in many ways.
Superman grew up feeling different. Not like gay or black different, but literally "there's nobody else like you in the world" different. He got his powers long before most heroes do, and was told even from a young age that he had to hide who he was. He's not a metahuman, because he's not human. He's an entirely different species, and is the only one "like him" in the world.
Or at least he was for a time until Supergirl turned up.
And in plenty of incarnations, Superman does remember being in the pod as he was sent from Krypton, or he's met Jor'El by travelling through time/space.
Untill COIE i.e. for 50 years of his publication, he could remember his entire life on krypton which by varying depictions ranged from a few years to entire decades since kryptonians life span was in hundreds of earth years. After COIE only Byrne had him not remembering his life on krypton which was brought back later on. Losing your parents+your whole planet as a kid and remembering every detail of it no matter how minute can make anybody a loner.
Norrin Radd - Saves his planet only to become a killer for a devourer of worlds. In doing he not only sacrifices himself, he sacrifices his soul as well.
Billy Batson (Nu52) - A miserable orphan/foster kid who knew nothing all his life, but bad people and mischief. After careful scrutiny, the Wizard is in disbelief that the boy has the capacity for doing great good. The rest is history.
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