Top 10 Marvel Heroes With Disturbing Backstories
#10: Drax the Destroyer/Arthur Douglas
The comic backstory of Drax the Destroyer is something that has thus far been omitted from the MCU. In the comics, real estate agent and wicked saxophone player Arthur Douglas was driving through the Mojave Desert with his wife and daughter. Thanos happened to be flying over the same area, spotted their vehicle and destroyed it, not wishing any witnesses to his presence. Seeing the threat posed by his son, Thanos’s father, Mentor, along with Kronos, managed to capture Douglas’s astral form and cast it into a new body. Thus Drax the Destroyer was born, bearing the vindictive drive to destroy Thanos.
#9: Zeitgeist/Axel Cluney
The “X-Men” are a large bunch, and honestly the possibilities are endless when it comes to potential mutations. Zeitgeist, or Axel Cluney, definitely ended up on the worst end of the superpower spectrum: he vomits acid. His early biography is not known, however the story of how he first discovered his unfortunate power is quite sad and kind of gross. Cluney was making out with a girl when his power manifested, and he accidentally disfigured his date when he acidically regurgitated on her. She survived, but Cluney was forever haunted by the incident, and in particular the fact that he couldn’t remember her name. Not cool, player.
#8: U.S. Agent/John Walker
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Much like his MCU portrayal, John Walker assumes the role of Captain America when Steve Rogers steps down. After initially discrediting Rogers, he soon realizes there’s more to being Cap than wearing the uniform. Things take a turn for the worse for Walker when two of his former army pals publicly reveal his identity. The villainous group the Watchdogs proceed to capture Walker’s parents and hold them hostage. While he tries to rescue them, they end up being killed by the group. Not only does Walker kill the Watchdogs, he also captures and nearly kills the two responsible for leaking his identity. Eventually he’s stripped of his role as Captain America and he realizes he could ever compare to Steve Rogers.
#7: Black Bolt/Blackagar Boltagon
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Another victim of terrible superpowers, Black Bolt has the ability to emit quasi-sonic energy with his voice. When he was born on the floating island of Attilan, it was determined by his top geneticist parents that he should be in isolation. He was thus kept so until the age of nineteen, at which time he rejoined society. A month after this, he found out his brother Maximus was conspiring with the Kree alien emissaries. Bolt decided to put an end to this by crashing the Kree ship. He thus used his power, and the Kree ship crashed. However, the crash killed a large number of his people, including his parents.
#6: Spider-Woman/Jessica Drew
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There are a lot of bad parenting decisions in Marvel comics. Jessica Drew’s father was a geneticist, and settled the family on land rich in uranium. This affected the young Jessica, and she fell ill when she was around four years old. Her father was also an expert on arachnid immunology, and decided to inject Jessica with a previously untested concoction of a variety of spider bloods. What could go wrong? The healing process was so slow she had to be placed in stasis for decades, with the chamber she was in slowing her aging. When she finally got out, she ended up accidentally killing her boyfriend in a freak bio-electric blast incident. She then had a stint in Hydra, which also ended badly.
#5: Rocket Raccoon
This one is bizarre. In the Keystone Quadrant, a section of space found within the black holes of Sirius Major, there was an asylum for the criminally insane. The caretakers for said asylum got tired of working there, so created sentient robots to replace themselves. The robots then got tired of the place, and decided to take the inmates’ support animals, grant them human awareness and put them in charge. Rocket Raccoon was among these poor creatures, and was submitted to a painful process. His more prominent personality traits and interests were the result of his inmate friend, Khevix, who was foul-mouthed and loved old war movies. Rocket also considered Khevix to be the last person to ever be good to him.
#4: Jessica Jones
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In the comics world, Jessica Jones was a student at Midtown High, in the same class and grade as Peter Parker. She had a crush on him, but never acted on it - oh, what might have been. She and her family took a trip to Disney World, and upon their return, their car collided with a military vehicle carrying (you guessed it) radioactive materials. She was the sole survivor, and spent the subsequent months in a coma. She awoke from her coma just in time to be exposed to the cosmic radiation given off by the Fantastic Four’s battle with Galactus. The combination of all these things granted her a number of superhuman abilities, including strength, fast healing, longevity, flight, and so on.
#3: Deadpool/Wade Wilson
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Wade Wilson’s backstory is quite tragic, despite his seemingly devil-may-care attitude. In his childhood days, he was mistreated by both his mother and father. He was then placed in foster care, where he was also mistreated by his foster mother. He then went on to become a mercenary, and much like some other Marvel mercs, things went south in that occupation. He was then diagnosed with terminal cancer, and subsequently offered a potential cure by joining the Weapon X program (same guys Wolverine was subject to). He was duped, however, and injected with a serum that did not rid him of his cancer, but made him immortal in all aspects. That’s why he’s not so handsome; he’s basically walking cancer with severe PTSD.
#2: Blade/Eric Brooks
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Eric Brooks is half-man, half-vampire, which is referred to as a Dhampir in the comics. How he got this way, however, is quite unsettling. His pregnant mother, Tara, was sent to England by his father Lucas, who had been taken prisoner in Latveria. Upon having complications while in labor, Tara consulted a doctor, Deacon Frost. Frost, however, turned out to be a vampire, and he fed on Tara as she birthed Eric. The infant was thus infused with vampiric enzymes, yet did not quite turn into a full-fledged vampire. Frost left the child alive, and Eric Brooks was raised in a brothel. Brooks encountered vampire hunter Jamal Afari on the streets of London, and was trained and fostered by him. He went on to eventually call himself Blade.
#1: Wolverine/James “Logan” Howlett
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James Howlett was born in Alberta, Canada, sometime between 1882 and 1885. He was the illegitimate son of Elizabeth Howlett and a groundskeeper, Thomas Logan. The groundskeeper drunkenly shot and killed John Howlett, Elizabeth’s husband. This event is what saw young James first manifest his mutation, as bone-claws tore through the backs of his hands and he used them to kill Thomas Logan. He was then forced into hiding, adopting the name Logan, and being given the nickname Wolverine by some coworkers. His traumatic past was eventually erased by his healing abilities as they “healed” his mind. Weapon X came much later, and made all this worse. Wolverine’s DNA was later used to create X-23, or Laura Kinney, a clone trained as a weapon.
