10 More Most Inappropriate Marvel Comics Storylines Ever

Those bewildering and offensive Marvel story arcs that unbelievably happened.

[tapmem]

Frank Castle was just a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude!

[misterformerlyknownascolad]

Yeah,

I hate when writers try to add more "depth" to a female character by making her a prostitute or some sort of sex worker in the past. It's like they can't think of anything else except that.

And the whole Wolverine hitting on a minor thing is disgusting. He may have a teenagers body however, his mind was that of an adult. It wasn't cute and it made the hero into some type of dude who Chris Hansen would ask to take a seat.

[MrWolfchamp-xicu]

The Wolverine Mary Jane thing has a plus side to it

Mary Jane wanting to save herself till she's older is quite refreshing

A mature decision made by a teenager that shows respect for herself and others.

[glenwaldrop]

I can only speak for the Cyclops stories but when he started doing stupid stuff it was 100% because the writer didn't like the character. Until the late 90s at least Scott Summers was a freaking boy scout that would trade honorable war stories with Steve Rogers.

[ryanchase]

So as usual, the Cyclops/Frost one needs some out of universe context.

Joe Quesada, who ran the show at the time, was a die-hard Cyclops fan. But during Grant Morrison's run, he was going through a messy divorce with his red-headed wife IRL. It was later found he had a mistress... who was a platinum blonde.

You can't make this shit up.

"Here Comes Tomorrow", Morrison's final story, was modified to have Cyclops and Frost get together, when Morrison's original vision would have Jean come back from the dead sooner. The modification to the story ordered by... Quesada. Morrison quit Marvel over this.

[jimbomba]

Since no other comment has mentioned it yet, the Leather Boy/Monkey Joe plotline in GLA had multiple levels of satire involved that must have gone missed by the list maker (who may not have read the actual story before making said list).

1. In Squirrel Girl's first appearance, she and Monkey Joe defeated Doctor Doom. When Monkey Joe is killed, the reader initially is led to believe that this is Doctor Doom coming back to avenge his previous humiliation.

2. The GLA miniseries came out shortly after the Mark Waid/Mike Wieringo story arc in Fantastic Four where Doctor Doom wears a leather suit and mask instead of body armor. So Doctor Doom being unmasked as a disguised Leather Boy is supposed to be a punchline at the expense of that FF storyline.

3. Most importantly, the defiling and murder of Monkey Joe was Dan Slott's way of parodying the way Sue Digby's defiling and murder was handled in the pages of Identity Crisis. Besides the "unnatural acts, " Flatman reveals during the autopsy that Monkey Joe was burned alive and had a footprint on his brain (Men's Size 12), just like Sue Digby. To drive the point home, when Leather Boy is unmasked from his Doctor Doom disguise, his real name is announced as Gene Lorrene, an obvious word play on Sue Digby's murderer in Identity Crisis, Jean Loring.

Long story short, Dan Slott's intention wasn't to be inappropriate. He was using his humor series to comment on how the story arc in Identity Crisis was inappropriate. You specifically get this commentary when Squirrel Girl reacts to the news of the "unnatural acts." She says "What?! That's SICK! Who would do that? And put it in a comic book?! Who'd wanna read about somebody dying...LIKE THAT?!"

[arisprague]

In the ultimate Spider-Man show, they did an homage to this I think. There was a body swap episode between Spidey and Wolverine and in that one Wolverine kept calling her “Red” and pinned her against a wall at some point, to which MJ responded with wtf is wrong with you😂

[robertreichle]

I disagree about Sue in the Fantastic Four. The point of that whole thing was to make her come out of it realizing how strong she was and changing her name finally to The Invisible Woman instead of Girl (after 20 years!). The criticisms of that storyline are small in comparison with the good that came from it. It's reaching for things people might be bothered by.

[hewhobattles]

It was me, Barry! Oh wait, wrong Universe.
Not that it matters since Reverse Flash can literally travel to any Universe he wants

[MrOrcshaman]

The ultimate universe existed as an excuse to be more 'edgy, the plot of wolverine, being over 100 years old, seducing a 15 year old in another body us messed up and goes against the mainline wolverines moral code, but since its an alternate reality story it can be overlooked

[dphilly]

I thought Cyclops and Frost had sex on Jean Gray's grave the way he phrased it lol

[thezabgoth]

Decent deep dive, had a few things I wasn't aware of, but there's still no mention of the origin of Mandrill/Nekra or the time Bruce Banner was nearly assaulted at the YMCA.

[MrWolfchamp-xicu]

Lil detail left out of that Hulk thing was how Cap motivated him to eat Kiser.

He told Hulk that Kiser tried to get with Betty or something

😒

Yep. That's what happened

That's top tier writing right there

[guyturners]

Wanda becomes a villain after losing her kids she thought up and its seen as terrifying, sue does it after losing her child and its seen as bad taste, doesn't seem quite fair

[gregoryvn]

Talks about storylines that were downright stomach turning: Shows Cyclops kissing the White Queen.
Perfect! 10 out of 10 list.

[bryanabbott]

When I was going to get back into collecting comics again, I had unfortunately bought Uncanny X-Men #440. Well that put a stop to that.

[partofthetribe]

I thought that was cool how they made Laura Kenny's storyline not every comic book story can be rainbows and sunshine it brings a certain realism to it which I thought was awesome if they were super careful about every single thing like you want them to be most of the stories would be trash.

[KizamiImachiru]

i tried to find this comic 5:43 out of curiosity ended up finding iron man being eatin alive from his own armor and the world getting destroyed really weird comic....

[karl_alan]

Ooh...still haven't watched...do you have any of the weird spiderman ones, like spider killing MJ with his radioactive juices, or the green goblin sleeping with Gwen

[robertpaige]

You do the Nightcrawler storyline a disservice: The bad guys trying to install him as Pope (via holographic disguise, not shapeshifting) was the least stupidly-impossible part of their plot.

Leaving out that elevating Kurt through the ranks to get him in position for _consideration_ would take decades (at best), their plan was to make Kurt the Pope, having him appear during a big Mass ceremony (Easter or Passover, I forget which), then simultaneously simulate the Rapture (Which isn't a part of Catholic dogma) by disintegrating people with tricked out communion wafers AND have Kurt's image inducer fail, revealing him as a "demon" in disguise, which would set humanity against mutantkind (and not Catholicism).

It was, in short, Captial-D DUMB.