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35 Controversial Comic Book Cameos and Character Deaths

August 10, 2024

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Wild Superhero Deaths Green Lantern: Mosaic #2 NO, CH'P! NOT THAT WAY? CH'P FROM THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS WAS HIT BY A YELLOW TRUCK. As Green Lantern rings had a weakness to the color yellow at the time, Ch'p was killed like so many other squirrels that walk on a highway. NOT HAT-- CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wild Superhero Deaths TO YOU? HEY, PA Ultimatum IT WAS NO SHE WAS PERSON PERFECT. ANT-MAN BIT THE BLOB'S HEAD OFF. As revenge for eating his wife The Wasp, Hank Pym grew to his giant self and had a snack of his own. You know, like heroes do. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wild Superhero Deaths Ultimatum THE WASP WAS EATEN BY THE BLOB. The Avenger was gruesomely devoured by the evil mutant, with her blood smeared on his face like a toddler eating spaghetti. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wild Superhero Deaths URK. Ultimatum DOCTOR STRANGE DIED BECAUSE HIS SASH WAS TOO TIGHT. Strange's trans-dimensional foe Dormammu has had enough, and magically tightened Steven's sash all around his body until his head popped like a blood-filled balloon. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wild Superhero Deaths The Spectacular Spider-Man #19/#20 AH-UHKK! RRTT SPIDER-MAN DIED AS A GIANT MUTANT SPIDER. Peter Parker died shortly after becoming a big-ass spider. Then he came back to life by hatching out of that spider's body. No one spoke of it again. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wild Superhero Deaths Punisher #17 THE PUNISHER KILLED WOLVERINE IN A CARTOONISHLY GRUESOME WAY. Frank Castle blew ol' Clawboy's face with a shotgun, then his penis, and then flattened him with a steamroller. This was writer Garth Ennis' doing, even before he started on The Boys. nt ya ta th' sa th' Earth, ya hear me?! CRACKED.COM

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Wild Superhero Deaths TO A FILE ROOM... ZUNIAL THE YES, SUPERMAN! I BECAME MURDER MAN! VISIBLE TO TAUNT YOU! THERE IS IF THAT ALIEN IS BEHIND NO ESCAPE FOR YOU FROM THE ARE THE MOST INTENSE GREEN KRYPTONITE BROADCAST! AYS I'VE EVER FELT!AM OUGH TO FLY OUT OF YOU'RE GETTING WEAKER... P RANGE? SLOWING DOWN! Superman #188 THE MURDER MAN MURDERED SUPERMAN Zunial the Murder Man trained with a bunch of Galaxy Crimeteers to assassinate Superman. Out of all them, he succeeded by using kryptonite radio waves. (Supes got better, though.) BEHOLD THE CORPSE OF SUPERMAN, THE MURDER MAN! KRYPTONITE — Source

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Wild Superhero Deaths HK... KK. H MISTER SINISTER WAS KILLED BY CHEEK-TO-CHEEK CONTACT. To save an unconscious Rogue for her own selfish reasons, Mystique blindsided Mister Sinister and let Rogue's energy-sucking powers do him in. THUD! I'VE AL WAYS KNOWN. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wild Superhero Deaths LAVT. YOUR SMUG SILENCE IS INTOLERABLY RUDE. YOU AREN'T GOING TO PASS OUT ON ME AGAIN. Batman: War Games STEPHANIE BROWN DIED BY TORTURE PORN. Stephanie was captured and gruesomely tortured by Black Mask After being fired as Robin. But she actually died because Dr. Leslie Thompkins refused to treat her to teach Batman a lesson. N IS THAT HOW YOUR MOTHER RAISED YOU? DIDN'T SHE TEACH YOU HOW CRACKED.COM TO BE A PROPER GUEST IN SOMEONE'S HOUSE? — Source

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Wild Superhero Deaths AGAINST HIS SKIN IS LIKE SANDPAPER. EACH BITE CRISP THUNDER. THE MOUTHLESS SCREAM - AAUCHH! Emperor Joker I DON'T THINK IVE EVER A MAGIC-POWERED JOKER KILLED BATMAN AGAIN AND AGAIN. The Joker got reality-bending powers that allowed him to torture and kill Batman, then resurrect him to just kill him again. Now you know what Hell is. YEARRRRCHAHM CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wild Superhero Deaths Injustice: Gods Among Us THD NIGHTWING GOT A DEPRESSINGLY MUNDANE, REALISTIC DEATH. Grayson is struck in the head with an escrima stick thrown by Damian Wayne, falls, and breaks his neck on a rock. This is the slipped in the shower death of the superhero world. CRCK CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wild Superhero Deaths ALK TO ERBOY. YOU ARTED THIS! TNKOMM YOU STARTED THIS? HE'S I'M NOT JUST A STUPID STUPID! KID. I... Infinite Crisis PANTHA DIED VIA SUPER- BACKFIST. Pantha is mostly known for this moment - Superboy goes on a tantrum and backfists her so hard that he unintentionally decapitates her. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wild Superhero Deaths X-Statix #18 SMKKKK! EL GUAPO WAS IMPALED BY HIS OWN SKATEBOARD. El Guapo hummed the lyrics of a cursed song while riding his flying skateboard. Suddenly, the skateboard went out of control, ricocheted off a wall, and went through El Guapo's heart. Back from the dead...I'm back from the dead... CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wild Superhero Deaths NOT LIKE THIS!! LIKE THIS!! HAWKEYE!!! Avengers: Disassembled HAWKEYE SACRIFICED HIS LIFE FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON. A Kree soldier shot Hawkeye in the back, igniting some explosive arrows in his quiver. Knowing he was going to blow up, he launched himself into a Kree warship to blow it up with himself. Instead of, you know, just removing the quiver. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wild Superhero Deaths NOS BEFORE HLS Spider-Man Vol. 1 #17 SALT EI ASHING AN ERRAND TO GET BBQ SAUCE KILLED SPIDER-MAN. Peter Parker was slinging his way to the store to get some sauce when he stopped to help some people from falling to their doom. His reward? Dying from a toxic exposure to freon gas. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Elmer Fudd hunts Batman. ZEE Weeks .GRACKED.COM In one of several gritty Looney Tunes crossovers, Fudd met Bruce Wayne and began stalking him all over Gotham. — Source

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Tom Wolfe is pals with Doctor Strange. DIVINES THIS YESIDA and IS THE BEST BECAUSE GIRLP THE ONE HAVEN'T GOT A PARTY YET ME TEARS WHO BROUGHT DOWN AN OLD HULK HERE? SECOND FOR OLD BUILDING NOW AND IE THIS 15 ALL FRIENDS AND I JUST DON'T THEN! A TRAP HULK SEE NOW THE WILL SMASH-- JOURNALISTS? ARMYCAN GO SMASH YOU ON PERSECUTING ALL! HIM THAT WEY.. DON'T WORRY... I WON'T ASK FOR ANY FREE ASPIRIN! ISN'T ME JUST TOM! ADORABLE LIZABETH HE'S BEEN TOM CRACKED.COM SAYING THAT ALL DAY WOLFE! To thank Wolfe for the shout-out in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Marvel invited his likeness to — Source

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Geraldo Rivera gets 'stache- bashed, again. COPSY! 'LL HA!!! THERE'S ONE THING ITS DUCK! ICAN po... BRUNKT OW! NOT AGAIN CRACKED.COM Count Duckula let us relive that glorious moment when a skinhead tossed a chair at Geraldo's big stupid mustache. — Source

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KISS whispered sweet nothings to Howard The Duck. HOWARD, MEANWHILE THAT'S WATCHES WITH DRUG THE WORD! INDUCED APATHY... PASS IT ON! CRACKED.COM AN Gene Simmons loves Marvel, and Marvel was desperate in the 70's, so the band popped in for a 4-page nonsense cameo. — Source

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Colbert gets to sling webs. CRACKED COM Famous nerd Stephen Colbert helped Spider-Man defeat Grizzly. While running for president. Against Obama. — Source

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Orson Wells discovers a real Martian invasion. GRACKED.COM Wells famously freaked everyone out with his War of the Worlds broadcast. Superman fell for it again when Wells delivered a report from Mars on an incoming invasion. — Source

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Thing fanboys over The Beatles. THE ALICIA!WE ALMOST BEN! LOOK IT'S THEM!MY B-BEATLES!!! RAN RIGHT PAST WHO THE GALS EVER-LOVIN' THEM!! ARE WITH! IDOLS!! BE HEY... STOP STILL, MY ! SHOVIN', YOU PATTERIN' BIG APE! HEART! HELP SOME- THING TERRIBLE JUST HAPPENED! IF WE'RE REAL WHAT'S QUIET, YOU CAN WRONG, HEAR THEM GRACKED COM DEAR? BREATHING! The Fantastic Four bumped into The Beatles, and Ben Grimm lost every last ounce of cool. — Source

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JFK meets Superman (in 1964). CRACKED.COM Eagle-eyed readers may recognize that as the first year that JFK wasn't alive. Production was already underway when he was assassinated, and Lyndon В. Johnson gave DC the all-clear to print it posthumously. — Source

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The Avengers guested on Late Night. CRACKED.COM Letterman gets to interview the team, and even knock out a villain - a substantially better outcome than that time Frank Miller's Joker gassed him and his audience to death. — Source

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Tim Gunn makes the Iron Man Armor work. GRAGKED.COM Gunn helped solve a murder and save the New York Fashion Museum (by flexing and biting his lip, apparently). — Source

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Rodney Dangerfield saves Tony Stark. WHAT? SOME CRACKED CONLESS Titanium Man almost caught Stark, who was supposed to be giving a speech at a Lion's Club, but found Dangerfield's punchable face instead. — Source

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Charles Barkley dunks on Godzilla. IN YOUR WHOOPS! ? FACE THERE SODIULA! IT IS! GRACKED.COM Barkely mopped the floor with the kaiju. Then he gave him a pair of (gargantuan) Nikes, told him to practice up, and challenged him to another game in 100 years. — Source

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The Glee and Archie crews try not to hook up. CRACKED .COM They spent four issues trying not to tear space-time by getting too cozy (sharing milkshakes). — Source

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Princess Diana was (briefly) a zombie mutant. CRACKED.COM Marvel brought her back from the dead to join the X-Statix. They eventually made the character a generic pop star instead, after pushback from the royal family. — Source

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Freddie Prinze Junior dates The Hulk's ex. HULK WANT FREDDIE PRINZE JUNIOR! CRACKED.COM While they never show his face, and it wasn't a real date, Bruce Banner tracks down Freddie and Betty Ross and f*s up their dinner plans. — Source

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Muhammad Ali KO's Superman. GRACKED.COM It turns out that Superman actually took a fall - which is messed up-in order to thwart an alien invasion - which is pretty cool of him. — Source

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Jay Leno won't leave Spider-Man alone. THIS IS NOT A MOTORCYCLE, MY FRIEND THIS IS MY BABY. SO WHO'S TRYIN TO KILL YA? TU ME? THOSE GUYS ARE AFTER YOU, MAN. OH, PLEASE. I'M A COMEDIAN. NOBODY WANTS TO CRACKED.COM KILL A COMEDIAN. Leno would appear randomly at the end of various Marvel comics in 2002, when he had already overstayed his welcome on late night TV. — Source

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Anderson Cooper calls Black Widow an assassin. ASSASSIN? CRACKED.COM Actually - because he has journalistic integrity-he questioned whether she was an assassin. — Source

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Barry O'Bomber daps up Spider-Man. ...PARTNER. CRACKED.COM When two Obamas showed up to inauguration, Spidey made them reveal Obama's high school nickname. The imposter guessed Barasket Oballma, which is maybe a lot cooler? — Source

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The Punisher kills Eminem's crew. CRACKED.COM They then inexplicably teamed up to take on Barracuda and ...the Parents Music Council. — Source

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