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<a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-superheroes-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">The best superhero</a> couples have been around ever since the first superheroes started fighting crime.&nbsp;Writers and artists have been giving&nbsp;them love interests to keep them occupied when they aren&#39;t beating up bad guys. While most heroes in the early days kept their dating limited to regular folk, over time, they expanded to date others like themselves, and nearly a century&#39;s worth of comics have resulted in the joining of some <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-powerful-superhero-couples/tyler-mitchell" target="_blank">amazing superhero couples</a>.

Some of the best pairings in the Marvel, DC, and Image universes involve the most powerful people around, and despite being comparable to gods, they have their relationship troubles, just like the rest of us. As a result, not every superhero couple can stand as one of the best relationships around. Some just don&#39;t cut it when compared to others.

This list&nbsp;looks at the top 50 couples from all manner of comics down below.&nbsp;Don&#39;t forget to give your favorite superhero couples a&nbsp;vote up&nbsp;to see which one rises to the top to be declared the best comic book superhero couple of all time!

The Best Superhero Couples Of All Time

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The 50 Greatest Superhero Couples, Ranked By Comic Fans

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Originally known as Timely Publications and then as Atlas Comics, the comic book publishing company known as Marvel began in 1961 when it launched The Fantastic Four.

The Universe of Marvel Comics

Superheroes

This top Marvel superheroes list includes all the greatest heroes ever to be inked into Marvel comic books. Check out the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-marvel-villains" target="_blank">best Marvel villains and enemies</a>&nbsp;to vote for popular Marvel bad guys, like Magneto and Dr. Doom.&nbsp;The <a href="/list/best-movies-based-on-marvel-comics/all-genre-movies-lists">best Marvel superhero movies</a> got their start on the panels of Marvel&#39;s comic empire and can now be seen off the page as many of the <a href="/list/the-highest-grossing-movies-of-all-time/polkadotking">top grossing movies of all time</a>. Whether you&#39;re a fan of tried and true superheroes like Iron Man or are giddy for Kamala Khan, Marvel&#39;s newest superhero, to debut, you&#39;ll find all the best superheroes from Marvel on the greatest Marvel heroes list.

Marvel superheroes have grown in popularity over time (so much so that Marvel&#39;s The Avengers brought in over one billion dollars in theaters) and there&#39;s no better way to determine who the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-superheroes-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best superhero</a> ever is than to vote on the issue. If you turn green with anger when people say Spider-Man is a better super hero than The Hulk, you need to get your votes in on the Marvel superhero list. All Marvel superheroes are available to vote on, so you know your favorite Marvel superhero is represented on the list of Marvel&#39;s best superheroes.

Who is the best Marvel hero of all time? Who are the Marvel superheroes? This Marvel characters list&nbsp;will answer the question of who are the best Marvel heroes of all time are by letting Marvel comic book fans vote on the topic. Make sure to give your favorite Marvel characters some love on this greatest comic book heroes ever list. Who are the best Marvel characters? Your top 10 Marvel heroes? Are they the most popular Marvel characters or really the ones you truly love and grew up with? Make your decisions now!&nbsp;

These are the best Marvel Superheroes!

The Top Marvel Comics Superheroes

Best Marvel Comics Characters of All Time

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Lists that rank the best and worst characters, moments, films, costumes, and etc. in DC Comics history.

The Universe of DC Comics

DC Comics has a stable of great, iconic heroes on their roster, and while fans of Marvel would vehemently disagree &ndash; some of the best of all time. Batman, Superman, and <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/dc-wonder-woman-vs-greek-mythology/maggie-clancy" target="_blank">Wonder Woman</a> are all top DC heroes, and they have been and will remain as some of the most iconic and important <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/superheroes-ranked-by-most-comic-book-appearances/ranker-comics?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">superheroes of all time</a>. Pick your choices for the best DC characters and rank them as you see fit, or just vote for your faves! Take a look at this list of DC superheroes!

Who are the top DC characters? Do you prefer Flash over Batman or Green Arrow? Let us know! Vote up <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-superheroes-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">the greatest superheroes</a> from the DC Universe or make your own ReRank of&nbsp;this DC heroes list with your personal favorites listed as the top 10 DC heroes. From popular names to lesser known good guys, these are the very best DC heroes ever.&nbsp;

Batman

The 100+ Best DC Comics Heroes of All Time, According to Fans

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There&#39;s just something about bad girls. The rush of a girl who can kick your butt is something special, too. When you combine these things, you get some of the most attractive women to grace the pages of comic books - the prettiest supervillains in the DC Universe.

Whether they&#39;ve got daddy issues and insist on following in their father&#39;s evil ways, like Talia al Ghul, or are women who are just crazy (Harley Quinn)&nbsp;or are one of those special few who go both ways (Catwoman), there&#39;s just some magic about a villainess.

To commemorate the bad-girls of the comic world, here we breakdown the most attractive super villains in DC Comics. Who&#39;s the prettiest DC Comics super villain of all time? Vote up the gorgeous bad girls below. Check out these super attractive female supervillains. These DC female villains are the most beautiful of the bunch!

Enjoy this gallery of the prettiest female DC villains.

Star Sapphire

The Most Stunning Female DC Comics Supervillains

The Most Stunning Female DC Supervillains, Ranked By Fans

To a seasoned reader of comic books, weird superhero origins are nothing new - but there&#39;s &quot;weird,&quot; and then there&#39;s &quot;impossible to keep track of.&quot; It&#39;s the superheroes with altered origins that are the hardest to wrap one&#39;s head around.&nbsp;

The very nature of the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/comic-characters-with-inconsistent-canon/jonathan-kantor" target="_blank">comic book medium and its propensity for rewrites and retcons</a> that encourage&nbsp;readers to &ldquo;forget everything they know&rdquo; means that nothing stays the same forever. <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/how-superhero-powers-have-changed/stephanroget" target="_blank">Costumes, superpowers, and allegiances change constantly</a>. Characters perish and come back as if the afterlife had a revolving door. But when it&rsquo;s a hero&rsquo;s origin point that is updated, it can lead to some serious continuity dissonance. After all, if you change the start of a story, doesn&rsquo;t that change everything else that came after it?

Superheroes Whose Origins And Powers Keep Changing

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X-Men

At some point in their lives, usually around the time of puberty or some earlier traumatic event, any individual in the Marvel Universe possessing an X-Gene will undergo significant change as mutant powers emerge. However, some don&rsquo;t stop there. <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/mutant-powers-that-work-different-than-you-think/williamsbrianjake" target="_blank">Mutant powers have been known to change over time</a> - be it through some form of secondary mutation or some other, more story-driven method.

The fact of the matter is that, when it comes to <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/how-superhero-powers-have-changed/stephanroget" target="_blank">the superpowered business, change is inevitable</a>. That&rsquo;s proved especially true in the case of the X-Men and <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/jonathan-hickman-x-men-changes/stephanroget" target="_blank">other House of X-related characters</a>, and it can leave some casual fans feeling a bit lost. After all, not every set of mutant abilities, even when it&#39;s&nbsp;attached to a household name, is still the same as it was years ago. Vote up the most surprisingly serious mutant mutations.

Marvel Mutants Whose Superpowers Have Changed Drastically Since You Were A Kid

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We all adore Marvel&#39;s Earth-616 and DC&#39;s Prime Earth, but <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/strangest-marvel-earths-explained/tyler-mitchell" target="_blank">alternate versions</a> of superheroes deserve a little love every now and then, too. Yeah, the normal Batman and Superman are pretty formidable, but they don&#39;t hold a candle to All-Star Superman or the Batman Who Laughs. And if you thought Wonder Woman was powerful in the mainstream DC universe, check out the Diana Prince of&nbsp;Wonder Woman: Dead Earth.&nbsp;

What do you get when you take the morality out of super-geniuses&nbsp;like Reed Richards and Hank McCoy? You get the Maker and Dark Beast, of course. And those guys are&nbsp;evil. If this is all a little garden-variety for you, check out X-Man or Superboy-Prime. You might have to be a major comic book nerd to truly respect the power levels&nbsp;of those two, but trust us... they&#39;re seriously no joke. There&#39;s plenty more where those came from, so we&#39;re putting on our dimension-hopping boots to run through some of the most powerful alternate-universe versions of your favorite heroes.

The Most Powerful Alternate-Universe Versions Of Superheroes

T.W. Mitchell

Comic Book Characters

These characters are the most attractive <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-female-comic-book-characters/ranker-characters?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">comic book women</a> of all time ranked by dedicated comic fans from all over the world. This list of beautiful&nbsp;comic book women includes stunning superheroes and the equally alluring&nbsp;villains they fight against &ndash; from Wonder Woman to Catwoman. Anyone can vote on this list of&nbsp;female <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/comic-villains-turned-superheroes/coy-jandreau?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">superheroes and supervillains</a>, and you can even add your own list to these rankings. Whether it&#39;s their mighty superpowers, their scintillating costumes, or their spot on one-liners, these characters make all the comics they appear in some of the hottest comics on the shelf, it&#39;s amazing the pages don&#39;t burn up. Now that&#39;s a superpower!

These fictional women are more than just sexy superheroes or&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-hottest-cartoon-characters-of-all-time">cartoon characters</a>, they are some of the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-powerful-comic-book-characters-ranked/ranker-comics?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">most powerful characters</a> in their respective universes.

Zatanna

Stunning Female Comic Book Characters, Ranked

Gorgeous Female Comic Book Characters, Ranked By Fans

Superhero replacements are not just commonplace but virtually&nbsp;inevitable, with the endless serial nature of comic book storytelling necessitating endless twists, turns, and reinventions - which sometimes even means replacing individuals under that iconic mask. Sometimes, it works out, like when Jane Foster brought new meaning to the title of Almighty Thor,&nbsp;but most of the time it doesn&rsquo;t, and the competition for the title of worst superhero replacement ever is fierce.

At the end of the day, most fans are willing to accept a temporary stand-in for their favorite hero - <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/most-surprising-superhero-replacements/stephanroget" target="_blank">even those particularly surprising substitutes</a> - but never for very long. Eventually, they almost always demand the return of the original, and the replacement has to either carve out a new costumed niche for themselves or fade into the background of continuity. Vote up the superhero transitions that got a well-deserved cold shoulder.

14 Times Superheroes Passed The Torch And Comic Book Fans Said No Thank You

Superhero Replacements Comic Book Fans Said "No Thanks" To

Lists that rank the best, worst, smartest, richest, fastest, most powerful, etc., etc., characters in comic book history.

The People on the Page

Comic Books

What makes someone a god? Incredible power? Worshippers? Gods in comic books have both. In fact, some readers might argue that <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-superheroes-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">comic book characters</a> are already the modern equivalent of ancient gods. Mortals tell stories about their incredible feats, pay tribute to them with&nbsp;hard-earned cash, and even dream about what it would be like to join their ranks.Yet godhood itself possesses a singular significance, even in the world of superheroes. <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/top-10-comic-book-gods-worth-worshipping/eric-diaz?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Comic book gods</a> tend to be the most powerful characters in any given series. Think of Thor,&nbsp;Darkseid, or Zeus. Those recognized as gods usually far outrank mere mortals in terms of both power and prestige. And then there's comic book characters that became gods - like Jean Grey, for instance, or Superman. Their struggles with their own potential led to some gripping storylines.While it’s never easy to achieve godhood in comics, several characters have ascended to these rarified ranks over the years. Maybe <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/disturbing-future-versions-of-superheroes/stephanroget?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">your favorite superhero</a> (or villain) is among them.

15 Comic Book Characters Who Achieved Godhood

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The best and worst characters, scenes, lines, moments, costumes, etc. in all your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man properties.

Spider-Man, Spider-Man

Villains

Here is the list of the greatest Spider-Man villains and enemies Peter Parker has ever had. This Spider-Man villain list includes the names of Spider-Man&#39;s bad guys and of the Spider-Man&nbsp;rogues gallery. Use this complete list to start a list of your favorite Spidey enemies. Being as sweet and cool as Spider-Man, there are obviously going to be some haters who are jealous of his awesomeness. From the unpredictable Green Goblin, to the electrifying Electro, to Doc Ock in his <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/what-happened-doc-ok-spider-man/stephanroget" target="_blank">Superior Spider-Man</a> guise - everyone has their favorite Spidey villain to hate.&nbsp;

Who are the most menacing Spider-Man villains? These may not be all the Spider-Man enemies ever, but they are the best. Vote for your favorite Spider-Man enemy to have them reach the top.

So who are the best Spider-Man villains? Cast your vote!

Vulture

The Best Spider-Man Villains

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Admittedly, it can be rather difficult to keep track of comic book character continuity, and these days, there&rsquo;s both the on-page canon and the legions of cinematic adaptations to keep up with. One can easily find themselves missing major plot developments, up to and including <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-female-comic-book-characters/ranker-characters?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">comic book characters</a> that you probably didn&rsquo;t know were dead - and even some beloved comic book characters that survived in the movies, but not the comics.

Of course, in comic books, death is rarely permanent, but there are still those who don&rsquo;t use the afterlife like a revolving door. Some <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/comic-characters-who-stayed-dead/ranker-comics" target="_blank">superheroes and supervillains actually stay dead</a> for a good, long while,&nbsp;which can occasionally make it quite troubling for fans to catch up on continuity. After all, there&rsquo;s nothing worse than checking in on one of your favorites&nbsp;and finding out they&rsquo;ve been deceased for years!

14 Comic Book Characters You Love But Didn't Know Were Dead

Comic Book Characters You Love But Didn't Know Were Dead

Geeky

Ever since they were founded in 1963, the X-Men have always had a wide array of beautiful women who filled its pages (how ironic, given the male-centric&nbsp;title). Every new iteration and team brought yet another beautiful woman or two. Better yet, they were smart, cunning and powerful women. Sometimes even leading the X-men, Storm lead the &quot;Gold&quot; team in the 90&#39;s and Kitty leads... almost all of the teams now. There&#39;s even an entirely female team in the books right now, the book is called quite simply: &quot;X-Men.&quot;

Throughout the decades of clothing and hairstyles (Storm&#39;s mohawk and Pixie&#39;s... pixie cut) and whichever your &quot;type,&quot; (there is no shortage of blondes in the mix, but I think there are more red-heads in the X-Men than any other super-team) here are the prettiest women of the X-Men.

Vote up the most gorgeous&nbsp;women from X-Men below and see where your favorite ladies rank.

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The Most Beautiful Women From X-Men

The Most Beautiful Women In X-Men Comics, Ranked By Fans

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Comic books are not known for their feminist tendencies. It used to be regarded as very much a boys club, and although recently (especially with the surge in the popularity of cosplay) that&#39;s finally begun to change. The costumes for heroines and <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-female-comic-book-characters/ranker-characters?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">female comic book characters</a> haven&#39;t.

The female form is beautiful, and comic book artists like to show off just how much these girls work out, as well as their other physical assets. Their gear is shameless and totally impractical, but&nbsp;they sure do look good while striving for justice.

These are the most revealing and scandalous superheroine costumes in comic books. These superheroines have got it goin&#39; on, and their sexy superheroine outfits won&#39;t let you forget it.

The Most Revealing Superheroine Costumes In Comics

Most Revealing Superheroine Costumes In Comics, Ranked By Fans

Lists about Marvel's team of superhuman mutants in all its variations.

Who Xes the X-Men?

Marvel Comics

The X-Men roster is huge and always expanding, meaning there is a massive&nbsp;number of Marvel mutants missing from the X-Men films. The X-Men first hit pages in&nbsp;1963, and ever since their first big team shakeup with Giant-Size X-Men #1 in 1975, their roster has been in a state of near-constant flux. Part of this is due to the fact that&nbsp;the X-Men are based out of a school, so they have a&nbsp;constant&nbsp;stream of new students to bring in and train before eventually&nbsp;graduating to the main&nbsp;team themselves.&nbsp;

The films can&#39;t be blamed for not using all the mutants since there&#39;s only somewhere around 20 hours of screen time to go around and&nbsp;hundreds of <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/most-powerful-marvel-mutant/tyler-mitchell" target="_blank">powerful mutants</a>&nbsp;that all have their own fans. Naturally, though, with some characters getting sidelined in cameos, not appearing at all, or being altered to fit into the films&#39; world, plenty of the beloved mutants have been done dirty.

Awesome Marvel Mutants Who Were Done Dirty In The X-Men Movies

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Any superhero worth their salt has at least one greatest enemy, and some are even special enough to have an entire rogues&rsquo; gallery full of them - but the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-superheroes-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">list of superheroes</a> who have actually killed their <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/superhero-friends-turned-enemies/stephanroget" target="_blank">arch-nemesis</a> is a pretty short one. And it&rsquo;s not hard to see why - sure, putting a baddie in the ground might be the only way to permanently end the threat they represent, but it also makes it difficult to tell more stories featuring that villain, and so the lethal option is almost always avoided. Almost always, but not always.

Sometimes, the <a href="/list/best-dc-archenemies/ranker-comics" target="_blank">most vile and violent comic book archenemies</a> take their acts of evil too far, and an extreme response is warranted. Even when the victim is someone as despicable as the Joker or the Red Skull, handing out fatalities is still always a difficult prospect for most caped crusaders - and that&rsquo;s part of what sets them apart as heroic individuals. Superheroes don&rsquo;t slay because they want to, they do it because they have to.&nbsp;

All The Times That Comic Book Superheroes Actually Put Their Arch-Nemeses In A Body Bag

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Carnage

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Entertainment

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Certain <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/superheroes-ranked-by-most-comic-book-appearances/ranker-comics?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">comic book characters</a> definitely lend themselves to film better than others.

Sometimes it&#39;s their costume, or their power-set being cinematically dynamic (how Hydroman made this list), or how necessary they are to the universe, or even to a specific storyline. Many <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/biggest-superheroes-villains-not-in-live-action-movies-tv/stephanroget" target="_blank">heroes and villains</a> out there deserve their turn in the limelight. With Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel showed no character is too obscure to delight fans, and with Captain America: <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/winter-soldier-trivia/jacob-shelton?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">The Winter Soldier</a>&nbsp;and The Dark Knight they proved that you really can have multiple villains work in a single film... unlike the disasters that are&nbsp;Spider-Man 3 and Batman &amp; Robin.

From fan favorites (Carnage!) to how-do-they-not-have-a-movie-yet?! (Ms. Marvel, and yes we know it&#39;s eventually coming but it&#39;s not here yet), these are the comic characters we should see in movies. We also added characters that need to be redone in the comic book film industry (Green Lantern... among others).

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38 Comic Book Characters We Want to See on Film

Comic Book Characters We Want to See on Film

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Ranking comic book characters by their powers, strength, physical traits, affiliations, and other features, like how just goshdarn super they are.

Heroes and Villains

Best Characters

List of the most badass, tough, and iconic comic book superheroes ever created. This list includes central characters from both the DC and Marvel Universe, as well as more non-traditional or underground comic books. The definition of what makes a &quot;superhero&quot; can be quite slippery, and often encompasses characters with questionable morals and behavior (giving rise to the notion of the &quot;anti-hero.&quot;) If you love these superheroes, you&#39;ll also be interested to know that a few of them have really <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-10-lamest-super-hero-origins/ihateeverything">lame origin stories</a>.

Traditionally, a &quot;superhero&quot; simply means a larger-than-life character, or one gifted with special abilities, either organically or via their own genius or inventiveness, who uses his or her powers to protect and defend the public from threats - at times <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/unexpected-superhero-day-jobs/stephanroget" target="_blank">even while maintaining day jobs</a>. Though the word &quot;superhero&quot; began to be used as early as the 1910s, the concept really took hold in the public&#39;s mind following the introduction of Superman in 1938.

Though Superman and other characters of his day were gifted with special talents and abilities, making them particularly suited to crusading for justice, many characters that followed were more &quot;human&quot; than the noble alien from Krypton, using their intelligence (such as Iron Man or Batman) to create a superheroic persona.&nbsp; Some <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-10-greatest-disabled-superheroes-of-all-time/saintmort">superheroes also have disabilities</a> that counteract their skills, weapons or unique talents.&nbsp;

Because of the massive popularity of superheroes &ndash; particularly at the start of the 21st Century, when <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-superhero-movies-ever-made">superhero films</a> reigned at the box office &ndash; a number of deconstructions and analyses of the genre have also been done, culminating in the creation of &quot;meta-superheroes&quot; who comment on the concept of superheroism itself.&nbsp;So take a look at this list, decide who your favorite comic book superheroes are, and vote them up.&nbsp;We have your top 50 superheroes, your top 100 superheroes of all time&hellip; we don&rsquo;t quite have your top 200 comic book characters of all time simply because this list is just for the best superheroes ever. We didn&rsquo;t include the super villains on this top comic book characters list. Who are the top comic book heroes? Who is the best superhero? Let&rsquo;s put these question to rest of who is the best super heroes to rest.