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

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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;

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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 <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/superheroes-ranked-by-most-comic-book-appearances/ranker-comics?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">most famous superheroes</a> 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 couples from all manner of comics down below.&nbsp;Don&#39;t forget to give your favorite cute 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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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

Supervillains

The best Marvel villains are the men and women (not to mention any aliens, robots, and even <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/evil-superhero-siblings/stephanroget" target="_blank">siblings of heroes</a>) at the root of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-superheroes-all-time">best superheroes&#39;</a> existences. These spectacular bad guys in Marvel Comics are the best of the worst supervillains and they&#39;re all listed here. The top Marvel villains on this list of baddies may not have been around too long as we&#39;ve added new Marvel evildoers for you to vote on.

Marvel Comics has been around for over 75 years, and their Marvel rogues gallery is growing more and more with each comic book issue. What is it about the Marvel Universe that attracts all these comic book villains? Maybe it&rsquo;s their jealousy of their comic book counterparts, or maybe something deeper.&nbsp;

There are several elements that make a great Marvel villain: they have to be relentless in their pursuit of evil, unstoppable by normal crime fighters, and have an excellent backstory that makes you root for them almost as much as you root against them. These are characters that were introduced in the greatest comic books of all time and came to shape in some of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-superhero-movies-ever-made">best superhero movies ever</a>. Whether you like the bad guys with a relatable origin that lead to their destructive bent (Magneto), or a super villain that&#39;s super bad (Loki), there are some ultimate baddies on this Marvel <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-movie-villains-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">villains list</a>.

Who is the best comic book villain? Who is the best superhero nemesis? Who are the top Marvel supervillains? Vote on this list of the greatest Marvel villains and find out! If you think one of these super villains isn&#39;t worth a match-up with Squirrel Girl, vote them down. If your favorite Marvel bad guy isn&#39;t on the list, add them so they can compete for the title of the greatest Marvel villain.

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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/actors-who-played-both-superheroes-and-supervillains/anncasano?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.

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Here are the best DC villains ranked best to worst by comic book fans.&nbsp;These popular bad guys in DC Comics are the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/worst-things-dc-villains-have-done/williamsbrianjake" target="_blank">best of the worst&nbsp;supervillains</a>&nbsp;and they&#39;re all listed here. The top DC villains on this list of baddies may not have been around too long as we&#39;ve added new DC villains for you to vote on.

For over 80 years, DC Comics has been publishing some of the best comic book villains of all time, including the Joker, Lex Luthor, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-riddler-riddles/mallory-weiler" target="_blank">the Riddler</a>, Deathstroke, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/batman-nemesis-bane/stephanroget" target="_blank">Bane</a>, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/baby-darkseid-story/brent-sprecher" target="_blank">Darkseid</a>, and Brainiac. From Batman enemies to Superman&#39;s toughest foes, this ranking of the greatest DC villains features violent psychopaths, mad scientists, and omnipotent beings.&nbsp;

Who is the best DC comic book villain? Who is the best DC superhero nemesis? Who are the top DC&nbsp;supervillains? Who <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/dc-characters-missing-from-the-dceu-movies/williamsbrianjake" target="_blank">deserves a better DCEU version</a>?Vote on this list of the greatest DC villains and find out! If you think one of these super villains isn&#39;t worth a match-up with the Justice League, vote them down. If your favorite DC bad guy isn&#39;t on the list, add them so they can compete for the title of the greatest DC villain.

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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;

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List of the best female comic book characters, be they superhero or villain. These are the women characters comic book enthusiasts continue to adore for a range of reasons. The list includes great women in comics from any period, from classic characters (such as Wonder Woman) to characters who were introduced in the 21st century.Did you know that Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, holds the official Guinness World Record of being the first <a href="/crowdranked-list/best-female-characters-in-literature?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">female character</a> to act as the main heroine in her own comic series? The first issue of Sheena Queen of the Jungle was published in the U.S. in 1942. Fans of female comic book characters might know that Wonder Woman first appeared in that same year, but according to Guinness, Sheena was published earlier in the year, thus earning her the title.The top females in comic books today don’t necessarily resemble these forerunners of the genre. As of 2013, there are female comic book characters, best or otherwise, of different nationalities, allegiances, and abilities. Comic book readers might note one similarity amongst female comic book characters from all time periods, though: The best female comic book characters, heroines and villains, are usually dressed to turn men’s heads. This list contains the best female comic book characters of all time, including famous female superheroes and villainesses. You might prefer the villains. You might prefer the superheroes. You might choose <a href="/list/the-ultimate-favorites-list/stevo200?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">your favorites</a> based on abilities, clothing, or personality. However you choose your favorites, though, the greatest women in comics are all right here.Check out these amazing comic book heroines and other girl comic book characters!

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From Magneto to Apocalypse, this list of the best X-Men villains features some of the most famous Marvel enemies&nbsp;from&nbsp;comics, movies, TV shows, and more. The Uncanny X-Men have faced many powerful and evil&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-comic-book-villains?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">comic book villains</a>&nbsp;throughout their time.&nbsp;X-Men bad guys, like Mystique, Juggernaut,&nbsp;and Mister Sinister have been in countless battles with&nbsp;our favorite superhero team. Featuring characters from the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and even female X-Men who became baddies, like Rogue and Jean Grey, these popular&nbsp;Xmen villains are some of the most iconic <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-superheroes-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">comic book characters</a> of all time.

Who are the most memorable, the most powerful, or the worst of the worst? Vote up your favorite X-Men villains ever, and feel free to use this list as a reference if you&#39;re forgetting names or faces.&nbsp;

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When a comic book property as obscure as The Eternals gets adapted into a blockbuster film, it&rsquo;s only natural that the general audience has a few basic questions, such as &ldquo;<a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/history-of-marvels-eternals/ericalt?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Who are the Eternals</a>?&rdquo; &ldquo;Who are the Deviants?&rdquo; &ldquo;How many Eternals are there?&rdquo; and, perhaps most importantly, &ldquo;What does it all have to do with the Marvel Cinematic Universe at large?&rdquo;

Fortunately, the Eternals&rsquo; decades of published history in the pages of Marvel Comics offer up at least some of the answers.&nbsp;

The Eternals - officially known as Homo immortalis - are an evolutionary offshoot of humanity created by the Celestials more than a million years ago. Thanks to the Celestials&rsquo; genetic engineering and wondrous technology, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/strongest-mcu-phase-4-heroes/stephanroget" target="_blank">each Eternal possesses a suite of generic superhuman abilities</a> - strength, speed, durability, intelligence, telekinesis, teleportation, flight - in addition to specific superpowers unique to each individual&rsquo;s tastes. In keeping with their name, Eternals are also extremely long-lived and, should they ever perish, they&rsquo;re automatically reborn thanks to a Celestial system known only as the Machine.&nbsp;

They&rsquo;ve served many roles throughout the millennia, acting as gods, demi-gods, superheroes, political leaders, and folk figures. Officially, their purpose is to cultivate humanity for the purposes of the Celestials - though they didn&rsquo;t know that at first, and their entire race briefly went mad when they found out. Still, they remain a benevolent force, and over the years, a handful of Eternals have managed to stand out from the nigh-immortal crowd, making as much of an impact on the Marvel Universe as&nbsp;any of the A-listers to come before them.&nbsp;

Every Member Of The MCU's Eternals And What They've Done In The Marvel Universe

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

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Here&#39;s the list of the greatest Spider-Man villains and enemies Peter Parker has ever had. This Spider-Man villain list includes the heaviest hitters of Spider-Man&#39;s bad guys and the lowliest of the Spider-Man&nbsp;rogues gallery, one the best line-ups in comics.&nbsp;A webslinger as swinging as Spider-Man is obviously going to inspire some haters, particularly when the wall-crawler foils their plans to wreak havoc in New York. From the unpredictable Green Goblin&nbsp;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&nbsp;favorite Spidey villains 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? That&#39;s up to you.

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Looking closer at the villains that keep the Avengers busy.

Baddies of the MCU

The Marvel Cinematic Universe may have its share of awesome heroes, but for every great hero, there&rsquo;s an equally awesome villain. Iron Man has the Iron Monger, the Hulk has Abomination, and Ant-Man has Ghost... and Yellow Jacket... and Sonny Burch.

This <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/mcu-villain-motivations/tyler-mitchell?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">list of MCU villains</a> includes all the greats, as well as a few lesser-known foes. Villains like Whiplash and Erik Killmonger may have been memorable in part due to their charisma, but what about other evil characters like Proxima&nbsp;Midnight and Ebony Maw? We also can&#39;t forget Ego and Thanos, who are two 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 Marvel history.&nbsp;Which MCU villain is your favorite?&nbsp;

Vote up the best and most <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-ruthless-marvel-characters/eric-vega" target="_blank">ruthless villains in the MCU</a> so we can all see which evildoers top the list.&nbsp;

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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

Who are the best comic book villains of all time? This list of top supervillains in comics includes some of the most notorious evil-doers in comic book history. Some of them are among the <a href="/crowdranked-list/best-marvel-villains" target="_blank">best Marvel villains</a> like Doctor Doom, Magneto and Galactus. Others are classic <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-comic-book-villains">DC Comics villains</a>&nbsp;like The Joker and Bane. Are they the best (or worst, depending on how you view supervillains)? Vote them up! Feel free to add any great comic book villains who are missing from the list, and you can also re-rank this list your way, in any order you like. Any and all great comic book villains have one thing in common: They are the absolute arch rivals of some of the greatest and <a href="www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-superheroes-all-time" target="_blank">best superheroes</a> in comics' history. Every great protagonist needs a worthy antagonist to balance things out, after all. Several of the top supervillains listed here began their evil careers in comic books, but they quickly took their evil deeds to the big screen, starring in some of the <a href="/crowdranked-list/the-best-superhero-movies-ever-made" target="_blank">best superhero movies ever made</a>.Who do you think are the top comic book villains? Vote now!

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Introducing your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man...and his not-so-friendly foes. We&#39;ve gathered 28 of the most interesting facts we could find about the villains of the most popular &#39;Spider-Man&#39; movies.&nbsp;Bruce Campbell as Mysterio? Doc Oc&#39;s relationship with Aunt May? Who knew! Read the rest below for more!

28 Small But Poignant Details About The Villains Of Spider-Man

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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

Marvel Comics

For some, the title of the latest Marvel video game adventure, Midnight Suns, came out of left field. For those well-versed in <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-wonder-woman-comics-storylines/ranker-comics?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">comic book lore</a>, however, it was an obvious allusion to Marvel&rsquo;s Midnight Sons, one of the spookiest collections of superheroes ever featured&nbsp;on the printed page.

Whenever some sort of supernatural threat to the Marvel Universe occurs, someone will draw together a team of Midnight Sons to address it. Their number is always nine, their bond is a magical one, and they may have been getting together for a lot longer than anyone realizes. In the past, individuals as diverse as Doctor Strange, Wong, and Morbius the Living Vampire have called forth the Midnight Sons - and they almost certainly won&rsquo;t be the last.

<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/times-superheroes-transformed-into-monsters/stephanroget" target="_blank">Superheroes can often be a monstrous bunch</a>, but the Midnight Sons stand out from the crowd with several of their members being actual monsters and demons. Sometimes, it&rsquo;s best to fight hellfire with hellfire.&nbsp;

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Marvel Comics has long been the kind of company that honors its fans&#39; requests in a number of fun and interesting ways. Back in 1977, the company tried something new by releasing a series titled&nbsp;What If...?&nbsp;with each issue focusing one or more stories related to their previously published titles. Instead of Spider-Man getting rejected from the Fantastic Four in&nbsp;The Amazing Spider-Man&nbsp;#1, why not see&nbsp;What If... Spider-Man JOINED The Fantastic Four?&nbsp;

Titles like that explored how the Marvel Universe might have turned out differently if just one thing was altered from how it actually played out. Each comic essentially created what would become Marvel&#39;s Multiverse in that each issue was <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/main-timelines-marvel-universe/ranker-comics" target="_blank">basically a separate universe</a> depicting a slight change (or sometimes <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/craziest-marvel-what-if-stories/stephanroget" target="_blank">a wild change</a>) from what happened in Marvel&#39;s prime universe, otherwise known as Earth-616. Some of the stories were so successful and beloved, parts of a few found their way into canon eventually.

What If...?&nbsp;has been a popular series for Marvel Comics for decades, and it&#39;s even been made into <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-what-if-episodes/ranker-tv" target="_blank">an animated TV show&nbsp;for Disney&#39;s new streaming service, Disney+</a>. But even the most extensive television anthology series can&#39;t cover all possible possibilities, so why not take a look at the many&nbsp;What If...?&nbsp;titles Marvel has published over the years and rank up your absolute favorite to see which one rises to be the best of them all!

All The Marvel What If…? Stories

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This list of the best comic book movies ever, is ranked by fans of both comics and movies and needs your votes as well! This list includes some of the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-superhero-movies-ever-made?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">greatest superhero movies</a> as well as great&nbsp;film adaptations of graphic novels, which may not necessarily feature traditional heroes.&nbsp;Road to Perdition&nbsp;is an awesome example of a comic book turned into a movie that has nothing to do with classic superheroes.&nbsp;These are the best of the best of the comic book movie genre, and many star some of the best actors in all of Hollywood. Furthermore, you&#39;ll find that this is far more than just a top ten comic movies list. Vote up your favorites to help them reach the top of the list.

Though not all comic book fans agree on the best comic book movies, some find a few of these comic inspired movies even better than the source material. Whether you prefer Marvel movies or DC movies, there&#39;s surely a comic book film on this list that you think is great.

Vote up your favorite movies from comics to move them up the list, or press rerank to create your own list of the best comic movies of all time and further affect the order of this ultimate list.

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This lists the most badass, inspiring, 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&nbsp;a &quot;superhero&quot; can be quite slippery, and often encompasses characters with questionable morals and behavior (your classic anti-heroes).&nbsp;If you love these superheroes, keep in mind that&nbsp;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; is&nbsp;a larger-than-life character 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;

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> reign&nbsp;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 <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/superheroes-ranked-by-most-comic-book-appearances/ranker-comics?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">top 100 superheroes</a> of all time&hellip; we even have your top 200 comic book characters of all time. 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? You tell us.

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Superman

&quot;Superman is a d*ck&quot; is a concept originally conceived by the fine folks at <a href="http://www.superdickery.com/" target="_blank">Superdickery.com</a>. In one of the earliest great things on the Internet, they compiled over 300 examples of Superman being selfish, needlessly cruel, and an all-around jerk in old comics from the &#39;40s, &#39;50s, and beyond.

Here&#39;s the absolute best of the &quot;Superman is a d*ck&quot; concept, out of over 300 examples. And yes, these are all real. A lot of them are just from a time in which they were selling Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane comics by using a premise that doesn&#39;t actually apply to what is in the comic book itself. Some of these even say &quot;this is not a cop-out&quot; because most of them were. The contents of the inside of the comics most often had absolutely nothing to do with the covers. The covers where Superman is a d*ck were just ways for comic book companies and stores to entice readers to buy these probably horrible, yet now classic comic books.

The 20 Greatest Examples of Superman Being a Jerk

THE ORIGINAL: Superdickery.com

Superman Sucks: Examples of Superman Being a Dick

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Animated Movies

List of animated <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-movies-based-on-marvel-comics/all-genre-movies-lists?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">movies based on Marvel Comics</a>. These are animated films that star Marvel characters and take place within the Marvel Universe. While Marvel Comics began in 1939 and entered its modern incarnation in 1961, movies based on Marvel Comics did not really begin being made until the turn of the 21st century.&nbsp; &nbsp;What are the best Marvel animated movies? While there had been a few flops and low budget films made, it wasn't until X-Men (released in 2000) that Hollywood really took notice and the animated movies started production. Since then, many animated Marvel movies have gone on to become quite popular. Marvel's relationship with Hollywood culminated in 2009 when The Walt Disney Company purchased Marvel Entertainment for $4.2 billion. &nbsp;This list of Marvel animated movies list include the best ones like Hulk Vs ranked to the worst ones like the Marvel animated movies in 2013, Iron Man &amp; Hulk: Heroes United. You won’t find the Marvel cartoons you’ll see on your TV set, because these found on this Marvel cartoon movies list were released on home video. &nbsp;

Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United

The Best Marvel Comics Animated Movies

The Best Marvel Animated Movies & Cartoons, Ranked

Ranker Film

Iron Man

Thor

Loki

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Marvel on the Big Screen

Since the debut of Iron Man in 2008, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been delivering top-notch superhero movies with some of the greatest comic book characters of all time. Featuring Thor, Captain America, Black Panther, and Doctor Strange, these are the best Marvel Cinematic Universe characters. This list of MCU characters also includes memorable villains, such as Loki, Vulture, and Killmonger, and characters from television properties like <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-agents-of-shield-storylines/jonathan-kantor" target="_blank">Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D</a>.

Who is your favorite <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/top-avengers-not-in-mcu/joedonley" target="_blank">MCU character</a>? Who <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/marvel-characters-missing-from-the-mcu-movies/williamsbrianjake" target="_blank">deserves more screentime</a>? While most&nbsp;of these Marvel superheroes have been popular before even making it onscreen, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/underrated-mcu-characters/joedonley" target="_blank">some lesser known characters</a>, like the Guardians of the Galaxy, are finally getting the attention they deserve.&nbsp;

Vote up the top characters in <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-mcu-movies/ranker-film" target="_blank">MCU movies</a>, and feel free to add underrated characters missing from the list.