Six Dark Comic Book Story Arcs Featuring Popular Superheroes
Superheroes are more popular now than they’ve ever been. We’ve come a long way from the days when Marvel wasn’t sure what they were doing and was filing for bankruptcy. Now Marvel is pumping out two films a year, and DC is about to join the party with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which is going to take superhero films down a darker path.
Dark superhero stories aren't anything new, though. There have been crazy dark stories being told in comics for years. There are a lot of popular comic book characters that have had jacked up story arcs, and Screen Rant has put together a list of six of them that you may or may not know about. It’s a solid list and it came with the following note:
With superheroes dominating the box office around the world, the average movie fan can probably tell you the biggest points in any superhero’s origin story. But the origin stories and classic comic arcs that every fan knows by heart are usually the ones the publisher wants them to remember. Even the brightest heroes tend to have some dark stories in their past. And when we say dark, we mean so dark, fans will wonder why they were ever published in the first place.