I used to love Matt Murdock and Karen Page (back in my sane and sober youth - haven't read Daredevil in decades). But sweet Karen a PORN STAR(?)- say it ain't so!
~(no)rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Tracey de Morsella" <tdli...@...> wrote: > > 8 Superhero Relationships More Dysfunctional Than Yours - > > http://io9.com/5471401/8-superhero-relationships-more-dysfunctional-than-you > rs > > > > Leave it to superheroes to set an example for the rest of us, even when it > comes to co-dependency and messed-up relationships. Here are some brightly > costumed romances that provide anti-role models for the rest of us. > > http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/02/340x_love_hawks.jpgHaw > kman/Hawkgirl > It's the love without end, although that's part of the problem. Hawkman and > Hawkgirl are a couple of superheroes in a state of permanent rebirth, > destined to be reincarnated, find each other and fall in love. But knowing > that's your destiny is one thing, and feeling it is another, especially when > you don't necessarily like the other person. DC's most recent incarnation of > Hawkman and Hawkgirl ignored the pressure and expectations of fate and > brought new meaning to on-again, off-again romances (Mostly by ignoring that > "on-again" part), only managing to admit their love seconds before being > killed in Blackest Night. Ouch. > > > http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/02/340x_love_jean.jpgThe > Atom/Jean Loring > Everyone's had that ex that they just can't stay away from, but how many > people's exes kill their friends and then become possessed by > extra-dimensional personifications of evil? I think more than a few hands in > the audience went down with that last part. The Atom divorced Jean Loring > when she was discovered having an affair, but when an attempt to rekindle > the flames of their romance ended with her torching their mutual friend Sue > Dibny with a flamethrower after accidentally killing her by stepping on her > brain, Loring became evil trickster goddess Eclipso and tried to destroy > reality in the service of Darkseid. Some people just can't let go. > > > Sub-Mariner/Marrina > <http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/02/love_marinna.jpg> > http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/02/500x_love_marinna.jpgH > e's the King of Atlantis! She's a superhero grown from an alien egg that was > left underwater for so long that she's become semi-aquatic! Truly, nothing > could pull these two young lovers apart, with the exception of the part > where she gets pregnant and her hormones turn her into a giant monster with > a face resembling a vagina with teeth hellbent on destruction that he has to > kill. Unluckily for him - and the audience - she's only pretend dead, and is > brought back decades later as a genetically modified vagina monster that > must destroy because she is in heat. Or something. This time, the > Sub-Mariner really killed her, because sometimes you've just got to put > these hormonal women in their place. Or something. Thanks, Marvel Comics' > Gender Relations Department! > > Daredevil/Karen Page > <http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/02/love_karen.jpg> > http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/02/500x_love_karen.jpgIt' > s a story as old as the sun: Boy hires girl as secretary for his lawfirm, > boy falls in love with girl, boy reveals superheroic secret identity to > girl, girl flees to Hollywood to become an actress, girl becomes pornstar > addicted to heroin and sells secret identity of boy to crime bosses, boy > undergoes nervous breakdown before forgiving and reuniting with girl, girl > becomes anti-pornography talk radio host who believes she's HIV positive but > isn't, girl is killed in arms of boy by boy's arch-nemesis. That's what I > love about superhero comics: They're just like my life. > > Green Lantern Kyle Rayner/Alex DeWitt > <http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/02/love_kyle.jpg> > http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/02/500x_love_kyle.jpgIt > says something about the repetitive nature of Kyle Rayner's tragic > relationships that it eventually got turned into a plot point, but that's > after it had launched the website/movement called Women In Refrigerators. > Why that particular name, you may ask? It's because Kyle's "Uncle Ben" > moment that taught him that, with greatly powered magical rings comes great > responsibility wasn't just that girlfriend Alex was killed, but that she was > killed and had her corpse stuffed in a fridge for Kyle to find. As > motivational tools go, it's kind of extreme, but as a plot device, it's > downright tacky. > > http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/02/340x_love_yellowjacket > .jpgThe Wasp/Hank Pym > Never mind the reputation as a wifebeater, there was so much wrong with the > relationship between Marvel's primary Avengers couple of Hank Pym and Janet > Van Dyne before he thought to raise his fist. For example, that whole > nervous breakdown that made him into a schizophrenic and led to Janet > marrying him because she recognized the way he kissed but didn't want to > remind him of his old self? Or his building a robot that became fixated on > her and ultimately built his own robot modeled after her personality that > Pym ended up having a relationship with? Or the weird, controlling (and > cuckolding) way that Van Dyne treated Pym during their marriage? Without a > doubt, this was comics most dysfunctional relationship, and made all the > moreso by the number of creators who kept getting them back together after > numerous splits. > > > http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/02/340x_love_cyke.jpgCycl > ops/Jean Grey > The X-Men's dream couple are proof that sometimes love isn't enough. Teenage > sweethearts, Scott Summers and Jean Grey kept getting separated for various > reasons that included her being replaced by a cosmic entity, his getting > married to someone who turned out to be a clone of her, his having a > telepathic affair with another woman and her death. Even in alternate > realities, it doesn't work out; parallel reality series X-Men Forever showed > that Grey cheated on Summers with Wolverine and, following Wolverine's > death, then hooked up with the Beast. Maybe they simply got together too > young. > > > Spider-Man/Black Cat > <http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/02/love_spidey.jpg> > http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/02/500x_love_spidey.jpgDe > lving back into the worrying issues of comic book professionals, welcome to > the troubled relationship between Spider-Man and Catwoman rip-off the Black > Cat. She was a woman who worshipped Spider-Man so much that she gave up her > way of life - and almost her life itself on multiple occasions - in order to > impress him, but was only interested in excitement and hedonistic pursuits, > her status as fantasy object became somewhat questionable recently when it > was revealed that she's not allowed to look at Peter Parker's face while > they have sex. No, really; there's a scene where Peter makes sure she didn't > look at him without the mask on. That's either taking the secret identity > thing too far or some weird level of control that I'm not sure I want to > think about in connection to Spider-Man. > > http://io9.com/5471401/8-superhero-relationships-more-dysfunctional-than-you > rs > > > > > > E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (7.0.0.514) > Database version: 6.14350 > http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ >
