15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries

Spider-Man eats so much it feels like he will explode.Marvel Zombies Return#1.Instead of late-night Taco Bell, Spider-Man stuffs his stomach with Sandman until he can't take more. Why does Sandman take such extreme measures against his long-time foe (and why didn't he do it sooner)?

In the comic, the Spider-Man from Earth-91126 prepares to fightthe Sinister Six. Then, the zombie Spider-Man arrives. He kills most villains while the non-zombie Spider-Man changes into his costume. Sandman, escaping the killing, mistakes the innocent Spider-Man for the zombie and attacks the webslinger with all his rage.

Before Marvel Comics shut down, theUltimate Comicsimprint gained a bad reputation for getting rid of favorite heroes in gruesome ways. The most infamous example is theBlob devouring the Wasp's corpse. By 2009, theUltimatumshowed how ridiculous theUltimate Comicslineup became at delivering gruesome events for shock value.

InUltimatum#4, Dormammu kills his foe by using his cape to end him. Strange's red face balloons from the pressure until it explodes like a squashed tomato. This is gross, but too silly to take seriously. If only Strange followed Edna Mode's advice fromThe Incredibles: “No capes!”

In 2009'sSinister Spider-Man#4, the assassin Bullseye fires an angry poodle into the eye of the symbiote Venom. Venom, who uses former Spider-Man villain Mac Gargan (Scorpion) as his host, does not like Bullseye’s strange attack.

Bullseye used a toy poodle because Daken, Wolverine's son, dared him.

WhileInjusticevideo games are popular fighting games, comic book tie-ins lack mainstream recognition. Comic book video game adaptations are hit or miss, but theInjustice comic book seriesdoes a good job showing its nightmarish vision of DC superheroes.

It also provides dark, funny moments, likeInjustice: Gods Among Us -Year Four Annual#1, where Plastic Man hits the Flash by stretching his fingers up the speedster’s nose.

Normally, having your face ripped off and your genitals blasted apart would qualify anycomic book characterfor this humiliating list. Wolverine is not normal, though. Frank Castle knows this. In 2002'sPunisher#17, a twisted story by Garth Ennis, Frank pushes Wolverine's healing factor to its limit.

After giving Wolverine one of the worst pains he has known, Frank crushes Wolverine with a steamroller, beating him like Wile E. Coyote.

Not every superhero team is equal. Every Justice League has Section 8. What is Section 8? Like the military term suggests, these heroes are oddballs, "mentally unfit for duty." Sixpack, a drunken hero who fights with a broken beer bottle, and Dogwelder, a hero who welds dead dogs onto bad guys, are examples of useless heroes in DC Comics: Friendly Fire.

Friendly Fire can shoot powerful energy bolts. However, he cannot aim if his life depends on it—literally.Hitman#52 (2000), Friendly Fire almost gets his heroic moment. He focuses his energy blasts on a demon attacking his team. Instead, Friendly Fire blows his own head off.

In 2011'sDeadpool Team-Up#885, the Merc with a Mouth faces a brutal Looney Tunes-style trap. Deadpool avoids the anvil's path by reaching for a four-leaf clover. But his face gets smashed when the anvil swings back while he admires his good luck charm.

This issue is not the strangest. Deadpool teams up with a vampire cow to stop a mad scientist from taking his pituitary gland.

There are many bizarre members of the Green Lantern Corps.The Green Lantern CorpsThe number of members makes tracking them impossible. Readers should remember Ch'p, the alien Green Lantern squirrel. Perhaps the biggest comic book demise involves Ch'p getting hit by a yellow truck inGreen Lantern: Mosaic#2 (1992).

Ch'p becoming roadkill is not the joke. The truck is yellow—a weakness of the Green Lantern Corps. That detail about Ch'p's death is the final touch.

Only Kryptonite and magic (teeth, in this case) can take out Superman. The first volume ofJustice League Dark (2012), the Man of Steel faces incapacitation from a swarm of magical dentures conjured by the Enchantress.

The magic in the teeth hurts Superman. Wonder Woman calling him "cut to ribbons" by these choppers makes the scene too funny to take seriously.

The BoysThe Boys never shy away from harsh or ridiculous death scenes. Look atThe Boys#53 (2011), where the Avenging Squad is killed in a Third Reich ambush during WWII. Eagle the Archer tries to fly away, but a friendly plane's propeller dices him up.

Then a German tank runs over Archer’s remains. It is bloody, silly, and ironic. Bravo!

In the 2012 miniseries,Marvel Zombies Destroy!Description of 'Blazing Skull' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': Howard the Duck and his ragtag team of heroes go on a mission from A.R.M.O.R. to stop Third Reich extremists from an alternate universe from conquering the multiverse with their army of zombies. Blazing Skull (no, not Ghost Rider) is among the heroes in "Ducky's Dozen." Unfortunately for Blazing Skull, today is not his day.

Description of 'Blazing Skull' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': His team is unprepared for the horrifying scenario in which Thor's goats, Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder, become zombified by the Third Reich zealots. While the Loki of this alternate, twisted universe teleports some of the heroes from Ducky’s Dozen away to safety, others are left as bait for the zombie goats. Blazing Skull becomes zombie goat chow.

Description of 'Deadpool Is Disemboweled By An Elephant' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': Much like Wolverine, Deadpool’s super-healing ability makes him a fun target for writers to subject their most insane acts of cruelty upon. 2012's Description of 'Deadpool Is Disemboweled By An Elephant' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': Deadpool Description of 'Deadpool Is Disemboweled By An Elephant' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': #2 takes bodily injuries to the extreme as the Merc with a Mouth is disemboweled by an elephant released by a resurrected Teddy Roosevelt.

Description of 'Deadpool Is Disemboweled By An Elephant' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': This is no simple boo-boo. The elephant’s tusk pierces Deadpool’s body, releasing his intestines all over the place. How does Deadpool react? “At least buy me dinner first!”

Description of 'Superman' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': If Plastic Man sticking his fingers up the Flash’s nose didn’t convince you to read the Description of 'Superman' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': InjusticeDescription of 'Superman' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': comics, then maybe Alfred serving the Man of Steel a fresh can of whoop*ss will. Yup, you read right. Superman gets his butt kicked by the greatest butler in all of DC Comics. Of course, Alfred has a little help from a magic Kryptonian pill that grants the user the same god-like strength as Superman.

Description of 'Superman' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': As Batman is analyzing the pill for reproduction, Superman bursts into the Batcave and breaks Batman’s back, very reminiscent of what Bane does to the Dark Knight in Description of 'Superman' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': KnightfallDescription of 'Superman' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': . However, Batman tricks Superman by using himself as bait so the computer analysis and replication of the Kryptonian pill can finish. Alfred, being the first test subject of the pill, uses his newfound strength to avenge his master.

Description of 'El Guapo' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': Live by the skateboard, perish by the skateboard. In the third volume of Description of 'El Guapo' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': X-Statix Description of 'El Guapo' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': (2004), a European pop singer named Henrietta Hunter comes back from the grave, enjoys brief success as an undead celebrity, and then expires again. Following Henrietta’s second demise, her posthumously released song, "Back from the Dead,” becomes linked to a series of bizarre tragedies. Anyone who hums Henrietta’s song suffers an unfortunate demise soon after.

Description of 'El Guapo' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': El Guapo, a skateboarding mutant who has a symbiotic relationship with his board, doesn’t believe in the curse and hums Henrietta’s song. Shortly after humming the cursed lyrics, El Guapo is ironically slain in a strange mishap that ends in his beloved skateboard impaling him.

Description of 'Cyclops' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': It’s a shame Marvel Studios didn’t get the rights to the X-Men back in time for Description of 'Cyclops' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': Avengers: Infinity WarDescription of 'Cyclops' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': , because the original comic book storyline features an outrageous demise for everyone’s favorite mutant leader. In 1991's Description of 'Cyclops' in the list '15 Ridiculously Over-The-Top Comic Book Injuries': Infinity Gauntlet#4. All Marvel superheroes try to stop Thanos after he 'snaps' away half the universe's population. Thanos takes out Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Thor easily. Cyclops suffers the worst outcome.

Cyclops prepares to use his optic blasts. Thanos wraps the X-Men leader’s head with a clear cube of force. Cyclops cannot break free. He dies slowly from lack of oxygen. This is cruel, but the image of a see-through cube blocking Cyclops' blasts is too silly to skip.