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My personal favorite was a fight between Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus. Doc Ock made the mistake of horribly beating Black Cat and Spidey went BALLISTIC on him. The beating was so vicious that the guy not only needed physical recovery, but time in a psych ward to cope with a new and crippling case of arachnophobia.
@@JoeFanik Spectacular Spider Man Issue #76. It's an older comic so the violence is still pretty tame, but the fact that Spidey legit stopped holding back for a little while still speaks volumes. And Octavius was feeling the effects of that arachnophobia for years until Spidey let him beat him in a mock hand-to-hand fight.
One of my all time favorites was during No Man's Land. The Joker was sabotaging Lex Luthor's work sites hoping to draw out Batman. A shadow looms behind him. He turns with a smile, expecting to see Bats. Instead it's Bane. Luthor hired him to protect his interests in Gotham. It doesn't go well for the Joker. Bane beats the living shit out of him.
Bendis' Daredevil brutal beat down of Bullseye in DD #49 was amazing. When I saw the title of this video, I knew this story had to be included. The Kingpin beating was great too, but the way DD just tore Bullseye apart physically and psychology, was the best.
The Harley Quinn fight against Joker I feel was the most unbelieveable of the bunch. I loved the Davedevil beatdown of Kingpin, such a long time coming. Spidey v. Goblin after Gwen died was just a classic. Batman v. Joker during Knightfall was insane and left off this list.
I feel that Superior Spider-Man tossing a beating to Wolverine deserves an honorable mention on this list. If for no other reason than to highlight the amount of restraint he's always putting forth. To my recollection he even threw Wolverine through unbreakable glass at some point too, prior to being taken over by Osborne. Definitely worthy mentions.
The best part about number one is that Joker didn't do it. He just found him like that. Which, I think, is why he wasn't keen on explaining himself. If Batman killed Joker for something he hadn't even done...well, that's just funny. I have to chide you, however, with you Spider-Man pick. Sure, he beat Goblin up a bit...but what about Stanley Carter, aka Sin-Eater? It was BAD. Bad enough to cripple, deafen, and induce minor brain damage. And it didn't even end there. When a crowd tried to lynch Stanley Carter, he was going to just let it happen, even as Daredevil was getting overwhelmed.
Come on, Spider-man didn't just "beat Goblin up a bit", he beat him a WHOLE ton in that comic, if Goblin wasn't super-powered at that moment and just a normal human, he would have died from the beaten. That's just fact right there! WAY more of a beating Goblin "up a bit" at all.
Kind of awesome that Spider-man has to remind characters like Kingpin he doesn't have to do much to put him down. Morlun found out the hard way when Spider-man release his true form and deck him in seconds. I guess Spider-man really dose have a spider form.
What about the fight when the Joker dies by snapping his own neck after Batman's beaten him quadriplegic in The Tunnel Of Love. (The Dark Knight Returns) That's tough to beat. Good list though :)
He also chucked a batarang through Joker's eye earlier in the fight (without instantly killing him somehow), after which Joker had the audacity to ask Batman if he was out of his mind. Yeah, like Joker should be the one to ask that question.
Not exactly a beatdown, but the most visceral moment in comics is Colossus breaking Riptide's neck... then telling Harpoon to make peace with his gods because he's next. (Harpoon didn't stick around to find out.)
My favorite beat down was when half Of Batman rogue gallery beat up the joker who was threatening to blow up a orphanage I think the one who did it where Catwoman Scarecrow Riddler and a few other villains who had rough childhood avoid destroying orphanages when the joker threaten to do so well they beat the brakes off him and left him for the GCPD 😂😂😂😂😂
I'd have probably put batman beating Joe Chill as number one. Can't remember the run it happenned in but Batman breaks into joe chills apartment over and over again beating the hell out of him before revealing he is Bruce Wayne and that joe chill created Batman, a secret he must take to his grave or every villain in Gotham would want to take a piece out of him.
When spider got the rino and scorpion in the clone saga, he broke them like never before and when wolvie fought sabertooth for the chance to be an apocalipse knight, he ripped his guts!
I’ve always thought it was hilarious that Batman won’t kill people but he’ll definitely beat the shit out of them, give them permanent injuries, potentially cripple them and definitely give them CTE. 🤣
During the Batman one Jason was probably somewhere asking Tommy Elliott "must feel good" too be so close to Batman he nearly killed the Joker for you seemingly being killed Tommy: what are you talking about? Red Hood: let's just say when the time came he didn't use that same energy for me Tommy: ???
I have pledged myself, anytime it's mentioned, to mention it myself. One More Day is the Worst thing that ever happened to the Spider-man comics, Very much including both clone sagas
What's missing from this list is a beatdown from a _real_ superpowered entity - namely Superman. When Lobo first encountered Superman, he was able to reduce Supes into a bloody pulp, all the time mocking him about how he "fights like a butler." This is why a lot of especially powerful supervillains tend to get the upper hand in a brawl with Superman; he holds himself back too much for his own good, to the point where most of them dismiss him as an overrated boy scout. But on those times Superman is pushed past the breaking point (yes, it's happened - in his own way, he's just as human as the rest of us), it doesn't matter who you are; Lex Luthor, the Batman Who Laughs, or Darkseid himself. It's GAME OVER. You see, Superman wouldn't just beat the living snot out of you. He knows how to apply his superpowers to make you especially sorry for pissing him off. _He can actually use his heat vision to dissect specific parts of your brain._ Superman wouldn't have to worry about breaking his "never kill" rule if he technically left you alive, i.e., turned you into a drooling mental infant. The Elite found that out the hard way. That's why any supervillain who deliberately taunts Superman into fighting dirty can only be a raging retard.
I still don't understand how the Purple Man survived...Well, I guess he must be "enhanced" somehow... Because someone like Luke Cage who can lift 50 tons punching another guy a couple of times would be enough to kill him... I mean, Captain America stopped him before he went there...But still...
Black Panther vs Red Skull. Tells him at the beginning of the fight he's going to break his jaw, then a page or two later, that red jaw is hanging Half off
Well I know this is a list about bad guy beat downs but have you seen what Morlun did to Spidey in #526? The fact that eating Peters eye (seriously) isn't the half of it shows how serious the fight was, and it pretty much goes on for the entire issue.
Number 9 is about as extreme as it gets. The needless slaughter of an entire people/invasion force, then writing in their blood on a ship tne rest won't even see
Wolverine in the sub-basement of the Hellfire club. Spiderman was my favorite, but I got tired of him having to hold back. In the 80 i only collected Ironman and Daredevil.
Ah, the eternal comic Variable Force Punch. Hero X can punch through a brick wall with skull-popping force, but can only severely beat a villain. It's like Roger Rabbit and the handcuffs.
What culture. That explains it! Props on recognizing ing Ennis but epic fail on your picks the preacher series alone has more ruthlessness alone then everything you named.
I like that two Heroes have same villain like Spider-Man & Daredevil vs Kingpin and the Fantastic Four & Iron-Man vs Dr.Doom. I wounder who else has that 2 Heroes has one Villain?
Didn't do the spider-man one justice, he told him how he was going go kill him and grabbed him by his skin and chest muscles and place his wrist up to his open mouth and explain he(kingpin dies when she does)
Actually this list is all over the place, my favorite one is not even on this list, it was about Batman beating Mad hatter, MH used his own special tea to go berserk and killed his girlfriend (which finally learnt the truth about Bruce) at the time then Batman beat him so bad that he broke too many of his bones to count just to end up throwing him on the bat signal of the GCPD. Batman won't kill you but he knows how to put you in a state where dying would be a bliss.
This isn't a supervillain but in Jojo's bizzare adventure golden wind. The character Cioccolata gets beaten but by Giorno Giovanni's stand. The beatup took a total 7 pages out of the volume. The manga is 21 pages meaning the writers dedicated 1/3rd of the book beating the absolute shit out of Cioccolata
Hmmm, I think this should probably be titled "the 10 most brutal villain beatdowns in mainstream Marvel and DC comics". The reason is simply that I'm what used to be called "Middle Aged" (mid 40s) but now for some reason is supposed to be what an Ocogenerian used to be. As someone who grew up with comics and maintained what was an unusual interest in them for a long time even when it was unpopular, I sort of went into this expecting something new, or some obscure information to be shared, given how deep this could go. Rather it's sort of a list of well known and classic moments. See back in the 1990s a lot of good stuff was produced, but also shovel loads of "follow the leader" pointlessly edgy garbage. As you might guess this involved a lot of super heroes who did absolutely horrendous stuff to "the bad guys". Even if we omit the garbage you have to consider that comics that were really popular at the time like "The Authority" and it's precursor "Stormwatch" outdid this regularly. Given that "The Authority" is apparently getting a treatment by James Gunn, and is becoming somewhat well known again in comics circles, I at least expected a few "Wildstorm" bits. Or at least events from Marvel and DC's "M" rated titles. To put this into perspective, in one comic "The Authority" is fighting what amounts to an army of genetically modified super humans who all vaguely reference popular Marvel characters. Despite the amusement factor for the reader, this is handled somwhat seriously in world as to them it's just a bunch of bad guys. At any rate two of the first gay characters in mainstream comics were Apollo and The Midnighter, as this is a DC published title at this point they aren't even really disguising that they themselves are vague analogies to Superman and Batman respectively... albeit spliced with some other things. At any rate a Thor expy called "Thunder God" lands some big hits on Apollo during the fight as I recall, so when he's brought down finally "the Authority" leave him for some reason, which is basically The Midnighter (Apollo's boyfriend) running him down with a post driver as he's trying to crawl away and pretty much executing him by driving a giant log up his posterior. While they show some gory and crazy stuff in these titles (this is actually a little passe) I used it as an example of a fairly well known at the time example of "super hero brutality" that should warrant consideration... because let's be honest, that's all kinds of messed up in ways beyond just a lot of blood splatter, or even ripping someone's spine out. Not to mention even omitting non DC and Marvel titles, some of the stuff characters like "The Punisher" and "Deadpool" have gotten up to, sort of eclipse a lot of these moments, or at least in my opinion, sadly I don't have a large comics collection anymore to share some of those moments for those who missed them and derive some etertainment from it.
