10 Greatest Comic Book Heroes Who Despise Humans

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Not all who wear flashy capes stand for truth, justice and the Human way.

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00:00So, if there's one thing that we all know about comic books, it's that superheroes are almost

00:04always portrayed as beings who help the innocent, slay the evils of the world, and look amazing

00:09while doing so. While a good majority of our favourite comic book heroes love the people

00:14that they protect, there are also quite a few so-called heroes who actually learn to

00:18view humanity as despicable creatures barely worth the effort. So let's take a look at

00:22them as I'm Jules, this is WhatCulture.com, and these are the 10 Greatest Comic Book

00:26Heroes Who Despise Humans.

00:2810. Raven

00:30Raven has gone through many different iterations of her life, even dying and becoming a wandering

00:35spirit after becoming possessed by evil and trying to kill her teammates, the Teen Titans.

00:40Even in her ghost form, Raven held disdain for the humans that often viewed her as a demon.

00:45Raven's entire internal struggle revolves around her battle against the evil that resides within her,

00:50and the constant feeling of loneliness brought on by the innate mistrust and hatred humans have

00:54of her. While Raven truly hates her father Trigon above any other being in the universe,

01:00humans come as a close second. Raven holds little love in her heart for the humans that live outside

01:04the Titans' tower. It's true that Raven loves the few humans on her team, and has been trying

01:09to open up more and more to them about her inner feelings and thoughts, and most of the time the team

01:13has to learn about her feelings from a magical attack that forces their innermost feelings to be exposed

01:18to one another.

01:199. Deadpool

01:20Deadpool is one of pop culture's greatest icons due to his comedic self-awareness and

01:25complete lack of humanity. Fans love to praise Wade Wilson for his comedy, his tragedy, and his

01:31constant rivalries with heroes and villains alike from across the Marvel multiverse, but the Merc with

01:36a Mouth once himself rebelled against his fans in the classic comic event Deadpool Kills the Marvel

01:41Universe. Deadpool has also killed more people than can possibly be counted, with many being killed simply

01:46because Wade felt like it. He's also tortured and tormented many of his closest friends and

01:51allies, and has ended up being rejected by his fellow mutants from humans and even from death

01:56herself. His hatred of all living things makes Deadpool often become the loneliest immortal being

02:01in the Marvel Universe. While he mostly kills bad guys in their seemingly endless supply of goons,

02:07he's also killed many innocent people in some pretty messed up ways, whether possessed by another

02:11bad guy because they got in the way of his chaotic battles, or simply because he's completely unstable

02:15and they bothered him at the wrong time. Deadpool even once encouraged a teen girl to kill herself

02:21because he knew that it was the one thing that he could never truly accomplish, though he has tried

02:26many, many times. Pretty grim, right?

02:298. Rorschach

02:30While Rorschach may be the loosest definition of a comic book hero, he nonetheless is one of the few

02:36characters in comic history to hold a true and unshakable disdain for humanity. Both in his actions and

02:42his personal thoughts that are found inside his journals, Rorschach has shown that he believes

02:46without a doubt that the world is truly ugly, and the few who are actually good people in this world

02:52are really just prey for the others to mercilessly devour. His outlook on humanity is one of pure

02:57hatred, with perhaps children being his only exception. He believes that everyone is willing

03:02to stand by and ignore the filth on the street, and that everyone is constantly complaining about the

03:07things that he views to be meaningless and unimportant. This, mixed with his unshakable

03:12delusions of standing firm in the face of even Armageddon, has made him one of pop culture's most

03:17engaging characters, but also one who could care less what the scum of the world, in his eyes,

03:22think of him. Rorschach is also incredibly brutal. He kills anyone that he thinks is evil without a

03:27second thought, no justice system or jails, no one to judge the wicked, except for him.

03:327. Namor

03:33As with most kings under the sea, Namor holds a deep mistrust and somewhat obvious hatred towards

03:39humanity. He has often gone to war with humans on the surface for any reason that he deems to be

03:44worthy of killing, including the Kingdom of Wakanda when he had the powers of the Phoenix Force.

03:49Namor used that uncontrollable power to drown the capital city of Wakanda, killing millions.

03:54The Sub-Mariner's loyalty to Earth can change seemingly on a dime, and his unpredictability mixed

03:59with his arrogance and superiority complex all make for one of the most unstable heroes on Earth.

04:05Even when Namor joined the secret superhuman council called the Illuminati, he rarely got

04:09along with any of his other fellow members. He always proposed the most violent and the most

04:13destructive methods of dealing with Earth's problems. Namor would gladly drown the entire

04:18Earth if he felt that it would be the only way to save his kingdom. This arrogance and brutality led

04:23to Namor's murder by the hands of King T'Challa during one of the secret Illuminati missions,

04:27a death that many saw coming and few felt bad about, aside from the unshakable moral characters

04:32like Captain America.

04:346. The Spectre

04:35One of the most powerful beings in the DC multiverse, the Spectre is the embodiment of God's wrath.

04:42And by wrath, we mean the Old Testament flood the world to start humanity over type of wrath.

04:46The Spectre is also so full of hatred towards humanity that if it's not bonded with the spirit of a

04:51human, it will judge everyone equally as sinners. This means, I don't know if you litter or something

04:55like that, you are the same as a murderer in the eyes of the Spectre, and therefore would be

05:00subject to his undeniable power. Even when bonded with a human, the Spectre has proven to be an

05:05uncontrollable force, making its users subject to the limitations brought on by being the Spectre.

05:10Even Hal Jordan, one of the strongest-willed humans in the universe, had difficulty controlling

05:15the Spectre, trying his best to direct the wrath for good rather than for its innate neutral chaos.

05:215. Red Hood

05:22The second Robin has become one of the most infamous characters in DC Comics history. His run as Robin

05:28was so hated by DC fans that they almost unanimously voted to kill him off in brutal fashion at the

05:33hands of the Joker. Sadly, like most comic book characters, he was actually brought back thanks

05:38to the use of Ra's al Ghul's Lazarus Pit. But being revived by the Lazarus Pit meant that the person

05:43who emerges from death is not the same as the person they once were, and Jason was no different.

05:48His exposure to the pit made him more unstable, more violent, and less willing to follow Batman's

05:53straight-edged moral compass. Instead, Todd believed that the only way to truly stop criminals is to

05:57bury them six feet underground. Adopting a new name, the Red Hood, Jason quickly became a fan

06:02favourite due to his brutal tactics on crime and his immediate rivalry with Batman. Red Hood has slowly

06:08become more of an anti-hero in recent stories, but when he first arrived, Red Hood viewed all of

06:13humanity as flawed and corrupt, and all too willing to try and save monsters like the Joker instead of

06:17doing what needed to be done in his eyes. 4. Detective Chimp

06:22While some of you might not even know who he is, Detective Chimp has saved the universe countless

06:26times thanks to his heightened intelligence and overall skills in the magical arts. However,

06:31due to his appearance, Detective Chimp isn't accepted by most humans, and due to his intelligence,

06:36he isn't accepted by other chimps. So the world's smartest detective is forced to wander the Earth

06:40and its spiritual planes, saving universes when he can, all the while hating himself and others for

06:46the way that he looks and how he's treated by his fellow magicians as well as normal humans.

06:50Being forced to save people who won't ever truly accept him has led Detective Chimp to often despise

06:55humans and constantly wonder what the point of it all is, something shared with his fellow magician

06:59Constantine. Though they also have a major rivalry, as Constantine is more aggressive towards the world

07:04than even Detective Chimp.

07:063. Cyclops Cyclops was once the greatest mutant to ever live. His heroic leading of the X-Men

07:12saved humanity countless times, even when he had to fight his own friends or lovers. That all changed

07:17when he gained the power of the Phoenix Force. With the Phoenix Force, Cyclops and several other X-Men

07:22devastated the world in the pursuit of betterment for all of mutantkind, leading to the death of

07:27Charles Xavier by Psyche's own laser. Even after losing the Phoenix Force, Cyclops turned into the

07:32one thing that he fought against, and that was pretty much Magneto. The stress of events like

07:36House of M reducing the mutant population, mixed with so many other traumatic wars and mutant

07:41genocides caused by humanity's unshakable hatred of the mutant race, radicalised Cyclops.

07:46Scott Summers took several mutants and went rogue, fighting against humans, the X-Men, and even the

07:52Inhumans, all to preserve mutants above any other race on Earth.

07:562. The Punisher

07:57Now Frank Castle already gained a negative outlook on the world when he was in the military,

08:01but on that fateful day that his entire family was slaughtered in front of him,

08:05he lost all traces of humanity that was still inside him. Though the Punisher doesn't kill or

08:09injure the innocent, he certainly has come to despise them. Whether it's because they allow

08:13the evil and corrupt to take power, stand by and let good people die or be hurt by evil people,

08:18or simply because they are so unaware of the filth that has taken over their cities,

08:22the Punisher has become fully separated from normal citizens and even other superheroes in his

08:27hatred of humans. This total disassociation can best be seen in the Marvel event Civil War.

08:32In the first version, Captain America went underground with several heroes to battle

08:35against Iron Man's loyalist group of heroes who were trying to get heroes to register with

08:39the government and reveal their secret identities to the world. Cap was running out of soldiers and

08:44recruited some C-list villains to assist by his side, but the Punisher killed those villains on

08:48sight, believing that if someone turns evil, they simply cannot be forgiven for the crimes they

08:53commit and the innocent lives they take. This forced Cap to toss the Punisher out of their resistance

08:58and turn Frank into a lone wanderer who felt justified in his violent and unforgiving actions.

09:031. Supergirl

09:05When people see the classic symbol of the House of El, they imagine the wearer of that symbol to

09:10treasure human life above all others. However, Kara, aka Supergirl, has constantly struggled with

09:15being an alien forced by her cousin to protect a race of people that are far weaker than her in every

09:20single way. Supergirl actually grew up on Krypton, so she had to fully deal with the loss of her

09:25entire civilization and wasn't able to experience humanity from a young age like her cousin. Thus,

09:29it became increasingly difficult to be asked to protect a civilization like ours. This hatred

09:34became so hard to fight against that at one point, Supergirl just up and left Earth to wander the stars

09:39and take a break from us. Her hatred for humanity became so bad that she actually attracted a red lantern

09:44ring and became a red lantern for a time. She has come back to Earth, but she still feels isolated

09:49and disconnected from us insignificant beings that she flies above every single day.

09:53And there we go, my friends. Those were the 10 greatest comic book heroes who despise humans.

09:57I hope that you enjoyed that, and please let me know what you thought about it down in the

10:00comment section below. If you want to chat to me further, you can do so over on Twitter

10:03at RetroJWithAZero, or you can swing by Liv and Let's Dice, where I do all of my streaming

10:08outside of work, and it'd be great to see you over there. As always, I've been Jules,

10:11you have been awesome, never forget that, and I'll speak to you soon. Bye.

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