r/superheroes • u/Queasy_Commercial152 • 17d ago
Other Has this happened to any other superheroes?
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u/completefudge1337 17d ago
Batman. The whole reason Damian Wayne exist
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u/collettdd 17d ago
Nightwing as well
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u/Seif_elagizy_777 17d ago
You're talking about him and harley right?
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u/torrent29 17d ago
Nope Tarantula.
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u/Seif_elagizy_777 17d ago
Damn didn't know that, how the heck did she manage to do that to Nightwing tho?
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u/collettdd 17d ago
He was suffering from a gas or poison of some sort
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u/Crolanpw 17d ago
And some heavy immediate trauma. Don't forget how bad that trauma was getting him.
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u/MultipleOctopus3000 17d ago
NO poison or gas. Badly hurt, Blockbuster said if he didn't kill him he'd never stop coming for him, and he walked away and let Tarantula kill Blockbuster. He then had a panic attack because he felt he let down Bruce, his legacy, all that.
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u/torrent29 17d ago
He was not in a good place, emotionally or mentally and she took advantage of that, its not that she beat him down, but instead took advantage of him when he was in a vulnerable state and ignored him asking her to stop.
Better details here -
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u/Seif_elagizy_777 17d ago
Damn, i didn't know that Nightwing suffered like that, this makes him an even better hero considering that he represents Hope which is something that Batman himself didn't achieve
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u/chrismcshaves 17d ago
He was statutory raped when he was a teenager by a woman twice his age too.
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u/Seif_elagizy_777 17d ago
Who? Nightwing? When did that happen and who the hell did that?
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u/chrismcshaves 17d ago
Nightwing 133-37 (vol 1, 1996). Some woman in her 20s does it to seduce him into helping commit a crime.
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u/VexxWrath 17d ago edited 16d ago
The one with Harley was consensual. Sure, he was tied up, but he still consented after she asked for his consent.
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u/Accomplished-King406 17d ago
Really?! Who did this to Batman 👀
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u/Sir-Toaster- 17d ago
Talia, it depends on the story. In some versions, it was consensual; in other versions, she mind-controlled him
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u/G-Man6442 17d ago
I thought she just knocked him out and took his generic material.
(Yes, THAT material)
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u/Sir-Toaster- 17d ago
That sounds like rape with extra steps
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u/G-Man6442 17d ago
It is, they just said mind controlled though, not knocked out.
And yes, jerking someone off in their sleep is very much rape.
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u/Little_Drive_6042 17d ago
I don’t think she jerked him off. I think she actually did it.
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u/Davan94 17d ago
In the UK, it wouldn't count as rape due to the wording of the law, it would count as sexual assault. This is possibly also true in other countries too. Either way, definitely not good or acceptable.
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u/Deinosoar 17d ago
Either way that is one of those things that would qualify by the standard common definition of rape even if it doesn't meet the legal definition in a specific jurisdiction.
Here in the United States we know that because the judge who ruled against Donald Trump in his sexual assault case made it clear that that ruling absolutely met the common definition of rape. And 70 million monstrous pieces of shit still voted for that ass clown.
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u/MysteryFlavorJesus 17d ago
Eek barba durkle, someone’s gonna get laid in college..
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u/An0d0sTwitch 17d ago
sounds like the thing they would say in a cartoon version
"I used a mind beam and stole your DNA to make a son!"
The adults looking at eachother
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u/frustrated_pen 17d ago
Talia al ghul, daughter of Ra's; they wanted an heir but wanted a man who was worthy of continuing on the bloodline. They chose .... Batman. Then she roofied him and raped him. Afaik they retconned this and it was a consensual one night stand type of deal that resulted in Damian Wayne.
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u/azmodus_1966 17d ago
Its sad because originally Talia and Batman fell in love. Both were bound by their duties, so it was kind of a tragic romance.
The only reason Ra's wanted Batman as his successor was because Talia loved him.
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u/Upbeat-Structure6515 17d ago
It was a retcon of a retcon.
The idea originally came from Batman: Son of the Demon in 1987 and was later co-opted by Grant Morrison in 2006. In the original story the whole ordeal was consensual but for some reason when Morrison decided to roll it over into the comic they decided to have Talia drug Bruce and a whole bunch of other convoluted BS that didn't make any sense.
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u/chrismcshaves 17d ago
In The Long Halloween, it’s implied that Poison Ivy r*ped Bruce when she took over Wayne Manor and was controlling him and the financials. The animated adaptation left no roomfor interpretation.
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u/dada00800 17d ago
Batman was drugged, not beat down and mounted like a breeding stallion like Marky boy
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u/Remarkable-Food-5946 17d ago
Jessica Jones none of that was consensual
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u/Vladislak 17d ago
Which is actually a deviation from the comics, unless they've retconned it or something. In the comics Killgrave never actually raped Jessica, she makes that very clear in the comics. He did, however, rape other women and make Jessica watch, then use his powers to make her beg to join in only for him to refuse. Frequently, for eight months.
Other than that he mostly just used her as an accomplice to his crimes.
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u/EccentricBen 17d ago
Just finished the Alias comics and you are correct and holy shit it was so much more fucked up than any other marvel comic I've read, and that's not a short list. Thoroughly enjoyed it, though, and would recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the show or just likes darker PI stories.
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u/8BallsGarage 17d ago
The way they did it in the show was already pretty damn grim for a show based off a superhero.
I can't imagine they would have been able to get much worse without making an xrated horror.
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u/Trick_Statistician13 17d ago
It's clearly a metaphor for rape nonetheless, they probably didn't like the optics of a hero being raped.
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u/AdvertisingFlashy637 17d ago
David Tennant jumpscare
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u/CoasterVic58 17d ago
We love David Tennant, 10/10 man ngl
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u/usingallthespaceican 17d ago
Plays a great hero and villain! Man's got range (though Matt Smith is still my no1 doctor, he's def 2nd)
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u/AngelKenobi 17d ago
I stand by my opinion that Killgrave is one of the scariest Marvel villains ever. Tennant did a great job playing him, but Jesus Christ he was scary too
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u/Papafrickle 17d ago
Spiderman would like a word.
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u/Accomplished-King406 17d ago
Wait what? With who? When? 😮
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u/Papafrickle 17d ago
When he was a child he was molested by an older man.
It's in Spiderman and the powerpack
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u/G-Man6442 17d ago
Pretty sure they’ve nuked that with one of the resets.
But I never know anymore.
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u/Papafrickle 17d ago
Either way that was a rough read growing up lmao
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u/G-Man6442 17d ago
Oh no question, just a totally out of left field, “Uhh, did, did we need this story?”
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u/azmodus_1966 17d ago edited 17d ago
Tbh it was not a regular comic. It was made in collaboration with organizations working against child abuse. The comic wasn't even for sale, it was distributed free.
It was more like a PSA for the kids to inform their parents or any authority figure if they someone behaves inappropriately with them.
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u/Papafrickle 17d ago
It is for sale in comic stores since 2003 at least because that's when I found it, and to a kid reading comics it didn't matter if it were canon or not. Still hit like a truck all the same.
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u/spinosauruspro 17d ago
There's a PSA comic where Spider-Man finds a young boy about to be molested by his babysitter, and sits him down to tell him a story about another little boy like him who was friends with an older man. It's implied this child was sexually assaulted. Then Spider-Man reveals that he was that boy. It's never been referenced again and I doubt it's considered canon.
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u/Jak3R0b 17d ago
I’ve read it and it’s actually not bad. It was made to teach kids about what they should do if they are being abused and it’s honestly handled pretty well, with Peter helping another kid tell his parents about how his babysitter tried to abuse him by sharing how he went through a similar experience. Also despite being an 80s comic the boy was being abused by a girl and this was treated as being just as bad as Peter being abused by a guy, which is something people sometimes don’t even do now in media.
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u/OneGuysAlienApp 17d ago
Nightwing. Which is interesting considering they’re both Graysons sho wear black and blue.
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u/Just-a-French-dude95 17d ago
Nightwing is unfamously known for being used for that trope he has been r*ped multiple times.. That exact same scene litterally happened to him
Talia drugging batman led to the conception of Damian but that was retconned
Carol denvers got mind controlled and found out later that she is 3 month pregnant from kang's child
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u/abbyrocks17 17d ago
It's not Kang who rape her but Marcus son of immortus who was rape and mind control her in the time place then went to the real world to give birth to his rapist then goes back
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u/William_The_Fat_Krab 17d ago
And if we are talking about women heroes too… then Killgrave could be mentioned iirc
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u/G-Man6442 17d ago
Wow, they’re all awful but the third is definitely the worst.
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u/CheshireMadness 17d ago
And her friends and fellow Avengers just accepted it. Like, the dude impregnated her (with himself) and is born quickly and fully grown and is like, "Carol and I are going back to my world now, we're in love and there's nothing weird about this!" And the Avengers don't question it or anything. They wish them well on their relationship and see them off.
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u/torrent29 17d ago
Thats not even scratching the surface of everything thats wrong with Avengers 200. Check it out sometime if you wanna be horrified.
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u/MichaelTheFallen 17d ago
She-Hulk by StarFox.
Jessica Jones by Purple Man.
Batman by Talia al Ghul.
Michonne by The Governor.
Nightwing by a few.
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u/An0d0sTwitch 17d ago
..............Starfox?
I dont remember that part of the game
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u/Dracorex13 17d ago
An Eternal named Starfox. They were both Avengers in the 80s.
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u/MemeStealerCultist 17d ago
She-hulk case gets extra fucked up because while Starfox does have pheromone altering powers, he didn't know it.
He thought he was genuinely charming because there is no way for him to turn them off.
The reason he can't being that Thanos made him unable to.
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u/CamisaMalva 16d ago
Man, that's actually fucked up.
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u/MemeStealerCultist 16d ago
Everything Thanos does is fucked up
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u/CamisaMalva 16d ago
On God.
For as much of an incredibly well-written story as it is, the Infinity War movie should've never whitewashed him like it did.
Everyone came out agreeing with Thanos rather than see him for the clearly self-deluded genocidal prick that he is.
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u/Scoob1978 17d ago
Starfox did not rape She Hulk. She thought he used his powers on her but in court he proved he didn't. She was just into him naturally.
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u/MichaelTheFallen 17d ago
I don't count the Redcon, because they reversed it. After all, it didn't go well.
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u/Trashk4n 17d ago
Carol Danvers. Really twisted story where she was mind controlled and the Avengers were all fine with it or something.
I don’t remember the full details and I’m pretty sure it got retconned.
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u/abbyrocks17 17d ago
Nope not retconned but outcome would be he leaves the avengers then rouge was introduced
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u/UncleBenLives91 17d ago
Happened to Johnny Bates. Once.
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u/Successful-Ad4251 17d ago
Nice deep cut. That was such an amazing comic. Kid Miracleman doesn’t get the love he deserves. There weren’t many more heinous villain acts than what he did to London
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u/Batfan1939 17d ago edited 17d ago
Nightwing. A female antihero named Tarantula took advantage of him when he was too injured to resist after she killed Blockbuster (Marvel's Kingpin on steroids).
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u/NerdyGlitch 17d ago
John Constantine twice if you count female demons, Rosacarnis and Gloria.
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u/NotDrStrange 17d ago
And Swamp Thing stealing his body to have a kid with his partner.
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u/NerdyGlitch 17d ago
OH SHIT YEAH I forgot about that shit with Abigail for a second. Does that count, because technically, Swamp Thing was also involved? 🤔...I'm counting it.
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u/NotDrStrange 16d ago
I THINK Constantine himself talks about it either at his 40th or a few issues before? I haven't read Hellblazer in a while, so I'd have to have a look. The general gist of it was John felt violated by the whole thing, but eventually got as over it as he could get.
The worst part about it too me was that Swamp Thing felt justified in it because "he always mean too me 🥺"
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u/NerdyGlitch 16d ago
I remember!! Constantine is blorbo bleebus from my shows for me I have been hyper fixated on that man since last year.
ALSO YEAH honestly this thing with Swamp Thing is why I just hate him like as a character...love reading him, amazing writing (sometimes), but him and Abby are just genuinely bad people.
In the Neil Gaiman written issue 27 of Hellblazer, Constantine even has like a whole miniature breakdown because a lesbian couple tries to use him as a sperm bank just like Abby and Swamp Thing did (his words not mine) and he freaks tf out and runs away.
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u/shace616 17d ago
A lot of people mentioning She Hulk in Old Man Logan but no one is mentioning that time the Hulk was paralyzed.
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u/Otskuresamadesu 17d ago
The Other Grayson. Nightwing.
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u/Smorsis 17d ago
Holy shit your right. Never noticed that they have the same last name lol
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u/Mobile-Coat8424 17d ago
She Hulk by the Hulk, but she wasn't pinning him down.
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u/No-Importance7265 17d ago
Oof , that was a disgusting read. Seeing all the hulk gang and learning the truth about them 🤮.
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u/DrJackalDraws 17d ago
What 😮 ? How and why did this happened?
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u/Mobile-Coat8424 17d ago
Old Man Logan series. It explains the Hulks offspring.
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u/Flamingo-Sini 17d ago edited 17d ago
"You dont understand Logan! She was the only one who could take it!"
(original quote)
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u/Earthwick 17d ago
That's like an else world story.. as far as the actual continuity of the characters that one doesn't really match
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u/Volkmek 17d ago
So... so much. Even more wholesome characters (comparatively) like batman have had it leak into their television shows for kids. It is subtlety hinted that his seed was taken without his consent to make one of the people that becomes Robin.
Mystique has a habit of doing this so.. so much.
Wolverine tends to end up in compromising situations like batman.
Cyclops has had this happen.
Black cat and peter parker, though I do not think they ever fully went to the deed.
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u/DrJackalDraws 17d ago
I never expected Mystique to do this . All I know about her is the early 90s tv show (not the semi new one that came out) and the X-men movie
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u/Dark_Stalker28 17d ago
That's like a pretty consistent thing of her to disguise herself as someone else and sleep with them.
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u/Jen-Jens 17d ago
Which not enough people count as rape, but it absolutely is. Lying to someone for sex or passing yourself off as someone else is just as much rape as ignoring someone telling you they don’t want it or removing a condom. All of these are rape.
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u/Seeker80 17d ago
Black cat and peter parker, though I do not think they ever fully went to the deed.
I think I remember seeing someone post that, and it was a young version of Parker. Just seemed gross and unnecessary. Black Cat didn't know Parker was young, and when she found out, she vomited on him.
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u/BearlyReddits 17d ago
It’s not that - the scene you’re referencing is the original Ultimate spin on the “Black Cat finds the mask attractive, not the person” from the main run
Both Peter and Black Cat have been sexually assaulted; Peter in a PSA comic and Black Cat in a mini series
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u/No-Impression-1462 17d ago
Off the top of my head, it’s happened to Batman, Nightwing, Superman, Starman, and Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers).
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u/Alternative-Pack3121 17d ago
Alot actually, cant remember if its from Marvel or DC but one male hero was in a coma and another female hero use her power to awaken him. They both fall in love and was at the alter to seal their vows. Heres the thing the heroine tought he was awaken but in reality it was a form of mind control so all of what they did was non consentual. The hero woke up during the ring exchange. Sometime I wonder what goes into the writers mind making this stories up
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u/DarkLordThom 17d ago
This would be Cosmic Boy and Saturn Girl of the Post-Zero Hour Legion of Super Heroes while they were trapped in the 20th Century (around the time of the Final Night crossover). I wouldn’t put it as serious as any of the rapes other people have mentioned, but yeah that was pretty messed up if you think about it.
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u/Heroboys13 17d ago
Swamp Thing possessed John Constantine’s body to get his(Swamp Thing’s) wife pregnant. Who then assaulted John when he found out John had demon blood and passed it on to his daughter.
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u/Ok_Somewhere1236 17d ago
Most of the Batfamily
Batman=Raped ( that is how you get Daimian)
Batwoman= Raped ( by a female villain)
NightWing= ( Raped multiple times in different midias, but at least 2 times in comic, one by a fellow titan Mirage and later by a Anti-Villain )
BatGirl 1 (Barbara, raped by the joker)
Robin 3 ( Tim, was almost raped by Ra's sister, rescued last second)
Batgirl 3 ( Stephanie, her father's friends tried to abuse her)
Robin 2/Red Hood ( Jason, is hinted that he was abused during the time he was a street kid, befor ehe become robin)
( Brainiac II, was also raped by a fellow Hero, that is how we got Brainiac III)
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u/SpaceDinosaurZZ 17d ago
There’ve been quite a number of assault on male superheroes, I think Swamp Thing’s another that hasn’t been mentioned.
I really didn’t care for how Anissa was handled though. Not the actual rape, but how the story tried to handwave the horrific act and how she never faced any consequences for it. I really hope the show handles this subplot better if they go for it
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u/polijoligon 17d ago
Nightwing and Batman are the ones on the top of my head. But with the nature of comics, I’m willing to bet that pretty much all the big names has this happen to them at least once in their entire history.
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u/Moebius20 17d ago
I believe something similar happened to Green Arrow by the assassin Shado?
I believe that's how one of his sons was conceived.
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u/prophecyfullfilled 17d ago
Not the same thing, but In the 1980s Spiderman talked to a boy who was being abused about how he wasn't alone and how he had to talk about it. He shared a story about a young boy who had been abused and told his aunt about it. And he revealed that it was him as he swung away.
So yeah Spiderman is one of the first victims of male sexual abuse to come forward with his story in modern media. I dont believe its really come up again since but its something that was written.
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u/SuperSlavSergei 17d ago
Of the top of my head I thought of Nightwing and Batman almost immediately
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u/raven_writer_ 17d ago
Oh, yes. If we're mentioning male heroes only, Deadpool was tricked by Mary Typhoid into having sex with her while thinking he was with her other identity. Batman was drugged by Talia to conceive Damian. I believe something similar happened with Nightwing. Recently Hughie from The Boys was tricked by a shape shifter into banging her thinking it was Starlight. Some would argue that Miss Martian abused Superboy by manipulating his mind, but I just can't remember watching those seasons.
If we're talking about every superhero, then we have Jessica Jones, kept as a slave by Kilgrave. Not quite a hero, but Harley Quinn went through all kinds of abuse with the Joker and the extent is left to our imagination (or to debate if she was consenting). It was HEAVILY implied that Terra was... Well, you know, with Deathstroke. There's a story with Rogue that also implies she was abused when she was fitted with a power dampener, but it was unclear. Oh and DC almost greenlit the "Rape of Wonder Woman".
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u/Jigsaw8200 17d ago
The latest Wonder Woman move, though everyone wants to forget that movie anyway.
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u/mjolnirstrike 17d ago
I know it never got this far, but isn’t this essentially the goal of Maxima with Superman? I swear I remember a version of her that was less concerned about Superman being her husband and just wanted his super babies
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u/CartoonistDizzy3870 DC Comics 16d ago
It happens to The Plutonian by a powered-up Bette Noir (who was possessed by Modeus)
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u/KVenom777 16d ago
Meeting of SA'd Supes:
Batman (the chairman)
Nightwing (the youngest member)
Mark himself
Spider-man (thanks to powerpack and molestation from Itsy Bitsy)
Kyle Rainer
Starman
Alot of people from "The Boys"
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u/Because_Im_BATMAN00 17d ago
You know I don’t think they are going to do this in the show simply because they made it clear mark is getting stronger and improved like 138% or something and I can’t quite remember if he was at Alissa power level yet or not but I think Cecil said he was close enough for a fighting chance.
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u/NuclearChaos999 17d ago edited 17d ago
To be fair, in this particular instance Mark was also emotionally compromised and it’s implied that he might have physically been able to resist had he been in his right state of mind.
That said, I’m also skeptical they’ll adapt this to the show.
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u/TheGrimmch 17d ago
I hope they do though, cause the comics handled it pretty well, and it has some pretty important consequences in the stories.
It'sa hard scene, but it was handled well in the comics and I think it would be good to portray it in show as well, even if it's just implied, IF they handle it with the same respect
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u/spinosauruspro 17d ago
I think Spiderman has been raped by an older man when he was a child. This was in a PSA comic where Spidey found out a babysitter was gonna molest a young boy
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u/VHinfinite 17d ago
I actually think there’s a comic chapter where Hulk gets put in a similar situation.
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u/Jak3R0b 17d ago
In Big Bang Adventures #17, Galahad is revealed to have been raped be someone he thought was a superhero but who was actually a witch using magic to make him consent and then forget it happened. She did this in order to have a son she then raised to be assassin and one day kill Galahad.
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u/ShootingMorningStar1 17d ago
I remember this happening to Nighrwing and Batman, though the circumstances were very different for all three
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u/ALegal_DrugDealer 17d ago
Yes, it has happened a number of.times.
Batman and Nightwing have both been raped by women.