The Most Egrious Misrepresentation of a Character I Ever Saw Was...

[Frontier]

Jason Aaron on Dr. Strange.

[Tendrin]

Max Bemis on moon knight. He turned the mysterious, dark antihero of Marc Spector into a "lol Marc's so craaazy" . Which is also what they did in Dr.strange damnation turning Marc into a atrocious comedic relief with everyone just calling him crazy.

LOL ISN'T MENTAL ILLNESS JUST SO FUNNY

Uggggh.

[Witchfan]

I hate everything that Bendis did to Scarlet Witch.

[SuperiorIronman]

Iron man during the crossing was something of a betrayal.

[Venomous Mask]

In issue 16 of volume 2 of Peter Parker Spider-Man, Venom is randomly killing people at the Daily Bugle, with no explanation given. This could maybe have been an effect of him absorbing the Carnage symbiote, but given the quality of Spider-Man comics then, I just think it was due to a lack of care and laziness.

[Skedatz]

Iron man during the crossing was something of a betrayal.

We don't speak of that.

Or at least I don't. lol

[JackDaw]

So a writer is on your favourite comic.

And he mis-writes your favourite character. We all know that happens!

One issue, two issues...

At one point do you stop buying??

[Tony Stark]

Iron man during the crossing was something of a betrayal.

We don't speak of that.

Or at least I don't. lol

Correct on both accounts lol.

[Tendrin]

I hate everything that Bendis did to ________

You can pretty much play madlibs with this and come up with almost every character Bendis touched that wasn't his own invention.

[brettc1]

I've been reading Marvel from Fantastic Four #1 forward across multiple titles and am now in 1981. One thing that's impressed me is how multiple writers/editors kept characters relatively consistent. Except when they didn't.

I mean some of that was Really Bad. Characters were simply written totally out-of-character every now and then, to a point that was offensive. Have you seen that?

My personal vote is X-Men King Sized Annual #5. The Invisible Woman had been steady growing as a character, and Claremont (who was usually a feminist writer) regressed her to an "helpless female" stereotype in one quick stroke.

So what's your WT* misrepresentation?

You mean the one with the Badoon. Where the whole FF are captured except Sue , and she teams up with the X-Men to lead a rescue?

Not really seeing the "helpless female" here, sorry.

[brettc1]

Thor berating cancer afflicted Jane Foster and accusing her laughing about taking his hammer as revenge for when he cheated on her.

It's horrible in the moment and it's horrible in that it turns Thor into a guy who cheated years ago. Double whammy.

[KurtW95]

Most misrepresentations of characters set a precedent, which makes the creators following a portrayal to continue to screw them up But here’s my top 22:

1. Post-Bendis Iceman
2. Post-KSD Carol Danvers
3. Post-Bendis Star-Lord
4. Post-Cain Mockingbird
5. Post-Way Deadpool
6. Post-Morrison Cyclops
7. Morrison and Taylor Jean Grey
8. Post-Taylor X-23
9. Post-Fraction Hawkeye
10. Post-Morrison Beast
11. Morrison Magneto
12. Post-Bendis Luke Cage
13. Post-Gillen America Chavez
14. Post-Bendis Peter Parker
15. Post-whoever decided to make Bishop a villain Bishop
16. Post-DnA Pre-Duggan Groot
17. Post-Aaron Jane Foster
18. Millar Tony Stark
19. Post-Hopeless Jessica Drew
20. Post-Whedon Professor X
21. Post-Spencer Sam Wilson
22. Post-Aaron Thor

[Tony Stark]

Reed Richards during Civil War. It was such a departure from how I saw Reed and how he was previously portrayed, especially the stuff with Clor and Bill Foster. He didn't even care that he died, he might as well have said "whoops! My bad" he cared so little. That has never been how Reed reacted to how a friend dies, especially if it were his fault.
It's especially jarring after the arc in FF 300 and something, many years before Civil War where he and the team were testifying against registering superheroes.
That whole event was a mess and while Reed isn't viewed as badly as Tony Stark after it, there are still those who hate him because of it and think that is how he usually acts.

Reed got a pass from the rest of the MU. He was right next to Tony when they were doing bad shit. And Carol was right there step for step doing the things Tony was doing and got nothing like how Stark got and she did the bad shit again in CWII. I don't see her getting bashed no where as near as Tony did. Steve did get mindwiped on Tony's order by Strange. Strange didn't get the blame Tony took it.

Carol Danvers since she became Captain Marvel.

She's doing illegal things now and shit she did before with Tony.

[hotroddii]

Mary-Jane Watson in Bendis Iron Man.

[icctrombone]

I hate everything that Bendis did to Scarlet Witch.

Although the seeds were planted in earlier stories for her becoming a bit unstable by Byrne and Micheline. It's not pleasant but having these powers come at a price for some of these characters.