Most Depressing Marvel Character

[Old Man Ollie 1962]

Hero or villain

[Rosebunse]

Deadpool can be pretty damn depressing.

Surprisingly, so can the Silver Surfer.

[cc008]

Deadpool is heartbreaking.

[Huntsman Spider]

Spider-Man, Daredevil, Deadpool, or Cyclops are high up there for most depressing Marvel hero. Spider-Man is damned to constant failure and loss, with no real success or progress or even long-lasting victory to show for his efforts. Daredevil is pretty much the same, except even bleaker than Spider-Man because unlike Spider-Man, he doesn't quip as a defense mechanism. Deadpool pissed away all the work he'd done trying to redeem himself by hooking up with HYDRA-Cap, so he's pretty much doomed to being an outcast among the heroes and reverting to villainous type. Cyclops . . . where do I even start, especially with where he's ended up? For all his ideals and hopes and struggles, he didn't even get to go out making one last quasi-heroic stand for mutantkind, he just died. That's pretty depressing to me.

For most depressing villain, I'd say Doctor Doom or Magneto; Doom because he's locked into a blood feud with Reed Richards over a petty grudge that he only has because he can't just admit that Reed might be better than him where it counts, and Magneto because in trying to prevent mutants from being the new Holocaust victims, he himself has become little better than the people who started and perpetrated the Holocaust in the first place. Sure, they're both grandiosely charismatic and compelling characters, but when you think about where they started and the roots of their villainy, it's really quite depressing.

[Nomads1]

Stan Lee's Silver Surfer was a real downer.

Peace

[kilderkin]

For me nowadays spiderman

[kilderkin]

Stan Lee's Silver Surfer was a real downer.

Peace

Indeed it could be

but it was almost a vertigo style

years ahead of its time imo

[The Celtic Batman]

The Sentry?

[kilderkin]

The Sentry?

Good one

It's all angst with him

[Frontier]

Hank Pym. Just Hank Pym .

[Huntsman Spider]

Hank Pym. Just Hank Pym .

Thanks for reminding me. Founding Avenger, done lots of good, made lots of scientific discoveries and advancements, but because of two horrible mistakes, one while in the throes of a general mental breakdown, he's widely (and increasingly openly) reviled and scorned by both the in-universe characters and the real-life Marvel writers and editorial and can never really regain any shred of respect that he doesn't wind up losing later. Plus, he's permanently merged with the other horrible mistake and has seemingly sunk completely into villainy.

[Nomads1]

Indeed it could be

but it was almost a vertigo style
years ahead of its time imo

Oh, I liked it. but it was kind of depressive.

Peace

[Nomads1]

Hank Pym. Just Hank Pym .

DING, DING, DING!!! And we have a winner!

Peace

[jwatson]

Amadeus Cho. It was depressing for me having to read him in Weapon X. I never thought one way about him but in that story i grew to despise him to the point that i couldn't even read free issues of Weapon X.

[Michael Watkins]

Pym is pretty depressing to read about.