Things in Marvel Comics that were scary that creeped you out

[paurru]

For me, I was a little kid in the early 1980s so pretty much things in original Power Pack and Spectacular spider Man used to creep me out.


The main lizard alien bad guys in Power Pack were a bit scary looking even when they were on the front covers most of the time

[MichaelC]

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The way the Dire Wraiths killed by drilling a hole in your head creeped me out as a child.

[Buried Alien]

The way the Dire Wraiths killed by drilling a hole in your head creeped me out as a child.

I was just going to say...the original ROM comic featured some of Marvel's scariest images during the early 1980s. None of Marvel's other monthly titles at the time, not even GHOST RIDER, consistently delivered as many creepy images.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[Dr Quinch]

I always found Ultron to be pretty scary.

It's one of the reasons I was disappointed with the completely non-threatening Ultron we got in the movie.

[Michael Watkins]

that flashback to Mister Sinister running the orphanage where Scott Summers lived was straight out of a horror movie. he arranged the death of Scott's prospective foster parents (after letting him get to really like them). plus the kid who was routinely bullying Scott was just another of Sinister's thralls. i think scott's roommate was actually a disguised Mr.Sinister, as well. it's just wrong on so many levels.

[Michael Watkins]

when you judge him for the Death of X stuff. remember where he came from?

[Anduinel]

The way the Dire Wraiths killed by drilling a hole in your head creeped me out as a child.

This! And most of Claremont's body horror. This was the one time I EVER felt bad for Selene:



Oh yeah, and then there was the Xavier/Caliban forced merge:



Yick.

[paurru]

Also something that creeped me out when I was a little kid in the 1980s. Some old issue of original Uncanny X Men, Rogue was trying to save Colossus I think from being sucked into some big ground ant hill thing


But she didn't have gloves on so she was turning into metal.


Even in old Spectacular Spider Man, Sabretooth guest starred and clawed his own face screaming and hollerin because Spidey shot webbing into Sabretooths face

[Winterboy]

Brian Bendis writing one of my favorite characters...

[kaimaciel]

Identity death, even if it's not permanent. I find it truly horrifying. Killing someone's identity/soul and wear their body like a skin-suit. It's worse than real death.

Tony Stark changed into a Janet Van Dyne clone due to his nanites who was in love with the real Janet (?!). Dr. Octopus taking over Spider-Man's body. Kid Loki's spirit destroyed by a clone of the original Loki, and then said clone being destroyed and changed into a brand new Loki...

Ego Death or Identity Death. I hate it. It freaks me out.

[Filament]

This! And most of Claremont's body horror. This was the one time I EVER felt bad for Selene:



Oh yeah, and then there was the Xavier/Caliban forced merge:



Yick.

Agree, that's a creepy issue. I know it was one of those "everyone dies" stories from the get-go, but it it still so horrific. And Xavier/Caliban is too horrible for words. Reminds me of when that guy got merged with the "metal fetishist" in Tetsuo, the Iron Man.

Romita had Selene being segmented while alive in a later issue. It doesn't help that he draws her so curvy. It just doesn't seem right happening to her, even if she is evil incarnate. As an aside, I think Romita draws his women like his wife looks (a real blonde bombshell, at least during her younger years). I read that someone met her and John at a con and they looked like two porn stars, haha. He keeps himself pretty damn fit for being around 50. By the way, the person said they are very nice people to meet in person.

[XPac]

Agree, that's a creepy issue. I know it was one of those "everyone dies" stories from the get-go, but it it still so horrific. And Xavier/Caliban is too horrible for words. Reminds me of when that guy got merged with the "metal fetishist" in Tetsuo, the Iron Man.

Romita had Selene being segmented while alive in a later issue. It doesn't help that he draws her so curvy. It just doesn't seem right happening to her, even if she is evil incarnate. As an aside, I think Romita draws his women like his wife looks (a real blonde bombshell, at least during her younger years). I read that someone met her and John at a con and they looked like two porn stars, haha. He keeps himself pretty damn fit for being around 50. By the way, the person said they are very nice people to meet in person.

Yeah, that story was super creepy awesome. If that story occured in todays era it would be a company wide event. X-Men, Avengers, Spidey... with almost everyone dying. It should have been a graphic novel or something. It felt too big to be just a story arc.

But yeah... super creepy.

[Filament]

Yeah, that story was super creepy awesome. If that story occurred in today's era it would be a company wide event. X-Men, Avengers, Spidey... with almost everyone dying. It should have been a graphic novel or something. It felt too big to be just a story arc.

Yeah, two issues and done. A graphic novel would have been nice. Alternate realities weren't as common then as they are now so it was pretty special. I do like how Claremont kind of snuck the Avengers in without it having vast repercussions on the entire Marvel Universe. I like the altered realities with characters being mystical versions of what they are due to science. Vision being a golem was an interesting concept that could be expanded upon very nicely. Claremont never messed with somebody else's stuff in a way that it would have to be retconned by somebody else later. As bad as he was with following through with some dangling plots he was also good at wrapping one up.

[MyriVerse]

Agreed about Dire Wraiths. Not only can these things pose as anyone around you, but they have drill-bit tongues that suck your brains out. And they used black magic.

Don't know about creeped me out, but I find it sad that Mr. Sinister was once this menacing Frankenstein's monster like guy that could toss Sabretooth around like a kitten, and lately, he's a Victorian fop that can casually be pushed aside by Mystique.

[ERON]

I was scared to death of the Hulk when I was a kid. It started with the TV series, which my parents watched, but extended to the comics as well. I liked Spider-Man because of his appearances on The Electric Company, so when my aunt bought me my first Spider-Man comic when I was about 5 or 6, I was excited at first, until the Hulk made a guest appearance. It not only turned me off of Spider-Man to know that he was pals with the Hulk, it killed my interest in superhero comics in general until I was in my teens.