Comics may be meant for everyone, but for some, it is unbearable to witness some painful moments. Moments such as seeing superheroes killing their own children. Here are a few such superheroes who had no choice but to kill their own children.
Mystique
Mystique, be with Xavier or Magneto, sure is hell bent on saving her mutant race. One such time is when she has to kill her own son, Graydon, in order to save the mutants. Graydon is an anti-mutant terrorist group’s leader. Naturally becoming Mystique’s adversary, hence naturally being dead.
Scarlet Witch
Well, Wanda Maximoff sure had a lot of issues and not to forget an incredible amount of superpowers too. In the storyline, ‘The House Of M’ Wanda creates an alternate reality in which she and Vision have two children, Billy and Tommy Maximoff. They die but later are reincarnated as Wiccan and Speedy.
Spider-Man
Well, this one can’t technically be termed as a kill but nonetheless, Spidey needed to make it to the list for what he did. In order to save his Aunt May, Spider-Man needs to make a deal with Mephisto, who would bring her back but the would take away the existence of his marriage and everything after. Meaning, the existence of his unborn daughter was also taken away from him.
Superman
Under the influence of the drug of the Scarecrow, given to Supes by the Joker, the Man Of Steel kills Lois thinking of her to be Doomsday. What was worse that he, out of his mind yet again, when comes to his senses, he realizes that there are two heartbeats coming from the body of the woman. The second of his unborn child who he killed.
Wolverine
Wolverine has had it all with killing his own children. When Daken, Wolverine’s son starts working for Norman Osborn in the Dark Avengers, in order to bring the bloodshed to an end, Wolvie has to kill Daken. He puts his claws inside him and then drowns him in order to stop him from regenerating, what’s worse is that all this while what is going through his mind is how his life would have been with Daken by his side. Apart from this there is a group, known as The Mongrels was a group that was controlled by someone else, the group was trained into a fight with Logan and eventually lose. And that is what happens, Logan defeats them and kills them brutally, only to realize later that they were his children.
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