Top Ten Comic Book Characters with Saddest Stories

Had to watch his parents get shot in the face at a young age and is now traumatized from it. He went through intense mental, physical, and emotional pain in his training. He got his back broken by Bane. His adoptive son, Jason, was murdered, and he struggled not to kill the Joker. His friend/partner, Barbara, was paralyzed. He has to deal with Superman's issues. Many more friends died or betrayed him. He has a brat for an unwanted son who also dies.

This is a small list of all the pain he has gone through and is still fighting.

Peter Parker has witnessed the deaths of his uncle, Captain Stacey, Gwen Stacey, and others around him. With great power comes great responsibility, and he can still overcome the odds and fight on as Spider-Man.

Wolverine has had sad times over the decades, including his relationship with Victor Creed, the deaths of his love interests, struggles with his X-Men teammates, and living life after losing his healing factor. Now that he has died in the comics, his legacy lives on.

After being exposed to gamma radiation, Bruce Banner has been on darker paths when he becomes angry and turns into the Hulk. He dealt with Betty Ross' general father, fought dangerous enemies, was thrown into space, and tried to cure himself to get rid of the Hulk forever. In the Civil War II story arc, Bruce wanted Hawkeye to kill him if he got angry again, and that's exactly what happened.

Cloned by Weapon X, Laura Kinney had an awful life when she was raised as a "lab rat" for the program. She was subjected to cruel, unusual torture and trained as a merciless assassin. Her rage caused her to accidentally kill her mother and end up being the lone wolf. When she was "fathered" by Wolverine, she became a better person than a killer and joined the X-Men. After Wolverine's death, Laura followed in his footsteps to become the all-new Wolverine.

After his family was gruesomely murdered by vicious mobsters, Frank Castle seeks to punish those who ruined him and everyone who gets in his way, becoming the Punisher.

He lost his family when he was little and later lost his wife and daughter due to an angry mob after discovering his mutant powers. Magneto soon gathered a group of mutants and declared war on humans, but not until the X-Men stopped him.

He had a rough childhood, and during his time as Robin, he was killed by the Joker. He soon came back from the dead, looking for his murderer until Batman tried to stop him.

When his father was killed by gangsters, Matt Murdock became the crime fighter known as Daredevil. He also had sad moments when his first love interest was killed by Bullseye, and Bullseye killed Elektra again.

She was killed by Wolverine, but now she is back!

Before Scott Lang, Hank Pym had been doing well as a hero and Avenger for years until things went rock bottom. He and his wife, the Wasp, argued frequently. His wife died during Secret Invasion and then came back to life (even though I've been missing out on reading his stories for a while). The sad thing now is that Hank has merged with his nemesis Ultron to become one, and they ended up in space.

1. Lost his home world, along with his parents, and was never raised by them.
2. Killed Lois, his love interest, mistaking her for Doomsday, one of his deadly enemies.
3. Died (but came back to life).

That's all I know about him, but sometimes The Man of Steel can be just like us, in his own epic way.