History BewareTheNiceOnes / ComicBooks

* Avengers long-time powerhouse [[Characters/MarvelComicsWonderMan Wonder Man]] has Sentry-level strength and speed, never tires, never sleeps, and is one of the most incredibly tough to hurt characters in Marvel. Why isn't he higher profile? He's ''nice''. Too nice, in fact, just very much a regular Joe -- that can bench press the Chrysler building. But insult the Scarlet Witch in his presence and he'll punch you completely through the Xavier school and partway through the Mansion itself. Just ask Wolverine.

** Subverted in ''ComicBook/WhatsSoFunnyAboutTruthJusticeAndTheAmericanWay''. That story sees Superman challenged by a DarkerAndEdgier superteam who aren't afraid to kill and maim their enemies, and deride Superman as a moral weakling who's past it and afraid to deal with issues "[[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism properly]]". Eventually, challenging Superman to a fight, they pound and pound and seemingly break him -- but, in a completely unstoppable explosion of pure superhuman rage, he seemingly destroys and kills each one of them, and uses his X-ray vision to completely destroy the tumor in the head of his opponent that was giving him his powers. However, it's revealed that Superman was ''still'' holding back. Each member of the "dark" team is alive and well (if somewhat battered) and the leader's powers still remain, and he has merely given them "a psychic concussion" -- because, as he explains to the leader, he wanted to give them a sense of what it felt to be powerless under such unstoppable brutality (namely, [[NotSoDifferent the feeling their victims had]] and a sense of what it would be like if he was ''actually'' like that). It wouldn't be pretty.

** Another example was an early appearance of Jubilee. Upon seeing Wolverine seemingly killed at the hands of Mandarin and a [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] Psylocke, she lets out a BigNo and proceeds to ''blow up Mandarin's castle.'' Once the dust settles, a bewildered Jubilee simply says, "Did I do that? And, like, do I want to do it again?"

** M'gann's teammate Kid Devil is also one to beware. While Eddie projects the image of a loveable loser, he hides a lot of anger from constantly being underestimated by villains and his peers. In one instance, while drugged up by the Dark Side Club and thrown into a death match with Hardrock (a teenage Thing), he's beaten to the point that he suddenly loses it, turns the fight around in just a few punches, and almost kills Hardrock by ripping his jaw off. It takes Miss Martian to talk him out of it, reminding him that he's a good guy. The second instance comes when Eddie and Blue Beetle are tracking down supervillain Shockwave, whom had mockingly called Eddie Beast Boy the first time they fought. They split up to look for Shockwave, but he's in the wrong city. Upon finding out, Eddie loses his temper, furious that he's been upstaged by Beetle yet again. In his rage, he creates a portal for the first time and teleports to Salt Lake City to viciously beat up the villain and melt his armor.

* Of all the ComicBook/YoungAvengers, shapeshifter [[TheBigGuy Hulkling]] is probably the sweetest, most polite guy on the team. But... [[BerserkButton don't hurt his boyfriend]]. They don't call him "Hulkling" just because he's ''green''.

** And while we're at it, let's not forget Jean Grey's husband, Mr. Scott Summers, a.k.a. ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}. While perhaps not as naturally nice as Colossus, Scott spent much of his life trying to be a nice guy, even when it was grossly apparent that no one appreciated his efforts (except for Jean and maybe Professor Xavier), but more than once, Scott has violently lashed out at those who dared push him too far. A number of supervillains, such as Mr. Sinister, found themselves on the wrong end of more violent than usual optic blasts once they incurred Scott's wrath. Wolverine himself, the loner who usually got off on harassing Cyclops, has also felt Scott's fury: in the 1970s, after an issue where the X-Men fought a villain who had brainwashed former X-Men and as well as Scott's brother Havok and Havok's girlfriend Polaris, Scott violently backhanded Wolverine with a closed fist when the clawed one yelled at him over the turn out of the battle. During Joss Whedon's run on ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' when Scott started officially dating Emma Frost, Scott violently blasted {{Wolverine}} out of his bedroom when the clawed one dared stick his nose too far into Scott's personal life.
--> [[OhCrap "I want this thing off my lawn."]]

** Mrs. ComicBook/JeanGrey-Summers. Despite the fact that she has an occasional temper and [[NeverLiveItDown she is most known for her]] [[NotHerself epic rampage]] and [[HeroicSacrifice tragic sacrifice]] in the ''Dark Phoenix Saga'', she is mostly a very compassionate and loving woman who cares for just about everyone around her. ''Mostly'' is the key word here. For instance, she found out that RichBitch Emma Frost had manipulated Jean's deeply traumatised husband Scott (who had spent several months sharing a brain and body with ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}}) while serving as his therapist and convincing him that since it was telepathic, it didn't count. Emma taunted her. [[DoNotTauntCthulhu This was... unwise]]. Jean broke into Emma's mind and [[MindRape humiliated her severely]]. Also, when a team of mutant organ harvesters known as the U-Men attacked the X-Mansion, intending to use the students as her raw materials, she used her powers to [[HumiliationConga make them vomit and defecate in their suits]] before she tore them off and made them flee, all while uttering one of the greatest threats ever put in a word bubble if they dared to hurt anyone again. Keep in mind she is ''not'' in Phoenix mode at the time:
--> '''Jean Grey:''' I don't want you to get hurt, but you have to understand, the more you annoy me the more I can't help ''[[MindOverMatter thinking]]'' about deconstructing you, molecule by molecule, memory by memory until there's nothing left of you but ''screaming, traumatized'' '''''ATOMS'''''.

---> '''Colossus:''' HARPOON! Make peace with your gods, little man! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis YOU. ARE. NEXT.]]

--> '''Colossus:''' "HARPOON! Make peace with your gods, little man! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis YOU. ARE. NEXT.]]"

* Avengers long-time powerhouse Wonder Man has Sentry-level strength and speed, never tires, never sleeps, and is one of the most incredibly tough to hurt characters in Marvel. Why isn't he higher profile? He's *nice*. Too nice, in fact, just very much a regular Joe -- that can bench press the Chrysler building. But insult the Scarlet Witch in his presence and he'll punch you completely through the Xavier school and partway through the Mansion itself. Just ask Wolverine.

* ''ComicBook/WhatIf'':
** In Issue 42 of Marvel's ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' comic, we see an alternate universe where Susan Richards [[DeathByChildbirth perishes in childbirth]] due to actions by the villain Annihilus. Driven mad with grief, Reed Richards turns his considerable mental chops from creating gadgets to getting the most violent, terrible revenge he can. He proves to be a ''far'' deadlier unhinged genius than Doom ever was -- who, in what is possibly the wisest move he ever makes in any universe, decides ''not'' to take advantage of the situation and just decides to quietly stay out of Reed's way on this one. Reed's increasingly irrational actions even cause [[TheLancer Namor]] to tell him to [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan calm the heck down]]. This being an out-of-continuity tale, it ''doesn't'' work.
** A bit of a recurring theme in the various Marvel universes seen in several issues of ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' and the Ultimate universe is the fact that when Sue Storm and Reed Richards are not a couple he becomes a villain.

* THE perfect example: [[spoiler:Ozymandias]] from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''. "Hitler was a vegetarian."

* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformers'', it's Ratchet of all 'bots who comes the closest to putting Starscream down for good, when Starscream's trying to kill him and complaining about it not being "fun". The only reason Ratchet doesn't succeed (as far as we can tell) is because the ship crashes.
** This was near the end of Marvel's G1 run, where Ratchet was mostly played straight as a medic and counselor. When pushed, though, he became a GuileHero who handed Megatron his ass. ''Twice''.

** ''ComicBook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'': Peter Parker flies off the handle when he becomes fed up with Jonah and tells his boss exactly what he thinks of him. Later Franchise/SpiderMan goes berserker when MJ vanishes, and he takes on Superman.
*** And he annoys Superman to the point that Supes momentarily forgets to pull his punches and nearly kills Spidey.

** Then there's Creator/AlanMoore's [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] Superman swan song, ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow''. The alt-future adult Legion of Super-Villains joins the attack on the historically-doomed Man of Steel [[spoiler: killing the empowered Jimmy and Lana as they go.]] When Cosmic King taunts him to toss them Lois, so that [[spoiler: so that they can kill her like his 'other girlfriend']] his eyes burn red--the heat vision is a mirror of the pure rage on his face. He burns Lightning Lord's arm, and then, Saturn Queen reveals via telepathy [[spoiler: that he's not kidding, and means to kill them all.]] Their locked-in victory no longer certain, they beat a very hasty retreat to the future.

** In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' cartoon, Darkseid pushed Superman too far. [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7czid_superman-true-power_shortfilms Superman punched him across the city]]. Notable bit of summary: at one point Superman throws an uppercut. After the NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech. The punch itself seems to cause about three or four meters of shockwave around it.

* ''ComicBook/Supergirl'':

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

** ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'': Dr. Light is usually a nice, good-natured woman but being punched out by Bizarrogirl really got her pissed. Cue energy blast from above.

** Not long after whupping, after being hired as a nanny by Luke Cage and Jessica Jones for their daughter Danielle, cue murderous Nazis in killer mecha, destroying everything and killing everyone in sight, threatening the safety of Danielle. They never knew what tore them apart.

** In ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'', we saw her sparring with Wolverine, where she pretty much whopped his ass. She was not exactly mad, but there was some bit of tension there, so that just makes one ponder more on how she'd be when angry. Then not long afterwards, after being hired as a nanny by Luke Cage and Jessica Jones for their daughter Danielle, cue murderous Nazis in killer mecha, destroying everything and killing everyone in sight, threatening the safety of Danielle. They never knew what tore them apart.

** And he became downright scary in ''Back In Black''. He broke into a prison just to beat Kingpin to within an inch of his life, and threw a Jeep at a sniper. ''Through a brick wall''.
** There's the ''What If?: Back In Black'' issue. He beats the crap out of Iron Man (multiple times) and murders Kingpin. This reflects how in the main timeline, Spider-Man warned Kingpin that if Aunt May died of her wounds (this rampage was started because one of Kingpin's assassins shot her while aiming for Spidey), that he'd be back to kill Kingpin.

--> '''Captain Marvel:''' "Who hired you? Tell me now. Or I'll crush your head ... Then I'll walk downstairs to the holding cells and ask your partners ... I'll bring your dead, headless body with me ... and then '''they'll''' tell me. So ... for the last time ... who hired you?"

** [[ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX There was once a young boy]], Frank Castle, who was friends with an older [[SemperFI Marine]] and witnessed the hold the local gangsters had over the neighborhood. After his friend's sister, who liked him, was raped and she kills herself, and he listens to his parents saying about how afraid everyone is, Frank takes his father's gun to kill the punk who raped his girl. [[spoiler: But he never got the chance, as the girl's older brother ''set the punk on fire'' first.]]

* Another from Franchise/TheDCU: ComicBook/PlasticMan. Although he's normally the team clown, he can get... ''testy'', if pushed. In "The Obsidian Age", he helps the team recover from the psychological effects of time-travel with bad jokes. Then, when Rama Khan ''sets the ComicBook/MartianManhunter on fire'', Plastic Man uses his own ductile body to choke the dude into unconsciousness ("You like ''burning?'' How about the burning on the ''inside on your lungs'' right now, like that?") and subsequent brain-damage.
** Not to mention the fact that he went toe-to-toe with Fernus The Burning after the baddie in question had already curb-stomped the entire Justice League. Yeah, it was due largely to the fact he was the only member of the team who was immune to Fernus' telepathy, but seeing the PluckyComicRelief putting the guy who just bitch smacked Superman in a headlock still sends shivers down my spine.

* There was once [[ComicBook/ThePunisher this really nice guy]], who had finally come back from the Vietnam War and just wanted to spend it with his family. He was an ordinary retired Marine, who loved his wife and two children wholeheartedly. Then, he took them to a picnic in Central Park... and since then, he walked away [[ChestInsignia wearing a skull]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'' Captain Marvel, currently known as "Shazam", is basically the nice guy all other comic book nice guys aspire to be, to the point that he compares favorably even next to Superman. One story featured him getting into a fight with a villain that destroyed a homeless shelter, and not only did Cap talk the villain down from continuing the fight, but then further talked him into repairing the damage to the homeless shelter, and got the villain to leave peacefully. Billy then spent the next day serving food at the homeless shelter. He's just that nice a guy. But at the same time, even he has his limits. When a group of hired killers murdered Billy Batson's best friend, Captain Marvel stormed into the police headquarters and grabbed the lead killer by the head, and started speaking to him in a TranquilFury.

* The ComicBook/SilverSurfer is one of the most pure, gentle, and kindhearted heroes in the entire Franchise/MarvelUniverse. He’s ''also'' one of the most insanely powerful heroes, wielder of the Power Cosmic, and capable of battling gods like Thor on even footing, making it a '''very''' bad idea to piss him off. One version of him from a BadFuture took on two versions of ComicBook/{{Thanos}}, a cosmically-enhanced ComicBook/GhostRider, and the Hulk all at once; he completely dominated the battle, pummeling both versions of Thanos, killing Ghost Rider with one hit, and defeating the Hulk by ''[[WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing standing still]]''. Hulk mangles his own hands by punching the Surfer repeatedly. WillfullyWeak doesn’t even ''begin'' to describe the Surfer’s situation. This is, after all, [[TheAtoner a guy who used to help Galactus murder entire planets]].

* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', the titular character, when pushed to his limits, will ''break'' limits. And walls. With your face, as Silver will attest to.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''. Oh sure, he's a little hot-headed and reckless at times, but for the most part, he's a good guy. He's also one of the few (remaining) (Marvel) superheroes who makes a rule of never killing. But if you mess with him, and I mean ''really'' mess with him... well let's just say if Norman Osborn's glider hadn't made a Goblin Kebab out of him when he killed Gwen Stacy, even ''Spidey'' doesn't know how far he'd have gone.

*** And then there's the ''What If?: Back In Black'' issue. He beats the crap out of Iron Man (multiple times) and murders Kingpin. This reflects how in the main timeline, Spider-Man warned Kingpin that if Aunt May died of her wounds (this rampage was started because one of Kingpin's assassins shot her while aiming for Spidey), that he'd be back to kill Kingpin.

** Recently in ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'', we saw her sparring with Wolverine, where she pretty much whopped his ass. She was not exactly mad, but there was some bit of tension there, so that just makes one ponder more on how she'd be when angry. Then not long afterwards, after being hired as a nanny by Luke Cage and Jessica Jones for their daughter Danielle, cue murderous Nazis in killer mecha, destroying everything and killing everyone in sight, threatening the safety of Danielle. They never knew what tore them apart.

** ''ComicBook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'':
*** Peter Parker flies off the handle when he becomes fed up with Jonah and tells his boss exactly what he thinks of him. Later Franchise/SpiderMan goes berserker when MJ vanishes, and he takes on Superman.

* In Issue 42 of Marvel's "ComicBook/WhatIf" comic, we see an alternate universe where Susan Richards [[DeathByChildbirth perishes in childbirth]] due to actions by the villain Annihilus. Driven mad with grief, Reed Richards turns his considerable mental chops from creating gadgets to getting the most violent, terrible revenge he can. He proves to be a ''far'' deadlier unhinged genius than Doom ever was -- who, in what is possibly the wisest move he ever makes in any universe, decides ''not'' to take advantage of the situation and just decides to quietly stay out of Reed's way on this one. Reed's increasingly irrational actions even cause [[TheLancer Namor]] to tell him to [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan calm the heck down]]. This being an out-of-continuity tale, it ''doesn't'' work.
** A bit of a recurring theme in the various Marvel universes seen in several issues of "ComicBook/WhatIf" and the Ultimate universe is the fact that when Sue Storm and Reed Richards are not a couple he becomes a villain.

* Franchise/WonderWoman is one of the kindest heroes in the DC Universe, rivaling her good friend Superman in the niceness department. She is an [[{{Ambadassador}} ambassador of peace]] for her nation, and is literally a flawless goddess with no temptations or impurities (she regularly uses the Lasso of Truth on herself to keep herself in check). After the 1980s she's also one of the few heroes who has zero issue with using lethal force when it's needed. She comes from a society of highly-trained immortal warriors, and is one of the few beings with enough strength and skill to go toe-to-toe with Superman, so if you give her no choice, she'll snap your neck and walk off to solve the next crisis like it was Tuesday.

* Mrs. ComicBook/JeanGrey-Summers, also of the ''ComicBook/XMen''. Despite the fact that she has an occasional temper and [[NeverLiveItDown she is most known for her]] [[NotHerself epic rampage]] and [[HeroicSacrifice tragic sacrifice]] in the ''Dark Phoenix Saga'', she is mostly a very compassionate and loving woman who cares for just about everyone around her. ''Mostly'' is the key word here. For instance, she found out that RichBitch Emma Frost had manipulated Jean's deeply traumatised husband Scott (who had spent several months sharing a brain and body with ComicBook/{{Apocalypse}}) while serving as his therapist and convincing him that since it was telepathic, it didn't count. Emma taunted her. [[DoNotTauntCthulhu This was... unwise]]. Jean broke into Emma's mind and [[MindRape humiliated her severely]]. Also, when a team of mutant organ harvesters known as the U-Men attacked the X-Mansion, intending to use the students as her raw materials, she used her powers to [[HumiliationConga make them vomit and defecate in their suits]] before she tore them off and made them flee, all while uttering one of the greatest threats ever put in a word bubble if they dared to hurt anyone again. Keep in mind she is ''not'' in Phoenix mode at the time:

* And while we're at it, let's not forget her husband, Mr. Scott Summers, a.k.a. ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}. While perhaps not as naturally nice as Colossus, Scott spent much of his life trying to be a nice guy, even when it was grossly apparent that no one appreciated his efforts (except for Jean and maybe Professor Xavier), but more than once, Scott has violently lashed out at those who dared push him too far. A number of supervillains, such as Mr. Sinister, found themselves on the wrong end of more violent than usual optic blasts once they incurred Scott's wrath. Wolverine himself, the loner who usually got off on harassing Cyclops, has also felt Scott's fury: in the 1970s, after an issue where the X-Men fought a villain who had brainwashed former X-Men and as well as Scott's brother Havok and Havok's girlfriend Polaris, Scott violently backhanded Wolverine with a closed fist when the clawed one yelled at him over the turn out of the battle. During Joss Whedon's run on ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' when Scott started officially dating Emma Frost, Scott violently blasted {{Wolverine}} out of his bedroom when the clawed one dared stick his nose too far into Scott's personal life.
** [[OhCrap "I want this thing off my lawn."]]
* Colossus from the ''ComicBook/XMen'' is normally the team's GentleGiant, except for when Nightcrawler and Shadowcat are gravely injured by Riptide and Harpoon during the ''Mutant Massacre.'' On a single page, Colossus snaps Riptide's neck and swears to do the same to Harpoon.
--> '''Colossus:''' "HARPOON! Make peace with your gods, little man! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis YOU. ARE. NEXT.]]"
** Or in ''Days of Future Past'' when [[spoiler: Wolverine and Storm]] are killed. One panel focuses on Colossus' grief-stricken face. The next panel shows us a Sentinel getting thrown through a skyscraper.

* Dust from New X-Men is normally a quiet peaceful person who doesn't like to fight but when mutant hunters started killing her friends and loved ones all bets were off.

* [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Kyle Rayner]] is often regarded as one of the most dangerous Lanterns not necessarily because of his temper or wrath, but because when you piss him off, he will wipe the floor with you in the most humiliating fashion imaginable (how would you like to be man-handled by an adorable Teddy bear or an Engrish-speaking MagicalGirl?). Kyle doesn't get angry, he gets ''creative''. Kyle freaks out the rest of the Justice League when he casually announces he can split atoms with his ring. And that that isn't hard, what's hard is containing the blast. He is, of course, messing with their heads with that statement, though the truth is even worse: this is the guy who contained an artificial ''supernova'' with his ring during the climax of the ''DC One Million'' crossover event. The last GL ring (which is what it was at the time) was not known as the most powerful weapon in the universe for nothing. Combine it with Kyle's imagination and, well...

* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':

* DCU's Miss Martian. M'gann is notoriously sweet, charming and really just the kind of person that likes cute puppies; however, [[spoiler: she is actually a member of the stupefyingly powerful [[AlwaysChaoticEvil White Martian]] race, and although she isn't a bad guy in the slightest, whether or not she'll [[VillainousLineage succumb to her baser instincts]] is always up for debate. In later issues, she fights and then merges with an evil future version of herself who apparently committed and instigated such unspeakable crimes against humanity that the entire White Martian race was captured and enslaved because of her.]]
** M'gann's teammate Kid Devil is also one to beware. While Eddie projects the image of a loveable loser, he hides a lot of anger from constantly being underestimated by villains and his peers. In one instance, while drugged up by the Dark Side Club and thrown into a death match with Hardrock (a teenage Thing), he's beaten to the point that he suddenly loses it, turns the fight around in just a few punches, and almost kills Hardrock by ripping his jaw off. It takes Miss Martian to talk him out of it, reminding him that he's a good guy. The second instance comes when Eddie and Blue Beetle are tracking down supervillain Shockwave, whom had mockingly called Eddie Beast Boy the first time they fought. They split up to look for Shockwave, but he's in the wrong city. Upon finding out, Eddie loses his temper, furious that he's been upstaged by Beetle yet again. In his rage, he creates a portal for the first time and teleports to Salt Lake City to viciously beat up the villain and melt his armor.

* [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] is basically the nice guy all other comic book nice guys aspire to be, to the point that he compares favorably even next to Superman. One story featured him getting into a fight with a villain that destroyed a homeless shelter, and not only did Cap talk the villain down from continuing the fight, but then further talked him into repairing the damage to the homeless shelter, and got the villain to leave peacefully. Billy then spent the next day serving food at the homeless shelter. He's just that nice a guy. But at the same time, even he has his limits. When a group of hired killers murdered Billy Batson's best friend, Captain Marvel stormed into the police headquarters and grabbed the lead killer by the head, and started speaking to him in a TranquilFury.

* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': Thor may have a bit of a temper and he can be a little aloof, but underneath that, like Wonder Woman, he's got a massive heart. He's a kind, wise man who loves his little brother, is a FriendToAllChildren and is a god who ''actually answers prayers''. He is, however, also the God of Thunder and Lightning and the Mightiest Avenger Of Them All, and if you piss him off, he will tell you this very loudly just as he is putting his hammer through your face or summoning a personalised hurricane to drop on your head. He has singlehandedly taken down Mangog and Thanos simultaneously, proven Superman's equal and the Hulk's rival, and sent Galactus running for his life.

* There was once this nice guy who fell in love with a woman and she was due to have twins. He had superpowers and had been persecuted for being Jewish during the Holocaust, but he was still a pretty cool guy. Then a bunch of people burned down the inn he and his girlfriend were living in. That is roughly when he became ComicBook/{{Magneto}}.

* Dr. Magnus, creator of the DCU's ''ComicBook/MetalMen'', is normally a fairly timid guy. As ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' showed us, though, [[spoiler: after being kidnapped, forced to recreate the Plutonium Man, pushed to the breaking point by Chang Tzu, and deprived of his medication, he battles, and defeats, a member of the Great Ten with nothing but a group of makeshift six-inch Metal Men and a particle wave weapon. He even frightens off other {{Mad Scientist}}s, after they had previously been almost eager to confront the JSA.]] As he puts it: "I DO CRAZY THINGS WITHOUT MY MEDS!"

* [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] is usually a pretty nice guy. Just don't get him angry. [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry You won't like him when he's angry]].
** Bruce Banner himself isn't exactly helpless either. WordOfGod confirms that his intelligence is on par with [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] or [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]]; he's been able to avoid the authorities countless times and was able to hold his own in a few fights without turning into the Hulk. If you are [[TooDumbToLive dumb enough]] to piss him off, [[HulkingOut he]] [[UnstoppableRage WILL]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge smash]] [[CurbStompBattle you.]]
*** In one of the ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' issues he proves that he is smarter than Stark, humming afterwards "Banner is the smartest one there is."
** All the above is explored in the 'Banner & Son' storyline, which sees Banner temporarily unable to transform into the Hulk. He still manages to take down villains like Juggernaut and the Harpy by being a GadgeteerGenius (and with a little help from Skaar). In fact, Norman Osborn considers Banner to be a far greater threat to him than the Hulk ("The Hulk is purely reactive... Banner thinks he's some sort of hero") and exposes Banner to a substance which will accelerate the reacquisition of his Hulk powers.
*** During this time, he also muses whether the Hulk is there to protect him from the world or to protect the world from Banner.

* [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Kyle Rayner]] is often regarded as one of the most dangerous Lanterns not necessarily because of his temper or wrath, but because when you piss him off, he will wipe the floor with you in the most humiliating fashion imaginable (how would you like to be man-handled by an adorable Teddy bear or an Engrish-speaking MagicalGirl?). Kyle doesn't get angry, he gets ''creative''.
** Kyle freaks out the rest of the Justice League when he casually announces he can split atoms with his ring. And that that isn't hard, what's hard is containing the blast.
*** He is, of course, messing with their heads with that statement, though the truth is even worse: this is the guy who contained an artificial ''supernova'' with his ring during the climax of the ''DC One Million'' crossover event. The last GL ring (which is what it was at the time) was not known as the most powerful weapon in the universe for nothing. Combine it with Kyle's imagination and, well...

** Redlance is usually the sweet, gentle one who is left to watch the kids -which is why he was there when the trolls attacked. His desperation-move of [[spoiler: using his benevolent plant-shaping to make a troll's spear sprout thorns ''straight through'' its wielder's hands]] also qualifies. It's implied he did much more than just injure a troll's hands, and he goes into a catatonic state afterwards at what he's done. Fortunately, elves have Sending to reach into a person's mind.