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Memetic Molesters in Comic Books.

  • The Corinthian from The Sandman (1989). He has his share of victims. Most of them are guys, though, and he really likes eyes. Plus, there's the fact that he takes a distinct relish in despoiling innocence that implies eye-taking is at least as good as sex for him. He's literally made of Memetic Molester terror! When his creator Morpheus found him hosting a serial killer convention, Morpheus berated (and unmade) him for thinking too small.
  • Batman:
    • Batman himself:
      • Batman himself is labeled as this by some fans in All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder. He says that he kidnapped a traumatized youngster (Dick Grayson, age 12), mentions how strong he is for his age, and all the while, a muffled *mmff* can be heard inside the Batmobile.
        "Fast hands, my little Robin. Fast hands, big mouth..."
      • In fact, the memetic status of Batman being a molester was so bad that it actually created the Batman family. The original Batwoman, Katherine Kane, was created in the 1950s solely to shake off the accusations that Batman and Robin were in a homosexual relationship together.
    • The Joker:
      • According to Word of Alan Moore, the Joker didn't rape anyone in The Killing Joke, but at times it seems that everyone who read the story assumed he forced himself on Barbara Gordon. Even so, it's hard to imagine that Barbara didn't feel extremely violated when all was said and done, and you can't blame people for thinking that what the Joker explicitly did do (stripping her naked and sending pictures to her father) was a form of rape or almost-rape. This being the Joker, he probably made it feel as close to rape as possible for poor Barbara without actually raping her. The animated version only added fuel to the fire, as part of its Adaptation Expansion involved exploring more into the montage of Batman talking to people about the Joker, including some hookers who said the Joker would normally see them after he escapes, but didn't this time around. However, as with Moore and the comic, Bruce Timm said that the Joker never raped Barbara.
      • His rather Squicky Mind Rape of her father, James Gordon, who was naked at the time.
      • One fan theory about Joker's murder of Jason Todd in A Death in the Family is that after he beat Jason bloody with a crowbar, he sexually molested his unconscious form. His leering, ogling expression as he's swinging the crowbar makes this theory uncomfortably plausible.
      • Look at how many people he Mind Rapes and preys on in The Dark Knight, coupled with his unsettling Glasgow Grin.
      • In the graphic novel Joker, the Joker does indeed rape a thug's ex-wife.
    • The Mad Hatter:
      • A lot of comic book fans get a creepy vibe from the Mad Hatter. Yeah, a creepy-looking guy in his 40s who dresses up as the Mad Hatter and has kidnapped kids in the past tends to give off a pedophile vibe.
      • In Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, this is a fact and contributes to the already overwhelming terror within its pages.
      • An alternate explanation is provided in Secret Six, but if anything, it's even worse.
      • In Streets of Gotham, the pedophile angle's back.
      • He'd do anyone, so long as they're wearing a hat.
      • In Gotham, his sister Alice says that he put thoughts in her mind that a brother shouldn't have.
    • Batman (Grant Morrison): Professor Pyg. Three words: SEXY DISCO HOT. Even worse is his M.O. in which he captures people and turns them into mindless drones in dresses with a doll mask. And that's just putting it lightly.
    • Commissioner Gordon himself, by way of Memetic Mutation. The joke sprang out on /co/ — after the board was besieged by threads asking why Batman never kills the Joker, someone posted a picture of Gordon and asked why Batman never rapes the Joker. The joke became popular, and now the Commissioner is now solely depicted as a violent man who attempts to solve all crime by raping people.
    • Speaking of All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder, there's the line "I touched my mother's breast. It bled on me," which out of context, and probably even in context, turns Martha Wayne into one of these and gives that Batman a credible Freudian Excuse.
  • Justice League of America: Doctor Light is quickly changing into a Canon example, ever since Identity Crisis (2004), in which the League brainwashes him into being an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain after he sneaks into their base and rapes one of their wives. It doesn't help that after he steals the other Doctor Light's powers (no, not the Mega Man one, the Asian female one), there is almost an entire issue where every line relating to the theft was "RAEP RAEP RAEP RAEP RAEP RAEP." To quote Plastic Man: "It's like that's his power now."
  • Deathstroke in The Judas Contract. He's heavily implied to have been in a sexual relationship with Terra, who was 16 years old at the time.
    • Coded as a child molester in other iterations of his character (fixated on young boy heroes to a disturbing level).
    • Continues being creepy in Teen Titans (2003). Wants to make Robin his apprentice, gets touchy-feely, does said stuff while said kid is immobilized from the neck down, and continued sketchy interactions with Terra... an all-around disgusting man.
    • The Other History of the DC Universe confirms that Slade did indeed sexually abuse Terra.
  • Watchmen: The Comedian would like to RAPE you... but only once!
  • Spider-Man:
  • Bueno Excellente from Hitman (1993), who "defeats evil with the power of perversion". He's even implied to have molested (they don't show it, but whatever happened took two hours and we're only shown the first couple of minutes) an unconscious LOBO (which Hitman videotaped and used to blackmail the Main Man into leaving Gotham City/Earth) and Kyle Rayner in JLA/Hitman. The fact that he only says his name makes it even creepier.
  • Superman:
    • Superman himself on the cover of Action Comics volume 1, issue #457, in which Clark Kent opens his shirt to reveal his secret identity to Pete Ross' son, who is on his bed, on his stomach and crying.
    • Similar to the Mad Hatter, Toyman fame is rapidly becoming one of these. This is a Psychopathic Manchild whose gimmick is weaponized toys and who has killed at least one child with little remorse. However, he is an odd case as Toyman has also been shown to actively dislike children, Depending on the Writer. His molester status has mostly come from adaptive series such as Superman: The Animated Series, Superman: Doomsday, and Smallville, which play this to the hilt without every explicitly saying anything. The writers of Doomsday admitted that the mini-series Lex Luthor: Man of Steel was inspiration for some elements in it, like a scene in which someone drops Toyman from a really high height. In said mini, it is implied and at one point outright stated that Toyman is a pedophile. In the comics, DC has since decided that Toyman isn't really a pedophile. It was all just a pedophile robot clone he accidentally built. OOPS!
  • In Porra, Mauricio!, a Tumblr seeing perverted content of Brazilian comic Monica's Gang, two characters earned this status: Hiro, due to a comic where he talks about he and his friends swimming naked (something which occurs repeatedly in the comic); and Jeremias, primarily because he's black.
  • Ultimate X-Men: Wolverine has this reputation, which is odd, since his mainstream counterpart is a Sex God. The reasons: A) having sex with a teenage (but legal) Jean Grey, B) while in the body of Peter Parker in Ultimate Spider-Man, attempting to do something to a teenage and very much illegal Mary Jane, and C) hiding in some plants and watching a twin brother and sister have sex with each other. As one commentator put it "I'm the best at what I do, and what I do is hide in the bushes and watch creepy sex."
  • Scott Pilgrim, Sketchy-Ass 24-Year-Old. This meme comes from the comic where Scott, in an attempt to have sex with his old flame Knives asks her "How does it feel to be an adult in the eyes of the law?"
  • The Smurfs: Papa Smurf in one of his poses has a really creepy smug look on his face. It doesn't help that in one of the stories he was going after Smurfette.
  • Mesothulas (later Tarantulas) from The Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers is pants-shittingly creepy in so many ways that it's hard to count. He comes off as even more warped and unsettling than his Beast Wars incarnation thanks to the writing of Nick Roche. This is not helped by his tendency to shrink down to minute sizes and crawl into people's bodies, nor his behavior towards Prowl being effectively that of a Yandere ex-boyfriend. Finally, there's this gem of a quote, which honestly can't be read as anything other than very odd and very disturbing innuendo.
    Verity: Prowl, [Tarantulas]'s done something weird to me!
    Tarantulas: Please don't think you're special, bloodbag. By the time this is over, I'll have done something weird to everyone.
  • Iron Man: One of Tony Stark's Iron Man suits, when it gains sentience, wants him inside of it, to the point of behaving like a controlling and abusive boyfriend.
  • The Flash: Barry Allen's Arch-Enemy, the notoriously petty time-traveler Eobard Thawne, is often portrayed using his powers to commit predatory crimes against Barry's wife Iris as well as Barry himself.

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