Best superhero origin stories
gamesradar.comEveryone loves a superhero origin story…
Good thing too because movie and TV studios are banking on it - there'll be lots of them on the big and small screens in 2022 alone.
In fact, two of them are arriving just this week, with Moon Knight premiering on Disney Plus and Morbius arriving in theaters.
Of course, all of these characters and the roots of their origin stories started on the pages of comic books. But which stand out among them all? When talking about superhero origin stories, the best are not the ones that broke the mold - they're the ones that literally made the molds.
You're probably familiar with many of these famous stories already, but take a look as we take an in-depth look at and rank the best superhero origin stories of all time.
Far from the only arrogant-rich-guy-made-good on this list, Green Arrow still has the unique distinction of being one of the first characters to have a truly compelling 'riches to rags' style origin.
Taking inspiration from characters like Robinson Crusoe and Robin Hood, Oliver Queen was a young playboy who was marooned on a desert isle after a shipwreck sent him overboard. At first struggling to survive without the luxuries of his rich life, Queen eventually learned to rely on the archery and survival training he had received as a child. After rescuing a passing freight ship from pirates, he realized that he could use these abilities to help those less fortunate than him, rather than looking down on them.
Interestingly, though this is his most popular (and most retold) origin story, this isn't his original origin.
When he was created in the Golden Age of comics, Oliver Queen was an archaeologist specializing in Native American culture, who took up a bow to fight crime
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