Juggernaut's Secret Murder Spree Makes His Antihero Reinvention a Joke

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While the Juggernauthas mostly been viewed as a thuggish brute throughout his villainous Marvel Comics career, his secret murder spree elevates his level of villainy, making his antihero reinvention a joke. Cain Marko aka the Juggernaut became a supervillain after obtaining a gem within the Temple of Cyttorak which granted him all of the powers of the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak. However, there was also a task Juggernaut had to complete before claiming these mystical powers as his own, one that makes any kind of redemption for the character impossible. 

In New Excalibur#15 by Frank Tieri and Jim Calafiore, the Juggernaut has turned over a new leaf and is assisting a team of superheroes to fend off a deadly threat. However, since the Juggernaut gave up his criminal ways, the demon god Cyttorak challenged Marko to a test of strength so that he may prove himself worthy of remaining the Juggernaut. After Cain Marko passes the test, the New Excalibur team arrives at the mystical temple, where Cyttorak tells them the truth about the Juggernaut’s past. 

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In order to fully become the Juggernaut after Cain Marko touched Cyttorak’s gem, he first had to defeat the previous Juggernaut and complete the task his predecessor refused, thus proving himself a loyal soldier of Cyttorak. Marko was successful in defeating the older Juggernaut, and so he proceeded with his second assignment before he was free to roam the earth and cause as much chaos as he could muster. That assignment was to utterly annihilate his predecessor’s home village as the people there stopped worshiping Cyttorak in favor of another deity. That village contained men, women, and children, and the