Batman, Spider-man, Superman & Storm lead Comic Vine's Top 100 Superheroes 2012

[RLAAMJR.]

Batman is #1

Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker, Clark Kent and Ororo Munroe took the top 4 places respectively in Comic Vine's Top 100 Superheroes 2012.

Last year, Batman only ranked #34 and taking the top spot this year was not a surprise.

Spider-man moved up from #4 last year to #2 this year, putting Superman who was #2 last year to #3 this year.

X-Men's Storm was #1 last year but seeing her at #4 still proves her immense popularity in the Comic Vine community.

121 Comic Vine members participated the annual poll.

Here's the link for 2012 top 100 list:http://www.comicvine.com/forums/gen-discussion/1/comic-vines-top-100-superheroes-2012/718719/#20

To check the 2011 top 100 list: http://www.comicvine.com/myvine/the_poet/cvs-top-100-superhero-list-2011/75-33965/


Comic Vine's Top 100 Superheroes 2012:


1. Batman
2. Spider-Man
3. Superman
4. Storm
5. Wonder Woman
6. Dick Grayson
7. Barry Allen
8. Nightcrawler
9. Thor
10. Gambit
11. Aquaman
12. Wally West
13. Wolverine
14. Hulk
15. Captain America
16. Deadpool
17. Hawkeye
18. Daredevil
19. Black Panther
20. Cyclops
21. Bucky Barnes
22. Tim Drake
23. Jason Todd
24. Barbara Gordon
25. Hal Jordan
26. Iron Man
27. Kitty Pryde
28. Rorschach
29. The Doctor
30. Alan Scott
31. Martian Manhunter
32. Kyle Rayner
33. John Constantine
34. Green Arrow
35. Silver Surfer
36. Black Canary
37. Zatanna
38. The Tick
39. Dream of the Endless (Morpheus)
40. Emma Frost
41. Fantomex
42. Raven
43. Iron Fist
44. Punisher
45. Batwoman
46. Animal Man
47. Finn
48. Billy Batson
49. Hollow
50. Judge Dredd
51. Rick Grimes
52. Hellboy
53. Catwoman
54. Luke Skywalker
55. Swamp Thing
56. Invisible Woman
57. Stephanie Brown
58. Midnighter
59. Optimus Prime
60. Beast
61. Booster Gold
62. Jean Grey
63. Thing
64. Rogue
65. Tony Chu
66. Kaine
67. Wasp
68. Cassandra Cain
69. Nite Owl (Dreiberg)
70. Iceman
71. Damian Wayne
72. Superboy
73. Black Widow
74. Supergirl
75. The Green Hornet
76. Spawn (Simmons)
77. Michonne
78. Vic Sage
79. Ted Kord
80. Invincible
81. Spectre
82. Psylocke
83. Professor X
84. Cyborg
85. Ms. Marvel
86. Orion
87. Krypto
88. Saint Walker
89. Master Chief
90. Mr. Fantastic
91. Han Solo
92. Red Tornado
93. Doctor Strange
94. Beast Boy
95. Hank Pym
96. Blue Beetle
97. Guy Gardner
98. Vision
99. Raphael
100. Jubilee

 

[Super_Child]

Pretty cool, kinda surprised to see most of The Avengers outside the top 10 though.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Comic Vine's Top 100 Superheroes 2012:

1. Batman
2. Spider-Man
3. Superman
4. Storm
5. Wonder Woman
6. Dick Grayson
7. Barry Allen
8. Nightcrawler
9. Thor

Makes sense

10. Gambit
11. Aquaman

I don't read their stories, don't know how these happened to be this high, higher than those three

12. Wally West
13. Wolverine
15. Captain America

 

[Liam_H]

Seems odd that Batman was that low last year.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

I thought Iron Man would be ranked higher than that.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

...storm? really?

 

[vindrow]

I love it Nightcrawler is number 8 and Marvel killed him off

 

[bullets]

...storm? really?

Here we go again. t:

 

[Manic]

Storm is one of those characters who has as many haters as she has fans, but her haters are completely oblivious to the existence of her fans. Every time a Storm fan pops up, there's always someone there to say "Really?! Storm has fans?!" As if they've never met a Storm fan before.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

I don't hate her lol, I nothing her. She's just seems kind... innocuous. most important thing I know about her is that she married black panther at some point.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I don't hate her lol, I nothing her. She's just seems kind... innocuous. most important thing I know about her is that she married black panther at some point.

I must be the only one who likes that marriage

 

[Dark Raven]

Who were the people who voted for these? I'm surprised that Iron Man is not in the top 10 and Hulk, especially after the Avengers movie this year. I'm surprised also that Barry Allen, Nightcrawler and Gambit are in there, and that Storm is in the top 5. I would've expected Iron Man to be in the top 5.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Gambit makes the top ten but Hal Jordan has to sit at 25?

Yeah, Comic Vine can keep their list...

 

[Manic]

Meanwhile, everybody in the bottom ten of the Top 100 is just plain awesome.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Who were the people who voted for these? I'm surprised that Iron Man is not in the top 10 and Hulk, especially after the Avengers movie this year.

They're lucky in having important roles in a great movie, in comics they are less impressive
Hulk is one of two or more Hulks (if you count the She-Hulks, and Hulk's children), got a treatment by a writer who (according to readers of GR) made better Ghost Rider stories, and lesser Hulk stories

 

[Compi716]

This seems like a fairly bizarre list. How is it determined?

 

[Spider-Aziz]

This seems like a fairly bizarre list. How is it determined?

Seems to be like CBR votes, a blog entry encourages members to vote and they cast their thoughts, listing their top 10, each character by rank gets more points
1. 10 points
2. 9 points
Etc

The character getting more points is ranked higher

 

[Erzengel]

If Luke and Han are on there, where's Yoda?

Yoda is better than at least Storm.

 

[Manic]

You mean the guy who permitted a young psychopath to join the Jedi Knights despite his every instinct telling him not to, then decided to employ an army of clones who were clearly commissioned by an unknown enemy to use against him? Yes, Yoda's achievements for the side of good make him one of the best heroes of all time.

 

[Erzengel]

Exactly. Although, his last student did end the 20 years of tyranny.

And if you are going to use past deeds, then Silver Surfer who willingly led a planet eating alien to devour countless worlds.

Wolverine who's killed A LOT of people, and some even inadvertently blaming it on his "berserker rage".

Gambit, Spawn, Hulk, Cyclops, Punisher, etc. don't have the cleanest of histories either.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Exactly. Although, his last student did end the 20 years of tyranny.

With some aid of the young psychopath

And if you are going to use past deeds, then Silver Surfer who willingly led a planet eating alien to devour countless worlds.

He tried hard to find a planet not populated, Earth was his choice to feed his master only cause of Galactus anger and frustration
In the end he aided the rescue of Earth, and was unable to leave this galaxy cause of that

 

[knowsbleed]

Optimus Prime > Yoda

 

[Erzengel]

With some aid of the young psychopath

He tried hard to find a planet not populated, Earth was his choice to feed his master only cause of Galactus anger and frustration
In the end he aided the rescue of Earth, and was unable to leave this galaxy cause of that

But he did initially lead Galactus to Earth. Which means he probably did that with other planets, whether under the will of Galactus or not.

My point is, if you looked hard enough, many of those heroes on that list have pasts that they are trying to make amends for.

 

[Erzengel]

Optimus Prime > Yoda

My foot > your ass.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

But he did initially lead Galactus to Earth. Which means he probably did that with other planets, whether under the will of Galactus or not.

I'm going classic and say it's the only planet, just as explained in SS v1 #1

My point is, if you looked hard enough, many of those heroes on that list have pasts that they are trying to make amends for.

Saddest thing is there's no Moon Knight, he's one of my favorites

And based on what you said, I'm going to forgive Yoda for trying to make amends, won't blame him for trying to do a good thing, but then it goes out of hand