The 10 Best Love Stories in Superhero Comics

10. Daredevil and Elektra

Superhero comic books are, by their precise nature, cyclical and never-ending. That means you person tons of relationships that are blessed and healthy…and you person tons that are tragic soap operas wherever nary 1 ever learns a thing. Daredevil and Elektra are my favourite of the latter. The passion! The danger! The complimentary reddish ensembles! I don’t needfully privation them to extremity up unneurotic (I personally deliberation Matt belongs with Foggy Nelson), but I could work their doomed attempts astatine it forever.

Recommended Reading: Daredevil: End of Hell

9. Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn

During my clip speechmaking comics, I’ve seen Harley and Ivy spell from drama alleviation besties, to a suggestive joke, to heavy hinted astatine but ne'er confirmed, to a firmly established canon mates with their ain spot successful DC’s Pride anthologies. It’s ever bully to spot a instrumentality favourite queer pairing yet marque it, but particularly erstwhile it adds truthful overmuch absorbing extent to some characters. Often apart, often messy, but ever thrust oregon die, Harley and Ivy consciousness earned — for readers arsenic overmuch arsenic for each other.

Recommended Reading: Harley Quinn: The Animated Series Vol. 1: The Eat. Bang! Kill Tour

8. Ralph and Sue Dibny

The Elongated Man was 1 of the archetypal superheroes to some driblet his concealed individuality and get married, during an epoch erstwhile astir superheroes believed that girls were icky and gaslighting them was noble. Partially modeled aft Nick and Nora Charles of The Thin Man, Ralph and Sue spent the Silver and Bronze Ages jet-setting, solving mysteries, and being caput implicit heels for each other. DC’s abysmal attraction of them implicit the past 2 decades doesn’t marque their emotion communicative immoderate little charming oregon stylish.

Recommended Reading: Showcase Presents: The Elongated Man

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7. Luke Cage and Jessica Jones

Jessica Jones is good known for being a mess, but the information is, she’s been successful a stone dependable narration for a decade. A existent concern of equals (who tin juggle cars), they springiness each different what the satellite has denied them: Luke is diligent and knowing with a pistillate who has survived much than her just stock of horrors, and Jessica is fiercely protective of a antheral whose invulnerability is each excessively often taken for granted. Plus, their girl is the cutest.

Recommended Reading: Jessica Jones: Blind Spot

6. Green Arrow and Black Canary

The hottest mates connected here, and yes, I accidental that adjacent though 1 of them looks similar helium escaped from a ren faire and the different from an unimaginative burlesque. These 2 scorch up the leafage each clip they’re together, with a passionateness that, sure, sometimes combusts successful less-than-productive ways, but we aren’t speechmaking superhero comics for characters who bash things by halves. Give maine the occurrence implicit the fizzle immoderate day.

Recommended Reading: Okay I’m going to spell with viewing present actually, due to the fact that the Justice League Unlimited occurrence “The Cat and the Canary” is the perfect instauration to this couple.

5. Wally West and Linda Park

Peak romcom vigor here, folks. He was the immature, womanizing superhero trying to capable his precocious mentor’s moving shoes; she was the hardboiled newsman who had nary clip for the caller Flash’s nonsense. It’s hard to accidental which 1 of them was much amazed erstwhile they fell successful love, but their romance rapidly became 1 for the ages. Wally has pushed his powers beyond the limits of immoderate different speedster, and erstwhile he’s successful information of disappearing into the cosmic forces he’s meddling with, it’s his emotion for Linda that pulls him backmost home. She’s his lightning rod.

Recommended Reading: The Flash: Terminal Velocity

4. Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson

Name a much iconic super-couple. I’ll wait. (Okay, determination is one, and they’re #1 connected this list, but we’ll get there.) The upside down buss successful the rain! “Face it, tiger, you conscionable deed the jackpot!” Even the devil can’t undo 1 of comics’ astir undying emotion stories for good.

Recommended Reading: Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane

3. Wiccan and Hulkling

Queer characters were inactive vanishingly uncommon successful mainstream comics erstwhile Billy and Teddy archetypal appeared successful 2005 on with the remainder of the Young Avengers — I’m reasonably definite determination was lone 1 queer teenage superhero earlier them, and fewer if immoderate queer stories designed for teens to subordinate to. Is determination immoderate wonderment that Billy and Teddy were instantly beloved? They’ve managed to enactment unneurotic implicit the years, too, precocious getting joined successful a large cheery Jewish abstraction wedding. Mazel tov, kiddos!

Recommended Reading: Avengers: The Children’s Crusade

2. Mister Miracle and Big Barda

Scott and Barda were raised successful the dystopian hellscape of Apokolips, wherever softer emotions similar emotion were forbidden. That didn’t halt their archetypal brushwood from changing some of them forever. Scott and Barda beryllium that emotion is much almighty than hate, than evil, than the extremity of the world, successful the outlandish mode comics bash best. (Barda erstwhile compared their narration to beating a shark to decease from the wrong together. It was ace romantic.)

Recommended Reading: Mister Miracle: The Great Escape

1. Superman and Lois Lane

Who other could instrumentality the fig 1 spot? Who other has had not 1 but two abstracted TV shows dedicated to their emotion story? The archetypal and inactive the champion superhero romance, they find each different successful each dimension, successful each universe, successful each reboot. They banter similar screwball protagonists and combat gods for 1 another. He lets her beryllium soft; she lets him beryllium human. They are each other’s champion person and inspiration and eventual partner. Thank you, Lois and Clark, for making and breaking the mold.

Recommended Reading: Lois Lane: Triple Threat

Bonus: Blue Beetle and Booster Gold

No, they aren’t canonically a couple. Yes, they are inseparable. Yes, Booster has attempted to rewrite clip and abstraction aggregate times for Ted. And yes, DC has thrown successful a small queerbaiting fundamentally each clip they’ve appeared successful caller years, due to the fact that they cognize afloat good however fashionable this pairing is. Just fto them buss already, DC!