10 Shocking Times Superheroes Couldn’t Save Someone

10. Carol Bermingham

When you’re a superhero, pleas for help can come even from the unlikeliest of sources. For Nightwing, the surprise came when Two-Face asked him to protect his former lover, Carol Bermingham.

A respectable district attorney with a price on her head, Dick Grayson couldn’t refuse the job, despite his violent history with Harvey Dent. The former Robin did his best to track down Bermingham’s would-be assassins and even went so far as to fight them even after being shot with bullets laced with Scarecrow’s fear toxin.

Almost pushed over the edge by the hallucinations, Dick eventually manages to fight them off only to discover that the man that is after Carol is none other Two-Face himself. Dent kills his former lover right in front of a weakened Nightwing, who then spends many nights obsessively tracking down his enemy.

Dick may not end up as scarred by his failure like some of the other superheroes on this list, but his relentless drive to pursue the killer proves just how much he feels responsible for the people he protects.