10 Controversial Comic Book Deaths Fans Hated

4. Lian Harper - Justice League: Cry For Justice

Lian Harper Death
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From one traumatic event involving Green Arrow and Black Canary to another now, this time with the infinitely less divisive - and more universally derided - Justice League: Cry for Justice.

Cry for Justice was published in the wake of Final Crisis, which saw the deaths of Martian Manhunter and Batman. In response, perennial bezzie mates Oliver Queen and Hal Jordan quit the League to exact a more 'proactive' brand of justice against those who conspired against the league during Darkseid's invasion. The book was criticised at the time for portraying both Queen and Jordan in unfamiliar terms, but fell afoul of controversy during its finale, where Roy Harper loses both his arm and his daughter, which leads to Green Arrow murdering the man responsible in revenge: Prometheus.

It's not so much Prometheus' death that proved to be the sticking point for most fans - after all, Oliver had killed before and he would almost surely do so again at some point in the future - but rather what happened to Roy's family, and Lian in particular.

Over the course of the series it transpires that Prometheus has hatched a plan to destroy Star City. He is partially successful, and Lian is crushed underneath falling debris, resulting in her death.

It was just needlessly cruel, and a perfect example of a superhero book focusing on the genre's worst elements.

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