10 Disturbing Times Superheroes Lost It

If you've only ever seen the Kick-Ass movies, you probably think that Nicolas Cage's Big Daddy is a righteous (if overly violent) superhero who is on the borderline of being slightly insane. If you've read the Kick-Ass comics, you know that the original Big Daddy is far, far beyond the borderline of being "slightly" insane.

In a shocking and, in many ways, downright nasty twist, we discover that none of Big Daddy's origin story is true. He was never a good cop in a bad city who refused bribes from the mob and paid the ultimate price. His wife was never murdered by underworld crooks and he never saved his daughter's life and plotted his revenge. He was just an accountant, an average comic book fan who hated his life and wanted some excitement.

Selling his valuable comic book collection to pay for weapons, super suits, and martial arts training, he kidnapped his daughter from his estranged wife and raised her to believe that she was a crime-fighting superheroes on a mission for vengeance.

So why did Big Daddy and Hit-Girl go after the uber-dangerous mobster John Genovese, killing almost his entire staff of goons henchmen, if he had never done anything to them? The answer, as Big Daddy puts it, is distressingly simple: "We needed a villain."

It really is crazy what some people will do to entertain themselves.