10 Disturbing Times Superheroes Lost It

While most of the characters on this list have had established careers as superheroes before they lost the plot, Vanya Hargreeves of the Umbrella Academy is a different story. Although she grew up as part of a team of super siblings, she was usually left out of any and all crime-fighting proceedings. There was a very simple reason for this: aside from being quite good at playing the violin, young Vanya just didn't seem to have any super powers.

So, unlike everyone else we're talking about, Vanya's very first act as a superpowered being is the one that marks her inclusion here. Allowing herself to be manipulated by the Conductor of the Orchestra Verdammten, Vanya discovers that she has always had incredibly dangerous latent powers.

The only catch: in order to access those powers, she essentially goes through a full lobotomy. Now completely detached from reality, Vanya, a.k.a. the White Violin, uses her musical powers to bring forth a high scale apocalypse event. If not for the efforts of the very siblings whose contempt drove her towards the Orchestra Verdammten, she could have destroyed the entire world.

Another difference between Vanya and other superheroes is that she never fully recovers from these events. As far as we know, she spends the rest of her life confined to her bed, being taken care of by the people she sought to annihilate.