10 Essential Relationship Tips We Learned From Superheroes

9. Blame Cheating On Mind Control

Actually, mind control is a good catch-all excuse for any mistake you may make over the course of a courtship and/or eventual relationship. Big Barda's husband, Mister Miracle, certainly bought it when she gave mind control as the reason she was caught bonking the Man of Steel on film. There's no reason that can't be used to wave away accusations of everything from picking up the wrong kind of toilet paper in Tesco when you were expressly told to get the nice kind, or infidelities! It doesn't necessarily have to be as extreme as blaming it on a lecherous space villain who got inside your head and made you do bad things on a flea-bitten mattress, either. Green Arrow and Black Canary's relationship fell apart as a result of the time he was near death's door and, in the process of being looked after by the assassin Shado, ended up sleeping with her. She kind of took advantage of him, since he was delirious and doped up on meds, and he claims he thought she was Canary. But we've witnessed plenty of arguments on a Friday night where a drunken man yells at his soon-to-be-ex that the girl he snogged looked just like her, he swears! Mind control is just as believable.