10 Most Brutal Acts Of Revenge In Comics History
3. The Midnighter Misuses A Jackhammer
Having a plot feature around a hero's significant other being mistreated, and them going on the warpath to get revenge for said partner is pretty common - to the extent it's the plot of approximately over a thousand films, and equally common in comics. Usually, though, the partner in question is not also a superhero, and the one doing the avenging doesn't do so by sodomising their enemy with a jackhammer.
This is the exact circumstances of Midnighter's revenge over the Commander, after the man sexually assaulted the vigilante's husband, Apollo. Given it's not as though the Midnighter does anything in halves anyways, the Commander's grim fate to some sort of Saw-like revenge plan was more or less set in stone the minute the Batman-esque anti-hero found out about this.
The weirdly nice thing about this is it's not as though Midnighter was avenging some useless civilian or waif - he knew that Apollo would be capable of getting revenge, but still took it upon himself to do the dirty work himself.