10 Most Tragic Deaths In The History Of Marvel Comics

8. Karen Page

It became a running joke, especially after Frank Miller took over writing duties, that blind attorney by day, blind vigilante by night Daredevil had the absolute worst luck of anybody in the Marvel Universe. The people producing his book seemed to delight in torturing the poor old Matt Murdock, putting him through immense physical and mental violence at any given opportunity, to the point that it's been a really big deal that the current Daredevil title is surprisingly chipper and upbeat. The guy's deserved it, c'mon. Why not let him smile for the first time in his horrible existence? Thing is, we think there's somebody in the Daredevil comics who actually has it worse than the title character. Step forward, Karen Page.

Poor old Karen. First appearing in Daredevil #1 as Matt Murdock's legal secretary and possible love interest, as time went by she went from one-dimensional eye candy to something much worse. See, we're good people, and even we wish she'd stayed as a mostly-silent part of the wallpaper! Her father turns out to the supervillain Death's-Head, she breaks up with Matt after finding out he's a masked vigilante, she's been kidnapped and brainwashed by every two-bit villain going, she got addicted to heroin and start acted in porn, and then after finally cleaning herself up finds out she's HIV positive. Actual HIV, not the Legacy Virus.

Not that Karen actually dies due to AIDs-related complications, though. Oh no. Distraught, she seeks out her former lover in a church in New York where Daredevil happens to be doing battle with Bullseye, his arch enemy and murderer of his other former lover, Elektra. Deciding to go two-for-two, Bullseye kills Karen too, before she can give Matt the bad news. So that's basically a tragedy piled on top of a lifetime of over tragedies. Karen Page's tragic death sundae. Doused in tears.