10 Most WTF Moments In Comics History

At the end of The Avengers #197, Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers) discovered she was mysteriously pregnant, the gestation period accelerating to allow her to give birth only days later in the landmark 200th issue. The truth was revealed by her son, Marcus, who had aged to goateed adulthood overnight: he was the father.

Created when his father, the time travelling Immortus, had kidnapped a woman to his realm of Limbo and used “his ingenious machines” to make her have his child, Marcus had determined to repeat the experiment. He’d kidnapped Danvers, made her fall for him “with a subtle boost from Immortus’ machines”, and then erased her memory and dumped her back where he stole her from, imprinted with his essence.

Worse, Ms. Marvel was smitten with her son-slash-rapist (still affected by those machines), and returned with him to Limbo. Apparently plotted by a team of four - four! - men, this f**king ghastly storyline was not only considered acceptable for publication by Marvel, but approved by the CCA.

It took an appalled Chris Claremont to reverse it the following year, in one of the most dramatic examples ever of a writer calling out his peers, when he wrote Ms. Marvel’s return and her angry condemnation of her fellow Avengers for cheerfully waving goodbye as she was kidnapped to another dimension by her space-rapist.