10 Times Supervillains Killed Other Villains

Event comics tend to (justifiably) get a bad rap among comics readers. They're annual, encroach into even the more self-contained series and just generally tend to be overhyped and somewhat vacuous - all things that cannot be said about 2018's War of the Realms, which saw Jason Aaron, Russell Dauterman and Matt Wilson's Mighty Thor run come to a phenomenal end.

With Malekith's deadly coalition invading Earth, Thor had to rally his allies from Midgard and take down the Dark Elf once and for all. At the same time, Loki, who had been working as a double agent for Asgard as a part of Malekith's Dark Council, finally betrayed his father Laufey, whose frost giants were part of the invading forces marching on Earth.

Laufey eats his son, but Loki manages to hold himself together inside, until eventually Daredevil - now the God Without Fear, and equipped with Heimdall's sword, Hofund - threw his weapon into Laufey's mouth, allowing Loki to cut through his father, killing him in the process.

Loki hasn't been a traditional supervillain for a while now, given he makes such a habit out of doing the right thing eventually, but that doesn't make those occasions any less gratifying when they arrive.