10 Weirdest Comic Book Romances You Won’t Believe

Because everyone just wants to get with Thanos, evidently.

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If there's one thing that Love Island has proven for us, it's that folk love to know about other people's relationships - so much so that this urge spreads even into comics, where fans have a fascination with superhero relationships that never seems to be satisfied.

While couples like Batman and Catwoman or Superman and Lois Lane are iconic even outside of comics fandom, there are a fair share of relationships that fall under the radar. And that's really a shame, especially when so many of them are so damn surreal.

Much like in real life, both DC and Marvel are peppered with odd couples and unusual pairings that you would never in a million years place together, and yet have canonically had something together in their respective comic universes.

And though they are totally surreal, it's equally surprising to see just how much many of these odd couples have you kind of rooting for them... or desperately seeking your nearest hypnotist to get rid of the memories, since this kind of thing tends to be either incredibly wholesome or straight-up nightmare fuel.

Ranging between unconventional to downright illegal in some parts of the world, these relationships are a solid reminder that reality is not stranger than fiction, because in fiction, Supergirl did once date a horse.

10. Namor And Sandy - Various Comics

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Marvel Comics

There are few romances funnier than Namor - Lord of the Seven Seas, King of Atlantis, Master of the Seas - dating the daughter of an oil baron. But this is the exact scenario that Marvel cooked up for us in the form of Sandy, a human woman who Namor meets in his childhood, and goes on to date when he becomes an adult.

So, what happens to this romance for the ages? Well, we... don't really know. She literally stops being mentioned in the comics whatsoever - likely to allow Namor to continue his adulthood - and continued pursuit of Sue Storm - without any complications.

While fan speculation is that she died of old age, Marvel's sliding timescale makes this theory less than clear. Basically, the scenario is either that Namor didn't care enough to try and extend her life to be as long as his so she died, or that she got old and he decided he no longer wished to 'tap that', and so pretended that she never existed.

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