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Fictional characters who have made pacts with devils

  • Spider-ManMarvel's publisher told Stan Lee that Spider-Man would never work. The comic was being canceled anyway.
  • DeathstrokeDeathstroke wears a mask split between black and orange, and it covers a right eye that is missing. He is Slade Joseph Wilson, a mercenary and former U.S. Army soldier. Within the DC Universe he is regarded as the greatest and deadliest…
  • Doctor DoomDoctor Doom is a comic book villain who answers to no court outside his own country. He rules the fictional eastern European nation of Latveria, and his status as head of state has historically shielded him from prosecution for crimes…
  • Mary Jane WatsonMary Jane Watson, the Marvel Comics character, makes her most famous entrance on the last page of The Amazing Spider-Man #42, published in November 1966. Peter Parker finally meets her there, and he is stunned by her beauty. She greets him…
  • PunisherIn 2011, an editor at Marvel Comics revealed that the Punisher had killed 48,502 people on the page since the mid-1970s. That body count belongs to a character whom writer Gerry Conway meant as a second-tier figure. Conway has said the…
  • Griffith (Berserk)Griffith, a mercenary leader in Berserk, sacrifices his entire band at the Eclipse.
  • Spawn (character)Spawn, the antihero of Image Comics, debuted in Spawn #1 in May 1992, and that first issue sold 1.7 million copies. The hero is Albert Francis Simmons, called Al, who is better known simply as Spawn. Todd McFarlane created him. Simmons…
  • John ConstantineAccording to Alan Moore, John Constantine once walked up a flight of stairs into a sandwich bar in Westminster, London. Moore told Wizard magazine about it in 1993. The man wore a trenchcoat and a short haircut, and Moore said he looked…
  • Ghost RiderGhost Rider is a Marvel Comics character whose first supernatural form was a stunt motorcyclist named Johnny Blaze. Blaze makes a desperate trade. To save the life of his foster father, he agrees to give his soul to a being called "Satan."…
  • Guy Gardner (character)In 2025, Nathan Fillion played Guy Gardner in the film Superman, giving a famously abrasive Green Lantern a place on the biggest screen yet. That same year, DC Comics gave two comic book creators full credit and royalties for reinventing…
  • Lobo (character)Lobo is a DC Comics antihero whose name, in his alien tongue, roughly means he who devours your entrails and thoroughly enjoys it. The name is not a boast. He comes from a planet called Czarnia, and he roams the galaxy as a mercenary and…
  • MakimaMakima, the red-haired leader in Tatsuki Fujimoto's manga Chainsaw Man, makes her entrance in the final pages of the very first chapter. She stands over a young man named Denji and makes him an offer of food and shelter. The price is…

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