What superhero has the best written backstory? Backstory thread

>>91161921
None, only the villains have those

>>91161931
villains are included then

>>91161931
What if it is a hero that used to be a villain?

>>91161947
Black Manta

>>91161947
Mr.Freeze

>>91161947
Dr. Doom

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>>91161921
I'd say Batman. It has a simple but really effective origin that justifies his need to dress like a bat to fight crime and give him the tools and knowledges to do that.
The training years are also vague enough to always allow new stories set/originating in that period. And there is Year One who is a really good look to a beginner Batman

>>91161921
I think Spider-Man's is pretty solid

>Gets powers
>Doesn't want to use powers to help people
>Indirectly kills Uncle Ben
>Realizes he has to use his powers

That's a tight efficient backstory

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>>91161947

>>91162064
what a fucking page

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>>91161921
>As the son of a Rabbi, Marc Spector's father always expected him to take up his poisition after his retirement, but Marc hates this, seeing it as his future being set for him without his say. He joins the Marines in an attempt to spite his father, and serves for a few years before getting a high-level position in the CIA through his brother. After witnessing his colleagues, including his own brother, selling weapons to terrorists they were supposedly fighting against, he leaves and joins a local mercenary outfit where he believes he has found his place in life.

>The leader of the mercenaries, Bushman, orders his men to open fire on unarmed archeologists after finding a dig site full of Egyptian artefacts. Marc refuses to kill innocent people, which leads to him being shot and left for dead in the desert by Bushman. He is found by Marlene Alraune, one of the archeologists, who drives him to a temple they have medical supplies inside of. Before they can treat his wound, Marc dies under the statue of Khonshu, the Egyptian god of the moon, and vengeance.

>Yet, after dying Marc finds himself awake, with a new purpose. He believes Khonshu resurrected him to protect the innocent, and act as an avatar of his justice. Marc takes a jet white cloak wrapped around the statue, and begins to take out the mercenaries, before facing Bushman himself. After defeating Bushman and leaving him stranded in the desert, Marc makes friends with one of the mercenaries who also defected, named Jean-Paul Duchamp or just "Frenchie", and they fly back to his hometown of New York, along with Marlene and the statue of Khonshu.

>When he finally returns to New York, Marc decides to continue working as Khonshu's hand of vengeance, by becoming the Moon Knight. Using Frenchie's expertise in engineering, Marlene's financial connections, and what he perceives as blessings from Khonshu, he creates many gadgets, vehicles, and supernatural items to assist him in his crusade.

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>>91162631
I love Moonie's origin story so much because of it's potential. You can spin-off so many stories with or without the characters in his origin, elements like Khonshu's actual existence can be retouched upon again and again, or you could ignore all that and just have him fight random looks. It's the perfect "not motivated by a dead parent" superhero origin.