Incarceration
This disabled, lawyer is Jailed at Ryker’s Island while awaiting trial for vigilantism; the prison arc runs over several issues and his associate intentionally gets imprisoned to assist him.
Who is Matt Murdock (Daredevil)?
Daredevil #82–87 (2006–2007)
Daredevil vol. 2 #82–87 (2006), “The Devil in Cell-Block D”
This young man's father figure discerns that he has been using heroin, and the next issue addresses the fallout and recovery of his addiction, social circle, and socio-emotional wellbeing.
Who is Speedy/Roy Harper/Arsenal?
Green Lantern vol. 2 #85–86 (1971)
This young man has recently been portrayed as an individual with Bipolar Disorder, who previously experienced an episode of Psychosis-like experiences, hallucinations, memory disturbance, and destructive self-concept closely tied to the Void (of depression); after exposure to A.C.E.S., homelessness, and Meth.
Who is Sentry/Bob/Robert Reynolds?
The Sentry (2000) #1–5; The New Avengers #7–10 (2005)
Has served in several wars and military programs across his long life, notably Canadian military roles and WWII-era operations.
This solder has struggled with alcoholism, PTSD, difficulties with concentration, interpersonal conflict with friends and romantic partners, and estranged relationships from his children.
Who is James Logan Howlett? (Wolverine)
This man, once ostracized and subjected to witness the genocide of his race, as a result of discrimination against them, vowed to protect mutant survival and responds to persecution, but uses terrorism, coercion, and mass violence, in order to achieve his goal, effectively using "the master's tools."
Who is Magnus/Eric Lehnsherr?
X-Men #1 (1963); Uncanny X-Men #200 (1985); Magneto (2014) #1–20
This young man was wrongfully sentenced to 20 years at Seagate Prison; where he is later subjected to experimentation resulting in the power to escape incarceration.
Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #1 (1972)
This individual has historically used alcohol as a maladaptive coping strategy for the sensation of overwhelm, ego, and professional and personal boundaries, etc. (Believes he can't be everything/always prepared)
Who is Anthony Stark (Iron Man)?
The Invincible Iron Man #120–128 (1979), “Demon in a Bottle
This young woman, sometimes recognized as both mentally and emotionally impenetrable, struggles with trauma and PTSD surrounding coercian/sexual assault and attachment wounds, which were followed by bouts with depression and alcohol misuse.
Who is Jessica Jones?
Alias #1–28 (2001–2004), especially #24–28
This American Veteran, from the Marine Core, who has likewise been associated with special operations, later witnessed a mafia execution that resulted in his family being executed so that no witnesses would exist.
He subsequently leverages his combat experience to wage a one-man war against crime, the mafia, and injustice, when he believes the police, courts, and judicial system fail to?
Who is Frank Castle (The Punisher)?
This woman earned her doctorate, studying and defending plant life and ecosystems, and subsequently resorted to using coercion (the kiss of death), ecoterrorism, and lethal force against humans in order to preserve life that was not considered as respected.
Who is Pamela Isley (Poison Ivy)?
Batman #181 (1966); Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death #1–6 (2016)
This canadian, mercenary is incarcerated in Crossmore Prison, a British mental institution.
Who is Wade Wilson (Deadpool)?
This young veteran is briefly exposed to "Ice" on a field mission that results in him unintentionally inhaling the drug, which later compromises his physical wellbeing.
Who is Steve Rogers (Captain America)?
Captain America #372–374 The “Streets of Poison” storyline begins and establishes the drug-trafficking plot, the public drug panic, and Steve’s involvement in investigating it.
Captain America #375Steve is caught in an explosion at an Ice production site and inhales the drug. Its effects interact dangerously with the Super-Soldier Serum.
Captain America #376The exposure escalates into paranoia, aggression, impaired judgment, and an overwhelming urge for more of the drug.
Captain America #377Steve is captured and sedated. The story reveals that the Super-Soldier Serum is intensifying and prolonging the drug’s effect; removing the serum becomes necessary to stop the crisis.
Captain America #378The arc concludes with Steve no longer having the Super-Soldier Serum, a major status-quo change that carries into later Captain America stories.
This individual's complex trauma history, including the development of protective parts and/or alters for childhood trauma (exiles), near death experiences at war (firefighter parts), and demonstrably socially acceptable behavior (manager parts), has previously been recognized as Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Who is Moon Knight (a.k.a. Jake Lockley, Steven Grant, and Marc Spector)?
Moon Knight (2016) #194
This U.S. Army veteran and government-sponsored super-soldier has recently been found guilty of the public execution of a member of a terrorist group, who publicly surrendered to said soldier before his death.
Who is U.S. Agent, John Walker (a captain america)?
Captain America #323 (1986)
After being physically abused as a child, and subjected to death, this young man was resuscitated, and vowed - in anger - to challenge the criminal underworld by becoming a kingpin and drug lord that could minimize the collapse of the inner city he grew up in, while executing criminals that would not comply with his iteration of his father's moral code.
Who is Jason P. Todd (The Red Hood/The second robin?)
Batman #635–641 (2005), “Under the Hood”
This young man is framed for the murder of Vesper Fairchild; arrested, jailed, convicted, and later cleared when David Cain is identified as the killer.
Who is Bruce Wayne (Batman)?
Batman: The 10-Cent Adventure #1 (2002); Batman #599–607; Detective Comics #766–775
This luchador is often recognized for his dependence on Venom, the fictional steroid-like super-strength drug delivered through his equipment.
He is occasionally referred to as the son of Eduardo Dorrance.
Who is Bane?
Vengeance of Bane #1 (1993); Batman #491–500 (1993), the “Knightfall” era
This individual, who struggles with hypervigilance, PTSD, and general anxiety, struggles with muscle tension (being keyed up), rumination and excessive concern, and panic?
Who is Anthony Stark (Iron Man)?
This Jewish-American, U.S. Marine Corps pilot and test pilot, grew up on Yancy street, in the lower east side of Manhattan, where his father struggled with alcoholism and job stability, and his brother led a local gang that he lost his life to due to street violence.
Who is Ben Grimm (The Thing)?
Fantastic Four #1 (1961)
As a result of losing access to intergenerational wealth and/or growing up in poverty, this young woman became a pickpocket, who leveraged her theft and deception of the elite and upper class to protect vulnerable people within the working class?
Who is Selina Kyle (Catwoman)?
Batman #1 (1940) debut; Catwoman vol. 3 #1 onward (2002)
Detained alongside Reed under Fisk’s anti-vigilante crackdown
Who is Invisible Woman (Sue Storm)?
Devil’s Reign #2 (2021)
This young man is befriended by a friendly neighborhood peer, who tried to intervene and challenge the drug use and overdose that this young man later succumbs to.
Who is Harry Osborne?
Amazing Spider-Man #96–98
These two characters either maintain a comic focused one shot, written by Jay Edidin, or a self-imposed diagnosis and autism coded characterization that challenges their compliance with socially normative behavior, and/or interpersonal relationship dynamics, etc?
Who are Scott Summers (Cyclops - X-Men: Marvels Snapshots #1 (2020) ), and Reed Richards (Fantastic Four: Season One & Fantastic Four (2022) #2)?
This U.S. Military Academy student, became a military service member in modern DC continuity, before her discharge under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policies surrounding her sexuality.
Who is Batwoman (Kate Kane)?
52 #7 (2006)
A young Romani woman - named Cynthia, attempting to free her people from oppression, makes a deal with the devil - trading her soul for the power to overtake said nobility.
When her overthrow, however, fails and the magic misfires and kills innocent children, she is damned to hell for an eternity.
Her son, who later devotes himself to magic and the dark arts - inorder to annually fight for his mother's freedom in hell, grows up to become a genius, who subsequently becomes the leader of an authoritarian state, with free healthcare, no poverty, hunger, or homelessness.
Who is Victor Von Doom (Dr. Doom?)