Comedian Richard Pryor once said, “We all carry around our own monsters.” Fans of horror, like myself, enjoy horror for many reasons. We get a thrill from experiencing creative, visual, and narrative horror in controlled settings. Still, the best horror films and stories are also tragedies. They contain narratives that achingly depict events that might have been different if certain characters had made different decisions. There are also a lot of tragic comic book characters with horror themes and origin stories.
The Hulk, Spawn, Hellboy, and many others are tragic comic book characters when you think about it. Their powers, origins, and backstories could easily be the plot of a horror film. Here are nine such characters.
