The King of horror has a knack for scaring the life out of people and superheroes are no exception.
Stephen Edwin King is the uncrowned king of horror. His works are no doubt some of the scariest things on Earth and his skills as a writer are second to none. Stephen King has completed nearly 62 novels and 200 short stories and his books have sold more than 350 million copies worldwide. With intense horror in play, his works have also been adapted in movies, TV series, miniseries, and comic books.
Some of Stephen King’s best works include The Shining, The Stand, Carrie, IT, Pet Sematary, Misery, Salem’s Lot, Cujo, The Dead Zone, and 11/22/63, and all of them are so scary that the movie adaptations of a few of them made me watch the movies through my fingers, but I don’t feel bad about it since his work even scares two amazingly powerful Marvel superheroes. The world of Marvel comics has just revealed the Human Torch and The Thing, two members of the Fantastic Four with crazy superpowers who feel powerless against the works of Stephen King. Let’s find out how below
The Thing and Human Torch are scared of Stephen King’s creation
The Marvels #2 by Kurt Busiek, Yildiray Cinar, Richard Isanove, and Simon Bowland, recently revealed the fear of Stephen King’s work felt by Johnny Storm (The Human Torch) and Ben Grimm (The Thing). It is weird to know that the very superheroes who have gone toe to toe with the Avengers and fought and won against villains like Doctor Doom and Galactus (villains who are considered global threat who wield power that can even destroy the Earth as we know it) are frightened of fictional stories but it makes sense since its Stephen King’s work that we are talking about.
In Marvel #2, we saw Kevin Schumer (the protagonist of the story) flying around New York while being invisible when he runs into The Thing and Human Torch. The Human Torch was implying that the Thing was a coward since he doesn’t like the movie adaptations of Stephen King’s work and the Thing was defending himself stating that he likes the books more. “I like the zombies an’ vampires an’ demon clowns to just stay on the page where Stevie King put ‘em, where they belong,” he states. He also states that the jump scares are way too much like their jobs as superheroes to which Johnny agrees revealing what happens when he’s enjoying the movies “—and then pow! Pennywise comes through the wall, and I react like it’s Annihilus.
Flash-fried a whole tub of popcorn once.” It is surprising to know that even Superheroes are scared of fictional ghosts but it reminds us that even though they have god-like powers, they are still just humans. The Thing preferring to read the books rather than watching the movies also reveals that there is more to his personality than just clobbering villains. I really hope we get to see a Halloween special event where these nightmares come to life and our heroes have to fight against these fictional characters like Pennywise.
