1. Rorschach (“Watchmen” by Alan Moore) Greatest moment: While imprisoned in a jail with convicts who were all put there by him, Rorschach kills a criminal by throwing cooking fat on his face. He proceeds to scream “None of you understand. I’m not locked up in here with you. You’re locked up in here with me!”

2. Batman (“Dark Knight Returns” by Frank Miller) Greatest moment: Settles the question of who would win in a fight by kicking Superman’s ass and then faking his own death of a heart attack

3. Marv (“Sin City: The Hard Goodbye” by Frank Miller) Greatest moment: In his hunt for the man who framed him, Marv must fight a mute cannibal named Kevin. Armed with a hacksaw and a tourniquet, Marv saws off Kevin’s limbs and throws his stump into a hungry pack of wolves. Kevin never screams.

4. The Punisher (“Welcome Back, Frank” by Garth Ennis) Greatest moment: Frank Castle takes out mobsters left and right. He gets cornered in the Bronx Zoo and a goon with a machine gun follows him into the polar bear pit. In one of the greatest uses of silhouette, the bear swipes the goon’s head off with one angry flick of his wrist.

5. Hellboy (“Seed of Destruction” by Mike Mignola) Greatest moment: Hellboy is the son of the Devil. You can’t get much more badass than that, especially if your right hand is stone and you fight demons with a very large gun.

6. John Constantine (“Hellblazer” by Garth Ennis) Greatest moment: Though the movie with *gag* Keanu Reeves doesn’t quite measure up to the foul-mouthed belligerent John of the Hellblazer books, you can’t deny that flipping Satan the bird is pretty classic.

7. Wolverine (“Uncanny X-men” by Chris Claremont) Greatest moment: Logan gets separated from the rest of his X-friends and corners a henchman. Painfully. He pops two of his three unbreakable adamantium claws on each side of the man’s neck and snarls, “Wanna go for three, bub?”

8. Namor, the Sub-Mariner (“Marvel Comics” by Bill Everett) Greatest moment: Back when the giant Marvel was still called Timely Comics, Namor helped fight Nazis alongside heroes like Captain America and the Human Torch. He often fought these same heroes because he was Prince of Atlantis and was pissed at the drylander’s pollution. Oh, and he’s nuts.

9. The Incredible Hulk (“The Incredible Hulk” by Stan Lee) Greatest Moment: Hulk smashes everything. ‘Nuff said.

10. Captain America (“Ultimates” by Mark Millar) Greatest moment: This hardcore Cap takes down the wife-beating Giant man, kicks the Hulk in the babymaker, jumps out of planes 600 feet up with no parachute and nails the Wasp. After beating down an alien invader, he points to the “A” on his forehead and says “You think this letter on my head stands for France?”