Superheroes General

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-22 02:21:55

We seemed to be annoying Imi in the main thread, so I made a new one.

QUICK, EVERYONE NAME YOUR FAVORITE HERO.

Princess Alice · 2012-06-22 02:22:34

BUBBLES

/(wo)manchild

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-22 02:25:07

I like The PPG well enough.

I don't have a singular favorite, but here are some of mine (I will elaborate on why if asked)

Space Ghost
Batman
Plastic Man
Ambush Bug
Terra (DCAU version)
Crazy Jane
The Flash
Static

Sredni Vashtar · 2012-06-22 02:28:56

Seconding Crazy Jane and Ambush Bug, adding Rebis.

Justice4243 · 2012-06-22 02:28:57

Let's just say this is the shirt I'm currently wearing:

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-22 02:31:49

JHM said:
Seconding Crazy Jane and Ambush Bug, adding Rebis.

AMBUSH BUG IS WATCHING YOU REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAD

also Snowfire is up there as a favorite super powered individual of no particular alignment.

COCAINE IS MY GOD

Imipolex G · 2012-06-22 02:32:01

Ambush Bug has gotta be awesome just because of his name.

Thomas Pynchon seems to like Plastic Man, so I guess I'll put in a vote for him

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-22 02:34:10

<---Ambush Bug

Sredni Vashtar · 2012-06-22 02:35:35

Also, all the meta.

On that note, Deadpool, too. (In before "too obvious.")

Also, basically anyone that appeared in Grant Morrison's run of Doom Patrol. At all. (Two of which have already been mentioned by Lazuli and myself respectively.)

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-22 02:36:28

I actually don't like Deadpool. I mean, I don't dislike him, but he does not strike me as funny.

Honestly there are few Marvel characters I really like. 'Cept maybe Squirrel Girl.

Sredni Vashtar · 2012-06-22 02:39:38

*shrug*

Little yellow boxes. They amuse me.

Still, any Doom Patrol character. Any of them.

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-22 02:40:47

Doom Patrol is awesome in every adaption of them I've seen.

Which is like....three, but whatever.

One-Winged Eagle · 2012-06-22 02:41:10

I like Deadpool when he's written well.

Is this thread only about American superheroes?

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-22 02:42:18

Not necessarily.

But I'm totally unfamiliar with pretty much every foreign hero. Not sure about anyone else here.

Justice4243 · 2012-06-22 02:45:28

Other favorites:

A fair amount of the Teen Titans from the DCAU, Robin, Starfire, and Raven.

A few of the X-Men and related peeps: Cyclops (90s "I'm basically a Captain America that shoots lasers our of his eyes, not angsty Cyclops), Bishop, Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Gambit.

Constantine probably doesn't count, but he still manages to scare the bejesus out of a great deal of the DCU Villains.

Deadpool I should read more of.

Justice4243 · 2012-06-22 02:49:22

Zatara is also pretty cool....and hot.

Tre · 2012-06-22 02:50:37

Does Cole from inFamous count?

Well, I'll probably say him, since he's considered a hero by canon status. I also like Spider-Man (well, when he's not whiny) and Batman is pretty cool.

As for obscure heroes I guess I could mention Shadowhawk but it's been forever since I read any of my dad's comics with him in them. They were really good though, I remember binging the whole original series in one night.

One-Winged Eagle · 2012-06-22 02:50:54

Well I'm a huge fan of the Kamen Rider thing as well as Super Sentai (localized in America as Power Rangers), but not as much as the former.

Did you know that a lot of Super Sentai/Power Ranger conventions come from Stan Lee's Spider-Man himself? The spotlight, the posing and the introductions...not to mention all the stuff that came from the Japanese Spider-Man show.

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-22 02:52:09

Tre said:
I guess I could mention Shadowhawk

Whuzat?

kingCrackers said:
Well I'm a huge fan of the Kamen Rider thing as well as Super Sentai (localized in America as Power Rangers), but not as much as the former.

Did you know that a lot of Super Sentai/Power Ranger conventions come from Stan Lee's Spider-Man himself? The spotlight, the posing and the introductions...not to mention all the stuff that came from the Japanese Spider-Man show.

Ah. I know little about that kind of thing. Can't really comment.

One-Winged Eagle · 2012-06-22 02:53:51

I don't really know anyone who's never seen at least some Power Rangers or some other toku show like Ultraman and Godzilla.

Justice4243 · 2012-06-22 02:54:58

Potential Books of Magic spoiler.

Constantine, he will fuck your shit right up.

Also...DID SOMEONE SAY JAPANESE SPIDER MAN?!

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-22 02:55:06

Power Rangers and the like is on the list of "things I was not allowed to watch as a child". I never got around to it later in life.

My little brothers watch them, tho'

Tre · 2012-06-22 02:55:39

Shadowhawk's some Image Comics guy. My dad has the entire original series and one of the trade paperbacks somewhere.

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-22 03:01:54

Edward Collins?

HEY TWILIGHT GUY. IS THIS YOU.

Justice4243 · 2012-06-22 03:02:02

Oh yeah, also, The Tick!

On that note, The Big Guy.

Also Hellboy.

I guess I'm playing pretty loose with the concept of "Super Hero", but I've listed only characters that have appeared in comics and do tend to beat up bad-guys.

That's got to count for something...

Tre · 2012-06-22 03:04:37

I read the Paul Johnstone era.

One-Winged Eagle · 2012-06-22 03:04:53

Eh, we all play fast and loose with the concept of superheroes. If Hellboy's a superhero, so's Doc Savage, the Shadow, and Atomic Robo.

Atomic Robo is really great and you should read it.

Justice4243 · 2012-06-22 03:08:43

"Atomic Robo is really great and you should read it."

"I know" and "I do" respectively.

Love me some Brian Clevinger.

Misery · 2012-06-22 03:12:18

I like Batman.

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-22 04:09:30

So after some wiki-walking, I found out about x-23. Wolverine's genderflippedclonethingie.

X-23's first encounter with Spiderman
Spiderman: Wolverine, Good Lord! What did they DO to you?
Odds are that an ordinary babysitting jobs would be something she could figure out. Her first one is not ordinary.
Laura: You want to use a nuclear bomb... to travel in time.
Valeria Richards: It's only five hundred kilotons.
Laura's first day in School in the "Target X" miniseries. She gets sent to the principal's office twice with her guide, her cousin Megan.
First, she's asked if she speaks french, and when she's asked to give an example of her french language skill, she proceeds to go into detailed assassination protocols.
Megan: "What the hell did you say?!"
Then, in Biology, after correcting a teacher on how many pints of blood are in a human (5.6, he said 7), she's asked to if she has anything else to add for that class. Cue practical instruction on use of poisons.
Finally, when visiting the principal's office for the second offense, the Principal yells at the pair and asks them if they are even listening. Laura proceeds to repeat what the principal said to them. Exactly. Complete with vocal intonations and inflections.

Does this girl have her own series? She's amazing.

One-Winged Eagle · 2012-06-22 05:13:39

She's had several runs of mini-series and series proper, and I think she's starring in Avengers Academy right now.

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Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-22 22:50:51

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-22 23:15:11

I have acquired an archive of Grant Morrisson's run on Doom Patrol, however, it's incomplete (it begins with issue 20) but I know a bit about the Patrol so I figure I'll be okay. First thing I see upon getting past the cover? A character identified as Father McGarry, walking through a junkyard and the matter-of-fact caption "it begaan to rain fish"

and then it fucking rains fish.

Imipolex G · 2012-06-22 23:15:59

Sounds like a promising beginning.

/not sarcasm

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-22 23:19:38

also Larry, the Negative Man, has become Rebis, the Negative Intersexed.

okay.

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-22 23:20:51

IT'S JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE

:D

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-22 23:23:13

Jane (as Driver 8); "and Black Annis said you're the first man she's ever met that she doesn't want to castrate!"

Robotman: "Well, she'd be too late anyway."

really should not have laughed at this.

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-22 23:35:34

This is honestly much closer to surrealist horror than anything superhero

Jumpingzombie · 2012-06-23 14:03:30

Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. fills my heart with joy. Silliest comic ever and yet it's so wonderful.

I also like Powergirl. Despite the fact she get discredited as "another stupid big boobed herione" I have a soft spot for her because I've always felt at her best written she is a pretty fun character who's more than that.

Also, I must say some animated adaptation because I can't help it. The 90s versions of Spiderman and X-men and the newest avengers cartoon.

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-23 14:09:15

I know literally nothing about Powergirl other than "comically large tits" so I can't speak on that.

Obā-san · 2012-06-23 14:23:46

X-man is definitely my favourite.

Justice4243 · 2012-06-23 14:50:45

He's the best at what he does, eating nachos.

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-23 15:04:33

This is why Cosplay is the Devil.

Justice4243 · 2012-06-23 15:05:42

There's some REALLY good cosplay out there, though.

I'll gladly take the ridiculous along with some of the awesome.

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-23 15:08:15

No.

There is simply not such thing as good cosplay.

I don't understand why it's such a popular pastime. It's like Halloween but worse.

Justice4243 · 2012-06-23 15:11:39

Yeah...I don't agree with that at all.

Power Girl just lost a dollar to that machine back there...

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-23 15:13:06

Last one's not showing up.

I am not saying the outfits are bad in a fashion sense, but...beh. Nevermind.

Obā-san · 2012-06-23 15:13:22

Justice42 said:

Power Girl just lost a dollar to that machine back there...

IMI WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH JUSTICE???

Justice4243 · 2012-06-23 15:16:32

Fixed because fuck funnyjunk.

Yeah, the last two where boobirrific, but they're still pretty high quality looking costumes, to me.

Salix Babylonika · 2012-06-23 15:17:45

Did you know you can just buy t-shirts like that? With the cleavage window?

My ex-girlfriend used to wear them. Hilariously, because she had no boobs to speak of.

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