Superheroes/Supervillains... Who are you?

I think I would be Collosus becasue I have always been the tallest and biggest of my peer groups. But I'd rather be Doctor Strange

Sandman. I mean, DUH, if you're a goth or a wannabe goth (the latter being me, I could never dress the part and I don't have the right Robert Smith/Tim Burton hair).

I wouldn't mind being Colossus too, but he died recently (saving the entire mutant population from the legacy virus). So, I guess I'd like to be Nightcrawler, he can phase shift, and looks really cool. But ideally I'd be one of those characters that you don't know if he's good or bad, like Gambit...

Does Emode have a test for this?...I'll do a quick search!

Can I be Penfold?

When Neil Tennant, who used to work for Marvel UK, was asked this question his reply was "Mr Fantastic because he can stretch every part of his body." Me, I'd settle for Howard the Duck.

Errrrrmmm... I don't know enough about superheroes to know who I'd be. I mean, most of the female superheros etc. I can think of are pretty stupid.

Storm kicks ass though. She so rocks. As does Catwoman.

If someone gets to be Penfold, I want to be Danger Mouse. Damn, I miss that cartoon.

Kate you can be She Hulk

Assuming no on-the-board superheroes cd change gender at will (poss.not that useful an attribute when fighting the Lords of Crime anyway), I have to go for Invisible Girl, even tho I know that when visible she is blonde.

Supervillains: I am Catwoman — rrrrRRRRRRRRrrrrrr

Nightcrawler doesn't "phase shift". He teleports. Goes BAMF. Brimstone. Kitty Pryde / Shadowcat was the phaser.

As for me - Spider-Man. Duh. Super-smart, self-depricating wit, and amazing luck with the ladies. (Ah, Gwen Stacy...) Oh - most RESEMBLES me? Hmm...well, I kinda look like the wallflower-era Peter Parker. Quite the square. Luck with ladies? Ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha. (I'll save those comments for the Self Esteem thread.)

Here's a handy list of female superheroes/supervillians who aren't stupid:

Storm - African woman (note to pedants: I do know the full history, thanks) who can control the weather. Started out as a petty thief, ended up being worshipped as a goddess.
Shadowcat - Jewish mutant who can walk through walls and on air. Has ninja skills. Is remarkably smart and cheerful.
Rogue - Started out as a villian. Can absorb other people's powers and memories by touching them, but can't control this power. Has Punk Rock Hair.
Cecilia Reyes (she was too cool for a codename) - A medical doctor from the Bronx. She takes no shit from anyone and has a nigh-impenetrable force field.
Mystique - A lesbian blue-skinned shapeshifter who is the Machiavellian ideal given human form. She's Rogue's adopted mother.
Dazzler - A blond rock star who can absorb sound and transform it into various forms of light. She has periodic battles with her self-image.
Moonstone - A cold, manipulative psychiatrist who is super-strong and can fly and become intangible thanks to a stolen meteorite shard. She often mentally crushes her opponents before physically crushing them.
Jenny Sparks - A blonde, chain-smoking British embodiment of electricity. She's deeply sarcastic.
Dizzy Cordova - A Hispanic girl from the wrong side of the tracks who's been tapped to become the lynchpin in the plans of a scheming ex-agent against the coalition who used to employ him. No super powers, but she's handy with a gun and can streetfight like the dickens.
Emma Frost - A high-society Boston telepath with a penchant for bondage wear and power.
Fahrenheit - A hot-tempered American who wields flame. She's got an extraordinarily foul mouth and a painfully sharp sense of morality.

There are others I won't describe: Destiny, Flint, Blink, Phoenix, Polaris, Jesse Quick, M, Vertigo, Arclight, Kathy Ling, Channon, Girl One, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, U-Go Girl, Scarlet Witch, Wasp, Troia, Malice, Psylocke, Feral, Siryn, Saturn Girl, La Lunatica, Krystalin, Wolfsbane, Moonstar, etc, etc...

Oh, who am I? I'd love to be Luke Cage or the Black Panther, but brutal honesty is hinting that I'm Cypher. Damn.

I new I shouldn;t have answered knowing nothing of superheroes. I am ALL THOSE PEOPLE E JUST MENTIONED (esp. the sarcastic one one who embdies electricity and the one with punk rock hair and lesbian mom who absorbs dreams but can't control it)

ps my mom is not ACTUALLY lesbian, tho she has sometimes shared her lesbian dreams with the entire family at the breakfast table... which is, er , cool...

new = knew; E = Dan (my secret name for him)

Dazzler - A blond rock star who can absorb sound and transform it into various forms of light. She has periodic battles with her self-image.

I'll take that one, please. Blond? Check! Rock star? Well... nearly! Absorbing sound and turning into various forms of light... KEWL!!!!! That would save us having to get all those complicated films and lights for the Sonic Boom show! Periodic battles with self image? Dan, you're making this up just to appeal to me. The dronerock superhero, that would be me.

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Dan: Would that be Cypher solo, or teamed up with Warlock?

Dazzler is real! But I always thought she was a bit dull. Some of the more obscure superheroes/villains were great, tho...

If I was a wrestler, I'd be Kane.

Self-image: Cypher teamed up with Warlock, of COURSE.
In reality: Cypher solo, complete with ironclad belief in my own immortality which will ultimately be my downfall. (Different spin on what actually happened to him necessary to match my personality; I like to cover my nobility with a layer of artificial arrogance.)

Kate, Dazzler was the X-Man who never wanted to be one. All she wanted was to sing, but events forced her into becoming an outlaw hero. She was downright self-loathing at times; there was one X-Men annual in particular where each of te X-Men were tempted with their wildest dreams and she chose to become a baglady in order to avoid failing. Still, when the chips were down she was remarkably self- sufficient and capable. Her fight scenes were always great because they would generally involve her doing something fantastic while talking all kinds of smack while her internal monologue yammered about how badly she was going to mess up at any instant. She ended up falling in love with a guy with hollow bones from a dimension ruled by television. She was there fighting the despotic leader for a while, but briefly popped up in the main books recently to help take out Magneto.

That's ME!!!! That is so and completely me!!! Where can I see this for real and in action? Oh, don't turn me into a comix nerd again, Dan.

Dan, I must know:

Do you buy two copies of each new comic book that comes out? One to read and one to store?

I wouldn't want to be one of the X-men, I think it'd be cool to be Death, just for the clothes even.

Heh heh heh. The only times I've ever bought two copies of a comic book have been when I've forgotten that I'd already purchased that issue.

See, this is the reason I can't remember my multivariable calculus: I've overwritten those parts of my brain with comic book and Doctor Who trivia.

Kate: Good luck finding the issues where Dazzler was an X-Man. They're approximately 15 years old. If the planets properly align, a situation will arise where I can loan you mine. (Since you're in London, I'm in Boston, and those issues are in the MN countryside, there will need to be some logistical finagling.)

About 8 years ago, I read all the old X-Men issues: they were reissued compilation books. Aren't those things still available?

*I don't own any comic books, I dated a guy who was obsessed with them, buying 2 issues, gold foil editions. I think his prize possesion was the Black Venom No. 1, which was a missprint. I went to 5 comic book conventions with him.

Oh, and I just sold all my comics from 15 years ago. A run of X-Men from issues #189 to #270 included. Primo Dazzler material (for starters). Actually, if you scour on-line, you can probably find many retailers dumping them off for really low prices (in the US, at any rate). X-Men #214 is a good Dazzler story (though it's post- disco, which is a shame, since that means no glassball earrings & no roller skates).

Ah, Longshot. You forgot to mention his three-fingered thing. And the throwing knives. And Mojo. (X-Babies, anyone?)

And here's this super-terrific superhero thread, and Ethan (who E- MAILED my ass for not jumpstarting the other comic thread) is nowhere to be found (unless I'm blind-o).

And I might be blind-o for sure, because I don't recall seeing Jubilee on your list, Daniel.

I'd say I'm Catwoman, which is really who I am, but this Farenheight sounds unfortunately like me...jeez, thanks Dan.

How far do those compilations go? Do they do the post-Mutant Massacre and Australia issues? That's the bulk of Dazzler's involvement with the X-Men.

I'd love to see another crossover like the Mutant Massacre, where each title is self-contained but you get a much broader story if you read the whole thing. Newer crossovers where you MUST buy every issue in order tofigure out the plot = DUD.

I am either Fahrenheit or Wonder Woman. At school I used to lead games of the latter and cut the base from Dixie cups to make those bullet- deflecting bracelets. There is now a WW poster in my kitchen.

"Newer crossovers where you MUST buy every issue in order tofigure out the plot = DUD. "

I agree, but it's even dudder when you've bought all the issues and found out there's no plot at all!...RE:Dazzler, she came back to the X-Men a few months ago for a brief period.

It just struck me as to the superhero I'd really want to be! The SILVER SURFER!...he gets to travel all over the universe, hang out with the Fantastic Four and the Avengers, has cosmic powers, he's rad!

I am too human to have superpowers.

Actually, perhaps my superheroes are the characters in Hate, Minimum Wage and Jimmy Corrigan...

I've always wanted to have the superpower to make things really warm.

dazzler beat galactus once, you know. motherfucking GALACTUS. on her motherfucking own! she is a bad-ass.

it's funny how essentially are the guys are probably closest to spiderman but there's not superheroine equiv. for girls. i know there's some harley quinns here though.

in the realm of alternacomics, i recently had a period where i felt very close to enid coleslaw from ghost world (soon to be a major motion picture, thora birch as enid). a friend was kind enough to discourage the comparison though.

The Leopard of Lime Street!

I used to feel very close indeed to coleslaw. I identified with it terribly strongly. But then my shrink discouraged the comparison to all vegetables. Except maybe Chinese vegetables, I still often identify with bok choy.

I am She-Ra! Princess of Power!

Actually, I just want my own animated transformation sequence that will play the same way every time I need to spring into action...

i recall very disappointed that the female he-man was not named 1) 'she-man' or 2) 'he-woman'.

I am Curt Connors, the Lizard

My friends and I always called He-Man She-Man. I mean, that hair + furry panties? That SCREAMED "pre-op transvestite" to our 10-year- old minds. (We were precocious.)

you forgot the loving attachment to his feline. 'buck up, battle cat! it's time for action!'

Actually, _I_ am blind, because I didn't notice that David called me out for exlcuding Jubilee until just now. It wasn't intentional; about the time that I got to the point where I would have listed her, I figured that I should stop being so X-centric.

Ally, you're right - you ARE Fahrenheit. Good news: you're a kick- ass redhead who led the property damage division of a UN-sponsored metahuman strikeforce. You also get to have tawdry, inappropriate sex with a gaseous Irishman. Bad news: you were eviscerated as part of a crossover with "Alien". Also, your costume features unfortunate shades.

I used to love how Battle Cat was SUCH A SCREAMING PANSY in his alter- ego.

What about Orco?

Wait a sec, Marianna. Your former boy's prized comic possession was a BLACK VENOM #1!?!?!

Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. Talk about Fool's Gold.

If it's not Silver Age or older, it's CRAP. (On the market, that is.) Unless the market's gone all apeshit, and all the mid-80s comics I just sold for pennies on the pound are now highly collectible.

blah blah blah collecting comics blah blah blah market value blah blah blah

Orko! If he'd had a face, I would have punched him in it.

HOw can you , he's a cartoon

I would have found a way. He was that irritating.

Thank you, Ethan. That is the underlying sentiment to my post. (And, to think, I actually tried to reconcile my fandom with my greediness - stupid stupid stupid.)

Now get your ass on the Superheroes: C or D thread STAT!

Ally, you're right - you ARE Fahrenheit. Good news: you're a kick- ass redhead who led the property damage division of a UN-sponsored metahuman strikeforce. You also get to have tawdry, inappropriate sex with a gaseous Irishman. Bad news: you were eviscerated as part of a crossover with "Alien". Also, your costume features unfortunate shades

Wait, shades are bad news but having sex with gaseous Irishmen is GOOD news? Dan, I worry for you. The property damage division of anything is right up my alley though.

Paul: Okay chief, I'll see you in the Mark Three.

I should explain; he's an Irishman who mutated into a gas-based life form encased inside of a forcefield that he can project into any shape he wants, not an Irishman with copious gas. And the shades were REALLY butt.

Yeah, that's way cooler than what you originally said, good.

I dunno if I am still Farenheit.

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Except not British.

Wonder fucking Woman!

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