Names of awesome heroes and badass villains you made up as a kid

Because it's pretty weird what I thought sounded cool.

* An intergalactic terrorist, faceless behind a blank mask, confronted in the climax on a tiny, unstable planetoid: Conrad

* A once-noble, fiery young space captain, turned corrupt and dangerous, ruling the galaxy with a bionic hand: Garet Jax, also called The Great Jax

* A wizard or sometimes scientist with the power to manipulate energy and always scheming plans within plans: Volatios

* A space fighter pilot, who flies under many flags but always on the side of good, or sometimes a superhero with eighteen powers: Desperado

God, those are better than anything I came up with. I'm going to have to wrack my brain for what I called the Biker Scout that I put a cape on. He was some kind of half-Star Wars, half-Robin Hood righter of wrongs. I had a hero called "The Prowler" whose theme song on Michael Jackson's Thriller, but who prowled around in the night (or the playground, take your pick).

It may have been The Avenger Scout (I would not have known about superhero team Avengers at this point).

When i was a kid I drew comic strips about rabbits who fought wars in space, but I can't remember what any of them were called.

I remember me and friends in primary school being creatures called THE CREEPY CRAWLIES, battling the GIANT SNODGRASS

MR MAGIC - A magician who is killed in action while fighting for his beautiful Queen Serena and is resurrected and comes back once a year (what can I say, Bible School fucked me up as a kid)

Hot Dog Man - Exactly what it sounds like.

Haha Mr. Magic is great. Strong shades of Tuxedo Mask there, too.

A mutant kind of like the T-1000, with the power to morph into various forms of metal... METAL MUTANT.

Oh man, not really heroes and villains per se, but given the heel/face thing I need to dig up the lists upon lists of wrestlers that I made up.

the first story I wrote was in second grade, called "Paul the Ghost", and it was about a kid who had been killed by a man in an Eraser costume by grinding him in a machine because he wouldn't work on a farm. So he lived his life as a ghost doing shit, somehow got converted back to a mortal, got his revenge on Eraser costume guy, wound up at an orphanage, and got adopted.

Like...he was dressed up as an eraser? Or as a character from the Schwarzenegger vehicle ''Eraser''?

In the same vein as Metal Mutant, I was the co-creator of GUMWAD, a hero born from a pack of radioactive chewing gum, who could basically morph and so on. That sounds like we were taking the piss, but I believe it was sincerely offered, as I recall a sketch for the cover of issue #25, in which a dark, bearded and more muscular version of Gumwad comes back from the future, looking a lot like the evil future Hulk who was a thing around that time. Gumwad existed in the same universe as Desperado (but as he was more cosmic-level their paths rarely crossed) and a Fantastic Four knockoff called the METEORNAUTS whose first issue never reached the page where they would have been introduced.

Crack team of animals who would come together and put themselves into a set of human clothes to disguise themselves as a human in order to infiltrate and get revenge on humans, each animal providing one body part, so like, I think the hands were a rabbit and a cat

Would watch that cartoon.

dressed up as an eraser xxpost

Knight of the Magic Flag
Characters:

1. Sir Alichica: A knight. Part ends last act.
2. Pedro: A squire. Part ends Act One.
3. Colin: A wicked magician. Part ends last act.
4. Gorf: An ogre. Part ends last act.
5. Widdershins: A dwarf. Part ends Act Five.
6. Zsa Zsa: A zombie. Part ends Act Five.
7. Mordock: A town wizard. Part ends Act Four.
8. Cheryl: A townswoman. Part ends Act Four.
9. James: A son of Mordock and Cheryl. Part ends Act Four.
10. Julia: A daughter of Mordock and Cheryl. Part ends Act Four.
11. Zenor: A gargoyle. Part ends Act Four.
12. Antwan: A genie. Part ends Act Five.
13. Mrs. Motona: A town business worker. Part ends Act Four.
14. Plutar: A princess. Part ends last act.
15. Pinare: A prince. Part ends last act.
16. Jaffar: Grand Vizier. Part ends Act Three.
17. Morkan: A wizard. Part ends Act Six.

the influence of sierra games and disney movies looms large, obv. doctor casino, age 11.

"Colin," a wicked magician, full name "Master Colin-Luc-Reganil." Clearly I was impressed with "Jean-Luc Picard" but didn't really get how these names were supposed to hang together, exactly.

Dying at Zsa Zsa the zombie!

I love these windows into my own mentality twenty years ago. Clearly, "Zsa Zsa" the name had somehow reached me, maybe from Bloom County or a bathroom-reader book of Dave Letterman or something - but its actual associations were sort of lost in the process.

Alichica: I'm not worried about ghosts. I'll just race right through and nothing will happen.

(He starts to race across. Corpse {Shine light in corpse's face for effect.} rises from ground. Lunges at Alichica.)

Alichica: Aiiiieeeeee!!!

Corpse: I aam Zsa Zsa thee Zommbeee, annd yooou arrre finnisshedd!!!

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crummy cell phone photo, but there it is

The first pages of the story pick up from the (nonexistent) Gumwad Unlimited #1, in which Gumwad's powers have become disrupted after an encounter with the disease-themed Viro. I think this is all pretty heavily jacked from an X-Men 2099 plot revolving around their Colossus knockoff (Metalhead) which in turn paralleled then-contemporary plots around actual Colossus. In hindsight my lack of originality seems sort of understandable.

Gumwad looks a bit like on of those old MUSCLE rubbery toys

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That had to be a strong influence! Ha, I liked those things a lot; don't think I ever owned any but I remember my cousins seemingly having hundreds of them, and being very jealous. Odd, since you couldn't really do anything with 'em...

I remember trying to colour them in with textas, but the colour kept sweating off them all over everything else

I actually recorded a bunch of serials with friends called Laser Wars. (It was essentially Star Wars ripoff shit). The main characters were Commander Robert Stevenson, Elliott (who was the doofus of the group), and random others. I think we got up to Part 6 before my friends got sick of it. We wouldn't really plot any of it out. I'd pull out the tape recorder, and we would improvise about an hour of dialogue and story...usually getting into arguments on tape about what was happening or us insulting one another.

and then I created a group of detectives called the Honolulu Kids, which I wrote 'stories' about in first grade. Except I was a huge plagiarist when I was a kid, and it was pretty much exactly the gang from Fat Albert with different names. One of the characters was named Fat and I even lifted Rudy directly. yet for whatever reason they solved crimes and there was no Bill Cosby and they were in Hawaii.

and then I once created a board game called "The Wizard from Italy", which had the final villain that was named Dugger Dune.

Those are all great! Elliott the group doofus is perfect. Is that an E.T. influence? I'm remembering all the figurines and characters I named basically at random after names that sounded cool from other things - like "Unc Nunkie" from one of the late Oz books just kind of sounded good and so it became the name of one of several different Garfield figures in my sister's collection.

My buddy across the street and I used to record all kinds of stupid crap into cassettes. Wish I still had 'em (though I'm sure they'd be painful listening) but in the mid-90s I taped over the ones that hadn't worn out with alt-rock and other radio jams of the day. Oops.

The Wizard From Italy! Dugger Dune! Would play.

Revive. I don't have any others to share right now but I just remembered this thread and am convinced ILX at large must have more.