Top 100 Worst Characters

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Not lame-but-funny or lame-but-redeemable or even necessarily boringly-generic, and certainly not so-bad-they're-good or wasn't-the-sixties-crazy, just actually rubbish characters in concept, design or use. Not limited by genre or nationality of comic, of course. Bonus points given for characters who achieved some level of actual reader popularity.

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 17 October 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

1. LOBO (DC Comics; own title plus everywhere) - awful DC answer to Wolverine, played for "laughs" of which there came none - kewl biker dood, appeared in pretty much EVERY DC comic for several years regardless of time, audience and sense. Maybe was good once in a Justice League issue. Maybe. Accidentally happening on one of his appearances now causes cringing embarrassment.

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 17 October 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

At the other end of the spectrum, unintentionally (it was the first person I thought of before clicking on the thread):

2. IMPOSSIBLE MAN (Marvel; FF antagonist). Omnipotent, silly, arbitrary opponent, Marvel's answer to DC's cavalcade of unbeatable magical trickster characters (of which only Mxyzptlk was interesting). A go-to character for writers who can't think of a plot or want something "light-hearted."

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 17 October 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

His original appearance is entertaining enough, but he should never have appeared again.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 17 October 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I almost hedged that, because there are probably literally hundreds of characters who are fine for one-time only appearances. Oh:

3. DOOMSDAY (DC, Superman-slayer). A story concocted to be as simply summarized as possible -- "The Death of Superman," a legitimate Event, packaged for the media complete with black-bagged comics -- inexplicably uses as its antagonist a goofy-looking alien monster with, it's later revealed, ties to Krypton and stuff. Used only once, in a better story, this might have worked -- Superman finally meets his match, an alien so incomprehensibly powerful he barely notices the red-caped nuisance squidged between his toes like snail jelly, etc -- but it wasn't a good story, and bringing the character back over and over again only reminded us of that.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 17 October 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Any number of crappy 2000 AD filler characters:

4. Tao de Moto

5. The Grudgefather

6. Mambo

7. Junker

etc.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

8. GWF Hegel

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

9. INSPECTOR RAAM (2000AD: Cop) - in the late 80s 2000AD repeatedly struggled to write 'relevant' stories about current social concerns, in this case Green issues. The setting for 'Dead Meat' was a future world in which meat-eating was a crime, and naturally who better to police meat crime than a MUTATED SHEEP. Played as ridiculous it might have worked but Dead Meat was done straight-faced, indeed po-faced. Thrill-power at a minimum as every episode featured Inspector Raam chasing sausage smugglers (also it was drawn by someone dreadful). The final insult was the billing of the strip as "Dead Meat Featuring Inspector Raam", as if any other strip would feature him ever.

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

10. THE X-BABIES (X-Men and related titles: far too often) - another character where a single appearance would have been just about bearable but DEAR GOD they were in the comic ALL THE TIME. For non X-reader the X-Babies were cartoon toddler versions of the X-Men who appeared on an alien cartoon show. Only two possible reasons occur to me for their constant recurrence viz. i) C.Claremont had a bet with someone; ii) C.Claremont was trying to get into the knickers of the world's twee-est fan.

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 17 October 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

11. IKONN THE UNLIMITED (Image, fuck knows) - He's this purple and red guy with three eyes and big teeth who appears at the climax of The Worst Comic I Own, Newmen no. 3*. He's only in one panel, so I know next to nothing about him, but trust me, he sucks.

Incidentally the letter column of Newmen no. 3 contains this gem from one incisive, inquistive reader-

"1) Do any of the Newmen have more than one power?
2) Where are these bad guys coming from?
3) Where are the Newmen from? Where were they born?
4) How did the Newmen get their powers?
5) Who is the guy with the mustache and the red beard? Is he their father?
6) Will the Newmen ever fight another Image team, like Freak Force?
7) How old are the Newmen?
8) Are the Newmen Aliens?"

I'm afraid I've no idea whether the Newmen/Freak Force crossover ever came to pass.

* I don't appear to have the hash symbol on my keyboard.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 17 October 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

12. http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/news_images/2606_6939_3.jpg

later...
http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/news_images/2606_6940_4.jpg

haw haw

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 17 October 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I love how Rocky looks like he's there against his will, like "off camera" some guy has a gun to Adrienne's head and has forced him to dress up in silver gloves and high-tops.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 17 October 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Love is a strong word.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 17 October 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Any number of the image characters created in that first mad rush of issues who seemed to be all about derivative costumes, powers, personalities etc. I could just list members of Youngblood, Brigade, Stormwatch, Wetworks and WildCats, but I'm gonna specifically list the ones who seem like they could have been created by 8 year old boys. Both have awful costumes and wow-what-a-cool-name names.

12. SHADOWHAWK

13. WARBLADE

And....

14. BEN REILLY/ SCARLET SPIDER
From the stupidest decision Marvel ever made came a pointless character. I shudder at the thought of him and the issues he appeared in...

― David N (David N.), Sunday, 17 October 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

15. JESSE CUSTER (Vertigo; arsehole) Even though I maintain that Preacher was a pretty fun read, it features what must be one of the most objectionable lead characters of all time. Basically a highly unpleasant cipher for Garth Ennis' macho bullshit wank fantasies, the most abhorrent thing about Custer was that we were supposed to sympathise with the guy. This from the man who wrote the truly well-observed and moving 'The Story of You-Know-Who'.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 17 October 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

16. Kickers Inc.
17. Marc Hazzard: Merc

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 18 October 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

(haha Douglas wins)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 October 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

18: Spider-Woman III, or was she IV, I know she pretended to be Spider-Man for a bit thinking that her breasts (which by virtue of being a comic character were large) would be mistaken for spider-pecs which is at least plausible looking at Spider-Man's anatomy. Not to be confused with:
Spider-Woman I (Red costume)
Spider Woman II (Black Costume which gave spiderman the idea for a black costume, though oddly she made hers out of material rather than an alien symbiote - idiot Spidey)
Spider-Woman III or IV, who turned up in the first issue of this series almost as if it might turn out to be her book instead, though she was clearly evil and sucking all the powers out of other spiderpeople.

This whole complex but luckily short lived saga was apparently created by John Byrne to cash in on the success of Spider-Girl not realising that Marvel also printed Spider-Girl so there was no reason to cash in on something they were already cashing in on. The character was so unloved that she later became the superhero version of an opium poppy.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 18 October 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

19) Doug Ramsey, AKA Cypher (oh, the irony) - super smart shit magnet, running around in black / yellow leotards doing nerdy stuff & getting into all sorts of trouble. Danger potential somewhat mitigated when he merged w/ symbiotic mechalien Warlock (to create DOUGLOCK, #19a on this list), despite fears of being infected with technovirus. Crapitude of character exemplified when poor Doug was used to highlight the dangers of the super-hero lifestyle (& possibly the dangers faced by writers when they're forced to deal w/ a character that's smarter than themselves & can't fly) when he was killed by Dr. Morneau understudy The Ani-Mator - yeah, knock off the geekiest of the geeks, way to go House of Ideas! I imagine he came back from the dead as some Warlock'd zombified techophreak, but damned if I care.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 18 October 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

20) Delirium (Vertigo: SANDMAN passim.) - anything I said about Delirium would make me look either sexist or Gothist or both.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 18 October 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

21) Batman, nuff said.

― Huk-L, Monday, 18 October 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

No, explain.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 18 October 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just kidding around. Isn't "'nuff said" the Marvel Zombie mantra? Ergo, comedy! Or not.

You could probably fill a list of 3575 terrible characters entirely from the Green Lantern Corps.

― Huk-L, Monday, 18 October 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Excelsior!

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG, Rocky is fantastic.

I remember reading Lobo as a kid...wasn't the point to take the piss out of DC characters outside of continuity, and by 'take the piss out of' I mean to see them all get shot in the head?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Lobo's no Ambush Bug.

― Huk-L, Monday, 18 October 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

21) (for real) Bane, cf Doomsday.

― Huk-L, Monday, 18 October 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

22) CABLE (Marvel, ubiquitous albatross of 90s mutant-related excess) - The sort of character a 10-year-old kid weaned on G.I. Joe & Transformer cartoons (& Marvel Comics, natch) would draw on his notebook during biology class. Check out the pre-pube checklist, folx - big guns, metallic arm, Kirbyesque body proportions, super-duper-powers, glowing eye, wicked scar. The sort of origin that can only be conconcted during a "Yeah! Yeah! And then he ..." after-school session fueled on convenience store candy & countless rounds of Metroid. Honestly, this ain't so bad. What's bad is when an editorial staff runs with this and tries to haphazardly shoehorn this guy into an already befuddled continuity stream AND HAVE IT ALL MAKE SENSE, nevermind killing whatever potential quaintness the character possessed by beating him & his clenched grimace into the frontal lobe of every fanboy possible. Any & all work done by post-Nicienza (sic) creators (for better or worse) has seemingly been binned w/ the return of Cable's daddy to the drawring board.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Bane was lots more thought-out as a character than Doomsday and the premise - Batman comes up against someone even more driven than he is - wasn't dreadful, it's just the character design was so rotten.

Cable is irredeemable.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Bonus points to Bane for being the first inflatable villainn that wasn't poppable.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

23) The Watcher aka Aka The Deus Ex Machina.: If only for "I am Twattu The Watcher and I am not permitted to interfere. Well okay, just this once, twice, four hundred times."

I think he might have got sacked recently which he had coming for a long time.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

24) Any pop-culture referencing Cerebus character who Dave Sim thinks is incredibly funny and cute, especially if their accent is rendered in painful phonetic spelling. I'll go for those two Beatles who ran the bar in 'Guys'.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Vetoed, if only for that great "bop on me nose" sketch.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't even remember that. I just remember them being horribly grating.

Incidentally, Lord Julius and Mrs. Thatcher are exceptions.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

re The Watcher, it's a convention in DC comics whenever there's some big cosmic cris- er, dilemma, for the mystical bigwigs, usually the Spectre, the Phantom Stranger, Destiny (sometimes a Guardian of the Universe and Shazam) to get together and remind themselves that they cannot interfere.

― Huk-L, Monday, 18 October 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

25) Darkseid. This may be controversial, but he really easy the rubbishest villain ever. Not only because he is the uber-Kirby character (and is still drawn that way) but his life work is discovering the Anti-Life equation. Er, D, we on earth call that DEATH. Its the same thing.

(Also for such an uber-baddie he really never, ever wins or even does anything bad at all. Again often exists to show how scary this years summer crossover is when he grudgingly agrees to team up with all the heroes of Earth (?) to stop theUniverse being destroyed in a incompatible to the anti-life equation way. I am sure I've even seen Catwoman beat him.)

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 18 October 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I take it you haven't read the latest Superman/Batman? In it, Darkseid finally seems to have done something evil. Sort of by accident though.

― Huk-L, Monday, 18 October 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

26) THANOS (Marvel; universal cosmic gadfly) - Marvel's Darkseid; excuse for Jim Starlin to get all COSMIC on everyone; necrophiliac. Actually, not so bad as intractable force of evil pining for some goth lovin' and / or his six precioussssss Infinity Gems, but I think there were attempts (again, by Jim Starlin) to make Thanos more human & sympathetic (in a spiritual John Carradine / Bill Bixby way) around the time that the Infinity madness struck (somewhere between Infinity Sanctions & Infinity Coalition of the Willing), which undercuts Thanos' best qualities. Also, purple & orange don't go together. Also, he supposedly kills the entire Marvel Universe, which is a job best left to either The Punisher or Fred Hembeck.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 18 October 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

27. SEX WARRIOR (Toxic) - Toxic was a short-lived UK weekly set up by defecting 2000AD writers who wanted i) creators rights and ii) to tell old-skool violent stories. The lead character, cheekily, was Marshal Law. Some of the stories were good, some weren't. First major evidence of the downside of creative freedom came with Sex Warrior, who was kind of the Toxic equiv. of Rogue Trooper, a gun-toting future fighter who beat up aliens/commies/whatever in her bra. By the latterday standards of Bad Girl comics this is tame stuff but it was a sad moment for British comics - the implications of selling to 15-year-old-boy fantasies instead of 10-year-old-boy fantasies tawdrily revealed. Very boring stories too.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 18 October 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

28. DURHAM RED (2000AD), for similar reasons.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 18 October 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

29) General Glory (DC) - Captain America analogue brought in late in the Giffen/DeMatteis JLI, I dropped the comic which I'd been reading since #4 after the during this arc. Didn't need him, didn't want him, bored me to sleep.

― Huk-L, Monday, 18 October 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw, I liked the General Glory stories. As an addition to a sitcom he made sense.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 18 October 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, fine, I take it back.

― Huk-L, Monday, 18 October 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

30) Power Pack. Specifically Jack. Snotty little evil-thug-in-training, I kept hoping you would get crushed by rocks and you NEVER DID.

When the unbearably twee four-year-old is the best person in the comic, you know you have issues. Also, someone else mentioned the My Little Pony aliens on another thread.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 October 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

31) BLOODWYND (DC; only in JLA, thankfully) - Hi! I'm the Martian Manhunter! You might remember seeing me change shapes, solve crimes & eat Hydrox cookies in some of your favorite DC comics. Some of you might be wondering why, once upon a time, I was black & wore this awful disco reject costume! Well, it seems that I was actually embroiled in some nonsense regarding the REAL Bloodwynd, some Bloodgem thing wedged in my chest & a demon named Rott. I'll let the folks from BlackSuperhero.com attempt to justify all of this nonsense:

Bloodwynd's ancestors were slaves belonging to Jacob Whitney. Even for a racist cotton plantation owner, this guy was evil. One of Bloodwynd's relatives, a woman named Clemma, had her fill of his violence. For 28 nights, the slaves gathered to perform the ritual of the Blood Gem. Mixing their blood in a cauldron and speaking incantations as old as mankind, they created this object of power. "It was fashioned with the blood, the sorrow...the misery of all slaves." The gem was used to murder Whitney, who's heart stopped under it's light while his soul was drawn into it. Passed down through the generations, the gem gained power as each of it's bearer's souls became linked with it. The Blood Gem craved evil, drawing out the dark side of it's user.
In time it fell into the hands of the latest descendant who used it to become the mysterious sorcerer named Bloodwynd. The Gem is actually another dimension that acts as the energy source for the Gem's owner. Within that dimension exists the being Rott who is the combined evil and darkness of all the Gem holders joined with the soul of Whitney and given a diabolical form.
At one point, Rott tried to free himself from the dark dimension causing pain to Bloodwynd. When the passing J'onn J'onzz tried to help him, the sorcerer pulled into the Gem. Rott then telepathically forced J'onzz to take the form of Bloodwynd and impersonate him as a member of the newly reformed Justice League America where he remained as a mysterious member. The identity of J'onzz was revealed when the plans of Doctor Destiny caused J'onzz to go up against a doppleganger of himself. The Blood Gem had bonded to J'onzz and it took the efforts of the Atom and Ray II, who entered the other dimension, to rescue the real Bloodwynd. Once Rott was defeated, Bloodwynd remained a member of the JLA.

Send all hate mail to Dan Jurgens, ladies & germs. Thank goodness Grant Morrison & Darwyn Cooke are around to save me from this sort of convoluted heavy-handed stuff. As for the REAL Bloodwynd, he supposedly still shows up from time to time, but, wow, it might be in his best interest to keep a low profile. Or lobby for a Vertigo makeover. Or, at the very least, get rid of the box cut. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need a glass of milk.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 18 October 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

32) SUE STORM, THE INVISIBLE GIRL (Marvel; housewife and kidnapee), at least in the pre-force fields, Lee/Kirby days. She was just useless.

When did her force-field generating powers first come along, by the way?

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 18 October 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

33) I gotta say it, FIRESTORM (DC, first version). Sure, he had a great costume--for a figure skater! But he was just too powerful, and, yet, like Darkseid, never really did anything with all his power.

― Huk-L, Monday, 18 October 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

You're all making this up, aren't you? Especially the x-babies?

― Leon Czolgosz in NYC (Nicole), Monday, 18 October 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://lacosa.sion.com/ww/pix/series/ani/ani-12-03.gif

― Huk-L, Monday, 18 October 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

http://alykat.hispeed.com/playpen/meetus/index.htm

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 October 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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I was just thinking about that, how it sort of happened between the pages of that JLI issue. Driq, the GL whose ring wouldn't let him die. Ick.

― Huk-L, Monday, 25 October 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The corresponding issue of Firestorm shows what happened to them in all its "glory".

DRIQ! He was the interplanetary Bill the Cat!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 25 October 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually spent all day yesterday on my goofy TV web browser reading the http::/glcorps.dcuguide.com

― Huk-L, Monday, 25 October 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I'm a shitty linker. But anyway, it was actually quite useful for finding out what happened to all the shitty characters I never cared about anyway after Hal Jordan turned into Parallax (who should be one of the best characters barely used).

― Huk-L, Monday, 25 October 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Best thing about the Floronic Man was his first appearance, if I'm not mixed up about who he was - Jason Woodrue, right? He first shows up on the cover of Atom #1. It's a lovely Gil Kane pic of the Atom struggling in the jaws of a venus fly-trap, Woodrue looming over him saying "If my venus fly-trap can defeat the mighty Atom, nothing can stop me from taking over the world!" My favourite cover ever, for its absurdity, since it was hard to see how a) this thing could threaten anyone over an inch tall, b) why the Atom didn't just grow and especially because the thought of his waving a venus fly-trap at Superman was funny.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

BECAUSE YOU DEMANDED IT:

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1489/200/1489_2_01.jpg

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Contrasted, of course, with:

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2636/200/2636_2_24.jpg

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you, David!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 25 October 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Geez, check out how close Martin was quoting Woodrue's thought balloon. You're an inspiration!

― Huk-L, Monday, 25 October 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

THE JLA ARE HELPLESS AS SKINNY SHURBBY GUY MENACES SLIGHTLY BULKIER MOSS GUY WITH A CHAINSAW! STAY TUNED, TRUE BELIEVERS!

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Monday, 25 October 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Firestorm (RIP) seems to be cheering Florry on!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Meanwhile, Wonder Woman took the under on the fight, and lost her Invisible Jet as a result.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Hal Jordan in breast-feeding Zatanna scandal!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Hal should be ashamed that he's leaving Green Arrow sloppy seconds. POTS GNIKCUS S'LAH TAET, ANNATAZ!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, does GA have his shaft in his hand?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

73) John! Byrne's! BABE!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

What, the pig?

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Alas no. A seven foot tall redhead who doesn't speak except when she does and has superstrength. It was, how you say, seminal.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

ISn't that
74) Maxima

(Who fits on this list when she was in the JLI, way to go with rubbish sexist character whose possible only good attribute was being female and trying to get inside Superman's pants. I bet she would be shocked with what she found there.)

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, yes. The early 90s were a time of rub synchronous serendipity.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

http://thenostalgialeague.com/galleries/csjr8/babe.gif

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

That first cover looks awfully like some fourthwall busting is going on. Seven foot tall, strong..Hmm, Byrne has a fixation.

And ginger too. Which would bring in Gen 13. Who I am sure ALL belong on this list if I knew what they were called.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Fairchild, Rainmaker, Grunge, ... Roxy The Gravity Girl (Freefall?) and Mopey Fire Boy (Burnout?)

While we're on it, how about Powerhaus from The Deviants? His power is to leach emotions from other people and convert it into muscle mass. Because, you see, that makes sense. (One reason why I find Warren Ellis so great is because he actually pulled a reasonable character out of that trainwreck.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds like genius. like somebody looked at Dazzler's wanky sound-into-light powers and thought of the most ridiculous I-convert-thing-into-thing power possible while still attempting to be serious.

"I can convert the nose hairs of my enemies into mysterious dreams... IN BATTLE"

― Vic Fluro, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

It did make for some great visuals, because emotions run high during a battle so he'd be something like 15 feet tall, smashing people and things around like they were candy.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man, they should have had a crossover where he fights Ultron and when he starts getting his ass kicked (cause Ultron is all emotionless and everything, since this isn't lameo "Mark Ultron, weepadroid 2000") he has to start grabbing bystanders and pissing them off or making them sad.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"This UNSTOPPABLE adamantium robot is going to KILL me! I've just got ONE CHANCE! I MUST -- to SAVE THE WORLD -- puree that little boy's PUPPY!"

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"HEY FOUREYES! Yeah, you with the fanny pack! I &@#%ed your MOM last night! Doggie style! Yeah, she took it like a little @&^#$. And then I !*@&ed on her head! Yeah, that's right! What're you gonna do about it, Poindexter?" *shot of Poindexter grimacing like a sad panda* "Yeah! YEAH!" *Superdork grows ginormous, turns to Ultron & his nuclear furnacing mouth*

"OK, Sparky - it's go time!"

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://ultimatecomics.free.fr/dv8/images/powerhouse/Powerhaus_05.jpg
http://ultimatecomics.free.fr/dv8/images/powerhouse/Powerhaus_10.jpg

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

XTREME!!!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, his costume has footies, no wonder he needs the emo-to-whammo transformer.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Look at him all chagrined on the bottom! Like that rubble is the fourth wall and he's just harnessed the readers' incredulity into smashing it so he can just be like "Yeah, I KNOW, I KNOW, but at least I didn't get my powers from mongoose blood."

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/dhminion1.jpg

75) DEATH'S HEAD II: Dull, ugly makeover of freelance peacekeeping agent and Transformers/Dr Who spin-off, well beloved by all Marvel UK's twelve readers.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/dhminion1.jpg

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

76) Rocket Racer. He skates. Fast! Like a Dark Night Thrasher (ref. # 37) (except both were black characters).

76a) The Big Wheel. HAHAHAAHHA! And in the same issue!

http://www.samruby.com/Villains/RocketRacer/ASM183.gif

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Thursday, 28 October 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

If someone doesn't reboot Defenders w/ Howard the Duck & the Man-Thing & Speedball on the team, & include some of these morts in a respectful way, then I'm gonna do it.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 October 2004 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Was that the "should have been" Secret Defenders run? (a.k.a. "if Man-Thing met Daredevil, would they go out for a sundae?")

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Thursday, 28 October 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Secret Defenders should never ever have been, in any way shape or form.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 October 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

77) http://images.comicbookresources.com/oddball/ghostlytales71-175.jpg

― Huk-L, Friday, 29 October 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

URL to the article, Huck? CBR.com is kibboshing any direct IMG linking.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Argh! http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/oddball/

― Huk-L, Friday, 29 October 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean ....

77) THE PHANTOM SURFER?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes.

― Huk-L, Friday, 29 October 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

78) Truk

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― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 6 March 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

Oh, but Truk was just a disguise of the perfectly acceptable chipmunk from space, Dr. Ub'x.

― Huk-L, Monday, 7 March 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.norse-man.net/marvel/Char-G/Gossamyr.jpg

79. GOSSAMYR. Crimes: Represents everything awful about the Simonson/Blevins run on New Mutants not already covered by Bird-Boy and the Ani-Mator. Twee fairey-ness drags New Mutants away from Earth for convoluted and irrelevant interstellar espionage plot. Vague "emotion-manipulating" powers, already well covered by Empath in this series, are added to create drama out of nowhere and further degrade the characters by fulfilling Simonson's apparent conviction that teenagers, even ones seasoned by all manner of war, trauma, and loss, have the maturity of six-year-olds.

This website seems to be some kind of RPG character guide and it really makes the case for her inclusion here:

Adult Form: When Gossamyr gets to a certain age, she will transform in to a giant monster capable of ravaging suns. Their stats are left to the Judge’s imagination.

Talents: Gossamyr has no known talents.

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 23 August 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I mean, the character design as a whole. I guess Simonson might have rather been writing Elfquest but it doesn't change the fact that she was actually on New Mutants.

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 23 August 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

I'd like another vote for Bloodwynd, please.

― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

THANOS is about 400x better than ADAM WARLOCK you fools

POWER PACK is basically indefensible however.

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 23 August 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

Kangaroo -Amazing Spiderman #81

This misunderstood guy keeps getting thrown out of nations for no good reason, but if he could only get the Kangaroo jumping thing down, he might be on to something. I've been reading through the DVD run of Amazing Spider-man and this misunderstood bad guy seemed about the most goofy in the run that I have read so far.

I think the whole idea that Gwen Stacy sired two bastard children of the Green Goblin is really stupid.

― earlnash, Friday, 24 August 2007 01:03 (eighteen years ago)

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