Hit with the literal stick

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The reverse of the weights and measures thread.

Silver Surfer - OMG he's silver. And he surfs!

Professor X - Who would have believed that Professor Xavier was actually the mutant mind known only as Professor X?

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Matter-Eater Lad - what was the secret of his mysterious power???

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Bouncing Boy! (I suspect a rather disproportionate number of Legion members will fit in here, as the imagination went other places than the names)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Black Mask
Red Hood
Cyborg
Robotman

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Manbat!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Robot Archie.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Doom Patrol: Syd Barrett's life is a fairy tale compared with the story of these guys. Each and every one of them had his life completely wretched. ¿Isn't there any goth band with this name? There should be.

The Drummer: Well, he lacked the drums, but hell, he was a great air-drummer.

― iodine (iodine), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Dr Strange - best known for a short period when he attempted to disguise his real, civilian identity of Dr. Stange.

― Vic Fluro, Wednesday, 20 July 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

The Thing - he sure is a physical object! No doubt about that.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 21 July 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)

Captain America's fuirst partner, Bucky, who was really Bucky Barnes.

― David Simpson (David Simpson), Thursday, 21 July 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

I want to say Dr. Doom but I don't know if he counts, as he may not have completed his phd, being too busy blowing his face up in the name of arcane pseudo-science.

Come to think of it, though, he's the ruler of a whole country, thus capable of awarding himself any number of honourary degrees, diplomas etc.

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

he's still taking liberties, it'd be Dr. von Doom surely.

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Fire, though Green Flame was even more literal.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Iceman, nowadays (finally). Why the hell wasn't he called Snowman early on?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Commissioner Gordon

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

The Star-Spangled Kid

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Swamp Thing

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

As opposed to Man-Thing. I've seen a man's thing, and it don't look like that.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Then you haven't seen mi..., er, forget it.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

The Purple Man.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

The Impossible Man. Could apply to 99.9% of comic characters, actually (the male ones, anyway).

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

The Shaggy Man (pre-shave)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

X, The Thing That Lived.

― Vic Fluro, Thursday, 21 July 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

the invisible girl: has another more useful superpower but "forcefield girl" just sounded stupid.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 21 July 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Live Wire from the Legion of Superheroes - That was the name folks at DC gave to Garth Ranzz aka Lightning Lad after the Zero Hour reboot. It was a pretty cool name, IMHO.

― iodine (iodine), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Live Wire's surely not as literalist as Werewolf By Night, who was a werewolf BUT ONLY AT NIGHT.

― Vic Fluro, Friday, 22 July 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Squirrel Girl (you know Dan Slott loves the literal stick)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

It the Living Colossus!

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Brother Voodoo!

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Judge Dredd
Halo Jones
Nemesis the Warlock

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Friday, 22 July 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

The Radioactive Man

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Friday, 22 July 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

Rogue Trooper!

(Funny story: I knew a bloke at school who pronounced it roo-gee trooper. Funny at the time, anyway.)

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Saturday, 23 July 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

Wonder Girl (Donna Troy). She has kept us wondering for an awful long time re her rubbish origin.

Power Girl. She is a girl. With, you know, powers.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

Uhm, Steve Ditko created Squirrel Girl.

No, I'm not joking. They even included the story in the Ditko Marvel Visionaries volume. It's not very good, and I'm a big Ditko fan.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

But Squirrel Girl isn't a squirrel. She's as bad as Batman.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Monkey Joe certainly isn't a monkey either. Though i know wrong thread.

On the other hand, if we are looking at the GLA: Flatman most certainly is flat, and there is no arguing with Mr Immortal.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Howard the Duck...Words fail me.

"He's a Duck, his name's Howard...Let's make a really shite movie!"

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

War Machine

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 28 July 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

He wasn't a machine, though.

― Vic Fluro, Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

War Malcatraz

― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 29 July 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

Machine Man.

The Watcher.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Friday, 29 July 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

The Stranger who was, like, a stranger; and strange.

― David Simpson (David Simpson), Friday, 29 July 2005 08:13 (twenty years ago)

Until you met him the second time!!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

Watch was not all The Watcher did. The Meddler more like.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

Omaha the Cat Dancer - cat called Omaha who danced.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Fritz the Cat

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

He wasn't German though, was he?

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

You're thinking of Jerry der Katt.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 29 July 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Doctor Strange. Who is a Doctor and has the surname Strange.
UNLIKE
Doctor Fate. Not a Doctor, his surname is not Fate.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 10 October 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

the invisible girl: has another more useful superpower but "forcefield girl" just sounded stupid.

To be fair, the forcefield power got added later.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 8 May 2009 04:11 (sixteen years ago)

Flaming Carrot!

― fit and working again, Friday, 8 May 2009 15:44 (sixteen years ago)

Ego, the Living Planet

The Human Torch (the second one, as the first was an android)

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 8 May 2009 15:57 (sixteen years ago)

This reminds me of that Norm Macdonald Fantastic Four sketch:

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 8 May 2009 16:00 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

Perhaps a little late on this one, but I've just read the first issue of JLA: Cry for Justice, and indeed, every character cries out "JUSTICE!!!" at some point during the issue. FFS.

― there's a better way to browse (Dr. Superman), Friday, 28 August 2009 20:45 (sixteen years ago)

That's great!

― miss pamela and the gtfo's (sic), Friday, 28 August 2009 23:26 (sixteen years ago)

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