# Favorite superhero team
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 22, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553 "2016-07-22T03:24:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/1 "2016-07-22T03:24:50Z")
X-Men? Fantastic Four? Avengers? Justice League of America? Legion of Superheroes? Discuss.
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### Author:  [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/2 "2016-07-22T03:30:15Z")
The Mighty Heroes:
Strong Man
Diaper Man
Tornado Man
Rope Man
and Cuckoo Man
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### Author:  [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/3 "2016-07-22T03:35:47Z")
Power Pack
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/4 "2016-07-22T03:43:30Z")
Legion of Superheroes, Silver Age incarnation.
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/5 "2016-07-22T03:46:26Z")
> [@edwards\_beard](#):
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> The Mighty Heroes:
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> Strong Man
> Diaper Man
> Tornado Man
> Rope Man
> and Cuckoo Man
damn you for stealing my thunder!!!
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### Author:  [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/6 "2016-07-22T04:07:53Z")
The Fantastic Four, most preferably the Lee-Kirby, Marv Wolfman, and John Byrne creative runs.
Second behind the FF would have to be the Midnight Sons (formed by the Ghost Riders, and also featuring Dr. Strange, Blade, Werewolf By Night, Hellstorm, and Morbius among others) with my being a sucker for all things supernatural and Halloween. (And I’d still be if Halloween didn’t happen to be my birthday. 🆒 )
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### Author:  [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/7 "2016-07-22T04:09:34Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#):
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> damn you for stealing my thunder!!!
Blame Tornado Man
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/8 "2016-07-22T04:10:42Z")
“I’m thirty seven years old! I’m plastic training pants man!”
I’m kinda fond of Squadron Supreme, the 12-person team that’s a rough clone of the Justice League of America.
I loved the Justice League Europe comic book; those were some of the funniest funny books ever!
But I’m going to vote for professor Gina Diggers graduate students, with Prof. Diggers and her sister along to keep things from going wrong (haw!) “Gold Digger” is my Numbah One fave comic book. (“Agency Zero” is also a lot of fun, as is the “World Explorers’ Society.” But it’s when the grad students break open another ancient tomb of unknown horrors that the going really gets fun!)
ETA: Marvel had something of vague promise with The Illuminati, a group of six or seven of their heaviest hitters…even if they were all white men. The stories didn’t live up to the promise, alas.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/9 "2016-07-22T04:13:11Z")
Superman and Batman, when they’re not doing something stupid like fighting each other for no reason. Basically the early-1980s _World Finest_ pairing.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/10 "2016-07-22T04:26:33Z")
> [@edwards\_beard](#):
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> The Mighty Heroes:
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> Strong Man
> Diaper Man
> Tornado Man
> Rope Man
> and Cuckoo Man
Aye; it’s no contest at all: the Mighty Heroes win!
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#):
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> damn you for stealing my thunder!!!
Dude, clearly it’s just that great minds think alike.
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### Author:  [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/11 "2016-07-22T04:31:12Z")
Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/12 "2016-07-22T04:48:21Z")
Mystery Men
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### Author:  [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/13 "2016-07-22T05:30:44Z")
> [@Trinopus](#):
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> The Illuminati, a group of six or seven of their heaviest hitters…even if they were all white men.
One of the Illuminati was(and may still be, should they ever get back together)
a certain T’Challa alias the Black Panther…
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/14 "2016-07-22T05:57:59Z")
Doom Patrol.
Their name alone makes them number one. It’s pure poetry.
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/15 "2016-07-22T07:08:21Z")
The Incredibles
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### Author:  [@Chihuahua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chihuahua)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/16 "2016-07-22T09:05:19Z")
Nextwave.
Although I’m not sure there is a distinction to be made there between the team and the book itself, since it only ran like twelve issues and was never revisited. My frustration with most team books is that the roster changes so often that it is impossible to follow a single team over multiple stories. Most writers just assemble the team they want for that particular story, and then the next writer reshuffles the deck for the next story arc. Only a very small number of teams, like the FF, have been at all consistent over the years.
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/17 "2016-07-22T10:29:35Z")
Birds of Prey. Closely followed by Runaways. Then The Authority.
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### Author:  [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/18 "2016-07-22T12:02:55Z")
Chris Claremont X-Men up to issue 200, or a little earlier.
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/19 "2016-07-22T12:19:35Z")
As a kid: **The X-Men**
As a Grown-Up: **The Watchmen**
As a Dad of Young Kids: **The Powerpuff Girls**
As a Dad of older kids: **The Incredibles**
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### Author:  [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/20 "2016-07-22T12:33:52Z")
X-men all the way.
They’re what got me into paying any attention to the comic book world, so they will always be my favorite.
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