As I was playing Lego Star Wars with my son, it occured to me that Luke Skywalker would be a great superhero. Especially the dark, brooding version from RotJ. He has an awesome weapon, a cool uniform, neat powers, and a decent codename “Skywalker”.
He would be great in the Avengers.
Who else that is not a comic character (granted, Luke has appeared in hundreds of comics, but he originated in another medium) would fit in well in the Marvel or DC universe?
Let’s open it to heroes and villains.
A few others:
Bumblebee from the Transformers as a Defender. Transportation AND firepower.
Matt Tracker from M.A.S.K. (I’m surprised M.A.S.K. hasn’t ridden the nostalgia wave) as a solo hero.
Gil the Arm (Gil Hamilton), from Larry Niven’s early Known Space stories.
He’s a high-tech detective with an interesting psychic power. (He has an “imaginary arm” that allows him to use limited telekinesis and a psychic tactile sense.)
Zartan and Bumblebee have both been comic book characters in Marvel comics. Raistlin is in a comic adaptation of the series, and I’m fairly sure Jason Voorhees has also been rendered in the comic format. Personally, I’d like any of the members of F.O.O.J. to appear.
So has Luke Skywalker, but in the OP, I note that the mere appearance in comics is not a disqualifier. It was that they were originally created in some other form (Zartan may have first appeared in comics, but he was created to be a toy).
It’d be cool for Remo Williams to turn up in the DCU. I can picture Batzy feeling obligated to stop the assassination for which Remo has been deployed.
Mickey Finn from the Callahan’s Place books would make a good high-level superhero. He’s the guy they’d call in to solo a Herald of Galactus or substitute for Superman when Supe’s busy elsewhere.
The superintelligent version of Barclay from the ST : TNG episode The Nth Degree would make a good super-scientist type.
Alicia DeVries from Path of the Fury. Seriously cyborged, superhuman in various ways; a nice set of power armor, incredibly skilled with weapons, an elite of the elite of the elite sort of soldier. Plus, she’s inhabited by one the the ancient Greek Furies, Tisiphone, and has a mind link to Megarea, a sentient AI warship. They’ve got everything from guns to missles to telepathy to hacking between them.
The Stainless Steel Rat, aka James Bolivar diGriz would be a good superhero and -villain. He saves the world and robs banks, often at the same time.
Harvard educated lawyer (120 years out of date)
Man of action
Enhanced reflexes, strength, and limited powers of illusion
Accustomed to taking on enhanced villains
He’d be a perfect Marvel hero. A team up with the She-Hulk would leave me gasping for breath.
Mongo the Magnificent from George Chesbro’s Mongo novels. Dr. Robert Frederickson, better known as Mongo the Magnificent. Mongo has a genius I.Q., a Ph.D. in criminology, a black belt in karate, and an engaging personality. He is also a dwarf (he was once a circus performer) and a private investigator.