# Obscure Marvel superhero question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 2, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176 "2013-08-02T18:22:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176/1 "2013-08-02T18:22:10Z")
I remember reading somewhere about a superhero that was rediculously all powerful because he beat someone else who was all powerful (like Thanos or someone), but he was something crazy like a Bunny, or a Squirrel. And all of his victories happened off camera so no one actually saw it. He might have even been a joke character Does this ring a bell for anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176/2 "2013-08-02T18:26:05Z")
Sounds like Squirrel Girl. She’s defeated Dr. Doom, Thanos, Mandarin, Giganto, MODOK, Terrax, Baron Mordo, Fin Fang Foom, Wovlerine and Ego the Living Planet, mostly off camera. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176/3 "2013-08-02T18:26:13Z")
You are thinking of Squirrel Girl, I imagine, and not all her victories are off-screen. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176/4 "2013-08-02T18:30:03Z")
Yes! That’s it! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176/5 "2013-08-02T18:33:18Z")
Squirrel Girl wasn’t really portrayed as “ridiculously all powerful”, so much as just somehow managing to always win fights she had no business winning. Her powers are basically squirrel-like abilities and the ability to talk to squirrels. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176/6 "2013-08-02T18:36:25Z")
Here’s her Wiki page: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel\_Girl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_Girl) She was a member of the Great Lakes Avengers (a team following in the footsteps of the Inferior Five), and has been the nanny of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones’ daughter. She was 14 when she started out (she ambushed Iron Man, teamed up with him to fight Doc Doom, then beat Doomsy when Iron Man was laid low). Her sidekick is her pet, Monkey Joe. ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176/7 "2013-08-02T18:37:03Z")
[Squirrel Girl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_girl) Beat by a minute… ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176/8 "2013-08-02T18:53:34Z")
> [@tim314](#): > > Her powers are basically squirrel-like abilities and the ability to talk to squirrels. Those are just her overt powers. She also has a secret superpower: Winning. 😃 For your enjoyment, here she is [fighting Wolverine](http://comicbadassery.tumblr.com/post/12556628411/squirrel-girl-vs-wolverine). (Amusingly, some time before that comic, we had a thread about creating arcs to turn various heroes into villains. [Mine](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9794522&postcount=6) included Wolverine refusing to discuss an encounter with a villainous Squirrel Girl.) ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176/9 "2013-08-02T19:01:57Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Here’s her Wiki page: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel\_Girl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_Girl) > > She was a member of the Great Lakes Avengers (a team following in the footsteps of the Inferior Five), and has been the nanny of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones’ daughter. She was 14 when she started out (she ambushed Iron Man, teamed up with him to fight Doc Doom, then beat Doomsy when Iron Man was laid low). Her sidekick is her pet, Monkey Joe. And Monkey Joe’s heroic death now means NOTHING to the readers? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176/10 "2013-08-02T19:04:09Z")
I didn’t realize Monkey Joe had died! Woe! Alas! aaaaaargh! ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176/11 "2013-08-02T19:10:11Z")
[![](http://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg) ](http://tinypic.com/images/goodbye.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176/12 "2013-08-02T19:21:12Z")
1. Maybe it was a SHIELD Life Model Duplicate. 2. Maybe the Phoenix Force will reanimate him. 3. Maybe it was Mystique. etc. etc. etc. 1,060,881) Maybe it was Proty from the Legion of Superheroes. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176/13 "2013-08-02T19:23:53Z")
I wouldn’t worry too long. They brought back Jason Todd. They brought back Barry Allen. They brough back Bucky, for crissakes. I expect a multi-issue special crossover event for the Return of Monkey Joe. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176/14 "2013-08-02T19:24:29Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > And Monkey Joe’s heroic death now means NOTHING to the readers? Hey, I included it by reference. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176/15 "2013-08-02T20:09:13Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > [http://i47.tinypic.com/2m5bfgg.jpg](http://i47.tinypic.com/2m5bfgg.jpg) Dr. Doom’s a jerk. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176/16 "2013-08-02T20:28:36Z")
While I agree with your sentiment in general, I was under the impression that it was a rejected G.L.A. member who did the dirty deed. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176/17 "2013-08-02T20:58:41Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > While I agree with your sentiment in general, I was under the impression that it was a rejected G.L.A. member who did the dirty deed. Heh yeah, according to [wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_Girl#Monkey_Joe) it was Leather Boy who did it. Leather Boy? Does he ever team up with Bear Man? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-marvel-superhero-question/665176/18 "2013-08-02T21:41:51Z")
There’s another X-Men comic – Wolverine #8, but I can’t tell you which Wolverine series it was – where Emma Frost is rummaging around in Wolverine’s mind. She comes to a door marked “Sexual Fantasies.” Foolishly, she opens it. Inside, you see Mystique, Emma Frost herself, Squirrel Girl, Spiral, and Psylocke, all equipped in whips and chains bondage gear. Emma Frost says, “I must die this instant.”