# Silliest Super Origin **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 9, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-super-origin/278864 "2004-12-09T03:00:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-super-origin/278864/81 "2004-12-12T22:16:59Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Captain Strong was an obvious parody of Popeye – a wink to the reader, so to speak. There would have simply been no grounds for a lawsuit against DC on that basis. Exactly–plus he only showed up, at most, four times ever. As a joke/tribue. Before DC got the rights to the Fawcett characters, there was a tribute to Captain Marvel named “Captain Thunder”… Some kid (Willie Watson, maybe?) said a magic word which caused a comet-like burst of energy to hit him and transform him into the adult [Captain Thunder](http://members.tripod.com/originalvigilante/captainthunder.htm) There was also a group of Legion villians who were kinda the Fantastic Four; “The League Of Super-Assassins”. It was Gerry Conway, so it wasn’t a very good tribute/parody/homage thingie, but it _was_ an attempt. You had: [ul][li]Neutrax-A super genius type (who could also neutralize powers)–not a very good analogue of Mr. Fantastic until you remember that the meme at the time was the Mr. F’s power was his mighty brain–his stretching was just a side effect.[/li][li]Mist Master-could turn into various gasses and become invisible-Invisible Girl analogue[/li][li]Blok-Big rocky guy-obvious Thing take-off[/li][li]Lazon-Could turn into energy-Human Torch take-off[/li][li]Silver Slasher-Silver-coated type with claws-Silver Surfer[/li][li]Titania-Big macho woman–Thundra (who Conway created in his unfortunate run of FFs).[/ul][/li] The U-Foes (stupidly named Hulk baddies), created about this same time were almost identical in their knock-off of the FF. You had Vector (the leader and again, not a good Mr. Fantastic analogue) who could repel things from him, Vapor, a woman who turned into gas, X-Ray who turned to energy and Ironclad, a big rocky/metal guy. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-super-origin/278864/82 "2004-12-12T22:35:42Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > \Before DC got the rights to the Fawcett characters, there was a tribute to Captain Marvel named “Captain Thunder”… Some kid (Willie Watson, maybe?)… Willie Fawcett, actually. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silliest-super-origin/278864/83 "2004-12-12T23:02:09Z")
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