Apparently the site that came up with this list didn’t bother with the obvious corollary. So it’s up to us to vote on it. Let’s give it a week, send in your suggestions, make your choices., and next Thursday, we’ll tally up the votes. My votes -
I-Ching (the white-costumed, non-superpowered Wonder Woman’s sidekick) Jason Todd / Robin (He deserved to stay dead.) Vibe (of “Justice League Detriot”) Gypsy (of “Justice League Detriot”) Bumblebee (from the original “Teen Titans” series) Matter-Eater Lad (How he made the cut for LSH, and why he wasn’t banished to the Legion of Substitute Heroes is a mystery for the ages.) Prez (the first “hip” teenage U.S. president) Ace the Bathound Brother Power, the Geek Zauriel (from Grant Morrison’s “JLA”, at least Morrison had the decency to kill off this lame character after it became apparent it wasn’t working.)
No character is unredeemable. None. Gypsy is working quite nicely in Birds of Prey. Zauriel (who I always thought was cool) had a great cameo leading a superhero prayer service in Infinite Crisis. A version of Ace rocked the house in Batman Beyond. And Neil Gaiman made Prez positively inspirational in Sandman.
Here’s the unrefutable proof: Catman is DC’s new hot property. Catman.
I agree with Menocchio. There’s no character that can’t be good when a good, creative writer gets hold of them. Catman is a great example, and there are others. Percival Popp, Super Cop was used well in Ostrander’s Spectre series. Percival Popp! A bunch of extremely minor and fairly lame characters such as the Red Bee got much more interesting in Robinson’s Starman. There’s no such thing as a bad character, only poor execution.
One of the great villains. Like Karloff’s portrayal of Frankenstein’s monster, capable of comic, tragic, or horroriffic dimensions. So well-beloved that “Bizarro” has entered the popular lexicon as a warped or reversed duplicate of the norm.
I personally despise the Penguin, and no matter what you tell me, you’re not going to change my mind. I also typically hate all the “family” characters, all the Boys, Girls, Lads, Lasses, Kids, and Juniors that water down what make the original superheroes so special and unique.
Is it the kind of unimaginative name-brand extension of superheroic names that bugs you so, or the idea that superheroes shouldn’t have heirs, legacies and closely allied “families” and emblems and all superhero characters should strive to be completely unique and original? I can get behind the logic of the former in most cases, but the latter idea is kind of… impractical and limiting.
I disagree. The Superman Family was. This particular wiki list didn’t even include the Sons of Superman and Batman, Superman as a baby stories, the host of Bizarro World stories, or Tales of Krypton.
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
The Wonder Twins
Egg Fu, Wonder Woman’s nemesis. I know it’s supposed to be a parody of F Manchu, but it’s embarassing.
The afiorementioned Matter-Eater Lad and Bouncing Boy. They tried to do things with BB, but not hard enough. They shoulda been able to do some interesting things with such a serriously under-powered (and for a time, un-powered) guy surrounded by much more powerful superheoes.
What? That makes no amount of sense to me. Granted, I am not a comics expert but I have some familiarity with Marvel and I don’t know of too many -kids, -lasses, -lads, -girls, or -(wo)men whereas DC seems to be crawling with them, comparitively speaking. Cites?
