One of the first. He appeared in 1960, but I don’t know when he was first reported as married. The Silver Age incarnation of Hawkman was married from his first appearance in 1961.
First appearance of his wife is when Elongated Man married - cover date March 1961 (Elongated Man’s third appearance, I think). Fawcett’s Bullet Man was engaged in the golden age comics, but they never married before the comic ended. Don’t know what the status of Ibis and Taia was.
And Elongated Man was totally a superhero. His powers were ripoff, but his personality was totally different. I enjoy those silver age tales - he and Sue are so cute. Unfortunately, his less than spectacular powers led to him becoming less impressive a detective by late bronze age and eventually turning into a loser/butt of joke right up until we got the terrible Identity Crisis.
Married in some versions, but by no means all.
But in that show, the marriage isnt until Epi 3 of the last season. The show was then cancelled at the end of that season.
I was referring to the comic books, not Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
And of course Reed Richards and Sue Storm have been married for decades.
Not a good example as theirs is a terrible relationship.
Tumultuous to be sure, but in the end they love each other and have made it work. Having super powers can easily sink a marriage.
If a strange person walks up to you and takes a legitimate giant bite out of your arm/hand, your first reaction is going to be bewildered saying HEY, WHY THAT CRAZY GUY BITE ME?! but then continue on your day until the infection finally makes you pass out.
And Tommy & Tuppence
Married characters are just a variation on the comic duo: Laurel & Hardy; Abbott & Costello; French & Saunders. Burns & Allen showed us that the fact that they were married didn’t matter, and it could be fodder for material.
I remember in serious shows like Hart to Hart a lot of the comic relief was marriage jokes.
“I don’t carry you just got into a shootout with 10 guys, got shot once, and now have to protect the President’s daughter from Assassin’s, if you miss your son’s little league game tonight this marriage is over!”
“Where is my super suit?”
“Why do you need to know?”
“The public is in danger!”
“My dinner party is in danger!!”
I freaking love that movie.Married superheros can be hilarious.
(The Incredibles if you didn’t know…)
A shot of 151 and a can of Jolt make a great rum & Coke substitute.
Yeah.
I mean, if you marry a cop, you have to understand the dangers (something like the 10th most dangerous job, but sources vary) and workload. Mind you, in a small town (a buddy was a Sgt in Gardena CA) the dangers are lower and the job is mostly 9-5 unless you want the OT- which most cops do.
We use that line all the time when playing Supers. The inflection is what makes it-
The generally entertaining film Kiss Kiss Bang Bang does a decent comedic take. Robert Downey Jr. coolly and calmly threatens a random flashily dressed jerk who is clearly about to sexually molest a drunk, passed out Michelle Monaghan at a Hollywood party. Cut to him getting the shit kicked out of him and then the guy driving away with a now awake and smiling Monaghan.
Was Honey established to be a super hero?
And you left out the best part.
‘Greater good?’ I am your wife! I’m the greatest good you are ever gonna get!
Not that I know of. Spin-off idea!
I’m going to start using that on my husband. I don’t know why I haven’t already!
I think marriage (and kids) can be an effective way to raise the stakes. The Incredibles was a good example.
I do love a good will-they won’t-they romance, but it doesn’t have to be that way all the time.
My husband (age 42) reads a lot of comics on Marvel Unlimited. He owns and has read all the X-Men comics at least once, and I’ve read them all through the 90s except some later stories. The last one he insisted I read was House of X Powers of X and before that, the one with the lady Thor. I thought they were really good but I can’t muster the same passion for any comic book, except the graphic novels From Hell and Maus. I have never had my life perspective changed by a Marvel story.
It was difficult for me to jump right in as a new reader in my late 20s. I had tried and stopped a few times. What got me in was Joss Whedon’s X-Men run. If you think of each run as a discrete story it works okay.
But generally I prefer prose fiction.
I liked when NewsRadio got the will-they-won’t-they issue out of the way in episode #2.
I feel like will-they-won’t-they only works for a while (unless you have a rotating audience). Otherwise, it gets to the point where I just don’t care anymore if they will or won’t after a few years. Thought certainly resolving UST can be a show-killer if UST is all the show has going for it.
My favorite is the will-they won’t they that turns into a sustained partnership, for example Brooklyn 99 or The Office. You get to see how the love is earned and then you get the reward of seeing it sustained.
For a comics example, Phoenix and Cyclops are usually together but I f*cking hate Scott Summers so I don’t relish it much. AFAIC he’s just in Wolverine’s way.