# What superhero / supervillain would you most like to be? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124 "2005-01-22T19:21:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/21 "2005-01-22T22:50:55Z")
I’ve _always_ wanted to be Spiderman. It just looks like it’d be so incredibly fun to swing through downtown and bounce around like he does. Plus, if I were Spiderman, I’d have the right quip for every occasion… ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/22 "2005-01-22T22:55:54Z")
> [@Kaitlyn](#): > > 1. **Suprema** , from Alan Moore’s run on _Supreme_. > > She’s basically got all of Superman’s silver age powers, but without the vulnerability to magic and kryptonite (their was an element called Supremium, but it was all destroyed). > > She was once married to a sentient galaxy for a couple of decades, and came back no worse as a result. But **Kaitlyn** , you seem so cool and fun-loving, and Suprema was so priggish and bitchy! Even joining the new Youngblood wasn’t enough to loosen her up! ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/23 "2005-01-22T23:10:18Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > But **Kaitlyn** , you seem so cool and fun-loving, and Suprema was so priggish and bitchy! Even joining the new Youngblood wasn’t enough to loosen her up! Well, yes, but there’s a scene in _Supreme_ in which she’s breaking up a bank robbery. The bank robbers call her a bitch. She tells them she doesn’t like language like that, but one of them does it again. She says (I’m paraphrasing): “Oh dear. There’s that word again. I’m afraid you’re going to make me have to raise my VOICE,” knocking them all out in the process. I taught high school for a year [shudder]. That ability would have come in _very_ handy. Besides, Sally was adopted. There’s no reason why the Cranes couldn’t have adopted, for example, a North Korean refugee instead of a white girl. I wonder what I’d look like with white hair? ---
**Author:** ![aegypt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@aegypt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aegypt)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/24 "2005-01-22T23:17:59Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > God-Man! The Superhero with Omnipotent Powers! 🙂 \* > > \*From “Tom the Dancing Bug” by Ruben Bolling – a strip you’ll find only in alternative newsweeklies. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom\_the\_Dancing\_Bug](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_the_Dancing_Bug) [If you want to read more about the most ultimate of superheroes…](http://www.fecundity.com/pmagnus/godman.html) ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/25 "2005-01-22T23:33:29Z")
**Slapstick,** so I can indulge my inner toon. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Selkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Selkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Selkie)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/26 "2005-01-22T23:37:54Z")
It’s very hard to avoid the temptation of being an early **Grendel**. Oh, the fashion sense! The world class fencing skills! The vast criminal empire! That wicked cool electrified fork! Unfortunately, prematurely dead love interest and early death by 300 year old werewolf seem to come with that particular package, and those are definite disincentives. Therefore, I’m going to have to go with **Jenny Sparks**. Oh, the ironic fashion sense! The ultra-cool dimension traveling shiftship! The swinging sex life! The life of adventure in a variety of genre styles! The hundred year life span! Yeah, I’ll go with Jenny Sparks. **Big Bad Voodoo Lou** , you’d prefer being Superman or Batman over Reuben Flagg? I’m shocked! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![ussentinel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ce7236/32.png) [@ussentinel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ussentinel)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/27 "2005-01-23T00:24:05Z")
It’s gotta be BATMAN for me. My distant secondary choices would’ve been Iron Man or Captain America. I used to play/pretend I was Batman as a little kid and other kids on the block would be villains. We would have some pretty intricate and stretched out plots and stories. Now, I “play” Batman in online rpgs (role-playing games) and on instant message role-play chats. Also, I usually dress up as Batman for Halloween and a few years back, my local theater friends dressed as Bat-villains: Joker, Harley Quinn, Two-Face, and Catwoman (my ex was Batgirl). Yeah, and the rogues! I’d love to confront Talia, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn and Catwoman. If I HAD to be a villain, I’d be a WWII Nazi after Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman. I’d love to see who would be able to capture who first (a win-win situation for me). ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/28 "2005-01-23T02:09:22Z")
Hero? The Shadow. Demi-invisibility, “Jedi mind trick” style powers, willingness and ability to shoot and kill people. After him, probably Iron Man or War Machine. Villiain? Probably Doctor Doom, Mad Scientist/Sorcerer/Dictator/Powered Armor user extraordinaire. (Or probably any other villain with “Doctor” or “Professor” in his title.) ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/29 "2005-01-23T02:13:31Z")
So many choices. I’ve always liked Havok. Spider Man and Nightcrawler certainly have fun powers and the right sort of attitude. Still, I’d have to settle for Speedball. I get to bounce around more than Spider Man, Nightcrawler, and the bouncing blue Beast combined; and the kinetic field makes me nearly invulnerable. Added bonus: quips galore. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Necro\_Romancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/50afbb/32.png) [@Necro\_Romancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necro_Romancer)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/30 "2005-01-23T02:17:24Z")
Impulse/Kid Flash Can you tell I’m a student? ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/31 "2005-01-23T02:21:30Z")
Thor. A 6’6 Swede who can pretty much anything. Would be a hit with the ladies and noone could mess with you. If that gets boring well just stamp your hammer and you are you again 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/32 "2005-01-23T02:25:38Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > Still, I’d have to settle for Speedball. I get to bounce around more than Spider Man, Nightcrawler, and the bouncing blue Beast combined; and the kinetic field makes me nearly invulnerable. Added bonus: quips galore. 😃 Plus, you’d get to hang around Namorita all the time 😃 I would like to be Green Lantern, the Guy Gardner variety. The Giffen-DeMatteis Guy Gardner, cuz I could date that sweet Ice. I think I’d like to be him because he’s so _not me_. I hope that, when they get around to making a Green Lantern movie, they will feature Guy Gardner, not Hal Jordan. Right. Like that’s gonna happen. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/33 "2005-01-23T03:08:35Z")
> [@Phase42](#): > > I hope that, when they get around to making a Green Lantern movie, they will feature Guy Gardner, not Hal Jordan. Right. Like that’s gonna happen. I always thought Denis Leary would be the perfect choice to play Guy Gardner in a Green Lantern or Justice League International. If not him, then Bruce Campbell. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/34 "2005-01-23T03:10:56Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > I always thought Denis Leary would be the perfect choice to play Guy Gardner in a Green Lantern or Justice League International. If not him, then Bruce Campbell. “in a Green Lantern or Justice League International **MOVIE** ,” is what I meant. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/35 "2005-01-23T04:13:15Z")
Superman. Super strength, indestructible, never ever had so much as a cold, etc etc etc. Just having the power of flight would be cool. Or Doctor Strange, because of the magic. The power to completely violate all laws of physics and alter reality (magic) would be one hell of a rush. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/36 "2005-01-23T04:27:52Z")
Man-Bat From back in the seventies when he didn’t have any problems with psychosis and could change back and forth with pills. Flight, wall climbing, echolocation, excellent nightvision, the ability to lick my own eyebrows. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/37 "2005-01-23T04:37:02Z")
**Nightcrawler**. I would love to teleport. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/38 "2005-01-23T06:03:39Z")
Superhero? J’onn J’onzz, Martian Manhunter, hands down. The powers of Superman, the Atom, the Skrulls, the Elongated Man and Professor X rolled in one. Super-Villain? John Bates. Aka the CEO of Sunburst Electronics and the former protege of Miracleman. “I’m sorry. They’d say I was going soft, wouldn’t they?” ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/39 "2005-01-23T09:00:34Z")
As much as I love Green Lantern’s powers I’d have to go with Kid Flash. None of that pesky “destroy the city because I’m having a nightmare” crap and reading and retaining at superspeed would be very useful. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2005, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124/40 "2005-01-23T12:14:50Z")
How do you define Superhero? Because if we can include Vertigo, I’d like to be Death. I mean…she seems nice. Although of late I’ve been closer to Despair…but at least she has those cool rings… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-superhero-supervillain-would-you-most-like-to-be/286124.md?page=3)