What's the dorkiest prop used by any superhero or superheroine?

[Fiver]

@Smitty

How about Rainbow Raider? I don’t know whether to make a gay joke or a Care Bears joke.

He also had one of the lamest villain motivations: he turned to evil because he’s colorblind.

[Licentious_Ectomorph]

I nominate the original Red Bee, whose gimmick was “trained bees” that he kept in his belt buckle.

At least his niece, the new Red Bee, is a little cooler.

[tdn]

@CalMeacham

So you have all the disadvantages of invisibility (can’t remember where you left the thing, have to feel for the cockpit. Can’t read the instruments. all the stuff they make fun of in Spongebob squarepants and elsewhere), and none of the advantages.

Yes, but on the other hand, it’s fun when she changes her clothes in the cockpit.

Thanks to MAD magazine for that.

[E-Sabbath]

@CalMeacham

How about Herby’s lollipop (from the ACG – American Comics Group – comic)

Same guy, in or out of costume.

[JohnT]

@Evil Captor

I’m voting for Wonder Woman’s invisible jet. Especially when it was drawn as a series of dotted lines with Wonder Woman’s figure perched in the middle of it. Incredibly silly-looking.

Seeing Ian McKelland wearing a purple “M” on his head during X-Men 3 (I didn’t bother with the first two) did nothing towards suspending the disbelief… or the guffaws.

Yeah, it wasn’t a prop… but God, it was dorky.

[wolfman]

The Supermobile. Supermobiles, actually.

When I was a kid watching SuperFriends, I always hated Superman cause he was such a selfish bastard. If he really cared about saving the planet he would have let Batman, or Aquaman just drive the Supermobile daily , since it had pretty much the power of Superman. Then they would have been a hell of a lot more powerful. But noooooooooo, the glory seeking son of a bitch kept it in the Supergarage until he lost his own powers(which seemed to happen on a very frequent basis, You’d think an omnipotent guy would smell a trap coming every now and then) and he needed it.

[Lightray]

@Licentious Ectomorph

I nominate the original Red Bee, whose gimmick was “trained bees” that he kept in his belt buckle.

shakes fist Curse you, Licentious Ectomorph, and your quick-posting wit!

I’ll have to fall back on the original Red Tornado – and her stew pot. That she cut eyeholes out of, and wore on her head. And which she still has, and uses to cook stew in. No idea why the stew doesn’t just run out the eyeholes, though.

[Muffin]

A shovel.

The Mystery Men, starring William H. Macy as The Shoveller.

He was a superhero who had no superpowers, and carried a shovel as his prop.

Pic: http://www.cinemablend.com/images/news_img/2545/2545.jpg

[BMalion]

Bat Shark Repellant Spray.

Or… remembering from the TV show,

Bat Alphabet Soup Container (on his utility belt, Damn, he must have been so happy to finally use that thing, after carrying it around for years).

[Cat_Whisperer]

I’d like to nominate the Silver Surfer’s surfboard. Oh, sorry, “surfboard-like vehicle.” It’s no invisible jet or stew-pot helmet, but it is a surfboard as a spaceship.

[Bosstone]

@Muffin

The Mystery Men, starring William H. Macy as The Shoveller.

“I shovel well. I shovel very well.”

You sure you want to go with the shovel and not the silverware?

[Johnny_Hildo]

Dorkiest? I don’t know. But creepiest subtext? Definitely Fisto’s conversation piece in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

I can’t help but think that Goatse knew that guy. :dubious:

[cckerberos]

@featherlou

I’d like to nominate the Silver Surfer’s surfboard. Oh, sorry, “surfboard-like vehicle.” It’s no invisible jet or stew-pot helmet, but it is a surfboard as a spaceship.

It’s not as bad as the Black Racer’s skis.

[slortar]

@featherlou

I’d like to nominate the Silver Surfer’s surfboard. Oh, sorry, “surfboard-like vehicle.” It’s no invisible jet or stew-pot helmet, but it is a surfboard as a spaceship.

After seeing the most recent Silver Surfer trailer, my main reaction is “OMG, I want one!”. Not dorky.

[Muffin]

@BayleDomon

“I shovel well. I shovel very well.”

You sure you want to go with the shovel and not the silverware?

The Shoveller: You’re the master of cutlery. You can’t throw a knife sometimes when someone’s trying to kill me?
The Blue Raja: No, I can’t. You can’t use a rake sometimes?
The Shoveller: No, I’m the Shoveller.
The Blue Raja: Well, I’m the Blue Raja. I’m not Stab Man. I’m not Knifey Boy. I’m the Blue Raja.

[FlyingDragonFan]

@CalMeacham

So you have all the disadvantages of invisibility (can’t remember where you left the thing, have to feel for the cockpit. Can’t read the instruments. all the stuff they make fun of in Spongebob squarepants and elsewhere), and none of the advantages. Pretty useless. and dorky.

Scroll down a ways for Seanbaby’s take on it.

[Otto]

@Licentious Ectomorph

I nominate the original Red Bee, whose gimmick was “trained bees” that he kept in his belt buckle.

I don’t see what’s so dorky about that. Where was he supposed to store his trained bees?

[betenoir]

I have a friend who writes a comic with a character with a superpowerful penis. Who smites villians with his phallus spear. I’d say that was pretty dorky.

[BrainGlutton]

@CalMeacham

Wonder Woman was created by William Moulton Marston and his wife. Marston is the inventor of the polygraph “lie detector”. it’s not surprising that she had a lie-detecting weapon. I’ll bet it was a lot more reliable than Marston’s real-life polygraph.

But why a lasso?

Answer: Marston was into bondage.

[Lightray]

@Otto

I don’t see what’s so dorky about that. Where was he supposed to store his trained bees?

Have you never heard of a bonnet?