As opposed to transporting indecorous lions across a gully for immortal tortoises?
I like how they use Pym in the Avengers cartoon. He’s both Ant-Man and Giant Man, just depending on whether he needs to shrink or grow.
There’s a joke in there somewhere. 
Pym Particles: better than viagra!
Have to go with Plastic Man and Mr. Fantastic. As Johnny Storm said about the power (and I might be paraphrasing), “ew, gross.”
The Punisher is another one I never found interesting. Yeah, kills criminals. While an interesting one-off can come from a character like that, as a series it grows repetitious pretty quickly. Reading one Punisher comic is like reading any other to me; I never read many of the Mac Bolan novels for exactly the same reason.
My first thought when I saw the post about whether he needs to shrink or grow was, “Maybe he should change his name to Size Queen.”
I was never a reader of DC, so my choice of Superman is based only on the Christopher Reeve films. I actually liked those movies, such as they were, but the character himself fits the bill of the OP.
I still haven’t seen the redux, and have no desire to.
I’m another who isn’t that fond of Superman. I think he could be written well, but seriously he needs to lose the whole cast of characters around him.
I also don’t like Spiderman much. I don’t hate him or anything, but I don’t find him interesting or appealing.
Daredevil. I just wonder what the pitch was.
“Okay, he’s like Spider-Man, but his life is even worse, and totally devoid of fun.”
**The X-Men ** (all of them). The whole “prejudice against mutants” storyline just got too damn preachy for me after a while, and it felt like a thinly disguised rant against real life racism. Plus Cyclops is a dick.
Also, yet another vote for invincible, perfect, goody two shoes Superman.
I thought the saving grace of the recent Avengers vs Xmen crossover (which was largely rubbish) was…
[Spoiler]Cyclops ends up locked up in a ruby crystal cell for war crimes. He has been moving more and more into mutant extremism over the past few years, and surrounding himself with former villains. When you are on the same side as Emma Frost, Magento and Namor, you are probably on the wrong side.
It was nice for marvel to acknowledge that he was now crossed the line into being a bad guy. Just hope they keep him there for a while
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I don’t think it was meant to be ‘thinly disguised’. More of an obvious rant against prejudice in general I think.
For me it was Daredevil and Captain Marvel (of Marvel Comics). Never really appealed to me. Daredevil seemed like an old man, a generation apart, where other characters seemed more like peers. Cpt. Marvel was and is and will forever be just poke in the DC comics eye to me. Never seemed like a “real” character.
It wasn’t meant to be thinly disguised. Some anvils need to be dropped. That being said, I can certainly understand why it would be preachy. Personally I hate how in every nature program we need to talk about how man is totally raping the environment that second. Can’t we just enjoy the beauty of nature in peace for a moment?
I remember the “Death of Captain Marvel” (the male version) graphic novel being quite good, but the last time I read it was in college so my memory might be faulty. 
John Stewart
I never got to into DC comics for many of the reasons stated by other dopers here - bland personalities, unremarkable villains, overly-broad powers.
I’ll also second (third, fourth, whatever) Daredevil. My problem was always with his ‘superpower’ - Matt Murdoch is blind, but because of his heightened other senses he can ninja around as if he weren’t. Which only has the effect of making him not seem blind. So what’s the point?
Until the movie, I never gave Iron Man a chance. Why would I want to read a comic about a schlubby alcoholic playboy cavorting around in his designer suit?
Any of the proper gods which were co-opted for comics - Thor, Loki, Hercules, etc. They just get me thinking about the relative power differences. In a universe where you’ve got super-heavies like Thanos and Adam Warlock running around, it seems hard to imagine ‘real’ gods like Odin and co. being anywhere near that power level, but according to their own mythos shouldn’t they be somewhere in the vicinity?
My issue with the X-men and mutants in general (and if this is hijack-ish I will happily acknowledge it and shut up) is that sometimes I had a hard time seeing mutant prejudice as a bad thing. Humans are bad enough as is, but given powers would be much worse. I suppose the problem is that we don’t really see too much of “Average Joe” mutants, just the militarized ones.
Well, you’ve obviously never heard of Mike Murdock.
But do read some of the Frank Miller Daredevils: great pre-Sin-City-just-a-titch-of-noir artwork, some good internal story (lapsed idealist tries to resolve Catholic standards with violent life), and the supporting cast lends a touch of humor.