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Which big time superhero do you dislike the most?

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DrWatson

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Someone should do a gritty, realistic, re-do of aquaman where he spirals into an uncontrollable depression over an inferiority complex and sells himself to a sushi restaurant.

Hold it now and watch the hood wink

As I make you stop think

You'll think you're looking at Aquaman

I summon fish to the dish although I like the Chalet Swiss

I like the Sushi 'cause it's never touched a frying pan

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Comicopolis

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I probably hate Superman...too powerful, too goody two-shoes etc...

 

Yup, plus his supporting cast is lame as hell.

 

No love for Lois?

 

I can't believe she ever got her own title, but it makes more sense than Jimmy Olsen getting his own title.

 

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DrWatson

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I probably hate Superman...too powerful, too goody two-shoes etc...

 

Yup, plus his supporting cast is lame as hell.

 

No love for Lois?

 

I can't believe she ever got her own title, but it makes more sense than Jimmy Olsen getting his own title.

Two words: ginger curiosity.

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DrWatson

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The X-Men as a group. Way too many titles and boring characters. . .especially Cyclops and Colossus.

 

As an X-Men fan, I understand what you're talking about. A tighter team and more cohesive storylines would do wonders.
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I'm not that fond of 'cosmic' heroes - preferring the more earthbound ones, and Superman is probably the most cosmic of all - and way too powerful to be interesting. That being said, I do enjoy his early adventures, where he was a bit less omnipotent, and find the late fifties/early sixties SA goofiness of the Superman titles entertaining.

 

I've never actually read an Aquaman book, even as a kid, I thought they looked too pathetic to bother with, but can Aquaman really be considered 'bigtime"?

 

Back when I was a Marvel zombie in the early seventies and bought their entire superhero output, reading Iron Man felt like homework. The first movie redeemed him somewhat as a character, but I had a strong dislike for him for years.

 

The the superhero that I dislike the most, and would be happy to see erased from history of comics -- is Robin the Boy Wonder. I don't think I need to explain this choice. :sumo:

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Captain Marvel (Fawcett / DC) mainly when he was brought back by DC in the early '70s. Even more puerile than Supes in the 1960s.

 

Robin. The Batman franchise needed a kid sidekick for its readership, but it meant that the leading character wouldn't regain what was originally good about him for over 30 years.

 

Green Arrow (before the O'Neill / Adams makeover). Bland Batman clone with arrows. And a superfluous kid sidekick.

 

Punisher. All right, not a super-hero, or even a hero in the proper sense of the term, but nevertheless a big player in the Marvel universe who at one point had 5 titles running at the same time. Only devised as a monolithic minor character and foil for Spider-Man, got turned into a franchise 'cause kids like big guns and Marvel were lazy.

 

The Incredible Hulk. Bit controversial this one. :P Peter David's run on Greenskin's original title remains one of my favorite in comics. But that's 'cause he had the bizarre notion of giving him intelligence. Prior to that, it was Hulk Smash, which never really allowed for much breadth with the character. And since then he's gone from intelligent to maroon and back again, and then spawned a whole multi-colored clone army.

 

 

After going thru 8 pages of this (half of which was the usual krap) I have to say that this was the most thoughtful response and I agree with much of what our Brit brethren had to say..........

 

If I had to pick a character that I liked least it would be The Atom in the DC world (a member of both the JSA and JLA) and Ant Man (an original Avenger) in the Marvel universe.... :sumo:

 

Just realized these are virtually the same character........ :o

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