ComicVine: Top 100 Comic Book Superheroes.

This was done a few months ago on IGN, I would like to see ComicVine's version of it but better.

Me too.

A podcast of it

Yeah 

I prefer lists of Top 100 Comic Book Characters, superheroes is too much of a niche if you're going to do 100 of them

I think that if you allow it some time to build, you could get plenty of participants. For instance, I've already got a top 100 for the two major companies and would just need a little time to order between the two and filter in the non-big two characters. It is always fun to see how a community turns out this sort of list.

I'm totally down for this. How can I help?

I know it's not exactly the same but didn't user Liberty already do this.... Top Heroes. Also here's the link to the thread where people voted... Vote.

I know it's not exactly the same but didn't user Liberty already do this.... Top Heroes.

Batman.

Then make a podcast for Top 100 Comic Book Characters, but that would be too difficult given the so many times of heroes and villains.

@The Poet: well again, I say go for it if you want, but the problem with just going off of the opinions of a lot of people versus a select group that represents a huge diversity is the large group is going to select a lot of the same, and it'll just be a list of the 100 most popular characters...if you incorporate users that represent specific areas of comics, like someone who likes the Golden Age, someone who likes 90's Image, someone who likes non-superhero stuff, someone who likes all the mainstream stuff, someone who likes licensed properties, etc. the list holds more weight, at least IMO

I think it should be heroes and villains. Because if it's all characters, you'd have to take characters like Lois Lane, MJ, Foggy Nelson, J. Jonah Jameson, Alfred ,etc. (characters I adore) into consideration

@Jnr6Lil said:

@aztek_the_lost said:

@The Poet: well again, I say go for it if you want, but the problem with just going off of the opinions of a lot of people versus a select group that represents a huge diversity is the large group is going to select a lot of the same, and it'll just be a list of the 100 most popular characters...if you incorporate users that represent specific areas of comics, like someone who likes the Golden Age, someone who likes 90's Image, someone who likes non-superhero stuff, someone who likes all the mainstream stuff, someone who likes licensed properties, etc. the list holds more weight, at least IMO

Yes, the people who runt the PodCasts can be the like the IGN People who govern the top 100 lists.

the CV staff isn't diverse enough for what I was thinking, first of all, there's only two of them...and second of all, the two of them pretty much read the same comics, even if they're feelings on them are different at times, it's still the same stuff they're being subjected to

@Billy Batson said:

@aztek_the_lost:

What about inferiorego?

BB

oh yeah...him...but he doesn't take part in podcasts, but okay, he adds some diversity to the mix but that's still just three people, not what I was thinking

@Billy Batson said:

@aztek_the_lost said:

@Billy Batson said:

@aztek_the_lost:

What about inferiorego?

BB

oh yeah...him...but he doesn't take part in podcasts, but okay, he adds some diversity to the mix but that's still just three people, not what I was thinking

Couldn't they just invite him? Yeah, I know, just wanted to point that out :p

BB

I think he's been on over Skype before or something...maybe they don't really like him?

@Billy Batson said:

@aztek_the_lost said:

@Billy Batson said:

@aztek_the_lost said:

@Billy Batson said:

@aztek_the_lost:

What about inferiorego?

BB

oh yeah...him...but he doesn't take part in podcasts, but okay, he adds some diversity to the mix but that's still just three people, not what I was thinking

Couldn't they just invite him? Yeah, I know, just wanted to point that out :p

BB

I think he's been on over Skype before or something...maybe they don't really like him?

Who does?

BB

your mom?

 

BB

@aztek_the_lost said:

@Jnr6Lil said:

@aztek_the_lost said:

@The Poet: well again, I say go for it if you want, but the problem with just going off of the opinions of a lot of people versus a select group that represents a huge diversity is the large group is going to select a lot of the same, and it'll just be a list of the 100 most popular characters...if you incorporate users that represent specific areas of comics, like someone who likes the Golden Age, someone who likes 90's Image, someone who likes non-superhero stuff, someone who likes all the mainstream stuff, someone who likes licensed properties, etc. the list holds more weight, at least IMO

Yes, the people who runt the PodCasts can be the like the IGN People who govern the top 100 lists.

the CV staff isn't diverse enough for what I was thinking, first of all, there's only two of them...and second of all, the two of them pretty much read the same comics, even if they're feelings on them are different at times, it's still the same stuff they're being subjected to

Two? Who? G-Man and Babs? what about the others? 

BB

We should name the list as Top 100 Most -loved Comic Characters  so comicvine members can list down their favorites. 
 
not most popular because it becomes technical, we would need to provide reasons why  you put the character #1
 
anyway, we can start with 3 different threads, 1 thread for fave 15 marvel characters  , 1 for fave 15 DC and 1 for fave 15 for other comics.

each comicvine member must give a complete list for his/her fave 15 DC characters, fave 15 marvel characters and fave 15 characters from other comics like image, amalgam, etc or else the incomplete list will not be counted
 
alternate versions are not counted so that means for marvel, we only count characters who are in 616. I don't know about DC though and other comic companies.
 
Then after we get the top 50 characters results for each thread, we create just one more thread listing down the top 50 for each category for a total of 150.
 
and that's the final round wherein comicvine members have to list down their fave 50 among the 150 characters.
 
and yes points are counted like if you're giving your top 15.
1 = 15 points
2 = 14 pts
3= 13 points, etc
 
so if you're listing top 50 then 1 = 50 pts
 
how about that?

@jhazzroucher said:

we only count characters who are in 616.

Why? Some people prefer marvel characters set in alternate worlds I know I prefer Nick Fury in Ultimate and MAX way more than the 616 version. If you ask Punisher fans what are their favorite stories the majority of them will be from the MAX imprint. Which would become important since the Punisher would have a good shot at making a top 100 list especially if it was broken down by category Superhero, Villain, Antihero, etc.

@jhazzroucher said:

we only count characters who are in 616.

Why? Some people prefer marvel characters set in alternate worlds I know I prefer Nick Fury in Ultimate and MAX way more than the 616 version. If you ask Punisher fans what are their favorite stories the majority of them will be from the MAX imprint. Which would become important since the Punisher would have a good shot at making a top 100 list especially if it was broken down by category Superhero, Villain, Antihero, etc.

@jhazzroucher said:

@cody1984 said:

@jhazzroucher said:

we only count characters who are in 616.

Why? Some people prefer marvel characters set in alternate worlds I know I prefer Nick Fury in Ultimate and MAX way more than the 616 version. If you ask Punisher fans what are their favorite stories the majority of them will be from the MAX imprint. Which would become important since the Punisher would have a good shot at making a top 100 list especially if it was broken down by category Superhero, Villain, Antihero, etc.

If you like Ultimate Nick Fury, then putting Nick Fury in the list means you've still voted for 616 Nick Fury , Ultimate Nick Fury and other alternate versions of Nick Fury.

Not necessarily. Some people only like the alternate universe of characters and not the 616 version of characters. For example I like Ultimate Hawkeye but I don't like 616 Hawkeye.

@jhazzroucher said:

@cody1984 said:

@jhazzroucher said:

we only count characters who are in 616.

Why? Some people prefer marvel characters set in alternate worlds I know I prefer Nick Fury in Ultimate and MAX way more than the 616 version. If you ask Punisher fans what are their favorite stories the majority of them will be from the MAX imprint. Which would become important since the Punisher would have a good shot at making a top 100 list especially if it was broken down by category Superhero, Villain, Antihero, etc.

If you like Ultimate Nick Fury, then putting Nick Fury in the list means you've still voted for 616 Nick Fury , Ultimate Nick Fury and other alternate versions of Nick Fury.

Not necessarily. Some people only like the alternate universe of characters and not the 616 version of characters. For example I like Ultimate Hawkeye but I don't like 616 Hawkeye.

@jhazzroucher said:

@cody1984 said:

@jhazzroucher said:

@cody1984 said:

@jhazzroucher said:

we only count characters who are in 616.

Why? Some people prefer marvel characters set in alternate worlds I know I prefer Nick Fury in Ultimate and MAX way more than the 616 version. If you ask Punisher fans what are their favorite stories the majority of them will be from the MAX imprint. Which would become important since the Punisher would have a good shot at making a top 100 list especially if it was broken down by category Superhero, Villain, Antihero, etc.

If you like Ultimate Nick Fury, then putting Nick Fury in the list means you've still voted for 616 Nick Fury , Ultimate Nick Fury and other alternate versions of Nick Fury.

Not necessarily. Some people only like the alternate universe of characters and not the 616 version of characters. For example I like Ultimate Hawkeye but I don't like 616 Hawkeye.

Hawkeye will represent all Hawkeye versions. I know it really matters to you but perhaps that can be done on a separate thread like we make a poll on off-topic for "Which Nick Fury" version is your favorite?" something like that. People don't want to see a list of 15 different versions of Spider-man. But, i could consider your opinion since it's about who your favorite characters are. Ok. i'm fine with alternate versions. I;m not sure if the committee who will start this project will.

Having a separate poll could work just stating that people like the alternative version of some characters much better then the main universe version. I do get your point about not having one character dominate the entire poll I could see that for characters like wolverine, spiderman, and batman. Also I doubt any committee would work on this if anyone bothers to try and do so. The reason being is it would take several people working together and quite a bit of time.

Wanted to annouce The Poet's plan is going to be set in motion. the following is my plan, which i need people for:

• I need 20 different users. each will represent a their favorite publisher (like Aztek has agreed to represent Vertigo). Dc and Marvel (being major publishers) will each have 2 represeatives (ex: one for x-men and one for the avenger-type characters)
• each of the 20 will nominate 8 different characters (preferably Heroes). It doesn't matter if the characters are of their favorite publisher or not
• then, I will take those 160 nominations and the 20 will discuss which ones should be on the list and which should not be
• Following that, the 20 will write reasons why they think their character should be on the list and I will post those on the comment section of the 100 list

Thats where the community comes in. I will post the list and users and look over it. Each user can request a character to be moved up or down on the list, depending on how they feel about a character. they can do this only once and such a move would only be up or down ONE position. If say you don't like Batman (is there any people like that?) and he's on the bottem of the list, you can't just request for him to be moved to the hundredth position. you can only move a chracter up or down one position.

After a week has passed, the blog where all requests are submitted will locked and the results (at least for this year) will be used to create a list.

Users who have volunteered to be part of the 20:

if you don't see a publisher you like (and you want to participate) please mention it and you can be part of the 20. Please keep in mind this will only have 20 users. I'm sorry if your favorite is taken, but please don't complain to me...