Top 25 Favorite Heroes
My favorite heroes and why i like them and probably in order of how much i read them.
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My childhood in a nutshell was just him. Grew up with Spectacular and Ultimate Spider-Man show then i watched the 90s show when in was in my early teens and have read over 100 comics of this man in just a year. i love him and i think it comes down to his nature.
He teaches me about growth as a person and he's one of the most down to earth heroes out there. i think davidmann95 got it right.
"In the earliest material, Peter Parker was a dick, and that went on long after the mugger got turned in. His immediate response after Ben was killed? Keep on going with the show business until Jameson starts going after him. His first couple saves are at least in part about His Good Name...and even once he starts going after criminals on a consistent basis it's initially only for photography money. He takes stupid chances. He's desperate for cash...He fakes pictures of Sandman and Electro with the flimsiest of moral justifications. He's got a chip on his shoulder the size of Queens and can barely begin to control his temper. He'll lash out at people on suspicion or anger alone, and in some early stories he just plain gave up or ran away until he learned his lesson or circumstances changed...and even if we can't blame him with all he goes through, he's often far afield of anything resembling ''likeable''...But he changes, so completely many seem to forget he was ever anything other than the official co-saint of the Marvel Universe alongside Steve Rogers...He grows, he shifts, he learns lessons and forgets them and falls and picks himself back up, and he never stops pushing forward. He takes on the responsibility of becoming the Man he claims to be, that others need him to be, even if he doesn't consciously realize it at first...that's what makes him an everyman we can all relate to, because no one ever stops growing up. It's what differentiates him, makes him real, compared to Superman or Batman or the FF or Captain America."
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Batman’s cool as hell
Batman is spooky
Batman is playful
Batman is emotionally, symbolically raw
Batman is genuinely a good character
I love how he never gives up. a good billionaire, an unrealistic optimist trying to stop crime in the worst city in the world. No matter what’s thrown at him, he endures and overcomes because he’s Batman and because he has to to stop the world from hurting anyone else the way it hurt him.
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to quote davidmann95 on tumblr
"I love Stark, I don’t have much to say. He’s the dude who might be able to save us all like no other superhero if only he can save himself first, and that question mark - and that he’s such a charming motherfucker we let ourselves forget about it until it all comes crashing down again - drives his entire story. Plus he’s a cool exec (with a heart of steel!), and that takes him into territory most of his other peers don’t venture into, from down-and-dirty tech shit as Ellis handled it, buck-wild superhero-as-corporation sci-fi flights of fancy the way Slott is doing at the moment, or something in-between as Fraction treated it. He’s fun and versatile and has a beating human heart underneath that chest-plate as he tries to make up for his ever-mounting pile of sins, and that all works out to a very good character indeed"
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A character not popular enough that he's stuck in a weird forever the same status quo but popular enough people wanna write him and do cool new things with him.
helps all his shit is great, from Lee to Miller to Chip. it's all good to me. hell even shadowland was ok to me(and then the MCU show). all in all he's a cool gritty and fun character with just plain awesome work.
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He represents Heroism. he puts the SUPER in superhero. this unfillable man who will do anything to uphold what's right. Always there for everyone and i think his overpowered-ness people hate is exactly what makes him cool to me and this is coming from a dude who hates OP characters. He can be anywhere at anytime to save everyone. I love him
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Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye, aka Hawkguy, is the Avenger who’s Just A Dude. No super-steroids and vita-rays, no magic hammer or Pym particles, a distinct lack of multi-billion dollar armor or immortality serum. Dude has a bow and arrow, and while he is very, very good with that bow and arrow, he still gets his ass kicked a frankly disproportionate amount relative to his teammates. he's funny and honestly more relatable than Spider-Man these days
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X-23 isn’t just a female clone of Wolverine. Heck she's better than him for me(still love you Logan, number 15 by the way) but she just appeals to me more. her growth as a character definitely helps here
she goes from child assassins to child prostitute to teen X-Man to teen assassins to back then jumps up to becoming a full on superhero with all the happiness of one. shows me i can become a better person even at my lowest
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"I enjoy She-Hulk because of her quirkiness, both as a character and a property.
Yes, the self-awareness is nice; knowing she's in a comic book adds something to the levity of her content. Like with Deadpool, it's a nice method of buoyancy when things get heavy. But it also provides a way to point out how silly and campy Marvel really is and can be, so that we can enjoy it as such.
And despite how deep Shulkie is in the comics universe (she's been an Avenger, and Fantastic 4 member, and a lawyer on a universal scale) she remains a very human character. Sure, superheroics are great. But wouldn't it be nice to have shoes that fit AND look good? Or the way she often takes off her formal wear before a fight so she doesn't have to replace it. She may be a Hulk, but she's still Jen Walters.
She's unique in that she doesn't (often) struggle with the issues of identity. She embraces her Hulk form as a means of being a better, more confident version of herself. It's nice to have a hero character that doesn't have the weight of a “hero's burden” theme all the time. It's never “my gift, my curse, my responsibility.” It's just her being herself. And that makes it relatable.
Which leads into the next thing: positivity. She-Hulk comics may take on darker themes, but Jen is a very hopeful person. Not naive or childish; Jen has seen too much to not be aware of how bad things are. She just always looks for a brighter tomorrow, and tries to make it happen."
-Shane Vitticore
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pretty much speedster Peter Parker with a side of MIles Morales. you get the development from awed kid to dumb teen in over his head to finally able to fill his mentor’s boots to just one of the guys on the Justice League, his basic demeanor and personality is really relatable, and with the likes of Mark Waid, Grant Morrison, Mark Millar and Geoff Johns in his corner, he was a consistent creative powerhouse for over a decade. he's great
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Captain America as a character might be one of the hardest characters to write in comic books for the simple reason that you have to be very careful with what he does and says. He represents the country, not just a certain segment of it or a certain ideology. At the same time he is still a man rooted in a particular time and place that has ingrained beliefs that cannot be denied or just whitewashed over. Cap is a prisoner of my own time, place, and upbringing but he still shines as a beacon of hope in a cynical world. unlike Superman who leads a hopeful one.
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The next are just the fantastic four in general cause they are the best hero team. Love Reed, always so busy with science to take care of his personal life at his expense, can be a piece of shit but this isn't a villain list and his still a hero and an effective one at that.
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She went from weak female damsel to the strongest member of the team and one of the strongest heroes period.
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Pretty similar to Wally in personality now that I think about it actually, same development of character outside the legacy stuff and also best friend to my number 1.
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'Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed' Thing.
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What if superman was actually the son of general zod who was masquerading as the actual superman, you get Mark and he's awesome.
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"I'm The Best There Is At What I Do But What I Do Best Isn't Very Nice." i like Logan, i mean i like his daughter better but i like him a lot.
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Cool power, great team leader and field commander. People often say he's boring, but at the end of the day hes the one who you'd want leading you into battle, they are knowledgeable and prepared. People think that his Mutant power is optic blasts from his eyes.
Cyclops is not cool. He is the exact opposite. He internalizes everything, he is awkward around people, he is not the best communicator, and he shoulders way more than he should. He is a very flawed character but that is what makes him interesting.
If you look at the original 5. Jean Grey was a beautiful, white, upper class, omega level mutant who was Xavier's favorite. Beast was a upper middle class white guy who was also a genius. Angel was old money, beautiful, and confident. Bobby was also an omega level mutant from a middle class home and was charismatic. Cyclops was a skinny, socially awkward orphan that nobody wanted with powers he had no control over. His drive was proving he was good enough.
Once he did he became Xavier's pet project. He was pegged as the heir apparent and burdened with the responsibility of being the savior of the mutant race and he really views it as a burden. If the team fails it is because of him, if someone gets hurt it is because of him, he shouldered and internalized everything for the team because that is what he believes a leader is. Someone who takes responsibility.
He see's himself as being responsible for the entire race. He sacrificed everything for "the cause", his youth, his happiness, his marriage, his family, all in the hopes that his grandkids won't have to put up with the shit he has to. Not only that but even his friends put the responsibility on him because they do not want it.
This is why he and Wolverine can't get a long, this is why he is easy to write as a "goody two shoes" or yes man. Because he isn't someone who shows his cards, he does not wear his emotions on his sleeve. He is a giant ball of stress waiting to explode. Because he was raised to believe that his life is a worthy sacrifice for mutant equality. Basically Cyclops is human but he wants to be so much more. He wants to be what everyone wants him to be.
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Doctor Henry “Hank” Pym also known as “Ant-Man” “Goliath” “Yellowjacket” “Wasp” “Giant Man” and “Scient Supreme”, he's had a lot of lows but seeing him come out of those is peak
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Her character to be wonderfully tragic in a way. Her father groomed her to be the protector of baby Kal El. He entrusted her with the responsibility of being not only his guardian but she'll also having to cope with being an alien godlike being as well. But when she arrives, the plan has gone wrong. Baby Kal El arrived alone ahead of her and, on his own legs, built up the legacy of Superman. Her purpose is now gone. Clark didn't need her and did better than fine without her and even stronger than her. So much so that she now has to stand in his shadow and wear the super name. Unlike Clark, though, she remembers home. Clark had a hard struggle, but Earth is all he's ever known. This is home to him, it will always be an alien world to her. Kara didnt get to have the Kents. For her, home truly is forever lost. For Clark, Kara is a radiant example of a piece of home surviving; for her, he is a bitter pill reminding her that he's all that's left. She'll always be more alone than Clark.
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Shes basically a snapshot of what Kara can look like having grown past her insecurities, . Her solo run straight-away establishes her ambitions, her value not as just Power Girl, but also as Karen Starr. She is a CEO of a tech-company, she is forward-thinking, she is driven – she wants to change the world through ecological and green-tech, rather than just fighting crime as her superhero persona. I absolutely enjoyed her banter with her staff and generally moments unrelated to her heroics.
She is witty, smart, and confident in combat, but also outside of it, and it puts her in contrast to Superman, who was, at least for me, always more of a “boyscout”-type of character. Likewise, she isn't just a copy of Superman or Supergirl, Technically same personality traits. Angry, doesn’t take shit from no one. But the delivery is different. Also shes hot as hell.
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Billy is a good kid in a cruel world, given powers literally from the gods but still deciding to be good.
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"Rorschach sucks."
This quote from Frank Miller's Dark Knight Strikes Again.
'The world spins mad. The people are so intoxicated by luxury they have forgotten everything that makes us more than house pets. Reason. Truth Justice. Freedom.
The human spirit is a shattered pane of glass—wrapped in soft velvet and soaked in sugary poison. Evil has seduced mankind. And mankind has shown all the chastity of a three-dollar whore.
Yet I will not yield. I will not bend. I will not accept the corrupt new way of things. Nor will I be martyred. I will gather evidence—document every foul lie. I will forge my manifesto. My challenge to every free mind that may find it. Like a note in the bottle. Cast into the ocean.
It will be typed. It must be typed. Computers can't be trusted. They're all tied in now, connected to the power of the tyrants. Once your thoughts are committed to disk, the tyrants have them. The Abyss stared back.
The mind of man must be reclaimed—if not by this generation or by the next, then some day. Some decade.
It is not in my power to effect the change. I haven't the might. I am not the answer.
I am only The Question.'
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