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More of an “all time” list than a “lately” list…

Superman
William Withey Gull
Morpheus
Mitchell Hundred
Mr. A
Swamp Thing
Batman
Vladek Spiegelman
Eric Finch (V For Vendetta)
Superduperman
Marv (Sin City)
Scott McCloud (as fictionalized in books like Understanding Comics)
Pincus Pleatnik (Invisible People)
Tom Strong
Asterios Polyp
Son Goku
Gerhard Shnobble (The Spirit)
Clark Kent (Superman: Secret Identity)
Marvelman/"Miracleman"
Rorschach, The Comedian, and Dr. Manhattan (can’t pick just one)
Barack Obama (not the one in Spider-Man–the one in Final Crisis!)

That’s off the top of my head, with bookshelf glance assist.

I did my best to keep it down to one character per series, but I wasn’t able to in the case of Watchmen. The cast is just too good.

I didn’t mean to come up with such a “fuck Marvel” list… but I kind of did.

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That’s great, congratulations! Should have dressed your kid up as Kidpool for Halloween, that would be amazing.

100 bullets is probably something I should dive into soon. Want to finish off Hitman, Jonah Hex and Preacher before I move on to more trade collections.

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Just dive in. 100 bullets is amazing

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I forgot

Predator - PREDATOR

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Batman (Bruce Wayne)

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Batman (the animated series)

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I’m an SF3 geek, Transformers geek, etc., but I’m mostly gonna list my current fave’ Marvel and DC comics superheroes, and WHY I like them.

Marvel: 1) Dr. Strange:
He EARNED his powers through training. The origin of a character’s powers is philosophically important to me :stuck_out_tongue: He didn’t get his powers from an accident, genetic manipulations or other experiments, etc. He might not be the Sorcerer Supreme right now (which may change later), but he has the mental discipline and diligence to do ALMOST ANYTHING. He has been arguably one of the most powerful characters in the existence of comic books, but that’s NOT exactly why I like him. I honestly just like some of his powers (telekinesis, mystic bolt projection, etc.), and I think it’s cool that he supplements his powers by calling on spirits, demons, etc. for various abilities. He also has personal weaknesses, such as occasional arrogance issues, and he himself is aware of that and constantly struggles/fights to improve himself. He’s not perfect, and I wouldn’t be interested in a character who is.

  1. Iron Man:
    He’s a genius and EARNED his powers by developing a special suit that gave him Superman-like powers. He’s not that realistic, but it’s fun to imagine that ANY typical human can have superpowers by wearing a special suit.

DC: 1) Supergirl:
Again–ORIGIN of a character’s powers are important to me…apparently, ONLY important to me! It turns out that ALL MUTANTS in Marvel Comics received their powers from EXPERIMENTS: the Celestials added a latent gene to the first group of humans that ever existed, and that later manifested as the X-Gene. Mutants are NOT the product of evolution.

Supergirl–like Superman–is a Kryptonian (according to the comics, she might be from Argo–the sister planet of Krypton–but the damn storylines keep changing, and now there are the DC Reboot series, so I’m confused! :P).
Supergirl’s/Kara’s powers ARE the result of evolution. I LOVE the idea that a species of ppl gets his/her powers from naturally adapting to his/her surroundings. I also got kinda tired of Superman over the years, and I like seeing a girl with his powers, but with a different personality. I think it’s cool how she looks kinda innocent, but is a badass with a quirky sense of humor, and the comics and cartoons have shown her learn humility, despite her virtually-unlimited power potential. I admit that the shallow side of me also just likes her powers (flight, heat vision, super-strength, etc.), as with Dr. Strange’s powers. Finally, we get to see a character like Superman, but at a younger age (arguably younger, although I think she was cryogenically frozen and is technically older than Supes), so we get to see her develop her powers as she ages (even though Kryptonians/Argonians?!/whatever have much longer lifespans than humans).

I like other characters too, of course, but characters that don’t randomly get their powers are FAR more interesting to me than characters who had a 1-time, life-changing experience that just…happened…too cliched for me! :slight_smile: lol. I don’t like ‘what if?’ scenarios: even though they’re part of life (although, in real life, becoming a police officer/detective/etc. is much more likely than becoming a crimefighter, of course).

Donatello’s my fave’ turtle though; for sure. “WHAT?!?! He’s a brilliant inventor (Turtle Van, Turtle Blimp, etc.) AND he can fight like the rest of his adopted turtle brothers?!?!” I’ve always been envious/jealous of inventor types, cos I’m NO scientist hahaha.

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Looks like this will be painful to tally. Good luck to Sano or whoever he convinces to help him! Going to limit my choices to Marvel and DC because including manga will just get out of hand.

  1. Nightwing (Richard “Dick” Grayson)
  2. Winter Soldier (James “Bucky” Barnes)
  3. Loki
  4. Daredevil (Matt Murdock)
  5. Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
  6. Archangel [-alypse] (Warren Worthington)
  7. Fantomex
  8. Psylocke (Betsy Braddock)
  9. Phoenix (Jean Grey)
  10. Magneto
  11. Emma Frost
  12. Wiccan (Billy Kaplan)
  13. Nova (Richard Rider)
  14. Dr. Doom
  15. Multiple Man (Jamie Madrox)
  16. Havok (Alex Summers)

I’ll edit later if I think of anyone else that really stood out to me over the past couple of years.

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I’m off from work the days this closes and I tally so no problems.

Just this week I got invited to a Christmas thing on December 14th so the results might come a day earlier or a day later. It will still close on December 12th though.

Not doing a count yet but not really having problems with the way anyone’s voted so far.

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Time’s up! :china:

Originally I was going to post the final results on Wednesday but they will be up a little later today since I’ll be a bit busy the next few days. Check back in a few for the winners while I try to sort all these votes out. :sweat:

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And the winners!

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Any old guys in here?

Hi, how you all doing? Anyone married, kids?

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Hey what’s up ShinAkumaX!

Dude if I had a wife and kids you think I’d be able to buy as many comics as I do? “NEVER HE-MAN!” :rofl:

I would like to get married but most of my relationships never work out. Maybe the current one will work out, maybe not, who knows.

Kids sure, but without getting too personal it’s difficult for me to have kids. I guess you can say biological reasons, a lot of males on my mother’s side are like that. Maybe not impossible but it might take a lot of effort.

I love my neice and nephew to death. If that’s all this life offers me that’s cool. My extended family is large enough as it is, my last name will live on forever.

On the bright side I’m doing fine. Well I was but then NY Comic Con ended. D’OH! :stuck_out_tongue:

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Did you see you life turning out as it has so far? I sure didn’t!

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Just looked back over my list. Total sausage party. I’ll have to rectify this next time.

Maybe some of the lovely ladies of Los Hernandez Hermanos will make it in…

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i’m married…with children

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I don’t know? I guess I try to live in the present. Or I’m just super positive and thankful I wasn’t born in a war torn third world country and have all my fingers and toes. And eyes so I can log onto this forum and vote for Spider-Man! ON TOPIC!

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NO MORE SPIDER-MAN VOTES

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I was born in a war torn third world country, a year after a 10 year civil war got started.

Are you sure you are positive? I don’t think that means what you think it means.

Yeah, nice man. I got married last July. It was great! I’m very happy in my marriage.

You got kids uh? How old are they? Do you know what oceanic conciousness is? It’s what babies have before they develop an ego. Was it hard picking names? I might call one of my kids Odin for laughs.

LOL forever being a fairly relative term. I’ve thought of changing my last name to Nguyen a number of occasions. I got me a couple cute nieces. But yeah man, my life feels one long trip, completely out of my control.

Are you an ENTP?

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We are from the same country shinakuma.