Worst Super Hero or Heroic Protagonist
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Harry Potter. He's constantly risking his neck to save people, and he's a complete idiot who wouldn't be alive anyway if not for the help for everyone around him. Trying to keep this spoiler-free, but seriously, Harry, you're like THE ONE, stop trying to get yourself killed at every possible moment. Same goes for Luke Skywalker. And even the Doctor, if he can be counted as 'heroic.' Don't they realise how important they are? I understand it's part of their personality to always want to save people, but seriously, they're the only people who can fight evil and they go and throw it all away, usually for some girl. Idiots. That being said, the Doctor is still awesome. To a lesser extent, Kylar Stern from the Night Angel trilogy could count as 'heroic' as well, and he does this too - sacrifices everything, like the good of the nation and basically the world, for a girl.
lol at people saying Superman, I mean really.
Look at the Plastic Man, Flatman, Armfall off boy, Aqua-lad, Robin, Hank Pym...Your all actually saying that Superman is worse than these guys?
and to those saying "Superman is teh overpowared" Look at the current Flash, The Spectre, Thor, Galactus and plenty more.
Try actually reading a Superman comicbook about his backstory which is actually a really interesting.
Another poster made a point in a similar thread that Superman is as interesting as the person who is writing him.
Look at the Plastic Man, Flatman, Armfall off boy, Aqua-lad, Robin, Hank Pym...Your all actually saying that Superman is worse than these guys?
and to those saying "Superman is teh overpowared" Look at the current Flash, The Spectre, Thor, Galactus and plenty more.
Try actually reading a Superman comicbook about his backstory which is actually a really interesting.
Another poster made a point in a similar thread that Superman is as interesting as the person who is writing him.
I would go cliche and say Superman, but if you watch the series Smallville precluding most of that stuff with him, it's fairly enjoyable.
If anything, I'd have to say Captain American or Flash. The former is just a patriotic image superdouche, the latter is a.. really, really fast guy. Yeah.
If anything, I'd have to say Captain American or Flash. The former is just a patriotic image superdouche, the latter is a.. really, really fast guy. Yeah.
Hmmm, well worst in the sense of useless I'd have to pick Rincewind. Although he's still awesome, he ins't quite your classic hero.
Everyone hates Superman? I find it really depends on who writes him. Sure he's powerful, but try reading any of the "cosmic" stuff marvel does, you have half a dozen people flying through space unaided by anything fighting space ships. He has more weaknesses than kryptonite too, red sun, magic and people of equivalent strength.
He can shrink and sneak into criminals lair or grow to the size of a building and grab a criminal in his hand. I assume that when ones 60ft tall gunshots are more like a beesting, painful but not fatal or crippling.Julianking93 said:
Ahh I see what you did there......D Bones said:
Worst super hero ever goes to the guys from The Boys (depending on your definition of "worst")
I don't like goody goody superheros. Give me DareDevil and Batman over Spidey and Supes any day. And even those guys still have "rules"
Oh and anyone saying Plastic Man, check out The Dark Knight Strikes Again
I would have to say the worst hero has to be Alex Mercer of Prototype fame.
Call me old fashioned but I think Heroes are supposed to save people, NOT EAT THEM...though throwing taxi's at tanks as a little old lady never gets old.
Call me old fashioned but I think Heroes are supposed to save people, NOT EAT THEM...though throwing taxi's at tanks as a little old lady never gets old.
Hey welcome to the Escapist etc.Matthew Lynch said:
I played Prototype recently and I totally saw him as a villain. I was expecting the Hulk to come and try and take me on, I would slaughter hundreds of people in a city wide fight/ eat them for health and cut them into steaks and think "It shouldn't be THIS much fun."
Thanks for the welcome.
Oh, I never said I didn't enjoy it. I kept thinking that slaughtering a whole city block then stealing the apache gunship sent to stop you shouldn't be so much fun but somehow it was. For best results though, unlock the divebombing attack that bodyslams you into the ground, climb to the top of the krysler building and divebomb from the top into the middle of an intersection.
Extra points if you actually land on the top of a vehicle.
Oh, I never said I didn't enjoy it. I kept thinking that slaughtering a whole city block then stealing the apache gunship sent to stop you shouldn't be so much fun but somehow it was. For best results though, unlock the divebombing attack that bodyslams you into the ground, climb to the top of the krysler building and divebomb from the top into the middle of an intersection.
Extra points if you actually land on the top of a vehicle.
That would also be the massive difference between the Marvel "Cosmic" stuff and Superman. the "Cosmic" stuff is, by and large, confined to space where everything is that hard, while Superman defends Metropolis from thugs that can't even begin to touch him.WolfThomas said:
Of course, then there's no suspense, which is crap, so they bring in weaknesses! Oh, uhh, a meteorite brought a bunch of Kryptonite to Earth and Lex Luthor stole it and turned it into bullets! The rest just... Don't work. Magic I could KIND of see, but DC has always seemed a far more "low magic" publisher than Marvel, who loves the crazy shit, but red sun? "People of equivalent strength"? So... Alien intervention? Nothing on Earth, the planet that he has sworn to protect, can hope to even scratch him.
That's boring. That's like me claiming I'm a superhero because I force the residents of an ant hill in my garden to play nice. Rubbish superhero.
Henry Townsend from Silent Hill 4.
It's not a terrible game, and he isn't vulgar or repulsive, he is NOTHING. Not even relevant to the plot of the story, no personality and no backstory. Blandness is a sin.
It's not a terrible game, and he isn't vulgar or repulsive, he is NOTHING. Not even relevant to the plot of the story, no personality and no backstory. Blandness is a sin.
I have never played Silent Hill but I would probably vote for Brad from Resident Evil 3. I mean, his fellows are regularly munched on so much they have to eat so many green herbs that I'm surprised they don;t constantly giggle but one little zombie barle pokes Brad and he acts like he's just survived a Hunter attack.
He also takes the awards for biggest wuss in a survival horror and shortest lifespan. He barely lasted beyond 5 minutes before Nemesis introduced his tentacle to Brads face.
He also takes the awards for biggest wuss in a survival horror and shortest lifespan. He barely lasted beyond 5 minutes before Nemesis introduced his tentacle to Brads face.
One of the dumbest heroes, was originally Speedball, a zany character who could run fast and bounce off of things. Then, some villians blew up some children and he was the only survivor, and his guilt meant that his powers could only work when he was in debillitating agony. So he made a suit with exactly as many needles as there were children that died so he would be brutally stabbed as he walked.
T-Bone24 said:
One of the dumbest heroes, was originally Speedball, a zany character who could run fast and bounce off of things. Then, some villians blew up some children and he was the only survivor, and his guilt meant that his powers could only work when he was in debillitating agony. So he made a suit with exactly as many needles as there were children that died so he would be brutally stabbed as he walked.
Wow...thats a good way to make a generation of suicidal readers.
All fair points, but why not complain about Martian Manhunter, WonderWoman, Green Lantern or Flash? They're just as over powered as Superman.Chipperz said:
That's why I'm actually huge marvel fan boy, you have normal people like Hawkeye making a difference alongside Asgardian Gods. But once again Superman can be written very well, I'd recommend "Red Son", it deals hugely with the consequences of Superman's presence and his struggle over whether he's doing too much to help them.
Used to be that, but now the interesting part is seeing Supes the boy scout in a world where nobody else is a boy scout. Hope in a hopeless world. That's how I see him.sketch_zeppelin said: