Most Useless / Weak Super Hero

Kitsune · Post by **Kitsune** » 2003-07-24 05:58pm

Who do you consider the most useless or weak superhero

My vote is for Dazzler. Acording to her Marvel stats, you can beat her up with a wet noodle and she is not particulary intelligent either. She has no defenses against phychic attacks either

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2003-07-24 06:00pm

All the drek characters Ellis cut out of Stormwatch when he takes over?

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-07-24 06:04pm

Lighting lad...

J/K i would have to think about it. There are alot of pretty usless character out there.

FaxModem1 · Post by **FaxModem1** » 2003-07-24 06:56pm

Fanboy

But seriously, hmm, I would have to say Aquaman, he talks to fish for crying out loud.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-07-24 07:02pm

FaxModem1 wrote:Fanboy

But seriously, hmm, I would have to say Aquaman, he talks to fish for crying out loud.

He was just never handled well. They had no idea how to write him, Aquaman can be very cool, they tried to give an edge that was working during one of his comic runs, when he lost his hand to pirahnna. I stopped reading after that.

The Atom....what a fucking waste, in fact most shrinking heroes have always been my pet peeve.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-07-24 07:03pm

Stravo wrote:The Atom....what a fucking waste, in fact most shrinking heroes have always been my pet peeve.

And there are quite a few aren't there. Antman, wasp. I don't like them either

Cosmic Average · Post by **Cosmic Average** » 2003-07-24 07:34pm

Matter-Eating Lad! Able to consume any matter!

Demiurge · Post by **Demiurge** » 2003-07-24 08:31pm

Daredevil and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-07-24 08:35pm

Pfft at least everyone mentioned has some sort of fighting ability or power.

I give you CYPHER.

Doug Ramsey...able to translate languages!!!

Yes, this small blonde boy was a part of the crack mutant team New Mutants, and got himself killed when entering battle. Why they put him there I will never know...why he thought he had a mutant power that required him to tame I will further never understand.

But there you have it...someone that makes Matter Eater Lad(thank god he was taken out of continuity and turned into a chef) look super.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2003-07-24 10:52pm

Ghost Rider wrote:Pfft at least everyone mentioned has some sort of fighting ability or power.

I give you CYPHER.

Doug Ramsey...able to translate languages!!!

Yes, this small blonde boy was a part of the crack mutant team New Mutants, and got himself killed when entering battle. Why they put him there I will never know...why he thought he had a mutant power that required him to tame I will further never understand.

But there you have it...someone that makes Matter Eater Lad(thank god he was taken out of continuity and turned into a chef) look super.

Didn't they somehow revive Cypher by joining him with the bio-mechanical alien Warlock?

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-07-24 10:53pm

What about the kid from captain planet... the one with the power of HEART!!

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-07-24 11:46pm

LadyTevar wrote:
Ghost Rider wrote:Pfft at least everyone mentioned has some sort of fighting ability or power.

I give you CYPHER.

Doug Ramsey...able to translate languages!!!

Yes, this small blonde boy was a part of the crack mutant team New Mutants, and got himself killed when entering battle. Why they put him there I will never know...why he thought he had a mutant power that required him to tame I will further never understand.

But there you have it...someone that makes Matter Eater Lad(thank god he was taken out of continuity and turned into a chef) look super.
Didn't they somehow revive Cypher by joining him with the bio-mechanical alien Warlock?

Yep...called it Douglock.

That actually made him useful

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-07-25 01:50am

Jubilee, she never actually did anything in the first X-men show but shoot fireworks, not the best sort of power in my book.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-07-25 03:08am

My vote goes to Aquaman...

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-07-25 03:27am

thecreech wrote:What about the kid from captain planet... the one with the power of HEART!!

Game, set, match.

Dizzy D · Post by **Dizzy D** » 2003-07-25 09:16am

Ghost Rider wrote:Pfft at least everyone mentioned has some sort of fighting ability or power.

I give you CYPHER.

Doug Ramsey...able to translate languages!!!

Yes, this small blonde boy was a part of the crack mutant team New Mutants, and got himself killed when entering battle. Why they put him there I will never know...why he thought he had a mutant power that required him to tame I will further never understand.

But there you have it...someone that makes Matter Eater Lad(thank god he was taken out of continuity and turned into a chef) look super.

He would be useful as support for a team though: his powers allows him to decrypt everything with a single glance (when combined with Warlock he even recoded the Magus genetic code.) He would make a great hacker. Cypher in the Matrix= Neo out of a job.

And Douglock was Warlock thinking he was part Doug, he simply absorbed Doug's memory during one of their fusions.

Dazzler can be pretty powerful (at least she was in her solo-series until she was dumbed down for the X-men): hypnotising light-shows, great shot with laser-beams, distracting strobe-lights, realistic holograms (and in AoA she even could make hard-light holograms)

Most useless: Arsenal from Hitman 1.000.000 (don't know if he really was named Arsenal): the ability to turn everything he touches into a weapon.
Died by accidently turning his own ass in a hand-grenade.

Stoneboy: The ability to become an immobile statue.

Skin: 200 square feet of extra skin: well, that will stop a bullet.

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2003-07-25 10:50am

Almost any super-hero from 'Whose Line is it Anyway'.
"Thank god your here, Embaressed by his Erection Boy"

mauldooku · Post by **mauldooku** » 2003-07-25 11:32am

consequences wrote:Almost any super-hero from 'Whose Line is it Anyway'.
"Thank god your here, Embaressed by his Erection Boy"

CAPTAIN HAIR!

Jason von Evil · Post by **Jason von Evil** » 2003-07-25 12:21pm

Aquaman doesn't suck. He had powers beside the aquatic communication. He had strength, speed and his body was tougher than a normal humans.

DD doesn't suck either. His radar sense is incrediably useful to him. There are other things, but I'm getting tired. Will post more later.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-07-25 12:31pm

SyntaxVorlon wrote:Jubilee, she never actually did anything in the first X-men show but shoot fireworks, not the best sort of power in my book.

Never read the comics, have you?

Setzer · Post by **Setzer** » 2003-07-25 01:03pm

I remember one game for the SNES, about a superhero with diabetes.

"Can't save the world yet, my blood sugar is too high!"

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-25 03:03pm

Howedar wrote:
thecreech wrote:What about the kid from captain planet... the one with the power of HEART!!
Game, set, match.

Captain Planet himself is a good competitor; if he ever tired to fly over a major city he'd drop dead from the smog.

Dizzy D · Post by **Dizzy D** » 2003-07-25 04:30pm

Re: Cypher. A friend of mine pointed out that during the New Mutants visit to Las Vegas the rest of the Mutants were all playing around, but Cypher was busy winning cash at high-stakes poker: his translation-ability also works on body-language (if the guy had ever learned martial arts, he would have been pretty formidable)

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-07-25 05:09pm

Aya wrote:DD doesn't suck either. His radar sense is incrediably useful to him. There are other things, but I'm getting tired. Will post more later.

Yeah DD is far from being the worst superhero

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-07-25 05:22pm

The Wonder Twins, Zan and Jana?? Even as a 5 year old I knew they were awful.

A thought just occurred to me...are there Wonder Twins fanwhores??