Least favourite superhero?

[CyberCubed]

Always thought Martian Manhunter was rather boring. I can see why newer versions of the Justice League have axed him entirely.

Never understood why he wasn't just a side character from the beginning.

[Gabriel GP]

Without any doubts it's Hulk, for me it's the most boring and unsightly superhero of all times.

[Leo656]

Martian Manhunter can shape-shift and read minds. Hypothetically speaking, he's among the MOST interesting characters anyone could even think of. Plus, Martian.

He also filled a somewhat-controversial, yet still important role, as the "Minority Superhero" on the JLA back when non-white superheroes weren't entirely "allowed" in comic books. You couldn't quite have Superman team up with a black guy in the 60s, but you could easily get the exact same messages across by using a green guy (and at the same time, subtly pointing out how insipid human beings and their racial prejudices really are in the first place).

I'unno, I always liked MM. Some writers have given him a lot to do and even a terrific sense of humor, and others just use him as an exposition machine and a convenient way for the JLA to communicate in places they shouldn't be able to, like underwater or outer space. I love the JLA cartoons, for example, but they really didn't give J'onn as much to do as he deserved. The late-80s and early-90s comics were a real shining point of the character.

Frankly, I wish newer versions of the JLA - like the upcoming movie - would stop shoving Manhunter out of a major role in favor of John Stewart as the "minority superhero" of the group, mostly because even though the JLA has almost always had a Green Lantern, it's NEVER been John Stewart. It's always either been Hal Jordan or Kyle Rayner or Guy Gardner - and I really wish Guy would finally get his shot in something - but Stewart has never been a big part of anything related to the JLA, except the cartoon show, where again, he was included only for the same reasons they chose Hawkgirl over Hawkman (another casting choice that went almost entirely against JLA canon): Being "Inclusive". And that's fine, but it'd be like if they stuck Spider-Man in an X-Men movie and left out, say, Gambit. He's popular enough for it to work, and you could kind of squeeze it in and maybe justify it, but it's kind of a pointless change that goes against canon.

Also, all signs point to The Rock playing Stewart in the JLA movie and I really, really don't want to see that. Give me that New Spock guy from the Trek movies as Martian Manhunter, over the Rock as John Stewart, any day of the week. I'd even prefer Reynolds back as Hal. I can't stand seeing Rock in anything. You could put "My All-Time Least Favorite Superhero" as whichever one he ends up playing.

Although I'd accept and even encourage him as Black Adam. That's a casting match made in Heaven. Anything else, I wouldn't want to sit through with him in it.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Can't really pick a least favorite... there's so many whack ones.

Definitely hate Vibe lol. Captain Atom isn't a "lame hero", but he's a total dick. I loved when Superman beat the holy mother **** out of him in JLU.

From Marvel, I don't really care for Black Panther. He's so boring. Also don't get why a bunch of people are clamoring for a Doctor Strange movie. I watched the animated one not too long ago and it's not that cool.

Black Panther is far from boring in all the issues I've read with him. That includes Avengers, his own title, and even the issues of X-Men and other titles he's appeared in. He had a major role in the Civil War arc, As well as Secret Invasion, married Storm, and even passed the mantle on to her for a time. He's the king of his own nation, which happens to be one of the most technologically advanced in the MU. He's really a very interesting character, and far from being a "token minority" type of hero. Much like Luke Cage, who is also quite well-developed.

For my part, most of the DC heroes come across as having either very bland personalities, or over-the-top neurotic or psychotic ones. Supes' blatant messiah analogy is just too "in your face" for my taste. (And it was heavily parodied by Marvel's Virtue, who was a rip-off even down to his alien origin and small-town middle-America upbringing- but with even more obviously religious undertones. And his disguise was almost identical- a mild-mannered newspaper reporter wearing glasses and combing his hair down- which worked for all of five minutes....) To me, the best thing about DC has always been its villains. They may be over-the-top, but villains are SUPPOSED to be. They are the egotistical, maniacal, self-important and ruthless, vengeful personalities that make the heroes worth reading about.

Marvel takes a more realistic approach to their heroes, making them more down-to-earth in terms of personalities, motivations, and backgrounds. The aliens among them are generally kept out in space as guardians of the cosmos at large, rather than being the common heroes of Earth. And most of the "omega" type heroes only appear briefly, or are once again used mainly for galaxy-spanning stories. They don't commonly interfere in the normal events on Earth itself. This isn't set it stone, of course, but Marvel seems to use such heroes more sparingly, as the deus ex machina they generally are. The "street" level heroes like Spidey, Hawkeye, or Daredevil, the teams like the Avengers and X-Men, and the rogues like Hulk (who seems to have spawned several near-clones) are the ones most often seen- and they generally started out from fairly normal backgrounds or at least from backgrounds that make sense given their roles.