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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 10, 2022 18:57:41 GMT -5
I could happily vote for about a half dozen of them.
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 10, 2022 19:02:42 GMT -5
We need an “All of the Above” on that list.
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Post by foxley on Feb 10, 2022 19:05:37 GMT -5
I voted for Wolverine because during my heaviest comic buying years, he seemed to be guest-starring in every single Marvel book every month, which is kind of odd for a brooding loner. Plus he wasn't that interesting a character to begin with: his main personality trait being that he is a mass-murdering berserker. And these days he's an Avenger I'm told?
For what I know of current Marvel books, Deadpool seems to have taken his place, but I don't read much Marvel these days, so he's less intrusive to me. But, to me, Wolverine will always be the epitome of "let's shoehorn this money-making character into books where he doesn't belong so he can steal the spotlight from the title character and we can gouge more money out of gullible fanboys".
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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 10, 2022 19:19:57 GMT -5
I voted Wolverine, but in film, it has to be Lex Luthor. It seems like he's been in every single Superman movie, and I'm not that crazy about the character to begin with. I think Brainiac is the better Superman villain.
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Post by tartanphantom on Feb 10, 2022 20:03:07 GMT -5
I voted for Batman, even though I like the character more than Wolverine. There's just too many dang Bats-related books.
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Post by profh0011 on Feb 10, 2022 20:52:33 GMT -5
I voted Wolverine, but in film, it has to be Lex Luthor. It seems like he's been in every single Superman movie, and I'm not that crazy about the character to begin with. I think Brainiac is the better Superman villain. I was really shaking my head in dismay when NONE of the 4 Christopher Reeve movies decided to tackle Brainiac. I'm sure they could have come up with a story worthy of a movie, if they put their minds to it.
Then again even in the allegedly "Colonel Zod" film, you had Funky Flashman sticking his nose in all over the place...
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 10, 2022 22:03:58 GMT -5
This thread is making me want to read Wolverine stories. His ongoing series was stelar up to around issue #100. For me it started its decent after that. But before all that I really enjoyed the stories for the most part. The Gehenna Stone Affair is one of my favorites. Both in writing and art.
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Post by Randle-El on Feb 10, 2022 22:24:19 GMT -5
I agree that Wolverine is overexposed, but I have a soft spot for him because he was a childhood favorite of mine. I read the limited series by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller when I was about 12 or 13, and that characterization is the one that is cemented into my brain as the definitive take on Logan. I haven't read much of his solo work past the 90s, but whenever he shows up in more recent stories that I've read, he's portrayed as the token killer among the heroes who's the only one willing to "do what needs to be done". I think the problem is that he works best as a tortured character engaged in a noble-but-doomed-to-fail struggle against his darker nature, and that kind of character needs to have a finite arc. He's not as interesting when he's reduced to a one-note Dirty Harry type of figure.
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Post by Duragizer on Feb 11, 2022 1:00:36 GMT -5
Voted for Batman. He was my first superhero, and my first favourite, but I've been sick and tired of him since Nolan, and he's only gotten less interesting since then.
Wolverine and Deadpool are both tied at second place. I've come to hate characters with regenerative abilities since watching Heroes, and there's a clear reason why.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2022 2:41:50 GMT -5
Amazingly, Spider-Man is not being picked upon even though he has a string of books every month for the past 30+ years, and loads of movie appearances
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 11, 2022 5:23:03 GMT -5
Ultimately, any character that creates a sales bump on any given box will be exploited to the max. After the time of the Avengers movie there seemed to be about 5 books with the Avengers name being published. It died down but now the book with the most spin offs seems to be the Batman franchise.
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Post by Confessor on Feb 11, 2022 6:53:41 GMT -5
Amazingly, Spider-Man is not being picked upon even though he has a string of books every month for the past 30+ years, and loads of movie appearances Yeah, but Spider-Man's a character that everybody likes.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 11, 2022 7:09:53 GMT -5
Amazingly, Spider-Man is not being picked upon even though he has a string of books every month for the past 30+ years, and loads of movie appearances Yeah, but Spider-Man's a character that everybody likes. I agree. Spider-man was used just right.
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Post by Dizzy D on Feb 11, 2022 7:17:21 GMT -5
Deadpool and Wolverine were overexposed, but these days not so much. Wolverine's ongoing seems to be on hold, while he has a limited series right now and is a huge part of X-Force, there is also another limited coming up and Laura is on X-Men if you count those two as the same character.
Deadpool has no ongoing series, but will have a limited in April, also he doesn't seem to be on any team title.
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Post by MDG on Feb 11, 2022 9:02:00 GMT -5
In the 60s, Superman (or Superboy) was regularly appearing in Action, Adventure, Justice League, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, Superboy, Superman, and World's Finest + the TV show five days a week and Saturday morning cartoons. Yet I never thought of him as "overexposed."
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