In your opinion which superhero would be the worst to call upon in an emergency?
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January 11th, 2010
Of all the superheroes you can think of are any of them not up to the job? A wuss is basically what i’m saying. Someone unworthy of the title.
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@ delirium Well being English I must say i’ve never heard of this one. Sounds like a chocolate bar to me.
@delirium He looks like a camp circus act in a gimp mask. Bless!!
Maybe it would depend on the emergency, for instance not every super hero can breathe under water or in space.
I’ve always thought Batman was pretty hopeless as superheroes go.
I’m not sure but I always wondered what would happen to iron man if he got ‘excited’ in his iron suit? Must be painful… do you think it would sound like a bell tolling… boing!?
The worst:Jhonny O
The best:Cat woman
@scotsbloke The boy blunder as sidekicks go. Really was totally pathetic.
Wasn’t there a handicapped superhero that wasn’t Professor Xavier, back when everybody was trying to be diverse and sensitive?
@Nullo Wasn’t that Stephen “The Hawk” Hawking. It was only a brief history in time though~
What about Rogue from X-Men? I mean as super powers go, super absorbyness leading to a state of being a bit dead, is a bit of a handicap is’nt it?
“I’ll save you, Oh, OOPS, erm, gosh is that the time?”
Douglas Ramsey (“Cypher”) from The New Mutants, way back when. His mutant power was translating languages. Great for a French test, lousy for an emergency. :-)
Jubilee- hands down. She does a lazer light show? Really?
Oh, you came. Uhm…thanks. Yeah, just sit over there and look punky-ish. We’ll handle the giant alien.
Dazzler, too. She also had the funky disco laser powers.
The Whizzer.
Or, actually, anyone on this list of superheroes. It’s from Cracked.com, so it’s probably NSFW and a whole lot of other things. Funny, though.
@ucme Were’nt all sidekicks a bit “pants”?
I’m gonna go with Powdered Toast Man
@scotsbloke Penfold, Danger mouses’ sidekick was uber cool. An exception worth a mention.
@ucme Hmmmmmm, ok, that’s a gimme. (Terry Scott was a hero of mine)
@scotsbloke Loved him as Tarzan in carry on up the jungle.
Even when I was a little kid, I used to wonder what the heck some writer was thinking when Matter-Eater Lad joined the Legion of Superheroes. His superpower was the ability to eat anything .
@Nullo mentioned Daredevil, the blind superhero with “radar sense”. In the ‘60s and ‘70s, writers had to invent the lamest villains ever so Daredevil could actually beat ‘em.
This question reminds me that it’s unfortunately become a challenge for comic book writers to create dork characters who defeat the most powerful Big Bads in the multiverse. For instance, Squirrel Girl, who took down Galactus, but if a cat were stuck in a tree, I probably wouldn’t call her.
Plastic man would be a bad call in a fire.
Your shooting a porn flick and the car carrying your male actors gets into a bad car wreck. The studio sends you Rubberman, Inch High Private Eye, and Scoobydo. (I know, not super heros, but you figure out how to cast that one.)
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