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Which Superhero has the dumbest origin.

Trekker4747

Trekker4747

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It's the "big thing" with Superheros. Has been since Action Comics #1.

Everyone wants to know who this guy is, how he became a Superhero and in some cases how he got his "powers."

Superman: An alien from another planet, being under a yellow sun gives him superpowers, raised by a Kansan farm couple.

Batman: Eccentric billioaire with too much time, too much money and too much rage.

Spider-man: Bitten by a radioactive/geneticly modified spider.

Iron Man: Eccentric billionaire with too much time, too much money, and too much to prove.... Hmmm. This sounds familliar. ;)

The Hulk: Scientist exposed to "gamma radiation" that somehow didn't incinerate his bone marrow into nothing and instead made him a mean, green, giangantic monster.

The X-Men: Macro Evolutionary marvels.

All great superhero origins that've stood the test of time and thrilled masses in various forms of media from comics to movies to TV.

The there's...

Bananaman... gets his powers because he's from the moon and a crescent moon... looks... like... a... banana? WTF?

Robin: Latches on to Batman. Has a hero complex. Is an acrobat. So, the obvious career choice for him was...

Pretty damn poor or weak origins to become a crimefighter or mechanism to get powers.

I know there's tons of throw-away nothing "superhero" characters out there with dumb origins. Hell, the X-Men I'm sure have a few dubious or dumb origins on how they became a fighter for freedom and truth.

So let's hear them!
 
Trekker4747 wrote:
Iron Man: Eccentric billionaire with too much time, too much money, and too much to prove.... Hmmm. This sounds familliar.
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That's not entirely accurate the first Iron Man armor was built out of necessity to keep Stark's heart going and to escape captivity.
 
Leroy said:
Trekker4747 wrote:
Iron Man: Eccentric billionaire with too much time, too much money, and too much to prove.... Hmmm. This sounds familliar.
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That's not entirely accurate the first Iron Man armor was built out of necessity to keep Stark's heart going and to escape captivity.
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That's how he escapes captivity. Not how he becomes a superhero. I mean he could've easily just gone back to his normal life after escaping captivity, right? But no. He's an eccentric billionare with too much time and money to waste, so he becomes a superhero.
 
Jay Garrick, the Golden Age Flash. I mean, I like the character and all, but... "inhaling the vapors from hard water"????? What?
 
Any superhero whose origin started from an accidental contact with/exposure to weird chemicals (Plastic Man, etc.). How could they not get cancer or die of poisoning?
 
Silvercrest said:
Jay Garrick, the Golden Age Flash. I mean, I like the character and all, but... "inhaling the vapors from hard water"????? What?
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Still not as silly as the Golden Age Whizzer, who got super-speed after receiving a blood transfusion from a mongoose!
 
Norrin Radd said:
The X-Men

What, they're just born that way?

Give me a fucking break.
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Ha! Good point. I'm not sure what the real reason for Marvel moving from secret origins to mutants was, but it did break the cycle of most superhero origins: the clumsiest people in the world become the most powerful.
 
TheArsenal said:
Norrin Radd said:
The X-Men

What, they're just born that way?

Give me a fucking break.
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Ha! Good point. I'm not sure what the real reason for Marvel moving from secret origins to mutants was, but it did break the cycle of most superhero origins: the clumsiest people in the world become the most powerful.
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Reportedly, it was because Stan Lee and his co-creators got tired of coming up with new individual origins for everybody, and realized that the X-Men origin was a "one size fits all" thing.
 
Superman. Change the colour of the sun, and suddenly he has superstrength, superspeed, superintellect, flight, x-ray vision, heat vision, telescopic and microscopic vision, superhearing, can go into space without breathing (and travel at supraluminal speeds?), time travel, freezing breath, hurricane breath, etc. It's a wonder people don't burst into jags of laughter every time the character appears.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
 
Drone36929 said:
Any superhero whose origin started from an accidental contact with/exposure to weird chemicals (Plastic Man, etc.). How could they not get cancer or die of poisoning?
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Because comic books don't operate on any principle of reality. :-)

Not to say it's simply okay to have characters do things that make no sense from what was established in the comic, or break the characters normal behavior, but since there are no superheroes it makes sense that their origins will be huge bit of b.s.
 
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