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Science communicator, writer, village scallywag, blackguard of the neighbourhood. he/him
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I hate that I'm unable to stop myself from checking that list. Someone I'd previously chatted pleasantly with on here posted straight after blocking me that he blocks anyone who likes "racist bands." I'd just posted about the Doors???? I hate that this still bothers me.
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100 comic characters I love
9. Hal Jordan
I know, I know, he's boring, he's the worst etc, but sometimes you just need a big, square-jawed haircut to laugh in the face of danger & then punch it in the face with a big, green boxing glove.
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100 comic characters I love
8. Minnie the Minx
Minnie was created by Leo Baxendale, but it's Jim Petrie who drew the version I love. Petrie's Minnie was like some sort of grotesque chaos goblin, bouncing uncontrollably through each strip.
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100 comic characters I love
7. Supreme
Specifically, Alan Moore's interpretation. As with Miracelman, Moore recognised the character as a rip-off of a better character & used that to say something interesting. And in this case, what Moore was saying was "Silver Age Superman comics are brilliant."
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Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed him. There's a line he says in one of the Per Degaton episodes "Better get yourself a new role model, kid!" and my partner & I still say it to each other in ever more absurd parodies of his delivery. :D
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In S&L, here was no equivalent of Barrowman or Wentworth Miller chewing the scenery. Unlike the contrived & repetitive scenarios of Arrow, for example (i.e. several seasons of "you keep pushing us away, Oliver!") all the emotions felt relatable & believable. It was just such a great show.
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I guess the soapy plots & the effects weren't really that different from the other CW shows, but there was something about Superman & Lois that gave it a bit of extra polish & class. It just felt so authentic. Nobody was winking at us. Everyone involved believed in the characters & the story.
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It's incredible really that the network that spent years giving us the blandest, cheapest looking superhero shows imaginable also gave us the best live action Superman TV series there's ever been.
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He told me off about correcting him publicly and not DMing him instead, but I hadn't realised at this point that this was "his thing" so it honestly never occurred to me that it would embarrass him.
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100 characters I love.
6. Hank Pym
Poor Hank. A super-genius who will forever be in the shadow of Tony Stark & Reed Richards - no matter how big he makes himself. It's a shame that one ill-thought out panel from the 80s continues to hang over him, but he's still more interesting than Scott Lang.
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Like Barney Gumble has fallen into public domain & some cheap studio has made a movie where he's a serial killer.
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100 characters I love.
5. Miracleman
Specifically, Alan Moore's take on the character. The logical but terrifying outcome to the existence of superheroes. I cannot emphasise enough how unnecessary it is to read Gaiman's sequels. Moore's Miracleman is a perfect story on its own.
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You'll be pleased to hear that I resisted the temptation to reply "actually Johnny married a Skrull called Lyja believing that she was the Thing's girlfriend Alicia Masters, & his alien bride gave birth to an egg which turned out to be a giant tentacle monster planted by Paibok the Power Skrull."
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This thread was inspired by the guy on Reddit, who is currently lamenting that Johnny Storm will never have a wife and kids.
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Demanding otherwise is like listening to the Archers every day & complaining that there's no spaceships.
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You might see this as a flaw & that's fair enough. But it's pretty much baked in by now that most of these characters are going to stay roughly the same age, character development can only go so far, & their stories are never really going to end.