Post literal-whos that you think look neat Picrel. The Modular Man
Ms. Buy Me
>>151982887Unironically, with his character gimmick, he could go hard in a more investigation/detective-themed Batman story.“Batman having to unravel a mystery when there are no clues. But sometimes the lack of evidence is all the proof you need!” Is what the blurb might say.
>>151982877I don’t know if he’s meant to be a hero or villain (though I lean towards the latter), but with a name like that and his design, I presume his deal is that he can directly integrate with technology? If so, then you could do some real neat Roujin Z type stuff with his design, snowballing larger and larger Ashe integrates with more shit.
>>151982877so modular as in different forms or different armaments?
>>151983146He can take his body apart and put it back together.
>>151983641So the former got it
>>151982877Can cartoon characters also be posted or is this a comic-only thread?
>>151983665Post whatever.The more the merrier
>>151983082Nope. He's got super strength, can reconfigure his body (don't know what that means, pics online didn't specify), he can absorb microwaves to grow his body, and has weapons on body. It's also a exoskeleton.
>>151983682Okie dokie
>>151983722>can reconfigure his body (don't know what that means, pics online didn't specifyYou a He-Man fan at all?Remember Modulok? Remember his first comic appearance where his plan was to mail his body parts in separate packages to Grayskull and then reassemble himself inside? Modular Man is the exact same deal with the same planHe mailed his body in separate packages to a hospital where Killer Shrike was in a coma and reassembled himself to get past security.
Such a neat aesthetic for a one-off villain
The Breastforce.
>>151983879>literal who
Snake Eyes
With or without Dregg I'd bring him back to tmnt
>>151982877Reminds me of this cover for the old video game Frenzy.
>>151982887It's so weird how no one has edgified this guy yet, his gimmick is being a crime scene cleaner who im pretty sure had a special substance that could wipe evidence (or im misremembering). No one decided to New 52 it and make it so he dissolves bodies in acid or some shit.
>>151982976IS he a literal who? I think he's like a JSA A or B- lister, which tbf is basically a D-lister for mainstream.
>>151986603There's a whole ecosystem of these auxiliary baddies that would be interesting to do a series with if they were made slightly serious.Like, as the canon stands now, the mob existed, essentially evaporated during The Long Halloween, got replaced by Batman's Rogue's Gallery and their respective gangs, who then got consolidated after War Games to all be under Black Mask. Making there be a whole layer of ex-mobsters who work to keep Gotham's underworld going would be neat. Like a reverse Powers/Gotham Central.
>>151983885IIRC he was literally ripped off from an episode of Doctor Who (Mask of the Mandrago)>>151986619Johnny Sorrow started off as a meme character; a deceased Maris-type character who James Robinson created in Starman who he retconned into the lore of the JSA. We never saw him, on page in the present or even in flashback, but we were repeatedly told that he murdered a ton of Golden Age heroes and was to the JSA what Joker was to Batman, as far as being the absolute most dangerous villain in the JSA roster, whom people like Shade (who froze an entire city in stasis for nearly half a century), Ragdoll (retconned by Wagner into being a murderous cult leader and a rapist), and Mist (who Robinson changed from a murderous thief into a murderous thief who spent his days hunting down and murdering retired heroes from the 40s) all are deathly afraid of, even though the character even though he had not been seen since his final battle with the JSA, resulted in his apparent but unconfirmed, death. We didn't fully see him until JSA launched with Geoff Johns making him a failed actor who stole a sci-fi belt that gave him intangibility powers. Wildcat IIRC, damaged the belt and caused him to vanish in an explosion: but he had been sent to a Lovecraftian horror dimension and tortured/empowered by "the King of Tears", who made him invisible and gave him a floating mask. So long as he wore the mask, he was invisible as his face had been disfigured so badly that anyone who saw it went insane, which is what happened to his wife. He then killed a bunch of a OG heroes Geoff created and Spectre could only exile him, he was so powerful.
>>151984229Its anime though?
>>151987722They've been in western transformer stuff if you want to be niggley about it
Funnyface. Brought comic strip characters to life to commit crimes.
>>151984634spooky D:
>>151983001>somebody else knows The Binary Bug
>>151986958>"Bob", the superhero we never knew we needed.
>>151987945Surprised Morrison never used him
>>151987945is this just emoji mitzelplick
>>151982877Is that zoobles dad?
>>151982976I like the floating mask head thing. What's this guy's deal?
>>151984154I like how classic goofy this costume is. How would it be redesigned for a modern take?
>>151989367I can't fucking believe this guy only showed up the one time. He beat He-Man one on one in his first appearance and then just never was used again. Didn't even show up in later material as I understand it. Could have been a cool under used villain to pop in for a bit in the CG He-Man at least.
>>151984634The cigarette isn't in his mouth it's attached to his lip?
>>151986958Their episode in Justice League Action was great.
>>151990543Easiest way would be to give it a closed helmet. Personally I'd bulk it up a bit, give a more of a Kamen Rider villain vibe.>>151987015There low-key is canonically, it's just by implication rather than design. >Carpenter>The Broker>Great White Shark>The Actuary>EraserYou could even count Killer Moth given that pre-Crisis he offered a specific service for hire.
>>151991879
>>151982887What a pencilneck
>>151993741Carlos!
>>151991898
>>151986603>>151987015>>151991879Mort of the Month did so much damage to villain discussion like almost everything Wizard did
>>151990614He KINDA showed up later material one other time He was in the Injustice vs Masters of the Universe crossover, but was limited to three or four crowd filler cameos like most all of Skeletor's other mooks
>>151994896Here he is fighting Clamp Champ
>>151994902And here he is checking out Black Canary
>>151990543It's nor exactly a new redesign, but they already did it
>>151994916And they still use it in more recent times.(Not even sure the last time he showed up so I don't know if he currently wears this or if someone ever put him back in the original costume)
>>151994916ok that is great design.
>>151982967There’s genuinely a lot you could do with a character like this in the influencer age. Unfortunately, nobody in the comic industry- or at least, nobody working at the big 2- knows how to write anything critiquing social media and make it actually good.
>>151987687>Johnny Sorrow started off as a meme character; a deceased Maris-type character who James Robinson created in StarmanNo, he was created by Johns/Goyer and first appeared in Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant, which came out the same month as Robinson's last JSA issue (#5).Johns and Robinson did swap a lot of notes around that time so Courtney and Jack would be portrayed the same in both Starman and JSA before Jack was taken off the team so any mention of Sorrow after December 1999 would've been from Johns' notes.
I like Lady Vic. She had a cool moment in BOP where she jumps out of a plane to catch Black Canary despite not having a parachute, but other than that she mostly jobs.
Ten-Eyed Man
>>151991898/OURGIRL/ WAS DONE DIRTY! >:(
>>151994905relatable
>>151995003do you?
Discord, wasted potential
>>151995035I'm sure he will appear again whenever Watters does another Batman comic
>>151994923Context on Spiderman being nutty?>>151995193He is just an odd-proportioned cyborg from old Mortal Kombat without the dreadlocks.>Ms hand fetish muslimMiss me with that shit.
>>151983081You might think I'm kidding but this gave me chills
>>151987447Cactus powers will always be cool
>>151995003There's ZERO ways to make social media relevant or cool cause it's just lame on a fundamental level. There's a reason EVERY SINGLE movie is either an unnecessary period piece or tiptoes around phones. Cause they're lame.
>>151995344>Context on Spiderman being nuttySpOck
>>151995486I should have known.
The Deathweb teamA little something for everyoneYou like guys in cool exo-suits? You're coveredIf not, we got a big scary monster for you.And if we can't interest you in either of those, we got coombait, a perennial crowdpleaser.
>>151995792Nazi Manta?
>>151995917
>>151995958To think that once upon a time colourfulness was considered wondrous instead of silly and comics represented high stakes with bright colours instead of dark shades.
I miss this shady gay space weeb like you wouldn't believe, anons.
>>151996041He doesn't look gay to me. Are you a space dwarf or something?
Verminator X
>>151996136Trevius' entire backstory is fucking a dude from a higher caste and then killing him when he would rather marry some high caste girl who he doesn't care about instead of eloping together.
>>151996206He’s back in print this year
>>151995105Ey this nigga is way outside the scope of the thread, he had entire story arcs to him, offed core protagonists and was the fucking main villain for a long while.
One of the slickest design I've ever seen
>>151987835Based LiefeldHEY WAIT A MINUTE
>>151994905Now we know why his right arm is so big.
>>151995033Design is forgettably bland, but the idea is cool.
Lawman is cool as shit looking. I think he died in a single appearance. He'd make a good Green Arrow villain, though.
There's something about this guy that's both goofy and threatening, like he's a villain from a Wallace and Gromit short. I think it's charming. Sadly he's only present in a couple of panels before being defeated by Spider-Man and never seen again.
>>151986958>nuclear family>more than two kidsthey had one job
>>151997028
>>151996934He was a response to the Bayformer films, wasn't he?
>>151997123The comic where he appeared came out in November 2002, so no.He was just a one-off Polish mafia mercenary who fought Spider-Man during a gang war.
>>151997201>Nov 2002Huh. He really does (to me) look like some artist sat down and said "as a joke, what would it look like if I ran a bayformer through a Silver Age comic filter to make it slightly cheesy?"
>>151993872There are plenty of characters who aren't thought out very well or need a second pass in terms of design or motivation but there are way too many people who have no business trying to revamp characters.
8-Ball is cool.
>>151997264She was literally everywhere in the early aughtsI wish she still were
>>151982877
>>151997344
>>151982877just a chill kinda guy
>>151997352
>>151982887>>151983081>>151986603Came here to post this. Really disappointing there's so many obscure villains that work well with a little polish, but modern writers have no idea and would rather invent lackluster OCs to fill slots than do a little research.
>>151997356joe pesci tracing paper
>>151995035Really if a Batman villain came up to me and said "Gimmie your teeth" I'd say "Yeah sure".That's getting off easy, for Gotham.
>>151997387Why Ike, whatever do you mean?
>>151997408KILLA CROC CAME TO KIDNAP YA THEN CUT OUT YOUR KIDNEY
>>151997264>>151997293I kinda wish she had existed before the 00sIf she'd existed in the 70s or 80s, even if they didn't take her seriously, they'd have given her full issues dedicated to herself and given her some kind of backstory and characterizationSeems like villains like this get created since the 2000s to just be "point and laugh at how silly comics are/fill space in the background". See White Rabbit and Spot. In the 80s they'd get be the main antagonist of stories.
>>151997662Spot at least is going to be the main villain of two Spidey films, and even though they initially played him as a goof he's getting decent characterization and is becoming a legit threat.>I finally know what can fill that empty hole in me:>MORE HOLES.
>>151996849Total disconnect between background and design. >>151997256It's far closer to ABC Warriors than Bayformers.
>>151997692Maybe I should have used Gibbon or something as my example instead of Spot, because, yeah, he shed the "joke" look.But like, consider issues like this. Back in the day, if she'd existed, we'd get a full issue probably called something like "It's Total Panda-monium!" And she'd be the main "threat" and shit. I dunno, maybe I'm a sap but I think even the joke villains deserve their laurels, you know?
Is it bad to have some nostalgia for the Imperfects? Her, Solara, and The Wink looked pretty cool. The guy designs were all pretty gross though unfortunately
>>151997692Spot's a real fun one. I wonder why more of his appearances weren't as fun as his introduction. A power like that is delicious for fight scenes
>>151997844>I dunno, maybe I'm a sap but I think even the joke villains deserve their laurels, you know?I totally agree
>>151982877Katehunter and Obsidian have great designs, especially Obsidian. Older D listers usually receive some redesign when they reappear after a few years but his has been the same for over 40 years.>hurdurr the black part is his skin when unpoweredThat's one reason why it's amazing, made better by him being shy. More men need to be dressed like sluts.
>>151995035How do they wipe their ass?
>>151990518Johnny Sorrow: with the mask on, he’s intangible and can’t touch or be touched. With it off, his head is so horrifying to see you die. “Works” for a violent eldritch thing called the King of Tears, iirc
>>151998112Using a bidet ofc
>>151997844>>151997962>yfw when Batgirl crackship threads have more respect and love for minor villains than DC Comics
>>151998183You still gotta wipe your ass dry Mr Jock Itch
>>151998884>smearing it onto yourself rather than just washing it off
>>151982877>Has Beast Boy and Swamp Thing's powers combined plus Metamorpho at least regarding minerals/solids>Is commonly put in worst DC villains listsFUCKINGHOW
>>152000426It’s the name.
>>152000451>>152000426And that he has a dinosaur sticking out of his face. That's pretty retarded.
>>151998062I've never cared for Obsidian. He looks really dorky and lame. For some reason, the fact that there's a visible mouth looks really ugly.
>>151983752He's not a literal who
>>151982877All of the Headmen are great, but she’s my favorite.…does she count as a “literally who” if she’s shown up in the last ~20 years?
>>152001301Just being a character most people would say "who the fuck is that?" to is fine, doesn't matter how recently they may have appeared.After all, this thread also has 8 Ball, the Brothers Grimm, the Highwayman, etc that have all shown up in the last 10 years or so
>>151997662Sadly that's what happens when you're created by Wells
>>151996206Veitch didn't allow the TNMT IP owners to use him for ages due to not paying him enough royalties
>>151996206I thought that was this guy at first, he was kinda spooky back in the day
A thread like this needs at least one appearance from the Crimson Centipede
>>151982877I still miss Outburst for being the little Spider-Man pastiche that could. Always thought his backstory being tied to Death of Superman was great, made him an interesting counterpoint to Irons in terms of heroes inspired by Supes. I'd love to see him around again, even though by now there wouldn't be much room for him on "Team Superman" these days.
>>152000181So obscure they didn't randomly kill him off in a later comic
>>152001059Nobody cares about him, and he's irrelevant in the series.
>>151982887>I'M GONNA RRRRRRRRRRRUB YOU OUT SEE, RRRRRRRRRUB YOU OUT
>>152000860>retardedI think you misspelled FUCKING METAL
trapped forever in a failed 80s franchise that only got two things, an animated pilot and a baby doll
>>151995607
Pick your favorites.
>>152005332That's just Red Skull but white
>>151982877The entire run of Avengers: West Coast
>>151987841>Leozak is smirkingOn-brand.
>>151997907Agreed
>>152002957Underatted character
The Defenders of Dynatron CityJet Headstrong and Buzzsaw Girl specifically are my favorites
>>152006972
>>152006977I find Ms Megawatt significantly cuter in the comic than in the animated special. Buzzsaw Girl is consistently cute in both
>>152006987And Jet Headstrong just has one of the most delightfully silly powers I've ever seen
>>152006988And I might as well shout out to Toolbox. He's pretty great too Not as big a fan of the monkey and the dog's looks
>>152006996
>>152000181Unironically a cool design, but that seems like a shit power?
>>151997662White Rabbit used to be a joke villain though. She existed for JMD to tell funny stories. The moment she stopped being a joke villain she stopped being interesting
>>151997844Unironically still mad that Spencer killed off Gibbon, that hack
>>151987835>"We have The Rocketeer at home"
>>151996191Deathlok's fursona
>>151997265Say whatever you want but I love what Mackay's done with 8 Ball in his Moon Knight run, simultaneously taking him seriously without reducing his cheesiness
>>152007067I think you're misinterpreting what's being said in that post It's not saying "White Rabbit used to be serious, so Panda-Mania should be treated seriously"It's saying "back in the day even the joke villains got to have spotlight, today they don't"Yes, WR was a joke, but that didn't stop issues like this from existing.By comparison, point out an issue to me where Panda-Mania is the solo villain and gets to be front and center on the cover. THATS the point. Joke villains used to be able to be "stars" and move issues, not that they were treated as serious or competent threats Modern joke villains exist only to crowd fill or to appear in two or three panel cold openings
>>151982877From an anime from Toonami days but still /co/ related and applies. From the anime S-Cry-Ed (amazing opening song btw) and the character name based on the wiki is "The Crystal" and it was basically just an entity that barely get explained and just more or less exist to give the protag a massive power boost. Still look cool as hell though.
chimera and deadwater from new52 aquaman run, the jeff parker one.
The ExemplarsI'm sure everyone can find at least one they likeLeft to right: Tempest, Inferno, Carnivore, Stonecutter, Bedlam, Decay, Conquest
>>152006779Superseded by the supernatural Basilisk.
>>152007360Newer stories do seem more focused on more serious characters to draw people in to read them.Even if those serious characters are plain, its easier to market them as threats than someone like WR.She has a decent gimmick at least.I don't know if I can blame that on the market, or more on Marvel not knowing what to do with itself.
>>151990470Who?
These have always been my favorite threads on here, have Zab Neru from the russian comic Meteora.
Bumping
>>152007734Bug-themed armor will never not be cool.>tfw lameass Humbug finally got a cool look, only to get mutilated and killed right after
>>152007503S-CRY-ed had some neat character designs. The only one I didn't like was Ryuhou's fully merged armor with those goofy shoulders.
>>152009476You might like Goldbug
>>151997384I find the worst part about these OC are the blandness of the powerset/gimmick. It's normally just "the hero but DARK/INSANE" or "the hero but he's TWICE AS STRONG/FAST/TOUGH" or "the hero but the OPPOSITE powerset".
>>152006972>>152006977I remember how much this was pushed only for it ultimately go nowhere. It had a comic, 6 issues, an animated pilot, and an NES game, but still, it just fell off. It's a shame cuz I kinda liked it and I found out that the Comic was made Steve Purcell of Sam & Max.
>>151982887>I'M WOODY, WIIIIIIILD WOODY!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hZhuwTQfwM
>>152009844Yeah, it seems like the kind of franchise that would've hooked the kinda kids into the goofy comedy hero scene like Freakazoid, Earthworm Jim, and The Tick. I bet most people here would've eaten it up if it was a full series
>>152008829>Marvel not knowing what to do with itselfI'd say it's the opposite, Marvel knows exactly the kind of people who are reading and writing comics now and they're ashamed of it. So either everything is serious or buried under 30 layers of detached irony.
>>152000928No, he's cute, he looks like an emoticon
>>152010919I don't think any of the dark judges would count as Litirel-Whos
The Ticks friend group from the comics (since most folks seem to mostly just acknowledge the show)Bumbling Bee, Crazy Blue Rocket, Caped Cod, etc
A.I.M. has some of the best aesthetics. I hope this guy returns.
>>151995193>DiscordDoes he owned the Discord app?
>>151991898I hate the new 52 for giving us all these lame villains. Remember One Face? Remember Una Nemo?
This is Mouse. She's a henchman for Blockbuster (the crime boss that Nightwing let someone kill). She's a tech expert and acrobat. Its a shame they replaced her with a preteen girl in the modern comics because I genuinely think she could have been a good opponent for Catwoman
>>152013299Oh and because I DO remember Una Nemo I actually think she belongs in this thread
>>152007734>slaying mantisFUCK THATS BADASS NAME.
>>152006977Wonder why this didn't really catch on. It was a good pilot episode
>>152013572It's this very particular kind of comic product that feels like it tries to be a Silver Age throwback while not actually resembling anything from the Silver Age. It's something that crops up occasionally in the 80s and 90s after writers start experimenting with absurdism.
>>152013452It never fails to amaze me what "dark counterparts" catch on, and which don't. Not just in terms of the author pushing them due to personal interest, but events in general between author appeal, adaptations and the like to push the character into public recognition.It's kind of crazy that Catwoman's had three different counterparts, and none of them caught on beyond one or two issues. Yet freaking Cheetah is a more mainstream match for her, even though it's only been done twice between mediums.
>>151988931there are more non-binary bugs than binary bugs at this point
>>152014830He looks like the evil counterpart of Glob Herman.
>>152009476Japan had the right idea in making a whole genre out of it
>>152014769Cheetah is only a match because writers write a different character and call it Cheetah as opposed to the Cheetah who actually appears in WW comics. The problem with Catwoman dark counterparts in particular is that Balent both overused the concept and used it in a superficial way resulting in characters like Cybercat whose design and motivation all boil down to "she fights Catwoman."
>>152014769The anount of characters that are meant to mirror Batman... asshole has dozens of sidekicks and you couldn't make one of his rogues specific to ANY of them? Did you know Hugo Strange was supposed to be one? He did the Kraven's Last Hunt thing of trying to be a better batman. Now look at him. He's just... mad scientist. You can't even tell he once trained himself the exact same way as Bruce
>>152009476Talking about Humbug and literally whos, I liked this guy
>>152015295Tim has an entire solo series worth of rogues devoted to him.
>>151982877I just think she's neat. Made me read that crappy Shadow War book just to see her
