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Post by jimmyjackezekiel on Jul 13, 2022 21:19:07 GMT -5
I got the idea for this thread from the She-Hulk villain Abominatrix.
Imagine having to go "I got turned into a monster testing a cure of PMS that didn't even work and just made it permanent."
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Post by chrom on Jul 13, 2022 21:28:49 GMT -5
Lex Luthor's original origin for becoming a Supervillain was that Superman caused him to lose his hair
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Post by Cyno on Jul 13, 2022 21:29:06 GMT -5
The actual character is great, but Jane Foster becoming Mighty Thor to stave off her cancer kinda felt like it was trivializing such a serious disease that affects millions every year. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}And I'm pretty disappointed they kept that in Thor: Love and Thunder, especially since it's supposed to be a more lighthearted movie. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jul 13, 2022 21:35:33 GMT -5
The actual character is great, but Jane Foster becoming Mighty Thor to stave off her cancer kinda felt like it was trivializing such a serious disease that affects millions every year. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}And I'm pretty disappointed they kept that in Thor: Love and Thunder, especially since it's supposed to be a more lighthearted movie. it wasn't even staving off her cancer whenever she turned back into Jane, the cancer was stated to have gotten worse... it was such a dumb idea. |
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Post by ERON on Jul 13, 2022 21:36:56 GMT -5
Golden Age hero the Whizzer got superspeed after a transfusion of mongoose blood.
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Post by James Fabiano on Jul 13, 2022 21:39:42 GMT -5
The actual character is great, but Jane Foster becoming Mighty Thor to stave off her cancer kinda felt like it was trivializing such a serious disease that affects millions every year. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}And I'm pretty disappointed they kept that in Thor: Love and Thunder, especially since it's supposed to be a more lighthearted movie. Didn't this seep into Venom as well? Not the origin but that he needed the symbiote to keep it from spreading? And of course it was the center of Deadpool's origin. |
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Post by Cyno on Jul 13, 2022 21:50:21 GMT -5
The actual character is great, but Jane Foster becoming Mighty Thor to stave off her cancer kinda felt like it was trivializing such a serious disease that affects millions every year. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}And I'm pretty disappointed they kept that in Thor: Love and Thunder, especially since it's supposed to be a more lighthearted movie. it wasn't even staving off her cancer whenever she turned back into Jane, the cancer was stated to have gotten worse... it was such a dumb idea. Basically, Mjolnir purged her body of all toxins whenever she turned into Thor. Which included chemotherapy, but strangely not the cancerous cells. Ugh. |
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Jul 13, 2022 22:46:37 GMT -5
it wasn't even staving off her cancer whenever she turned back into Jane, the cancer was stated to have gotten worse... it was such a dumb idea. Basically, Mjolnir purged her body of all toxins whenever she turned into Thor. Which included chemotherapy, but strangely not the cancerous cells. Ugh. Nah, that's shit. Sorry, Marvel. |
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Post by James Fabiano on Jul 14, 2022 20:17:57 GMT -5
A lot of superhero origins can be silly in general. Some would kill people IRL, mostly Marvel's.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jul 14, 2022 20:59:26 GMT -5
Wally West's origin is he literally recreated the accident that made Barry Allen the Flash...
despite Barry's origin had so much random chance to it including GETTING struck by lightning... and stumbling into a shelf full of random chemicals.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jul 14, 2022 21:05:18 GMT -5
Golden Age hero the Whizzer got superspeed after a transfusion of mongoose blood. I'm almost positive that modern medical science has proven this to be 100% scientifically accurate. Almost... Star-Lord's original origin from the 1970's is one of the most gloriously silly and overly complicated origins you could ever possibly imagine. It involves an immaculate conception, a psycho step-father, aliens, a stolen NASA space shuttle and a cosmic being called "The Master of the Sun". It could only have been created by someone who was on drugs, wearing a leisure suit and listening to David Bowie all at the exact same time. |
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Post by Starshine on Jul 14, 2022 21:15:21 GMT -5
This one is played up for laughs, so it's not dumb in the sense this thread wanted, but it stands out just because of how intentionally absurd it is. The character is Open-Window Man from Dial H for Hero. He's a blatantly obvious comedic pastiche of Batman, except instead of being inspired by a bat well...  |
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Post by peaches1 on Jul 15, 2022 4:52:58 GMT -5
The original Marvel villain Kangaroo had no powers- he could just mimic the jumping ability of the animals because he lived with them. He was literally Tarzan of the Outback.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Jul 15, 2022 5:57:39 GMT -5
Lex Luthor's original origin for becoming a Supervillain was that Superman caused him to lose his hair Originally he blamed Superboy for destroying his artificial life experiment and hated him more for that. The hair was just the extra sauce. Later that became Flanderized into the entire reason. |
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jul 15, 2022 8:39:30 GMT -5
How about the dumbest superheroes who have a fairly decent origin story? I have quite the fondness for The Fabulous Frog-man, but the character is largely a joke. His origin, however, is that his dad was a frog-themed supervillian who was forced into retirement and he used his dad's supersuit to reverse the bad his dad did before going on the straight and narrow. That is about as clean an origin story you can have, tbh.
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Post by Tenshigure on Jul 15, 2022 8:47:15 GMT -5
*ahem*  It gets better...there was a one-shot done by The Electric Company, with Morgan Freeman as the umpire: |
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Post by CMWaters on Jul 15, 2022 8:53:39 GMT -5
*ahem* It gets better...there was a one-shot done by The Electric Company, with Morgan Freeman as the umpire: Still think that should have been a crossover with Kool-Aid Man. |
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Post by CMWaters on Jul 15, 2022 8:54:23 GMT -5
Wally West's origin is he literally recreated the accident that made Barry Allen the Flash... despite Barry's origin had so much random chance to it including GETTING struck by lightning... and stumbling into a shelf full of random chemicals. Isn't that hand waved away nowadays as that it was willed by the Speed Force or something? |
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Post by James Fabiano on Jul 15, 2022 9:39:15 GMT -5
*ahem* It gets better...there was a one-shot done by The Electric Company, with Morgan Freeman as the umpire: Still think that should have been a crossover with Kool-Aid Man. Someone did FAN unsafe edits of some of these panels. Think about it. And we can just stick all the Spidey Super Stories/Electric Company villains here, I think. Over on the Plastic Man cartoon, there was Carrotman, who turned to villainy because he lost on a game show. |
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jul 15, 2022 10:00:51 GMT -5
Wally West inexplicably gets super powers in the exact same way as Barry Allen. Various writers have tried to explain it wasn't a coincidence but the reason why is inconsistent as hell.
Honourable mention: Kyle Rayner gets to be the new Green Lantern because Ganthet just crashed on earth and his choice was between Kyle and some drunk guy.
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