Courageous, noble and mighty are three words that characterize most heroes in the Marvel and DC Comics universes. With amazing skills and abilities that ordinary people do not have, superheroes are ready for battle at any time of the day or night. The problem is that if there is the strongest superheroes, then there should be most useless superheroes... Some of them are underappreciated by authors and fans, while most are just terrible.
We present to you the top 10 worst superheroes in terms of their usefulness in saving the world.
10. Gatekeeper (Doorman)
The body of this superhero from the Marvel Universe is a kind of portal through which other people can pass ... right into the next room. Great superpower for when someone needs a beer from the fridge, but is it good enough to fight crime?
The Gatekeeper is the most cynical of the Great Lakes Avengers. He constantly compares his team to the real Avengers, usually at the wrong times, and sometimes feels awkward for his friends. I just want to say "look at yourself."
9. Bouncing Boy
In ninth place in the list of superheroes with the most useless abilities is one of the members of the Legion of Superheroes. Chuck Thain, a resident of the DC Universe, Comics, got his powers by accidentally drinking a super-secret chemical solution, which he believed to be soda. Unfortunately, he did not acquire the ability to fly, or the ability to read minds or let fireballs out of his hands. But Chuck can swell like a huge ball, ricochet off walls and jump on enemies. Or flee from them, jumping up and down funny.
8. Razorback
Many superheroes, wishing to bring goodness and justice to people, choose unusual costumes for themselves. However, a superhero who goes to fight evil in a piggy costume is too strange even for the amazingly diverse Marvel universe. Why did he choose the image of "Pigman"? What for? We have no answers. Perhaps when Buford Hollis got the inspiration for the outfit, he had too much cognac inside.
The Cleaver has only one superpower - he knows how to drive any car.
7. Three-dimensional man (3-D Man)
He is one of the weirdest superheroes in the Marvel Universe. Although his adventures took place in the 1950s, he was introduced in 1977.
American test pilot Chuck Chandler was exposed to alien radiation, which captured him on a pair of 3D glasses. When his brother Hal puts them on and concentrates, the 3D Man appears to fight evil.
Despite his many abilities, this superhero's weakness was as ridiculous as the concept of his appearance. Besides the fact that Chuck lived in three-dimensional glasses, he could only be in the real world for three hours at a time. This meant that he had to disappear in the middle of the adventure if he lingered too long.
The only achievement of the Three-Dimensional Man is the identification of the Skrull aliens who disguised themselves as humans. Thanks to this, it was possible to thwart an alien invasion of Earth.
6. Black Condor
Although there have been several versions of the Black Condor, the original was probably the worst. Richard Gray Jr. survived an attack by mobsters who killed his parents and was then rescued by a giant condor. For some strange reason, this gave the boy the ability to fly, despite the fact that he was not a bird and did not have wings. Using his unknown as a newfound ability, Richard left his native nest to fight crime.
The Black Condor would probably have been an unremarkable World War II comic book hero if not for his extremely silly story. Other than that, it is unremarkable. The character has appeared here and there, but has never been a fan favorite of DC Comics.
5. Color Kid
Why does he call himself that? Because the ability of this useless DC Comics superhero is to change the color of any object.
Rejected by the Legion of Superheroes, the Color Boy (Ulu Wakk) was able to join the Legion of Reserve Heroes, a group filled with outcast aspirants. His strength will likely lead to a brilliant career in the fashion world.
And in one of the comics, Ulu Wakk fell ill with "Sex Reversal Disease" and turned into the Colored Queen. Let's hope she doesn't design costumes for real superheroes.
4. Cypher
This is one of those Marvel mutant heroes whose abilities only work in certain situations. The cipher (aka the Coder) can translate any spoken or written language, terrestrial and even extraterrestrial. Of course, sometimes his abilities were useful, but in battle they were of little use.
Cipher is a good strategist, has an excellent understanding of computer software development and is the best friend of the alien Warlock. And the moment of his death is the most touching in the issue of New Mutants # 60. And that's all that comic book readers can remember about him.
3. Human retrospective (Hindsight Lad)
Presumably this superhero from the Marvel Universe is very smart. But instead of helping his friends plan for the future, he will tell them what they miscalculated in the past. He has the ability to analyze how events that have already taken place could develop if certain actions were taken. This is the Marvel incarnation of Captain Obvious - a rather useless teammate and an unpleasant personality.
In the end, Hidsight Lad became disillusioned with his team of New Warriors, revealed their identities, and threatened them online. After being forced to remove a site that compromised superheroes, he began writing about strange conspiracy theories involving them. A useless hero who ended up as an Internet troll - a truly tragic ending.
2. Arm Fall Off Boy
One of the weirdest superheroes in comics was born from the imaginations of Gerard Jones and Kurt Swan. It belongs to the DC Comics universe.
The guy Rip off the hand (in the world - Floyd Belkin) does not need a weapon. He can easily rip off one of his own limbs and use them as a club. However, Floyd, with two hands, that without them at all, was not taken into the Legion of Superheroes. And this despite the fact that in this organization there is such a character as "The Eating Boy", whose only superpower is the ability to quickly eat anything.
1. Section 8
In the first place of the rating is a whole scattering of the most ridiculous superheroes. They are owned by DC Comics, but would be a disgrace to any other fictional universe. Each of these "heroes" is so useless that we simply could not give preference to one of them.
Here are the highlights of Section 8:
- The drunk man. If you ever meet the superhero Sixpack, he will tell you many stories about how cool he is. In fact, his main ability is always to be drunk. He also loves to fight with bottle roses.
- Pervert man. The fat, bald Bueno Excelente always wears a raincoat. And you hardly want to see what is underneath.
- The phlegm man with the alias Flemgem knows how to spit blinding, suffocating and just nasty phlegm.
- If you do villainous deeds, it will come to you Dogwelder - a man in a welder mask... And will weld a stray dog to your face. A terrible fate!
- Huge, pumped up The defenestrator defenestrates villains by throwing them out the window. He prudently carries the window with him.
- Superhero with a telling nickname Friendly fire shoots energy bolts without a miss, but not at the villains, but at his comrades. Trying to aim at the enemy as carefully as possible, he once blew off his head with a shot.
Despite all their uselessness, each of these superheroes is unique and interesting in its own way. And they all add a bit of fun madness to comics.