The Great Comics Face-off game.

[Scot Eric]

Waverider - I only care about the original...
Mina - Stoker to Moore, can't beat lineage like that...
Spider-Man - I'm a Bat-fan, but I can't vote against Webhead just yet...

[josey wales]

Chronos
Bennett
Spidey

[Chooch]

Waverider - Trippy fun.



Mina Murray - A proper channeling of aggression.



Spider-Man - If you were going to pick one character to represent super-heroes to the larger world it would be Spidey. (That's right, fuck Superman)

[JSayonara]

Iron Munro is a fictional superhero, who first appeared in Shadow Comics #1, published by Street & Smith.
He is loosely based on Aarn Munro, the hero of a series of short stories written by John W. Campbell in the 1930s.
The modern and better known version of the character, who started life as Arn Munro, first appeared in Young All-Stars #1 and was created by Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas, Michael Bair and Brian Murray.

In 1894, the scientist Abednego Danner injected his pregnant wife with an experimental serum.
Their son Hugo was born with super-human strength, speed, and nigh-invulnerability. Hugo lived with his parents throughout his teen years and left at age eighteen to attend college and travel the world.
In the years that followed, Hugo's special powers led him through a number of adventures, but his unique stature among mortal men forever brought him grief. Eventually, Hugo staged his own death in the Yucatán Peninsula and went into hiding.

Before vanishing, however, Hugo returned home to Colorado once more and enjoyed a one-night affair with his high school sweetheart, Anna Blake, who became pregnant.
When Hugo disappeared for good, Blake married a young businessman named John Munro, who never realized the child she bore was not his own.
Their son, Arnold, began exhibiting superhuman powers of strength and invulnerability at age ten.
Remembering Hugo's troubles, Anna made her son promise to keep his abilities a secret until he turned eighteen.

As a baseball player at his high school in Indian Creek, Colorado, Munro earned the nickname "Iron." He was a senior there when, in April 1942, Munro saved the superheroes T.N.T. and Dan the Dyna-Mite from a burning car crash. T.N.T. died but he managed to bring Dyna-Mite to a nearby hospital.
Subsequently, Munro and other new "Young All-Stars" aided the All-Star Squadron in defeating Axis Amerika. President Roosevelt asked Munro and the others to join the Squadron, about which Munro was reluctant, but he accompanied them on a cross-country War Bond promotion.

VS

Luke Cage is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Created by writer Archie Goodwin and artist John Romita, Sr., he first appeared in Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #1.

A streetwise youth, the man called "Lucas" was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
In exchange for parole, Lucas clandestinely underwent an experimental procedure, originally intended to generate immunity to all illness; instead, it inadvertently granted him steel-hard skin and heavier, enhanced muscle.

After escaping Seagate Prison, he forged the identity of "Luke Cage" becoming a "hero for hire," a sort of super-enhanced private detective—although Cage commonly refused money, or simply received none, for cases gone awry (a fair portion, for the unlucky Cage).
Later, he formed a business partnership with the martial arts hero known as Iron Fist in the series Power Man & Iron Fist.

Cage was one of the first African American superheroes to star in an eponymous comic book series.
Cage was a groundbreaking but controversial hero.
He was Marvel's entry into the 1970s blaxploitation trend, and much of "Hero for Hire" saw him using exaggerated slang, including the catch phrase "Sweet Christmas!"

[JSayonara]

Firestar (Angelica "Angel" Jones) is a fictional mutant superhero in the Marvel Comics Universe.
Debuting in 1981 on the NBC animated television series Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, she has the ability to generate and manipulate microwave radiation, which allows her to generate intense heat and flames, and to fly.
In the comics, she has been a member of the Hellions, the New Warriors, and the Avengers; in the cartoon from which she originated, she was a member of the X-Men.

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Fire is a fictional character, a comic book superheroine from the DC Comics universe.
A version of her first appeared in Super Friends #25, and was created by E. Nelson Bridwell and Ramona Fradon.
Her first appearance in mainstream DC Universe canon was Infinity, Inc. #32.

Beatriz Bonilla da Costa started as an amateur model on the beaches of Rio, then becoming a showgirl and stage performer before finding herself serving as a top secret agent for Brazilian government's SNI (Serviço Nacional de Informações - National Information Service).
In the course of one of her missions, Beatriz was trapped in a pyroplasmic explosion that endowed her with the unusual power of being able to exhale an eight-inch burst of fire.
She assumed the identity of the Green Fury, then soon changed it again to Green Flame.
She joined the international superhero team the Global Guardians, of which she was a long-standing, loyal member.

Shortly after changing her name to Green Flame, the Guardians' United Nations funding was withdrawn in the wake of the formation the Justice League International.

Beatriz convinced her teammate and best friend Icemaiden into joining her to apply for Justice League International membership.
Remarkably, in the wake of Black Canary's resignation and the abduction of several members, the short-handed JLI took them on.

Eventually, she once again changed her heroic name, this time to Fire in affinity with Icemaiden's shortening of her name to simply Ice.
Fire always assumed a big sister role with Ice, watching out for her and her interactions with the "real" world. For example, Fire stepped in when Ice did not realize she was being stalked by a delusional fan. However, Fire herself makes mistakes, such as torching the cash she'd just saved while foiling a bank robbery.

[JSayonara]

Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 is a fictional character and protagonist of the Halo fictional universe, created by Bungie.

The Master Chief's backstory is never explained in the games.
A prequel of Halo: Combat Evolved, the 2001 novel The Fall of Reach, reveals much of the character's history and was released as a companion to the game.

The Master Chief, originally named John, was born in 2511 and first lived with his family on the human colony planet Eridanus II.
Large for his six years of age, and approximately a foot above his school peers, he is described as a typical boy with brown hair, freckles and a gap between his two front teeth.
In 2517, John and dozens of children his age are covertly taken from their homes and replaced with clones to hide the kidnapping.
The original children are brought to the planet Reach, one of the UNSC's bastions, to begin intense physical and psychological training to become "Spartan-II" supersoldiers.
They are assigned new identification numbers instead of last names; John becomes known as John-117.
Approximately eight years later, John and the other children are biologically and cybernetically augmented and enhanced. These procedures have substantial risks only John and thirty-two other Spartans survive.

After the Spartans' first successful operation, John-117 is briefed on the threat posed by the Covenant, a theocratic alliance of alien races, and witnesses the utter devastation wrought by a single ship.
In 2552, the Chief and Spartans return to Reach, where the UNSC High Command has developed a last-ditch plan to capture a Covenant High Prophet, who they hope could be used in order to barter a truce.
The Master Chief's armor is upgraded, and he first encounters the artificial intelligence (AI) Cortana during a training mission.

The Covenant arrives and invade, despite the best efforts of the Spartans and other UNSC forces. Aboard the spaceship Pillar of Autumn, Cortana plots a random course of escape.
Seemingly the last Spartan alive, the Master Chief enters cryonic sleep along with the Pillar of Autumn's crew.

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Rocket Red (Dmitri Pushkin) is a fictional character and comic book superhero from the DC Comics universe. Created by Steve Englehart and Joe Staton, he first appeared in Justice League #3.

Dmitri Pushkin (Rocket Red No. 4) became a member of the JLI after the previously assigned Rocket Red No. 7 was revealed to be a Manhunter android.
A kind-hearted and jolly man with a taste for American culture, Dimitri served with the Justice League International for many years.

When his armor was destroyed by Lobo, he replaced it with a more advanced model made on Apokolips.
 He also suffered the destruction of his battle suit while facing Time Commander in Animal Man No. 16, when Dimitri served with Justice League Europe.

During this time, Maxwell Lord made arrangements with the Russian government for Dmitri's wife, Belina, and his two children, Mischa and Tascha, to live with him at the League's Paris embassy. He also became friends with Animal Man, also known as Buddy Baker, in a manner similar to the friendship of Blue Beetle and Booster Gold. Dimitri and Buddy initially bonded because they both had wives and children.

Dimitri was the only European on the team initially.
He retired from super-heroics for a long time before dying in The OMAC Project, self-destructing to save the other members of the old JLI. His last words to Booster Gold were "My wife and children, Michael ... tell them I love them".

[Hyperion]

voting against the group initially- Monroe

Fire

Rocket Red

[darthfoley]

Luke Cage
Fire
Rocket Red

[Ebon]

Luke Cage
Firestar
Rocket Red

[Scot Eric]

Luke Cage
Fire
Rocket Red

Works for me.

[Marv-El]

Luke. Even though I got in trouble for saying "crud," which I learned from him.

Fire. Firestar never had a personality until Busiek got hold of her; Beatriz is all personality.

Rocket Red. In Soviet Russia, you screw over Mattel!

[JSayonara]

Jack Frost is the alias of Dane McGowan, a rebellious teenager from Liverpool, England.
Early in his childhood, Dane McGowan affects the cold, violently rebellious persona of "Jack Frost" in order to cope with his shattered home life. After trying to burn down his school, Dane is sent to Harmony House, a reeducation facility for young boys run by the Outer Church, the villains of the series.

The Invisibles free Dane from Harmony House and arrange for him to be mentored by Tom O'Bedlam, an experienced Invisible.
Under Tom O’Bedlam’s guidance, Dane realizes that the "Jack Frost" persona is restricting his growth, a realization that allows a softer, more compassionate Dane to emerge.
Dane is contacted by Barbelith, a mysterious sentient satellite featured in the series, during this time, though his memories of contact are repressed until he is ready to access them.

After being injured on a mission, Dane abandons his teammates and wanders through London, eventually returning home to Liverpool. While on the run, his hidden memories are triggered and he learns that he is the messiah.

At first he rejects this responsibility, but he soon finds that he cannot ignore the empathy he now feels for the rest of the world. Later on, he remembers that during his first contact with Barbelith he was forced to endure the collective suffering of humanity throughout time.

This memory spurs him to return to the Invisibles so that he may set things right. While Dane rejects their violent methods and their dualistic perception of the world, which he finds just as flawed as that of the Outer Church, he stays with them because they are his friends.
Over the course of their adventures together, he is revealed the truth behind time, the creation of the universe, and his place in it.
When he is ready, Dane starts his own Invisibles cell and, in 2012, oversees the end of the physical world as foreseen.

Dane is a powerful psychic and has many other undefined supernatural abilities.

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Wee Hughie is a character from The Boys, a creator-owned comic book series, written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Darick Robertson.
It was originally published by Wildstorm before moving to Dynamite Entertainment.

The series is set in a contemporary world where superheroes exist. However, most of the superheroes in the series' universe are corrupted by their celebrity status and often engage in reckless behavior, compromising the safety of the world.
For this reason, a super-powered CIA squad, known informally as "The Boys", is charged with monitoring the superhero community.

Hughie Campbell is a Scotsman nicknamed "Wee Hughie".
His girlfriend was accidentally killed by a superhero named 'A-Train' who was traveling faster than the speed of sound. Butcher recruits him for the Boys, and to that end, injects him with Compound V, without Hughie's permission.

Hughie grew up in rural Scotland, an adopted child. He had a rather bizarre childhood, including a period of trauma from exposure to a giant tapeworm and a childhood friend called Det with an unnaturally powerful stench.

As an adult, he'd leave for Glasgow. His relationship with his parents and childhood friends has him being irritated by how they sometimes treat him, while outside viewers (Starlight/Annie and Mallory) have pointed out he's lucky to have them.

Hughie is still an innocent to the Boys' world and after killing someone in combat by accident, he was worried about doing so again.
He was also disgusted by Butcher's easy willingness to torture their enemies and the others' lack of caring about it, and grew angry with Butcher's dismissal of the constant violence ("big boys' rules") after the Female was hospitalized; in #34 he admitted to a comatose Female that he can't stomach the violence, and has thought about quitting.

[JSayonara]

The Black Terror is a fictional comic book superhero who originally appeared in Exciting Comics #9, published by Nedor Comics and created by Richard E. Hughes & Don Gabrielson.

His secret identity was pharmacist Bob Benton, who formulated a chemical he called "formic ethers", which gave him various superpowers.
He used these powers to fight crime with his sidekick, Tim Roland, together known as the "Terror Twins".

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Hourman aka Rex Tyler, is the name of three different fictional DC Comics superheroes, the first of whom was created by Ken Fitch and Bernard Baily in Adventure Comics #48.

Scientist Rex Tyler, raised in upstate New York, developed an affinity for chemistry, particularly biochemistry.
Working his way through college, he landed a job researching vitamins and hormone supplements at Bannermain Chemical.

A series of discoveries and accidents led him to the "miraculous vitamin" Miraclo. He found that concentrated doses of the "miraclo" given to test mice increased their strength and vitality several times that of normal.
After taking a dose himself, Rex found he could have superhuman strength and speed for the hour that vitamin's effects lasted, before returning to human levels.

Keeping the discovery of Miraclo a secret, Tyler decided that human trials would be limited to the only subject he could trust: himself.
Feeling that the Miraclo-induced abilities should be used for good purposes, he decided to use the abilities to help those in need; in other words, he would become a superhero, based in Appleton City.

[JSayonara]

Nightshade is a fictional character, a comic book superheroine published by DC Comics.
Created by Joe Gill and Steve Ditko, the character first appeared in Captain Atom v2 #82.

Nightshade was first introduced in Captain Atom #82, as a partner for Captain Atom. Her real name is Eve Eden and her father is a U.S. senator.

She appeared several times in Captain Atom stories, before getting her own backup series in the last three published issues.
She also appeared in the last unpublished Captain Atom story that appeared in the fanzine Charlton Bullseye.
In this backup series the source of her powers is also finally described.

Her mother, Magda, was actually a visitor from another dimension whose denizens have the ability to transform into living two-dimensional shadows; she passed these powers on to her son and daughter.
On a visit to this dimension, Magda and her children are attacked. Mortally wounded, Magda is able to transport herself and Eve back to Earth. Eve promised to return and find her brother.
Nightshade's powers are hereditary due to her being the only surviving member of the royal family of the Land of Nightshades.

She can teleport herself and others by passing them through the Land of Nightshades.
She can magnify and shape shadows into solid or semi-solid forms. She is learning to create shadow homunculi and has created two ravens out of shadow-matter to serve as scouts for her; she has named them Hugin and Munin after the legendary ravens belonging to the Norse deity Odin.

She is now the only person capable of accessing the haunted dimension known as the Land of Nightshades.
At this writing, it is unknown whether or not the Land of Nightshades is in any way related to the Shadowlands accessed by The Shade, Obsidian, and Ian Karkull.

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Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Created by writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum, he debuted in Giant-Size X-Men #1.

A mutant, Nightcrawler possesses superhuman agility, the ability to teleport, invisibility in deep shadows, and adhesive hands and feet.
His physical mutations include blue skin, two-toed feet and three-fingered hands, yellow eyes, and a prehensile tail.

In Nightcrawler's earlier comic book appearances he is depicted as being a happy-go-lucky practical joker and teaser, and a fan of swashbuckling fiction.
Nightcrawler is a German Catholic and while this is not emphasized as much in his earlier comic book appearances, in later depictions Nightcrawler is more vocal about his faith.

[Grayson]

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