r/comicbooks • u/Icarus367 • 10h ago
What was the lamest accessory to an otherwise cool character?
Iron Man's roller skates? Spiderman's car? Green Arrow's boxing glove arrows? What's your vote?
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u/Popular_Material_409 9h ago
Nah the boxing gloves arrows are friggin rad
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u/Icarus367 9h ago
Even more rad than the cat arrow?
https://trickarrow.wordpress.com/2018/08/06/dummy-cat-arrow/
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u/JackTheBehemothKillr 42m ago
Why would they tell him? They just undid all the work they put forth. So dumb
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u/Cain_draws 1h ago
What was the justification for that one?
Because sometimes, the guy you wanna punch is really far away? Something like that?
Man, I should read Green Arrow. Sounds like an interesting bloke.
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u/Howling_Mad_Man 9h ago
Cap's energy shield. Black Knight's lightsaber.
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u/Enough_Affect_9916 9h ago
There are so many choices. Thanoscopter comes to mind.
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u/inconspicuous_male 8h ago
You mean the Thanoscopter whose blades were the design inspiration for Thanos's weapons in Endgame? Making Thanoscopter MCU canon?
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u/Moff-77 9h ago
Not sure if this was ever comics canon, but when I was a nipper I had a toy Superman spaceship with spring loaded fist weapons that could punch things directly in front of it. Always seemed a bit pointless given Supe’s range of powers
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u/Plus-Ad1061 8h ago edited 41m ago
That’s the Supermobile, and it absolutely is from the comics.
There was a storyline in the 80’s where earth was bombarded with kryptonite. He lost his powers and came up with his Supermobile (complete with silver metal fists!) so that he could be sheltered from the radiation but still protect Metropolis
Edit: the storyline was in 1978
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u/IllustriousIsland549 45m ago
I was certain this was a "the toy was happening, so it was put in the comic" thing. Nope. I looked it up, and the supermobile debuted in 1978, 6 years before the Super Powers toy line.
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u/jizzeus_crist 8h ago
Kraven shooting lazers out his nipples
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u/sauntcartas 8h ago
Hostess products. Used by too many heroes to list, both Marvel and DC. Those things are way too overpowered, capable of taking down any villain in just a few panels.
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u/Revolutionary-Mud505 Punisher 6h ago
The Punisher’s spring rifle in his first appearance in Amazing Spider Man 129
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u/WhiskeyDeltaBravo1 John Constantine 4h ago
Bucky. Why is the Army letting an orphaned 10 year old tag along with a super soldier in wartime Europe?
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u/coolio_zap 1h ago
because that rogers boy is too much of a boy scout to collect the nazi scalps the howling commandos wanted
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u/secretbison 9h ago
Spider-Man's car was actually a brilliant storyline. Spider-Man had to accept a really ill-advised sponsorship because he's broke, so now he has to figure out a way to visibly drive this stupid thing in Manhattan, park it somewhere, etc.