Courageous, noble and powerful - these are the three words that can characterize most of the characters in the universes of Marvel and DC Comics. 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 are the most powerful superheroes, then there must be the most useless superheroes. Some of them are underestimated by the authors and fans, while most are simply terrible.
We present you the top 10 worst superheroes in terms of their usefulness for saving the world.
10. The Gatekeeper (Doorman)
The body of this superhero from the Marvel universe is a kind of portal through which other people can go ... right to the next room. Great superpower when someone needs beer from the fridge, but is it good enough to fight crime?
The gatekeeper is the most cynical of the Avengers from the Great Lakes. He constantly compares his team with the real Avengers, usually at the most inopportune time for this, and sometimes feels awkward for friends. So I want to say "look at yourself."
9. Bouncing Boy
In ninth place in the selection of superheroes with the most useless abilities is one of the members of the Legion of Superheroes. Chuck Thein, a resident of the DC universe, Comics, gained his abilities by accidentally drinking a super secret chemical solution, which he considered soda. Unfortunately, he gained neither the ability to fly, nor the ability to read minds or let fireballs out of his hands. But Chuck can swell like a huge ball, ricochet off the walls and jump on enemies. Or escape from them, amusingly bouncing.
8. Cleaver (Razorback)
Many superheroes, wanting to bring good and justice to people, choose unusual costumes for themselves. However, the superhero who sets off to fight evil in a piggyback 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 the inspiration for creating the outfit descended on Buford Hollis, he had too much cognac inside.
Sekach has only one superpower - he knows how to drive any car.
7. Three-dimensional man (3-D Man)
This is one of the strangest superheroes from 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, a Three-Dimensional man appears to fight evil.
Despite his many abilities, the weakness of this superhero was as ridiculous as the concept of his appearance. Besides the fact that Chuck lived in three-dimensional glasses, he could be in the real world for only three hours in one call. This meant that he was supposed 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 Skrull aliens who disguised themselves as humans. Thanks to this, it was possible to disrupt the alien invasion of Earth.
6. Black Condor
Although there were several versions of the Black Condor, the original was probably the worst. Richard Gray Jr. survived the assault of the bandits who killed his parents, and then he was saved by a giant condor. For some strange reason, this gave the boy the opportunity to fly, despite the fact that he was not a bird and had no wings. Using his unknown ability as an acquired ability, Richard left his native nest to fight crime.
Black Condor would probably be an unremarkable comic book hero from World War II, if not for his extremely stupid story. In addition, he is unremarkable. The character appeared here and there, but was never the favorite of DC Comics fans.
5. The Color Boy
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 Spare Heroes, a group filled with outcast applicants. His strength is likely to make a brilliant career in the fashion world.
And in one of the comics, Ulu Wakk fell ill with a “Disease of a Changed Sex” and turned into the Color Queen. Let's hope she doesn't design costumes for real superheroes.
4. Cipher (Cypher)
This is one of those Marvel mutant heroes whose abilities only work in certain situations. The cipher (aka Coder) can translate any spoken or written language, earthly or even extraterrestrial. Of course, sometimes his abilities were useful, but here in battle they are of little use.
Cipher is a good strategist, he is an expert in computer software development and is the best friend of the alien Varlock. And also the moment of his death is the most moving in the release of New Mutants No. 60. And that’s all he can remember for comic book readers.
3. Hindsight Lad
Presumably, this superhero from the Marvel universe is very smart. But instead of helping his friends make a plan of action for the future, he will tell them what they miscalculated in the past. He has the ability to analyze how events that already occurred could have developed if certain actions had been taken. This is the Marvelian incarnation of the captain. Evidence is a rather useless teammate and an unpleasant person.
In the end, Highsight Lad was disappointed in his team of New Warriors, revealed their identities and threatened them on the Internet. After being forced to remove a site compromising superheroes, he began writing about strange conspiracy theories involving them. A useless hero who ended up being an Internet troll is a truly tragic ending.
2. Guy Tear Off Arm (Arm Fall Off Boy)
One of the strangest comic book superheroes was born of the imagination of Gerard Jones and Kurt Swan. It belongs to the DC Comics universe.
The guy Tear off the hand (in the world - Floyd Belkin) does not need a weapon. He can easily tear off one of his own limbs, and use them as a baton. However, Floyd, with two hands, without them at all, was not taken to the Legion of Superheroes. And this despite the fact that in this organization there is such a character as the “Boy Eater,” whose only superpower is the ability to quickly eat anything.
1. Section 8 (Section 8)
In the first place of the rating is a whole scattering of the most ridiculous superheroes. They belong to 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 someone alone.
Here are the brightest representatives of Section 8:
- The drunk man. If you ever meet the Sixpack superhero, he will tell you many stories about how cool he is. In fact, his main ability is always to be drunk. And he also likes to fight with “roses” from bottles.
- The pervert man. The fat, bald Bueno Excelente always walks in a raincoat. And you hardly want to see what is under it.
- Sputum Man with the nickname Flemgem can spit blinding, asphyxiating and simply nasty phlegm.
- If you do evil deeds, it will come to you Dogwelder - a man in a welder mask. And weld a stray dog to your face. A terrible fate!
- Huge pumped up The defenestrator defenests villains by throwing them through a window. He prudently carries the window with him.
- Superhero with a talking nickname Friendly fire without a missile shoots energy bolts, but not at villains but at his comrades. Trying to aim at the enemy as thoroughly as possible, he once took off his head with a shot.
Despite their futility, each of these superheroes is unique and interesting in its own way. And they all bring a piece of fun madness to the comics.
