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Post by sabongero on Aug 26, 2019 14:51:39 GMT -5
What does your favorite superhero say about your personality?
Okay, I've always been partial to Spider-man as my favorite superhero ever since the beginning. Perhaps because he was the flagship Marvel character, and the one I've been most familiar with aside from DC's Batman or Superman. I saw his real life problems and empathized with it. And I always saw myself as an underdog in life along with needing to do the right thing.
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Post by rberman on Aug 26, 2019 15:05:17 GMT -5
 I've always taken a shine to Kitty Pryde, perhaps because she was an awkward teen genius in the early 80s. Just like me!  |
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Post by Crimebuster on Aug 26, 2019 15:48:48 GMT -5
In general I'm not sure, but I have a theory - maybe this gets too political - but people whose favorite characters are Wolverine, Punisher, and/or Deadpool usually seem to me to be right wing. I've noticed on a lot of message boards, and through in-person store and convention experiences, that in general I usually end up not being a big fan of people who identify these characters as their favorites.
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Post by brutalis on Aug 26, 2019 17:11:50 GMT -5
My heroes say get a life, quit bugging me for autographs and stop stalking me around the city or I will get a restraining order!!!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 26, 2019 17:32:38 GMT -5
To my knowledge my favorite hero has never talked to anyone about my personality.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Aug 26, 2019 17:34:47 GMT -5
Like the OP, it's Spider-Man for me as well, though I don't see myself as an underdog or put-upon. I'm attracted to the moral philosophy of the character (sacrifice, responsibility, compassion, refusing to give up, etc.) and I try (I promise!) to live out those ideals day to day. I also fail to live out those ideals regularly and beat myself up over it from time to time, which, now that I think about it is also a very Spider-Man thing to do. Progress, not perfection. Right?  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2019 17:37:26 GMT -5
He's not my favorite but, I'm a bit restless and can't stay myself at one avatar for more a day or two ... because my personality and understanding of things and one member here made a comment that in the past ... I changed my username so many times that they told me that I'm a Henry Pym of Classic Comics Forum.  My favorite Superheroes ... always been Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Wonder Woman, Black Widow, and others too. But, at the LCS that I go to ... I was told that my personality is more like Tony Stark of Iron Man because he's always thinking and making adjustments in trying to do the right thing for a change and because of my handicap ... I'm deaf and hard of hearing ... Iron Man has transistors and my body do breakdown from time to time and I need to recharge (by rest and relaxation) and that alone tells me that I do adapt myself fairly good and that the testament of myself. My personality is 60 percent Henry Pym and 40 percent Tony Stark ... and because of Pym ... I'm one of the tallest customer at the LCS that I go to ... and that Giant Man comes in, Giant Man is always one of my favorite Marvel Heroes and I do like Ant Man too. I'm a complicated person from time to time and have a jack of all trades ... and I was told that I'm a walking encyclopedia too.  This is not an easy thing to do ... but this is the best that I can come up with. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 26, 2019 18:02:43 GMT -5
Cyclops!
Responsible, honest, neither the most handsome, the smartest or the strongest, but striving to do the right thing and to get better through training and self discipline.
Unlike most super-heroes, he didn’t start some really useful talent (like being a genius, as with Reed, Bruce, Peter, Tony or both Hanks). He didn’t get a “get huge muscles free” shot, nor was coveniently bitten by a radioactive spider. He’s not the son of a Norse god. He’s a regular dude (even one down on his luck) whose power is more of a hindrance than a gift, and becoming a hero is something he had to work at.
I find that admirable. I have great respect for people who do something with their life, especially if they start with very few good cards.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 26, 2019 18:03:26 GMT -5
To my knowledge my favorite hero has never talked to anyone about my personality. Black Bolt, then?  |
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Post by sabongero on Aug 26, 2019 18:11:11 GMT -5
To my knowledge my favorite hero has never talked to anyone about my personality. Black Bolt, then? Yeah, but when Black Bolt utters a word... BOOM! Hmmm which got me thinking, we all have that aunt or older female relative that likes to Yap and Yap and Yap... would she be considered a Black Bolt of sorts. Nah, perhaps a Screeming Mimi instead. Either way, I get an earache. |
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Post by berkley on Aug 26, 2019 18:33:46 GMT -5
To my knowledge my favorite hero has never talked to anyone about my personality. You're lucky, mine goes around telling everyone what a loser I am. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2019 19:25:14 GMT -5
I'm not sure what the Lone Ranger says about my personality
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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 26, 2019 19:58:53 GMT -5
I guess earliest it was Supergirl, and also Mary Marvel from the Shazam comic... later I identified most with Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)... so I'm a spin-off character? I obviously identified with Kitty Pryde originally from the first X-Men I bought (#131)... she was 13 when I was 12... later she was still 13 or 14 and I was... older... then she was maybe 16 and I was... even older. I related to the being a mutant freak, but when they made her a genius and then a ninja I didn't relate to that oddly enough even though I got some high marks in some subjects, and enrolled in martial arts school. Ninjas have always been some fantasy thing I never related to actual Karate or Buddhism I learned. I even used computers from 1982-83 including writing simple program routines (if only I had stayed on that track). I guess I thought Phoenix was extremely cool, I could be Jean Grey, but not the massively powerful part, because I wouldn't want to kill or die. Hawkgirl/woman was cool too; a presumably happily married superheroine, wow! I'm not sure I can pick just one of these, I also remember wanting to be Jacklyn Smith yet never watching that show often.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 26, 2019 20:19:16 GMT -5
I'm not sure what the Lone Ranger says about my personality I hope it doesn't mean you drink Coors Light. |
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Post by chadwilliam on Aug 26, 2019 20:29:30 GMT -5
Perhaps it because I was always more of a DC fan than Marvel that I never had an interest in relating to my favourite superheroes - Batman, pre-Crisis Superman. They were characters whose traits I could aspire to emulate, but they were also so brilliant, noble, and talented that it would have been crazy for me to think "yeah, I can identify with these guys". It would sort of like being able to relate to Lincoln or Zeus.
It's kind of strange to think about how much change superheroes would undergo from the early 1980s through to today that the way they're defined now, makes them figures I would never in my wildest nightmares wish to emulate or identify with. Kind of strange.
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