Any particular characters that seemed very promising in the start, and then turned out to be very disappointing? This is not necessarily just characters who weren't as über as they first seemed, but character who disappointed you in any way.
I'll get the obvious one out of the way, Sentry. The first Sentry stories were great and had practically no display of awesome powers in them. Now he's almost turned into Marvel's version of the Spectre, only with even less credibility.
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Premise was awesome, seems like it's getting kind of interesting now, but Jeph Loeb really ballsed it up. He will need to do something herculean to fix it.
Sentry, gotta agree with you there.
X-23, just seems dull to me. I didn't expect great things, but it turned out to be rather mediocre.
Batman. It sounds like an awesome concept "giant talking bat who vigilantly proteacts a city that fears him" but it turns out he's just a guy in a suit. Total rip off.
But seriously, Spectre gets built up so much but never seems to do much good. The hype is ridiculously out of proportion to the character.
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Wraith, that guy in Annihilation: Conquest. At first he looked cool, and then when he showed his power it was pretty cool, but he seemed to just fade into obscurity and not do anything important.
Sentry, he kind of started as a character with limitless potential, because it wasn't known what he was capable of. Then they ruined it by having him be a joke in just about every appearance. Looks like he might be getting back on his feet now, though.
Sentry - He had promise I guess. Then he was shown to have failure.
Rhino - Was big shit back in the day. Now he's the Quanchi of comic books.
Terrax - 'Killed' Doom in his first few appearances, and took Surfer to stop him. Now anyone close to where Terrax is wreaking havok can be called in to nigh eat his face.
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