Character disappointments

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.

Azrael and the new Batgirl....DC can't get it together with the Bat-family.

Access. Oh, and Johnny Sockets.

Exodus.

Good thread. May borrow the idea.

Rulk.

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.

Hmm, who else? Can't think right now.

-AC

Micheal Pointer...oh wait a character that had a promising start, nevermind then.

Originally posted by -K-M-
Micheal Pointer...oh wait a character that had a promising start, nevermind then.

Are you sure about that? I never really thought he had much promise to begin with.

That's exactly what he said.

-AC

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.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
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.

Like the useless Sentry.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
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.

Total rip off from what ?

Originally posted by Kazenji
Total rip off from what ?

Sentry, Rulk, Blue Marvel (Which have ****in' disappear)

Sentry. Loved the mini but the character has been crap since they brought him back.

Originally posted by Kazenji
Total rip off from what ?

Well he was joking but the inspiration for Batman was a combination of Sherlock Holmes and Dracula, with a bit of Zorro thrown in.

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.

Gotta agree with Wraith, he simply disappeared 😐

I thought the concept of Sentry was kind of suspect at the beginning. Now, it's just turning into a bunch of nonsense.

Magog also comes to mind, though I saw it coming a mile away.

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.