Obscure/dead/rarely used characters you'd like to see make a comeback.

Started by leonheartmm3 pages

genis vell
cloack and dagger
phantom stranger
wally the god boy
alpha the ultimate mutant
krypto
howard the duck
the phantom

Originally posted by leonheartmm

the phantom

Ummmm he's still around with his series from Frew

and theres also another series i've seen forgot who brings that one out.

Odin.

Mr. Sinister, really.

Someone needs to do something legendary with him, because the potential's there.

-AC

Originally posted by Blinky
I'd like to see more of the original Death's Head, he should get his own new limited series -- yes?

Blinky. First TES: Daggerfall and now this. You're like my new favorite poster.

DH has a cameo in S.W.O.R.D. right now, but judging by his size and a few comments from the story, it's from his past (he was a time traveler), so he isn't ressurected....for him it just happened before everything he's already appeared in. DHII, however, is still alive in continuity. His return would make far more sense.

I want more Shade.

Odin and Tyrant.

I want the Phantom Stranger to have his own solo series again.

Tyrant.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
I want the Phantom Stranger to have his own solo series again.

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His Blackest Night revival issue was pretty damn cool.

Stephen Strange
Maxam
Wolverine

Originally posted by JakeTheBank
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His Blackest Night revival issue was pretty damn cool.


It really just served to increase my desire for a true revival. He's too damn good a character to just be Mr Mysterious Narrator Guy (not that he isn't great at that role).

I'd also like to see Deathstroke return in the role of a very humanized anti-hero much like Wolfman portrayed him in his ongoing.

Alpha Flight....Shocking.

Originally posted by JakeTheBank
I'd also like to see Deathstroke return in the role of a very humanized anti-hero much like Wolfman portrayed him in his ongoing.

Shit I just had an idea for a Deathstroke story that would totally revamp his character. It would start with his near death and would focus on him trying to find meaning to his life and walk away from the 'evil for the lulz' brand of villainy he's fallen into of late. Of course he'd never become a hero, but he'd be something like an even more badass Catman. I could also envision someone like Lex Luthor (now an underground crime boss now that he's a felon, think of Kingpin if he were a Mad Scientist) offering the recently resurfaced Deathstroke a very lucrative career as his second in command with the reformed Deathstroke refusing and thus earning Luthor's ire. He'd then have to fight and evade all of Luthor's underlings while also dealing with the various heroes who's lives he's ruined, even perhaps trying to make some amends to them.

I really hate that Deathstroke is a Bullseye-style sociopath now.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Shit I just had an idea for a Deathstroke story that would totally revamp his character. It would start with his near death and would focus on him trying to find meaning to his life and walk away from the 'evil for the lulz' brand of villainy he's fallen into of late. Of course he'd never become a hero, but he'd be something like an even more badass Catman. I could also envision someone like Lex Luthor (now an underground crime boss now that he's a felon, think of Kingpin if he were a Mad Scientist) offering the recently resurfaced Deathstroke a very lucrative career as his second in command with the reformed Deathstroke refusing and thus earning Luthor's ire. He'd then have to fight and evade all of Luthor's underlings while also dealing with the various heroes who's lives he's ruined, even perhaps trying to make some amends to them.

I really hate that Deathstroke is a Bullseye-style sociopath now.

His role in Infinite Crisis was so damn OOC, it made me cringe. He was the same guy who watched in horror as Cheshire nuked Qurac, not to mention have a rather pleasant (for enemies) relationship with Nightwing. He's also this guy who knows he's a terrible excuse for a father who was shown wishing he could have raised Grant and Joey better than he did and without the influence of his merc/assassin activities, and yet completely effs up Rose's life out of his own selfish reasons.

I hate when comics take a character who's genuinely morally complex (not the bullshit excuse for a murdering "hero" a lot of writers wank for) and just make him a clear cut villain because they need one for the sake of the story. Slade's whole conception began as an anti-Batman with very James Bondish aspects to him. The fact he's a psychotic bastard who lives to shit all over the Titans (when he's made peace with them and the whole Terra affair years ago) is crap.

There are 3 that SHOULD come back to the DCU after all these events of FC and BN:

Dominus
Overmaster
Mopee the Imp! (Actually..I was expecting Geoff to use him during Rebirth)

Morg, Sinister, Pyro, and Tyrant.

Originally posted by Bouboumaster

Wolverine

Go read stuff written by Jason Aaron.

The Mad Monk.