Most annoying DC character?

[Legato]

This isn't exactly one of those characters you hate threads but more on the lines of what DC character do you find really annoying?

Wonder Girl(Cassie): Nothing personal to the Cassie fans but what I find annoying about her is her whining. If thares one thing I cant stand is characters who whine too much.

[Viking Bastard]

Leslie Thompkins

Because she's a whiner.

[marvelboy]

Impulse/kid flash by far.....the word "dude" "bro" like an older version of the annoying kid down the block who tried to hard to fit in.

[tk421atpost]

Bizarro. He's one of those throwbacks to the lameness that was rife back in the silver age and he should have been left there.

[Chad G.]

Carter Hall. I would pay good money to bribe someone at DC to murder off this pompous, hairy, egotistical, non Batman respecting piece of trash(whew, I'm out of breath.)

[CURSD BLADE]

Guy Gardner just rubs me the wrong way. Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious. His greatest moment IMO was getting punched in the face by Batman. There is only room for one d*ck in the DCU and Bruce has already filled it.

[Gingold]

Arrowette. I really didn't like Young Justice.

[Chad G.]

Guy Gardner just rubs me the wrong way. Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious. His greatest moment IMO was getting punched in the face by Batman. There is only room for one d*ck in the DCU and Bruce has already filled it.

THATS great. I used to feel the same way, but Guys starting to grow on me. But that bit about Bruce is hilarious! :D

[Sean Whitmore]

Arrowette.


Seconded!

Oh, and every one of the new Outsiders who isn't Dick, Roy, or Kory.


SEAN

[Gingold]

Seconded!

Oh, and every one of the new Outsiders who isn't Dick, Roy, or Kory.


SEAN

I'm okay with Jade, but otherwise, I'm with you, brother.

[Infernorhythm]

Oh, either Arrowette (Mia Dearden is the best female archer!!!!!) or the GL Corps. Alan Scott or bust.

[Sean Whitmore]

Oh, either Arrowette (Mia Dearden is the best female archer!!!!!) or the GL Corps. Alan Scott or bust.


I'd probably find most of the Corps annoying if I ever considered them more than window dressing. A chipmunk? A celery man? Please.

Except Mogo. Mogo rules ALL.


SEAN

[yenaled]

supergirl.

[Sean Whitmore]

supergirl.


Ohhh hell, I forgot about Supergirl. I'm changing my vote. :)


SEAN

[Lex]

Oh, and every one of the new Outsiders who isn't Dick, Roy, or Kory.

I totally agree. While I don't always like Winnick's writing, I think he has enough talent to come up with a better character than Grace. And Shift, to me, is just dead weight in the DCU. Metamorpho is infinitely better as a character and a super-hero. Getting rid of Indigo was a step in the right direction, but the rest still being around annoys me.

[Sean Whitmore]

I totally agree. While I don't always like Winnick's writing, I think he has enough talent to come up with a better character than Grace.


But...but she's a woman who likes fighting and beer and sex! She's such an ingenious twist on the whole male/female stereotype thing! It's a mystery why she hasn't caught on like wildfire!


And Shift, to me, is just dead weight in the DCU.


Shift is so totally Morph from Exiles that I'm surprised Winnck doesn't sue himself for copyright infringement. :)


SEAN

[Patience]

Depends on who's writing who the most annoying turns out to be. I'm a huge Flash-fan, but Wally West as written by Ron Marz is a pretty irritating person. Jade written by Ron Marz really gets on my nerves. Impulse by Mark Waid wasn't bad, but by Todd Dezago was annoying.

Though, for most consistantly annoying, reguardless of writer -- I have to say Hawkman. No one has ever been able to make Hawkman likeable to me. He's always just seemed to be this big macho smelly violent jerk. Now, sure, Guy Gardner is a jerk, but he's meant to be funny. Carter isn't. That's what makes him annoying, he's a jerk who is supposed to be a sympathetic character. If only writers would aprpoach him like Guy Gardner or Oliver Queen -- "Okay, we know this guy is totally tactless and won't shut up, so let's play it up and layer his humanity under than surface."
I'd rather see Kyle say "Great Guardians" in every book than have Hawkman get as much panel-time as he's getting right now.

[Sean Whitmore]

Though, for most consistantly annoying, reguardless of writer -- I have to say Hawkman. No one has ever been able to make Hawkman likeable to me. He's always just seemed to be this big macho smelly violent jerk.


"Smelly"? :D

Different strokes and all...I never really cared about Hawkman all that much UNTIL he started acting like such a hardass. I like the description of him (from Johns?) as "Conan with wings". If your one power is gonna be something as pussy as flying, you'd better have something to back it up.

That line about giving Batman "ten minutes he'll never forget" alone made me check out his back issues. :)


SEAN

[Bat-Mite]

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[Sean Whitmore]

RETURN THE MAJESTY TO THE ARROW CORPS! FIGHT FOR THE RETURN OF THE ONE TRUE ARCHERETTE, ARROWETTE!


I think Mia and Arrowette should fight to the death...

...and then the winner should kill herself.

And then Ollie should trip and break his leg or something.

And then Connor shall return to his former glory!!!


SEAN

[Bat-Mite]

I will support you, but only if we get someone to draw a nice picture of all the archers flying through space and put it in Wizard.

[K'Nort]

Enchantress.

I never could stand her in Suicide Squad, and I thought "oh great" when she was to be in Day of Vengeance and turned out to be at least as bad as expected.

[Sean Whitmore]

I will support you, but only if we get someone to draw a nice picture of all the archers flying through space and put it in Wizard.


And then we've gotta send death threats to various writers and engage in 40-page long flamewars on every comic forum on the 'net. We'll have our day yet!


SEAN

[Bat-Mite]

And if, in the end, for some reasons our demands are met, we will take full credit for that, even though nobody gives a rat's ass and it was just low sales that did it.

[Forsaken_One]

I like the description of him (from Johns?) as "Conan with wings". If your one power is gonna be something as pussy as flying, you'd better have something to back it up.
And yet I like Dark Horse's Conan series and don't like Hawkman. :)

Most annoying I'd say the current Supergirl. She beat Cir-el out for that prize.

[Patience]

"Smelly"? :D

I am blessed/cursed with a Kyle Rayner-imagination. I fill in way too much detail when I picture someone or something.

*Shrug* Hawkman strikes me as smelly.

[Sean Whitmore]

I am blessed/cursed with a Kyle Rayner-imagination. I fill in way too much detail when I picture someone or something.


Better than a John Stewart-imagination, I suppose.

"Damn, Hawkman's got an ugly-ass appendix."


SEAN

[Forsaken_One]

Better than a John Stewart-imagination, I suppose.

"Damn, Hawkman's got an ugly-ass appendix."


SEAN
Or Hal Jordan-imagination.

"Look, a giant boxing glove!"

[Patience]

Okay, you have a point there. I'll keep my Rayner-imagination and learn to sketch hunky men. :D

[Babylon23]

Lobo. I'll never understand how a 1-joke bit-player became so popular.

[pennywisdom]

I like the new Outsiders a lot, but I agree that Grace is a repugnant character. I was pretty disgusted that Roy tapped that. Nasty. Dick beds Helena and Roy's shacking up with Grace, the hulking behomoth. Is there any question as to who won that particular round?

Guy Gardner just rubs me the wrong way. Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious. His greatest moment IMO was getting punched in the face by Batman. There is only room for one d*ck in the DCU and Bruce has already filled it.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Any character who is referred to as a "redneck" by his fellow heroes (Ollie used this term to describe Guy in Smith's GA run) belongs a few notches lower than everyone else on the superhero totem pole. And that single-punch KO was pretty great, wasn't it?

Hawkman is definitely a character who doesn't deserve his own hubris.

[Paradox]

pennywisdom choses:

Dick beds Helena and Roy's shacking up with Grace, the hulking behomoth. Is there any question as to who won that particular round?

Depends on what you like. Frankly, I'd take the laid-back (most of the time) party girl over the repressed Catholic chick with violence issues every time...if I'm just lookin' for a shag, that is. But, that's just me..

[Sean Whitmore]

Hawkman is definitely a character who doesn't deserve his own hubris.


As much as I love Hawkman, Seanbaby (http://www.seanbaby.com/) put it best:

If you're a Super Friend, being able to fly is like being able to break a graham cracker along the line. It was tragic enough the only notable thing about him was his hat, but what was even worse was that he had no idea. He had no f--king idea. As far as he could tell, Hawkman was all the superhero the world needed.


SEAN

[pennywisdom]

The zen of Seanbaby. He's never wrong.

Depends on what you like. Frankly, I'd take the laid-back (most of the time) party girl over the repressed Catholic chick with violence issues every time...if I'm just lookin' for a shag, that is. But, that's just me..
Repressed Catholic chicks with violence issues are the BEST party girls. Besides, just LOOK at Grace and Helena. Side by side. There's no contest.

[heretic]

The zen of Seanbaby. He's never wrong.
Depends on what you like. Frankly, I'd take the laid-back (most of the time) party girl over the repressed Catholic chick with violence issues every time...if I'm just lookin' for a shag, that is. But, that's just me..
Repressed Catholic chicks with violence issues are the BEST party girls. Besides, just LOOK at Grace and Helena. Side by side. There's no contest.
Delends on your taste, some people _like_ Amazons.

HTG

[Forsaken_One]

Considering Wonder Woman is an Amazon in the DCU Grace is not an Amazon. :)

[cactusmaac]

Krypto the Super-Dog.

He's a Silver Age anachronism who belongs in the same era as segregated fountains.

[Tennoarashi]

Right now? Batman. I'm ... honestly trying to think of third or second stringers that are annoying; maybe Grace.

I'll say Grace. But Batman. Whew...

[Mia]

There are quite a few....But I would have to say Superman. He's self-righteousness is annoying and dangerous....

[Cayman]

Stargirl. Ugh.

And she's the only 4th-stringer you can be sure will survive Infinite Crisis.

Cay

[Calybos]

Much as Guy Gardner is annoying, he at least serves a story purpose on occasion.

But the #1 character I want destroyed and never seen again HAS to be: Lobo.

[Karl J. Barnes]

Lobo. I'll never understand how a 1-joke bit-player became so popular.

Totally agree. He's Wolverine without panche`.

[Bat-Mite]

Actually, Lobo is a parody. He is supposed to be a joke.

[Sk8maven]

Actually, Lobo is a parody. He is supposed to be a joke.So move him off into an all-parody title and STOP dragging him into the Mainstream DCU! Have him team up with Ambush Bug, or job to Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew - I don't care, just get him outahere!!!

Maven

[Paradox]

pennywisdom is so superficial ;):

Repressed Catholic chicks with violence issues are the BEST party girls.

Heh, if you say so. Frankly they give me the willies. I prefer someone without mental "issues" in that area, thanks.

Besides, just LOOK at Grace and Helena. Side by side. There's no contest.

You got somethin' against big girls? :D

Like I said, it just comes down to personal taste.

And I'm pretty sure heretic's "Amazon" was in a more generic sense, not in the Thymiscarian sense.

[Suzanne]

Batman. I don't dislike him, but if he's ever killed off, I wouldn't lose any sleep :evilsmile

[Big E]

Robin, no matter what version I find Robin a distracting farce to Batman.

[pennywisdom]

Paradox - Fair enough. Duly noted. :)

There are quite a few....But I would have to say Superman. He's self-righteousness is annoying and dangerous....
I used to think that until I started reading more and more Superman comics. In most cases, he's written as a remarkably average, well-adjusted guy who just wants to do the right thing.

The whole "God among men" angle is how people look at him and not how he looks at himself.

He thinks Superman-worship is kind of embarassing and views himself as a farmboy who justs wants to help people. Also notice the fact that he's the first to caution other super-powered entities against over-extending their reach. The best example I can think of is when Kyle became Ion and Superman was the one to reel him back in and remind him that they're there to help, never to control. And, of course, there's the famous quote at the end of Grant Morrison's first JLA run.... that alone speaks more to Superman's character than just about anything else.

[titanfan]

I actually loved Arrowette before Young Justice. Peter David actually made me grow quite annoyed with Cissie and her angst.

I also was annoyed by The Mist in Starman (stop trying to push this worthless character as Jack's archnemesis!), and Monstress in Legion. Fortuntately they're both dead.

These days, Plastic Man, Detective Chimp, and whiny Superman are on my "annoying" list.

[Chad G.]

Paradox - Fair enough. Duly noted. :)


I used to think that until I started reading more and more Superman comics. In most cases, he's written as a remarkably average, well-adjusted guy who just wants to do the right thing.

The whole "God among men" angle is how people look at him and not how he looks at himself.

He thinks Superman-worship is kind of embarassing and views himself as a farmboy who justs wants to help people. Also notice the fact that he's the first to caution other super-powered entities against over-extending their reach. The best example I can think of is when Kyle became Ion and Superman was the one to reel him back in and remind him that they're there to help, never to control. And, of course, there's the famous quote at the end of Grant Morrison's first JLA run.... that alone speaks more to Superman's character than just about anything else.

You know, I'm with you on that, and a few months ago, I wouldn't have been. I did little but lambast him as a big Boy Scout. But I have gained something of a new admiration for him as of late. Batman is my boy, but Superman is a pleasant switch as far as personality.

But really everyone, I still hate Carter and want him to die painfully though. :p

[dazzler_slave]

I think Bizarro is the most annoying character ever created. I absolutely cannot read him. If he appears in a title I collect, I just flip through the parts with him. And for some reason, all writers claim how much they love to write him! Why? He is so irritating! Bad enough we had Bizarro, but now we have Bizarro Supergirl (thanks Peter David!) and Batzarro (Thanks Jeph Loeb). Arrgh! Get rid of them!

A close second is Krypto the Super Dog. Stupid Silver Age idea that should have stayed there.

[acagle7]

I am going with Guy Gardner.

[Super-Skrull]

Plastic Man. I hate his forced importance. While amusing in his own right, and as a kid I loved his cartoon show, I cannot stand the Morrison/Ross attitude that somehow he is essential to the JLA. Ross especially. Elongated Man is essential to the JLA. If Plastic Man is such an icon, but him on the JSA.

[dazzler_slave]

Plastic Man. I hate his forced importance. While amusing in his own right, and as a kid I loved his cartoon show, I cannot stand the Morrison/Ross attitude that somehow he is essential to the JLA. Ross especially. Elongated Man is essential to the JLA. If Plastic Man is such an icon, but him on the JSA.


I agree with you completely! I have never understood the reasoning behind putting him on the JLA instead of Elongated Man. Then the way they tried to force his importance down our throats by telling us how powerful he is. Big deal! Ralph is a much better fit! Plus, Plastic Man was a WWII character so he belongs more on the JSA anyway

[ducklord]

Man, my tolerance for annoying must be a lot higher than I thought. None of the characters mentioned so far even makes my top 10 list (although Lobo comes close when he's written in his "watered-down" mode, i.e. his ongoing series).

For downright annoying, I'd have to list, in no particular order:

-- The Yazz (Yazzin DIE, you little blue weirdo)
-- Triumph (Yeah, yeah, you founded the JLA... ya know what? No one cares!)
-- Steel (The JLDetroit version...at least Vibe had personality)
-- Pariah (For the love of Oa, stop crying!)
-- Lana Lang (He's just not that into you, sweetie. Suck it up and move on)
-- Hush (I really don't care who he is or what he wants anymore. I just want him to get hit by a truck)
-- Grayven (If you look in the dictionary under "poser," you'll find a picture of this guy)
-- Jamm (You don't remember him? Good. Maybe if we're all VERY good, he'll never show up again)
-- The DEOrphans (Annoying brats that almost singlehandedly drove the previous Titans title into the grave)
-- Grunt, Nudge, and Vortex (As dubious as the decision to "reboot" the Doom Patrol was in the first place, it was made nine times worse by wasting valuable panel space on these cyphers)

What an array of nothing,
Mike.

[Guts/Batman]

Devin Grayson's Dick Grayson/Nightwing first.

Hush comes in a close second.

Supergirl comes in a close third.

[Kid Kamikaze10]

Supergirl for me, until she stops fighting all these heroes in her stories just to make her look like she stronger than Superman, I might give her a chance.

Messed up origin > Multiple origins, lack of personality, and the best version of you, wasn't you. Oh yeah and jobbing Supes and the people you fight in your title.

Jim Lee saved Hush from being my most annoying DC character. Hush looked so cool when Jim Lee drew him! Now, I wish he can.....

1) Die. I don't care how, but die.

2) Become a cooler character. Kill Black Mask or something.

3) Go into the background and let Prometheus get the spotlight, Morrison made him cool, but everyone else Generalized him (read what Hal did to the General in JSA, and you will know what I mean!
:evilangry )

[phicks]

Plastic Man. He's just Jim Carrey in your face 24/7. Not amusing.

Aquaman's wife (Mera?) and sidekick Aqualad, or whatever he's called nowadays, always seemed to be a waste of newsprint.

[Legato]

And I thought I was the only one who doesn't like Plastic Man, shows what I know.

Jade: She hasn't done anything on The Outsiders to be worthy of taking over the team.

Supergirl: They should have done her what they did Connor. Put her on a teen superteam and develope her character at a normal process. If she gets a good fanbase then give her a ongoing title. What they are doing now is stuffing the character down the fans throats and that is not a good way to go at it.

[gentlesatirist]

...Lobo. Never understood the character's popularity. If he was supposed to be parodying the grim-n-gritty megaviolence of the 90s, it was too broad a parody. He ended up becoming that which he intended to criticize.


- FE
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[Chad G.]

Come on guys. Give Plastic Man a little love. Do you remember how boring JLA was with Eel. His comic relief is much needed. Face it, the JLA isn;t exactly midnight at the comedu club. And rememer, without him, Fernus(aka J'onn on roids) would have pasted the entire JLA. AND he did lay on the ocean floor for around 3000 years. Believe it or not, Plastics Man a heavy, whether we like it or not.

[Guts/Batman]

I liked Plastic Man myself.

Especially in JLAvengers: "Can I get you a seat? A drink perhaps? Why don't you get out there and do something?!?" To Batman when battling someone in the first pages...

[Christopher O]

Lobo, Stargirl, Plastic Man, Bizarro (and his offshots), Krypto, Metamorpho, Shift, Indigo, Wildcat (I absolutely loathe him), Kid Flash, Zatanna (Not a bad personality, but she's got some seriously annoying powers. I hate the whole "recite spell backwards" thing.)

[Chad G.]

I liked Plastic Man myself.

Especially in JLAvengers: "Can I get you a seat? A drink perhaps? Why don't you get out there and do something?!?" To Batman when battling someone in the first pages...

I had forgot about that. But thats a great example of what hes there for. That off handed remark that makes you snicker.

Good point.

[davros42]

Batman all the way.

Well, ok, I've got a little hate left over for Impulse/Kid Flash... Young Justice was pretty bad, but it was bad because of Impulse not Arrowette.

[K'Nort]

It is very easy to write Plastic Man badly. But when he's good, he adds a heck of a lot to the book. And not just comic relief. Reading Waid's ID arc made a huge difference in my perspective of him.

And his current solo book is so very awesome.

[Patience]

I really enjoyed Morrison's Plastic Man, actually. I mean, the dress joke with Big Barda? That was great.

And Kyle's interaction with Orion in that same issue. Beautiful.

[Bat-Mite]

I mean, the dress joke with Big Barda? That was great.

That was a Waid issue, actually.

[K'Nort]

I really enjoyed Morrison's Plastic Man, actually. I mean, the dress joke with Big Barda? That was great.

That was one of him most memorable gags, yes.

Sometimes I think I preferred Waid's run to Morrison's. Though a lot of that was the art too.

[titanfan]

Come on guys. Give Plastic Man a little love. Do you remember how boring JLA was with Eel. His comic relief is much needed. Face it, the JLA isn;t exactly midnight at the comedu club.

I suspect that's why he irritated a lot of us. This version of JLA isn't supposed to be midnight at the comedy club :) If I wanted real humor (instead of slapstick), I'd have read my old JLI issues. To me, he just didn't fit in with the concept of the League. Having him make wisecracks when the "big gun" JLA is in the battle for their lives came across as irritating to me. That said, I didn't mind him in his old archive stories. Just in JLA he came across as unneeded comedy relief.

After Ducklord's post, I do need to amend my list and add the DEOKids to the top of the list. Cheshire started to annoy me as well. It wasn't until Gail got her hands on her when I begant to love to hate her as a villain again. (Instead of just hating her)

[Suzanne]

Plastic Man. I hate his forced importance. While amusing in his own right, and as a kid I loved his cartoon show, I cannot stand the Morrison/Ross attitude that somehow he is essential to the JLA. Ross especially. Elongated Man is essential to the JLA. If Plastic Man is such an icon, but him on the JSA.I know how you feel, though I don't care about Plastic Man one way or another. If there's one thing I don't like about Ross' work is that he does that with both PM and Capt. Marvel. But hey, I guess I shouldn't fault the guy for using his favorites. If I was in his position, I'd probably do the same :p