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dawsongirl 06-16-2005, 05:57 PM With the new Batman movie coming out, and several incarnations of each in comic books, TV shows, animated shows, movies, etc...I just thought I'd poll people about which Superhero they thought was the greatest, awesomest, most powerful of them all! And explain. :) And you can throw in who you like best for good measure.
Courtnee 06-16-2005, 06:06 PM Superman is king. :mrt: :king:
G-Force Glockstar 06-16-2005, 06:22 PM Superman! :woohoo:
Janice 06-16-2005, 06:30 PM I'm with Jerry Seinfeld all the way. Superman's the man.
Frodo, Gandalf and Aragorn from the Lord Of The Rings movies!
Fleet 06-16-2005, 07:47 PM Superman... he can fly, has superhuman strength and nothing except kryptonite (and maybe high cholesterol) can harm him.
Chad22 06-16-2005, 07:49 PM I Love Spiderman, Superman, And Batman...So thats kinda hard. I'll go with Spidey, Since he was always my favorite when I Was younger.
Kay Scarpetta 06-16-2005, 07:51 PM I've become quite taken to Spiderman over the years.
TheGreatPretender 06-16-2005, 07:56 PM Agh that's a tough one. I really don't know.
While we are on the subject...my brother LOVES batman. I remember growing up around all these batman toys. He even had a little remote control batmobile. He just saw the new movie last night when it opened. My mom told me that he wore his batman pajamas to the theater when the other batman movie opened in 1989. He's 20 now. :lol:
Skywalker 06-16-2005, 08:07 PM Superman
Adamantium 06-16-2005, 08:32 PM Spider-Man
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Superman - I don't get the whole Superman deal. I can't stand the Christopher Reeve movies. Nor am I into "Smallville." I liked the 1950's George Reeves series and "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman". But the character in general bored me. I mean if superheroes were real, I'd want Superman to look over my town, but to watch on TV, movies and in comics, I'd rather have Spider-Man or Batman.
dandelion wine 06-16-2005, 08:36 PM Superman, hands down. :notworthy
Central Perk 06-16-2005, 08:44 PM Personally, I find Superman lame because he is so super in the fact that he is almost completely invulnerable. Batman and Spiderman are way better superheroes because they're more relatable imo, especially Batman.
Janet McFarland 06-16-2005, 08:44 PM Batman! I think George Clooney made the best Batman :D
Nighthawk76 06-16-2005, 09:12 PM Batman :batman:
Ags2000 06-16-2005, 09:12 PM Everybody is forgetting one of the ORIGINAL superheroes.......MIGHTY MOUSE!!!!!
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Hollow 06-16-2005, 09:26 PM superman DIED.
batman doesn't have any super powers. everything he does is physically possible, which is why i'm going to become him when i grow up.
Hollow 06-16-2005, 09:36 PM Everybody is forgetting one of the ORIGINAL superheroes.......MIGHTY MOUSE!!!!!
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he is a true super hero. you know those ****ty rip-off toy vending machines (with the cranes that are too high up and too weak to physically be able to pick up the huge toys in it).. i actually got it to pick up a toy one time, and it was a stuffed mighty mouse.
PZelda 06-16-2005, 09:41 PM I had Superman PJ's when I was a little girl (cape included) so I'm going to have to go with Superman. :lol:
Seinatra 06-16-2005, 10:24 PM The bad-ass Brown Hornet
Mr. Television 06-16-2005, 10:45 PM Superman
MsOrange 06-16-2005, 11:51 PM Bible Man!!!
http://www.itickets.com/parts/aimages/2282.jpg
http://www.bibleman.com/bibleman/images/news/bibleman_game_shot.jpg
ABlairican Pie 06-17-2005, 12:31 AM Captain ABlairica. :rock:
~*Emma*~ 06-17-2005, 06:29 AM Batman is the best. Think about it. He doesn't hae super powers and hasn't been exceptionally gifted like other super heroes, (granted he inherited a fortune :rolleyes: ) but still manages to do just as good a job. :D Plus he has great character development. :)
~*Emma*~ 06-17-2005, 06:36 AM Bible Man!!!
http://www.itickets.com/parts/aimages/2282.jpg
http://www.bibleman.com/bibleman/images/news/bibleman_game_shot.jpg
:lol: Omg how could I forget! The one and only ;)
ABlairican Pie 06-17-2005, 08:20 AM Howard Stern as FARTMAN!!!! :notworthy: :fart:
http://www.electricearl.com/fart/fartman.jpg
dawsongirl 06-17-2005, 02:47 PM I always had to laugh at the simplicity of all their real-life names. Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker...where's like, Raymond Meklenberg? :lol:
Karen* 06-17-2005, 03:29 PM SAILOR MOON
Dutabi84 06-17-2005, 05:06 PM Bible Man!!!
http://www.itickets.com/parts/aimages/2282.jpg
http://www.bibleman.com/bibleman/images/news/bibleman_game_shot.jpg
HAHAHA! I've never seen that before.
Anyway, I gotta go with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
robyrob 06-17-2005, 09:44 PM :batman:
Janice 06-29-2005, 01:15 AM Tourists Flock to Superman's Adopted Home
METROPOLIS, Ill. (June 27) - In this sleepy Ohio River town that claims Superman as its favorite son, 50-year-old Jim Hambrick has landed somewhere between reality and fantasy. All things Superman rule here, from the 15-foot bronze statue of the buff comic-book hero on Superman Square to the ''S''-emblazoned T-shirts that can be found just about everywhere.
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Jim Hambrick, owner of a storefront souvenir shop and Superman museum in Metropolis, Ill., adjusts the tie on a model of Clark Kent.
Images of Superman grace the water tower and billboards, pointing the way to downtown. A phone booth in the business district is just for show - it doesn't have a phone.
In the midst of it all is Hambrick, owner of a storefront souvenir shop and Super Museum - with a sign out front that bills the one-time furniture store as ''the Largest Superman Collection on the Planet.''
''It's a borderline obsession for me; I had to channel it somewhere,'' the married father of four said, decked out in a Superman T-shirt that hardly stands out in this town he moved to 13 years ago from Hollywood.
''We all need a hero, and Superman is the grandest of them all,'' he said.
The 166-year-old town of 6,500 residents has no real connection to the fictional crimefighter, beyond the fact that Superman's co-creator, Jerry Siegel, happened to name his setting ''Metropolis'' when he first wrote the strip in the 1930s.
But it's a place that's more Mayberry than Metropolis - where few visitors can resist being photographed next to the Superman statue, their chests puffed out and hands on hips in classic Superman style.
Locals have called this Superman's official home since the early 1970s, when the Illinois Legislature declared it to be. The local newspaper was The Metropolis News until 1972, when it became The Metropolis Planet to get it more in line with the fictional Daily Planet that had Clark Kent - Superman's alter ego - and Lois Lane on the payroll.
Crime is as visible as vapor, as one might expect in the digs of a caped crimefighter, aside from those who years ago found the square's previous Superman statue so hideous they blasted it with gunshots, proving it couldn't outrun a speeding bullet.
''We're the only Metropolis in the whole United States,'' boasts Karla Ogle, chairwoman of the recent Superman Celebration, staged each spring for the past 27 years.
Tens of thousands of people stop in Metropolis each year, and residents expect to see that already muscular tourism trade flex even more with two new Superman-related flicks due out in 2006.
One's about a fictionalized detective (played by Academy Award winner Adrien Brody) investigating the death of George Reeves, television's Superman in the 1950s; it co-stars Ben Affleck as Reeves and Diane Lane. The other is the much ballyhooed ''Superman Returns'' starring Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth and Kevin Spacey.
With those movies, ''we've got some coattails to ride on,'' Hambrick said.
Inside Hambrick's store, the Superman theme blares across a wide collection of comic books and the typical tourist fare of T-shirts, shot glasses and action figures.
Need some Kryptonite? The $5 price for a rock painted a glowing green apparently hasn't made shoppers' knees buckle - Hambrick says he sells a wheelbarrow a week of the stuff.
Hambrick grew up without a father and found a role model in TV's Superman. His collection, which he values at $4 million, started at age 5 with a Superman lunchbox.
''That's what started the madness,'' he jokes.
The 75,000 items on display are just one-fifth of his total collection. His most prized item: a glass-encased Superman costume Reeves wore in 1957 TV episodes. Hambrick values the get-up - the last of 11 he says he's owned over the years - at $250,000.
The museum also has props and wardrobe items from TV episodes and movies, as well as collectibles including Superman peanut butter.
During Metropolis' recent Superman festival, aspiring actor Christopher Dennis - with dyed black hair that gave him a striking resemblance to the late movie Superman Christopher Reeve - walked the streets in the Man of Steel's regalia.
''It's a blast,'' Dennis, 37, says as a young boy calls out: ''Hi, Superman.''
He shakes the boy's hand, then hoists him into his arms for a picture.
''The biggest pleasure is putting smiles on children's faces,'' he says.
Jeremiah Osteen, 6, and his brother Jonathan, 3, also got their picture taken while Dennis was in Hambrick's shop. The boys from Cincinnati wandered about wide-eyed as their parents scrambled to keep up.
''We always wanted to come here,'' said Jack Osteen, their father and a lifelong Superman fan.
Great Caesar's Ghost! Superman's hold on the imagination spans generations.
''I like that he's super,'' Jeremiah says, staring at a Superman suspended from the museum's ceiling. ''I always wished I could fly, too.''
ABlairican Pie 06-29-2005, 01:19 AM Superheroes are so cool. We need to be reminded of people who do good in the world, even if they're in comic book pages. :batman:
Btw, there's an ad in your post.
dawsongirl 06-29-2005, 03:06 AM I thought there was another Metropolis...maybe I'm thinking of Mediapolis.
Rachel3118 06-29-2005, 03:10 PM I said Superman but Clark Kent is the best Superhero!!
Moonlight Lady 06-29-2005, 04:24 PM Wonder Woman
Dude111 02-15-2024, 03:22 PM I picked SUPERMAN..
There were 2 good supermans
1) The original (I forgot his name)
2) Chris Reeve
SUPERMAN DIED WHEN HE DID :(
I picked SUPERMAN..
There were 2 good supermans
1) The original (I forgot his name)
2) Chris Reeve
SUPERMAN DIED WHEN HE DID :(
The original was George Reeves in the 1950s television series
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