Made up childhood superheroes thread

DoctorMarmalade · August 2009

Did you ever make an superhero comics when you were little?

I had the generic ice guy, the generic fire guy, but I made up this surprisingly decent hero that rode around on a cloud and hit people with lightning and froze people n' stuff.

What were yours?

Hensler · August 2009

Dude, are you okay?

DoctorMarmalade · August 2009

No but that is beside the point.

wwtMask · August 2009

Dear lord, the stories I could tell about my 7th and 8th grade years, during which I traded in any chance of being cool for badly drawing and writing terribly generic comics.

Lucascraft · August 2009

My brother and I had our own super heroes that we would act out when we were kids. But we made them special and they were reserved only for summer vacations and long road trips.

I was Dartman and my super power was that I threw darts at badguys. My brother was Starman and he threw ninja stars.

Lux · August 2009

Me & my best friend would spend recess drawing our heroes. Our main ones were Flame-man and Fire-man.

Yeah, I know.

DouglasDanger · August 2009

I mostly just played with GI Joes, Ninja Turtles and read GI Joe comics. I did try to draw Snake Eyes and Firefly about a million times before I gave up though.

Virral · August 2009

I had a superhero called Entrail Man, who flew and ate bad guys intestines. I went through a definite phase of drawing incredibly poor stick figure comics about him.

Good times, good times.

Hayasa · August 2009

When I was about 8 or 9, I made up Metroman, whose superpower was that he lived in the city and could fly around it and it was awesome.

ManonvonSuperock · August 2009

I had a generic Spider-man character that was ripped from the Scarlet Spider and 2099. He had two circulatory systems, but one was for poison, with his poison heart in the other side of his chest. I was so rad.

Also, in 5th grade, I had an entire roster of guys in a fighting tournament to save the world, most of which were ripoffs of characters from either Time Killers or World Heroes.

Desktop Hippie · August 2009

I loved anything to do with the X-Men and spent many happy hours pretending to be a mutant with cool powers. My personal favourites were telekinesis and storm's weather control. I split my lip once getting a bit too enthusiastic about pretending I could fly.

Gonmun · August 2009

I made a guy that turned into water and had super strength back in junior high and thought it was so cool. Had a friend try and draw him for me too. I wanted him to look like AoA Iceman only less "sharp" looking.

ManonvonSuperock · August 2009

i made a "custom figure" of my spider-man knock off using a black permanent marker, my mom's fingernail polish, and a spider-man toy from the animated series.

Endless_Serpents · August 2009

When I was a kid I thought up The Pseudo-Men, they were disposable robots that could have whatever power was needed to save the day installed into them.
Many a stick figure drawing was done of them on old wallpaper.

ManonvonSuperock · August 2009

that's rad. makes me think of Scud.

Endless_Serpents · August 2009

Thanks for leading me to Scud! I'll look into that guy.

I believe their main foes were Feng Shui ninjas that wanted all objects to be put in order (I hated tidying up), ugly nosferatu-style vampires and zombies, however the zombies could be vikings or samurai, I obviously didn't get decomposition at the time, "Baroness Boom and her Boom Bots" and an endless supply of giant monsters that the Pseudo-Men had to throw themselves at like a swarm of bees. Haha!

Portugal.TheMark · August 2009

I had made up a superhero that was a weapons specialist. He had like 6 or 8 hand guns holstered all over his body, as well as daggers that he was able to use as hand-to-hand or throw them at people. He had these goggles that would show him read outs of his enemies weaknesses, and weaponry. I think his name was Fatal Shot or something. He was rad to pretend to be.

Ringo · August 2009

I made up a character with shadow based teleporting and some other associated shadow powers for an X-Men MUSH when I was in middle school. Crazy long process to get it approved for use in their game universe. 8 months later, Sabertooth mauled Psylocke and she got Crimson Dawn shadow powers and I wanted to sue Marvel.

Munch · August 2009

Boy, are you guys in for a treat.

So, my first comic featured ripoffs of Spawn, Cerebus, Mr. Gone, Iszs, the Maxx's cardboard box, and the murder of a cat and a police officer. Except I gave them all creative names, like Mike, Joe, and Lt. Smith.

This is the danger of reading too many mid-90's Image comics as a child.

The Lovely Bastard · August 2009

I invented munch in the 5th grade

The One 52 · August 2009

I can't remember heroes, but I did invent a vilain in 6th grade who would run after people who didn't pay their taxes and beat the crap out of 'em. He would deliver poor one-liners before beating 'em up. I think he also had a really lame name, like "Joe Taxes" or something (when I was young, "Joe" and "John" seemed like really cool bad-ass names).

I don't know why the hell I drew that character, since I didn't give a shit about taxes.

Calamity Jane · August 2009

man, fuck superhero comics when i was a kid

super spy comics were where it was at

basically, james bond beating up all manner of crazy robots and supervillains

Caveman Paws · August 2009

I made a ton of heroes with absolute no back story, basically I thought up a super power and then drew a person attached to that cool looking power.

The best developed one was something about a TK powered homless guy in baseball cap and trench coat. I remember being happy with that one until a friend suggested giving him laser eyes, then it seemed too much like a jean grey+cyclops baby (before I started reading about cable) which I thought was dumb.

dressupgames · August 2009

my son 6 year's old wanna be Sylar in Heroes.Just a question he is bad or good guy ?

wwtMask · August 2009

I was really into the X-Men and Spidey in the 90s, so all of my made up characters were somehow ripped off or inspired by those books. I had a self-insert character who could fly, was super fast, and shot energy out of his hands. I think he was called Quickshot. Then I had a mutant ninja character with wolverine claws. Another guy I called X-Change Man, and he was basically a mutant shapeshifter, except he had to say the name of whoever he was changing into. I had a team of ninjas called Ninja Force that were ripped off from the GI Joe ninja line.

I built up this large stable of characters, to the point that I had a crossover series about aliens invading the earth and all of the super heroes banding together to repel the invasion. It was called War of the Worlds and the aliens were ripped off from that 90s syndicated show of the same name. I drew something like 10 covers for the crossover, including several gatefold covers. I never actually got around to drawing or writing the actual issues.

The One 52 · August 2009

dressupgames wrote: »

my son 6 year's old wanna be Sylar in Heroes.Just a question he is bad or good guy ?

Well at one point he'll be a good guy, being all whiny about trying to find who's his father and then he'll fall in love with Elle after she blasted him with electricity for a couple of hours, and then he'll kill her for no particular reason, becoming a bad guy again.

I'd cross my fingers so that your son will be Sylar from Season 1, not "what the hell happened" Sylar from Season 2 and 3.

Nerindil · August 2009

A Bolt of Crimson Lightning Streaks Across the Sky! It's STUPENDOUS MAN!

Juan Dimensional · August 2009

When I was in the third grade, my best friend Pat and I decided to start making comic books. I came up with a character called Lava Man (I was a creative little bastard, wasn't I?).
Lava Man was made of Lava and could shoot globs of molten lava from his hands. He could alternately turn rock hard or essentially have liquid properties. He didn't have legs - the bottom half of his body just kind of flowed. He had absolutely no backstory, I just thought a man made of lava would be cool.
I remember laying on the floor in Pat's room and lovingly adding a ludicrous amount of crappy detail to my cover drawing for Lava Man #1. That cover page was as far as I got. I'd bet it's still around in my parent's attic somewhere...

OK. So, I just googled "Lava Man" and after some searching, I found that Thor fought him back in issue 97 of Journey Into Mystery.
This is great news! Obviously, some time in the near future, I travel back in time to work on comics with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby!

Endless_Serpents wrote: »

I believe their main foes were Feng Shui ninjas that wanted all objects to be put in order (I hated tidying up), ugly nosferatu-style vampires and zombies, however the zombies could be vikings or samurai, I obviously didn't get decomposition at the time, "Baroness Boom and her Boom Bots" and an endless supply of giant monsters that the Pseudo-Men had to throw themselves at like a swarm of bees. Haha!

I would totally read this.

wwtMask · August 2009

Am I the only one that still has his pages of badly drawn comics from back in the day? I have a folder with most of my stuff up in a closet. I occasionally pull it down to laugh at my terrible art skills and almost non-existent writing.

Faynor · August 2009

wwtMask wrote: »

Am I the only one that still has his pages of badly drawn comics from back in the day? I have a folder with most of my stuff up in a closet. I occasionally pull it down to laugh at my terrible art skills and almost non-existent writing.

That's a better alternative to pulling it out and realizing your writing skills peaked at such a young age.

Munch · August 2009

wwtMask wrote: »

Am I the only one that still has his pages of badly drawn comics from back in the day? I have a folder with most of my stuff up in a closet. I occasionally pull it down to laugh at my terrible art skills and almost non-existent writing.

Mask, did you miss my creative debut on page one?

When I'm a superstar artist/writer/astronaut, I'ma revive that shit. Make it into a franchise.

Mike and Joe Vol. II: Even More Shameless Plagiarism

ManonvonSuperock · August 2009

I left all that stuff at my folks' house when I moved out like seven years ago. I did however keep it, in boxes and file accordions and shit.

wwtMask · August 2009

Munch, I just read that post and it was awesome. I have half a mind to go scan all of my badly drawn comics.

Faynor · August 2009

I wish I still had my notebook of super hero teams I made up. They were so bad.

Each one had a theme. I directly recall a theme of women's accessories. One of the heroes was based on Lipstick, and had, like, extendable lipstick swords.

Another theme was based on the big cat family! Having a guy that's like a cheetah run fast is soooo original!

Algertman · August 2009

You know this is pretty much how IMAGE got started. Anyway....

I had a story I made for class when I was a kid. It was called Baby vs. Mr. Clean. It was a huge fight between a baby and bottle of Mr. Clean.

I also made up some Transformers based on farming equiptment. They were combined into TracTor.

jeddy lee · August 2009

7th and 8th grade my best friend and I made up Chinchilla Man. We wrote like 15 horrible pages and designed probably 80 horrible characters for that. It was really fun though. It was a guy who had his genes crossed in a horrible science experiment with a chinchilla, and thus became a 6 foot, 300 lbs anthromoporphic chinchilla.

Fast forward several years and that said best friend has become a professional pastry chef, she made my wedding cake and made the groom on top chinchilla man. (all to my delightful suprise).

Wildcat · August 2009

Algertman wrote: »

I also made up some Transformers based on farming equipment. They were combined into TracTor.

This has potential.

Desktop Hippie · August 2009

Faynor wrote: »

Another theme was based on the big cat family! Having a guy that's like a cheetah run fast is soooo original!

Thundercats are on the move!
Thundercats are loose!

Just remembered I used to make up Dungeons and Dragons characters too. As in the 80s cartoon, not the board game. Again, they were mostly generic kids with awesome* weapons I made up.

*weapons considered awesome by an 8 year old girl only. Actual awesomeness of weapons may vary.

Faynor · August 2009

Desktop Hippie wrote: »

Faynor wrote: »

Another theme was based on the big cat family! Having a guy that's like a cheetah run fast is soooo original!

Thundercats are on the move!
Thundercats are loose!

Just remembered I used to make up Dungeons and Dragons characters too. As in the 80s cartoon, not the board game. Again, they were mostly generic kids with awesome* weapons I made up.

*weapons considered awesome by an 8 year old girl only. Actual awesomeness of weapons may vary.

"And THIS sword is going to be PURPLE!"

Desktop Hippie · August 2009

Faynor wrote: »

Desktop Hippie wrote: »

Faynor wrote: »

Another theme was based on the big cat family! Having a guy that's like a cheetah run fast is soooo original!

Thundercats are on the move!
Thundercats are loose!

Just remembered I used to make up Dungeons and Dragons characters too. As in the 80s cartoon, not the board game. Again, they were mostly generic kids with awesome* weapons I made up.

*weapons considered awesome by an 8 year old girl only. Actual awesomeness of weapons may vary.

"And THIS sword is going to be PURPLE!"

Well, I had a sword that could burst into flame. And a battleaxe that... got bigger, basically. And a staff that could blast energy cuz it was a magic staff and I had a girl with one of those old fashioned horns that could lull people to sleep or make them happy or angry or whatever. I'm thinking early exposure to The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe inspired that one.

The Lovely Bastard · August 2009

oh god

dare I post the stick figure adventures of 8th grade tlb

why not

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