Captain Boomerang. The Rocket Racer. The Grapplers. The ranks of superhumans contain any number of folks who have mastered real-life sports, from JSA villain The Sportsmaster to Jimmy Gymnastic of ‘Dial H For Hero.’ In my mind, a superhero career would be pretty easy to build with the skills of a professional wrestler (Tell me you can’t see The Rock as a composite of Spider-Man’s banter, Batman’s physicality and The Punisher’s intimidation factor) or an X-Games extreme sports athlete like a snowboarder or one of those BMX trick cyclists. Heck, even Tony Hawk has the chops to be the next big thing in superheroics, leading to today’s anaerobic query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) would like to talk about The Silver Surfer, but maaaaybe that one doesn’t really work here, asking: What set of extreme sports skills would be best suited to a superhero career?