If you’ve been following the Major Spoilers crew on social media (and, seriously, you should, we’re really pretty sort of marvelous), you’ve probably run into Ten Things, including my occasional treatises about the gray areas that exist around the edges of superherodom. My latest deliberation has been on the nature of Nick Fury, army sergeant and head of S.H.I.E.L.D. He’s the type of guy who would ride a rocket cycle, shirtless, through a brick wall to get to a climactic gun battle with his evil brother, but IS HE A SUPERHERO? My gut says “No,” but with the caveat that Nicholas is one of the most impressive examples of a non-powered action hero (perhaps the greatest in comic history) which leads us to today’s two-fisted query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) would once again like to point out that Batman *IS* a superhero, and has always been a superhero, and thus is ineligible, asking: Who is the coolest non-superhero action hero of them all?
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In pop-culture in general? Indiana Jones. In comics? Alfred Pennyworth.
Xena, Warrior Princess. She vexed the Son of Zeus, rode herd on the Prince of Thieves, courted both an Amazon Queen and Julius Caesar/Karl Urban. The Lawless one reigned.
Ambush Bug -D(ark)C(omics)
Howard the Duck -Marvel
Cerebus -Indie
R2D2 -Movies
Greatest American Hero -TV (it doesn’t say superhero just hero in the title)
Mother Teresa -IRL
Indy’s a good one. Is James Bond considered non-superpowered? Seems like he has that Longshot/Domino probability manipulation where everything juuuust manages to work out for him
Its whatever happens to be the name of the samurai Toshiro Mifune is playing each time.