In many ways, the ascendance of Iron Man into public consciousness has been amazing, letting the general populace on the comic nerd’s secrets. On the other, it’s led to annoyance for me, as every armored, robotic or metal-clad hero is now called a “rip-off” by braying innernet jerks. With Stark’s popularity at an all-time high, other metal HEROES are getting eclipsed, leading to today’s alloyed query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) reminds Faithful Spoilerites that there are no Wrong Answers, just weird ones, asking: Which metal hero (who is not Tony Stark) is the coolest of all?
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Space Sheriff Gavan, the first of Toei’s “Metal Heroes” franchise and ally of various Super Sentai and Kamen Riders (including a Gokaiger team up movie, “Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Uchuu Keiji Gavan: The Movie”).
I have always been a fan of Madison Jefferies as Box from Alpha Flight. Infinitely transformable robot body is killer.
I second Madison Jeffries, but I’m not a particular fan of the spaced-out mecha-sexual joke that they turned him into a few years back (around the time of X-Club.)
I agree!
Does Warlock from The New Mutants count?
Rosey the Robot from the Jetsons.
Not so much hero as heroes, but Doc Magnus’ Metal Men are some of the best around. You can’t beat these guys, cause they will always come back.
Commander/Captain/Citizen Steel of JSA. I’ve always liked that costume and character idea.
Ferro Lad!Died saving earth from a sun eater and stayed dead even past Crisis.It was only after Zero Hour he came back when time was reset.
Vindicator.