Major Spoilers

    Major Spoilers Question of the Day: The Obscure Hero Edition

    Matthew PetersonBy 9 Comments1 Min Read

    Yesterday on the Twitter, a random conversation led someone to opine that The Vision was an obscure hero, even though the character was front and center in a recent Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbuster.  Just as an aside, I asked my Twitter followers to throw out their favorite less-recognizable characters, with responses ranging from Penance (?) to characters they themselves made up to that one time Joe Hardy went to a costume party as his favorite hero.  Even so, my curiosity wasn’t sated, which leads us to today’s nearly unheard of query…

    The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) is mostly interested in seeing what constitutes “obscure” to y’all, the Faithful Spoilerites, asking: What is the most obscure hero you can think of?

    Share.

    Once upon a time, there was a young nerd from the Midwest, who loved Matter-Eater Lad and the McKenzie Brothers... If pop culture were a maze, Matthew would be the Minotaur at its center. Were it a mall, he'd be the Food Court. Were it a parking lot, he’d be the distant Cart Corral where the weird kids gather to smoke, but that’s not important right now... Matthew enjoys body surfing (so long as the bodies are fresh), writing in the third person, and dark-eyed women. Amongst his weaponry are such diverse elements as: Fear! Surprise! Ruthless efficiency! An almost fanatical devotion to pop culture! And a nice red uniform.

    Related Posts

    9 Comments

    1. Hannah Jones on

      Probably Birdy or Anole from the Marvel Universe. I’m not sure either of them exist in current continuity.

      One of my friends and my brother made up a crime fighting duo whose collective powers were to create the scent of lemons and untie peoples shoes. That was it, but we love hearing about their adventures anyway.

    4. Daniel Langsdale on

      The Horseman, the Canadian Mountie vigilante who helped out Green Arrow for a couple of issues back in the Grell run.

      I’ve probably read other, more obscure ones, but this is one I can actually remember right now.

    6. Toric on

      Probably Beta Ray Bill, alias Thor’s horseheaded body double.I like his backstory of “Enemy to all tyrranical gods” but to my knowledge he never started his rampage across the Marvel pantheon.