A lot of people my age have fond memories of the sublime goofiness that was Electric Company Spider-Man (“Where are ya goin’ toooo, Spiiider-Maaan! Nobody knows who you aaaarre!”) Battling weirdo villains like The Wall, speaking in words balloons throwing big ropes made out of net that are supposed to be his webs… It’s all pretty awesome, in an absurdly memorable way. As a fan of weirdo off-brand hero appearances, it ranks right up there with ‘The Super Dictionary’ and Supaidaman in terms of camp/fun factor, leading to today’s spandex-covered query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) also finds great joy in the Superfriends version of Batman, who can’t throw a punch or a Batarang thanks to network Standards and Practices, asking: What’s your favorite weird, out-of-continuity appearance of your favorite characters, ala Electric Company Spider-Man?
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Well, since I consider all Hostess Fruit Pie ads to be canon, I will go with Luke, C3PO, and R2 on The Muppet Show.
According to Spider-Verse, Hostess ads ARE canon to the Marvel Multiverse as the Hostess ad Spidey was killed by Morlun.
http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Peter_Parker_(Earth-51914)
Yeah i thought that was dumb. Anyway, official canon is not my canon.
Greedo shot Krull first!
I’m a big fan of all kinds of goggles and visors in super hero costumes, so I’ll go with Eradicator Superman. Also like how his cape was attached to from the chest symbol.
Since Takuya Yamashiro is part of the canon of the Marvel Multiverse thanks to Spider-Verse, I can’t pick the Toei live-action Spider-Man with his giant robot Leopardon.
So my choices are the Robot Chicken Star Wars specials.
Neil Patrick Harris in the Harold & Kumar movies. Was he really NPH? Was he Barney Stinson? Was he some other weird amalgamation? Don’t matter now, he dead.