In Despite himself superheroes, in theaters Wednesday, Philippe Lacheau is Cédric, a failed actor who finally lands his first role in a superhero film. But following an accident, he wakes up amnesiac and sure to be the superhero he must play: Badman! Well, for the inspiration, the actor-director was not far, on the side of Gotham, and therefore stages a person, without superpowers, who plays the vigilantes. “He does good, but badly” is the film’s catchphrase.
A superhero doesn’t necessarily need a superpower, like Hawkeye, Black Widow and the Falcon in the “Avengers”, Kick-Ass, and of course Batman. Whatever. The former are aided by super-tech, the latter has had his bones replaced with metal, and Bruce Waye is…
super rich. On the other hand, certain superpowers can very quickly transform a superhero into a super zero. Who are the dumbest superheroes and superheroines in the universe?
The invisible man only when no one is watching
For twenty years and the advent of special effects, screens, big and small, tend to celebrate superheroes and their exploits. But there is always something to laugh about, with for example, recently, the idiotic death of the whole X-Force in the film Deapool 2 Where
the already cult scene of the “well” named Love Sausage in the series The Boys. Among the pure parodies, let us quote super hero movie and its hero Libellule, the essential The Tick in cartoons and live series, and, of course, Mystery Men. In this 1999 film, Ben Stiller, alias Mr Furious, is at the head of a band of broken arms with powers each more lame than the other, like The Blue Fakir and his throwing forks, The Shovel always with, bah , his shovel, Le Spleen et ses flatulences, without forgetting L’Invisible, which only disappears when no one is looking at it.
Squirrel Girl versus Thanos, who wins?
But it is in the comics, and its century of stories, that we find the most ridiculous superheroes, and the superpowers that go with them. At Marvel, impossible to miss Squirrel Girl, the squirrel girl, often mocked or underestimated but who has already defeated supervillains like Doctor Doom or Thanos thanks to her prehensible tail, her retractable claws and her squirrel friends. As for Jubilé and Dazzler, the first can create pyrotechnic plasmoids (basically fireworks) and the second transforms sound into light, the perfect duo for a Jean-Michel Jarre concert.
Is it a bird, an airplane, Superman? No, it’s the kite man
At DC Comics too, we find broken arms. Literally. Arm-Fall-Off-Boy can thus detach his arms to use them as weapons, like The Detachable Kid played by Nathan Fillion in the recent The Suicide Squad. What makes them a beautiful leg. Bouncing Boy, on the other hand, drank an experimental mixture of super plastic instead of his soda in 1961, and since then he hasn’t “burp” but “boing boing”. At the same time, is it a bird, an airplane, Superman? No, it’s Kite Man and his kite. Disappointed ? It’s still better than Skateman, which only had one issue in 1983 and was voted one of the worst comics.
Finally, there is a kind of Justice League of nullity, The Legion of Substitute Heroes, with Stone Boy who can turn into stone but then cannot move, Chlorophyll Kid who makes the plants grow at Jardiland, Color Kid who changes the colors, or Double-Header, two Siamese twins who can’t eat each other. The list is far from exhaustive, do not hesitate to complete it and share your great finds.