Who is the most unrealistic superhero (any universe)?

Daniel Silva

I'm a fan of comic books for as long I can remember. I'm still young though.

51w ago

It might be the alien from a far planet that gets energized on solar light.

It might be this young lady that can summon spells by saying things backwards

Or even a young boy whom became this mix of man and advanced alien machinery

But… if you ask me….

The prize goes to this 100% normal human being. Yes, normal, he has no alien powers, he is not a wizard nor a cyborg, he is just a man, and given what he does, that makes no sense, they want you to believe that this man goes out every night to fight crime, fight alien invasion, fight literal gods and always come back? I mean all you’d need is a single mistake and it’s all gone, one miss shot hook and dead, anything could go wrong, but it never does. But you know what make him so unrealistic to me? His timeline.

As you can see on Levi Sweeney answer How old is Batman? his age almost make no sense in pre-New 52 timeline, it take most people a decades of work to master one thing, Batman master about everything during his travels, and he somehow teach this to his Robins too! This get worse if you consider the Flashpoint retcon that made Batman likely younger.

I still really enjoy his stories, but this is the one thing that bugs me the most in all DC comics.

Hari Prasad

Flying Brick

51w ago

Sentry

Sentry is even more retarded character when you consider his hilarious origin story. He broke into a lab and steal a random vial, which upon drinking gain the power of one million exploding suns. He used that power shatter the axe of Terrax (another retarded plot device). Terrax, who was created from the alien science of Galactus, whose technology was advanced enough to survive the end of the prior universe before the restart of the next big bang, after which he "incubated" for eons in an "egg" after discovering and learning to manipulate "the power cosmic" and create things like an axe that could carry heralds across space to search out planets for him to eat. All from a random vial that has a power of one million exploding suns created by a civilization still dependent on fossil fuels. Talk about common sense.

Basically created as Marvel’s answer for Superman, somehow turned into a ludicrous comic character. He is not even a direct copy, he is actually a darker and edgier version ofMiracleman, who is a re-worked versionMarvelman, who is basically a British version ofCaptain Marvel (Shazam!), who is the original superman copy. He is also the sixth attempt by Marvel to create their own superman (after Gladiator, Thor, Count Nefaria, Hyperion and Blue Marvel). He is also extremely similar in appearance, characterization and in-universe purpose of an extremely strong DC hero calledTriumph .

On top of all that, he one of the dumbest retcon device in MU. He debuted in 2000, but all the MU characters know him? But how? Because 50 years of Marvel lore is turned useless.

Maurice Sasseville

I've seen thousands of movies spanning decades and genres.

48w ago

All Super Heroes are completely unrealistic from a ‘real world’ perspective.

Where I find issues is where power sets become inconsistent. For example, in one story, Wolverine gets his eye put out and it doesn’t grow back for weeks, in another story, he regrows his entire body including his nervous system from his skeleton. Or a hero known for his mental abilities is easily fooled by a run-of-the mill villain.

Taking this into consideration, Batman probably is the most unrealistic hero. He’s beaten Gods and received severe beatings by thugs. He’s the world’s greatest detective, can overcome any threat if he has time to prepare…and yet he’s easily fooled by villains and often fails to realize that they’re building massive bases and/or converting entire sites to their own purpose.

Batman is a victim of his own popularity. Everyone wants Batman in their story, no matter whether or not he belongs there. This makes his power-set vary wildly based to compensate.

Personally, I love Batman, but hate how inconsistent his power set is.

Gianfranco Elio Tubino Bryce

studied at National University of San Marcos

51w ago

Either Batman or One Punch Man. If you consider what they accomplish being who they are. Marvel mutants if you consider how they accomplish it (genes to control the weather, change the climate or… well, practically anything?). You might consider characters who derive their power from magic but magic is unrealistic by definition and inasmuch it is internally consistent it can be said to be pararealistic, the issue with magic is that it consist of imaginary exceptions to reality-as-we-know-it0s hard rules… Maybe Freakazoid and other chaotic heroes, even with magic involved, qualify. Iron Man is more realistic than Batman inasmuch that he uses some excellent technology with a great mind, not just a perfect mind and perfect physique with minor technology, accomplishing what Ironman does with an exosuit ahead of our time is more believeable than a swashbuckler with a few gimmicks and a lot of thinking ahead.

Michael Pacholek

50w ago

My candidate for this title is Dr. Manhattan from the Watchmen stories. Apparently, he can, literally, do anything. For all intents and purposes, he has the abilities ascribed to the God of the Bible. And there’s no mention in those stories of said God trying to stop him.

The part I can’t get my head around is how he can exist outside of time, or how his consciousness can exist in more than one time at once. I’d like to think I’m an intelligent man, but I don’t know how this ability of his is possible.

Bruce Malcom

51w ago

One Punch Man or Deadpool

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