Most ridiculous superhero team ups ever

[Rabulias]

And there's also Superman and Muhammed Ali.

Specifically (and perhaps more ridiculously, though I have not read it), it was Superman VS Muhammed Ali...

No offense to the Champ, but what does Supes do after page 2?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

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[Plane Sailing]

I always throught that "The Champions" were quite an arbitrary group

Angel;
Black Widow;
Darkstar;
Ghost Rider;
Hercules;
Iceman

and "The Defenders" even more so - with an astonishingly powerful core group:

Doctor Strange,
The Silver Surfer,
The Hulk
Namor

plus a revolving door of others and also-rans!

 

[coyote6]

Heck, look at the most recent incarnation of the (New) Avengers:

Iron Man
Captain America
Luke Cage
Spider-Man
Wolverine
Sentry
Echo/Ronin (who doesn't actually show up for 10 issues, despite being mentioned in promos)

Then Spider-Woman joins (except it's actually the Skrull queen posing as Jessica Drew).

Then, post-Civil War, they lose Iron Man & Captain America (duh) and Sentry, and add:

Dr. Strange
Iron Fist
Ronin (Clint Barton, formerly known as Hawkeye)

 

[Diamond Cross]

So why are these ridiculous? Are you tryhing to say there should be no diversity on a team?

 

[coyote6]

One more: the Justice League of America, at the recent start of James Robinson's run:

Batman (Dick Grayson)
Donna Troy
Cyborg
Starfire (looks a lot like Wolfman & Perez's Teen Titans so far)
Doctor Light (the hero, not the dead villain)
Congorilla (Yes, a guy that turns into a golden gorilla)
Starman (the blue Mikaal Thomas version, not the JSA guy or Jack Knight)
Guardian (the blue-and-gold shield carrying dude from Metropolis)
Mon-El
Green Arrow
Atom

Note that Mon-El, Guardian, Green Arrow, and Atom are there for about ten minutes. Green Lantern might've been there, too. I'm not sure that lineup lasted through one whole storyline, actually.

 

[TanisFrey]

crossover/team up

I heard of a Superman and Thunder Cats team up, crossover. How's that for a weird team up.

 

[Felon]

The upcoming Avengers movie got me thinking about this. The original team up that formed the Avengers were:

Ant-Man
Wasp
Iron Man
Thor
Hulk

That is a totally ridiculous team up. I mean, look at the scale of power, there.

Well, that's actually not that ridiculous to me. The Avengers was a "dream team", a gathering of unaffiliated popular heroes. They don't have to compliment each other in any way. Redundancy or outright irrelevancy is okay as long as you have clout.

That's in direct contrast to a formula team, which is assembled like a 4e party or a boy band, by filling out various idealized roles (e.g. a strong guy, a smart guy, a stealthy guy, a straight-man, a loudmouth, and so forth). Ant-Man constantly remarked on how outclassed he was (particularly after becoming Giant-Man), and of course the line-up didn't last long anway.

The Justice League is at least as bizarre an assemblage, once you discount the "dream-team" factor. You have a few guys like Superman and Green Lantern who do all the heavy lifting, and then a bunch of low-yield gimmick guys like Hawkman, Green Arrow, and Batman. I think we've all heard our share of jokes at Aquaman's expense.

I always throught that "The Champions" were quite an arbitrary group

Angel;
Black Widow;
Darkstar;
Ghost Rider;
Hercules;
Iceman

and "The Defenders" even more so - with an astonishingly powerful core group:

Doctor Strange,
The Silver Surfer,
The Hulk
Namor

plus a revolving door of others and also-rans!

The Champions actually came about as the formula team nobody wanted. The guy who wrote it just wanted to do a book with Angel and Iceman, but his editor told him to expand it by filling out the tropes ("You call that a team book? Where's your strong guy? Where's your girl?").

The Defenders got started as a dream-team crossover between different comics that become popular enough to justify a series. They threw in Valkyrie because the group needed a girl. The lineup didn't last long, since the characters really didn't compliment each other well.

My favorite wildly-inconsistent group is the Legion of Super-Heroes. You had everything ranging from a handful of Kryptonianesque powerhouses to characters like Bouncing Boy, Matter-Eater Lad, and Dream Girl (whose super-power is actually dreaming). Bear in mind that most LoSH's powers were typical for an inhabitant of their homeworld, so relatively speaking they weren't terribly special. What's that? Saturn Girl wants a raise? OK, well....she's fired. Go to Saturn and get a replacement.

And my personal fave is Triplicate Girl. She could transform from an ordinary girl into.....THREE ordinary girls! But wait, that wasn't lame enough, so they wrote a story where one of her triplicates died when these three ordinary girls tried to attack a giant killer robot. Did they just replace her with one the billions of other people who had this same crap power? No, she just changed her name to Duo Damsel and went about her business at 2/3 of the power.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Well, that's actually not that ridiculous to me. The Avengers was a "dream team", a gathering of unaffiliated popular heroes. They don't have to compliment each other in any way. Redundancy or outright irrelevancy is okay as long as you have clout.

That's in direct contrast to a formula team, which is assembled like a 4e party or a boy band, by filling out various idealized roles (e.g. a strong guy, a smart guy, a stealthy guy, a straight-man, a loudmouth, and so forth). Ant-Man constantly remarked on how outclassed he was (particularly after becoming Giant-Man), and of course the line-up didn't last long anway.

I find both of those things completely unsurprising!

Cheers

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It just occurred to me- in 4Ed, if you combine a mounted warrior of some kind with Invoker in a Hybrid build, you have an all-in-one Angel Summoner/BMX bandit PC.