the DC Universe is home to some of the
most legendary characters in comics
these are not those characters welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
characters DC wants you to forget
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
characters from the history of DC Comics
that are lame forgettable offensive or
even all three number 10 rainbow Raider
the DC Universe is a colorful place but
this might be taking it a bit too far a
struggling artist who failed to impress
his peers thanks to his absolute
colorblindness this Technicolor rogue
turned to crime when his father invented
a pair of goggles that allowed his son
to control beams of solid rainbow
colored light so logically he used this
technology to become a professional art
thief and a recurring flash villain as
if flame powers and an even lamer
costume weren’t bad enough this villains
real name is actually ROYGBIV Lowe a
grown worthy play on the ROYGBIV
mnemonic device used for remembering the
colors of the rainbow
number nine James Gordon jr. it’s hard
to imagine an apple falling further from
the tree than Gotham Police Commissioner
James Gordon ill-fated son first
introduced as a baby in 1987’s Batman
year one and basically forgotten until
he resurfaced in a 2011 arc in Detective
Comics despite the fact door perhaps
because of his father’s reputation as an
unfaltering lawman jr. began to develop
sadistic tendencies at a young age
eventually turning into a full-blown
serial killer but rather than a bold new
addition to Batman’s roster of enemies
the character felt more like a wannabe
Joker who was thwarted during a
haphazard scheme to poison baby food he
was at one point a member of The Suicide
Squad but not even that can redeem this
snoozer of a villain number eight the
Legion of substitute heroes the Legion
of super-heroes is one of the largest
teams in DC with dozens of members from
every corner of the galaxy
but despite counting the likes of matter
eater lad among their ranks the Legion
has
standards this offshoot team was formed
by would-be Legionnaires who were
rejected after they tried out for the
team and can you blame the Legion for
saying no thanks to the likes of
infectious lass stone boy or color kid
the power to eat anything has at least a
few uses the power to turn into an
immovable rock or change the color of
any object or person not so much number
7 brother power the geek the 60s were a
weird time and if any comics character
reflects that it’s this one an ordinary
store mannequin dressed in hip threads
by some hippies and then brought to life
by a bolt of lightning this character
spent two inexplicable issues just kind
of wandering around having weird stuff
happened to him the character was
intended to be a kind of wandering
outsider having darkly poetic adventures
not unlike swamp thing but with a veneer
of hippie sensibility draped over him
unsurprisingly this didn’t really take
with audiences and he’s only made a
small handful of appearances since gee
we wonder why that could be
number 6 tarantula taken at face value
this blüdhaven based vigilante is a
perfectly fine if generic addition to
the DC roster a former FBI agent turned
masked crime fighter her extreme methods
make her the kind of foil that Batman
and his family have been having
encounters with for years what makes her
stand out and not in a good way
is an infamous storyline involving her
and Nightwing in which Nightwing has
rendered near catatonic by a nervous
breakdown prompting the arachnid avenger
to sexually assault him we’re all for
addressing the issue of male sexual
assault but the storyline is handled so
clumsily that we’d rather just forget
about it and move on and we’re pretty
sure DC agrees number 5 gunfire there
are a lot of characters with interesting
multifaceted superhuman powers in the DC
Universe but when your powers can be
best summed up with the phrase turn
stuff into guns don’t be surprised if
you don’t last very long after being
bitten by an alien parasite this young
man gained the power to fire energy from
any object he holds not very exciting or
interesting power isn’t add in the 90s
costumed and
90’s costumes complete with thigh-high
boots hair window and fingerless gloves
and you’ve got a hero so forgettable
we’ve already forgotten his name was a
discharge recoil let’s be like DC and
pretend this never happened
number four hemo-goblin one of the
powers of art is to address the fears
and concerns of the time often using
metaphor or allegory in the late 1980s
the AIDS epidemic was one such concern
and when DC stepped up to the plate to
discuss the ongoing pandemic they
whiffed pretty hard this thankfully
forgotten villain was a vampire created
by a white supremacist group and a plot
to infect minorities with HIV this
brought him into conflict with a super
team called the new guardians and
several members were infected during the
battle including x2 man yo who was
flamboyant and stereotypically gay it’s
a tactless handling of a serious issue
and best forgotten
number three snow flame and speaking of
terrible attempts at addressing serious
issues in the pages of the new guardians
let’s talk about the supervillain fueled
by cocaine and not in a Tony Montana
Conaway either this baddie gains
superhuman attributes including enhanced
strength speed and the power to control
fire as long as he’s literally hi out of
his mind on cocaine so naturally he’s
the leader of a powerful Colombian drug
cartel and worships cocaine as his god a
hard-hitting gritty portrayal of the
evils of the drug trade this is not
thankfully he was killed in an explosion
and never returned
number two codpiece the link between
superheroes and virility has always been
fairly pronounced it’s not hard to pick
up on the fact that many many superhero
stories are power fantasies just in case
you need things to be absolutely crystal
clear may we present the superhero who
uses a weaponized COG piece thanks to an
inferiority complex about his equipment
he constructed a weaponized and packaged
that he used to rob banks the character
is pretty clearly meant to satire but
even so this
pretty on the nose number one evany
white the contributions of Will Eisner
to the medium of comics cannot be
overstated in the pages of his
groundbreaking series the spirit Eisner
brought a level of depth and artistry to
the medium that few other creators have
since heck they even named the biggest
award in comics after him but we can’t
in good conscience give him a pass for
this character an unbelievably offensive
racial stereotype named Ebenezer v’ as
the hero sidekick and driver the
character has since been revamped many
years after DC acquired the rights to
the spirit when they purchased quality
comics but we’d rather not think about
his roots as an offensive stereotype and
DC probably feels the same way do you
agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from watch mojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
most legendary characters in comics
these are not those characters welcome
to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
characters DC wants you to forget
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
characters from the history of DC Comics
that are lame forgettable offensive or
even all three number 10 rainbow Raider
the DC Universe is a colorful place but
this might be taking it a bit too far a
struggling artist who failed to impress
his peers thanks to his absolute
colorblindness this Technicolor rogue
turned to crime when his father invented
a pair of goggles that allowed his son
to control beams of solid rainbow
colored light so logically he used this
technology to become a professional art
thief and a recurring flash villain as
if flame powers and an even lamer
costume weren’t bad enough this villains
real name is actually ROYGBIV Lowe a
grown worthy play on the ROYGBIV
mnemonic device used for remembering the
colors of the rainbow
number nine James Gordon jr. it’s hard
to imagine an apple falling further from
the tree than Gotham Police Commissioner
James Gordon ill-fated son first
introduced as a baby in 1987’s Batman
year one and basically forgotten until
he resurfaced in a 2011 arc in Detective
Comics despite the fact door perhaps
because of his father’s reputation as an
unfaltering lawman jr. began to develop
sadistic tendencies at a young age
eventually turning into a full-blown
serial killer but rather than a bold new
addition to Batman’s roster of enemies
the character felt more like a wannabe
Joker who was thwarted during a
haphazard scheme to poison baby food he
was at one point a member of The Suicide
Squad but not even that can redeem this
snoozer of a villain number eight the
Legion of substitute heroes the Legion
of super-heroes is one of the largest
teams in DC with dozens of members from
every corner of the galaxy
but despite counting the likes of matter
eater lad among their ranks the Legion
has
standards this offshoot team was formed
by would-be Legionnaires who were
rejected after they tried out for the
team and can you blame the Legion for
saying no thanks to the likes of
infectious lass stone boy or color kid
the power to eat anything has at least a
few uses the power to turn into an
immovable rock or change the color of
any object or person not so much number
7 brother power the geek the 60s were a
weird time and if any comics character
reflects that it’s this one an ordinary
store mannequin dressed in hip threads
by some hippies and then brought to life
by a bolt of lightning this character
spent two inexplicable issues just kind
of wandering around having weird stuff
happened to him the character was
intended to be a kind of wandering
outsider having darkly poetic adventures
not unlike swamp thing but with a veneer
of hippie sensibility draped over him
unsurprisingly this didn’t really take
with audiences and he’s only made a
small handful of appearances since gee
we wonder why that could be
number 6 tarantula taken at face value
this blüdhaven based vigilante is a
perfectly fine if generic addition to
the DC roster a former FBI agent turned
masked crime fighter her extreme methods
make her the kind of foil that Batman
and his family have been having
encounters with for years what makes her
stand out and not in a good way
is an infamous storyline involving her
and Nightwing in which Nightwing has
rendered near catatonic by a nervous
breakdown prompting the arachnid avenger
to sexually assault him we’re all for
addressing the issue of male sexual
assault but the storyline is handled so
clumsily that we’d rather just forget
about it and move on and we’re pretty
sure DC agrees number 5 gunfire there
are a lot of characters with interesting
multifaceted superhuman powers in the DC
Universe but when your powers can be
best summed up with the phrase turn
stuff into guns don’t be surprised if
you don’t last very long after being
bitten by an alien parasite this young
man gained the power to fire energy from
any object he holds not very exciting or
interesting power isn’t add in the 90s
costumed and
90’s costumes complete with thigh-high
boots hair window and fingerless gloves
and you’ve got a hero so forgettable
we’ve already forgotten his name was a
discharge recoil let’s be like DC and
pretend this never happened
number four hemo-goblin one of the
powers of art is to address the fears
and concerns of the time often using
metaphor or allegory in the late 1980s
the AIDS epidemic was one such concern
and when DC stepped up to the plate to
discuss the ongoing pandemic they
whiffed pretty hard this thankfully
forgotten villain was a vampire created
by a white supremacist group and a plot
to infect minorities with HIV this
brought him into conflict with a super
team called the new guardians and
several members were infected during the
battle including x2 man yo who was
flamboyant and stereotypically gay it’s
a tactless handling of a serious issue
and best forgotten
number three snow flame and speaking of
terrible attempts at addressing serious
issues in the pages of the new guardians
let’s talk about the supervillain fueled
by cocaine and not in a Tony Montana
Conaway either this baddie gains
superhuman attributes including enhanced
strength speed and the power to control
fire as long as he’s literally hi out of
his mind on cocaine so naturally he’s
the leader of a powerful Colombian drug
cartel and worships cocaine as his god a
hard-hitting gritty portrayal of the
evils of the drug trade this is not
thankfully he was killed in an explosion
and never returned
number two codpiece the link between
superheroes and virility has always been
fairly pronounced it’s not hard to pick
up on the fact that many many superhero
stories are power fantasies just in case
you need things to be absolutely crystal
clear may we present the superhero who
uses a weaponized COG piece thanks to an
inferiority complex about his equipment
he constructed a weaponized and packaged
that he used to rob banks the character
is pretty clearly meant to satire but
even so this
pretty on the nose number one evany
white the contributions of Will Eisner
to the medium of comics cannot be
overstated in the pages of his
groundbreaking series the spirit Eisner
brought a level of depth and artistry to
the medium that few other creators have
since heck they even named the biggest
award in comics after him but we can’t
in good conscience give him a pass for
this character an unbelievably offensive
racial stereotype named Ebenezer v’ as
the hero sidekick and driver the
character has since been revamped many
years after DC acquired the rights to
the spirit when they purchased quality
comics but we’d rather not think about
his roots as an offensive stereotype and
DC probably feels the same way do you
agree with our picks check out these
other great clips from watch mojo and
subscribe for new videos every day
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