Mine has to go to my guy Vision. I just recently got into comic books (early last year) and I really enjoyed from the 80's the limited series of him (?)(it?) and Scarlet Witch. And just recently Roger Stern's Avengers where Vision tries to play god link his brain up with all the computers in the world and nearly dies to bring about a misguided utopia.

I think what I like about him is that he's a robot but he's very human and loves Wanda a lot and it doesn't feel phony or forced. Contrast that to Mockingbird and Hawkeye and it's just kind of like meh.

Plus he's got rad powers too. He should join the pantheon and bad ass robots like Android 16, 17, 18, The Terminator, Johnny 5, and HAL 9000.

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    9 days ago

    I like She-Hulk but both the quality of the writing and key aspects of her character vary drastically with the writing. But I loved the 2004 series by Dan Slott where she works in superhuman law. It does some fun worldbuilding and asks some interesting questions about the mundane adapting to the magical. At one point, she makes an argument that a ghost should be allowed to testify in court on the basis that people come back to life all the time in this setting, and if death makes testimony inadmissable, they'd have to reject testimony from every major superhero. It also plays up the duality of the character - even though she's just as intelligent and capable as She-Hulk, personality-wise she's more disciplined, restrained, and thorough as Jennifer Walters, and so her employer hires her as Jennifer, which is a form she hasn't really used since becoming a superhero. But she relies on both sides of her personality to solve different problems in a way I found interesting and relatable.

    It's nothing special politically and the legal stuff might be too lib for Hexbear, but I found it really creative and original, and it gave her some real depth.

    Unfortunately, her story arc got sidelined hard by Civil War which she couldn't fit into coherently, and the story kind of got abandoned without any sort of conclusion, and the next series completely rebooted her as like a bounty hunter or something.

    The TV show had a similar premise but did it really poorly, the cases were uninteresting and She-Hulk was a boring unlikeable girlboss. Like I say, her quality as a character varies drastically depending on who's writing her.

    Her original comics are alright, as far as classic comics go. Imo, she really needs the duality to be an interesting character she's ok-ish at best without it. Kinda the whole point of Hulk stuff is psychological duality, and yeah She-Hulk is more cognizant in Hulk form but that just adds potential depth to the contrast.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      9 days ago

      I like She-Hulk in the avengers a lot. As for her actual comics line I found it kind of boring since they tried to make her hook up with bozo guys.