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From Captain America to Doctor Strange , Marvelhas debut some of the most iconic superheroes of all time - case who have become house names around the world . However , in amongst the Wolverines and Spider - Men , Marvel has also introduced a telephone number ofheroes whose names have stir up controversy , from the deliberately unfitting to the unexpectedly gamey to the de jure actionable .
Here are 8 Marvel superhero names that proved totally inappropriate , and what happened as a result of Marvel print them , from names that got the publisher sued to vulgar ( but at last harmless ) jest that just made Marvel sports fan love comics more .
As a major force of evil regaining to Batman ’s city , the amoral ' Agent # % @% ' also returns , now with a codename DC does n’t need to ban .
8Captain ****
The Name So Inappropriate, Marvel Has Never Printed It
2006’sNextwave(from Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen ) was a razor - piercing sarcasm of superhero stories , as a group of saucy hero faced off against increasingly bizarre and absurd villains . The series pucker together disparate characters include former Avengers leader Photon , mutant shoplifter ( and superhero ) Boom - Boom , and cynical monster hunter Elsa Bloodstone . However , it also inaugurate a brand - young Marvel champion known as the Captain .
The whole point of the Captain was to parody generic superhero lore , granting a superhero a totally bland name and powers ( flight , force and super - mother wit ) while make the actual individual asun - superheroic as possible . Nextwave ’s Captain has a loathsome mouth , loves violence for its own interest , and would rather blot out out in the nearest bar than save innocent . Specificallybecausehe lacks any distinguishing characteristic , the Captain try out out a cluster of codenames , including Captain Marvel , Captain Universe and Captain Avenger , only to retrieve them all taken .
In desperation , the hero branded himself"Captain * * * * " , fence that as a badass Brooklyn superhero , he could n’t exactly take the name"Mr . well-disposed . “Sadly , the name only lasted until the Heron met Captain America , who was so offended by the byname that he beat"seven shade of it"out of Captain * * * * , finally inspiring him to give up on being unparalleled and just go by ' the Captain . '
Marvel ’s Celestials have an accidentally hilarious and out or keeping name to categorize humans , as Hawkeye encounter out they are have-to doe with to as TILFs .
7Leather Boy
Of Course the Great Lakes Avengers Had an Inappropriate Hero
With sub like Big Bertha , Doorman and Squirrel Girl , the Great Lakes Avengers were nevermeantto be taken earnestly . However , Dan Slott and Paul Pelletier push the joke even further by supply Gene Lorrene ’s Leather Boy to the hapless team of Midwest heroes . As many lover have pointed out over the twelvemonth , there ’s more than a casual kinship between costumed superheroes and leather civilization , andGLA # 1closed the circle . Leather Boy has no actual superpowers and is n’t really a crime - fighter - he merely misinterpret the GLA ’s personal ad and thought he ’d happen a like - tending group .
Tragically , Leather Boy did n’t stay amember of the Great Lakes Avengersor even a superhero . Feeling jilt after the team reform without him , he returned in a villainous persona inspired by Doctor Doom and kill off squad leader Mister Immortal and Squirrel Girl ’s sidekick , Monkey Joe . Leather Boy has returned since as a spiteful but relatively harmless enemy of the GLA and squirrels everywhere .
6The Whizzer
This Classic Speedster Was Originally Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver’s Father
The Marvel Universe has been around for 64 age , and not every superhero name can be a winner . Robert Frank ’s Whizzer debuted in 1941’sU.S.A. Comics # 1 , create by Al Avison , and is a WWII contemporary of Captain America and Namor the Sub - Mariner . He ’s mostlyknown for his bizarre origin , wherehe realize superspeed thanks to a transfusion of mongoose origin , and was at one time believed to be the founder of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver ( one of several candidates over the years . )
The fiber has appeared sporadically since his debut , but sadly does n’t have the same legacy of other classic role , mostly because it would be awkward for him to pass down his urinary codename to anyone in the modernistic day .
Bizarrely , the cant manipulation of ' whiz ' meaning ' to come about water ' actually predates the character , beginning in the recent twenties , nurture the question of why this codename waseverused . Even the Whizzer costume adds to the unfortunate nature of his name- as Deadpool abide by in 1998’sDeadpool # 0,“I think you were just a legend to make mercs laugh at night . I mean , come on , you ’re key the Whizzer and you sport a YELLOW COSTUME ? "
Marvel Comics has offered some of the best - cognize comic book covers over the tenner – but some have become infamous for all the wrong reason .
5Sheriff Gia Whitechapel
X-Men Accidentally Named a Hero After an Adult Movie Star
Debuting inX of Swords : Stasis # 1(by Tini Howard , Jonathan Hickman , Gerry Duggan and Pepe Larraz ) , Gia Whitechapel is the sheriff of Blightspoke - a disorderly soil withinthe mystical realm of Otherworld . In a kingdom riven by magical muscularity , Whitechapel keeps the peace with her unequaled marksmanship and a custom rifle that can see everywhere in the realm . A cool grapheme , it was only after her debut thatco - Jehovah Tini Howard was inform the Cuban sandwich shares her name with an grownup performer . Speaking toAIPT , Howard revealed :
[ My funniest editorial note ] was the phone call where Jordan had to explain to me that the very nerveless name I ’d leave to a late character was also the name of an adult performer , for sure . I had no idea ! Just two cool names put together ! Zeitgeist , I guess .
While there ’s obviously no inherent issue with a superhero sharing their name with an grownup performer , commentators point out that fans google the Italian sandwich might get more than they bargain for . In subsequent appearances , Sheriff Whitechapel revealed her ' full ' name is actually Giada , addressing the government issue with a elusive retcon .
4Surrender Monkey
Marvel Subverted a National Stereotype
One of Marvel ’s most underrated serial of all time , X - Statixwas a irony of celebrity culturefrom Peter Milligan and Mike Allred - one in which it was neverquiteclear how many of the titulary hero ' adventure were real , and how many were stag to aid their public visibility . X - Statix # 13introduced the rival team Euro - Trash - a grouping of European superhumans who were each broad caricature of their various nations . Members Oxford Blue , the Wall and Miz Tree were led bythe insultingly - named French stereotype Surrender Monkey , pure with Breton shirt and beret .
In 2003 , France was one of the state that voted against authorizing the US encroachment of Iraq , leading to cultural aggression towards the commonwealth in a lot of American media . Surrender Monkey was clearly stand for as commentary on that fact , with the superhuman only possessing one affected ability -the power to recognize the exact right import to melt away .
Spider - Man is known for making some hilarious quips , but one of his jokes almost cost him his sprightliness , as intrude fun at Punisher ’s life was a misunderstanding .
The serial later flipped this insulting caricature on its head , revealing thatSurrender Monkey was n’t actually Gallic . In fact , Surrender Monkey was Brad Bentley - a CIA agentive role tasked with influencing public attitude to the Iraq War by arouse up hatred for opponents of encroachment . The entire Euro - Trash squad were a psy - op deliberately plan to manipulate the American public .
3Man-Thing
Some Superheroes Won’t Even Say This Hero’s Name
Originating in 1971’sSavage Tales # 1- created by Gerry Conway , Roy Thomas , Gray Morrow and Stan Lee - the Man - Thing is arguably the king of Marvel ’s monsters . The guardian of a nexus that tie all world , the Man - Thing exudes a mystic acid that combusts in the mien of care , leading to the iconic quote that"whatever know fear burn at the Man - Thing ’s sense of touch . “Man - Thing is a truly cool character , with the humble drawback thatits name sound like an anatomical euphemism- an observance never plainer than in the 1974 publication ofGiant - Size Man - Thing .
Marvel has n’t been unsure about mocking the character ’s codename , with various gags over the year referencing the risqué reading . In a story fromMarvel # 4by Doug Rice and Hilary Barta , two characters ask,“How did this get past the Comics Code ? " , referencing the magnificently harsh censorship of funnies which resulted from a 1950s moral panic . InAvengers # 41(Jason Aaron and Javier Garron),Luke Cage gives up on turn to the monster , muttering,“Ain’t saying that name . "
2Hell’s Angel
Marvel Just Couldn’t Win with This Codename
Shevaun Haldane was introduced in 1992’sHell ’s Angel # 1by Bernie Jaye and Geoff Senior , and shoot a line as one of themost powerful sport in Marvel lore . Hell ’s Angel boasts immense control over exotic energy , allow her to manipulate gravity , turn intangible , and unleash powerful energy blasts . While her name does n’t have risqué or scatological implications , Hell ’s Angel was controversial for only one cause - the name was already in use by the infamous bike crew .
After debuting Hell ’s Angel , Marvel was sued for trademark violation by the Hells Angels , whose 1948 club far forgo the sub . Marvel ended up paying $ 35,000 to charity and transfer the fictitious character ’s name to Dark Angel … only to be sued again . This metre , the complaint came from Boneyard Press , who already had a fictitious character of the same name . Ultimately , Marvel offset Shevaun ’s serial , and she ’s barely been visualise since , though she did get a cameo in 2014’sRevolutionary Warevent .
While not every Marvel chronicle is as sore as it should be , this Avengers comedian completely passed a line that we should never bury .
1Spider-B****
Marvel Chickened Out of This Codename Eventually
allow for it to the boundary - pushing Mark Millar to co - createMarvel ’s most inappropriate superhero name of all time(along with Steve McNiven , in the blockbusterWolverine : Old Man Logan . ) Ashley Barton is the daughter of Hawkeye and granddaughter of Peter Parker ’s Spider - Man - a rebel fighter who seek to clutch power over the post - revelatory city of Hammer Falls . Spider - B * * * * was a hero in only the most nebulose mother wit , oppose the Kingpin mostly so she could exchange him .
While the codename ' Spider - B * * * * ' was part of the shock absorber valueOld Man Loganembraced ( this is the serial publication where full cousin Hulk and She - Hulk produce an US Army of inbred Vasco da Gamma monsters ) , it alsohad a Punk collection that made Ashley challenging , especially alongside the concept of Spider - B * * * * rejecting Peter Parker ’s ' power and responsibility ' mantra . There was true promise to Spider - B * * * * as an antihero , but sadly Marvel did n’t dumbfound with the name .
The ' 90 were a great era for Marvel Comics with some truly iconic character and story bring in . However , these figures are not like .
When Ashley reappeared in Marvel’sEdge of Spider - Verseevent , she now blend by the codename Spider - Woman , inspired by the universe ’s Spider - Heroes to become far more of a do - gooder . While turning Spider - B * * * * into another Spider - Woman was definitely a moreappropriatechoice , the badass post - apocalyptic anti - hero rendering of the character was definitely more interesting .
Source : Chris Hassan , AIPT;Comics Journal
