Is he just Sandman with water?

>>84370628
Sometimes he's used to make an MJ clone

>>84370641
Yeah that was a weird plot line in the 90s cartoon.
>>84370628
Pretty much imo. He once combined with sandman actually.

>>84370628
Sandman is just Hydro with Sand.

They're so similar there was once a storyline where they competed for the affections of some dumpy bar floozy.

After fighting, they accidentally combined into a mud monster and the floozy took it onto a late night talk show, where iirc it went berserk, Spider-Man fought it and somehow it got separated again at the end of it all.

>>84370628
Powerwise sure. But Sandman has had more done with his character.

>>84370628
Yeah, but when superheated Sandman can still do shit in his glass form, but if Hydro-Man gets frozen he's stuck like that

>>84370628
Hydro-man is way cuter than Sandman though, so he's not a complete bust.

>>84370657
On the plus side, Spidey's half-way to having an elemental redheads harem
Water MJ, Fire Firestar
Just needs and Earth rehead and a wind redhead.
Jean can count as the fifth element of mind I guess

>>84370675
What if he becomes steam?

What happens to sand when it's frozen?
Not much?

Power wise maybe, but they couldn't be more different as characters. This is /co/ though so I don't expect people to look beyond powers

>>84370728
Steam? Nothing Spider-Man beat him like that once. He just evaporated and reformed weeks later I think

>>84370715
The fifth element is love/heart, dumbass. You need Mila Jovovich or a black kid for that.

>>84370749
in everything not captain planet the 5th element is void/quintessence

>>84370749
Ma-Ti wasn't black

Anywho, I was thinking of Mind as filling in for Ether

>>84370884
Aether*
My bad

>>84370860
that's the zeroth element

Sorta, only Spider-Man is directly responsible for Hydro-Man's creation; iirc he knocked the dumb shmoe off an oil rig by accident, then he got covered in chemicals, then he became Hydro-Man

>>84370628
Yeah. He filled out the role Sandman used to play before going good.