ITT: Characters that should have been lame but were actually

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Let's be honest, the whole show should have sucked.

>>88165940
90s Superboy's look is still /fa/ as fuck to this day.

I mean, it's a nice contrast to the custome

>>88165940
I'd bang 90's Superboy

>>88165999
Yep
90s Superboy is proof fashion is circular.

Take off the belts on his boots and it could pass as a TOTALLY HIP AND COOL redesign that DC and marvel have been doing the past couple years.

>>88166278
Who invented "regular jacket over spandex" ? Zenith ? (Can't remember really)

His costume is still great , just in its design.
He'd need a new name if he came back I guess .
Also now he has shutter shades instead of John Lennon sunglasses

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>>88167321
Zenith was 1987.

>>88167395
But did anyone do it before him?

>>88167802
I don't know, I'm just saying that's when Zenith was.

>>88167321
Dunno, but there's only one instance of it looking good.
And that's Nextwave.

Call me he Metropolis kid!

>tfw young justice with classic line up will never return

It would be a good place to stick superboy/Robin 3/ impulse

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>>88165940
>also...was this considered a cool look in the 90s? Leather Biker jacket...John Lennon Sunglasses...sides of head shaved with greasers hair on top

Everyday life? I don't know Popular Culture? Yeah.

>>88168387
What's the cool new look? (If one was to update superboys look)

>>88168616
Pop culture is so disparate, the long tail theory and all that, that there isnt one, but a bunch. Ironically enough his haircut is back in a big way.

>>88168616
>superboy now has a Man-Bun

>>88168616
>>88168734
Undercuts are in so he can just keep his 90s hair

>>88165940
geoff johns ruined the shit out of this character

>>88165982
This
Remember before this cartoon came out I thought it sounded awful
Turned out to be great

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>>88165940
>was this considered a cool look in the 90s?
I was going to ask this, since I don't think there's been a depiction of 90's Kon I didn't wanted to fuck. Is this what ya'll had back then?

Whoever created the t-shirt and jeans look for Superboy needs to be blacklisted.

>>88165940
That's considered cool now.

Maybe switch the turtle glasses with aviators but honestly they work just as well. Typical fuccboi outfit

>>88165982

This. Batman Beyond should have been awful.

>>88167395
grant did it all

>>88165940
I always loved those gloves with the rolled cuffs.

Rogue had them too, they're awesome.

>>88167321
Paradax

>>88170863
bleedingcool com/2013/07/05/the-curious-case-of-brendan-mccarthys-paradax-and-zenith/

>>88165940

I'm pretty sure he was always meant to be straddling the line between "genuinely cool" and "obviously trying too hard", at least that's what I infer from his characterization.

>>88170498

Geoff Johns

>>88171724
Nice observation anon, I never thought of it that way. Most of the time I forget that these characters are supposed to be dressing themselves rather than the artist. Well, ideally.

>>88168857
I liked the lex twist (though I never much cared for his original origin in the first place)...but yeah...Geoff didn't do a very good job with the character

>>88171791
It's funny how Johns just completely changed a character for the worse without a hint of self-awareness.

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This whole show on paper reeks of executive marketing. Instead we got awesome body horror

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Here I just updated his style. He's ready for his comeback

>>88172377
Why didn't they turn this into a movie? It doesn't get more diverse than that cast.

>>88165982
Timm and Dini took a shitty idea that was handed to them and deliberately subverted in the darkest way possible.
Those fuckers were MASTERS of squeezing shit past censorship and slipping crap under the radar.

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>>88165940
Well, I didn't think that a show with Iron man as a teenager could be that good.

>>88167321
>>88167395
When did Animal Man first don his denim jacket? I remember his series being in like 88 or 89 and he had it then.

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>>88165940
The jacket + sunglasses combo was a pretty common "cool guy" look in the 90s, not sure about the hair.

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1984

>>88165940

that''s a cool look now

>>88174352
>>88173841

jacket over superhero spandex

>>88173598

he's got it on the cover to issue 1

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>>88174411
It is.

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>>88173841
does Black Canary count as first superhero to wear a jacket ??

I'm discounting heroes that their costumes consisted of a suit (the shadow, sandman etc) .

>>88174411
>he's got it on the cover to issue 1
Yeah I know, but he appeared in DC long before the self-titled series.