Characters whose first appearance wouldn't have lead you to think they'd become quite so prominent as they eventually did.
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Characters who became surprisingly prominent
Carson James
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Jeremiah Green
Gwenpool. Started off as a goofy variant cover, then made her first appearance in a back up story in Howard The Duck, then her own ongoing, figures, video game appearances, ect.
Now she's dropped off the face of the Marvel Universe, all within a span of about 3 or 4 years.
Easton Howard
Punisher
Noah Gray
Joker. Was originally going to be a one-off villain in one of the stories in Batman #1 but the editor thought he had potential so the ending was changed so he survived and could return.
Connor Collins
Superboy Prime
Easton Wilson
Moon Knight
Julian Smith
Spidergwen too
Asher Myers
Black Widow
Grayson Hill
Doctor Aphra, who was nothing more than a "companion" for Darth Vader in his comics who's now getting her own live-action D+ series (allegedly). If you want to believe some conspiracies I've seen, she's the result of "artificial popularity" perpetuated by Disney because none of the Sequel Trilogy characters were clicking with the fanbase.
Jordan Fisher
Henry Pym
Isaiah Lee
Crossbones was basically an attempt (before them) at the Bane/Doomsday type villain for Cap that I figured wouldn’t be around for long, but now he’s a staple of Captain America. It’s a shame the movies wasted him so badly.
Jose Torres
Adam Warlock went from some throwaway villain in two issues of fantastic four to marvel's top cosmic hero
Nathaniel Cook
The Thimble Theatre comic strip would have been forgotten 100 years later if it wasn't for introducing Popeye as a one-off character.
William Reyes
Scrooge
Noah Perez
The Cockroach
Liam Evans
Groot and Rocket Raccoon
Kayden Hill
Machine Man
Samuel Ross
Guy Gardner
Adam Green
Groot especially.
Julian Collins
why, what were they in their first appearance, random bandits that slightly inconvenienced the FF?
Levi Cooper
Rocket was created with the intent to get a mini-series, but Groot was a random pre-FF monster who had one appearance, died and then had to wait 20 years to even show up again (and then it was just a clone controlled by Xemnu). Then he had to wait almost 15 more years to get another appearance, once again as a copy. And THEN he was sorta brought back in several places at once in the 2000s, 40 years after his first appearance Keith Giffen used him as one of the alien convicts in Annihilation which kicked off his climb to fame.
Ryan Cooper
that's a hell of a climb up, good for him
Christopher Martinez
>If you want to believe some conspiracies I've seen, she's the result of "artificial popularity" perpetuated by Disney because none of the Sequel Trilogy characters were clicking with the fanbase.
That doesn't make any sense. How is an artificially popular character a solution to the problem of characters being artificially popular? Wouldn't make more sense that she was genuinely popular and that's the reason they're pushing her, to make up for the failed push of unpopular characters?
Jose Rivera
Yeah it was a hell of a case of sudden upwards movement.
Christopher Thomas
That’s surprising this was Groot’s introduction
Adrian Ward
except the groot most people know isnt actually groot because of some dumb retcons
Hudson King
That happened later, after the character became famous. Giffen intended the GOTG Groot to be the same as the original guy.
Yeah, only a few of the pre-FF monsters have become truly iconc, with Groot, Fin Fang Foom and maybe Xemnu counting.
Ryan Johnson
I never thought Superboy Prime would be remembered as anything other than a forgotten AU Superman that got teleported out of existence.
Also, bringing him back after CoIE was a mistake.
Justin Foster
Hell, I consider myself a pretty big comics geek and I had to think for a second about who Xemnu was.
Samuel Myers
Yeah, I'm only including him because Immortal Hulk is so popular and might make him a much bigger name.
John Wright
bump
Benjamin Ramirez
Fritz
Jace Davis
Roger
Josiah Ramirez
Austin Phillips
Matthew Lopez
Wolverine was always expected to be relatively popular, he was introduced in Hulk with the knowledge that he'd been in the X-men a few months later. Not to the point that he was an equal to Batman and Superman but still.
Jackson Murphy
Expected to be relatively popular is a bit of a stretch, the X-men at the time were not a very popular team.
Adrian Fisher
How so? The X-Men weren't popular yet when they put him on the team.
Justin Mitchell
Bro, X-men were never very popular around that time. They were known about but weren't huge.
As for Wolverine, he was supposed to be a Hulk archnemesis, not an X-man.
He wasn't even supposed to be a fucking mutant.
He was at best supposed to be a rogue mutate wolverine-man.
The fuck are you getting this?
Xavier Brown
I remember reading somewhere that the original plan was to have him be an actual wolverine that mutated into a human, does anyone know the validity of that?
Blake Thompson
Carter Gutierrez
Zippy
Colton Green
The entire Legion of super-heroes
John Price
I still remember watching X-Men Evolution as a kid and thinking how dumb Wolverine having a clone not-daughter was.
The last decade and a half really made a fool out of me.
Noah Hill
Speedy Ortiz
Jeremiah Garcia
Spider-Man
Gabriel Gray
He wasn’t a villain. The scientists who made him were.
Nathaniel Johnson
The Addams Family
Charles Bailey
Rat Fink
Alexander Ortiz
Definitely this. He literally started off as a throwaway idea for a Spider-Man villain hired by the Jackal, the most obscure of Peter’s major enemies.
Camden Turner
Similar to Squirrel Girl. A joke from way back, brought back in the mid 2000s to a surprisingly good reception, then the joke ran its natural course but just wouldn't die and now it's... well, what it is.
Angel Sanchez
Col. James Rhodes
Charles Johnson
When will we get a character who beats Superman Prime by magically/mentally imposing clarity upon him so he can realize for an instant how absurdly not the protagonist he's been all along?
Ryder Johnson
Not only was he disposable, he was a ripoff of the character Mack Bolan: Executioner who was very popular in cheap novels at the time Frank was created.
Xavier White
Gwenpool might be the answer. Literally a cover
Luke Martinez
pretty sure Wolverine was gonna get killed off before Byrne came on the book and thought it was cool to draw a Canadian.
Jose Davis
>The character was intended to be killed in his second appearance in Batman #1, after being stabbed in the heart. Finger wanted the Joker to die because of his concern that recurring villains would make Batman appear inept, but was overruled by then-editor Whitney Ellsworth; a hastily drawn panel, indicating that the Joker was still alive, was added to the comic.[2][17][18] The Joker went on to appear in nine of Batman's first twelve issues.[19]
Bill Fingers reasoning against recurring villains is funny when people criticize the revolving door Arkham’s become
Levi Reyes
>Bill Fingers reasoning against recurring villains is funny when people criticize the revolving door Arkham’s become
Yeah that was a super common mode of thought in the 1930's and 40's and basically resulted in there being very few recurring villains in the era. Didn't change until various changes in the public consciousness in the late 40's
Dylan Lopez
Pre-Immortal Hulk, the most memorable thing about him is that L Ron Hubbard ripped him off for Scientology's devil figure.
Chase Powell
And backtracking, those oc girls spideys from Spiderverse.
Eli Murphy
Sha la la la that ain't no crime