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British Superheros / Villains ?

 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
08:56 / 25.06.03
John Constantine.

Jenny Sparks.

King Mob (maybe).

Albion / Captain Britain (oh, dear).

Oh, and the Mirrormaster (a GM special, all right).

Any more?
 
 
sleazenation
09:11 / 25.06.03
Union jack/jack staff

Betsy "Psylocke" Braddock
 
 
sleazenation
09:12 / 25.06.03
Luther Arkwright...

just out of interest are we looking for britishcreated characters or characters who were born in Britain?
 
 
000
09:36 / 25.06.03
Jamie Braddox, Saturnyne, Feron, Meggan.
 
 
sleazenation
09:42 / 25.06.03
V (of V for Vendetta)

Miracleman
 
 
waxy dan
09:47 / 25.06.03
Zenith

Maximan

Robot Archie

Dan Dare

Miracleman

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

V

Isn't Jason Blood/Etrigan British as well?

Half of 2000AD (is this only superheroes?)
 
 
waxy dan
09:50 / 25.06.03
Banshee

Black Tom Cassidy
 
 
_Boboss
10:08 / 25.06.03
reckon you'd get your eardrums split and a quarterstaff up your arse for calling those last two british
 
 
sleazenation
10:19 / 25.06.03
The whole of The Establishment
 
 
Poke it with a stick
10:24 / 25.06.03
According to Peter Milligan, "the Establishment" isn't too far off the mark. Diana (the non-Amazonian) anyone?
 
 
Poke it with a stick
10:29 / 25.06.03
Of course, then I notice the thread two below this one and feel slightly foolish. Ah well, such is life.
 
 
waxy dan
10:44 / 25.06.03
Khaologan23ris
I am actually Irish. But it's not like they're going to get a mention in the Irish superheroes thread, is it? (Please no one start an Irish superheroes thread, it would just get embarrassing)

Also, taking British as in British Isles, Ireland's a part of that geographical group. click

Or, if you want to go back far enough, cultural/ethnic group. click. Though that is going back quite a bit, it's true. Certainly far enough for the meaning of the word to have changed.

So, sorry if I pissed you off there, I should have included a brief explanation of my beliefs on national boundaries and patriotism before including two characters in this 'list of superheroes' thread.
 
 
SavageFistsOfFengshui
11:58 / 25.06.03
Beefeater (John Cleese lookalike from Marshall Rogers's fill-in
on Justice League Europe)
Black Jack Tarr (from Master of Kung Fu)
Black Knight/Dane Whitman (the Avengers)
Captain Clyde (Grant Morrison)
Ka-Zar
Shining Knight (Seven Soldiers of Victory)
Spitfire (Roy Thomas & Frank Robbins's Invaders)
Willoughby Kipling (Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol)
Pete Wisdom (Warren Ellis's Excalibur)
 
 
sleazenation
12:03 / 25.06.03
Big Ben/British Bulldog
 
 
_Boboss
12:05 / 25.06.03
wow, tetchy
 
 
_Boboss
12:12 / 25.06.03
x-ray spex, faceache, laser eraser, fucking dragons claws

we could be here all day couldn't we? or we could be at

www.internationalhero.co.uk

where they're even crazier about this kind of thing than we are.
 
 
illmatic
12:24 / 25.06.03
(threadrot)

Is Alan Moore's Captain Britain stuff any good? Sexy costume, anyway.

(/threadrot)
 
 
waxy dan
12:37 / 25.06.03
It's an entertaining read, but does reek of being a writer's early work.

A lot of the ideas in it regarding the 'fictional' state of the characters and their partial realisation of this, reminds me a lot of Morrisson.

I also think it suffered (like early issues of V for Vendetta) from being ill-suited to the 6 (or so) page issue format. Other people probably have no problem with it, but I find it a bit jarring when I was reading the TPB.
 
 
Alphonse commands you!
12:47 / 25.06.03
Stretching the boundaries of what is super a bit, but:

Sherlock Holmes, for God's sake!

Jekyll/Hyde (villain?)

Dorian Grey (villain?)
 
 
waxy dan
12:58 / 25.06.03
Dangermouse

Superted
 
 
sleazenation
13:04 / 25.06.03
Death's Head !
 
 
waxy dan
13:16 / 25.06.03
Wasn't Death's Head sent after Galvatron at some stage?
 
 
sleazenation
13:27 / 25.06.03
yes but that was before he got his own series...
 
 
Quimper
13:59 / 25.06.03
Chamber
 
 
sleazenation
14:14 / 25.06.03
Alchemy
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:24 / 25.06.03
If we're gonna have King Mob & the boy Arkwright, then we've gotta have Jerry Cornelius (not just stories, y'know... a few comic strips too.)
 
 
Odrade
15:25 / 25.06.03
Sir William Gull (does he count? He is a pretty nasty villain at the end of the day...)
 
 
jjnevins
16:18 / 25.06.03
*sigh*

You'll pardon the tetchiness, but....

www.internationalhero.co.uk is *such* a half-arsed job. I mean, yes, he's got nice images there, but that's about it.

You want British (and international) heroes and villains?

Go to my Fantastic Victoriana site, at http://www.geocities.com/jessnevins/vicintro.html (forthcoming in fall/winter 2004 as The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana from MonkeyBrain Books) and my Pulp Heroes site, at http://www.geocities.com/jjnevins/pulpsintro.html (forthcoming in winter 2005/spring 2006 as The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes). I may not have the kewl pictures but unlike internationalheroesyobbo I actually a) provide descriptions of the heroes, which are taken from b) books and stories I've actually read, rather than been told about, and c) I've actually done some research on the subject.

And, yes, I've got British heroes and villains on the site. In great numbers.
 
 
000
10:32 / 26.06.03
Erm ... Imp, Crimson Crusader, Argent and all the other family members of the Caln Destine, from the comic book ClanDestine.
 
 
Catjerome
13:09 / 26.06.03
Supergran?
 
 
waxy dan
13:18 / 26.06.03
I'd completely forgotten Supergran! Brilliant!

Bananaman
 
  
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