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Steel (Comic Book)
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Superman Main Character Index Title Character Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superman Supporting Cast Lois Lane | Jimmy Olsen | Ambush Bug | Steel Villains Central Rogues Gallery (Alexander "Lex" Luthor, Bizarro, Vril Dox/Brainiac, Cyborg-Superman, Darkseid, Doomsday, Lobo, Mister Mxyzptlk, Mongul, Phantom Zone Criminals [General Zod]) | A-L | M-Z (Superboy-Prime) Spin-Offs Supergirl (Kara Zor-El/Linda Danvers/Supergirl, Supporting Cast, Rogues Gallery) | Power Girl | Superboy (Conner Kent/Kon-El, Jonathan "Jon" Samuel Kent, Supporting Cast, Rogues Gallery) | Legion Of Superheroes (The Founders, Silver Age, Bronze Age, Five Years Later, Postboot, Threeboot, Retroboot, Rebirth, Other Heroes, The Fatal Five, The Legion of Supervillains, Other Villains, Supporting Cast) | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: His physical appearance was originally based on Shaquille O'Neal. So naturally, when the movie came out, Shaq got pegged for the role. | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy: John Henry ended up becoming this after taking up the Entropy Aegis armor, a special Power Armor designed by Darkseid using the shell of a Imperiex Probe. | |
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From Shame, Heroism | |
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From Shame, Heroism: John Henry Irons first donned his armor when experimental weapons he'd designed somehow made their way into the hands of street gangs, and a young boy from his neighborhood was brutally killed by one of them. Knowing the nature of the weapons, and his responsibility in creating them, Irons becomes The Man of Steel, later simply Steel, to help take those guns off of the streets again. | |
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Never Be a Hero | |
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Never Be a Hero: Steel to Natasha. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: Averted in his out-of-armor hours, he's the most noble of Superman's expies. He does tend to scare the shit out of his enemies, however, and for good reason. | |
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Thunder Hammer | |
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Thunder Hammer: Steel's hammer has a variety of features revolving around electromagnetism. It can measure electromagnetic energy, generate EMPs to disrupt machinery and be tuned to the Earth's magnetic field making it impossible to move. When not in use, the hammer can be magnetically attached to Steel's back. | |
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Gentle Giant | |
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Gentle Giant: Despite everything he still considers himself a scientist and not a fighter. | |
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Powered Armor | |
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Powered Armor: His suit is powered armor powered by many sources. | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise | |
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Paper-Thin Disguise: His helmet is more or less molded like his face (similar to Destro). Thankfully, only his family recognized him. | |
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Empowered Badass Normal | |
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Empowered Badass Normal: He may be most known for his awesome Power Armor, but he's got an astonishing natural physique and more than enough combat aptitude to be a Badass Normal even if he lacked it. | |
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Let's Get Dangerous! | |
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Let's Get Dangerous!: When a young boy was killed by a Toastmaster gun, a weapon he designed years ago, enough was enough and it would motivate him to create the first Steel armor. | |
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Arm Cannon | |
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Arm Cannon: The original armor packed a wrist-mounted rivet gun. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: John Henry of legend and the famous song was a "steel-drivin' man", a rock drillernote done by hammering a steel drill into the rock who worked on railroad tunnels and raced against a steam-powered rock drill. He won the race, but "died with his hammer in his hand". | |
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My Greatest Failure | |
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My Greatest Failure: When John Henry was part of the U.S. Defense, he had designed high-powered weapons, only to have the designs stolen and sold on the Black Market. He ran and changed his name to get away from this... only to find out the weapons were being used in Metropolis. When one killed a young boy, that was enough. | |
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AB Negative | |
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AB Negative: In one story, Steel's niece Natasha Irons is injured and in need of blood. It's stated that she has a rare blood type, and John Henry's is incompatible. This necessitates Natasha's father, who had been thought dead and was acting as a vigilante, to come to the hospital to save her life. Interestingly, in a later story, Natasha is able to provide an emergency blood transfusion to John Henry without issue, apparently meaning the incompatibility is only one-way. | |
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Adaptational Early Appearance | |
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Adaptational Early Appearance: Steel was first introduced in the aftermath of the Death of Superman storyline that was published in The '90s, long after Superman had been established both in real life and within the timeline of the DC Universe. By contrast, the New 52 version of Steel made his debut during the early months of Superman's career, showing up to help the young Kryptonian hero during his very first clash with Metallo. | |
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Pronouncing My Name for You | |
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Pronouncing My Name for You: Dr. Villain. "Will-hane. It's French." | |
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GoodCounterpart | |
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Good Counterpart: In the New 52 continuity, he's envisioned as this to John Corben (Metallo). The two of them start out as colleagues in the US military's "Steel Soldier" project, which was created to neutralize the perceived extraterrestrial threat of Superman. Irons resigns in disgust after the military has Superman tortured, and steals the project's prototype armor to rescue Superman when he's in trouble; Corben stays loyal to the military until the end, and is driven insane by his armor's alien technology. | |
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Forging Scene | |
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Forging Scene: Steel usually does this every time he makes a new suit of armor. Especially in Grant Morrison's JLA, since Morrison saw him as the Hephasteus of the League's pantheon, and therefore would rather show him sweating over a forge than adjusting servomotors with a screwdriver. | |
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Take Up My Sword | |
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Take Up My Sword: Inverted when Superman returned, Steel briefly quit wearing the S-Shield. Superman was quick to tell him that he had earned the right to wear it. | |
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Brought to You by the Letter "S" | |
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Brought to You by the Letter "S": Played with. When Superman returns, John removes the "S" from the pentagon on his chest. Superman tells him he earned the "S", and says he's perfectly fine with him wearing it. | |
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A Master Makes Their Own Tools | |
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A Master Makes Their Own Tools: Forged his suit of power armor in the very same way as Tony Stark in a cave with a pile of scraps - however, he was a techie living in a major city and working out of his basement, and probably could have arranged some better tools than a hammer and anvil. | |
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Affirmative-Action Legacy | |
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Affirmative-Action Legacy: He really wasn't trying to be (he only wore the "S" in Superman's honor), but that didn't stop many people from calling him "The Black Superman" during the Reign of the Supermen. | |
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Paying It Forward | |
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Paying It Forward: Irons was inspired to become a superhero after being rescued by Superman. | |
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Character Witness | |
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Character Witness: In the Steel movie. He's kind of this in the comics too. Who knew saving one high-steel worker would pay off so well for Superman? | |
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Genius Bruiser | |
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Genius Bruiser: He's a brilliant scientist, and is more than capable of kicking ass without his armor. | |
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Anti-Hero Substitute | |
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Anti-Hero Substitute: Inverted; the other Superman pretenders trying to replace the Big Blue Boyscout after his death were varying degrees of Anti-Hero, but Steel is just as heroic as the original, if not MORE so. Which may be related to why he had the best reception of them all. It also probably helped that unlike the others, Steel never actually claimed to be Superman or his substitute, but was just operating as best he could in Superman's memory and honor. | |
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Appropriated Appellation | |
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Appropriated Appellation: He began as "The Man of Steel", a literal version of Superman's famous definition. Superman himself found it too long and called him just "Steel" and it stuck. | |
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Not That Kind of Doctor | |
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Not That Kind of Doctor: Has to deal with this off-frame in one issue when he's visiting a friend's hospital during a busy period. When he was employed by a hospital in the Christopher Priest run, he objected to being called "Dr. Irons", because it was misleading. The hospital administrator said it was good publicity. | |
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The Blacksmith | |
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The Blacksmith: He has many elements of this, including being a weapon engineer and making iron armor. | |
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The Cape | |
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The Cape: Out of all four Superman pretenders, he is the only who can be considered unambiguously good. Put this together with the fact that he's simply an ordinary man working a blue-collar job, and you'll see why some consider his heroics to be even more impressive those of the big man himself. | |
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Composite Character | |
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Composite Character Expy of Thor and Iron Man | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Gained one in Milestone's Hardware, who had a similar background and M.O., but was on the opposite side of the Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism. Composite Character Expy of Thor and Iron Man | |
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Steven Ulysses Perhero | |
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Steven Ulysses Perhero: The "Irons" aside, it's also a shout-out to American folklore hero John Henry. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: In his introduction, there is a flashback in which Irons, working high steel, prevents another worker from falling, only to be the one needing rescuing. When he is rescued by Superman, we get the following exchange: | |
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Gadgeteer Genius | |
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Gadgeteer Genius: Half his gadgets in his armor are his own inventions. | |
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