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The Adjectival Superhero
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A Comic Book Naming Convention - sort of - with roots in the Silver Age. The superhero's name is preceded by some sort of silly, over-the-top adjective such as "The Egregious Trope-Man". Usually in the actual book's title even if rarely used in the story. Keep in mind that not just any descriptors qualify for the trope — "New Trope-Man" is too simple, but "All-New, All-Different Trope-Man" can be sufficiently over-the-top. Now mostly used in the modern day either due to the Grandfather Clause or as a deliberate homage to the Silver Age. If the superhero gets a movie, expect the descriptor to be used at least once. Comes from the same era as Something Person names and Superhero Sobriquets, and often is an Alliterative Name. Replace a team's name with the number of members, and you have The Notable Numeral. Also compare other name and title tropes involving adjectives, Adjective Noun Fred and The Magnificent. Contrast the Dark Age of Supernames. See also The Fantastic Trope of Wonderous Titles. Not to be confused with The Adjectival Man, where the adjective is the main part of the character's "name". In this trope, the adjective is just thrown in for the heck of it. |
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The Ultimate Spider-Man. In fact, "the Ultimate Spider-Man" gets name-dropped several times in-show. | |
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The English version of the 1980s Astro Boy theme song refers to the title character as "The Amazing Astro Boy". | |
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Huntress: The original, pre-Crisis Huntress (Helena Wayne) was often billed as "The Hard-Hitting Huntress". | |
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Hawkman: DC's New 52 reboot includes The Savage Hawkman. | |
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The Mighty Thor: The Mighty Thor. During The New '10s, Comic Book/Jane Foster took over as the new Thor, along with the "Mighty" title, after the original lost his faith in the gods and could no longer lift his hammer. When the original Thor got a series of his own again to complement Jane's, it was titled The Unworthy Thor. In The New '20s, The Immortal Thor was published by the same team behind Immortal Hulk. |
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Ultimate Avengers | |
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X-Men: The Uncanny, Astonishing, X-Treme, and Extraordinary X-Men. Special notice goes to the All-New X-Men, who are actually the team's founding members in their teenage years, flung forward in time into the present. It's an ironic thing, obviously. The Immortal X-Men came during The Krakoan Age when the X-Men had unlocked the secret to Resurrective Immortality — and the book features that political time bomb starting to explode in their faces. Cain Marko is often proclaimed to be the Unstoppable Juggernaut. |
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The Hulk has flirted with a few other descriptors, Rampaging and Indestructible, but neither lasted very long. | |
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Hellcat: The Happy-Go-Lucky Hellcat. | |
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In Brazil, Kyojuu Tokusou Juspion is known as The Fantastic Jaspion. | |
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The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.. | |
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Sub-Mariner: The Savage Sub-Mariner, though this name didn't really stick. | |
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In The Simpsons, Abe Simpson's old military unit was called the Flying Hellfish. | |
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The Savage Dragon. Yes, contrary to popular belief, Officer Dragon lacks a first name and does not go by "Savage" in-story. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures: The spinoff team the Mighty Mutanimals. | |
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The Mighty Ducks | |
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Miraculous Ladybug. Although within the setting, the term Miraculous is not just an adjective, but also a noun. In the pre-production stage, when Ladybug was only conceptualized in mock comic book covers by Astruc and a friend, she was referred to as the Mini Menace Ladybug. |
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When Nightcrawler briefly took on a Spider-Man identity, he was the Uncanny Spider-Man. | |
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The episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles where Michelangelo adopts a superhero identity is called "The Unconvincing Turtle Titan". | |
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Omega the Unknown: The character is an Inversion, having the name first followed by the adjective, as opposed to being called "The Unknowable Omega" or something. | |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, as a Reconstruction of the Super Robot genre, would be a callback to this - the protagonists' main mecha is the Gurren Lagann, and "Tengen Toppa" means "Heaven-Piercing". However, as the Gurren Lagann keeps gaining upgraded forms later in the series, its final formnote at least in the main series - the Compilation Movie gives it a stronger "Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann" form is dubbed the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, turning this trope into a straight-up Title Drop. | |
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The Astounding Wolf-Man: The Astounding Wolf-Man. | |
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The Infamous Iron Man is Doctor Doom trying to lay claim to the name while Tony Stark is taking a break from heroics. (Lucky for everyone, Ironheart picked up the slack and acted as an actual heroic Iron (Wo)Man in the Invincible book.) | |
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The Defenders: The Fearless Defenders, a short-lived Amazon Brigade team. The name comes from a Fear Itself spinoff, The Fearless; and is likely doomed to be shorthand for "not that Defenders team, the all-girl one". | |
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Star-Lord: The Legendary Star-Lord. | |
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The Wonderful 101 | |
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The Amazing Colossal Man | |
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Mighty Joe Young | |
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The Incredible Melting Man | |
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The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Since other Power Rangers teams have shown up, it's become their proper title. | |
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In Sentinels of the Multiverse a few of the heroes or their variants have epithets, such as the Indestructible Bunker, the Savage Haka, and the Super-Scientific Tachyon. | |
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The Atomic Thunderbolt: The Atomic Thunderbolt. | |
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Work It Out Wombats!: Zeke's pretend superhero name is The Mighty Zeke. | |
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Discussed in the episode of The Big Bang Theory "The Hofstadter Isotope" since Penny knows that her nephew wants a Spider-Man comic book for his birthday but is unfamiliar with the adjectival system. | |
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Robin: Tim introduced himself as "The Spectacular Sunbird" when he needed to distance himself from Robin for secret identity purposes and was dressed in most but not all of the Robin costume. He evidently came up with it on the spot, or had been reading Astro City where the local Robin expy is called Sunbird. | |
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Captain Marvel: The Mighty Captain Marvel. During her time on The Avengers, Monica Rambeau was referred to as the Astounding Captain Marvel. |
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normalman: As a superhero parody, normalman has been called the Unconvinceable normalman and the Excruciatingly Average normalman. | |
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Ultimate Marvel: Any character's counterpart from the ultimate universe is invariably referred to as "the Ultimate [X]" when put beside their normal-universe counterparts; though the books themselves have technically dropped this kind of title system for a while in favor of Ultimate Comics: [X]. | |
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Irresponsible Captain Tylor. Technically a case of Adjective Noun Fred, but can be read as this depending on whether you read "Captain" as a descriptive noun or a proper title. | |
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The Pitiful Human Lizard: The Pitiful Human Lizard''. | |
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He is also the Avenging Spider-Man while a member of the Avengers, and the Fantastic Spider-Man while a member of the Fantastic Four. | |
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The Adjectival Superhero | |
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Wolverine: The Savage Wolverine (a reference to the story's setting, the Savage Land). | |
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The Talented Mr. Ripley | |
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The Adjectival Superhero | |
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When Blade needed to hide his identity, with the help of a Bland-Name Product Spider-Man outfit from a costume shop, he became the Splendiferous Spider Hero. With "Spider Hero" written across his chest. The Superior Spider-Man was not amused. | |
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The Adjectival Superhero | |
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When Venom acted as him during Dark Reign as a member of the Dark Avengers, he was called the Sinister Spider-Man. Sinister has also been applied to Silk as she drifts towards a Face–Heel Turn. | |
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The Adjectival Superhero | |
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The Mysterious Mr. Enter | |
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The Adjectival Superhero | |
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From Disney's Peter Pan, the musical number "The Elegant Captain Hook". | |
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The Adjectival Superhero | |
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The All-New, All-Different Avengers. Running at the same time as New Avengers, no less. And when that New Avengers got split from A.I.M. (long story) they named themself the All-New New Avengers for some issues. | |
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The Adjectival Superhero | |
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Cain Marko is often proclaimed to be the Unstoppable Juggernaut. | |
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The Adjectival Superhero | |
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Batman Beyond actually gives this to a villain: Indelible Inque. | |
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She-Hulk: The Savage/Sensational She-Hulk. At one point, at least, the titles were used to differentiate between multiple She-Hulks: The "Sensational" She-Hulk is Banner's cousin Jennifer Walters; while the "Savage" She-Hulk is Lyra, the Hulk's daughter from an alternate future. |
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Ghost Rider: The second villain to use the monikor of the Orb insists on being known as the All-New Orb. | |
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Iron Man: The Invincible Iron Man. It briefly ran alongside an International Iron Man book in 2015. He briefly became the Superior Iron Man shortly after Spider-Man ended its own Superior run. There was no direct connection between the two, but both books involved their protagonists dropping their usual principles - Spidey due to a body-swap, Tony due to having his morals magically inverted. The Infamous Iron Man is Doctor Doom trying to lay claim to the name while Tony Stark is taking a break from heroics. (Lucky for everyone, Ironheart picked up the slack and acted as an actual heroic Iron (Wo)Man in the Invincible book.) |
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The Big Bad Beetleborgs. (For the record, they're not that kind of Big Bad.) | |
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The Unbelievable Gwenpool: The Unbelievable Gwenpool. | |
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Moongobble and Me: Less a hero, but the titular character of book 2 is "The Weeping Werewolf"... so named because he cries a lot. It turns out he cries a lot because he's been separated from his family and misses them terribly. | |
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The Magnificent Ambersons | |
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Ms. Marvel: The Magnificent Ms. Marvel. | |
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On The Colbert Report, whenever Colbert does his "Better Know A (Congressional) District" segment the district is called "The Fighting Xth". | |
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The Colbert Report | hasFeature |
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Ant-Man: The Astonishing Ant-Man. This adjective serves as a reference to the fact the original Ant-Man, Hank Pym, made his first appearance in the anthology comic Tales To Astonish. One Ant-Man, Eric O'Grady, was a complete Jerkass, so his series was titled The Irredeemable Ant-Man. "Irredeemable" is still used to differentiate him from the other Ant-Men, Pym and Scott Lang. There's also his partner, "The Wondrous Wasp". "The Winsome Wasp" has also been used once or twice. Her successor is The Unstoppable Wasp. |
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Batman: Thanks to All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder and Memetic Mutation, DC finally has one: "the Goddamn Batman". And Barbara Gordon is "the Fucking Batgirl". | |
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Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series, the heroes are the 'Mighty Ducks'. | |
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The Immortal Hulk, referring to a tweak to Banner's powerset and a genre shift towards horror. | |
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The Immortal X-Men came during The Krakoan Age when the X-Men had unlocked the secret to Resurrective Immortality — and the book features that political time bomb starting to explode in their faces. | |
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For a team made up of both Avengers and X-Men members, they titled it Uncanny Avengers ("Uncanny" being associated with the X-Men). | |
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | |
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From Girl Genius: The Unstoppable Airman Higgs. He may not be Exactly What It Says on the Tin, but so far he's pretty much Made of Iron and seems to be fully capable of going toe-to-toe with jaegermonsters, the elite soldiers and barbarian pillagers altered by mad scientists to form the armies of the Heterodynes. It is later revealed that he is in fact the Jaeger Spymaster, whose human appearance allows him to infiltrate various other factions. | |
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The Incredible Hulk (2008) | |
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Not Brand Echh: Marvel made fun of themselves for this trope back in the '60s with this comic. For example, their muscular green guy in ripped pants was the Inedible Bulk. You whippersnappers might have seen him in Nextwave. | |
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Matt McMuscles' review series of various Spider-Man video games is titled "The Mediocre Spider-Matt''. | |
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The Adjectival Superhero | |
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The Amazing Spider-Man: Named after the original comic, and probably to differentiate it from the previous films, which were just called Spider-Man <insert number here>. | |
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The Spectacular Spider-Man | |
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Heroes Unite/Heroes Alliance: The Impractical Mr Imp. | |
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Static: Parodied, where the local Girl Posse all had My Nayme Is names (Bryttyni, Tyffyni, and Krystyn) and were therefore dubbed "The Insufferable Y-Wymyn" (with "Y-Women" additionally being a play on "X-Men"). | |
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The Multiversity: Earth-8's Spider-Man expy is the Battlin' Bug. | |
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There have been several Spider-Man games that borrow the comics' "the Amazing Spider-Man" as their title. Some of which were because they were tie-ins to the movies with that title. | |
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The Atom: Back in 2006, DC busted out The All-New Atom! Sadly, they brought back the original Atom not long after, and the all-new one got left by the roadside. | |
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There's also his partner, "The Wondrous Wasp". "The Winsome Wasp" has also been used once or twice. Her successor is The Unstoppable Wasp. | |
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He briefly became the Superior Iron Man shortly after Spider-Man ended its own Superior run. There was no direct connection between the two, but both books involved their protagonists dropping their usual principles - Spidey due to a body-swap, Tony due to having his morals magically inverted. | |
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Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos: Marvel is also responsible for the ultimate defied version of this trope. After Stan Lee made a bet with his publisher that he could get a book with the absolute worst title to sell well because of the "Marvel style", the comic was born! | |
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Spider-Man: The Amazing/Spectacular/Sensational Spider-Man, although Spidey himself prefers to use "Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" (which was eventually used as a book title itself). He may well have been the Trope Codifier for this, as his first appearance was in Amazing Fantasy, which was soon after canceled, and replaced on the newsstands with Amazing Spider-Man. When improvising a costume out of a borrowed Fantastic Four costume and a mask out of a paper bag, he became the Amazing or the Bombastic Bag-Man. He is also the Avenging Spider-Man while a member of the Avengers, and the Fantastic Spider-Man while a member of the Fantastic Four. When Venom acted as him during Dark Reign as a member of the Dark Avengers, he was called the Sinister Spider-Man. Sinister has also been applied to Silk as she drifts towards a Face–Heel Turn. The Superior Spider-Man is Doctor Octopus having hijacked Peter's body. When Blade needed to hide his identity, with the help of a Bland-Name Product Spider-Man outfit from a costume shop, he became the Splendiferous Spider Hero. With "Spider Hero" written across his chest. The Superior Spider-Man was not amused. Spider-Girl also eventually inherited Amazing and later Spectacular from her dad. The Radioactive Spider-Gwen (That can't be good!). Miles Morales is often referred to as the Ultimate Spider-Man, referring to his original book, to distinguish him from Parker. When Nightcrawler briefly took on a Spider-Man identity, he was the Uncanny Spider-Man. There's the D- or E-list joke hero called the Fabulous Frog-Man. Who eventually gained a sidekick in the Tenacious Tadpole. |
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The Incredible Hulk: The Incredible Hulk. This one has been used as the title of three television shows and a movie. Lampshaded by Peter David (who else?) in a story where the Hulk meets Rick Jones' mother-in-law. When she exclaims "Green skin! Amazing!" he replies "No, Spider-Man is amazing. I'm incredible!" The most well-known incarnation of the Hulk, the green, childlike one who (typically) speaks Hulk Speak, is known as the Savage Hulk, which has been used as a title for a series at least once. The Hulk has flirted with a few other descriptors, Rampaging and Indestructible, but neither lasted very long. There's also the Totally Awesome Hulk, who is Amadeus Cho, not Bruce Banner; and the descriptor reflects how Amadeus is an immature teenager who enjoys his powers rather than angsting about them as Bruce does. The Immortal Hulk, referring to a tweak to Banner's powerset and a genre shift towards horror. |
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The Incredible Hercules: When Hercules took over Hulk's book, it was retitled from The Incredible Hulk to the Incredible Hercules. | |
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The Incredible Mr. Limpet | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The Great and Powerful Trixie from the episode "Boast Busters". Trixie appears to be a Shout-Out to The Wizard of Oz, given that it's exactly the same phrase ("I am Oz, the Great and Powerful! ... Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.") And don't forget "The Mysterious Mare Do Well". |
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Special notice goes to the All-New X-Men, who are actually the team's founding members in their teenage years, flung forward in time into the present. It's an ironic thing, obviously. | |
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During her time on The Avengers, Monica Rambeau was referred to as the Astounding Captain Marvel. | |
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The Superior Spider-Man is Doctor Octopus having hijacked Peter's body. | |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox | |
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel | |
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Project Superpowers: The comics version of the Golden Age, public domain Daredevil had a comic called "The Death-Defying 'Devil". | |
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In the League of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions is The Amazing Quantum Man. | |
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Spider-Girl also eventually inherited Amazing and later Spectacular from her dad. | |
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The Radioactive Spider-Gwen (That can't be good!). | |
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Iron Fist: The Immortal Iron Fist. (Ironically, unlike Immortal Hulk, Immortal X-Men, and Immortal Thor that came later, Iron Fist does not involve literal immortality.) | |
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There's also the Totally Awesome Hulk, who is Amadeus Cho, not Bruce Banner; and the descriptor reflects how Amadeus is an immature teenager who enjoys his powers rather than angsting about them as Bruce does. | |
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Hyper the Phenomenal: The Golden Age hero plays with the format, being "Name the Adjective" instead of "The Adjective Name." | |
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Doctor Strange: Averted with Doctor Strange, who uses Superhero Sobriquets instead, but his enemies often fit this trope (the Dread Dormammu, the Unrelenting Umar). | |
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NOBY NOBY BOY in Japanese. "Nobinobi" is an adjective that means "to grow quickly", something the extremely elastic BOY does very well. | |
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The Amazing Mr. Blunden (the children's book it was based on, originally titled The Ghosts, was republished under this title too). | |
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The Awesome Slapstick: The Awesome Slapstick. | |
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The Great Saiyaman! | |
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Dragon Ball Z | hasFeature |
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Fantastic Four: The Fantastic Four(itself a Notable Numeral) has the Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Thing. This one is almost exclusively used by the Editor/Narrator, or by Ben himself in a self-deprecating way. It may be worth pointing out that "Ever-Lovin'" is a euphemism/bowdlerization of another, vaguely similar sounding phrase that begins "mother". Though not as prevalent as most examples, the team itself has occasionally been called "the Fabled Fantastic Four", and at least once as "The Fabulous Fantastic Four" (which was also suggested by Linkara. |
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The Masked Marvel: The Masked Marvel. | |
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In-universe in Captain Underpants. The title character's full name is "The Amazing Captain Underpants". George and Harold also created another hero called "The Amazing Cow Lady". | |
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Hollow Knight: The Five Great Knights of Hallownest each had their epithet: Mighty Hegemol, Kindly Isma, Fierce Dryya, Mysterious Ze'mer, Loyal Ogrim. | |
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In City of Heroes, starting at level 15, you can choose an adjective title for your character. At 25, you can add a second adjective (or just choose from a separate list). The complete list of titles is here. | |
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Deadpool: The Despicable Deadpool, christened as such when he decides to give up on trying to be a hero. | |
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