You know another way Bouncing Boy got screwed? (No, this isn't another Triplicate Girl joke.) Nearly every other Legionnaire had a cool "future"-sounding name like "Imra Ardeen" or "Querl Dox." Know what his was? "Chuck Taine." Seriously.

Since you've already got a character on the list who was supposed to be silly in Eye-Scream, I'm putting in a vote for Ambush Bug! He found his suit in a spaceship sent to Earth by the alien scientist Lum-El, and once he put it on he was forever changed (the zipper got stuck). Plus, his arch-nemesis was a sentient…

True, but it wasn't any sillier than "Pym particles."

I've already got one: time travel. Of course, it's stuck on "forward" at one second per second, but still...

The really bad thing is, Jimmy Olsen became Elastic Lad in the Silver Age almost exactly the same way, mistaking a bottle of questionable fluid Superman had given him for soda pop. Bonus: Supes got it from an alien.

Matter-Eater Lad.

Cute, but I'd rather have a blue canary in the outlet by the light switch:

@crashedpc /sarcasm: With Morrison writing him now, you never know...

Well, I don't think it was ever stated baldly in the comics that psi was the actual explanation, the editorial offices just allowed Byrne to hint that it might be.

@lightninglouie: This will learn me—I try to make a (not even very good) "Beginning Of The End" joke, and I suddenly have several Argentinians correcting me on my (not even very good) geography. I blame you, of course. ;P

Your pardon, I wasn't belittling Argentina's lakes, I just didn't have a map handy! Okay, the hoppers can be lured into Lagos Buenos Aires, is that better? :)

Nah, just broadcast their mating call over loudspeakers and they'll hop right into—what's the nearest Lake Michigan-sized body of water abutting Argentina, the Gulf of Mexico? Sex is the answer to everything.

Actually (unless it's been retconned again, which they seem to do with Supes every couple of years now), his cape does get torn up quite a bit these days, since it isn't inside his "aura." Martha Kent used to send Clark a fresh batch on a fairly regular basis after Byrne first rebooted him.

I know, I had that issue!

I've always kinda liked John Byrne's idea that Superman's powers are all psi-based: he doesn't fly so much as levitate, he uses telekinesis to lift objects and keep them from falling apart, his heat vision is really excitation of molecules at the molecular level with TK, the other vision powers are clairvoyance-based,…

@justvisiting: We'll just have to agree to disagree (except on which version we'd rather be running from, "Classic" are much less thrombosis-inducing). The "fast" ones are just a trope I find distasteful, like the current vampire one where the bloodsuckers get all uglified before they chomp on you, for seemingly no…

@justvisiting: I have to side with V on this. They're not dead and reanimated, they're nuts. Infected, but nuts. Perhaps we could differentiate like Coke in the 80's? Zomb Classic vs. New Zomb? Sounds about right.

Actually, it's Don wanting to be gone. (Carlyle trying not to collide? ...oh, I'll just come back in. *slams door*)

@mkirkland: "I'm sorry, but we can't be friends if you didn't like Good Omens."

@zapan: As a lifelong fan of The Ghost And Mister Chicken, I would tend to agree with you.