Fff Results Post #100—Nobody Gets You Quite Like I Get You

Five For Friday #100 Results

On Friday afternoon, participating CR readers were asked to "Name Five Minor or Obscure Characters You Like More Than Anyone Else Likes Them." Here are the results.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Crackerjack Jackson -- made beans in a can for Incredible Hulk
2. Thibault -- proto-Nelson
3. Baron Mordo -- should be Darth Vader of Marvel super-duper world
4. The Clutching Hands -- best name ever
5. Brynocki -- sentient evil robot Dondi

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Evan Dorkin

1. Klik-Klak -- Kamandi bug steed (R.I.P.)
2. The Trapster -- paste gun packing putz
3. Mr. Raccoon -- adorable sentient backpack from Andi Watson's Skeleton Key
4. The Froat -- goofy Gilbert Hernandez monsterpiece ( R.I.P.)
5. Bat-Mite -- omnipotent fanboy

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H

1) Human Bomb
2) Invisible Un-Thing
3) Larry Lance
4) Enrichetta Negrini
5) The Zodiac (Marvel villain group)

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Jamie Coville

1. The Grizzly, an ex-wrestler in a bear rug power suit. Spider-Man villain
2. The entire cast of D.P.7. from Marvels New Universe
3. Captain Marvel/Photon/Monica from Avengers, then Nextwave
4. Damian Hellstorm, the Son of Satan
5. Leir, the Lord of Lightning, a Tom DeFalco character from his run on Thor

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J Caleb Mozzocco

1.) The Human Flea (One-off villain from 1993's Batman: Shadow of the Bat #11-#12)
2.) Hecate, Set and Amon (The crazy-ass demon horses that used to pull Daimon Hellstrom, Son of Satan's flaming chariot)
3.) El Gato (One-off villain from Omega The Unknown #4)
4.) Cathedral (a superhero who wore a suite shaped like a church in two whole panels of Mark Waid and Alex Ross' Kingdom Come)
5.) That guy in the corner of the cover of Action Comics #1

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Fred Hembeck

1. Mr. McNabbem, the truant officer who for some reason thought it a good idea to go after Lulu, Tubby, and all their other little friends dressed in a suit made out of a blue and white checkered tablecloth.
2. Mike Murdock, Matt's swingin' "twin brother" whose persona made Funky Flashman seem downright subdued by comparison.
3. Gideon, the bald-headed zillionaire who tried to defeat the Fantastic Four using the raw, unfettered power of his money in FF #34, only to be stopped--and ultimately redeemed--by the pure goodness of his family's love on the story's final page.
4. Freddy, the "good boy" (and yeah, my namesake) whose last ten minutes of life we're witness to in a Spirit episode that features little more than a cameo by the series star.
5. Hyper-Man, the Man of Steel doppleganger from 1960's Action Comics #265 whose true identity was "accidentally" revealed (as well as being completely depowered in the process) to the denizens of his home planet by our own seemingly clumsy Superman after the Kryptonian discovered that, unbeknownst to the purple-suited do-gooder, Hyper-Man was slowly dying, and thus, wanted to insure him a final year of peace spent with the woman he loved. To this day, that one STILL gets me--sniff...

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Uriel A Duran

* Gyro Gearloose's Little Helper
* Gangbuster
* The Creature Commandos (the modern version)
* Max the Rottweiler (a.k.a. The Punisher's Dog)
* Mervyn Pumpkinhead

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Michael May

Snowbird (Alpha Flight)
Dane (30 Days of Night: Dark Days)
Yuki (30 Days of Night: Dark Days)
Lilly (Azrael)
Bork (The Power Company)

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David Gallaher

1. Thunderbolt -- Yeah that dead speedster in you Marvel Handbooks, yeah that guy!
2. Johnny Dollar -- Sure, I wrote a comic with him, but that doesn't make him any less obscure to comic fans!
3. Gomi from The Fallen Angels -- when was the last time you saw him in a book?
4. Hybrid -- not the Rom villain, the one from all those Venom minis in the 90s. I have his toy.
5. Justice from Avengers: The Initiative.

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Sean Kleefeld

1. Willie Evans Jr. (the kid from Fantastic Four #203 who made an evil FF out of thin air)
2. Pseudo-Man (Steve Gerber villain from Sensational She-Hulk #11)
3. The Protector (Robin stand-in from the New Teen Titans Drug Awareness issues)
4. Snarf (from Larry Elmore's SnarfQuest that was serialized in the back of Dragon Magazine)
5. Any and all villains from those Hostess ads!

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Chris Randle

1. Mason Lang -- Bruce Wayne browsing Netflix on acid
2. Turner D. Century -- Flies around on a tandem bicycle, loves the Gay Nineties, scorns the degenerate modern world
3. Sauron -- I'm not sure that there anyone else who actually likes Sauron
4. Mark Lord -- I bet he totally listened to Earth Crisis while formulating his giant-panther-based scheme to destroy New York City
5. Mr Melmoth -- Evil Noel Coward

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Corey Blake

* The Bug-Eyed Voice: Speedball villain from the short-lived solo series by Steve Ditko. (Exactly what a bug-eyed voice sounds like, I have no idea. But I love the name and the cover sure was nifty. See Speedball #6.)
* Hauler: proto-Grapple from original Transformers episode 1. (He was seen for a whole 5 seconds, and not even in robot form, and then never seen from or mentioned again.)
* Silhouette: ex-girlfriend of Night Thrasher (Yes, I know, "Who?" But she's a handicapped half-black/half-Korean woman. She wins nearly every underdog/minority contest.)
* Blackout: Old Nova villain. (Sure his costume was goofy but that black gunk power was scary.)
* Cloak: partner to Dagger. (Everyone always likes Dagger more. But Cloak has a much better design and freaky powers.)

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Chris Keels

Dude, I totally like Brynocki more than you, but here you go...

1. Arnim Zola
2. The Reject (Eternals)
3. Fancy Dan (The Enforcers; all three of them are great, so this was a tough call)
4. Janet Polo (Love & Rockets)
5. Doggo (Mode O'Day)

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Scott Dunbier

Flower from Kamandi
Willie Lumpkin from the Fantastic Four
Rover from Gasoline Alley
Julie Schwartz in The Flash
Duncan in Danger Girl (Okay, I'm biased)

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David Jones

You made this one just for me, didn't ya. Only five. Hmmm...

1. Super-Hip! (Adventures of Bob Hope)
2. Gypsy (Justice League)
3. Beaker Parish (Thriller)
4. Hellgrammite (Brave and the Bold #80)
5. The Squire III (Beryl Hutchinson, from the recent Batman three parter and JLA Classified #'s 1-3)

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Aaron White

1. Kodachi Kuno, The Black Rose from Ranma ½-any woman who uses knockout drugs to subdue the guy she loves is okay by me.
2. That snake rapper from Matthew Thurber's Kramers Ergot 6 story. I'm always driven to rap along with him, even though I'm uncertain about the scansion.
3. The cuckolded husbands in those Housewives at Play pictures.
4. Netley -- From Hell. Just because I like to quote William Gull's line "What does this imply, Netley?" for no particular reason.
5. The Kidney Lady from Howard the Duck. I pretty much agree with everything she has to say.

*****

Thanks to all that participated!
 
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