Who's your favorite comic book character?

[yell0w_lantern]

Spider-man and Guy Gardner

followed by Flash, Captain Marvel (Billy pre-longhair), Hourman and Hal Jordan

[Doom]

Wise choice. DOOM is the only character!

-DOOM!
:doom2:

[Sword]

Hey Doom, how long has it been since Squirrel Girl totally owned you? That makes her one of my favorites.

[kkhohoho]

Hey Doom, how long has it been since Squirrel Girl totally owned you? That makes her one of my favorites.

Mind posting a pic or, if that's too much, explaining what happened to those who would wish to laugh at Doom's expense? :)

[Previsionary]

Marvel:

1. Gravity
2. Spider-man
3. Iceman
4. Storm
5. Jubilee/Dazzler (old)
6. Psylocke (until recently with her "my tk can destroy mountains!" and many crotch shots under claremont's latest run)
7. Blink

DC:

1. Green Arrow
2. Flash
3. Impulse
4. Red tornado
5. M. Manhunter

As for characters not under the big 2 branch, there's not many but:

1. I liked X-O Manowar for awhile
2. The Tick!
3. Er...a few of seth green's heroes in Freshmen
4. Savage Dragon (I can still hear the cartoon tune in my head...very faintly)
5. Sakura/Ryu in the Udon SF comics

[Gokou]

Here's the list of my favorite characters.

Anime
Gokou - DBZ
Luffy - Onepiece

Marvel
Spider-man
Cyclops
Captain America
Hulk

DC
Superman
Batman

[Sword]

Simply put, Doom got mugged by hundreds of squirrels under Squirrel Girl's control. And it was in continuity.

[catastrophe]

Marvel: Spider-man, Ms.Marvel, Taskmaster, Annihilus, Captain America, Blackheart, Venom, Gambit, The Fallen One.

DC: Black Adam

HOLY CRAP! Catastrophe, you're still alive?!?!
Haven't seen you around these parts in...well it seems like a few years...

hehe yepp im still alive, returned 2 weeks ago or so :P been playing alot of CoH lately ^_^

[Silver Shocker]

Simply put, Doom got mugged by hundreds of squirrels under Squirrel Girl's control. And it was in continuity.

It might have been a Doombot. In Walt Simonson's run on FF he had Doom show up and imply that some, if not all, of his apperances over the years were Doombots filling in for him. It was meant to be a retcon to explain away any out of character Doom appearances or appearances an individual reader didn't like, since it was ambiguous enough that the read could decide for themselves which appearances they thought were likely to be fake.

[Sword]

True, but Squirrel Girl also beat down Thanos, and they made a point of Uatu the Watcher saying it wasn't a clone, robot, duplicate or other simulacrum.

[Cardmaster]

True, but Squirrel Girl also beat down Thanos, and they made a point of Uatu the Watcher saying it wasn't a clone, robot, duplicate or other simulacrum.

Right, but then Thanos claimed that he had developed such sophisticated simulacrums not even the Watchers could tell it wasn't him. haha...

...gotta love writers attempting to fix the mistakes of others, neh?

Back on subject, however:

From the DC Universe:
1) Impulse  :wub:
2) Kyle Rayner GL
3) Batman

From the Marvel Universe:
1) Nightcrawler
2) Spider-Man
3) Gambit or Iceman..

-CM

[jtharris86]

Ey that Superman

[C4]

1. Rogue (Jim Lee)
2. Psylocke (Jim Lee)
3. Phoenix (Jim Lee)
4. Spider-man
5. Superman
6. Wolverine (Jim Lee)
7. Hiro (Heroes) *there is a comic book at DC so I think he counts*

[Blkcasanova247]

Captain America is and always will be my favorite character!

[Dr.Volt]

Bump.

Ok finally getting around to this.  And I have to say that it is really tough!  There are so very many great characters that I have loved throughout the years, and some more recently: 

Marvel

•   spider-man (pretty much my all time favorite.  What a fantastic character)
•   Iceman (I think it was spider-man and his Amazing Friends that did it...I always loved his ice slides...man I wish I could do that!)
•   Wolverine (yeah I know, typical...no freakin' ultimate here either, bub!)
•   The Beast, I've always loved Hank's whitty banter, loved the fact that he's a genius and yet that his powers are so physical
•   Nightcrawler, Kurt was a great character that was always fun to watch
•   All four of the Fantastic Four (seriously...all four of them...with John Byrne on pencils!)

D.C.  (so many really excellent iconic characters!)

•   Aquaman (Aquaman #1 was one of my very first comic books if you can believe it!  When Peter David was writing the book back in the 90s, what a great time!)
•   Batman
•   Robin (with big ups to New Teen Titans with George Perez on pencils)
•   Hawkman and Hawkgirl, there's just something COOL about them both!!  You gotta love heroes that fly and hit people with REALLY big melee weapons!
•   Flash (hmmmm...probably Barry over Wally...but it's close) 

Independents

•   The TICK!!!  Superhero parody at it's finest! Spoooooooooon!!!!!
•   Invincible (oh man, sooooooo good!)
•   Buzzboy (hoakie, cheesy, fluffy goodness.  Kind of Tick like)
•   Jack Staff, WAY underappreciated! 
•   Captain Canuck (What?  A national defender without an indestructible shield, that can't fly, or shoot energy beams out of his eyes?  Ha!!  Good stuff!)
•   Johnny Raygun (a recent find and VERY good)
*           SAVAGE DRAGON, can't believe I forgot to put SD in here!  Really great and fun character!

Honorable mention:
•   Green Lantern stuff, I've always thought GL was very cool, but trying to uncover all the various GL's gives me a headache
•   Wonderwoman, she's awesome, never got into the character much, but she was very arguably the first strong female hero...and her character endures today.  That rocks!

[Silver Shocker]

True, but Squirrel Girl also beat down Thanos, and they made a point of Uatu the Watcher saying it wasn't a clone, robot, duplicate or other simulacrum.

Right, but then Thanos claimed that he had developed such sophisticated simulacrums not even the Watchers could tell it wasn't him. haha...

...gotta love writers attempting to fix the mistakes of others, neh?

And in addition to that, Deadpool weighed in on the subject once with "Oh come on, there's not WAY that's in continuity"

I'm a bit late, but I figure I'll chime in.

Marvel:


Spider-Man
Hawkeye I (Clint Barton, natch)
Ultimate Nick Fury
Quicksilver (pre-crazy version, Ostrander's take on the character was awesome.)
Deadpool
Agent X
Kang the Conquerer
Darkhawk
Nightcrawler
Thor

DC:

Batman
Green Arrow (Oliver Queen)
Green Arrow (Connor Hawke)
Speedy (Mia Dearden)
Martian Manhunter
Owen Mercer (Kid Boomerang/Captian Boomerang 2)
Ra's Al Ghul
Deadshot

Image:
Shadowhawk, both the original and Eddie Kolins

Psylocke ([...] and many crotch shots under claremont's latest run)

Psylocke has been shamelessly oversexualized for years, I don't think that's anything particularly new. Personally I always found the character bland.

[Spe-Dog]

DC:
Superman (post CoIE, Silver Age, or Animated JLU version-this current amalgam in the books just ticks me off)
Batman
GL (doesn't matter which-really dig the concept)
Shazam (Capt. Marvel)

Marvel:
Spider-Man
Daredevil
Hulk
Captain America
Astonishing X-Men

Other:
Savage Dragon
Mage
Grendel-though not really a hero
Madman