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Today we talk about Lunella Lafayette, canonically the smartest person in the Marvel Universe who is best known as Moon Girl, and her best friend Devil Dinosaur, who is literally a dinosaur named Dev…
Today we talk about Uatu the Watcher. Who is this big alien man? Why does he watch? Why does he keep breaking his non-interference oath to keep helping the Fantastic Four? Let's find out.
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Today we talk about Roberto "Robbie" Reyes, the 5th Ghost Rider, and the only Ghost Rider to drive a Dodge Charger and be visually modeled after Zayn Malik of One Direction.
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Today we talk about Helena Bertinelli, best known as the Huntress, but was also Batgirl for a bit. We also talk about Helena Wayne, who was the first heroine to go by Huntress, because they're basica…
Today we talk about the Birds of Prey, a superhero team founded by Oracle and Black Canary, typically with Huntress and Lady Blackhawk, though the team has included many characters including Hawk and…
Today we talk about John Constantine, an occult detective and con man who has seen too much but still does his best. He's also the kind of man to have a threesome with ghosts.
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Today we talk about Zatanna Zatara, whose superhero name is just her first name, and she can cast spells by saying words backwards! She's an extremely powerful magician--both on st…
Today we talk about Doctor Fate, who is mostly a Lord of Order named Nabu who empowers/inhabits the body of whoever puts on the Helmet of Fate. Typically this is Kent Nelson, but it h…
Today we talk about Mr. Terrific: a little bit of Terry Sloane but mostly Michael Holt, both men with no super powers but they're EXTREMELY smart and just REALLY GOOD AT EVERYTHING. …
Today we talk about Yelena Belova, the second Black Widow after Natasha Romanoff joined the Avengers. She gets her face swapped, quits spy work, gets sent to the Savage Lands, and e…
Today we talk about Tony Masters, better known as The Taskmaster, a villain who can memorize any fighting style at the expense of his other memories, and he used this to open a schoo…
Today we talk about Nick Fury, who started out as a soldier, then became a spy after drinking some Infinity Formula, and then the director of SHIELD, but when he ran out of his infinity…
Today we talk about Natasha Romanoff, or Natalia Alianova Romanova, or Natalie Rushman, or... well, she goes by a lot of names, but most people know her as the Black Widow, a Rus…
Today we talk about Virgil Hawkins, best known as Static, who went into the middle of a fight between two gangs (on some very bad advice) and ended up getting electromagnetic super…
Today we revisit Bruce Wayne for our 100th episode!! He's a very rich, very traumatized man who dresses up as a bat, and has done so since 1939 (although he has... changed a lot since…
Today we talk about Jane Foster, who started out as a love interest for Thor, but then became a doctor for the Avengers, then Thor, and now Valkyrie.
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Today we talk about Beta Ray Bill, who is a genetically modified alien who fought Thor and was found worthy of Mjolnir, gaining all his powers and his outfit.
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Today we talk about Thor Odinson, who is sometimes a Doctor named Donald Blake but mostly he's Thor, a super powerful alien from Asgard that the Norse god is based off of. He has a ve…
Today we talk about Venom, who is an alien symbiote who has had multiple hosts, most notably Peter Parker and Eddie Brock. Together with Eddie he antagonizes Spider-Man and eats criminals.
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Today we talk about Pamela Isley, better known as Poison Ivy, who was a botanist who got plant powers and uses them for crime sometimes and ecological betterment other times (though h…