Capes and Japes

Today we talk about Arthur Brown, best known as Stephanie Brown's dad but also he's the villain Cluemaster I guess. His whole thing is doing crimes and leaving clues, except for when he was a gamesho…

Today we talk about Sandra Wu-San, best known as Lady Shiva, who is just really really good at fighting and killing people so that's what she does. Also she's Cass Cain's mom and might have a death w…

Today we talk about Irene Adler, also known as Destiny. She's married to Mystique, has two (important to the X-Men) beautiful mutant children, and can see the future.

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Today we talk about Klaus Voorhees, also known as the villain Cobra, although he changes his name to King Cobra after overcoming his fear of a very scary man. We do also cover a couple other minor Co…

Today we talk about Calvin Zabo, better known as the villain Mister Hyde, made a potion to become his favorite book character: Mister Hyde, and made everything everyone else's problem.

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Today we talk about Daisy Johnson, also known as Quake and an agent of SHIELD, who has followed Nick Fury since she was a teen, went on a secret unsanctioned assassination mission, and also exploded …

Today we talk about Maria Hill who has been the director of SHIELD, made some questionable decisions, and put a hit out on herself.

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-New Avengers (2004) #4, 6-8,…

Today we talk about Agatha Harkness, who was an old woman an a witch who babysat Franklin Richards, taught Wanda Maximoff how to harness her magic, babysat Wanda's twins, died a couple of times, and …

Today we talk about Adeline Kane, who shot Deathstroke in the face after he endangered their youngest son, and kept that energy through the rest of her life. We also briefly discuss her oldest son Gr…

Today we mostly talk about Greg Sanders and Adrian Chase but we also touch upon the fistful of other characters who have carried the Vigilante name! Unsurprisingly, with such a generic name, it's man…

Today we talk about Captain Nathaniel Adam, best known as Captain Atom, who gets exploded but it's okay because he comes back with superpowers and has to work for the American government--

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Today we talk about Sandra Knight, Delilah Tyler, Stormy Knight, and Jennifer Knight who have all been a superhero known as the Phantom Lady!

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-Police Comics (194…

Today we talk about Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern, who went from a train engineer who makes a magic ring from a sentient lantern to a guy who still kinda did that but the lantern has a more …

Today we talk about Valeria Richards, who was kind of brought into being by her reality-warping brother Franklin as an alternate universe teen and then kind of became a zygote in the main universe th…

Today we talk about Franklin Richards, the son of Reed Richards and Sue Storm of the Fantastic Four, who is an extremely powerful mutant with reality warping powers.

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Today we talk about Power Pack, a group made up of four siblings: Alex, Julie, Jack, and Katie, who are given superpowers from an alien to go save their dad who was kidnapped by a different alien.

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Today we talk about Dane Whitman, best known as the Black Knight, as well as a couple of his predecessors because his cursed sword runs in the family.

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-Black Kni…

Today we talk about Simon Williams, who got ionic energy powers to become Wonder Man, almost died, woke up to find his brain was imprinted on an android, died, came back as pure energy, had a crisis,…

Today we talk about Toyman, Winslow Schott and his various robotic duplicates, Jack Nimball, and Hiro Okamura (our favorite because he's a lonely genius teen).

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Today we talk about Anthony Ivo, who is obsessed with immortality but probably most notable for his creation of the Amazo robot which can absorb and use super powers.

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