15 Lazy Comic Book Characters Who Just Added A Gender After A Word
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Comic book movies are all the rage these days and for a good reason. They're exciting, full of action, and often well-made. But what many people don't know is that comic book movies aren't a new phenomenon; they've been around since the late 1800s. And while comic books might have started off as a children's medium, they soon became much more complex and mature, dealing with weighty topics like racism, social justice, and war. So if you're a fan of comic book movies or just want to learn more about them, read on! You might be surprised by what you find.
Comic book writers are often faced with the challenge of writing stories that are both interesting and engaging. This is especially difficult when it comes to lazy comic book characters. In order to make these characters more likable and relatable, writers often have to come up with creative ways to make them interesting. Unfortunately, this can be a difficult task, and sometimes lazy characters end up being the downfall of otherwise good storylines.
![SKATEMAN SKALE Ooh, an angry racist in roller skates! Widely regarded as the world's worst comic book, Neal Adams' Skateman #1 dropped in 1983, and gave us a martial arts expert and Vietnam vet in roller skates who hurled racial slurs at his young Latino sidekick, Paco.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/7/812167.jpg)
Source: Gone-and-forgotten
![SQUIRREL GIRL AM REAL CAN DO SQUIRREL ANYTHING JUMP. CLIMB. HOP. CAN DO... PLUS, I'M EXTRA, EXTRA NIMBLE. AMAZING... CRACKED.COM Those words rhyme! With no squirrel biting backstory, Squirrel Girl sprouted a bushy tail and squirrel powers at 14, and in her 1991 debut, she and squirrel side kick, Monkey Joe, saved Iron Man from Doctor Doom in Marvel's attempt to write more light-hearted stories.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/8/812168.jpg)
Source: Marvel
![ARM-FALL-OFF BOY --AND TRANSFORM IT MY POWER WILL ASTOUND YOU! OBSERVE INTO A DEADLY WEAPON! AS I DETACH MY LIMB-- DIE, VILLIAN! HA-YAARA! PLORP KRAK GRACKED.COM I will rip my arm off and beat you with it! In DC's Pre-Zero Hour Universe, Arm-Fall-Off Boy got rejected from The Legion of Superheroes, cus yeah, his only ability is using his own arms as weapons. Suicide Squad's The Detachable Kid is a hilarious riff on it.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/7/812157.jpg)
Source: DC.fandom
![LEATHER BOY GRAGKED.COM A ball gag, leather chaps, and zero superpowers. In Marvel's Great Lakes Avengers, Leather Boy mistakes Mr. Immortal's men and woman of action ad for a BDSM ad, having fans wonder if his entire existence was one bad, unaware joke.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/5/812165.jpg)
Source: fortressofsolitude
![CALENDAR MAN IT IS THE DAY OF THE CALENDAR 3 29 MAN! 5 1 O 24 15 6 3 1 GRACKED.COM How 'bout a case of the Mondays, Batman? With so many super-villains in Gotham, a good gimmick was hard to come by, but in 1958, Julian Day patterned his life around an obsession for holidays, dates and time, until he became... Calendar Man.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/6/812156.jpg)
Source: DCcomics
![DOORMAN LIKE DOORMAN, OH, THE LIVING PORTAL! THANK YOU, YOUNG MAN! I GOT 'IM. ANYTIME. GRAGKED.COM Using an actual door is lame... use Doorman! Answering the same Great Lakes Avengers ad as Leather Boy, Marvel's Doorman helped fight evil by standing against a wall and letting his fellow super heroes run through him... Ya know, like a door.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/2/812162.jpg)
Source: Besttopper
![ASBESTOS LADY FROM OUT OF THE PAST! THE LOVELY, LETHAL CA ASBESTOS YOU S в LADY! CRACKED.COM It was 1947... They didn't know. Fantastic Four's Human Torch needed a villain, so Marvel created chemist gone crazy, Victoria Murdock, who created a fireproof suit out of asbestos. Years later, she died of idiopathic mesothelioma... From asbestos exposure.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/1/812161.jpg)
Source: Marvel.fandom
![FROG MAN HUH? ...AND A FATHER REJOICES! WH- WHAT'D I DO? eUGENE! YOU DID IT! I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DID IT.. BUT YOU DID! GRACKED COM Was Guy In Frog Suit taken? In 1964, Marvel's Toad could actually leap great distances and use that long tongue (we all saw the first X-Men movie in 2000), but 1982's Frog Man is literally just a guy in a frog mascot suit with springs in the feet.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/8/812158.jpg)
Source: Fortressofsolitude
![STONE BOY GRACKED.COM Quick! Turn into a statue! Introduced by Adventure Comics in 1963, Stone Boy is a member of the Legion of Substitute Superheroes, but since his only power is turning into a stone statue, another member would have to throw him at a bad guy for him to be useful.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/9/812169.jpg)
Source: Screenrant
![PLANTMAN MOUNTAINS OF IT..! FIFTY MILLION FROM RICHMOND ENTERPRISES OR me DEBILITATED YOUNG TYCOON DIES! FORK IT OVER POLKS- OR I TRIAL THE GARDEN AND THE POD COMES TUMBLIN DOWN! GRACKED.COM Plants, do my bidding! Introduced by Marvel in 1 963, Samuel Smithers was a botanist's assistant until his plant ray gun was struck by lightning, giving it the power to control and animate all plant life, and giving us Plantman!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/6/812166.jpg)
Source: Fortressofsolitude
![DEAD GIRL GRACKED COM Okay, a zombie superhero is pretty cool. First appearing in Marvel's X-Force #125 in 2002, her mutant powers were triggered once she was murdered, and she immediately avenged her own death! The Marvel movie we didn't know we needed.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/9/812159.jpg)
Source: Marvel.fandom
![HYDRO-MAN THEN, INCREDIBLY-- TRICKLE IT POES ONTO NOT THE WILK IT DUFFYS SWELTERING SIDE- yar YEAH YEAH WAS WORRIED RECOND - THERE FOR A BUT MYBELF CAN PU - TOGETHER AGAIN. MOMENT, ON SEEMS TO BSORB THE BUST ERING SUNLIGHT CRACKED.COM Aquaman is a DC hero, but Hydro-Man is a Marvel villain. Totally different! Accidentally knocked into the ocean with an experimental generator by Spiderman, Morris Bench could convert his entire physical form into water, and vowed revenge!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/4/812164.jpg)
Source: Marvel.fandom
![3-D MAN ANYTHING - AND YOU WON GET HURT! HUH? WHAT THE--? GRACKED.COM He's 3-D! Ya know, like the rest of us. In 1977, some radiation and a dimensional shift allowed Charles Chandler's 2-D image to reappear as 3-D Man. It was a comic book, so 3-D Man was still 2-D but it sounded cool! Right?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/5/5/812155.jpg)
Source: Marvel
![BEAST BOY CRACKED.COM Marvel And DC should compare notes. DC's young, green Beast Boy is sadly not the sidekick of X-Men's big, blue Beast. Experimental animal DNA allowed Beast Boy to morph into almost any animal, and I wonder if he every chooses platypus.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/3/812163.jpg)
Source: DCcomics
![ANDROID MAN HOLY COW! WHAT IN BLUE BLAZES IS THIS?!! I HAVE FOUND THE SIGNAL! CRACKED.COM Android is a cool word to throw in front of Man, I'll give 'em that. Another villain for the Fantastic Four, 1968's Android Man was programmed by The Mad Thinker to seek out The Wizard's wonder gloves. Kinda like The Terminator... But for gloves.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/0/812160.jpg)
Source: Marvel