The ILC Favourite Characters Of All Time

(59 points)

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Like a savvier, more knowledgeable and more indestructible Marv. Just as key is the fact that he's out there in the world, with friends who actually look up to him, and the fact that he tangles with Nazis, Rasputin, vampires, werefrogs, dragons, ghosts, demons and manages to tell them all to shut up in so many words, cos he's got the Right Hand of Doom to back him up, you know. (Leee)

Best moment: From Wake the Devil, when he jumps out of the plane with the jetpack that doesn't work, stubbornly clicking the ignition without success while freefalling, and muttering, "Aw crap," which sums up his appeal: unprepossessing, straight-forward and with understated humor. (Leee)

and yeah, what huk said. when he first fought those monsters i figured it was a ghostbusters/slimer thing, the first ugly bad guy before the other stuff happens... but it was really just those cgi things.

ie, just like the comic!

Huk, the criticism you're making has absolutely no bearing on the movie "Hellboy" (unless of course Hellboy has been a top-tier character since 1930 and I just didn't notice).

HULK CALL AGENT

HULK HAVE RANGE AND PATHOS

HULK HAVE AGENT CALL JOHN WOO

(59 points)

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As with most Pat Mills characters, Mek-Quake is only really worth reading before about 1988. But his catalogue of golden moments before then makes him a worthy inclusion, and he's one of the most memorable characters in 2000AD. He started as the Ro-Busters' disaster squad's resident bulldozer, and has had a chequered career since as a demolition robot, a war droid, an ABC Warrior and even Tharg's personal hitman. Throughout Mek-Quake has been venal, stupid, and enormously violent. He's also been the perfect henchman, which is the key to his character - he has a simple, eager thuggishness which would be sinister if it wasn't played for laughs.

Greatest Moment: Nemesis the Warlock Book III, where Mek-Quake's gleeful brutality reaches an apex as he destroys the Gothic Empire's artificial moon, causing it to rain down on the planet while he gives his signature cry of "Big jobs!"

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I think you'd love it, it's one of the most insane reads in comicdom.

(61 points)

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(a rare photo of the Mighty One, from the pages of CRASH! magazine. See! He's real!!)

"I, Tharg, from my alien head, bring you THE FUTURE" proclaimed the second-best ever strapline on a 2000AD cover. And he did, this green alien from Betelgeuse, introducing every prog of 2000AD to this day, aside from a handful where the non-scrot human staff attempted to retire him before reader protest brought him back.

Very much a creature of the 1970s, when most British weeklies had a figurehead character as editor, Tharg has outlasted them all, and starred in many strips of his own - all credited to T.M.O. (The Mighty One). His best value though was always on the letters pages, praising Earthlets for donating progs to a children's ward, damning Earthlets whose behaviour was insufficiently thrill-powered and forever talking up the ghafflebette new series to be coming "in the Spring". A national galactic treasure.

Greatest Moment: Tharg has a temper tantrum and threatens to destroy the planet. A huge crowd, mindful of the danger, gets together and sings 'For he's a jolly good alien'. "They attempt to soothe my anger with flattery! And it works!" He then puts up a statue of himself to commemorate the day he saved Earth from his own wrath.

Also the time when he tries to write and draw a prog himself and they have to take it away in a lead-lined van. "One glimpse and your mind will explode! Don't look at it!" (Vic Fluro)

I should search for the 2000AD threads, I think

"Yes, Jimmy...a prank.....grrr-rrr-rrr"