February 15, 2007

YES!!

Via Skillzy--"Comicvine has teamed up with the best cognitive scientists, Professor Charles Xavier and Doctor Fate, to give you the tools and guidance to make the best possible match between you and a comic book character. We've created 35 infallible questions to match you to a fictitious character in the most accurate and meaningful way."


Hard to beat Mary Jane! However, I am rather puzzled that the next two choices are mutants...

Posted by Terry Oglesby at February 15, 2007 09:37 AM
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So, red hair and big boobies are superpowers? We had this discussion last night at Hooters - superhero groupies are not superheroes!

However, that IS a very nice picture. BOLD! EDGY!

Posted by: skillzy at February 15, 2007 10:00 AM

Skillzy- those traits are most definitely superpowers. The combination can most any (straight) grown man in his tracks while rendering him speechless with immediate loss of memory of the grocery list.

Posted by: Nate at February 15, 2007 10:10 AM

Mary Jane; didn't Tom Petty date her?

Posted by: Nate at February 15, 2007 10:11 AM

Yeah, Skillzy, it is kinda weird that they've included various hangers-on and sycophants in the superhero mix, but as Nate notes, some of us are weak and in the thrall of certain powers that these people possess that other people seem to ignore or be immune to. I suppose Psylocke would be a good backup if we're strictly going on superheroineism of the mutant variety.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at February 15, 2007 10:25 AM

Part of the problem is that there aren't that many good female superheroes to go around. I was always hot for the Scarlet Witch myself, even after she went and married that Vision guy.

Posted by: skillzy at February 15, 2007 10:38 AM

Yeah. I wish Red Sonja had been higher on my list. She seems like such a nice, sweet girl.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at February 15, 2007 10:53 AM

Mine were all there together within a point. I wish I knew who these characters were although they sounded OK. The two I remember were Kitty Pryde and Moira Mac somebody.
Seemed much older than yours.

Posted by: jim at February 15, 2007 02:13 PM

As long as it wasn't Mary Worth, you should be okay.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at February 15, 2007 02:17 PM

you guys didn't gate much in high school did you?

Posted by: Dave at February 15, 2007 02:33 PM

I was never much for fences.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at February 15, 2007 02:53 PM

With a 68.8% match, I got Moira McTaggert, described as a nerdy scientist with a hot Scottish accent. (The definition of nedry in popular culture must be 'wears glasses'.)

My wife is of Scottish descent, but she's no scientist.

Posted by: kitchen hand at February 15, 2007 05:26 PM

What about being a nerd with glasses?

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at February 16, 2007 07:37 AM

Nerds in real life look like nerds.

On TV, they portray a nerd by putting glasses on Robert de Niro or Julia Roberts.

Disclosure: I wear glasses. And I look like neither Robert de Niro nor Julia Roberts.

Posted by: kitchen hand at February 17, 2007 12:28 AM

Oddly enough, I wear glasses, too. And I don't look like Robert de Niro or Julia Roberts either. We must look alike, Kitchen Hand!

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at February 17, 2007 02:07 PM