Most RIDICULOUS power and origin story?

[AnthonyO'Brien]

I'm reading an issue of Brubaker's Sleeper series I found in a bargain bin....

It features FAGHAG -a woman who received her powers after being bitten by a dying radioactive gay friend. She is able to mentally control gay men to do her bidding but doing so leaves them dead dried up husks...

Can anyone top THIS?

[Kirby101]

Do you understand the idea of parody?

[williamtheday]

How about the Whizzer, who got his speed powers from a transfusion of mongoose blood? And was "whizzer" scatalogical even back in 1940?

[Carabas]

An alien who gets off the charts powers because of the colour of the sun, and a teenager who gets powers from bite of a radio-active spider are already way out there.

[numberthirty]

If I'm taking the premise seriously?

The Captain from Nextwave. We only have his drunken recollection of whatever his actually origin may have been.

Also, any member of each Brotherhood Of Dada.

[Carabas]

The Captain from Nextwave. We only have his drunken recollection of whatever his actually origin may have been.

It was almost an exact copy of Kyle Rayner's.

[numberthirty]

Factoring for that Rayner's was far less of a chuckle and that we have to count on an unreliable narrator, sure.

That said, didn't they wind up undercutting all of that later? That there was actually some kind of rhyme and reason to selecting Rayner?

[Carabas]

Factoring for that Rayner's was far less of a chuckle and that we have to count on an unreliable narrator, sure.

That said, didn't they wind up undercutting all of that later? That there was actually some kind of rhyme and reason to selecting Rayner?

Who knows? Is there anything left in Green Lantern continuity that hasn't been retconned to hell and back six times over?

[PaulBullion]

Who knows? Is there anything left in Green Lantern continuity that hasn't been retconned to hell and back six times over?

Isn't Kyle Rayner a cat now?

[Carabas]

It would not surprise me much.

[ed2962]

How about the Whizzer, who got his speed powers from a transfusion of mongoose blood? And was "whizzer" scatalogical even back in 1940?

When I saw the title of the thread, this was the first thing I thought of.

[PaulBullion]

When I saw the title of the thread, this was the first thing I thought of.

Me, three.

[Carabas]

Ralph "I just drink some regular mass marketed soda" Dibney is pretty ridiculous.

[DrNewGod]

When somebody rings the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Liberty Belle gets...adrenal?...for no reason that connects with her back story whatsoever?

Zatara and Zatanna can do just about anything, as long as they say it backwards.

[Trey Strain]

Factoring for that Rayner's was far less of a chuckle and that we have to count on an unreliable narrator, sure.

That said, didn't they wind up undercutting all of that later? That there was actually some kind of rhyme and reason to selecting Rayner?

Some people on the message board mocked Kyle because Ganthet said "You'll have to do" when he handed him a power ring. DC wildly overreacted to that by making Kyle a GAWD!