Who is your #1 Hero, Villain and why!

[BlitheringToot]

My favorite hero is Cyclops, which is funny because I loathed him as a kid. As I grew older, I came to appreciate his role as the guy in charge, who had to make the tough decisions and struggled with self-control.

My favorite villain is Doctor Octopus. He was in my very first Marvel comic, and I quickly came to love the character.
Runner-up would be Juggernaut. He's the polar opposite of Cyclops in that he revels in his destructive power.

[JudicatorPrime]

I don't have any favorites now, but growing up...

Favorite hero: Captain Mar-Vell (Honorable mentions to Adam Warlock, Silver Surfer, Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers), Phoenix and Black Bolt)

Favorite Villain: Magneto (Honorable mention to Thanos and Korvac)

Favorite Force of Nature or Abstract Being: Galactus

[afrocarter]

My favourite hero is, and will forever be, Night Thrasher from the original New Warriors team. Growing up, it was incredibly inspiring to me to read about a super-team with a Black man as the leader. The fact that he had no powers gave it that much more impact.

My favourite villain is perhaps Joe Casey's Zodiac, who popped up during Dark Reign. Wish we got more of him. Such a bad-ass.

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #12 Apr 1985
"...Nothing to Fear..."
For daring to unite against the omnipotent power of Doctor Doom
the heroes on Battleworld have been annihilated for their defiance.
Seeing the smoldering wreckage of Doombase is Zsaji and her people who rush to the location
to see what befell the champions who defended them against the evil beset upon them.
From his new home at the Tower of Doom, Doctor Doom assures Klaw that he has slain the heroes
and they will not stand in his way again, that his is certain.

Meanwhile, millions of miles away, the villains who were brought to Battleworld are transporting
the city of Denver back to Earth thanks to the enhanced powers of the Molecule Man.
Curious as to what is happening on Battleworld, the Enchantress summons a water sprite from
Marsha Rosenberg's bathtub and has it reveal what has happened on Battleworld since their departure.
It reveals to her that the Beyonder has seemingly perished and Doctor Doom has stolen his power.
The Enchantress hopes for a moment of vulnerability so she can strike at Doom before he can use his power against her.
When the Lizard begins to freak out, the Enchantress uses the distraction to call out to Volcana in order to make her pay
for helping her reach the Molecule Man earlier in the Secret Wars when he was injured and she wanted to be by his side.
Taking Marsha to a nearby park, Amora intends to steal her life force in order to gain additional power.
Meanwhile, the Molecule Man fights it out with Doctor Octopus who has come to doubt his ability to get them home.
After Owen restrains Otto, the Lizard points out that Marsha is missing.
They find her in the Enchantress' clutches and attack.
When Amora tries to teleport back to Battleworld, the Lizard leaps at her and is transported there as well.
When the Lizard slashes her face, the Enchantress absorbs his life force in order to return to Asgard.

Meanwhile, Doctor Doom slumbers and while he does Klaw tries to get close to him but Doom quickly awakens.
Klaw then begins instilling doubt in Doom's mind, telling him that he may not have killed the heroes as he thought.
Doom plays into this and Klaw creates a hologram showing the healer
Zsaji using her power to revive Colossus, dying in the process.
Heartbroken, Colossus brings his fellow heroes back to Doombase
and uses the medical devices there to revive the others.
Doom denies this theory, even when Klaw suggests that he subconsciously did not want them to die.
When Doom continues to deny this, suddenly he is proven
wrong when Thor's hammer comes crashing through the wall.
Doom's power flares out of control destroying a nearby planet. With the heroes about to besiege him,
he listens to Klaw's suggestion of giving him a portion of his power to deal with the heroes.
Klaw is given a fraction of Doom's stolen power and he goes out to face the heroes.
Using this new power he creates monsters for them to fight as well as a rebuilt Ultron.
The Thing slugs it out with one of the monsters when suddenly he starts to revert back to Ben Grimm.
Through sheer force of will he prevents his transformation, cementing
the idea in his mind that Battleworld allows him to change back and forth.
Elsewhere on the battle field, Ultron has some of the others on the ropes when suddenly he blows up.
The reason why becomes apparent when the Wasp emerges from his ruined shell,
having used her bio-stings to damage his vulnerable internal components.

As the battle rages on, Captain America gets past the monsters and Klaw to confront Doctor Doom directly.
Doom tries to atomize Captain America, but the hero suddenly re-appears every time he tries to destroy him.
This causes Doom's power to flare out of control, what Klaw -- or rather the being possessing him -- has planned all along.
When Doom is finally in a weakened state, the Beyonder emerges from Klaw's body and reclaims his stolen power,
restoring Doom back to his normal state and banishing both he and Klaw away.

With the Secret Wars now officially over, the heroes regroup back at Doombase to try and figure out a way to get back home.
There, Colossus has a funeral for Zsaji and weeps over her grave.
Later, Spider-Man finds that the X-Men have created new costumes for themselves.
When he sees the others doing so as well he finds it curious that
they are not using the same machine where he got his new uniform.
The Hulk's leg is broken and Mister Fantastic binds it in a metal brace.
As the heroes rest after their victory they are surprised when
Curt Connors -- having reverted back to human form from the Lizard -- arrives.

When this happy reunion between Connors and Spider-Man is happening,
Nightcrawler wishes that Kitty's dragon Lockheed would return.
Almost as if on cue, Lockheed does return with another small dragon in tow.
Mister Fantastic meets with the others and explains that residual energies from the Beyonder
are what is causing the strange series of "wish fulfillment" that they have experienced recently.

Hearing this, Captain America goes into a back room with his shattered shield
and is happy to see that he is able to repair it through sheer force of will.

Soon Mister Fantastic is able to cobble together a device that will allow him to teleport them all back home.
First he sends back the Hulk, Magneto, Spider-Man, Curt Connors and Spider-Woman.

Next are the X-Men after Professor X consoles Colossus over the loss of Zsaji,
convincing him to come back with them so her sacrifice is not in vein.
As Mister Fantastic prepares to teleport them away, the strange dragon that followed Lockheed flies into the teleportation beam,
causing some strange feedback, leaving the rest to wonder what will happen to them when they return to Earth.

Before the Avengers prepare to return home as well, the Thing arrives with She-Hulk, who is wearing a Fantastic Four costume.
Ben explains to Reed and Johnny that he intends to stay on Battleworld for a while to enjoy the ability to change
back and forth between human and Thing forms and has selected She-Hulk as his replacement on the team.
After the Avengers teleport off, Ben insists that he is staying. Reed thinks briefly for a moment about telling Ben
what he knows about his transformations and thinks against it, hoping he will discover the truth in time.
Before going, Reed passes Ben the teleportation device so that Ben can use it whenever he is ready to return home.
After Mister Fantastic, the Torch and She-Hulk are teleported away, Ben begins the first steps of his greatest adventure yet.

NOTE: The end of this epic story has great ramifications throughout the Marvel Universe.
Plot threads from this issue continue in Thing #11, Fantastic Four #265,
Amazing Spider-Man #252, Avengers #243 and Uncanny X-Men #181.

Story by Jim Shooter. Art by Mike Zeck and John Beatty.

[Michael Watkins]

Night Thrasher because of wish fulfillment. He’s smart rich athletic disciplined and black

Living Laser because not many would pick him despite his pedigree (he’s from the early Avengers days & was a video game boss) and power level. I also just like his look; specifically the yellow light form with the devil horns. He looks so gleeful about finally being dangerous. Otherwise I just appreciate his arc. His final form actually mellowed him out a bit. He used to start fights with pretty much anyone he worked with. He made Whirlwind seem level headed.

[Cronus]

Favorite hero: Silver Surfer (runner up, Thor).

Favorite villain: Doctor Doom (followed by Thanos).

[ARkadelphia]

Hero: Pym. Wicked smaht. Wicked troubled. Constantly evolving. Constantly devolving. Means we’ll, but things rarely work out for him.

Villain: Pymtron. The most logical next step in the evolution of both Pym and Ultron. I wish I had thought of it first. Wildly unpredictable.

[Prof. Aegis]

Hero
Dazzler-Thor - She was just a great character of depth, heart and humor and I could have read a full series with her written by Kelly Thompson.


Anti-Hero
Loki - Again, just such depth and growth. From JiM, to AoA and his last series it's just been fantastic to read a character that actually develops and has such depth and dimensions.


Villain
Probably Dr. Doom - Depending on how he is written he can be a great foe that is carrying for his people, but at the same time blindly ruthless on destroying his enemies. His one dimensional stories never do much for me, but others when you see him question his own actions or that of others you get some great stories and creativity.