The Forgotten & The Forsaken: Awesome characters sadly unremembered or demoted

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DEVIL DINOSAUR & MOONBOY
Jack Kirby loved playing with big, big emotions. And, nothing compared to the bond shared by a vicious, yet oddly tender giant reptile and a Rick Jones archetype as the missing link. Too bad Devil ate Moonboy in the unpublished 10th issue!

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Of course everyone knows names like Kirby, Buscema, Romita, and Colan, but there is a plethora of other guys (and girls), that need to be given a great deal of credit for the success of Marvel Comics. These others helped forge a new pathway, and their number needs to be counted.
Like Ron Wilson who deserves more respect than he’s gotten over the years, like for his run on Marvel Two-in-One
http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.nl/2010/01/looking-back-with-ron-wilson.html

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American Eagle vs. Bullseye

In THUNDERBOLTS #115, American Eagle ends up facing Bullseye, the Thunderbolts’ secret weapon. For those who don't know him, Bullseye is perhaps the premier assassin in the Marvel universe. He's a master of unarmed combat who can turn any object into a weapon. American Eagle has never faced such a deadly foe.

Here's how it goes:
American Eagle unleashes his full might on Bullseye. Punch, kick, punch, with the final blow causing an audible crack. That's it for Bullseye. As his handlers later note, Bullseye "took severe head trauma ... and then his assailant snapped his neck."

Wow. This is a near-perfect scene. For once, the Indian character is the one who’s articulate, passionate, and in control. American Eagle doesn't fight fair because Bullseye is a mass murderer many times over. He beats Bullseye to within an inch of his life—but he doesn't kill him, as so many vigilantes might. He gives Bullseye about what he deserves: life imprisonment in the immobile shell of his body. (Of course, given the miracles of comic-book medicine, Bullseye will be back in action within a few months.)

Kudos to writer Warren Ellis and artist Mike Deodato Jr. for one of the best stories about a Native superhero ever. If they did an American Eagle series, I'd buy it and recommend it to everyone. Too bad the powers-that-be probably wouldn't consider it because (they think) it couldn't succeed.

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http://thecomeback.com/theapparty/2015-articles/what-is-damage-control-abcs-potential-new-marvel-comedy.html http://thenerdsofcolor.org/2016/02/1...omment-page-1/ "one of the most gifted and progressive storytellers, ever to walk this earth..."

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http://www.coolasscinema.com/2011/02/cool-ass-comics-marvel-godzilla-edition.html I miss Red Ronin

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The pulp hero of the movie, Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze featuring Ron Ely on the cover. Story by Doug Moench. Art by John Buscema & Tony DeZuniga

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I don't recall the Jack of Hearts or Giant Man ever being on the team, but this would be a sweet line-up with Hercules, Iceman, Angel, Black Widow, Ghost Rider and Darkstar.

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To me Ka-Zar is an underappreciated classic. Mark Waid teamed with Andy Kubert on this short-lived title. Waid came up with the brilliant idea of reversing the standard Ka-Zar story. Usually, Ka-Zar stories are about Ka-Zar or other heroes travelling to the Savage Land and experiencing the jungle in its full force. But for this series, Waid brought Ka-Zar and the Savage Land to a very different jungle: New York. We saw how Kevin Plunder (Ka-Zar) and Shanna dealt with the modern world in different ways. And we got to experience the thrill of watching sabretooth tigers and tyrannosaurus rexes run around the streets of Manhattan. http://comicsalliance.com/tribute-mark-waid/

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El Aguila (I know he's a depowered mutant, but even without the electric powers (which could be restored with tech),he's awesome).

Free Spirit

Jack Flag

Sandy Hausler

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Cardiac; Monica Rambeau; Luke Cage circa 1986 - 1992 and 1994 - 2002; Blade circa 1979 - 1992;

Cardiac's still kickin'. I think Peter Parker hired him for one of his free clinics. Blade was at Deadpool's wedding. Luke Cage also showed up in a recent Deapool comic. Deadpool also remembered the Gibbon, sadly, but you didn't mention him.

Let's throw Morbius and all the characters that came from his 90's comic (seriously, no one's EVER caught that brain-eating mad scientist?). Oh, and Lilith and any Lilin.

I'm glad Judas Traveler's forgotten, though.

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Woodgod




Doctors David and Ellen Pace were bio-geneticists hired by the government to synthesize a lethal toxic nerve gas; though opposed to violence, the couple accepted the job so that they could use its resources for their own project: gene-splicing human and animal DNA to create a new, hybrid species, which they hoped would combine man's intellect with the animal kingdom's proclivity toward peaceful coexistence. Assigned to Trinity Base (unofficially referred to as Vertigo Base and Tranquility Base due to its nerve gas research) in New Mexico, the Paces concealed their side project from their superiors by arranging to work off base on a farm outside the nearby town of Liberty. They successfully created a satyr-like being they dubbed Woodgod, with an accelerated meta-growth rate both physically and intellectually, designed to bring him rapidly to maturity. Within minutes of awakening he could speak rudimentary English, with his brain cell count tripling within 5 minutes of his birth. Within 2 days he had learned to walk, and was exploring the world with an infant's curiosity; by the third day his physical growth had leveled off, but his mind showed no sign of slowing.Unfortunately, the base had accidentally spilled some nerve gas a year earlier, causing deaths amongst the local sheep and illness amongst the populace, leaving the townsfolk suspicious of base personnel. Local man Greg Davis snuck onto the farm to spy, and spotted Woodgod. Racing into town, he soon returned with a drunken mob, who demanded the Paces hand over the "freak" immediately. When David Pace tried to reason with them, the mob beat him, then shot the confused Woodgod. Finding glass canisters containing bubbling liquid, the mob concluded the Paces were brewing more monsters, and despite desperate warnings from the Paces that the tanks contained nerve gas, the townsfolk shattered them. Within seconds, a cloud of purple gas slew virtually every living creature within 15 miles, except for Woodgod. Having swiftly healed from his wound and somehow immune to the gas, Woodgod wandered into Liberty looking for his "parents", unable to fully comprehend their deaths. At the nearby Vertigo Base, the personnel detected the town's demise and spotted Woodgod's wanderings of satellite surveillance. Major Del Tremens led a squad of men on floater bikes into Liberty to capture him, wanting to learn how he had survived the gas and cover up the base's culpability in the leak; however, Woodgod brought down the three fliers, damaging their pilots' protective clothing and killing them instantly. Only Tremens survived, a question he desperately asked Woodgod triggering memories of the creature's dead parents and causing him to halt the attack and wander away reminiscing.Tremens swiftly quarantined the area, knowing they only had a short time to destroy the evidence before a government inquiry team arrived. To make matters worse, less than a day later, the man-monster Hulk wandered into Liberty, soon clashing with Woodgod. Tremen's orders to his men to destroy both recaptures were picked up on the passing X-Shuttle's view screen as the X-Men flew home from an unrelated adventure; concerned for the well-being of the Hulk's alter ego, Bruce Banner, the X-Men's passenger, Spider-Man, asked the mutant heroes to drop him off near Liberty. Luckily for Spider-Man, a recent exposure to an anti-radiation mist unknowingly immunized him from the purple nerve gas. Upon his arrival, the Hulk and Woodgod initially stopped their fight and united against Spider-Man, whom they deemed a common enemy. Spider-Man thus allowed Tremens' men to cover them with an electro-mass net, designed to electrocute its captives while simultaneously becoming heavier the more they struggled. Realizing Tremens intended to kill his captives, Spider-Man destroyed the net's controls, allowing them to break free. Tremens instead subdued all three intruders with anesthetic gas, then took them back to Vertigo Base. He informed Spider-Man of his intention to fire Woodgod into space inside a converted Intercontinental ballistic missile, then blame the town's destruction on the Hulk and Spider-Man, but Spider-Man escaped and freed Woodgod, and together they released the Hulk. Tremens tried to slay them using an atomic cannon, but the Hulk and Woodgod destroyed it; the resultant shock-wave knocked Spider-Man inside the Intercontinental ballistic missile, which Tremens launched. While the Hulk tried to rescue Spider-Man, Woodgod slew Tremens, then departed after watching his new friends vanish high into the stratosphere.His intellect and understanding continuing to grow, Woodgod returned to his parents' farm, where he uncovered the Paces' files. Thanks to the quarantine, Woodgod was able to work in solitude as he memorized their gene-splicing techniques; after a week, having reached an adult intellect, he swore that as the only living member of the Pace family he would carry on his parents' legacy, then burned the farm down to prevent their secrets falling into the wrong hands. Breaking back into Vertigo Base, he stole his parents' corpses, intending to bury them in the new utopia he was going to create. He set up house in a remote part of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, where he created more hybrids like himself, calling his new people the Changelings. While most of the Changelings happily accepted Woodgod's rule, Leoninus and Viperus became discontented. While Viperus fled the Changelings' valley, risking revealing their existence to the outside world, Leoninus, wishing his creator's power for his own, learned the gene-splicing techniques, and secretly began creating his own Changelings: Elephantine, Fury and Pantherus.Woodgod led an expedition to retrieve Viperus, apprehending him hiding out in a carnival, but their pursuit had led them too close to humans. Out on a hunting trip with the gamma-powered Doc Samson, the mentally unbalanced General "Thunderbolt" Ross caught a glimpse of the Changeling Centauron, and shot at him, mistaking him for the Hulk. The wounded centaur collapsed at Ross' cabin, where Ross' daughter Betty and her friends Fred Sloan and Rick Jones tended his wounds. Woodgod soon came looking for his lost Changeling, overpowering Samson and taking the others back to the Changeling village, intending to execute them if Centaurion died. Woodgod prepared a healing elixir for Centaurion, but Leoninus, hoping to sow dissent among Woodgod's followers, secretly poisoned it while it was being delivered by Siren. The Hulk soon came in search of his kidnapped friends, battling the Changelings who tried to stop him, but his friends asked him to leave since he was only making things worse; annoyed, the Hulk departed. Meanwhile, with Centauron having died, Leoninus demanded the death of the humans and revealed his own Changelings, challenging Woodgod as leader of their people. Siren, having figured out what Leoninus had done, flew after the Hulk and convinced both him and Doc Samson to return to the Changeling village.

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With the revelation of Leoninus' murdering actions and the assistance of the Hulk and Samson, Leoninus' coup d'etat was thwarted. Afterward Woodgod elected to stand down as Changeling leader, wanting his people to learn to govern themselves, and Fred Sloan chose to stay with the group for a while after the other humans left.At some point Woodgod was kidnapped by the mysterious Stranger, who took him to his laboratory world for observation alongside several other specimens. Eventually the Over-Mind invaded the lab world, using his mind powers to direct the captives there into attacking the Stranger and the hero Quasar (Wendell Vaughn). After being freed, Woodgod joined several other Earth super-beings in pooling their abilities to return home, eventually landing in Siberia. From there, Woodgod returned to the Changeling village, and resumed creating new Changelings, including Dovinia, a satyr-like hybrid like himself. They briefly became romantically involved, but then Woodgod broke off the relationship, convinced he had to stand alone from the other Changelings for their own safety. Woodgod also befriended Nick Fury, head of the spy agency SHIELD, under undisclosed circumstances; Fury nicknamed Woodgod "Bambi".Meanwhile, Leoninus -- seemingly forgiven for his past transgressions -- made contact with a Roxxon scouting team which had been investigating rumors of the Changelings' existence. He made a deal with Roxxon's Dr. Malachi Oz, kidnapping all the female Changelings to be used in Oz's crossbreeding program. Tracking down the missing female Changelings, Woodgod rescued them and killed Oz before he could begin his experiments; Leoninus escaped. Some time later, the forces of Vertigo Base finally tracked the Changelings down, apparently slaying all but Woodgod, who reverted back to his more taciturn and aggressive youthful personality as a result of the trauma of seeing his friends slaughtered. Alongside SHIELD super-agent Psi-Borg, Nick Fury discovered the massacre and encountered both the Vertigo Base agents and Woodgod. Sending Psi-Borg for reinforcements, Fury battled the agents, but when Woodgod began slaying them, Fury intervened, stunning him with a blaster shot. Claiming Woodgod was dead, Fury removed the body, and dropped the recovered Woodgod off in the forest 40 miles away. Woodgod apparently found a new home on an island with a lighthouse, either creating new Changelings or locating other survivors; Woodgod later rescued a seemingly delirious Namor from the sea when the Sub-Mariner temporarily lost his ability to breathe underwater. Some time after this encounter Woodgod was captured, ending up in the custody of Canadian agency Department H, who held him insensate on Floor 13 while they tried to extract his unstable DNA. His subsequent fate after exposing the illegality of Department H and destiny were to be subjected to mutagenic experiments and undergo a series of retro-mutations that conferred a much more bestial appearance and the next of a mythical satyr and made it much more powerful and savage. Escaping he was captured by the Intelligencia and subjected to brainwashing to confront the Red Hulk who retaliated violently attack and nearly killed Woodgod . His subsequent fate is not known yet.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Woodgod possesses various superhuman abilities due, at least partially, to his unique Changeling physiology.

Superhuman Strength: Woodgod possesses superhuman strength, and its limits are not exactly clear but it was shown that he could face the Wild Green Hulk that the more enraged grew more powerful became almost equal in overall conditions, yet he was easily defeated by the Red Hulk even after suffering the retro-mutations that become much greater, more bestial and savage, which disfigured him with his punches then it is believed that its strength lies in its heyday, in the old wild Green Hulk and unintelligent level being fixed and he is able to lift or press about 70 tons.

Superhuman Stamina: Woodgod's musculature produces less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of a human being, granting him some level of superhuman stamina. While the limits are unknown, he can at least exert himself at peak capacity for several hours before the build up of fatigue toxins in his blood begins to impair him.

Superhuman Durability: Woodgod's bodily tissues are harder and more resistant to certain types of injury than those of a human. For example, he has been shown to be able to withstand powerful impact forces, such as falling from great heights or blows from the Hulk, that would severely injure or kill a human being.

Superhuman Reflexes: Woodgod's reflexes are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete.

Superhuman Sense of Smell: Woodgod's sense of smell is also heightened to a degree beyond the capability of a human being. His sense of smell is developed to the point where he can recognize and track individuals by their scent.

Regenerative Healing Factor: If Woodgod does sustain injury, his body is able to heal damaged tissue faster and more extensively than an ordinary human. However, the limits of his accelerated healing isn't known. It isn't known if he can regenerate missing limbs or organs, is more resistant to disease, or extends his lifespan. However, he is more resistant to chemical toxins than humans.

Abilities:

Woodgod knows enough about genetic engineering to be able to create viable living creatures. Also, even though he has had no formal training, Woodgod's powers make him a formidable combatant.

I decided to make this tribute for Woodgod because no one remember, use he in the stories (except to take beatings of someone) is not considered a "relevant character" and it hurts me to remember that that psychopath Red Hulk nearly killed him and gave him a a beating pitiable, he came to leave him disfigured ... I remember the story he and the Hulk fought (read as a child in the days of comic books in small format of Editora Abril ... was one of the first superhero comics I've read in a time when I thought that there was no difference between Marvel Comics and DC Comics and the world of "Super Friends" was exactly the same as Spider-Man and Non-animated cartoons, Captain America, The Mighty Thor, Hulk, Iron-Man, Namor the Sub-Mariner, and , the "Fantastic Four", and in my innocence, they all knew each other and belong to the same universe ...) in which he faced the Hulk in absolute equality of conditions and tore the webs Peter Parker as if they were strings . That story had the Woodgod enough to stand on equal footing with the Wild Green Hulk that the more nervous becomes more powerful and gets hit him high power punches. But apparently now it means nothing to Mr. Joe Quesada and his Red Hulk able to hit a punch in the face of The Watcher (like "punch a cosmic entity" to the point of leaving her with a black eye was something so trivial ... ). But to me it makes all the difference in the world and therefore I want to honor this character since nobody cares about him enough to remember he. I care ... so this is my tribute to Woodgod ...

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Way to go Sansomon! I know very little about the marvel character Woodgod but thanks to your outstanding tribute I am brought up to speed.
Appreciate the time you took to make that so.

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Thanks for your splendid depiction of the Soviet Super-Soldiers from the limited series The X-Men vs The Avengers. Wish marvel comics would approach you to do a LS in the near future starring Vanguard, Darkstar, Ursa Major, Titanium Man and Crimson Dynamo! http://www.comicsreporter.com/index....arc_silvestri/