It's a meme, yes it is
1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters whose name starts with that letter and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
djfanboy gave me "E."
1) Elric of Melnibone, aka Elric the Enchanter, The White Wolf. Cursed albino prince whose possession of the black sword Stormbringer (which steals souls) brings him endless angst and agony and finally brings him to the end of the world -- as well as the end of time itself. Created by Michael Moorcock and unfortunately somewhat the progenitor of a whole slew of emo fantasy characters.
2) Etrigan. Jack Kirby created this rhyming demon during one of his stints at DC. Etrigan is a fairly low order demon, but he's tied to one Jason Blood by way of a curse, although things keep happening to screw that up. Etrigan's been elevated to a higher order once in a while but he keeps getting kicked back down so writers can practice creating bad doggerel (is there good doggerel?!) Never a character who held my interest, even when used in Green Arrow.
3) E-Man. Created by Nicola Cuti and Joe Staton in the 1970s, and amongst the first wave of independent comics characters, E-Man was a bundle of energy that took human form and had goofy adventures while learning about being human. He was ably supported by exotic dancer Nova (who kept batteries in her handbag, making it both a useful weapon and an emergency boost for E-Man) and cynical, sweaty, broke private eye Mike Mauser (who had his own solo adventures along the way.) Nova eventually developed powers like E-Man...and then they fought crime (and mashers) together.
4) Dr. Egon Spengler. The most intellectual of the Ghostbusters, Egon could explain all kinds of interesting things to anybody who would listen, but he needed the other three (and Jeannine) to actually plough through the vagaries of real life. As played (and written) by Harold Ramis, Egon was the world's funniest supergenius.
5) Erik Magnus Lensherr. Code named Magneto, and originally a bombastic bad guy leading the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Gradually recast as the extreme position on the mutant-human question, at least for the mutants (as the humans has their own extremes), Erik Lensherr eventually became a Polish Holocaust survivor who wanted to prevent such an evil being visited on mutants, with his methods standing in opposition to those of Professor Charles Xavier, leader of the X-Men.
For all his purpose, however, Magneto remained a bombastic asshole for much of his existence, later assuming something of an air of tragedy before reversion to bombastic assholery during the House Of M event resulted in most of the world's mutants being wiped out by his crazy daughter, Wanda Maximoff, aka The Scarlet Witch. Sir Ian McKellen plays Magneto with a Shakespearean tone in the movies -- this somehow makes the bombastic old bastard much more acceptable, despite the minor peccadillo of attempting to wipe out humans. Ultimate Magneto, meanwhile, is Canadian rather than Polish, much younger, and even more of a twat, although that may have been due to Mark Millar writing him initially.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters whose name starts with that letter and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.
djfanboy gave me "E."
1) Elric of Melnibone, aka Elric the Enchanter, The White Wolf. Cursed albino prince whose possession of the black sword Stormbringer (which steals souls) brings him endless angst and agony and finally brings him to the end of the world -- as well as the end of time itself. Created by Michael Moorcock and unfortunately somewhat the progenitor of a whole slew of emo fantasy characters.
2) Etrigan. Jack Kirby created this rhyming demon during one of his stints at DC. Etrigan is a fairly low order demon, but he's tied to one Jason Blood by way of a curse, although things keep happening to screw that up. Etrigan's been elevated to a higher order once in a while but he keeps getting kicked back down so writers can practice creating bad doggerel (is there good doggerel?!) Never a character who held my interest, even when used in Green Arrow.
3) E-Man. Created by Nicola Cuti and Joe Staton in the 1970s, and amongst the first wave of independent comics characters, E-Man was a bundle of energy that took human form and had goofy adventures while learning about being human. He was ably supported by exotic dancer Nova (who kept batteries in her handbag, making it both a useful weapon and an emergency boost for E-Man) and cynical, sweaty, broke private eye Mike Mauser (who had his own solo adventures along the way.) Nova eventually developed powers like E-Man...and then they fought crime (and mashers) together.
4) Dr. Egon Spengler. The most intellectual of the Ghostbusters, Egon could explain all kinds of interesting things to anybody who would listen, but he needed the other three (and Jeannine) to actually plough through the vagaries of real life. As played (and written) by Harold Ramis, Egon was the world's funniest supergenius.
5) Erik Magnus Lensherr. Code named Magneto, and originally a bombastic bad guy leading the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Gradually recast as the extreme position on the mutant-human question, at least for the mutants (as the humans has their own extremes), Erik Lensherr eventually became a Polish Holocaust survivor who wanted to prevent such an evil being visited on mutants, with his methods standing in opposition to those of Professor Charles Xavier, leader of the X-Men.
For all his purpose, however, Magneto remained a bombastic asshole for much of his existence, later assuming something of an air of tragedy before reversion to bombastic assholery during the House Of M event resulted in most of the world's mutants being wiped out by his crazy daughter, Wanda Maximoff, aka The Scarlet Witch. Sir Ian McKellen plays Magneto with a Shakespearean tone in the movies -- this somehow makes the bombastic old bastard much more acceptable, despite the minor peccadillo of attempting to wipe out humans. Ultimate Magneto, meanwhile, is Canadian rather than Polish, much younger, and even more of a twat, although that may have been due to Mark Millar writing him initially.