Legion of Doom’s Worst of 2005- Characters
Posted in year in review - 2005 by Fin Fang Doom
Nick Fury. He got his ass kicked all year, then disappeared. -Jean-Claude Van Doom
Ronin. When Echo was revealed as the secret identity of Ronin, the comic book community let out a collective “Huh?” A super-cool mystery ninja turns out to be some deaf female Taskmaster from a dozen or so issues of Daredevil from 4 years ago. They should have just made him Daredevil. -Fin Fang Doom
The Sentry. You shouldn’t have to work so hard to make a character interesting. -Jim Doom
Now this could just be a colossal coincidence, but everyone we chose as worst character happens to be from a title written by Brian Michael Bendis. Interesting…
Well, the Sentry mini still sucked but was a little better than his appearance in New Avengers, so I’d say it’s whatever the opposite of a coincidence is.
Or were you suggesting that we’re all conspiring to bring down BMB? Because I thought we promised to keep that private.
And Echo was a David Mack character who had only appeared in David Mack-written books. So Bendis was dealing with someone else’s turd.
I still think it had to be Matt Murdock and they must have switched plans after the story began.
They should have just made Ronin Captain Atom after all.
It was silly as Echo, it would have been odd as DD. Hell, throw in Elektra as Ronin. At least it’d be a ninja.
But at least if it were DD, that whole expository scene between Matt Murdock and Steve Rogers — where he responded to Matt’s “Daredevil can’t be seen with you” comment by explaining Captain America masqueraded as Nomad when he couldn’t be Captain America — would have a place in the story.
Uh… who cares?
Randy and I care.
So let’s not discourage discussion.
Chiming in four years later — according to wikipedia, Ronin was originally supposed to be Matt Murdock, but plans for Daredevil in his solo book made that impossible, so the switch was made to Echo.
Isn’t this the same company that had Wolverine as an evil murdering zombie Hand soldier while he was also in about five other books?
What an odd time to care about continuity.