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Y'know, more than anything actually RELATING to mismatched duos, today's Snark-Free Corner makes me think "God, I love Maguire's Black Canary." As patently ridiculous as that costume is, Maguire made it work perfectly and that cover was forever burned into my preadolescent brain.

Timber Wolf and Blok of the Legion of Superheroes were a cool mismatched duo.

T-Wolf being a dumb jock and Blok a wise old philosopher, they had one of my favourite comic book friendships ever.

Who is it? Green Goblin (Phil)?

Uncle Ben gave it away.

The bestest of all mismatched duos, of course...Power Man and Iron Fist! Absolutely splenderiffic.

I know it'll never really get to the point where it's a "duo", because he's got too many books to star in, but I really like the way that the new Blue Beetle interacts with Batman when they team up. They have a nice dynamic.

As for good potential duos...Justice and the Vision, if the Vision ever gets out of his current continuity hell. (Actually, the phrase "if (insert character name here) ever gets out of his/her current continuity hell" would occur frequently in any duos I might suggest, so I'll bow out here.)

I only got th Who is it? (Green Goblin/Phil Ulrich) on number 5

Maybe I missed the point, because you were looking for moslty comedy duos (or in the case of GL/GA, unintentional comedy), but I always thought Batman and Superman were a mismatched duo. I think it was Miller who said something along the lines of "Batman is a man who thinks chaos is the norm and it is his duty to enforce order. Superman believes that order is the norm. These two people would not get along."

I LOVE the Timber Wolf/Blok interaction. It's my single favorite thing from that era of the LSH, and that's saying a lot.

I think I'd really enjoy a current Firestorm/Blue Beetle pairing myself.

Yes, I do think that Superman and Batman are a classic example of a mismatched duo--in fact, they're so classic that we overlook them. (I also think it's neat that over in 'PS238', Captain Clarinet and Moon Shadow are starting to develop a "World's Finest" sort of dynamic. One of the many many neat things about PS238.)

What constitutes "mismatched"?

I can't see it with Fire + Ice or Blue + Gold. At least with GL+GA there were on massively different power levels.

The same applies with Superman + Batman, but then anyone who teams up with Batman is going to be massively outclassed.

I think Batman and Superman were only a mismatched duo after Miller's interpretation of their relationship became the norm. Before that, they were pretty similar in terms of personality and disposition.

Green Lantern (Hal) and The Flash (Barry). Not so much as the super heroes, but rather in their secret identities. Barry being the uber-dull police scientist in love with (then married to) Iris West and the ladies man Hal. Their interactions were always more the hilights of the team-ups than their super-antics.

Cover game: Dolphin, Aquaman, and Bronze Tiger all went on missions as part of the Justice League Task Force during its "Mission Impossible" era (Aquaman in the first story, Bronze Tiger in the KnightQuest tie-in where Gypsy stood around for two issues and didn't speak, and Dolphin in Peter David's extremely weird women and reasonable facsimiles only two-parter).

I got Green Goblin on #2.

GREEN GOBLIN (Phil Urich) on the first clue.

I kept expecting the next clue to prove me wrong, but each one just added to the rarity of my knowing who you were referring to.

hahha
I almost never have a clue for that game.

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Superman & Batman are mismatched heroes that are a "team" more often than not (although, they have been portrayed on occasion - and rightfully so, that they really should NOT get along).

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Favorite mismatched pair...
Swamp Thing and John Constatine from way back in the day

Yeah, strangely enough, got Phil Urich/Green Goblin on the first clue--just the first name that occurred to me. Odd.

Cover game: Dolphin, Aquaman, and Bronze Tiger all went on missions as part of the Justice League Task Force during its “Mission Impossible” era (Aquaman in the first story, Bronze Tiger in the KnightQuest tie-in where Gypsy stood around for two issues and didn’t speak, and Dolphin in Peter David’s extremely weird women and reasonable facsimiles only two-parter).

Correct-a-mundo!

Like Chad and Sanctum, I got Green Goblin on #1, and was surprised when the rest of the clues bore that out. I'm sad to say that's the first time ever I've gotten a "Who Is It?" I don't know why ol' Phil was the first to come to mind; maybe that Loners mini-series is having more of an impact on us than we think.

Quantum and Woody, of course! (Granted, they were designed to be a mismatched pair).

Back in the Claremont days, Wolverine and Nightcrawler...that they'd pal around and bet six packs with each other on their games of tag was great!

Human Torch and Spider-Man - One's the golden boy celebrity of the rich and famous superhero set basically doing good because they have nothing else to do, the other's the poster boy for outlaw down on their luck doing right because it's right.

I got Green Goblin after I read everyone successfully answer it.

Who Is It? Phil Urich AKA Green Goblin. Thought it was him with #1 (don't know many characters using the name of a former supervillain other than him), the lack of super-powers and him being a former superhero helped too, #4 assured it and #5 deffinitely nailed it.

[QUOTE]GREEN GOBLIN (Phil Urich) on the first clue.

I kept expecting the next clue to prove me wrong, but each one just added to the rarity of my knowing who you were referring to.

hahha
I almost never have a clue for that game.[/QUOTE]
Same here.

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What about Cable and Deadpool? Until recently they were THE mismatched duo.

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Characters who could be a good mismatched duo? Wolverine and Spider-Man, but they doing it for years 3 times a week. They're the punchline of NA.
Brad Meltzer developed something between Red Arrow and Hawkgirl, probably intended for a romantic relationship, but I can see them arguing in the middle of a fight. Love/hate duo.
Amadeus Cho and Rick Jones, helping Hulk and fighting for his affection at the same time.

I have nothing to say save this: damn, that's one horrifying floating head of Ralph. I know he's a strecher, but the chin? It feels so wrong.

Cable and Deadpool were a great pair. Their friendship dynamic was fantastic. Another weird one - Wolverine and Kitty Pryde. For that matter, Kitty Pryde and Colossus - have two power sets been that drastically different? Brute force and complete evasion? One I'd love to see - Deadpool and Batman. How long do you think it would take for Batman to break his "no killing" rule? Five seconds?

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I have nothing to say save this: damn, that’s one horrifying floating head of Ralph. I know he’s a strecher, but the chin? It feels so wrong.

Kind of evocative of Army of Darkness, no?

I think it's hilarious that Dale Gunn is on that Justice League cover. I'm sure that helped sell a lot of extra copies to all the Dale Gunn-loving youngsters of the '80s.

Anyway, yeah, I think of Spider-Man and the Human Torch as being the quintessential mismatched pairs and one of Marvel's most fun hero friendships. Pity the two characters haven't hung out much in recent years.

Favourite mismatched pair has to be Cyborg and Changelling...always my favourite thing in the Wolfman/Perez glory days of the New Teen Titans.

I'd also give props to Katana and Halo in Batman and the Outsiders, although both characters were created for the same book (though their friendship did seem highly unlikely at first). Nowadays Katana seems like a second-rate Elektra clone without Halo around to make it a super-powered maternal verison Lone Wolf and Cub.

Nowadays, I'd love to pair up Supergirl with someone like Black Canary or Zatanna or someone. Maybe the annoying teenage bubblehead thing that I hate about the current Supergirl might change through regular pairings with a mature superheroine (oh, decent writers would help, and artists...)

I can't believe it took me all five to get Phil Urich. I really dug that comic.

Green Goblin/Phil Urich on Number 1. 'Cause that's just the way I've been thinking today.

And Cable & Deadpool. The quintessential mismatched pair that nobody ever thought of until three years ago. God bless Fabian Nicieza.

Cover game: Adventures of the DC Universe #6 http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=60683&zoom=4

Mismatched pairs: Here's an early one that I'm surprised no one has mentioned yet: Hawkman and Atom. At one point, presumably when sales figures on both of their individual books were low (the same reason that Power Man and Iron Fist became a team), DC combined them in one title that only lasted seven issues before it was cancelled. In my opinion, this is the ultimate mismatched pair: it's difficult to even show both characters in action in the same panel. Hawkman requires long-range shots to show him effectively, and obviously Atom requires extreme close-ups.

technically another early but mismatched pair: Batman and Robin

Batman dark and terrifying
Robin bright and cheerful

Dazzler and Beast from the 'Beauty And The Beast' mini.

It didn't really take off, and it was a stretch to get them there in the first place.

mismatched heroes: ronin and the sentry?

mismatched heroes 2: penance and franklin richards, son of a genius?

oh, and, batman and robin still don't make sense, every decent batman story ever told excludes robin: he's superfluous

Orion and Lightray, they don't get come more mismatched than that.

And Dr Strange and the Hulk, in Defenders. Hulk will smash stupid magician!

yes to me ...........Orion and Lightray, they don’t get come more mismatched than that.

And Dr Strange and the Hulk, in Defenders. Hulk will smash stupid magician!

As far as mismatched mutants go, I've always thought that the Wolverine/Cyclops pairings throughout the years have been great fun, with the thing tying them together being that they both loved the same woman.

This was such a great dynamic that it was easily carried over into the movies.

Next up is Wolverine and Kitty Pryde. Sweet, teenaged suburban girl hangs with fatal, old, smoking killing machine. They have adventures. In Japan.