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It's not like I expected Jubilee to be in the top ten or anything, but seventy-seventh? Were none of you guys born in the 1980s? There was more to the post-Siege Perilous era X-Men than bad cheesecake, big dumb crossovers and Gambit being annoying, you know.

I wish all of those characters were treated better, especially Jubilee.

FINALLY!

Althuogh Captain Britain being beaten by MODOK is a little humiliating.

Jubilee is another 90's X-doofus that I hated. She was pushed on us way too hard and not written well at all. didn't she get de-powered?

Captain Britain always had the potential to be better than he was written. Then again, I never read any of th Alan Moore stuff.

M.O.D.O.K. is just too silly for his own good. He's one of those 60's "so bad it's great" concept. Check out Marvel's blogs. There's a M.O.D.O.K. blog. The latedt entry is out-takes of him doing a comercial for MOMDOKers. There's even a pic of him trying to put the pants on. Priceless comedy.

Taksmaster was alwyas underrated as a villian.

While I always loved machine man just because he was Kirby sillyness, he only recently became a great character. Thank you Nextwave.

That Jubilee cover is horrible, but I enjoy the continuing countdown so I won't complain to much.

On the oppisite end of the cover spectrum that Taskmaster cover reminds me of why that guy does deserve some votes.

Man, that is one anatomically awkward Jubilee cover. If I remember correctly, I had her somewhere on my list. For some odd reason, she's really grown on my in the last couple of years. I was very pleasantly surprised when she turned up as second in command of the New Warriors.

76 got 76 points? Amusing.

"My robot brain needs beer"
Ah Machine Man, if only Warren Ellis could write you forever.

Once more into the breach. Let's look at group statistics. I split the Marvel characters into 9 groups to gauge how they did on the list. Note, each character was only placed in one of these groups, the one they are most associated with.

New (Exiles, Runaways, the Young Avengers) : 2 members, 260 points, average of 130 points, highest member at #38, rough average of #48

New Warriors : 2 members, 325 points, average of 162, highest member at #27, rough average of #38

Ultimate : 3 members, 512 points, average of 170, highest member at #26, rough average of #37

Cosmic : 5 members, 910 points, average of 182, highest member at #24, rough average of #36

X-Men: 26 members!, 6548 points!, average of 252, highest member at #7, rough average of #27

Spider-Clan/Street fighters (Punisher, Venom, Daredevil, Spiderman, etc) : 13 members!, 5012 points, average of 385, highest member at #1!, rough average of #20

Avengers : 10 members, 4247 points, average of 425, highest member at #2, rough average of #18

Fantastic Four : 5 members (including Doom), 2177 points, average of 435, highest member at #5, rough average of #17

Defenders : 4 members, 1877 points, average of 469!, highest member at #6, rough average of #13!

So, Spider clan takes home the #1 spot, X-men get the most people on the list and the Defenders get the highest average. (Not bad considering the Defenders have been separated for decades, though still not as good as the Clark Kent or Bruce Wayne groups.)

Wow. Jubilee's a lot higher than I would have guessed; and I had her #1.

Wow, Danar... You just don't have a lot to do, huh?

A while back in the forums I floated the idea of a Most Disliked Characters poll. Reading through some of the comments made throughout your reveal of the DC and Marvel Top 100, it seems there is some support for the concept.

As I initially indicated, I don't want to dwell too much on the negative, so maybe just limit it to a Top 10 for the two companies with readers submitting their top 3 from each.

And just to clarify what I mean by most disliked (or worst or most hated or whatever you want to call them): I'm suggesting voting for the characters who you hope get written out of continuity in the next big company-wide crossover. The characters who make you angry if they guest star in your favorite series.

Any thoughts?

That's a terrible idea. A top 10 most hated wouldn't be good to anyone and would only produce whining and rants.

"There was more to the post-Siege Perilous era X-Men than bad cheesecake, big dumb crossovers and Gambit being annoying, you know."

Yeah, there was Jubilee being annoying. Scott Lobdell did maybe two good issues with her in Uncanny, and one good scene in Generation X.

PS: I was born in 1981.

"PS: I was born in 1981."

Which is about when I started collecting comics. Thanks dude. Now I feel old all over again.

Now here's an excellent list of characters! (And Jubilee, though I do like her too)

Taskmaster is high among my favourite villains, so I'm glad to see him. Definitely glad to see Machine Man finally. And Captain Britain.

But... I'm still not finding Black Knight.

"It’s not like I expected Jubilee to be in the top ten or anything, but seventy-seventh? Were none of you guys born in the 1980s? There was more to the post-Siege Perilous era X-Men than bad cheesecake, big dumb crossovers and Gambit being annoying, you know."

Believe me, I love that era of Claremont's X-Men. I even love Gambit and Jubilee. They're just not cracking my personal top 50 characters, so I don't expect them to crack a general top 50 list.

The only X-character to make my top 10 was Magneto, but a lot more would have made my top 20. Just not Jubilee. Sorry.

I was also born in 1981.

With the recent surge in popularity for the Scottish Nationalists in Scotland I was wondering what Captain Britain would do if the UK broke up into it's component parts. Would he become Captain England and get some Celtic sidekicks or drop the whole image altogether and go on welfare? He'd have to change his outfit as the Union flag wouldn't be in use anyway. What woulod happen if he just did heroics for Ingerland, who would protect Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland then...what about the Channel Islands...maybe these countries would have to entice some of the minor American heroes over the pond with the offer of tax breaks or something....Whats Puck doing these days...hold on isn't he Canadian...shish, this is difficult

THe British Cap could always style himself on St.George and concentrate on kicking dragon ass (hold on...St. George wasn't English). Or he could be Scottish (perhaps he has A scottish granny), a tartan outfit would be rad! Or Welsh, he could fashion deadly weapons out of Lava bread. Or he could just retire like he should have done years ago...he sucks big ones.

Actually the Scottish thing might work if he was handled by Grant Morrison....he may actually be cool for the first time ever...might have to change his name to Big Tam or The Scunner or something like that though....must go and take my medicine now.

While the Moore / Davis run on Captain Britain was brilliant, I still prefer the scepter-toting, rampant lion emblazoned Brian Braddock of the 70's. I just don't dig Brian as this hulking steroid case.

Just me? I guess so ...

And still no sign of Valkyrie?

Taskmaster rules. That issue of the Avengers where he fights Hawkeye and Antman (#222 I think) was one of the first comics I ever bought, and to this day Hawkeye and Taskmaster are 2 of my 10 favorite characters. He really should be used more.

Have to agree with VP Bartilucci- the original Cap was the best (although i re-read the original run recently and have to say it was pretty lame!) Also Jo is spot-on - a 'Cap fighting the break up of Britain' story would be cool! (Handled correctly of course, by which I mean NO Chris Claremont please!)Speaking as a Scot, Scottish supes are thin on the Ground - there's Claymore, Red thingmy (y'know in the Alan Grant Punisher story when he goes to Scotland!)erm ... that's it?!? Which brings me nicely to Jo's final point - Grant Morrison did a Scottish superhero (of sorts) early on in his career called Captain Clyde !!!

Taskmasker and MODOK, but still no Batroc? Mon Dieu! Sacre Bleu! Quel Fromage!

C'mon, people. He's French. He leaps. And what is the hottest thing going these days? Parkour! And what is Parkour? French people leaping!!!

Batroc ze Traceur!

Nine of my top ten have made the list now, .

Scotland could always claim Scott Free, Scott Summers and Alan Scott.

Scott Lang is dead, isn't he?

Was Clive Reston Scottish? He sure looked it.

Vince Paul Bartilucci said:
"While the Moore / Davis run on Captain Britain was brilliant, I still prefer the scepter-toting, rampant lion emblazoned Brian Braddock of the 70’s. I just don’t dig Brian as this hulking steroid case.

Just me? I guess so …"

Captain Britain's not a favorite of mine either way, but I also have fond memories of the 70's Cap. In retrospect, he now kind of looks like a Cobra agent out of G.I. Joe, but I loved it when I ran across his appearance in an issue of Spidey Superstories when I was a kid (fighting Jack O'Lantern)...

The only one I really enjoyed on this list is taskmaster--at one time I bought any comic with him on the cover.

Wow,she beat Captain Britain. Go Jubes

Jo, maybe Grant Morrison could entice Irvine Welsh into comics and the Trainspotting boys et al could get super powers. Imagine Francis Fuckin Begbie with super fuckin powers. 'E'd make Wulverine 'n fucking Venom take the right pish, 'e would. Jist carve a right new hole for Darkseid 'imself ifn that grey radge goes gettin wide.

I guess I am clueless. Jubilee beats Rick Jones. Wow. I happen to think that Rick Jones is great and I love the way he has been around for years with all these different partners. I guess nobody else feels the same way.

"The latedt entry is out-takes of him doing a comercial for MOMDOKers. There’s even a pic of him trying to put the pants on. Priceless comedy."

Commercials are lucrative. He's gotta get the money to pay his 11 somehow...

.Jordan D. White said …

FINALLY!

Although Captain Britain being beaten by MODOK is a little humiliating.

Drawing with Taskmaster isn't great either. Tasky is a good enough villian with a decent concept but top 70 odd really?? Theres loads of major villains who have yet to make the list. I voted for The Red Skull who is still to show up

Still at least BB made it to the party.

Taskmaster did have his own miniseries and has been a supporting character in Deadpool, so he's had a higher level of exposure than many characters who are solely villains.

Spot on Forthworlder - they could start up a legion of superheroes called 'Ra Bigmen' with the motto 'Divnae caw us Buffties or yer Maw'll be goan tae church oan a weekday', or 'Get tae Falkirk!'. They could get pished up oan the bucky and gie folks haircuts wi thur boots!

'You kin tak oor lives....but you'll no tak oor giros!'

Actually didn't Morrison turn Mirror Master into a character like this during his run with Animal Man for DC?

I still like the idea of a Welsh hero, a stocky, hairybacked sort who roams the valleys defeating enemies with his intrepid group of close harmony choral singers! Oh oh...just upset the wife (shes from Wales you know see)

Taskmaster seems to be one of those guys who I was suprised to see but then nodded and said "yeah Taskmaster is pretty badass" I just didn't think of him.

Also have I missed Cloak and/or Dagger or have they not made it yet. I'll be sad if they aren't somewhere in the top 100.

Captain Britain! Yay!

[...] Top 100 Lists Should Be Good CBR blog Comics Should Be Good has revealed the final 5 in their Top 100 Marvel Characters list. A few New Warriors have made the list. Links go to batches of 5. 27. Nova (222 points/6 first place votes) (tied w/Namor the Sub-Mariner) 63. Robbie Baldwin (73 votes for Speedball & 21 votes for Penance - 103 votes/2 first place votes) 77. Jubilee (74 points/3 first place votes) 96. Firestar (57 points) [...]

Jubilee is my #1, and has a dedicated fanbase all her own. If we'd known about this vote she'd be a lot higher than she is.

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