Brian, I heart you so much for making Helena number one.

I f***ing, love Helena; at the moment, I am currently reading any title that makes even the slightest mention of her.

As for Madison's Year One, I liked it, though I thought some of the dialogue was corny (particularly the overt religious references.)

In the words of Nek:

Perchè mi piaci
In ogni modo
Da ogni lato o prospettiva tu

Because I like you
In every way
From every side (or perspective of) you

Sei solo tu, Helena and Brian.

♥

There was. Paul Provenzano was a member of Jean Grey's ad hoc team right before Morrison's run started. And Guido was a member of Moria McTaggart's "Muir Island X-Men" during the Australian period.

By the by, it's nice to see that, aside from Huntress and Argent, the characters on this list were NOT a relative of a Mafia crime lord. That cliche is so played out.

Surely the same applies to Strong Guy, who's not homo sapiens either.

1. Top Five BASQUE Superheroes (have there even been 5?)
2. Top Five Superheroes that were secretly Jewish

For the person who made the stupid "Killed Indians" remark....

Maybe one of these days you ought to study real history, and not political propaganda. Native Americans were killing & enslaving each other for thousands of years before the Spaniards arrived. There's a reason why a lot of tribes are commonly known today by the invectives and slurs OTHER tribes called them (The Apache, The Sioux, etc.). The main thing that white man brought was disease (which killed plenty enough, and frankly it wasn't too kind to Europeans, either), not to mention a tendency to double-cross (anyone, even each other) that was anethema to the trust-based societies that were common in North America. Central & South America, on the other hand, were full of bloody backstabbers and warmongers that only fell to the Spanish, from having inferior technology - in terms of atrocities pre-Columbus they made the Inquisition seem tame.

Come on, that's not the same thing. By magic user, I meant someone who *naturally* has the ability to learn magic. ALL of those are of Magi descent. Of course people can gain magic in other ways, in the same way many heroes and villains gain powers despite not having the metagene. That doesn't make them true wizards.

And anyway, the original point was that Zatanna is of Italian descent, more so than being Homo Magi.

An interesting list might be top 5 background/left over characters PAD has made cool.

Doesn't make any sense to me.

Frank Castle changed his name to break into show business.

Here's my list:

1 - Raphael
2 - Leonardo
3 - Michaelangelo
4 - Donatello
5 - Luigi

Homo Maji is supposed to represent a species separate from Homo Sapiens, which the rest of us are. It really isn't separate as someone else stated above since fertile offspring between the two is possible. It's really more of a race such as black, Asian, and Caucasion. Most people are some mix of the three. Nationality/Ethnicity is really based on what location your ancestors lived in and is heavily tied to culture. The majority of Zatara's ancestors were born in and lived their lives in Italy. I can't say for sure they were citizens since I don't know the history of Italian citizenship laws, but many countries used to require property ownership to qualify as a citizen, so it really doesn't matter here.

Even if he does have an ancestor or two who were Homo Maji, and they didn't reside in Italy, the majority of his ancestors did and that's the culture he comes from. Do we disqualify someone as Italian because their great-great-great-...-great grandmother was French? or even Japanese?

ALL of DC’s magic users are descended from Homo Magi. Check Wikipedia for details.

If you want to accept Wikipedia as the authority, check out their Homo Magi page, they list tons of magic users who aren't Homo Magi.

One would hope so, indeed, but of course all of the major religions (that I know of, anyway) have blood on their hands, as it were, at least historically. Now, if Helena adhered to a religion that emphasizes the sanctity of all life -- like, say, Jainism -- that'd be different ...

(No, I don't follow Jainism. I don't follow *anything*, for better or worse.)

Besides, saying that Homo Magi are not human is like saying the X-Men aren't human because they are "Homo Superior."

Of course, maybe you meant that in a cultural sense: after all being 'Italian' is not a genetic thing. Some "pureblooded" Homo Magi life in their own hidden civilization, and Zatanna's mother Sindella comes from it. However, Sindella did not raise Zatanna, so neither she (nor Zatara) can be considered to be culturally "Homo Magi" either.

I was particularly fond of the Alpha-Centurion. Sure, he was a dick, but he was interesting.

Both DC & Marvel has Contessas (Luthor's ex-wife, Nick Fury's gal), both are Italian.

And of course, who can forget Pumaman? Say what you will about his flying ability, but you wish you had Donald Pleasance in your rogue's gallery.

Saying that Mirage from the Titans is on the Wikipedia lis of Native Americans, despite being Brazilian a very non-Native American name (Miriam Delgado)