- (laughs creepily) Superman, Batman, Iron Man,
Wonder Woman, are not on this list.
Superheroes have become bigger than ever!
I mean Spider-Man?
(blows raspberries) Classic!
But for every Captain Marvel,
there are two or three reject superheroes
that didn't exactly make the popularity list,
and the chances are you've never heard of them.
That is, until you watch this video.
Here are the 10 strangest superheroes
you won't believe exist!
Number 10 is Big Bertha.
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Oh, that's a good one!
First appearing in the West Coast Avengers comic in 1989,
Big Bertha is kind of like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,
only really, really, really silly.
By day, Ashley Crawford is a successful model in Milwaukee
strutting her stuff and getting by on her good looks.
By night, Ashley transforms into Big Bertha,
a gigantic woman, and we're not talking a giant here.
Bertha is...
How do I say this without offending people?
Bertha is big boned?
Ashley transforms into this overweight character
using her mutant powers
to control the fat tissue around her body.
This gives Bertha super strength, durability,
and even the ability to launch herself into the sky.
Though, that takes a lot of effort.
But despite these strange traits,
Big Bertha has featured in a number of comics,
including Deadpool,
who in no way made any jokes about her weight.
Honest.
Number nine is Danny the Street.
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Superhero comics have mined the real world
for inspiration for decades.
We've seen bats, wolverines, spiders, and even cats
transformed into famous characters.
But what about a street?
Yeah, I'm not making this up.
There's a superhero who's a living street.
Danny's made up of concrete,
street lights, buildings, and even trash cans.
Danny the Street first appeared in Doom Patrol in 1990,
and can magically place himself in any urban location.
He has the power to teleport anywhere in the world,
though this normally is done at night.
He then encourages the poor and vulnerable
to live on his street so that he can protect them.
Hey, hey everyone.
Just a, just a living street here.
Why don't you, uh, why don't you live on my face?
In some incarnations,
Danny the Street has even been able to transform himself
into a planet and hop between dimensions.
Not too shabby for a slab of concrete.
Number eight is Infectious Lass.
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(sneezes) And you're dead.
Known also as Drura Sehpt,
Infectious Lass first appeared in issue 201
of Superboy back in 1974.
She hails from the planet Somahtur.
The species there are in a symbiotic relationship
with all microorganisms.
In effect, Infectious Lass has every disease known to man
coursing through her veins.
Like I said. (hacking)
In fact, she requires these infections to live.
Unfortunately, that makes her highly contagious,
and although she uses her powers to fight evil,
she often ends up infecting innocent bystanders.
Infectious Lass's home world is so dangerous
because of these diseases,
that it's existence is kept secret at all costs.
Otherwise, fear of deadly epidemics
could lead alien species to be wiped out.
Rather than violence, I recommend fruit,
a good amount of fiber, and a great multi-vitamin pill.
That'll keep the diseases at bay,
unless this chick walks by you,
or coughs at you, or just breathes your air.
It's bad luck.
Number seven is Superdupont.
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Comics are often used to comment on contemporary issues,
and there's no stranger example of this than Superdupont.
Superdupont was created in 1972
and is a satirical French comic strip.
Superdupont was created to poke fun at French stereotypes
both from outside of France
and within the French far right national movement.
He's chauvinistic and dresses in a stereotyped French outfit
including a beret, a striped jersey,
and even a blue cape to mock Superman.
Does he have a baguette?
I'm just asking!
He supports nationalism, smokes all the time,
and drinks red wine and eats cheese at every opportunity.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, what's wrong with cheese and red wine?
Superdupont's powers include the ability to fly
and use French boxing known as savate
to defeat the evil terrorist group Anti-France.
Superdupont's greatest power is showing how ridiculous
stereotypes are.
Listen, I'm just saying.
Give me all the stereotypes you want,
as long as I can have some macaron.
Or macaroons, however you wanna say it.
Delicious!
Number six is Bouncing Boy.
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Charles Foster Taine became Bouncing Boy
and appeared in the 276th issue
of Action Comics in 1961.
Initially a normal boy,
he gained the power to inflate himself like a puffer fish
when he drank a plastic chemical which he mistook for soda.
Pfft, happens to the best of us, am I right?
This chemical allowed Bouncing Boy to inflate
making him impervious to harm
while floating around like a balloon.
As a member of the Legion of Superheroes,
Charles Foster Taine was given a special ring
which gave him the power of flight
and the ability to survive in a vacuum.
While his powers have come in handy on occasion,
including a nasty incident where he defeated
an electrically-powered villain
because old Bouncing Boy wasn't grounded,
his super powers are less than legendary.
He's not exactly for most people,
unless you're looking for a big balloon,
in which case, he's your man, or boy.
Number five is Zeitgeist.
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Axel Cluney, aka Zeitgeist,
developed superpowers when he was just 14.
As a mutant in Marvel's X-Force comics,
he first appeared in 2001 and had, shall we say,
an interesting set of powers.
Well, one power, really.
You see, when Zeitgeist was a teenager,
he was drinking booze and got sick.
He threw up all over a teenage girl.
Embarrassment, however, was the least of his worries.
His vomit burned off the girl's face,
oh god, this is getting dark,
and so he discovered his mutant power.
His vomit was highly corrosive.
Zeitgeist was haunted by the incident for years,
especially when he couldn't even remember the girl's name.
Don't have too much sympathy for him, though,
as he died trying to kill off
some of his fellow mutant teammates.
Well, the moral of the story is very clear here, folks.
Don't trust anyone who vomits xenomorph blood.
Number four is Vibe.
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Vibe appeared first
in the Justice League of America in 1984.
His real name is Cisco Ramon,
and despite his strange powers, he's proven popular enough
to feature in both comics and the Arrowverse TV shows.
What's so strange about Vibe's powers?
Well, he defeats evil through the power of dance.
Don't we all, huh, huh, huh?
Okay, well it's not as lame as it sounds.
Vibe gained the ability to create dangerous shockwaves
through movement when he encountered a fissure
in dimensional space known as a boom tube.
After that, he could project shockwaves from his hands
that could shatter concrete, steel, and other materials.
His specialty was being able to breakdance,
but that didn't serve him very well.
He was quickly killed off in the comics by an android,
showing once and for all that dancing is no defense
against the coming robot apocalypse.
It's not too late.
Unplug all your electronics.
Get off the TV now.
Number three is Yukk the Dog.
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Not all superheroes start off their lives in comics.
Yukk the Dog was first featured in an animated TV series.
Yukk appeared in the cartoon series The Plastic Man
which aired in 1979.
He's the sidekick to the imaginatively titled Mighty Man.
Unlike other superhero canines like Cosmo the Dog,
Yukk is depicted as a doghouse
with two eyes peering out from the darkness within.
Maybe he's just Snoopy who had a few too many drinks
on (clicks tongue) top of the house,
you know what I'm saying?
Get me inside.
The reason he never leaves the doghouse
is because his appearance is said to be hideous,
hence the name Yukk.
Ingenious, yeah?
Although the audience never got to see Yukk's face,
he did get to use it as a secret weapon,
revealing it to enemies to paralyze them with terror
like Medusa. (snakes hissing)
Not only that, but Yukk's face could also destroy
inanimate objects when revealed.
Especially useful around villainous door-to-door salespeople
and their products.
Number two is Zippo.
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Oh, hold up now.
If you thought Iron Man was cool, wait until you encounter
the most technologically advanced superhero of them all:
Zippo!
Okay, well, he's not that advanced.
In fact, his super power's basically a supercharged
pair of roller skates.
Zippo first appeared in 1943 during the golden age of comics
in a series of Clue comics which ran just nine issues.
With no innate super powers,
Zippo had to rely on his costume
which is attached to armored wheels on his feet.
He could reach high speeds,
and even use the wheels to cut through steel if needed.
Alas, Zippo's crime fighting days didn't last long,
and he now languishes in the ethereal realm
known as public domain.
Well, hey, that means anyone can use him in their projects,
although, why would you want to?
What do you think, should I make a Zippo film,
or should I just stick to my own superhero alias,
Factboy, the Knowledge Whale?
And number one is The Hand.
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In 1941, Speed Comics released their most
fearsome superhero: The Hand.
It was literally just a big old hand.
That's it.
In the two issues where The Hand appeared,
it was revealed to be an omnipotent hand,
which could materialize out of think air
and wag its finger at those who are about to commit a crime.
Hey, hey you, you, yep you.
Stop that.
It's naughty.
If pushed, The Hand could become violent,
and grow to enormous size
physically attacking the enemies of justice.
Anyone else thinking of Super Smash Bros., right now?
No, just me?
The Hand possessed super human strength
along with the ability to travel through space
at unheard speeds.
In the second of the two stories,
The Hand assisted the FBI in breaking up a spy ring
showing that it was a true ally of America.
On capturing the spies, one of the FBI agents
was killed in a tragic high-fiving accident.
Okay, well, I made that last part up.
But it would have been hilarious.
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