User blog comment:RedArcherGirl/Who's your favourite hero?/@comment-1038387-20120529151228

I'll give you five:


 * 1) Ted Kord. I'm getting predictable, aren't I? He's a non-superpowered gadget-hero, who spends a lot of time with powered heroes. Which means he's pretty useless in a fight. Luckily, he's a great pilot. Piloting around the JLI and later Black Canary (for Oracle, before they were the Birds of Prey) were his beast days.


 * 1) Lady Blackhawk/Zinda Blake. Though at first she was just a annoying female trying to get in the Blackhawks, who could be scared off by a passing mouse (I kid you not), she became a mainstay, and made the other Blackhawks look like misogyn jerks.After Zero Hour brought her to the present (don't ask) she became Oracle's pilot (and coined the name Birds of Prey). But because she only knows how to barbrawl, and is in a team with Huntress and Black Canary, she's pretty useless in a fight. But luckily, she's a great pilot (does that sound familiar?). So yeah, my favorite two characters are the wisecracking pilot archetype (no wonder Wash is my fav Firefly character) and both are written out of continuity with the reboot.


 * 1) Icon/Arnus. Actually, has a shared spot with his temporary replacement Buck Wild. Icon #17 is still the best single issue I've ever read.


 * 1) Buck Wild/Rufus T. Wild. With belief-defyin' strength and tungsten-hard skin. In the 70s, he volunteered for a cryogenetic experiment, but because something went wrong, he got his powers. Some say only his brain was frozen. He's Dwayne McDuffie at his finest, completely destroying the 70s black superheroes that were walking stereotypes like Luke Cage, Black Goliath and Black Lightning.


 * 1) Harvey Bullock. Not a superhero, but a cop. For some reason, he's always partnered with young female cops who grow up to become bigger characters. Has great detective skills - surmised his former partner Renee Montoya was the new Question because he recognized her ass.