Posts by Tom

Iron Man

Tony Stark is Iron Man, a billionaire playboy and ingenious engineer who, after being kidnapped, builds a powered suit of armor to escape captivity. As a free man, he continues to build new models of the suit, wearing them while playing the hero.

Black Cat

Felicia Hardy is the Black Cat, the daughter of a renowned cat burglar who has trained in a variety of fighting styles and acrobatics. She first dons the Black Cat costume in order to break her father out of prison.

Frozone

In The Incredibles, Frozone (Samuel L. Jackson), aka Lucius Best, is a long-time friend of the Parr family and also a superhero. His power is to freeze water on demand, and would probably get along alright with Iceman.

Philip J. Fry

In Futurama, Philip J. Fry (voiced by Billy West) is a slacker pizza delivery boy who becomes cryogenically frozen and reawakens in the 31st century… to work as an interstellar delivery boy. Aside from his work, he only has eyes for the ship captain Leela.

Leeloo

In the Fifth Element, Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) is a Supreme Being who becomes The Fifth Element. She escapes from the lab where she is reconstructed and falls (literally) into Korben Dallas’ life. Together they must retrieve the four elemental stones in order to stop the Great Evil from destroying Earth.

Ma-Ma

In Dredd, Madeline Madrigal (Lena Headey) works her way up the dystopian Peach Trees apartment complex, killing her pimp and becoming the resident kingpin Ma-Ma. Through her violent gang, she controls every inch of Peach Trees and uses it to manufacture drugs.

Dora the Explorer

Dora the Explorer is a girl who goes on adventures with her talking purple backpack and anthropomorphic monkey named Boots. Sounds like quite the trip.

Ness

In the role-playing game EarthBound (released in Japan as Mother), Ness is a young boy who possesses powerful psychic abilities. He uses whatever he has on hand to fight enemies, including his baseball bat and yo-yo.

Paula Polestar

In Earthbound (released as Mother in Japan), Paula Polestar is the first character to join Ness. She also has psychic abilities and her weapon of choice are frying pans.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is playing hooky to see the big city, and he’s taking his girlfriend Sloane, his buddy Cameron, and most importantly Cameron’s dad’s Ferrari along for the ride.

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