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Flag-Smasher
Flag-Smasher: Marvel Comics anti-nationalist terrorist created by Mark Gruenwald and Paul Neary, first appearing in Captain America #312 (December 1985) as Karl Morgenthau; later Guy Thierrault; adapted as Karli Morgenthau's Flag Smashers in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
Flash Thompson
Flash Thompson (Eugene Thompson) is a Marvel Comics character, Spider-Man's high school bully and biggest fan, later a legless war veteran who becomes Agent Venom and Agent Anti-Venom, debuting in Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962).
Forever People
The Forever People are a DC Comics superhero team of five young New Gods created by Jack Kirby, debuting in The Forever People #1 (1971) as part of the Fourth World saga; touching their Mother Box summons the Infinity Man.
Freedom Force (comics)
Freedom Force (Marvel Comics) is a 1985 government-sponsored mutant team formed when Mystique's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants took a federal pardon, battled the X-Men, and preceded the federal X-Factor.
Fury (DC Comics)
Fury (DC Comics) is a codename shared by three DC superheroes: Helena Kosmatos, the Golden Age Fury; her daughter Lyta Trevor of Infinity, Inc.; and a New 52 Earth 2 character. Lyta, originally Wonder Woman's daughter, is the mother of Daniel Hall in The Sandman.
Garfield
Garfield is Jim Davis's comic strip about a lazy, lasagna-loving orange cat, debuted June 19, 1978 in 41 newspapers; Guinness record holder for widest syndication, run through Paws, Inc., acquired by Viacom in 2019.
General Zod
General Zod (Dru-Zod) is a DC Comics supervillain, Kryptonian military leader and Superman enemy, first appearing in Adventure Comics #283 (1961); banished to the Phantom Zone, famous for Terence Stamp's "Kneel before Zod" and Michael Shannon's Man of Steel portrayal.
Giant-Man
Giant-Man is a Marvel Comics superhero identity, first the size-growing alias of Hank Pym (debut Tales to Astonish #49, November 1963, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby), later held by Bill Foster from Marvel Two-in-One #55 (1979).
Grace Choi
Grace Choi is a DC Comics superhero created by Judd Winick and Tom Raney, debuting in Outsiders vol. 3 #1 (2003); a bisexual half-Bana-Mighdall Amazon with super strength, partner of Thunder/Anissa Pierce, and adapted on The CW's Black Lightning.
Grandmaster (Marvel Comics)
Grandmaster (En Dwi Gast), Marvel Comics Elder of the Universe created by Roy Thomas and Sal Buscema, debuting in Avengers #69 (1969); a game-obsessed immortal, brother of the Collector, played by Jeff Goldblum in Thor: Ragnarok.
Hallows' Eve (Marvel Comics)
Hallows' Eve (Hallow's Eve), Marvel Comics Spider-Man character, real name Elizabeth Tyne/Janine Godbe, created by DeMatteis and Romita Jr. in 1995; became a mask-powered Dark Web villain in Amazing Spider-Man #14 (2022) and headlined a 2023 series by Erica Schultz.
Halo (DC Comics)
Halo (Gabrielle Doe, originally Violet Harper merged with the alien Aurakle) is a DC Comics photokinetic superhero and original Outsiders member, created by Mike W. Barr and Jim Aparo in The Brave and the Bold #200 (July 1983), later adapted as Gabrielle Daou in Young Justice: Outsiders.
Heathcliff (comic strip)
Heathcliff is a single-panel newspaper comic strip created by George Gately, debuting September 3, 1973, about a silent, mischievous orange tabby who torments dogs and raids fish markets; distinguished from Garfield by its silent single-panel format and its succession to Peter Gallagher in 1998.
Hitman (DC Comics)
Hitman (DC Comics) is a Garth Ennis and John McCrea comic series (1996-2001) about Tommy Monaghan, a telepathic contract killer in Gotham's Cauldron, spun off from DC's 1993 Bloodlines event.
Hugo Strange
Hugo Strange, also Professor or Dr. Hugo Strange, is a DC Comics Batman supervillain created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, debuting in Detective Comics #36 (February 1940) before the Joker. Known for the Monster Men, deducing Batman's identity, and Arkham City.
Ikaris
Ikaris, also called Ikarus, is a Marvel Comics Eternal created by Jack Kirby in The Eternals #1 (1976). He flies and fires eye beams, is among the most powerful Eternals, and was played by Richard Madden as the 2021 film's tragic antagonist.
Jean Grey
Jean Grey (Marvel Girl, Phoenix) is a Marvel Comics X-Men founding member created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963, an Omega-level telepath and telekinetic bonded to the Phoenix Force and famous for the Dark Phoenix saga.
Joaquin Torres (comics)
Joaquin Torres, Marvel's second Falcon, a Mexican-American teen transformed by Karl Malus into a human/falcon hybrid with flight, healing, and a psychic link to Redwing; partner to Sam Wilson's Captain America, distinct from the MCU's Air Force officer played by Danny Ramirez.
Ka-Zar (Kevin Plunder)
Ka-Zar (Kevin Plunder), Lord Kevin Reginald Plunder, is a Marvel Comics jungle hero protecting the Antarctic Savage Land with the sabertooth Zabu; debuted in X-Men #10 (1965), reviving a 1936 pulp character, and gained land-based powers in the 2021 Thompson miniseries.
Katana (DC Comics)
Katana (DC Comics): Tatsu Yamashiro, a DC Comics swordswoman created by Mike W. Barr and Jim Aparo in 1983, wielding the Soultaker Sword that traps souls, including her husband Maseo's; member of the Outsiders, Suicide Squad, and Birds of Prey.
Kid Flash
Kid Flash is the DC Comics speedster legacy identity, first held by Wally West (The Flash #110, 1959), later Bart Allen, and currently Wallace "Ace" West (Flash Annual #3, 2014), sidekick and successor to the Flash.
Kitty Pryde
Kitty Pryde (Katherine Anne Pryde, Shadowcat) is a Marvel Comics X-Men superhero created by Claremont and Byrne in 1979, a Jewish teen from Deerfield, Illinois who phases through solid matter and became the X-Men's first teenage member.
Kurse (comics)
Kurse (comics): Marvel Comics Dark Elf, originally Algrim the Strong, created by Walt Simonson, debuting in Thor #347 (1984) and transformed by the Beyonder in Secret Wars II #4 (1985); later mantle held by Lady Waziria; MCU version played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje.
Lady Shiva
Lady Shiva (Sandra Wu-San/Woosan) is a DC Comics martial artist and assassin, created by Denny O'Neil and Ric Estrada, first appearing in Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter #5 (1975); mother of Cassandra Cain.
Leslie Thompkins
Leslie Thompkins, DC Comics Batman character created by Dennis O'Neil and Dick Giordano, debuting in Detective Comics #457 (1976) "There Is No Hope in Crime Alley!"; a pacifist physician modeled on Dorothy Day, surrogate mother to Bruce Wayne, later Gotham TV's Lee Thompkins.
Lex Luthor
Lex Luthor, DC Comics supervillain created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, first appeared in Action Comics #23 (1940) as Superman's bald, genius archenemy; reinvented as a corporate tycoon in 1986 and portrayed by Hackman, Eisenberg, and Hoult on screen.
Linus Van Pelt
Linus Van Pelt is a Peanuts comic strip character by Charles Schulz, debuting September 19, 1952. Known for his security blanket (which popularized the term), Great Pumpkin belief, Luke 2 Nativity recital in A Charlie Brown Christmas, and as Lucy's younger brother.
List of Absolute Universe characters
Absolute Universe characters are DC Comics' reimagined heroes and villains on Earth-Alpha, launched October 2024 under DC All In. Batman is working-class, Superman is Kal-El only, Wonder Woman was raised by Circe; the line spans Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, and Catwoman titles.
List of alien races in Marvel Comics
Alien races in Marvel Comics: the shape-shifting Skrulls (Fantastic Four #2, 1961/1962, Kirby and Lee), the imperialistic Kree and their Supreme Intelligence, the avian Shi'ar, Xandarians, Badoon, Cotati, and Symbiotes, plus the hundreds-of-thousands-of-years Kree-Skrull War.
List of Calvin and Hobbes characters
Cast of Bill Watterson's comic strip Calvin and Hobbes (1985-1995): six-year-old Calvin, his tiger Hobbes, his unnamed parents, Susie Derkins, Miss Wormwood, Moe, Rosalyn, and Calvin's fantasy alter egos such as Spaceman Spiff.