Superheroes You've Never Heard of: Part 3

With my utter laziness at its highest I thought I owed you something spectacular so I brought back my personal favorite and my most popular feature. Here goes.

Sobek

Real Name: Yurrd the Unknown

Backstory: Once a common alligator in the Nile river, Sobek was trans-mutated by a crazy scientist that planned to use him as one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. He ran away and made buddies with Osiris. One horrible day Sobek had a struggle with dark forces and gave into his hunger and bit his friend in half. Osiris then deleted Sobek from his Facebook. (not really but wouldnt that be so great?)

- Basically he's not a straight up hero or a straight up villain. Some of his other names are pretty hilarious though. Sobek is also addressed as The Unknown In Formless Time and Sobek the Talking Crocodile.

Fun Fact: He was killed after betraying his friends and skinned to make a pair of boots.

Garbage Man

Real Name: Richard Ethan Morse

Backstory: Mr. morse was a powerful attorney for a very respected law firm until Dun Dun Dun! He had a transformation into a mutated monster known as Garbage Man!

- To be honest I could not find a lot of information on this hero. Pretty much everything I typed above is all there was so I'm guessing he is relatively new or unimportant. I just couldn't resist putting this guy in there.

Fun Fact: .............. he is called Garbage Man!

Bling!

Real Name: Roxanne Washington

Backstory: A member of the X-Men (there are soooooo many of these guys) Roxanne is the child of Rap artist 'Daddy Libido' and was born into hip-hop royalty. During her rebellious years she decided she didn't want to follow in her parents footsteps and instead wanted to be a productive member of society so she became a part of the X-Men and enrolled in a school.

- She can transform her body into crystals and shape-shift these crystals into weapons.

Fun Fact: The ! mark is actually a part of her name, not just a random addition on my part.

I'm sorry to cut it short but I promise to do some more this week. Also expect some big changes to the layout of Captain Obvious' Blog. The white on black is screwing with my eyes.

Your Welcome,

Captain Obvious

Superheroes You've Never Heard of: Part 2

Aquababy
Real Name: Arthur Curry Jr.
Backstory: The son of Aquaman and his wife. Guess your born with gills when your parents live in atlantis.
- Really wondering how he was born underwater.
Fun Fact: He's dead. Suffocated by Aquamans enemies (haha, suffocated?) which led to the divorce of Aquaman and his wife.

Atom
Real Name: Albert Pratt
Backstory: Decided to give up his career in boxing to become a superhero and was exposed to radioactive waves that gave him super strength and eternal youth.
- Interesting career path he chose. Personally I would have gone with interior decorator when I gave up boxing.
Fun Fact: He is only the first of many superheroes named Atom. About 4 or 5 are listed on the website I've been reading

Red Arrow
Real Name: Roy William Harper
Backstory: Grew up on his own since his parents both died while he was at a young age. Developed a strength in archery, and began to stalk the green arrow, or something like that. Eventually became his sidekick and so on so forth.
- Seen this guy on many DC Comics cartoons, including Teen Titans and the newer Young Justice. Has many aliases including Arsenal and Red Arrow
Fun Fact: He suffered a major Heroine addiction in his early teen years and his adopted dad kicked him out. He then became an anti-drug talker to teenagers. Keep your eyes open, he might just be in the next above the influence assembly at your school.

Elongated Man
Real Name: Ralph Dibny
Backstory: For years he studied contortionists and realized that they all had tasted Gingo, a rare fruit. After studying chemistry, he extracted a sample of Gingo and enhanced it chemically to give himself super elasticy.
- Basically the DC comics version of Mr. Fantastic. But his name is much lamer.
Fun Fact: He had a happy, trouble free marriage which is uncommon in Superheroes (after reading about 20 hero bios i can vouch that that is totally true) all the way until his wifes death, which probably wasn't so happy.

Silverclaw
Real Name: Maria de Guadalupe Santiago
Backstory: Was found in a small South American village where they worshipped the Incan Gods. They found this infant one day who had multiple special abilities and was neglected by most of the community. Grew up and went to college where she met the Avengers who asked her to aid them in their quests to defeat bad guys. She still attends college and is an Avenger.
- I found this one very boring. Just not a lot of sense in her bio, and not a lot to care about.
Fun Fact: Her abilities are to mimic animals personalities and traits, and when she is using her powers her skin turns silver. It's like the silver surfer met Pocahontas and got all smooshed together with a box of dismissed ideas, but I'm sure she's got a fan somewhere. Or not.

Superheroes You've Never Heard of: Part 1

Lightning Lad
Real name: Garth Ranzz
Backstory: Garth and his siblings crashed on an unknown planet and were attacked by a group of roaming electrical beasts. After the attack the three were equipped with amazing electrical powers.
 - Lightning Lad is one of DCs' many obscure heroes. Suggested by his name, he has some electrical abilities including electrical generation and manipulation.
Fun Fact: His girlfriends name is Saturn Girl.

Red Tornado
Real name: Unknown
Backstory: An evil cyborg built to infiltrate the Justice League Headquarters. The cyborg was given false memories and mixed with a violent wind (cause that makes total sense).
 - Another DC character. Kind of an anti-hero. Interesting outfit
Fun Fact: Weighs 325 lbs. Thats a lot of wind.

Animal Man
Real name: Bernhard Baker
Backstory: As a young man Bernhard went hunting one afternoon and returned with a changed outlook on nature. He had encountered some helpless animals that had escaped from a zoo and realized he could use their powers when he was close to them. He was now the Man with Animal Powers (lame).
 - This guy should get a show on Discovery channel. Than again maybe he already has one. Is that you Steve Irwin?
Fun Fact: Was part of a group known as the Forgotten Heros. Hard to be forgotten when no ones heard of you.

Curse
Real Name: Philip Krahn
Backstory: Hard to interpret. Basically he's crazy and is trying to gain access to heaven so he can lead them into Hell and destroy the demon armies. Wow, and I thought Inception was confusing.
 - I'm not going to pretend I understand what's going on in this but the dude is interesting.
Fun Fact: As a child he removed his own left eye and scarred his face with a rusty piece of fence and as a man removed his own right arm. Why? To show his loyalty to God. There are better ways people.

Savage Dragon
Real Name: Kurr (that's a name?)
Backstory: The dragon was discovered in a burned up field outside of chicago by a police agent and was asked to join the cops in an attempt to defeat the group of criminals, the Vicious Circle, that was terrorizing the town. After refusing, the police, Darling, takes drastic measures and bribes some criminals to attack Dragon's cousin. They end up killing their target and Dragon joins the police.
 - Weird. It's like one of those afternoon soap operas. Also a very unknown superhero. Not even a fan club has started for this guy yet.
Fun Fact: Some of his powers include Regeneration, Fire resistance, and super jump.

Information is credited to http://www.superherodb.com/