For all their vaunted popularity in their own particular worlds of excitement and amazement, comic book characters sometimes aren't very good at recognizing each other...
even when it's dead obvious. I mean, you can forgive blind-as-a-bat-who-got-hit-with-radioactive-waste-in-his-eyes
Matt Murdock of maybe not recognizing his pals Foggy Nelson and Karen Page...or is that Heather Glenn? You know, put a headband on her and it kinda looks like Gwen Stacy, don't it...?
Maybe the problem, therefore, is just that instead of a superhero, everybody seems to be
expecting somebody else!
Or maybe, just maybe, too many people are stuck on the
obvious.
So let me now present to you a literally virtual
gallery of
Smart Answers to Stupid Identifications of Comic Book Characters. Enjoy, won't you?
I had to look this next one up.
Here's who Gabriel Heatter is. (It's a nice pun, too, even if it's misspelled. Whoever said that spontaneously combusting androids don't have a sense of humor? I think that was Namor who said that, right?)
Sometimes even civilians get mistaken for superheroes! I know I am frequently asked if I am the Incredible Hulk, especially when I am wearing my Hulk Hands.
Bully Smash!
How square is Clark Kent?
So square that he can't even get the lyrics of "Rubber Biscuit" right!
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Finally, we must all bow down before the king of being mistaken for somebody else...
this guy:
...whoever he is.