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Nathan Greno
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Who's that between Beast and Captain Britain?
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Aquarian.  Not sure if I spelled that right.  I remember him from the Project Pegasus saga in Marvel Two-in-One.  I believe he started off with a Superman type origin. 
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There's no way Colossus and Spider-Man are in the same strength class.

 

And Flavio, looks like you need to buy more Marvel comics!

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The Aquarian was created by Steve Gerber, I believe, as a character in an early appearance of the Man-Thing. Back then he was Wundarr, a Superman parody whose father sent him to Earth in a rocket ship thinking the planet was about to explode. He was wrong, of course*, and the child spent most of his life in the rocket before it crashed in the Florida everglades. He was, therefore, mentally undeveloped.

Mark Gruenwald, who apparently never met a DC analog he didn't like, sought to rehabilitate the character in Marvel Two-In-One and later, Quasar (where the whole "thinking the planet was about to explode" joke was paved over and a new rationale for the spaceflight was installed.)

During the "Project Pegasus" saga, Wundarr was exposed to the Cosmic Cube and became something of a Christ-figure, dedicated to pacifism and the free-thinking ways of the "Age of Aquarius" culture. I have no idea where the character is today, and I shudder to imagine what today's creators would do with "super-hero hippie" to kick around in their violence-fest comics these days...

*"Paging Jim Valentino... Jim Valentino, please... There is an origin waiting for you at the front desk..."

 

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Brian, Peter does point out that his strength is likely to grow as he does.

Of course, following the "Fear Itself" storyline he's in a class with the Juggernaut and has even taken to wearing a Juggernaut-inspired costume.

I've got to say that I agree with the Valkyrie that Spidey is not giving her fair credit, placing her two classes below Thor. Same with Spider-Woman and She-Hulk. And what is up with the "hubba hubba" stuff? Hokey Smokes! What a sexist little back up feature this was!!

Sigh... makes me a little nostalgic, truth to tell... :-)

 

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I think She-Hulk should be in the "heavyweights" category, Spider-Man in
the "mediumweights" category. I also thought Captain Britain was stronger.
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 Brian H. wrote:
Of course, following the "Fear Itself" storyline he's in a class with the Juggernaut and has even taken to wearing a Juggernaut-inspired costume.

He now actually is Juggernaut, replacing Cain Marko as the new avatar of Cytorrak.
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