Marvel en DC hebben er een handje van om stereotype superhelden te creëren, en als je kijk naar hun bibliotheek van de laatste jaren, dan zie je dat er karakters zijn die de een tijdperk vertegenwoordigen. Denk aan Luke Cage die een time freez van de jaren zeventig is, of Grunge uit de 80's. Daarom heeft de website Topless Robot nu deze lijst gemaakt met tien van deze karakters. Mijn favoriet is gelijk de nummer 1, want ooit vond ik haar best wel een lekkere chick. Zover dat gaat met comic karakters.

1. Dazzler

Could any other character have taken the top spot? Dazzler is the epitome of a comic book company looking for a way to crassly take advantage of a pop-culture sensation, and bungling it every step of the way. Yet the character survives to this day, against the odds. In this instance, the pop culture fad was disco. Dazzler was created by Marvel in the late '70s in what had to be one of the most bizarre attempts at corporate cross promotion in comics history. Dazzler was intended to be a multimedia co-creation between Marvel Comics and several partners; disco label Casablanca records would "create" a singer they would name Dazzler, then a movie studio would get a star to play her in a film (the front runner was said to be model/actress Bo Derek) and finally Marvel would chronicle the character's comic book adventures.

By 1980 however, the "Disco Sucks" backlash had started in America, and just as fast as it became the biggest thing since sliced bread, disco was dead and buried, and everyone but Marvel had pulled out of the project, leaving Marvel with a new super hero to promote based on a dead fad. Nobody but Marvel had come through with their part of the deal, there was no singer, no star, but Marvel was determined. Dazzler finally made her debut in Uncanny X-Men, as mutant disco singer Allison Blaire. Dazzler rocked a shiny silver one-piece jumpsuit with a flared collar, mirrored roller skates, and an actual disco ball hanging around her neck as a necklace. Her powers were the ability to turn sound into light, which could result in glittery nightclub shows, or deadly laser beams. Marvel quickly spun-off Dazzler into her own comic, but despite selling 400,000 copies of her first issue (a huge amount by today's standards) Dazzler's series was cancelled by the mid '80s.

But someone up there likes Dazz; after her series was cancelled, she was folded into the X-Men, Marvel's premiere super team. Not bad for a character who was created as nothing but a gimmick. She's been an X-Man on and off for years ever since, most recently the book X-Treme X-Men. The one piece jumpsuit may be long gone, but a little of the old Dazzler remains. I mean, check out those disco ball boots she's been wearing lately. They're fierce.