10 Iconic Comic Book Characters (Without Legendary Comics)

6. Ant Man

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Ant Man is more famous now than the character has ever been before, which makes the lack of any truly great stories featuring the guy all the more ironic.

He's a founding member of the Avengers, has been around through three different people wearing the helmet, and even been responsible for one of Marvel's most enduring villains in Ultron, and yet few if any of his solo runs and stories are actually all that memorable.

Now, the snarky among you might say that it would be rather hard to make a hard hitting, best selling, legendary comic book out of a guy who talks to ants. To which I say that if Marvel can make a big green guy who punches stuff one of the saddest and most tragic characters in fiction, and a kid from Queens wearing a red and blue body stocking so beloved that people will riot if the wrong studio is making movies about him, then they have no excuse.

Sure it would be harder to do this with some versions of Ant Man than others (Scott Lang is by far the most beloved version of this character, probably because he isn't a wife beater like Pym) it's by no means impossible. So someone should definitely give the man in the anthill a story befitting his new found fame.

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John Tibbetts is a novelist in theory, a Whatculture contributor in practice, and a nerd all around who loves talking about movies, TV, anime, and video games more than he loves breathing. Which might be a problem in the long term, but eh, who can think that far ahead?