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Hey, why the cheap shot on Michael Biehn? Michael Biehn is now, always has been, and always will be awesome!

And, he possesses one of the rarest superpowers ever, the ability to make a James Cameron movie not suck.

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So, wait, is the Ghost get a 71% rating because of his entry, or is this a 71% POTENTIAL rating?

I think the sleaze factor of ‘worshiped as a god by females of a primative civilization’ works as a counter to Marvel’s ‘inhuman freak’ from T-bolts and Iron Man.

I agree he seems to be a missed opportunity. A master-thief-pimp who lives in DC? Why isn’t he a ‘special consultant’ to K Street? Imagine the dirt this guy could dig up on members of Congress.

Oh, and is that a Dr-Strangesque collar or a BSG-egyptian cowl around his head?

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I believe it’s just an artistic flourish.

While his orgins may not have been the greatest, the 1980s Captain Atom series used Ghost to good effect. He, Plastique and Major Force are the only superhuman villains I still remember from that run.

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Cookie McCool said on January 20th, 2011 at 12:15 pm

You’re so getting soft. These last two schmucks have gotten high ratings just because maybe they’ll get off their asses and do a thing someday. No-one wants to read a Thursday Who’s Who about people with great personalities! You may as well change it to Thursday Kittens I Have Known.

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bunnyofdoom said on January 20th, 2011 at 12:25 pm

Cookie McCool: To be fair, kittens are awesome, and MGK probably knows several. I would read that.

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I’ve given it some thought, and the fact that he looks like Dean Stockwell in DUNE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stockwell_as_yueh.jpg)
does help Ghost’s awesome factor.

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Evil Midnight Lurker said on January 20th, 2011 at 7:42 pm

…If I was worshipped as a living god-king by a hidden Amazon civilization, I would not waste time on the pursuit of a supervillain career.

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Was Peacemaker *trying* to copy Ghost’s collar and failed?

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Wait, what’s going on here MGK? Like three typos?

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lance lunchmeat said on January 21st, 2011 at 12:06 am

Maybe he’s not used in remembrance of the canceled Blizzard project.

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I notice that the Ghost, as his alter ego, also used to play right field for the Toronto Blue Jays. Keen! (They mangled the spelling a bit, though. I should send them a letter.)

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I get a Lando Calrision/Billy Dee Williams vibe from him, though Stockwell fits pretty well too.

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One problem with the Ghost is that he has a very similar shtick to the Gentleman Ghost, who has the advantage that (a) with that floating hat and monocle, he looks much cooler and (b) he has more canonical history in the current DCU. If I was a writer, I’d probably kill him off too.

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You’re really describing Charlton’s Ghost, not DC’s Ghost, who was a very different character. Also, the reason DC’s Ghost hasn’t done much lately is that he’s dead. As in dead for real. Captain Atom and Heinrich Megala killed him for good back in Captain Atom #50 (that’s the DC series by Bates and Weisman, not the Charlton series by Ditko, obviously). I know villains come back from the dead all the time in comics, but unless Captain Atom gets a new solo series, it’s not going to happen.

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