A British super-soldier, from the British Super-Soldiers book. He super soldiers.

A mutant soccer hooligan who absorbs impacts. From the early 1990s Marvel Comics UK book Super-Soldiers.

Obscure 1940s electrical super-hero.

Muckraking UK journalist, with ties to the British Super-Soldiers.

The angelic space alien than hung around with the Titans during the mid-1980s. He was TERRIBLY MYSTERIOUS.

The speedster of the X-Men 2099.

A heavily-armed Hydra shock squad that nearly killed off the classic Thunderbolts.

A mutant dog-man adventurer and special operative in the 1990s Wildstorm Universe.

The teenage daughter of Wildstorm Comics’ Backlash during the 1990s. Speedster and martial artist.

An alternate Earth version of the early X-Men member, working with the Exiles. Powerful brick.

A semi-obscure Cheyenne super-hero over at Marvel.

Obscure Avengers and Spider-Woman enemy. Class 85 strength.

Oldish notes about this vintage, C-list super-hero.

Mercenary martial artist with poison weapons. Part of a spider-themed criminal trio.

Mercenary with minor power armour and teleportation powers. Part of a spider-themed criminal trio.

From the 1985 Infocom adventure of the same name. Those were the days, my friends.

A master criminal in a 1933 pulps novel starring the Spider (master of men !). Tough Native henchmen, venomous vampire bat, a special glider, wealth, subterfuge…

A before-his-time pulps hero, who by the 1910s presented many of the characteristics of 1930s proto-super-heroes.

Psychotic stan who can encase himself into an earthen exoskeleton.

Super-strongman and sorcerer. Based on the wrestling persona.

The voltigore Race-X monsters in the 1990s Half-Life video games

Good soldier with starter super-equipment. Military operative.

A quick primer about the setting of the Wild Cards super-hero novels. This is a pretty old article but heh, the basics remain useful.

Super-acrobatic lucha libre masked hero.

Mexican heel wrestler with psychic illusions mask.

Strange, deadly super-criminal in Japan.

Wrestling team the Four Horsemen, recast as international super-mercenaries in a comic book world.

Goofy 1990s characters from The Tick parody super-hero stories. Super-spies with giant Swiss Army knives.

Chinese ninja types, with enhanced weapons. Criminals.

The earliest costumed enemy of Superman back in 1942. Poison spears.