Thread 149757216

Post superheroes originating outside of the USA.

>>149757216 (OP)
>That time in the 90's-2000's when our komiks industry is collapsing

Sad. It's like how National Bookstore is dying now.

I don't know what to feel about the most famous Mexican superhero being Indian. And I mean turban Indian.

>>149757586
What character?

>>149757216 (OP)
tagalog for real looks like the type of shit that ai pops out whenever you prompt an image with text

>>149758063
Kaliman

>>149757216 (OP)
Easy. Here are some superheroes from One-Punch Man in Japan. This art was drawn by Iban Coello.

>>149757586
that’s pretty cool honestly.

>>149757216 (OP)
Korea has Ihwa from the Webtoon manhwa Hero Killer.

>>149757216 (OP)
VR Man from Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR_Man

>>149757586
Kaliman does not look like he is from India. He looks too much like a white guy.

>>149757216 (OP)
Isreal made a superhero named Iron Dome to teach children about his namesake.

>>149757216 (OP)
Canada made Captain Canuck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Canuck

>>149757216 (OP)
>>149759565
They also made Nelvana of the Northern Lights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelvana_of_the_Northern_Lights

>>149759392
I think he canonically is a white guy but was raised in india and learned ancient secrets from gurus or something like that

>>149759199
Half of this thread could just be tokusatsu heroes

>>149757216 (OP)
The UK have these guys.

>>149759965
The also have The Leopard from Lime Street.

>>149759392
Wasn't he Mexican? A white Mexican?

>>149757216 (OP)
There is Krrish from India.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaxxJV8unRE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krrish_(character)

>>149759392
He should wear blackface to look like Kali

>>149757216 (OP)
The Italians once made a movie about the "ugly cousin" of Superman named SuperAndy. This is the synopsis.
>SuperAndy arrives in Italy after the destruction of his home planet of Krypton, in this Italian spoof of Superman.

>>149759796
I will not be surprised if that is actually the lore. Old comics did stuff like that.
>>149760065
Probably.

>>149757216 (OP)
One-Punch Man and My Hero Academia from Japan have a whole roster superheroes.

>>149759199
>>149759485
>>149759565
>>149760213
I don't like how most of these are just parodic.

>>149760413
I don't see how Iron Dome is parodic. He is like how McGruff the Crime Dog is used to educate kids about crime. Captain Canuck was made to promote Canadian nationalism around World War 2. Neither of them fit the definition of a parody.

>>149757216 (OP)
Canada's Crimson Comet, who was apparently more in line with indie heroes like the Tick, Madman and Flaming Carrot decades before them.

>>149757216 (OP)
One-Punch Man and My Hero Academia have already been mentioned, but there is also Tiger & Bunny.

>>149760103
They have Nagraj too.

>>149757216 (OP)
>Nobody mentioned El Chapulin Colorado yet

>>149757586
wtf based

I just think she's cute.

>>149757519
No one goes to National Bookstore to buy shit that isnt for school, if you want cool books go to Fully Booked instead

>>149759485
Iron Dome is a cool name, but he looks a bit too generic, i think it would be cool if he had a full mask and cape

>>149757216 (OP)
Is it me or are a lot of pinoy heroes just copies of other characters?

There's that villain Zuma who had a tv show which focused on his daughter though who lived with the military or some shit , i thought snake powers were cool.

>>149757216 (OP)
Enter:

>>149757216 (OP)
From Korea.
>It's hard to learn how to use your super powers in college, especially when your mentor is an angry cat.

>>149761047
Does korea have a unique visual identity at all? I feel like most of the east asian countries are just aping japan at this point.

>>149757216 (OP)
Despite the title this was actually made by Australians.

There's a Chilean or Argentinian movie about a vigilante
Just a guy in a jacket, jeans, and mask.

>>149760975
I know, Fully Booked has good selection. That where I got my Slaine The Horned God Box Set and Defenitive Nemesis the Warlock.

Do you know Comic Quest? Their books became overpriced since the pandemic ended.

It's really sad what happened to NBS, their books are just piled up, unorganized.

>>149760990
I have a big crush on Erich though, whatever happened to her?

>>149757216 (OP)
Jeeg Robot, an italian superhero named after a fictional japanese cartoon.

>>149761893
Oh shoot, the manga actually exist

>>149757216 (OP)
Kat Claw - Serbian comic about a woman who was bitten by a radioactive cat or something
Les Sentinelles - French comic about WW1 cyborgs
Operación Bolívar - Mexican comic about resistance fighters drinking the blood of Angels in order to transform into non-euclidean Jaguar gods to fight US Alphabet org drug operations and the catholic church.

>>149759647
She rides a great dane?

>>149761069
The generic webcomic style was pretty much defined by the Koreans.

>>149762269
I wouldn't mind scanlating it, but the artist does a lot of interesting calligraphic layouts that are just too much of a bother.

>>149761047
I find Korean webtoons have a lot superhero comics. There's seems to be more them in Korea than Japan. They often feel like reading Marvel comics when Marvel was good.

>>149762490
Can you name some? Especially good ones? I dislike a lot of mahwa because they are all so similar

Is the Zsazsa Zaturnnah movie ever coming out?

>>149760895
>>149760901
For the non Swedes, it's a character named Captain Geezer, an old man who fights personifications of things that go against his old ways.

The artist made another one called Kryst Marodören (The "Push" Marauder) about a man who's power was to shit.

>>149757216 (OP)
superlopez and supergrupo.

Pafman

iberia inc with carlos pacheco and rafael marin

supersonicman from 45 years ago.

>>149762822
Rental Hero
A guy who's a doppelganger who gets paid by heroes to pose as a superhero while the hero go lives their social lives. Justice, the settings strongest hero asks for his services. When the guy goes to Justice's place to work out the details, he finds Justice dead. He ends up replacing Justice. He also has to deal with rival superhero guilds as well as villains.

Hero Killer
In a world where heroes and villains fight constantly cause innocent deaths, blurring the line between heroes and villians. The main character tired of this, goes on to fighting people who killed civilians whether they're heroes or villains.

Jungle Juice
The main hero uses a spray called "Jungle Juice" to kill a dragonfly. He ends up turning into a hybrid insect human. Cast out, he finds a secret society of insect humans. He then goes to an academy for insect humans to learn how to use his powers and survive. This one is a part of a larger superhero universe called "Super String".

Trace
This is an older title. The setting is where other worldly beings plague the earth. They often cause property damage and threaten people. At same super powered people called "Traces" appear. Traces aren't trusted by the public at large and are obligated to register with the government. A salary man who became a trace loses his family to the government and teams up with a motley crew of assassins, a bank robber, a gambler who cheats with his x-ray vision, and a violent school girl.

This getting too close to the character limit, so I'll post the other part later.

>>149759283
sexo

>>149757216 (OP)
Fantômette from France

>>149757216 (OP)
>>149765058
I just realized nobody posted Ladybug and Cat Noir yet.

>>149759392
He’s a pure aryan Indian with zero southern genotypes.

>>149759392
>that time he fought Galactus, Doctor Doom and a bunch of Things

>>149765118
Cause that shit is garbage.

There's this comic someone storytimed a while ago, I forgot the name. It involved a bunch of references and appearances of old European pulp heroes. And pulp heroes might as well be proto superheroes so I'll count it

>>149763455
Superman is canadian.

>>149762269
Now this looks rad

>>149767384
Chimera Brigade?

>>149760413
Captain Canuck is a superhero

>>149757216 (OP)
Pakistan made the Burka Avenger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burka_Avenger

This is the first episode on Youtube if you're curious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XahbqLdCVhE

>>149757216 (OP)
From Nigeria there is Guardian Prime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Prime

>>149765235
lmao they do not give a fuck about copyright in Latin America

>>149757586
The most famous Mexican superhero is El Santo though.

>>149770079
The "Starring this Muslim woman!" joke MST3K made when Diabolik first appeared in his movie was prophetic.

>>149760575
There's plenty of Japanese sueprheroes. I'd really like to see Bukimi do something on an American book, especially if they can do some of their cool layouts.

>>149759283
She's hot.

>>149763415
Is that Darkhawk?

Jetcat's Canadian

>>149759647
Art and layouts are pretty cool for a Golden Age comic and that's a pretty good design. I'd say it's a shame nobody's tried to revive her but looking at it it's because the rights are owned by Nelvana Animation which was named after the character so I guess there's no money seen in licensing an obscure 1940s Canadian superhero.

Bump

>>149769340
Yup
It's actually kinda cool looking some of them up, though I can barely tell who's based on a real character and who's an OC

>>149770689
Fair.

>>149757216 (OP)
Not a lot, are there?

>>149774360
I may read We before starting this.

>>149772410
looks like him but totally not him.

>>149770689
I remember a El Santo miniseries in Cartoon Network Latinoamerica similar to those Star Wars shorts (I think) Tartakovsky did about the Clone Wars

>>149757216 (OP)
>Non-American
I thought we are American?

>>149760575
Tiger and Bunny is what Mystery Men should have been. A spoof of corporate sponsored superheroes, that is an actually good superhero story in it's own right.

>>149771309
Japan is probably at least equal to America in the amount of superheroes it's produced. Both the more typical kind with the capes and secret identity, and the more absurd local kind like Super Sentai.

>>149762290
Dogpill is bruuutaaaall

>>149776523
>>149774360
It's probably the hardest part reading it, at least you KNOW the entirety of LOEG is just a reference to something else, but here it's basically kind of nagging. Cool comic though.

>>149760575
2gay4me

Bump and pump

>>149771309
is this manga any good?

>>149757216 (OP)
The GOAT.

>>149757586
>Indian
Don't you mean arab?
Seriously, i never once associated Kaliman with india, more middle east arabian states.
Besides >>149770689 is correct. Either Santo or Chapulin are more popular.

>>149757216 (OP)
UK has a lot of them wth MarvelMan probably being the most well-known superhero character that originated in the UK, but another one is The Spider, who was originally Villain protagonist but then became more heroic later on, but still kinda evil and wierd.

>>149757216 (OP)
The big names were already mentioned but i think pic is worth a mention.
Guess you could count it as part of the "Superman but evil" trend, but i like to think its a bit more nuanced than that and even ends with a pretty hopeful and optimistic message.

>>149757216 (OP)
Probably an odd we have a with Powerman since he was created by British writers and artists, including well-known guys like Dave Gibbons and Brian Bolland, but the character wasn't for a UK audience but was instead published in Nigeria and was in fact commissioned by a Nigerian publisher for that audience.

>>149780040
Blue Rose was hot though.

>>149782064
I think it's largely good. The biggest problem is that the pacing can be iffy because the author will like to focus largely on one or a couple characters at a time which leads to other characters essentially not appearing or only having small appearances for exceedinly long stretches of time, even if they're presented as important characters. But it really succeeds in nailing the big emotional moments that every arc is building towards and the MC's own role and view of herself as she grows.

The art is really, really good too. If you like those J.H. Williams III style fancy page layouts then you'll like when the author decides to go all out on them.

>>149782106
Is he really a superhero though?

>>149785198
I've seen people call him that and I'm 100% sure it's just because he's a comic character, but this is why I've been autistically asking who actually qualifies as a hero
I think it really is just the writing and worldbuilding presentation

>>149786157
Which brings another question
Does goku count as a superhero? I would say no, like Dredd. But Z literally makes him a riff off superman.
But since superheroes stem from mythology, does goku as son wukong count as one?

>>149784205
As far as the layouts go, I think one of my favorites is during the ninja arc where she uses her abilities to dissipate the dome of darkness surrounding Tokyo (with a tehcnique she calls Amaterasu) and the next few pages showing it are laid out like a sun shooting off rays of light. Like I said, I'd really love to see what they can do art-wise on an American comic in full color.

I only read one issue long ago and thought it was neat.
Le Guarde Republicaine.

>>149787804
If he's French I assume he's unbearably smug and condescending.

>>149787804
My French is shit but I seem to read it as, "The Republican Guard".

>>149770301
Good
I know they aired the entire Super Mario movie on TV in Argentina before, like right after it came out or got on streaming/home video

>>149765235
Awesome

>>149782164
>Jerry Siegel
What the hell

>>149789339
Yes, in france "republican" means "properly french" but in the gnlish translation they named the character Guardian of the Republic.

>>149763415
Does english version exist?

>>149757216 (OP)
Russia made their own superhero team once.

>>149770689
>>149777567
Luchadors interest me
I guess the classic ones do count as superheroes

LARGE GUIDE BOOK TO BRAZILIAN SUPERHEROES CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE AS PDF.

https://chiaroscuro-studios.com/publicacoes/yearbook-2019/

Weird how Japan was mentioned multiple times but not Ultraman or Kamen Raider, who are like the most archetypal superheroes in Japan, that even riffs on American heroes take notes from them

Villain to Kill
The setting is where super powered people are divided between psykers and villains. Villains are people that can lose control over their sanity and are seen as dangerous people. The main character, a psykers, goes to Greece about this mysterious item that his friend found. Then a group of psykers kill him and his friend. Thanks to the artifact, he's revived as a high school student. The story is him dealing with his new powers, getting allies among villains and psykers, and finding who killed him and his friend.

Housekeeper
This one takes place in a world where Nazi Germany won WWII but were shortly overthrown afterwards. The world has developed AIs in the form of androids that help humanity. Then a zombie plague starts to infect a large chunk of humanity. The main character is a scrapped AI found by child who gets his grandma to fix her. The plague hits their hometown and the child gets infected. Even then the AI protects the zombified child and hopes to find a cure to the plague. The webtoon I think is best described as "Terminator II meets The Walking Dead" except the Terminator is a cute robot maid. This is also a part of Super String Universe and this webtoon has a lot of Oz references.

The Superheroes of Class F
Setting is where super powered people are common thing. They go to academies train their super powers. Class F is where people with the worst powers go to. Tired of being mocked for having shitty powers, they decided to become super villains.

The Executioner
The MC was part of a super hero team that vowed not to kill villains but just capture them. The MC didn't get that logic but went along with it. That changed when a super villian kill his team and killed his brother. The MC just said fuck this shit. He quit being a super hero and become a prison guard with a license to kill at the prison where his brother got killed.

>>149792950
D'oh, it was suppose link to a previous post.

>>149792315
This guy is cool.

>>149792315
>>149793189

>>149793215
>>149793189

Still fucking pissed about Joe Bennett's Amazon Squadron failing to be funded.

He said in 2021 wheels were turning on the project again but now with his cancelation i'm scared it won't happen.

>>149782151
Kali is the goddess of time, death and destruction in Hinduism. The name itself is an Indian reference.

>>149793623
>>149793623
>>149793623
Bump

Kaliman is white AND from India and serves Kali. That's just his character.

>>149793189
Not enough water themed heroes with a gun

>>149787804
Neat way to have the french flag as a costume.

>>149789339
Its not a group, but one single character. So he would be "Republican Guardian"

The Superhero, France actually has instead of Ladybug and Cat Noir.

Would the Superhero characters in Villainous like Miss Heed and Omega (both seen here) along with Sunblast, count as Non-American Superheroes as they're from Mexico?

A South African series on Netflix which no one has ever noticed.

>>149796643
Why is it always Paris too? Can't they place their heroes in Lille or Marseille?

>>149796659
yes

>>149759199
Saitama > Superman

>>149796713
The same reason why the U.S. always put their heroes in New York City or places based off it.

>>149757216 (OP)
>>149759283
>>149761047
I am surprised North Korea has not tried making their own superhero, at least for propaganda. The closest thing they have is this guy that went viral for looking like a real life super among other soldiers.

>>149757216 (OP)
From Nigeria

>>149757216 (OP)
I think Europe at least prefers their comics to be more medieval fantasy or historical fiction rather than super powered heroes like America does

>>149768735
It is

>>149757216 (OP)
China once made a ripoff of the Avengers. You can find the movie on Youtube. The intro makes it very clear that it was inspired by Marvel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sSoezBtmyM

>>149757216 (OP)
>>149799229
Speaking of China, they also made this parody movie about a guy who gets super powers from his pancakes. Jean-Claude Van Damme is in it.

>>149757216 (OP)
Italy made Zagor.

>>149796713
Parisians unironically think they're at the center of the world. Metric measurement is based on a (miscalculated) measurement of Paris to the North Pole during the Revolution.

>>149799226
>>149768735
It's been scanlated.

>>149792037
Oh yeah. That weird movie.

>>149757586
Kaliman is awesome. He's like if the old tuxedo wearing Mandrake types survived long enough to start incorporating more superhero traits.

>>149792037
Is this the one with the guy that can turn into a grizzly?

>>149800755
yes

>>149800937
Wasn't there a Marvel Ruskie with that same power?

>>149801456
Yes, named Ursa Major.

>>149799310
kek

>>149792315
Does it have an entry on Bueno?

>>149762860
I'll never get over the fact the artist is gay and hates third wave feminism.

>>149757216 (OP)
Darna is actually kind of hot. I wish she was better known outside Flip land.

>>149803558
She's often called the Filipina Wonder Woman but she seems more in common with Captain Marvel.

>>149803558
One of his actresses actually became a politician.

>>149757216 (OP)
Nippur

>>149796659
Miss Heed is pure sex.

>>149805228
Did she ever go barefoot? Asking for a friend.

>>149757216 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsQvBWUmR4g
Here, have a classic Darna film with English subs.

>>149803376
Sounds based

>>149805389
Darna is pretty cute.

>>149761069
I think there are some differences

>>149759565
this guy sucks

>>149806915
I think one of things about Korean comic art is there's realistic hair colors in general and a lack of spikey hair.

Then there is a difference between chibi and kkomaeng-i styles. Chibi characters are two heads while kkomaeng-i characters are three heads high.

>>149806658
Cool cover.

>>149784205
I've read 2 or 3 tanks, and so far it's just a generic manga. Nothing really good about it aside from some of the covers.

>>149760575
Tank Chair is technically superhero too.

>>149757216 (OP)
How come you Americans never read more of these foreign hero comics, other than Japanese ones, more often? And you call yourself an avid reader.

>>149811566
Capeshit fans very obviously don't like comics very much.

>>149757216 (OP)
>Komiks
That's a weird way to say Comics?

>>149812103
It's the cooler way to say comics.

>>149812427
No doubt about it!

Biały Orzeł ("White Eagle"), from Poland. Captain America-like power level.
>>149812103
We spell it with "K"s as well.

>>149805389
The whole movie is about her fighting alien babes in bikinis its nice.

>>149808121
Really. How so, senpai?

>>149811566
Because I don’t know where to find them if they’re not on my usual comic reader sites

Anyone got more Darna stuff?

>>149793529
That's literally just Cheetah.

>>149762333
>>149762269
>Operación Bolívar - Mexican comic about resistance fighters drinking the blood of Angels in order to transform into non-euclidean Jaguar gods to fight US Alphabet org drug operations and the catholic church.
What the fuck why has no one asked more about this yet, I want to know more

Didn't Spain ban superheroes

>>149796630
Galaxia, my beloved...

>>149804470
Looks kino as fuck

>>149811566
if they were easily available in english like japanese manga then i would

>>149761069
If there was a Chinese style it's the one you saw in Jademan comics. Relatively very traditional and painting, the idealized men you see in posters and most Asian art before the Disney influence on anime

>>149819895
>>149799183
And that said, I think other countries have the niche filled in by other genres. So their superhero equivalent wouldn't be a guy in a suit per se.
When Stan Lee died, a lot Chinese people compared him to Jin Yong. Who's more like the Chinese Tolkien, but wuxia is also filled with lone heroes wandering around and flying and doing fantastical feats.

>>149811566
A lot of them do have any scans or translations. The Mercenary is a kino but the last collection is nowhere online.

>>149819990
>Jin Yong. Who's more like the Chinese Tolkien
Which is a bit funny considering he was a staunch Hong Konger and was not very pro-CCP or mainland politics in general.

I don't get it. Are you guys are non-American or not?

>>149821950
America is the modern Rome. All culture is subservient to America.

I wish more Darna stuff was translated. The most I could find was a handful of chapters on some guy's blog. I can't even find raws.

Who is the strongest non American non Japanese super?

Ultraman is a big deal in Japan. Marvel published some comics with him.

>>149757216 (OP)
I think he counts, right?

>>149825806
Wrong thread. Spawn is made by Americans.

>>149825831
I don't think Todd ever got citizenship

>>149825915
Image Comics is still an American based company.

>>149806658
Looks badass

>>149759392
>>149759796
>>149760065
According to canon, he was found and adopted as a baby by an "Indian" (actually, Nepalese) rajah and his princessly wife (both of whom, incidentally, were dark skinned). Kaliman is not even of surface-dweller ancestry: he was born in the hollow-Earth kingdom of Agartha.

>>149827733
>Mexico's biggest superhero is an Agartha groyper
BASED

>>149757216 (OP)
Give me your Non-American special.

>>149828718
Now is a worthy reading comic.

Emara emirates hero
Always bit sad we didn't even get a comic/book continuation of her series.