Superhero shows can be great and well-written like Invincible: ua-cam.com/video/Q6GEnymmZ_s/v-deo.html ...or they blow giant chunks like Jupiter's Legacy: ua-cam.com/video/ks076pANX5I/v-deo.html
There are laws against arson how did you not know that? Also, some places limit or do not allow use of fire works and you even have to get a permit to burn things in own yard in some places.
That's ridiculous! It's obvious Toby Fox is an immortal and simply reused the design of the Ghost, a character he created under a different name, and is waiting patiently for us, his fantastic fanbase, to recognize it.
@@henrygalley2831 He's just filling out his super hero ID registration and there's a field that says "Name" "...well I can't write my real name, that's silly. Do they mean my hero name? I better specify..." He just writes Alias: The Dragon, and the next day that's how the paper is reporting it and he's like "Dammit I filled that out wrong..." The whole next arc of the comic is him sitting in the super hero DMV trying to show enough forms of ID to update his name and trying not to go mad from bureaucracy because he's holding a flamethrower in a building full of filing cabinets...
I dunno about that comparison. From what I gathered, had the duration not been extended, works from the early sixties would be entering the public domain right about now. You’d have to wait for another fifteen/twenty years for “Star Wars” and “Alien” to enter the PD in that scenario.
If Disney weren't so protective of their back catalogue, most of their shorts from pre-1945 would be as free as Fleischer's or Warner's. Perchance to dream...
Lord of the rings and the hobbit and batman and superman and i think spiderman would all be in the public domain by now had it not been for fucking disney
@@geoffreyrichards6079 i could wait 15 years to write my own star wars stories! After all i would only be in my 30s at that point. To bad that fantasy is now gone.
Public Domain isn't in danger. There's no risk to the Public Domain. Sure, less stuff is being added to it nowadays, but it's not going away any time soon.
Man and Superman was a play in 1903, Tarzan was called Superman by Jane I think it was in 1912, Doc Savage was called Superman in an ad in 1934, so how does DC comics have a copywrite on the name Superman?
Alias: The Dragon would be a great villain in a street level story. His whole idea of being a cop who's gone outside the law and uses a handheld flamethrower is terrifying.
I would read the hell out of this. Like how Columbo is actually about the killer and the hero is the protagonist? Do a comic where Alias is the protagonist and we get to watch as the vigilante super heroes he's out to get close in on him. My alternate take was: "What if instead of a flamethrower, he's a mutant who can control fire and he *REALLY WANTS* to be a hero... but his powers are just the worst for it, and we watch everything go wrong as he fumbles with it."
@@DarkExcalibur42 Those are some really neat takes on this character and his story. That second sentence is kind of confusing, though - did you mean "the villain is the protagonist" or "the hero is the antagonist"?
@@syweb2 lol I'm not even sure what I meant now... I went back and rewatched the bit on Alias. I think I meant do a comic from the point of view of Alias as this terrible cop who the police (or other heroes) are slowly closing in on and going to arrest. I think in my brain I had this image of Alias being a deranged cop that hunted super heroes... but I have no idea where I was going with this anymore. Like... tell stories from the PoV of criminals or vigilantes as police scientist Alias questions them until he realizes it's time to kick down their door with flamethrowers? What random firing of neurons made me type that sentence 3 months ago...
It’s honestly shocking that the ghost was the inspiration for Papyrus, right down to the design along with the Jovial attitude…it’s only a really deep cut I didn’t expect…though I’d love to see the Ghost return one day
1.) I think the Iron Ace would be seriously awesome with some science fiction re-imaginings. 2.) Man of War reminds me of Red Son, the Superman comic where he landed in Russia instead. 3.) "Police Scientist" I believe is an old term to refer to like CSI techs (police forensic scientist). I believe Barry Allen, a.k.a. The Flash, used to be called a police scientist in the comics at one point... Also Alias The Dragon clearly got his name because when he was filling out his Super Hero ID registration he misread one of the fields and wrote Alias: The Dragon and the punctuation got smeared off.
I’m not joking, when I saw The Ghost, I was like *points at screen* “That’s Fucking Papyrus!!!” If we remake this hero for film he NEEDS a Skeletor voice and to constantly go “NYEHEHEHE!!!!”
Honestly, I really want that Avengers-style movie you mentioned with all these characters crossing over in WWII to fight Nazis. It'd be amazing seeing a team that includes a guy with a microphone mask, a guy who punches Greek monsters for a mythical lady, a guy who could paralyze people but instead really tries hard to push a ventriloquist hero angle, a knight in a plane, Papyrus in a plane, a guy who mastered Judo, a crazed Punisher-esque anti-hero cop with a flamethrower, and a god among men who fights crime calling himself a wizard. It would honestly be a modern masterpiece ngl
Actually, Lev Gleason was the name of the publisher of the Ghost, not his secret identity. They also published the original Daredevil. The Ghost's secret identity was Brad Hendricks.
Public domain characters, superpowers or not, are a perfect treasure trove to explore so many ideas! Many things to create through music, comics, animation, stories, or any format that reintroduces them to a modern audience!
Alias the Dragon seems like a unique way to tackle police accountability. It seems like everything that can be said has been said a million times, but a movie about the topic through the lens of a lunatic on a power trip and straight up cooking people sounds like itd be pretty interesting.
The iron ace sounds really cool, it would be awesome see like the ghost of Charlemagne being like "fulfill your destiny.... save the world" and become a ghost teacher for him
The supernatural angle is pretty rad. Kind of like a Witchblade artifact type situation but that extends to his plane? I immediately went in a sci-fi route and was like "What if this lost knight had salvaged some weird lost tech from space or Atlantis or something..." So he's able to adapt this crazy nanotech to build himself a suit of armor and to upgrade his plane, but the Germans think it's some sort of occult magic (because that's what they're about) and half the tension is him maintaining the propaganda that it's magic so they don't try to steal his tech...
The Iron Ace sounds awesome, it would be awesome to see a magically enhanced Knight in the Modern Era, kind of like a mix of Arthur from Ghosts and Goblins with the Forever Knights from Ben 10.
Here's my attempt to remake these heroes 10: The Purple Claw, make him an African American who ends up on an assignment in Ghana. The claw is only usable to someone related to the previous owner, and little does he know ow he is the last decendent of the previous Purple Claw. 9: Boom Boom Branigan, he ends of finding Pandora's Box and opening it. The Last thing within, Hope, enters his body, giving him the power to fight against the embodiments of the evils the box once held. 8: Microface: Make it so the mask bugged giving him the a ility to weaponize sounds, including echolocation to give him 360° "vision" instead of Xrays. 7: Echo, Make him able to paralyze with his voice (which sound can do) and in his regular life he uses his powers to be a ventriloquist. 6: Iron Ace, The armor belonged to Astolfo, a knight of Charlemagne who rode a Griffin (NOT a trap) and the armor let him take on the aerial combat skills of the knight. The griffins spirit took over the plane. 5: The Ghost is perfect. No change needed. 4: The Judo Master, He is a Japanese American in a US Japanese camp, and he stands up for the others stating his refusal of fascism. This gets the attention of a Judo sense who teaches him till he surpasses him and he proves his word is just in combat. 3: Man of War, He does end up in America, but the transformation isn't instant. He spends his premier as a villain, untill other heroes of the time defeat him, and he is given a chance to reform. 2: Alias the Dragon, Antihero. He saw a criminal He caught RED HANDED get away only because he didn't read him his rights. Enraged by this he takes on this secret identity to be a violent vigolante. 1: Super Wizard, Make him like a magical version of Dr. Manhatten. He tries to help with his near omnipotent power, but goes to far, not understanding what is wrong with it. Over time he gradually learns and is more humanized, and becomes more like Superman, holding his power back and learning to be human.
Green Turtle is a public domain superhero that fought a guerllia war against the Japanese and in 2014 Gene Luen Yang did a revival of the character that did a great giving a thematic backstory for the Green Turtle. It's called "Shadow Hero" and I highly reccomend it.
You think that's impressive, there was once a single comic book featuring nothing but black characters created by black creators ("All-Negro Comics #1" starring Ace Harlem, Lion-Man & Bubba, Sugarfoot, and more).
There are so many things we could do with costumed heroes if we DIDN'T let THE MOUSE rob our collective creative heritage. Also, I would love to see Gus draw three public domain heroes at random and have to make a super team out of them.
I would totally make a post-colonial story about the purple claw, where the purple claw is like a kind of Robin Hood character. Is it problematic that a white ally is the main hero of a post colonial piece? Yeah kinda! Maybe that’s his arc - he gains the power of the purple claw, trips with power for a bit and starts fighting other crime, but then realizes that the claw doesn’t belong to him, and the right thing to do is give the power back to a purple claw in waiting in purple wakanda - even if this means disempowering himself.
@@maylabrown4584 well, if you’re trying to make a point about colonialism... Either way it’s the type of story where I would want a diversity consultant on board, so I don’t shoot myself in the foot.
@@envysart797 I agree with your second point, I'd actually want to have my co-writer be someone at least knowledgeable in the people I'm writing about.
Just curious, but if the whole colonial thing were reversed (like an African man taking a mystical artifact from a predominantly white country), would it still be considered offensive? Or are there other factors at work?
@@geoffreyrichards6079 I think inverting a colonial story wouldn’t be offensive, especially if you wrote it as a parody of outdated colonial era comics
Ah yes free superheroes I will take a bunch of them, make my own version of teen titans. Give them a new look and backstory and just go from there. So yeah free oc adoption for anyone to use.
If I was doing Purple Claw, I would change the main character's backstory. In my version, he'd still be white, but he would've been born and raised in Africa, spent his entire life there, with most people treating him as an outsider based solely on the color of his skin. I'd make the story, a look at racism, in a place outside of America. I would most likely receive death threats for daring to point out that America isn't the only country with racism.
There’s so much that can be retained or changed for public domain characters. And so many people only see the surface level of racism, rather than examine far deeper, psychological and social levels of the issue. As much as people might not like the idea, there is always people that will applaud such a story.
One of my favourite public domain superhero is the hangman I read one of his comics and he came of as one of the goofy characters I ever read he had a bunch of superpowers but never used them and he wouldn't stop making puns Also my favourite public domain superhero is dynamite thor he was a police negotiator who threw dynamite at the people they were negotiating with he also had a superpower which was that he was immune to his own dynamite and he flew by throwing dynamite at his feet.
My favorite public domain superheroes: The War Eagle Crash Kid Amazona the Mighty Woman White Panther Black Cobra Butterfly Nelvana of the Northern Lights Phantom Knight Blackjack Speed Centaur Captain Tootsie (*mascot of Tootsie Rolls candies)
IMO the easiest way to make the Purple Claw more interesting would be to flip it around and have Dr. Weir be a man from the tribe who originally possessed the Purple Claw (and possibly a number of other magical artifacts), who went to England, got a doctorate, infiltrated the museum where it was being kept, and retrieved it and returned it to its home, earning its power and being given the mission to find the remaining stolen artifacts.
Gallant comics already brought the purple claw back as he was, but the claw doesn't seem to be from an African tribe anymore, it's just a magical European artifact he found/dug up.
Some of these characters are great characters - there are so many public domain character that are amazing as they are or could be changed to be made real cool. And while most need redraws others are still some of the coolest looking characters in comics history [Micro-Face]
I actually transplanted the Purple Claw over to my superhero setting. He's a former British soldier who, after fleeing Great Britain after the nation lost a major war with Ireland, ended up in Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, which in my setting is a very technologically advanced world power, he became a bodyguard/enforcer for the head of one of the country's great houses, the House of Amethyst. The Purple Claw itself is a high tech cybernetic arm he's given after his right arm is blown off during a mission early on in his service.
Gallant comics brought him back, too. And the guy who made the video failed to mention in the original story that Dr Weir was an American army physician that cleared the swamps around the tribes village of mosquitos, and worked side by side with the tribes shaman to treat villagers with malaria with the help of modern medicine. The purple claw was a gift for helping save lives in the tribe. And the shaman says he has more of them. So the 'artifact stolen by a 'colonizer' narrative doesn't apply here. Sometimes, context helps.😂 Also, nice reworking of the characters backstory you did there, very creative.
It definitely shows that we have so much material to use in any way we like! And this extends to all media formats: photographs, films, music, stories, characters, and so forth!
When you said more Purple Claws I thought you meant like The Phantom or Blue Beetle where there were predecessors who came before him. I think the idea of an ignorant white guy learning there's actually a history and legacy to his powers and either embracing it or realizing he has taken a sacred symbol as his own and returning it could work as a post colonial story.
Ancient mythology and other ancient stories can be used for super heroes as ancient gods, goddess, wizards, witches, ghosts, fairies, leprechauns, genies, Djinns, demons, dragons and various creatures in stories had various powers.
The Ghost wasn't also known as Lev Gleason. Lev Gleason was his publisher. The Public Domain Super Heroes wiki will format characters from different companies with the same name as "Character Name (Company)", and there are multiple Ghosts, so he's Ghost (Lev Gleason),
I'm pretty bummed out cus I wasn't able to get a recording space together to audition for Less Is Mourge, doubt I can scrape it together by the end of the day. Time to write about Boom Boom Branigain overthrowing the government to drown my sorrow.
@@WeRNotAlive My recording guy just responded to me and said he could come over and do a portable set up here in a few hours, and insisted I respond to you. Just to verify, today is the last day to send things in correct? Also, I am 100% sure the creator of Boom Boom Branigan was sitting at a drafting table when they thought "What if Pandora's Box was a guy that punched people. Like, some kind of Box Man. A Boxer, if you will"
Day 21 of me asking for the release for the next episode of Monster girl safari. (God bless the public domain. If only Disney didn't mess with the copyright law, because if wasn't for the latest update to it, Mickey mouse would be part of the public domain since 2003.)
Man of war has been added to my setting as an immortal man out of world war 2 and is gonna serve as a major blast to the past that also just proves that hard magic exits he's such an insane and cool character
I wish modern day characters like Jenny Wakeman, most of Nintendo's characters, and Garfield were in the public domain, because in terms of Jenny and the show she's in, it would make the MLAATR: Rebooted team feel safe to make the series without Nick breathing down their neck. Most of Nintendo's character's because in all honesty Nintendo should learn their lesson at this point about taking down fan-made projects involving their characters. And Garfield because... Well... *More fuel for r/ImSorryJon right?*
I think our knowledge, understanding, and awareness of Public Domain characters are misunderstood. While some of the ideas might seem “outdated,” it’s not to suggest that their characteristics and background aren’t relevant. but yes, more people should be informed about the treasure trove the domain possesses: so many things can be changed or retained!
just so you know your favorite superheroes will never become public domain because the companys are gona find a way to extend the copyright just like how disney does to mickey mouse
I mean, the big commercially successful ones won't be, but the wiki contains so many heroes that you'll easily be able to find one that reflects an archetype you like or provide you the basis for creating your own characters.
the best part about Stardust is that he doesn't save people. He shows up after the bad guys have already killed a ton of people and punishes them in really weird and terrifying ways. It might be the angriest series I've ever read.
@@conradojavier7547 I think that’s a little mean because while Stardust is definitely written very… clumsily, his ideas are amazing and the art, though rudimentary, rules for what it is. Like Stardust turns a guy into a giant head and throws him into space where a headless giant catches and absorbs him. It’s incredible. I don’t ironically like Stardust I legitimately like stardust, it was just also extremely bizarre.
I could see Purple Claw finding the claw in some long, lost, abandoned ruins in Africa. Noone around for miles. Echo could be more detective than superhero. Using his talents to solve crimes, get information from witnesses and suspects, and getting the guilty party to confess. Boom Boom Brannigan might work in a different way.
my google fu turned up the phrase "police forensic scientist" so I have to assume people were just lazy and said "police scientist to save time. Because what other kind of scientist you think they're gonna have, astrophysicists? XD Pragmatism wins.
Superman used super ventriloquism, also used shape shifting and levitation of objects but those stories are mostly forgotten and seldom used. If he used shape shifting more often would explain why Clark Kent is not recognized as Superman they instead said he used hypnotic glasses but Super Girl as Linda Lee Danvers did not wear glasses.
Man of War actually sounds kind of cool. A superhero who is a living divine weapon who adopts the values of whatever place he is "born" into has a lot of potential. What if Mars sends down another to fix his mistake, and he has to face the monster he was intended to become? Or what if it turns out Mars doesn't ultimately care at all, so long as Man of War's actions continue to feed into conflict and suffering?
With the purple claw if it were to be adapted I think Jonathan weir should be the bad guy, and make one of the natives the superhero then you have an African superhero and can still adapt Jonathon to be an evil Indiana jones
Gallant comics already brought him back as a hero. It seems the purple claw is no longer from an African tribe, but is a magical European artifact he found/ dug up.
Too late man, Gallant Comics already revived the Purple Claw, though the African tribal origin has apparently been ditched. He's just a guy with a magic claw he dug up/found. They already brought Boom Boom Braniggan, as well. Man O' War has been revived by the steel ring novel series, and the ghost has been revived by project superpowers by Dynamite entertainment. And DC still uses Judomaster quite frequently.
I'd combine Microface and Echo into a tech-based hero that could amplify and throw his voice, use X-ray vision and enhanced hearing, and shoot out stun beams.
hello! great video!! i do have a question about public domain characters.. we see that sherlock holmes can be used in a comics, movie or else freely, so I can make my version of sherlock and name him " sherlock holmes" , and someone can do his version the next day... is it the same for idk.. man of war? let's say I introduce " the man of war" in my comics, is it good?
What's the song used in between the entries? This was a great video and honestly I would love to reinvent some of these characters and make comics with them
Superhero shows can be great and well-written like Invincible: ua-cam.com/video/Q6GEnymmZ_s/v-deo.html
...or they blow giant chunks like Jupiter's Legacy: ua-cam.com/video/ks076pANX5I/v-deo.html
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be
There are laws against arson how did you not know that? Also, some places limit or do not allow use of fire works and you even have to get a permit to burn things in own yard in some places.
While I'm planning on living a long life, I do plan on having all my works enter public domain when I'm dead.
I can’t believe The Ghost ripped off Undertale decades before it existed.
It's those damn time travelers and psychics always stealing future ideas.
Toby Fox's power has no limits
Papyrus would have survived every route if he used his ghost jet.
That's ridiculous! It's obvious Toby Fox is an immortal and simply reused the design of the Ghost, a character he created under a different name, and is waiting patiently for us, his fantastic fanbase, to recognize it.
Ghost is letrally papyrus
I love how the Dragon is just out here doing war crimes
Sorry, Alias: The Dragon. My bad.
@@henrygalley2831 He's just filling out his super hero ID registration and there's a field that says "Name"
"...well I can't write my real name, that's silly. Do they mean my hero name? I better specify..."
He just writes Alias: The Dragon, and the next day that's how the paper is reporting it and he's like "Dammit I filled that out wrong..." The whole next arc of the comic is him sitting in the super hero DMV trying to show enough forms of ID to update his name and trying not to go mad from bureaucracy because he's holding a flamethrower in a building full of filing cabinets...
God, if Disney did not screw up public domain. Star Wars and Xenomorphs would have been public domain for years. Imagine what we could of had.
When Disney goes out of business, chaos will ensue.
I dunno about that comparison. From what I gathered, had the duration not been extended, works from the early sixties would be entering the public domain right about now. You’d have to wait for another fifteen/twenty years for “Star Wars” and “Alien” to enter the PD in that scenario.
If Disney weren't so protective of their back catalogue, most of their shorts from pre-1945 would be as free as Fleischer's or Warner's. Perchance to dream...
Lord of the rings and the hobbit and batman and superman and i think spiderman would all be in the public domain by now had it not been for fucking disney
@@geoffreyrichards6079 i could wait 15 years to write my own star wars stories! After all i would only be in my 30s at that point. To bad that fantasy is now gone.
Protect the public domain at all costs!!!
Hell yes. Stop letting companies steal what's ours.
Uncle Disney would like to have a word with you...
Public Domain isn't in danger. There's no risk to the Public Domain. Sure, less stuff is being added to it nowadays, but it's not going away any time soon.
Disney is the biggest threat!
Man and Superman was a play in 1903, Tarzan was called Superman by Jane I think it was in 1912, Doc Savage was called Superman in an ad in 1934, so how does DC comics have a copywrite on the name Superman?
Alias: The Dragon would be a great villain in a street level story. His whole idea of being a cop who's gone outside the law and uses a handheld flamethrower is terrifying.
I would read the hell out of this. Like how Columbo is actually about the killer and the hero is the protagonist? Do a comic where Alias is the protagonist and we get to watch as the vigilante super heroes he's out to get close in on him.
My alternate take was: "What if instead of a flamethrower, he's a mutant who can control fire and he *REALLY WANTS* to be a hero... but his powers are just the worst for it, and we watch everything go wrong as he fumbles with it."
@@DarkExcalibur42 Those are some really neat takes on this character and his story. That second sentence is kind of confusing, though - did you mean "the villain is the protagonist" or "the hero is the antagonist"?
@@syweb2 lol I'm not even sure what I meant now... I went back and rewatched the bit on Alias. I think I meant do a comic from the point of view of Alias as this terrible cop who the police (or other heroes) are slowly closing in on and going to arrest.
I think in my brain I had this image of Alias being a deranged cop that hunted super heroes... but I have no idea where I was going with this anymore. Like... tell stories from the PoV of criminals or vigilantes as police scientist Alias questions them until he realizes it's time to kick down their door with flamethrowers?
What random firing of neurons made me type that sentence 3 months ago...
Alias The Dragon vs Savage Dragon. I'd love to see that.
It’s honestly shocking that the ghost was the inspiration for Papyrus, right down to the design along with the Jovial attitude…it’s only a really deep cut I didn’t expect…though I’d love to see the Ghost return one day
From what I know, Papyrus is loosely based on Dedan from the belgian indie game OFF. i think Toby Fox tweeted abt it
Ghost is already back, Dynamite's project superpowers.
1.) I think the Iron Ace would be seriously awesome with some science fiction re-imaginings.
2.) Man of War reminds me of Red Son, the Superman comic where he landed in Russia instead.
3.) "Police Scientist" I believe is an old term to refer to like CSI techs (police forensic scientist). I believe Barry Allen, a.k.a. The Flash, used to be called a police scientist in the comics at one point... Also Alias The Dragon clearly got his name because when he was filling out his Super Hero ID registration he misread one of the fields and wrote Alias: The Dragon and the punctuation got smeared off.
I’m not joking, when I saw The Ghost, I was like *points at screen* “That’s Fucking Papyrus!!!”
If we remake this hero for film he NEEDS a Skeletor voice and to constantly go “NYEHEHEHE!!!!”
Honestly, I really want that Avengers-style movie you mentioned with all these characters crossing over in WWII to fight Nazis. It'd be amazing seeing a team that includes a guy with a microphone mask, a guy who punches Greek monsters for a mythical lady, a guy who could paralyze people but instead really tries hard to push a ventriloquist hero angle, a knight in a plane, Papyrus in a plane, a guy who mastered Judo, a crazed Punisher-esque anti-hero cop with a flamethrower, and a god among men who fights crime calling himself a wizard. It would honestly be a modern masterpiece ngl
Judomaster was one of the characters that DC Comics acquired when they purchased Charlton back in the 1980's. He has been used since then.
Actually, Lev Gleason was the name of the publisher of the Ghost, not his secret identity. They also published the original Daredevil. The Ghost's secret identity was Brad Hendricks.
Public domain characters, superpowers or not, are a perfect treasure trove to explore so many ideas! Many things to create through music, comics, animation, stories, or any format that reintroduces them to a modern audience!
Alias the Dragon seems like a unique way to tackle police accountability. It seems like everything that can be said has been said a million times, but a movie about the topic through the lens of a lunatic on a power trip and straight up cooking people sounds like itd be pretty interesting.
The iron ace sounds really cool, it would be awesome see like the ghost of Charlemagne being like "fulfill your destiny.... save the world" and become a ghost teacher for him
The supernatural angle is pretty rad. Kind of like a Witchblade artifact type situation but that extends to his plane?
I immediately went in a sci-fi route and was like "What if this lost knight had salvaged some weird lost tech from space or Atlantis or something..." So he's able to adapt this crazy nanotech to build himself a suit of armor and to upgrade his plane, but the Germans think it's some sort of occult magic (because that's what they're about) and half the tension is him maintaining the propaganda that it's magic so they don't try to steal his tech...
The Iron Ace sounds awesome, it would be awesome to see a magically enhanced Knight in the Modern Era, kind of like a mix of Arthur from Ghosts and Goblins with the Forever Knights from Ben 10.
Here's my attempt to remake these heroes
10: The Purple Claw, make him an African American who ends up on an assignment in Ghana.
The claw is only usable to someone related to the previous owner, and little does he know ow he is the last decendent of the previous Purple Claw.
9: Boom Boom Branigan, he ends of finding Pandora's Box and opening it. The Last thing within, Hope, enters his body, giving him the power to fight against the embodiments of the evils the box once held.
8: Microface: Make it so the mask bugged giving him the a ility to weaponize sounds, including echolocation to give him 360° "vision" instead of Xrays.
7: Echo, Make him able to paralyze with his voice (which sound can do) and in his regular life he uses his powers to be a ventriloquist.
6: Iron Ace, The armor belonged to Astolfo, a knight of Charlemagne who rode a Griffin (NOT a trap) and the armor let him take on the aerial combat skills of the knight. The griffins spirit took over the plane.
5: The Ghost is perfect. No change needed.
4: The Judo Master, He is a Japanese American in a US Japanese camp, and he stands up for the others stating his refusal of fascism. This gets the attention of a Judo sense who teaches him till he surpasses him and he proves his word is just in combat.
3: Man of War, He does end up in America, but the transformation isn't instant. He spends his premier as a villain, untill other heroes of the time defeat him, and he is given a chance to reform.
2: Alias the Dragon, Antihero. He saw a criminal He caught RED HANDED get away only because he didn't read him his rights. Enraged by this he takes on this secret identity to be a violent vigolante.
1: Super Wizard, Make him like a magical version of Dr. Manhatten. He tries to help with his near omnipotent power, but goes to far, not understanding what is wrong with it. Over time he gradually learns and is more humanized, and becomes more like Superman, holding his power back and learning to be human.
Green Turtle is a public domain superhero that fought a guerllia war against the Japanese and in 2014 Gene Luen Yang did a revival of the character that did a great giving a thematic backstory for the Green Turtle. It's called "Shadow Hero" and I highly reccomend it.
You think that's impressive, there was once a single comic book featuring nothing but black characters created by black creators ("All-Negro Comics #1" starring Ace Harlem, Lion-Man & Bubba, Sugarfoot, and more).
Someday we will live in a timeline where all superheroes are public domain...
BUT TODAY IS NOT THIS DAY!
There are so many things we could do with costumed heroes if we DIDN'T let THE MOUSE rob our collective creative heritage.
Also, I would love to see Gus draw three public domain heroes at random and have to make a super team out of them.
Can't believe no one's talking about how James Gunn actually brought Judo Master back for Peacemaker.
I would totally make a post-colonial story about the purple claw, where the purple claw is like a kind of Robin Hood character.
Is it problematic that a white ally is the main hero of a post colonial piece? Yeah kinda! Maybe that’s his arc - he gains the power of the purple claw, trips with power for a bit and starts fighting other crime, but then realizes that the claw doesn’t belong to him, and the right thing to do is give the power back to a purple claw in waiting in purple wakanda - even if this means disempowering himself.
Problematic? Who cares? Helping Innocents is more important than cultural respect lmao
@@maylabrown4584 well, if you’re trying to make a point about colonialism...
Either way it’s the type of story where I would want a diversity consultant on board, so I don’t shoot myself in the foot.
@@envysart797 I agree with your second point, I'd actually want to have my co-writer be someone at least knowledgeable in the people I'm writing about.
Just curious, but if the whole colonial thing were reversed (like an African man taking a mystical artifact from a predominantly white country), would it still be considered offensive? Or are there other factors at work?
@@geoffreyrichards6079 I think inverting a colonial story wouldn’t be offensive, especially if you wrote it as a parody of outdated colonial era comics
Superman actually has super ventriloquism in the old comics so he's my favorite ventriloquist superhero
Ah yes free superheroes I will take a bunch of them, make my own version of teen titans. Give them a new look and backstory and just go from there. So yeah free oc adoption for anyone to use.
If I was doing Purple Claw, I would change the main character's backstory. In my version, he'd still be white, but he would've been born and raised in Africa, spent his entire life there, with most people treating him as an outsider based solely on the color of his skin. I'd make the story, a look at racism, in a place outside of America. I would most likely receive death threats for daring to point out that America isn't the only country with racism.
There’s so much that can be retained or changed for public domain characters. And so many people only see the surface level of racism, rather than examine far deeper, psychological and social levels of the issue. As much as people might not like the idea, there is always people that will applaud such a story.
One of my favourite public domain superhero is the hangman I read one of his comics and he came of as one of the goofy characters I ever read he had a bunch of superpowers but never used them and he wouldn't stop making puns
Also my favourite public domain superhero is dynamite thor he was a police negotiator who threw dynamite at the people they were negotiating with he also had a superpower which was that he was immune to his own dynamite and he flew by throwing dynamite at his feet.
My favorite public domain superheroes:
The War Eagle
Crash Kid
Amazona the Mighty Woman
White Panther
Black Cobra
Butterfly
Nelvana of the Northern Lights
Phantom Knight
Blackjack
Speed Centaur
Captain Tootsie (*mascot of Tootsie Rolls candies)
IMO the easiest way to make the Purple Claw more interesting would be to flip it around and have Dr. Weir be a man from the tribe who originally possessed the Purple Claw (and possibly a number of other magical artifacts), who went to England, got a doctorate, infiltrated the museum where it was being kept, and retrieved it and returned it to its home, earning its power and being given the mission to find the remaining stolen artifacts.
Gallant comics already brought the purple claw back as he was, but the claw doesn't seem to be from an African tribe anymore, it's just a magical European artifact he found/dug up.
Boom Boom Branigan would be a perfect summer action comedy
Some of these characters are great characters - there are so many public domain character that are amazing as they are or could be changed to be made real cool. And while most need redraws others are still some of the coolest looking characters in comics history [Micro-Face]
Even Hitler is public domain in the villain section
I think DC still has the rights to Judomaster from when they acquired several characters from Charlton. It is Thunderbolt they don't own!
I actually transplanted the Purple Claw over to my superhero setting. He's a former British soldier who, after fleeing Great Britain after the nation lost a major war with Ireland, ended up in Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, which in my setting is a very technologically advanced world power, he became a bodyguard/enforcer for the head of one of the country's great houses, the House of Amethyst. The Purple Claw itself is a high tech cybernetic arm he's given after his right arm is blown off during a mission early on in his service.
Gallant comics brought him back, too. And the guy who made the video failed to mention in the original story that Dr Weir was an American army physician that cleared the swamps around the tribes village of mosquitos, and worked side by side with the tribes shaman to treat villagers with malaria with the help of modern medicine. The purple claw was a gift for helping save lives in the tribe. And the shaman says he has more of them. So the 'artifact stolen by a 'colonizer' narrative doesn't apply here. Sometimes, context helps.😂
Also, nice reworking of the characters backstory you did there, very creative.
Since these characters are in the public domain that mean I could use them freely without the fear of being copyrighted right ?
Yep!! They’re free to all
Absolutely!
Dude great video! Ngl public domain superheroes are an under appreciated art
It definitely shows that we have so much material to use in any way we like! And this extends to all media formats: photographs, films, music, stories, characters, and so forth!
I think "police science" is better known as forensics nowadays.
Yup. Barry Allen was a police scientist as well.
Boom Boom Brannigan feels like it could be a modern Don Quixote
When you said more Purple Claws I thought you meant like The Phantom or Blue Beetle where there were predecessors who came before him. I think the idea of an ignorant white guy learning there's actually a history and legacy to his powers and either embracing it or realizing he has taken a sacred symbol as his own and returning it could work as a post colonial story.
Gallant comics already brought him back, and the purple claw is no longer an African tribe artifact anymore, it a generic magical artifact he found.
@@jamesstreet2397 missed opportunity
@@zenoblues7787 true. Though at least the elements that would offend people are gone.
@@jamesstreet2397 Sure, but I always prefer when creatives redefine an idea. As opposed to abandoning it altogether.
Ancient mythology and other ancient stories can be used for super heroes as ancient gods, goddess, wizards, witches, ghosts, fairies, leprechauns, genies, Djinns, demons, dragons and various creatures in stories had various powers.
Boom Boom Branign is some Moon Knight type feel
The Ghost wasn't also known as Lev Gleason. Lev Gleason was his publisher. The Public Domain Super Heroes wiki will format characters from different companies with the same name as "Character Name (Company)", and there are multiple Ghosts, so he's Ghost (Lev Gleason),
man of war actually did become a villian in the absolutly amazing project superpowers specifically the black terror mini series
I'm pretty bummed out cus I wasn't able to get a recording space together to audition for Less Is Mourge, doubt I can scrape it together by the end of the day.
Time to write about Boom Boom Branigain overthrowing the government to drown my sorrow.
There will be further casting calls as the show progresses, so don’t worry, it’s not your last chance!
Here’s a free punny title for your Boom Boom Brannigan Story: “Pandora’s Boxer”
@@WeRNotAlive My recording guy just responded to me and said he could come over and do a portable set up here in a few hours, and insisted I respond to you. Just to verify, today is the last day to send things in correct? Also, I am 100% sure the creator of Boom Boom Branigan was sitting at a drafting table when they thought "What if Pandora's Box was a guy that punched people. Like, some kind of Box Man. A Boxer, if you will"
@@WeRNotAlive ghost could be voice by weird Al yankovic
Day 21 of me asking for the release for the next episode of Monster girl safari.
(God bless the public domain. If only Disney didn't mess with the copyright law, because if wasn't for the latest update to it, Mickey mouse would be part of the public domain since 2003.)
Alias the dragon sounds like a sonic the hedgehog OC
Ghost looks like Papyrus from Undertale
Man of war has been added to my setting as an immortal man out of world war 2 and is gonna serve as a major blast to the past that also just proves that hard magic exits he's such an insane and cool character
yes Yes YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
You made me laugh...on a Saturday morning...thanks for the view, amazing!!!
Man of War adopting the local ideology isn't too far removed from the core concepts behind Hellboy and Superman:Red Sun.
The Shadow has to be the most well-known ventriloquist superhero. Definitely my favorite.
I wish modern day characters like Jenny Wakeman, most of Nintendo's characters, and Garfield were in the public domain, because in terms of Jenny and the show she's in, it would make the MLAATR: Rebooted team feel safe to make the series without Nick breathing down their neck. Most of Nintendo's character's because in all honesty Nintendo should learn their lesson at this point about taking down fan-made projects involving their characters. And Garfield because... Well... *More fuel for r/ImSorryJon right?*
My dude you went into deep subjects and then also just went "I am a super Wizard" you're great
You know if public domain really helped creativity why the fuck are many of these so obscure
I think our knowledge, understanding, and awareness of Public Domain characters are misunderstood. While some of the ideas might seem “outdated,” it’s not to suggest that their characteristics and background aren’t relevant. but yes, more people should be informed about the treasure trove the domain possesses: so many things can be changed or retained!
@@exempligratia101 some public domain heroes are from DeviantArt
just started watchin but have to comment: based music choice
just so you know your favorite superheroes will never become public domain because the companys are gona find a way to extend the copyright just like how disney does to mickey mouse
I mean, the big commercially successful ones won't be, but the wiki contains so many heroes that you'll easily be able to find one that reflects an archetype you like or provide you the basis for creating your own characters.
Works have started entering the public domain since 2019.
18:00 I fucking love Stardust the Super Wizard so god damn much
the best part about Stardust is that he doesn't save people. He shows up after the bad guys have already killed a ton of people and punishes them in really weird and terrifying ways. It might be the angriest series I've ever read.
@@jordanforbes149 Holy shit that sounds hilariously freaky. Almost like a dark satire of super heroes.
@@syweb2 yeah except the author is completely unaware of how it comes off lol which is why it’s so great
@@jordanforbes149 that Fletcher dude must be the Tommy Wisaeu of Comics.
@@conradojavier7547 I think that’s a little mean because while Stardust is definitely written very… clumsily, his ideas are amazing and the art, though rudimentary, rules for what it is. Like Stardust turns a guy into a giant head and throws him into space where a headless giant catches and absorbs him. It’s incredible. I don’t ironically like Stardust I legitimately like stardust, it was just also extremely bizarre.
The purple claw could be an african or african america character to minmize cultural issues.
Like racism
Tom Thumb and Tumbelina from hundreds of years ago were size of an insect before Antman and Wasp in Marvel comics.
I could see Purple Claw finding the claw in some long, lost, abandoned ruins in Africa. Noone around for miles.
Echo could be more detective than superhero. Using his talents to solve crimes, get information from witnesses and suspects, and getting the guilty party to confess.
Boom Boom Brannigan might work in a different way.
Hey, in Echo's case, the bad guys will never expect laservision from a guy called Echo. Take them completely by surprise.
I think "police scientist" is an old word for "forensic scientist". Studying blood spatters, fingerprints, bullet holes and whatnot.
my google fu turned up the phrase "police forensic scientist" so I have to assume people were just lazy and said "police scientist to save time. Because what other kind of scientist you think they're gonna have, astrophysicists? XD Pragmatism wins.
I'd love to see these characters in a movie
Forget Superman Vs. Batman. We need Echo Vs. Micro-Face. Set it in a dark maze-like setting for good measure.
Need more of this 🔥🔥🔥
Good vid, interesting stuff. Some of these guys are more crime fighters than superheroes though.
I would have bet that JudoMaster was a DC character
Superman used super ventriloquism, also used shape shifting and levitation of objects but those stories are mostly forgotten and seldom used. If he used shape shifting more often would explain why Clark Kent is not recognized as Superman they instead said he used hypnotic glasses but Super Girl as Linda Lee Danvers did not wear glasses.
Man of War actually sounds kind of cool. A superhero who is a living divine weapon who adopts the values of whatever place he is "born" into has a lot of potential. What if Mars sends down another to fix his mistake, and he has to face the monster he was intended to become? Or what if it turns out Mars doesn't ultimately care at all, so long as Man of War's actions continue to feed into conflict and suffering?
Papyrus
With the purple claw if it were to be adapted I think Jonathan weir should be the bad guy, and make one of the natives the superhero then you have an African superhero and can still adapt Jonathon to be an evil Indiana jones
Gallant comics already brought him back as a hero. It seems the purple claw is no longer from an African tribe, but is a magical European artifact he found/ dug up.
This Boom Boom dude is like some Boxer beats up Ancient Monsters like he's Kratos or something.
Look what’s happening to my chin .. bwhahahaha …you are win
Judomaster is not in the public domain. It was created in 1965 at charlton, and was bought by/is now a character in DC, used as recently as 2019.
Probably going to be used in that Peacemaker spin-off. He was in public domain wiki. I guess somebody made a mistake
Purple Claw used by AC Comics. Judomaster picked up by DC.
Isn’t judomaster a DC character?
He was called Judo master but used Judo, Karate and boxing.
Thank you for this video.
I would rather Iron Ace be, as the picture implies, a giant robot knight that hits planes with a sword.
Yas! I'll bring back the Purple Claw!
Judo master is a dc character,was even covered in dc’s whose who comic dictionary
Too late man, Gallant Comics already revived the Purple Claw, though the African tribal origin has apparently been ditched. He's just a guy with a magic claw he dug up/found.
They already brought Boom Boom Braniggan, as well. Man O' War has been revived by the steel ring novel series, and the ghost has been revived by project superpowers by Dynamite entertainment. And DC still uses Judomaster quite frequently.
Man of War/ Boom Boom Branigan Crossover when?
amazing video
Micro Face meets the Human Beat Box 😆
Judomaster on the Peacemaker show is shorter, wears a green outfit, and eats Cheetos. But it's basically the same character.
I'd combine Microface and Echo into a tech-based hero that could amplify and throw his voice, use X-ray vision and enhanced hearing, and shoot out stun beams.
I would use captain Battle as a corrupt hero
hello! great video!! i do have a question about public domain characters.. we see that sherlock holmes can be used in a comics, movie or else freely, so I can make my version of sherlock and name him " sherlock holmes" , and someone can do his version the next day... is it the same for idk.. man of war? let's say I introduce " the man of war" in my comics, is it good?
Yup, it’s the same with these characters. All of them are usable as Sherlock Holmes.
Boom boom brainigan could be a gag series
definitely the first time ive heard someone pronounce museum that way
Uh, I think The Ventriloquist and Scarface from the Batman cartoons has "Ventriloquism Powers" but he's more like a super criminal so...
I'd like to be certain Judomaster and other Chariton characters are free to use
Judomaster was bought by DC in the early 80s, maybe late 70s, when they purchased the Charlton characters. He's even appearedmin DC comics.
Batman has sonar, a microphone mask, and voice projection
Number 11
Spider-Man...if,if Disney hadn't fucked with copyright law to keep Mickey
Boom boom Brannigan sounds so dumb but so good i just want to see this guy punch the crap out of Memphisto
To be honest, I’ve never heard of the purple claw
So there's this character named captain Battle and he is public domain so this means I could use him without copyright.
Stardust = Carl Manver's Final Form
We need more
Micro-Face is Charlie Kirk's superhero identity
What's the song used in between the entries? This was a great video and honestly I would love to reinvent some of these characters and make comics with them
It’s “Calling All Destroyers” by Tsar. The song is featured in Super, James’ Gunn dark superhero film.