The original thread had gotten to the point where I could no longer add new Fun Facts to the list, so here's a new iteration of the thread with extra room allowed for future fun facts!
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was the first costumed identity of Hank Pym!
Pym had his Ant-Man suit stolen by Scott Lang who eventually became his successor!
- Scott has been a member of the Heroes for Hire, Avengers, Fantastic Four, Defenders, and the Future Foundation!
- Scott once dated Jessica Jones!
- Scott was eventually succeeded as Ant-Man by S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Eric O'Grady!
was created by Marv Wolfman who based her on a Tex Avery cartoon!
is the daughter of world-renowned cat burglar Walter Hardy!
- has been a member of the Supernaturals, Heroes for Hire, and the Defenders!
- wears earrings that interact with the balance centers of her brain to give her enhanced agility!
- was played by Felicity Jones in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie!
was the first black superhero in mainstream American comics!
holds a Ph.D in Physics from Oxford University!
- was once married to Storm, but their marriage was annulled after the Avengers vs X-Men conflict!
- the T in T'Challa is silent!
- was voiced by Keith David (Nick Fury in Marvel Heroes) in the Fantastic Four animated series!
was not the first Marvel character to be named the Black Widow - that was Claire Voyant!
was once arranged to marry Soviet test pilot Alexei Shostakov who became the Red Guardian!
- while in a relationship with Daredevil they were the first unmarried couple to live together in comics!
- has been a member of the KGB, SHIELD, Avengers, Champions, Defenders, Lady Liberators, Heroes for Hire, & the Thunderbolts!
- is fluent in Russian, English, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, and various other languages!
- is a trained ballet dancer!
was born in Soho, London, in 1929!
was mentored by American veteran vampire slayer Jamal Afari!
- has been a member of the Avengers, Nightstalkers, Midnight Sons, Silvereye, S.H.I.E.L.D., Vanguard, and MI-13!
- once used the Darkhold which briefly turned him into Switchblade!
- his patented black leather trench coat was given to him by Wolverine!
- is in a relationship with the vampiric Lady Jacqueline Falsworth, aka Spitfire!
is the son of Cyclops though is much older than his father thanks to time travel!
was once kidnapped as an infant by his own mother to be used in the demonic ritual Inferno!
- was originally intended to be used as a weapon against Apocalypse by Mr. Sinister!
- his long-time nemesis Stryfe is actually his clone!
- holds a law diploma!
- was once President of Rumekistan!
- used Captain America's shield as a rallying point against Apocalypse in the far future!
can run a 40-yard dash in 3.82 seconds!
once wore an armoured suit designed for him by Iron Man to overcome his then-deteriorating Super-Soldier serum!
- was briefly turned into the werewolf known as Capwolf!
- was once in a relationship with former Serpent Society member Diamondback!
- has had several partners over the years including Bucky, Rick Jones, Falcon, & Sharon Carter!
- has been chairperson or leader of the Avengers the most times out of all members!
is a former USAF pilot ID #102-09-8313 with the call sign "Cheeseburger"!
is the seventh Marvel character to take on the mantle of Captain Marvel!
- has also used the codenames Binary and Warbird!
- was once editor of magazines such as Woman and Rolling Stone!
- has been a member of the Defenders and the Starjammers as well as the Avengers!
is descended from fabled Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin!
has a son named Peter with a Savage Land native named Nereel!
- sacrificed himself to cure the mutant-killing Legacy Virus!
- was restored to life by the alien Ord!
- has a mutant brother named Mikhail as well as his mutant sister Magik!
- is a talented painter!
- has been a member of Excalibur and the Defenders as well as the X-Men and X-Force!
is the son of the former space pirate Corsair!
his eyes are actually apertures to another universe which contains his optic blast energy!
- has an innate sense of trigonometry!
- grew up in an orphanage in Omaha, Nebraska run by Mr. Sinister!
- has two brothers - Alex (Havok) and Gabriel (Vulcan)!
- married Jean Grey's clone Madelyne Pryor before eventually marrying Jean herself!
- is the father of Cable who's now older than his father thanks to time travel!
- was once merged with Apocalypse!
is a devout Roman Catholic!
once faked his own death and lived as a street husler named Jack Batlin!
- while amnesiac he believed he was an undercover S.H.I.E.L.D. agent named Laurent Levasseur!
- has been written by movie makers like Kevin Smith & Bob Gale!
- can "read" printed material by passing his fingers over the raised ink of letters on the page!
- knows Ninjutsu, Aiki Jujutsu, Jujitsu, Kung Fu, capoeira, Judo, Aikido, wrestling, stick fighting, & boxing!
- his cane can transform into Eskrima sticks, a manrikigusari, Bo staff, & a grappling hook!
has a healing factor derived from Wolverine's!
has a romantic relationship with the cosmic entity Death!
- was once known as Chiyonosake, "the Wolf of the Rice Wine"!
- once had his DNA merged with Cable's!
- once had various severed body parts merge together to form an evil duplicate of himself!
- has been a member of Weapon X, Frightful Four, Defenders, Heroes for Hire, Agency X, X-Men, Deadpool Corps, X-Force, & the Thunderbolts!
- was once cursed by Loki to look like Tom Cruise!
- always dodges to the left according to Taskmaster!
has his own holiday in Latveria with Doom's Day!
claims his self-awareness began while still within his mother's womb!
- fathered a daughter with Morgan le Fay during one of many travels to the past!
- was once engaged to be married to the Scarlet Witch!
- owns three Renoirs, having previously possessed four, but had one destroyed merely because it displeased him!
had a brother named Victor and a sister named Donna!
has been a member of the Defenders, Secret Defenders, Midnight Sons, the Order, Avengers, and the Illuminati!
- owns countless artifacts including the Book of the Vishanti, the Ring of the Ancient One, the Eye of Zartra, and the First Tarot Deck!
- is married to Clea, making his nemesis Dormammu his uncle-in-law!
- the Orb and Eye of Agamotto can be seen in Odin's Vault in the Thor movie!
- Jeffrey Combs was set to play him on screen in a 1992 film that eventually became Doctor Mordrid!
is the third oldest of her siblings Christian, Adrienne & Cordelia!
her natural hair color is brown!
- inherited her family foretune & became CEO of Frost International!
- has had plastic surgery on several occasions!
- has latent telekinetic potential!
- killed her older sister Adrienne!
- has twice been host to the Phoenix Force!
- has had relationships with Namor, Iron Man, Sebastian Shaw, & Cyclops!
was once Apocalypse's Horseman Death!
was responsible for assembling the Marauders for Mr. Sinister!
- has been a member of the Thieves Guild, the Marauders, the X-Men, the X-Ternals, the Horsemen of Apocalypse, and soon the All-New X-Factor!
- has stolen such famous artifacts as the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak and Excalibur!
- caused a reverse-destination paradox when he had a piece of his brain stem that had been removed in present day restored in Victorian era England!
is possessed by the demonic spirit of vengeance Zarathos!
was the second Marvel character to be named Ghost Rider after the unrelated western hero!
- has been a member of the Champions, Heroes for Hire, Fantastic Four, Legion of Monsters, Midnight Sons, and the Thunderbolts!
- other Ghost Riders have used horses, planes, trucks, muscle cars, and even an elephant!
- in 2099 is the spirit of a hacker possessing the body of a warbot!
was the first Marvel villain to appear in a video game in 1981's The Amazing Spider-Man!
was temporarily replaced by his son Harry, then Harry's psychiatrist Bart Hamilton, and also journalist Phil Urich!
- has inspired spin-off characters including Hobgoblin, Demogoblin, Grey Goblin, Menace, Monster, and the Goblin Knight!
- was once director of the Thunderbolts, reformed S.H.I.E.L.D. into H.A.M.M.E.R., and lay siege to Asgard!
- has been played on screen by Willem Dafoe and Dane DeHaan!
has a brother, Barney, who became Hawkeye in Norman Osborn's Dark Avengers!
ran away from an orphanage with his brother to join the circus!
- was a thief before joining the Avengers!
- has been a member of the Defenders & the Thunderbolts as well as various Avengers teams!
- was previously married to fellow Avenger Mockingbird!
- has adopted other costumed identities including Goliath & Ronin!
- was once 80% deaf and wore a hearing aid!
- was the first Marvel hero to join DC's Justice League in the JLA/Avengers crossover!
his creation was inspired by Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde as well as Frankenstein
has been a member of the Defenders, Pantheon, Horsemen of Apocalypse, Fantastic Four, Warbound, & S.H.I.E.L.D. as well as the Avengers!
- has a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from Caltech!
- unwittingly turned his cousin into She-Hulk after giving her an emergency blood transfusion!
- once separated from the Hulk, Banner led a taskforce to capture him!
- once worked as a casino enforcer named Mr. Fixit!
- had twin sons, Skaar & Hiro-Kala, with Caiera from the planet Sakaar!
- also has a daughter named Lyra with an alternate reality Thundra!
- has fought with the likes of Thor, Wolverine, Thing, Spider-Man, Juggernaut, Dracula, and even Superman!
his full name is Jonathan Lowell Spencer Storm!
is the brother of the Fantastic Four's Invisible Woman!
- was almost chosen as the human host of the demon Zarathos, the source of the Ghost Rider's power!
- called himself the Human Torch after the World War II era hero!
- was once married to Alicia Masters who was secretly the Skrull imposter named Lyja!
- was once a Herald of Galactus!
- was once cast in the role of Rawhide Kid in a summer blockbuster film!
- was killed by Annihilus' army but later resurrected!
was created as a copy of the Human Torch only with the opposite element as a power!
born in Port Washington, Long Island, New York!
- is an Omega-level mutant!
- was once mentally possessed by Emma Frost!
- has been a member of the X-Men, Champions, Defenders, and X-Factor!
- once almost froze the entire Earth!
- is also a Certified Practicing Accountant!
- in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends he was voiced by Frank Welker who is also the voice of Megatron!
has two children, Franklin and Valeria!
is the sister of the Fantastic Four's Human Torch!
- can create and manipulate psionic force fields as well as turn invisible!
- once had her negative emotions amplified by the Psycho-Man and became Malice!
- has been played on screen by Rebecca Staab, Jessica Alba, and Kate Mara!
- was chosen as one of the Brides of Set!
- was once turned into a mutant-hunting Hound by Ahab!
- was once ranked as the 66th greatest comic book hero of all time by IGN!
is proficient in many martial arts including Kunlunquan, Shaolinquan, Judo, Aikido, Ninjutsu, and Karate!
is the 66th in a long line of Iron Fists that have included Li Park, Wu Ao-Shi, Fongji Wu, and Orson Randall!
- has been a member of the Defenders, Heroes for Hire, the Avengers, the Thunderbolts, and the Immortal Weapons!
- once had his power stolen by Junzo Muto, teenage leader of the Hand!
- was to be played by Ray Park in an early-2000s movie directed by Kirk Wong!
- will be played by Finn Jones in the upcoming Netflix TV series!
his creation was inspired by billionaire adventurer & inventor Howard Hughes!
has been a member of the Hellfire Club, the Illuminati, S.H.I.E.L.D., and the Guardians of the Galaxy as well as various Avengers teams!
- owns the former secret US military base Area 51!
- was listed by Forbes.com as the fourth wealthiest fictional character with a net worth of US$8.8 billion!
- was once director of S.H.I.E.L.D.!
- inspired the character of Nathan Stark on Eureka!
- was almost played on screen by Tom Cruise instead of Robert Downey, Jr.!