irish superhero???

The_Goose

hey just was thinking has there ever been an irish superhero in x men or any where???

GuanYin

Yup, Banshee was an X-man who could use his voice to warp reality.

[edit] he had a daughter Siryn, who was Irish too, I guess.

Kold

I always thought Banshee was Scottish from his accent in the cartoon...

Ping Chow Chi

nah he was Irish

monkeymagic

he's definitly Irish, supposedly from Mayo although Americans writing an Irish accent does seem to turn it Scottish. Siryn also appeared in X2 in the mansion. I'm sure there's another Irish superhero but so far can't think of it...

MarVeL

Well there was also Black Tom Cassidy who wasn't alwasys totally bad and there was also Shamrock who appeared in Contest of Champions and take a very odd dislike to Capt Britain.

Can't think of anyone in DC or anywhere else. Maybe we should start one For some reason the only name coming to mind is Skangerman and his arch enemy could be Langerman. Or maybe I should go and get some coffee

Epitaph

Cassidy in Preacher, although even Cable wouldn't take him on

The_Goose

I thought the same about Banshee thats cool thanks!!!
Who is cassidy???

simu

Originally posted by Centurion
I thought the same about Banshee thats cool thanks!!!
Who is cassidy???

http://pc59te.dte.uma.es/cdb/series/vertigo/cassidy.htm

Info on Cassidy there. He's a pretty cool character!

monkeymagic

Black Tom is strangely enough Scottish... don't think Marvel ever explained why...

Exit

Not a superhero, but how about Sláine of 2000AD?

http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/sputnik/53/slaine.htm

the_syco

Originally posted by Exit
Not a superhero, but how about Sláine of 2000AD?

http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/sputnik/53/slaine.htm

Totally agree. Slaine rules. Read a few comics with him in it

MarVeL

Originally posted by monkeymagic
Black Tom is strangely enough Scottish... don't think Marvel ever explained why...

Are you sure of that? I've tried all the references I normally use and he keeps coming back as Irish. The "accents" I'll grant you but there seems to be a concensus that he is Irish

][cEMAN**

Real Name: Thomas Samuel Eamon Cassidy
Occupation: Professional criminal
Identity: Publicly known
Legal Status: Citizen of Ireland with an international criminal record
Other Aliases: None
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Sean Cassidy (Banshee, cousin), Theresa
Rourke (Siryn, niece), Maeve Rourke Cassidy
(cousin by marriage, deceased)
Group Affiliation: Frequent partner of the Juggernaut
Base of Operations: Mobile
First Appearance: X-MEN #99 (in shadow), #101 (fully seen)

monkeymagic

Pretty certain in Generation X 25 and during the following storyline which actually went on into Onslaught, they said he was Scottish. Then again it is Marvel next week he'll be Pakistani.

Unpossible

I remember reading a story in a judge dredd (or was it a 200ad) annual which was based in Ireland and had an Irish judge. The story involved trinity medical students putting pieces of dead bodies into meat pies

Ping Chow Chi

I think there was some minor irish superhero in IronMan, the guardman or something ... I seem to remember that he ran security at the vault (where they imprisioned the super villians)

GuanYin

Originally posted by Unpossible
The story involved trinity medical students putting pieces of dead bodies into meat pies

Based on a true story then.......

I've said too much :eek:

superfly

i dont think Slaine was Irish i think he was more Celtic and later banished to Ireland

here is another minor hero Irish Wolfhound (scroll down)
http://rivendell.fortunecity.com/battlespire/85/annuals.htm

simu

There was an Irish magician who used to get drunk all the time in Hellblazer - Brendan Finn.

jill_valentine

They made Banshee Scottish for the X Men cartoon so they could better explain his relationship with Moira McTaggart.

Plus, though neither are really superheroes, Nina and her sis from Tekken.

Cant believe nobody has mentioned of Marvel's Cuchulain character . If you want to read about him try this link .Pretty funny

http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/cuchulai.htm

jill_valentine

He was mentioned further up as the Irish wolfhound...
Very funny though, either way.

monkeymagic

*read link* now I feel dirty.

][cEMAN**

Not a very fun read tbh. Part I thought was waaaay OTT in the history bit was

He clashed against her rival, Aoife, a female warrior, and raped her to humiliate her.

jill_valentine

Was that even actually part of the mythology?

AngryBadger

Originally posted by syke
Yup, Banshee was an X-man who could use his voice to warp reality.

[edit] he had a daughter Siryn, who was Irish too, I guess.

Dude...Banshee didn't use his voiuce to "warp" anything, he had a sonic scream, also his daughter Theresa Cassidy had the same power...

hughobrien

I remember reading a story in a judge dredd (or was it a 200ad) annual which was based in Ireland and had an Irish judge. The story involved trinity medical students putting pieces of dead bodies into meat pies

Yeah there were a couple of issues that had stories about Ireland. They were hilarious. Ireland had been turned into an amusment park and Stephens green had been reduced to twelve blades of grass and a shrub named "Kevin". And terrorists used a spud gun that had 3 settings: Acidic Mash, Rapid-Firing Chips and a particularly nasted baked potato.

They don't make them like they used to!

jill_valentine

Judge Dredd in Ireland...bizarre...worth picking up?

(I still say my fave depiction of Ireland was in Family Guy...:D )

hughobrien

It's not the greatest of stories, but it is funny. I thought it was funny seeing the Green Dolphin pub in Raheny, in a comic.

sixpack's little hat

"The device at the guinness brewery mysteriously fails to explode."

Victor

Shouldn't there be leprechaun villain?

secret_squirrel

Originally posted by superfly
i dont think Slaine was Irish i think he was more Celtic and later banished to Ireland

You could argue he was both. In Slainé the King he unites the 4 tribes and leads them to found Ireland from Tir Na Nog after the Flood.

Definately counts as a super hero in my book - he was a double hard bastard.

secret_squirrel

Originally posted by Victor
Shouldn't there be leprechaun villain?

How about the evil leprechaun from the Simpsons? 'We stow away in the wheel wells of Aerlingus Jumbo Jets dont ye know?'

de5p0i1er

Originally posted by monkeymagic
Black Tom is strangely enough Scottish... don't think Marvel ever explained why...

He just lives in Scotland but hes from Ireland There family home is in Mayo.

moggie

right
bare with me....

they were a group of elements...magic...type superhero group
formed by an earth spirit after several immortal mystics were wiped out just before they should have taken up the mantle

tornado was the wind spirit - and they twisted his character so that the shell was hollow - no robot, no man.....just wind,
there was a gollum - who wanted to be known as paul
there was a teleporting girl
a hongkong dragon claw guy
and a few others


and Liam...who was the Jack 'O' Lantern (or sum'tin similar)
(no I'm not making this up) and he was originally from around Crossmaglen, and had a ...big pumpkin head lantern thing - flight, blasts, magicky stuff....(no I'm not making this up) and he had a bag over his head as a mask (no I'm not making this up) and spoke in an irish lilting brog that came straight from darby o gill and the little people (no I'm not making this up)


It was DC....

jill_valentine

Are you sure you're not making it up?

MarVeL

I think hes making it up

<edit which just goes to show I know far less than I thought I knew about DC

Look here

moggie

PRIMAL FORCE!!!!

Yep, thats what they were called!
i think
and there was the bit where the teleporter girl introduces the Liam to her sister and the sister goes - "OOH I love the accent, where did you get him from"

yep
and his outfit was really tattered
and he saved a bunch of school kids



he's the one with the sack on his head see?

heres the page http://www.dcuguide.com/PF/Title_Index.htm

says he's Jack O'Lantern III, so it does now

secret_squirrel

From Primal Force #14 :

Villains: Satanus, Tornado Tyrant (absorbed by the Red Tornado); Cataclysm, the Cult of Cataclysm; Neron (behind the scenes); The Wisp (first appearance; an Irish terrorist)

Gotta love that typecasting

Evil_Bilbo

Slaine was one of my fav's from 2000ad - especially the Horned God series with Simon Bisley doing the paintwork - fecking unreal. Brilliant stories aswell.

http://www.2000adonline.com/index.php3?zone=reprint&page=gnprofiles&choice=horned

Hecate

Sláine was great, especially when he went into 'berserk' mode

tylerdurden

Bisley seemed like a godsend at first, but you can't beat Glenn Fabry's Sláine really at the end of the day...

I seem to remember meeting Mills and Fabry at a signing where they'd had too much beer and they were insinuating that Bisley only wanted to draw battles and naked chicks and so the stories suffered as he lashed lazily through "the boring stuff"

I loved Fabry's more human approach to the characters.

secret_squirrel

Horned God was the best sláine ever - epic in scope , before that it was good, but a bit derivative - Conan Lite if you will.

His warp spasms were class tho.... And Ukko was an evil little bugger and great comic relief, that and rogue trooper were probably my favourite comic strips ever. Shame 2000AD went downhill when it went colour - except for perhaps Sláine.

tylerdurden

but imagine if Fabry at his best had illustrated the Horned God...

Zenith was another great 2000ad strip. And a Superhero too. But not Irish. And a beautiful example of what can be achieved without the use of colour!