Zaodai posted:

My exposure to Bartoc only comes from Marvel Heroes, where I will always remember him as Bartoc Silly-Bear.

biracial bear for uncut posted:

I liked oddly-supportive-and-decent Batroc from the Gwenpool series.

Gaz-L posted:

Tag yourself: I'm "bag of dirt"

Gann Jerrod posted:

Phy posted:

I liked Batroc's line as a Delaying Action Henchperson whenever it comes up in this thread, and I'm honestly a little stoked to find out he's coming back to the MCU for the Falcon and Bucky show

Gann Jerrod posted:

Bruceski posted:

Does the comics world have any mainstream (I know that's a relative term) professional henchpeople other than Taskmaster and Batroc? I like that shtick. Show up to go against whoever's actually on the cover and don't need an introduction or explanation why they're involved.

Bruceski posted:

Does the comics world have any mainstream (I know that's a relative term) professional henchpeople other than Taskmaster and Batroc? I like that shtick. Show up to go against whoever's actually on the cover and don't need an introduction or explanation why they're involved.

Lurdiak posted:

Batroc has his own brigade of henchmen that people forget about so much that no living person can tell you how many Machetes there have been or which ones are dead.

The Serpent Squad is also essentially just a supervillain henchman union, with a dumb snake theme. Although half the time they get a leader who has ambitions beyond that and turns them into more of a Discount Masters of Evil. Never ends well for em.

Crossbones is also basically a henchman for life, but the fact that his preference is for working with Red Skull makes him relatively unpopular with other henchpeople and mercs.

Darthemed posted:

Mr. Monster Attacks! #2 (1992)

Kalli posted:

That's totally the dude from Heavy Metal. Was that based on something outside the comics or is this an homage to that?

Proteus Jones posted:

Did they get GSP back to play Batroc like in Winter Soldier?

Rhyno posted:

Stern had a mini series like 20 years ago.

Random Stranger posted:

I thought that was a reprint of the Heavy Metal stories. Was it original?

TwoPair posted:

Like half of Spider-Man's rogues are work-for-hire.

Elfface posted:

Kingpin is the one doing the hiring... but his underlings like Tombstone and Hammerhead would count? Work for him for money?

Scorpion? Not sure what he's up to these days, but Jameson originally paid for his armour to kill Spidey.

thetoughestbean posted:

I want an amateur henchman. A henchman who does it just for fun

Phy posted:

Part of me thinks that "professional henchman" implies you're fairly mercenary and have worked for several different supervillains or supervillainous organizations, and if you only ever work for one villain (or villorg) you're just that felllow's henchperson even if you're being paid handsomely

Like, those themed goons every Bat-foe had in 60's Batman, those were regular henchers. Unless they got the same actor to play several of them, then I guess that person could be a henchpro.

But also I'm not sure why my brain wants this distinction, because if you play hockey or baseball, and you get paid to do it, you are a professional hockey or baseball player. Even if you're minor league.

Beerdeer posted:

No joke to this one. That’s just a comically ugly Emma Frost.
New Mutants v1 #39

The Question IRL posted:

When it comes to gun for hire who hasn't been mentioned yet, the answer you were all searching for is Palladin.

I would have also accepted 70's supergroup, The Foreigner.

Darthemed posted:

Mighty Samson #4 (1965)

Random Stranger posted:

Famicom Rocky

Sadly, that's the funniest/most clever thing in the comic which is all about how video games are serious business. It's from the mid-80's and was published to cash in on the video game craze and act as cross promotion for a bunch of old video games. It's astonishingly bad, and more interesting as a time capsule than something worth reading.