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* UnPerson: During ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', Howard attempted to register, but the government considered him to be such a hassle with his status, they just decided altogether that he didn't exist at all. He was quite overjoyed as that meant no more taxes.
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* UnPerson: During ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'', Howard attempted to register, but the government considered him to be such a hassle with his status, they just decided altogether that he didn't exist at all. He was quite overjoyed as that meant no more taxes.
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** ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021''
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* CannibalismSuperpower: She gained her shapeshifting powers from unwittingly eating a skrull that took the form of a duck.
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* CosmicPlaything: Quite aside from being trapped on a planet full of apes (no, not ''that'' Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes: we mean Earth)[[note]]but Earth ''is'' the [[EarthAllAlong Planet of the Apes]]![[/note]], Howard is perpetually being swept up in surreal and dangerous events. Unlike most superheroes - or, indeed, most Cosmic Playthings - the stress this involves creates appropriate {{Angst}} in Howard.
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* CosmicPlaything: Quite aside from being trapped on a planet full of apes (no, not ''that'' Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes: we mean Earth)[[note]]but Earth),[[note]]but Earth ''is'' the [[EarthAllAlong Planet of the Apes]]![[/note]], Apes]]![[/note]] Howard is perpetually being finds himself getting swept up in surreal and dangerous events. Unlike most superheroes - -- or, indeed, most Cosmic Playthings - -- the stress this involves creates appropriate {{Angst}} in Howard.
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** Played with in an issue of ''ComicBook/SensationalSheHulk'' ''ComicBook/TheSensationalSheHulk'' - when one of the characters says this, he replies "That ain't the half of it, toots," as he pulls out a cigar. "I'm also a smoker."
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Actress Lea Thompson is most famous for her roles as Lorraine [=McFly=] in Back to ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' and... Beverly Switzler in the Future and the Howard the Duck movie from the 1980's.''Film/HowardTheDuck'' movie. She is now also an actual comic-book character in the Marvel Universe.
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* MostCommonSuperPower: Beverly Switzler. Add to that, Beverly is one of the few Marvel characters to appear fully naked on panel.
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* AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation: Inverted. He's a human named Howard T. Duck in Earth-65, ComicBook/SpiderGwen's home reality.
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* OnlySaneMan: Howard is usually this.
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* OnlySaneMan: Howard is usually this.
often the voice of reason surrounded by relative craziness.
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Man-Thing is a powerful swamp creature and guardian of the Nexus of all Realities. He was once human and turned himself into a monster as a last act of defense and a way too avoid his serum falling in the wrong hands.
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[[caption-width-right:350:SMASH!]]
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After being shot by mobsters, Jennifer Walter received a life-saving blood transfusion from her cousin Bruce Banner, aka The Hulk. Due to Banner's irradiated blood, Jennifer gained the ability to transform into the Sensational She-Hulk.
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The sole surviving robot of a government project, X-51 also had the benefits of humanity by being raised as a son by Dr. Abel Stack. Dubbed "Machine Man", he became a superhero and later an Avenger until being corrupted by Sentinel technology and developing a strong dislike for humans.
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[[quoteright:248:Unmasked Gwen]]
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Gwen Poole was just a regular girl from the "real" world before somehow being transported to the world of Marvel Comics.
Originally, Gwen had no powers. She relied on guns, katanas and PlotArmor in order to fight. As of issue 16, she becomes a RealityWarper based on [[NinjaProp manipulating the fourth wall.]] The most common use of her power has her [[FrameBreak breaking panels]] and using the space between them.
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!!! '''Alter Ego:''' Doreen Allene Green
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Rodent, The Anti-Life, The Slayer of All That Breathes, Lady Crimepocalypse, Nutcase Girl, Tail Girl, Nutball, Bass Lass
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Marvel Super-Heroes'' (Vol. 2) #8 (December, 1991)
A hero with squirrel-like abilities and features, Squirrel Girl is not always taken seriously, but she has nonetheless defeated many of the Marvel universe's greatest villains. She is a longtime member of the Great Lakes Avengers, and briefly served as a nanny for Luke Cage and Jessica Jones.
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!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Martin Thraller, Dr. Arnold Quaid, Dr. Roland Grand
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Incredible Hulk'' #3 (September, 1962)
The Ringmaster is a powerless man with a unique hat which is designed to hypnotize people, thus allowing him to take complete control over their actions. He originally traveled across America as the manager, director, and ringmaster of his small traveling circus, which was actually a front for his "Circus of Crime".
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A tattoo artist who befriended Howard the Duck. Tara has shapeshifting powers.
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The wisping-- I mean lisping psychic ally of Howard the Duck. Like all Howard the Duck characters, she's a little... special in the head.
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Howard is a cigar-smoking anthropomorphic duck who lived in New Stork City on the planet Duckworld (in a parallel dimension). He was transported to and became trapped on our world, where he became close friends with Beverly Switzler. Most people of Earth simply do not believe that he is a talking duck.
Howard is a cigar-smoking anthropomorphic duck who lived in New Stork City on the planet Duckworld (in a parallel dimension). He was transported to and became trapped on our world, where he became close friends with Beverly Switzler. Most people of Earth simply do not believe that he is a talking duck.
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* ''Howard The Duck:''
** vol. 1 (1975 -- 1986)
*** Written by Creator/SteveGerber. Penciled by assorted artists, most prominently Creator/GeneColan.
** vol. 2 (1979 -- 1981)
*** An oversized black-and-white run. Written by Creator/BillMantlo. Penciled by Gene Colan.
** vol. 3 (2002)
*** Marketed as part of Marvel's mature "MAX" line. Written by Steve Gerber. Penciled by Phil Winslade.
** vol. 4 (2007)
*** Written by Ty Templeton. Penciled by Juan Bobillo.
** vol. 5 (2015)
*** Written by Creator/ChipZdarsky. Penciled by Creator/JoeQuinones.
** vol. 6 (2015 -- 2016)
*** Written by Creator/ChipZdarsky. Penciled by Creator/JoeQuinones.
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* ''Film/HowardTheDuck'' (1986)
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse (2014-present), voiced by Creator/SethGreen:
** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' (2014)
** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' (2017)
** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' (2019) [[note]]silent split-second cameo[[/note]]
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* ''VideoGame/LEGOMarvelSuperHeroes'' (2013)
* ''VideoGame/MarvelPuzzleQuest'' (2016)
!!Howard the Duck provides examples of:
* AffectionateNickname: Howard is called "Ducky" by Beverly, and "Ducko" by her uncle Lee.
* AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation: Inverted. He's a human named Howard T. Duck in Earth-65, ComicBook/SpiderGwen's home reality.
** Also inverted in the ''Howard The Human'' one-shot, where Howard is the only human in a world of anthropomorphic animals.
* {{BFG}}: Howard owns one and refers to it as such.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Early on Howard would do this on occasion. In one adventure he directly addresses the readers and tell them that he ''knows'' the story took a weird turn, but it beats the initial DrivenToSuicide plot. As time went on this deescalated to a general focus on metacommentary without explicit meta-awareness.
* BreakoutCharacter: Howard was initially intended as a single-appearance character, even getting killed off after his debut, but fate (and popular demand) wouldn't have it.
* CatchPhrase: Howard's whining "Waaaugh!"
** "Case closed!" in the Zdarsky/Quinones series.
* CosmicPlaything: Quite aside from being trapped on a planet full of apes (no, not ''that'' Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes: we mean Earth)[[note]]but Earth ''is'' the [[EarthAllAlong Planet of the Apes]]![[/note]], Howard is perpetually being swept up in surreal and dangerous events. Unlike most superheroes - or, indeed, most Cosmic Playthings - the stress this involves creates appropriate {{Angst}} in Howard.
* DeadpanSnarker: Howard's usual coping mechanism (aside from the long-suffering "Waaaugh!")
* FooFu: Howard is a self-proclaimed master of Quack Fu.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Howard smoked cigars.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Only in his earliest appearances. A threatened lawsuit from [[Creator/{{Disney}} the creators]] of a similar [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck pantsless duck]] resulted in Howard donning a pair of trousers, becoming a BarefootCartoonAnimal. And now Disney owns Marvel. [[HilariousInHindsight Huh]]. However, Howard was able to get away without wearing pants in his Marvel Zombies appearances.
* HumanlikeHandAnatomy: Howard has WhiteGloves on human-like hands, but has webbed feet.
* InterspeciesRomance: Sometimes implied between Howard and Beverly, but we only see them reciprocate their affections in Vol. 2 and the MAX series.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Howard is arrogant, opinionated and selfish and doesn't hesitate to insult people or throw snarky comments at them... but he also helps those that have been wronged and is very loyal to his friends.
* KnightInSourArmor: Howard has a jaded attitude and a total lack of interest in supernatural affairs.
* OnlySaneMan: Howard is usually this.
* PhraseCatcher: "You're a talking duck!" Sometimes it was just "You're a duck!"
** Played with in an issue of ''ComicBook/SensationalSheHulk'' - when one of the characters says this, he replies "That ain't the half of it, toots," as he pulls out a cigar. "I'm also a smoker."
* TalkingAnimal: Howard is a talking duck.
* ToothyBird: Howard is sometimes drawn with teeth.
* UnfazedEveryman: Beverly pretty much fills this role, if you consider that her friends includes a sleepwalking painter with a vigilante alter-ego, a psychic with a speech impediment and, of course... Howard.
* UnPerson: During ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', Howard attempted to register, but the government considered him to be such a hassle with his status, they just decided altogether that he didn't exist at all. He was quite overjoyed as that meant no more taxes.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Howard thinks that he is one. He might be right, as the talking duck is more often than not the ''least'' ridiculous thing about the stuff that goes on around him.
* AffectionateNickname: Howard is called "Ducky" by Beverly, and "Ducko" by her uncle Lee.
* AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation: Inverted. He's a human named Howard T. Duck in Earth-65, ComicBook/SpiderGwen's home reality.
** Also inverted in the ''Howard The Human'' one-shot, where Howard is the only human in a world of anthropomorphic animals.
* {{BFG}}: Howard owns one and refers to it as such.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Early on Howard would do this on occasion. In one adventure he directly addresses the readers and tell them that he ''knows'' the story took a weird turn, but it beats the initial DrivenToSuicide plot. As time went on this deescalated to a general focus on metacommentary without explicit meta-awareness.
* BreakoutCharacter: Howard was initially intended as a single-appearance character, even getting killed off after his debut, but fate (and popular demand) wouldn't have it.
* CatchPhrase: Howard's whining "Waaaugh!"
** "Case closed!" in the Zdarsky/Quinones series.
* CosmicPlaything: Quite aside from being trapped on a planet full of apes (no, not ''that'' Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes: we mean Earth)[[note]]but Earth ''is'' the [[EarthAllAlong Planet of the Apes]]![[/note]], Howard is perpetually being swept up in surreal and dangerous events. Unlike most superheroes - or, indeed, most Cosmic Playthings - the stress this involves creates appropriate {{Angst}} in Howard.
* DeadpanSnarker: Howard's usual coping mechanism (aside from the long-suffering "Waaaugh!")
* FooFu: Howard is a self-proclaimed master of Quack Fu.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Howard smoked cigars.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Only in his earliest appearances. A threatened lawsuit from [[Creator/{{Disney}} the creators]] of a similar [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck pantsless duck]] resulted in Howard donning a pair of trousers, becoming a BarefootCartoonAnimal. And now Disney owns Marvel. [[HilariousInHindsight Huh]]. However, Howard was able to get away without wearing pants in his Marvel Zombies appearances.
* HumanlikeHandAnatomy: Howard has WhiteGloves on human-like hands, but has webbed feet.
* InterspeciesRomance: Sometimes implied between Howard and Beverly, but we only see them reciprocate their affections in Vol. 2 and the MAX series.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Howard is arrogant, opinionated and selfish and doesn't hesitate to insult people or throw snarky comments at them... but he also helps those that have been wronged and is very loyal to his friends.
* KnightInSourArmor: Howard has a jaded attitude and a total lack of interest in supernatural affairs.
* OnlySaneMan: Howard is usually this.
* PhraseCatcher: "You're a talking duck!" Sometimes it was just "You're a duck!"
** Played with in an issue of ''ComicBook/SensationalSheHulk'' - when one of the characters says this, he replies "That ain't the half of it, toots," as he pulls out a cigar. "I'm also a smoker."
* TalkingAnimal: Howard is a talking duck.
* ToothyBird: Howard is sometimes drawn with teeth.
* UnfazedEveryman: Beverly pretty much fills this role, if you consider that her friends includes a sleepwalking painter with a vigilante alter-ego, a psychic with a speech impediment and, of course... Howard.
* UnPerson: During ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', Howard attempted to register, but the government considered him to be such a hassle with his status, they just decided altogether that he didn't exist at all. He was quite overjoyed as that meant no more taxes.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Howard thinks that he is one. He might be right, as the talking duck is more often than not the ''least'' ridiculous thing about the stuff that goes on around him.
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* MsFanservice: Beverly, who particularly in Vol. 2 was often shown in skimpy clothing and was seen naked on at least two occasions. In addition, the character's backstory included time working as a nude model. Then there's the fact that she wore a literal ChainmailBikini in her first appearance (a nerdy evil magician with a Conan complex put her into it).
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Doctor Bong is a former journalist turned mad scientist with an unhealthy obession for Beverly Switzler, who he first met in a life-drawing class. His helmet is a bell that he can hit for powerful sonic attacks.
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