Super Heroes' Real Identities












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This is a by-no-means comprehensive list of super heroes, and their "real" names. I think there are a couple of villains in here as well. (note: this list is from ~2005, so it doesn't reflect the recent spate of Marvel/DC films and any changes to the universes since then)

Superhero Name

Real Name

super power(s)

4-D

Captain Lea Corbin


6 Million Dollar Man

Steve Austin

bionic powers

Abattoir

Arnold Etchison


Abel

Abel, Keeper of Secrets, Abel, the first-born man (Sandman)


Access

Axel Asher Amalgam Comics


Ace

Female Android, Male Android (Batman Beyond) member of the Royal Flush Gang


Ahwehotah

Max Crandall


Air Wave

Larry Jordan, Helen Jordan, Harold "Hal" Jordan


Alchemist

Jan Arrah


Alias the Spider

Tom Ludlow Hallaway


Alpha Centurion

Marcus Aelius


Amazing Man

Will Everett, Will Everett Junior


Amazo

an android


Americommando

Tex Thompson


Americop

Bartholomew “Bart” Gallows

martial arts, lots of weapons

Anarchist

Tike Alicar

massive OCD, sweats acid

Anarky

Lonnie Machin


Angle Man

Angelo Bend


Animal Man

Bernhard "Buddy" Baker

can mimic any animal trait

Anole

Victor Borkowski

"Spiked carapace on head, sticky prehensile tongue, able to cling to solid surfaces, able to camouflage his skin to match almost any surface."

Aquagirl

Tula, Lorena Marquez


Aquaman

Orin or Arthur Curry (adopted name)

summons sea creatures

Argent

Toni Monetti


Armor

Jack Keaton

pieces of armor forms different weapons, extraterrestrial martial arts expert

Arrowette

Cissie King-Jones


Arsenal

Roy Harper


Atlas

Jim Randall

superhuman strength, agility

Atom Smasher

Al Rothstein


Atomic Knight

Gardner Grayle


Atomic Man

Adam Mann

strength, flies, can fire gamma rays when not wearing lead glove

Atomic Sub

Dr.Noah Talbot

has jetpack, can survive underwater, strength

Atomic Thunderbolt

William Burns

flies, fires bolts of atomic energy

Azrael

Jean Paul Valley


Aztek

Uno or Curt Falconer (alias)


Backhand

Greg Mattingly

strength, endurance, can deflect powers back to the source

Backlash

Marc Slayton

immortality, martial arts, superhuman agility

Bad Kitty

Catherine Bell

avenging cop

Badrock

Thomas John McCall

strength, good reflexes

Bagabond

Suzanne Melotti

controls animals

Ballistic

Cassandra Lane

athletic ability, good aim

Banshee

Sean Cassidy

san scream supersonically, also can hover & fly at the speed of sound

Batgirl

Barbara Gordon (who later becomes Oracle), Helena Bertinelli, Cassandra Cain, Barbara Wilson (Batman and Robin)

martial arts expert, language skills

Batman

Bruce Wayne, Jean Paul Valley (known as "Azbat"), Dick Grayson (temporary), Terry McGinnis (TV Series Batman Beyond, JLU (some episodes)

general ass-kicking, has nifty toys

Battalion

Jackson King

telekenetic, can blow stuff up

Battering Ram

unknown

can smash through anything

Batwoman

Kathy Kane


Beast

Henry "Hank" P. McCoy

turns into a big blue beast- superhuman strength, agility

Beast Boy

Garfield Logan


Big Barda

Barda Free


Big E

Percy Pilbeam

really smart, supertough skin, limitless strength

Black Adam

Teth-Adam, Theo Adam


Black Canary

Dinah Lance


Black Condor

Richard Grey Jr., Ryan Kendall


Black Lightning

Jefferson Pierce


Black Mask

Roman Sionis


Black Racer

Sgt. Willie Walker


Black Spider

Johnny LaMonica


Blackhawk

Janos Prohaska


Blue Beetle

Dan Garrett, Ted Kord, Jaime Reyes


Blue Devil

Daniel Patrick Cassidy


Blue Jay

Jay Abrams


Booster Gold

Michael Jon Carter


Brain Wave/Brainwave

Henry King Sr., Henry King Jr.


Bronze Tiger

Ben Turner


Brutale

Guillermo Barrera


Bulletgirl

Susan Kent-Barr


Bulletman

Jim Barr


Bumblebee

Karen Beecher-Duncan


Bushido

Ryuko Orsono


Cain

Cain, Keeper of Mysteries


Captain America

Steven Rogers

has an indestructible shield, strength, agility martial arts, etc.

Captain Atom

Captain Allen Adam

doesn't need to breathe, can fly unaided through space

Captain Britain

Brian Braddock

energy storage, flight, super strength

Captain Canada

Daniel Eaton

sweet suit that does all sorts of stuff

Captain Canuck

Tom Evans

strength, speed

Captain Canuck (00s)

David Semple

gymnast, policeman

Captain Canuck (90s)

Darren Oak

good at hand to hand combat

Captain Comet

Adam Blake


Captain Conquest

Flash Dale

immune to radiation, flies, super senses

Captain Flag

Tom Townsend

has an outfit made from a flag

Captain Flash

Keith Spencer

doesn't get injured, speed, strength

Captain Freedom

Don Wright

good fighter

Captain Marvel

Billy Batson

world's mightiest mortal

Captain Marvel Jr.

Freddy Freeman


Captain Triumph

Lance Gallant


Catgirl

Carrie Kelley (DKR alternate storyline)


Catwoman

Selina Kyle

general ass-kicking

Charaxes

Drury Walker


Chief

Niles Caulder


Cinnamon

Katherine Manser

had throwing star, ass-kicks

Clayface

Basil Karlo, Matt Hagen, Preston Payne, Sondra Fuller, Cassius "Clay" Payne


Collective Man

Han, Chang, Lin, Sun and Ho Tao-Yu

bunch of guys can form a single super being

Colossus

Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin

can turn skin into steel armor. Superhuman strength & agillity

Commander Steel

Henry "Hank" Heywood I


Coronary

James Sharp

controls peoples' metabolic functions, stretches limbs, walks through objects

Creeper

Jack Ryder


Crimson Avenger

Lee Travis, Albert Elwood


Crimson Fox

Vivian D'Aramis, Constance D'Aramis


Cyborg

Victor Stone


Cyclops

Scott Summers

X-man, optic blasts that fire whenever he opens his eyes.

Damage

Grant Emerson


Daredevil

Matthew Michael Murdock

superhuman senses of smell, touch, hearing and taste

Deadman

Boston Brand


Deadshot

Floyd Lawton


Deathstroke, the Terminator

Slade Wilson


Doctor Druid

Anthony Ludgate Druid

telekinesis, can mesmerize people, occult magic, telepathy

Doctor Fate

Kent Nelson, Eric and Linda Strauss, Inza Nelson, Hector Hall


Doctor Light

Dr. Kimiyo Hoshi


Doctor Midnight

Dr. Beth Chapel


Doctor Mid-Nite

Dr. Charles McNider, Dr. Pieter Cross


Doctor Mist

Nommo


Doctor Occult

Richard Occult


Doll Girl

Martha Roberts


Doll Man

Darrell Dane


Doorman

DeMarr Davis

opens portals through solid objects, levitates and sort of flies

Dove

Don Hall, Dawn Granger, Wiley Wolverman


Dyna-Mite

Daniel Dunbar


Elasti-Girl

Rita Farr


Elongated Man

Ralph Dibny


Emma Frost

Emma Grace Frost

reads minds, can project her throughts into others' minds

Empress

Anita Fite


Eradicator

David Connor


Etrigan the Demon

Jason Blood


Fate

Jared Stevens


Fire

Beatriz DaCosta


Firebrand

Rod Reilly, Dannette Reilly, Alex Sanchez


Firehawk

Lorraine Reilly


Firestorm

Ronald "Ronnie" Raymond, Professor Martin Stein, Jason Rusch

manipulates radiation and transmutes the molecular structure of inorganic matter.

Flamebird

Bette Kane


Fury

Helena Kosmatos, Lyta Hall


Gabriel, Devil Hunter

Possibly Gabriel Rosetti

performs exorcisms, writes a gossip column.

General Glory

Joseph Jones


Geo-Force

Brion Markov


Glob

Major Dan Stone


Gold

Mike Magnus


Golden Eagle

Charley Parker


Grace

Grace Choi


Green Arrow

Oliver Queen, Connor Hawke

good with a bow & arrow

Green Goblin

Phillip Urich

superhuman strength, agility

Green Lantern

Alan Scott, Hal Jordan, Kyle Rayner, John Stewart, Guy Gardner

has the ring of power

Guardian

Jim Harper


Gypsy

Cindy Reynolds


Hawkgirl

Shiera Saunders, Kendra Sanders

flies, ass-kicks

Hawkman

Carter Hall

immortality (kind of), speed, agility, flies

Ice

Tora Olafsdotter


Iceman

Robert "Bobby" Louis Drake

can freeze stuff and turn air moisture into ladders & things

Impulse

Bart Allen


Incredible Hulk

Robert Bruce Banner

ass-kicking, turns big and green.

Ion

Kyle Rayner


Isis

Andrea Thomas


Jade

Jenny-Lynn Hayden

has emerald-energy based powers

Jubilee

Jubilation Lee

"can generate multi-colored globules of energy plasma" can detonate stuff on a molecular level

Juggernaut

Cain Marko

can smash through anything

Kid Flash

Wally West, Bart Allen


Kitty Pryde

Katherine "Kitty" Pryde

can "phase" through solid matter

Man-Bat

Robert Kirkland 'Kirk' Langstrom


Martian Manhunter

J'onn J'onzz


Mary Marvel

Mary Batson


Mathemaniac

unknown

projects abstract mathematical information into his victim's brain overwhelming his victim with the information.

Metamorpho

Rex Mason


Mockingbird

Barbara “Bobbi” Morse Barton

kicks ass, cool weapons

Mr. Fantastic

Reed Richards

can stretch body or limbs a lot,

Mr. Miracle

Scott Free


Mr. Terrific

Terry Sloane, Michael Holt


Multiple Man

James Arthur "Jamie" Madrox

creates living copies of himself.

Nemesis

Jane St. Ives

flies and is immortal, but only with magic sword

Night Crawler

Kurt Wagner

teleportation, can become invisible and walk up walls.

Nighthawk

Hannibal Hawkes

good with weapons, hand-to-hand combat

Nightwing

Richard "Dick" Grayson, Jason Todd


Parallax

Hal Jordan


Phat

William Robert Reilly

can "stretch fat deposits in his body to make himself larger", amateur rapper

Plastic Man

Patrick "Eel" O'Brian

is stretchy

Radioactive Man

Dr. Chen Lu

strength, projects radiation

Riddler

Edward Nygma


Robin

Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, Carrie Kelley (DKR alternate storyline)

ass-kicking, acrobatics

Rogue

Anna Marie

can absorb other peoples memories & anticipate what they're about to do

Sasquatch

Dr. Walter Langkowski

strength, endurance, agility

Shamrock

Molly Fitzgerald

"good luck power" caused by dead souls

Slapstick

Steven Harmon

"all of the abilities of a Saturday morning cartoon character"

Songbird

Melissa Joan Gold

cybernetic vocal cords-- can mess with peoples' emotions & mental state

Spectre

James Brendan "Jim" Corrigan, Hal Jordan, Crispus Allen


Speedball

Robert "Robbie" Baldwin

repels energy blasts and projectiles with kinetic energy force field

Spiderman

Peter Parker

climbs up walls, can squirt spiderwebs, spidey sense, super-bendy

Spirit of '76

William Nasland

ass-kicking, bullet-and fireproof cape

Stargirl

Courtney Whitmore


Starman

Ted Knight, David Knight, Jack Knight


Steel

Henry Heywood I, Henry "Hank" Heywood III, John Henry Irons, Natasha Irons


Superman

Clark Kent

flies, x-ray vision, speed, etc.

Takion

Joshua Sanders


The Atom

Albert "Al" Pratt, Ramond "Ray" Palmer, Adam Cray


The Avenger (1930's adventurer)

Richard Henry Benson

mutates face to look like anyone

the Avenger (1980's enemy of Ultra-Man)

Paul Cannon

has a high-tech energy-shooting lance

The Badger

Norbert Sykes

martial arts expert

The Bee

Barry Eames

flies, strong, controls large bee army, stings

The Flash

Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, Wallace Rudolph "Wally" West

really fast

The Question

Charles Victor Szasz (a.k.a. Vic Sage)


Troia

Donna Troy


Two-Face

Harvey Dent


Tyroc

Troy Stewart


U-Go-Girl

Edith Constance Sawyer

teleportation

Valkyrie

Samantha Parrington

strength, armor-plated bra

Warrior

Guy Gardner


Wiccan

William "Billy" Kaplan

casts spells, flies, can generate lightning

Wonder Girl

Donna Troy, Cassie Sandsmark


Wonder Woman

Princess Diana, Queen Hippolyta

ass-kicking, has magic stuff

 

   

Note: This list is from ca. 2003, and does not reflect current any movies or changes made to Marvel/DC characters made after that.