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** Charlie Brown, [[Sarcasm Mode|the notorious]] Kite Man. ([[Not Making This Up Disclaimer|Not making this up]], he was a lame [[Shout Out]] to ''[[Peanuts]]'' who even crashed into a tree in one story and yelled "Rats!") Obsessed with kites, he committed crimes with a rocket-powered hang glider, until he was killed off and [[Old Shame|never mentioned again.]]
** Most characters designed by comic legends Bob Kane and Bill Finger would be A-list, but the Penny Plunderer was anything but. Joe Coyne [[Punny Name|(another pun there)]] was a newspaper seller who was fired for stealing pennies, and turned to crime over an obsession for them. But it gets worse. He was the ''original owner of the giant penny'', the one proudly displayed in the Batcave. DC was [[Old Shame|so embarrassed by this story]], they gave it a [[Retcon]] that attributed the giant penny to one of Two-Face's schemes, banishing the Penny Plunderer from canon.
** Poka-Dot Man, a guy in a bodysuit covered with multicolored poka-dots. Truthfully, this guy had a lot of pretty cool gadgets, but his ridiculous costume and name made it very hard for ''anyone'' to take him seriously.
* ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' had a few, most from [[The Golden Age of Comic Books]]:
** The Blue Snowman. This was a scientist who invented a suit of [[Powered Armor]] that made her (yes, ''her'') look like a snowman, and it had a freeze ray that produced ''blue snow''. A new version of the character in the more modern era tried to be [[Darker and Edgier]], but only looked ''sillier'', adding a corncob pipe.
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