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** At one point, the Wizard held auditions for the fourth member of his latest Frightful Four in ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'' comics. Applicants included an overweight cabbie in a bird suit ("The Osprey") and Captain Ultra, whose strength, flight, and gullibility made him a shoo-in... Until he fainted in the presence of a lit match.

** In the latest{{when}} ''[[Fantastic Four (animation)|Fantastic Four]]'' cartoon, this scene was reproduced with the ''Fantastic'' Four auditioning for new members after the Thing lost his powers. The Fabulous Frog-Man knocked himself out bouncing around, Texas Twister wrecked the audition area, and [[Squirrel Girl]] didn't even get to do or say anything before she was rejected. Oh, if only they knew... The cartoon also includes the Captain Ultra bit [[Homage|almost exactly the same]], except replace "lit match" with "[[Playing with Fire|Johnny]] giving a flaming thumbs-up".

* The ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' frequently holds open auditions, and, as you might expect, most of the people trying out are total losers. [http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/340/ see here] for a pretty complete list (with a nifty parody at the end). Some of them aren't ''that'' bad, are they?

* The ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' frequently holds open auditions, and, as you might expect, most of the people trying out are total losers. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130609033339/http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/340/ see here] for a pretty complete list (with a nifty parody at the end). Some of them aren't ''that'' bad, are they?

** In a subversion, a number of Legion rejects form the Legion of Substitute Heroes, who do good work as a sort of reserve team putting their unconventional powers to work in the field when the main team can't handle all aspects of a crisis.

** In one issue, the villainous Dynamo Boy, having tricked the rest of the Legion into quitting, held his own auditions — and while he was largely met with the same type of also-rans who show up to other Legion try-outs, he turned down a couple of decent candidates for petty reasons. His reasons being that, using some future technology to get a scan of their personalities, judged they were too decent and wouldn't be converted to evil so easily.