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Fictional characters with eidetic memory

  • BatmanIn September 2024, Batman became the first fictional superhero to receive a Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
  • Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes never says "Elementary, my dear Watson" in any of the sixty Conan Doyle stories.
  • SupermanThe first Superman was a homeless man tricked into taking a drug. Jerry Siegel wrote him as a villain in 1933.
  • Professor XProfessor X, whose full name is Charles Francis Xavier, first appeared in The X-Men #1, dated September 1963. Writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby created him for Marvel Comics, and Kirby is also credited as co-writer. Lee said the…
  • Wonder WomanWonder Woman's creator invented a device crucial to the lie detector.
  • Lex LuthorLex Luthor has no superpowers, no secret identity and no alien heritage, yet he has outlasted nearly every other enemy of Superman. Writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster created him, and he first appeared in Action Comics #23 in April…
  • Grand Admiral ThrawnAs his bodyguard turned on him, Star Wars villain Thrawn said it was so artistically done.
  • Sheldon CooperSheldon Lee Cooper has five sets of academic initials after his name: B.S., M.S., M.A., Ph.D. and Sc.D. He is a fictional theoretical physicist. Viewers first met him in the CBS series The Big Bang Theory, which ran from 2007 to 2019.…
  • DeathstrokeDeathstroke wears a mask split between black and orange, and it covers a right eye that is missing. He is Slade Joseph Wilson, a mercenary and former U.S. Army soldier. Within the DC Universe he is regarded as the greatest and deadliest…
  • Silk (character)Silk, the Marvel Comics superhero whose civilian name is Cindy Moon, first appeared in April 2014 without a face. She showed up as a faceless cameo in The Amazing Spider-Man #1, created by writer Dan Slott and artist Humberto Ramos.…
  • Quicksilver (Marvel Comics)Quicksilver, the Marvel Comics speedster whose real name is Pietro Django Maximoff, first appeared in The X-Men #4, dated March 1964. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created him. He can move and think at extreme speeds, and that second half of the…
  • Ra's al GhulRa's al Ghul, the DC Comics supervillain best known as Batman's immortal rival, once admitted that he could not keep track of his own age. In Azrael #6, from July 1995 and written by Dennis O'Neil, he tells the young hero Jean-Paul Valley:…
  • Bane (DC Comics)Bane, the DC Comics supervillain, got his name from an insult. At the age of eight, a boy inside the Peña Duro prison on the Caribbean island of Santa Prisca stabbed a criminal who was trying to use him to learn the prison's secrets. It…

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