{"id":35803,"date":"2021-09-10T22:57:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T02:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=35803"},"modified":"2021-09-11T01:49:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T05:49:28","slug":"my-five-favorite-comic-book-brawlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/10\/my-five-favorite-comic-book-brawlers\/","title":{"rendered":"My Five Favorite Comic Book Brawlers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last week, Marvel Studios premiered \u201cShang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings<\/a>\u201d to much acclaim and box office success. Shang Chi has been one of Marvel\u2019s biggest and most prominent brawlers, a man who has mastered martial arts and proven to be a living weapon time and time again. In honor of Marvel veteran\u2019s debut, I listed my five favorite Comic Book Brawlers, a group of hand to hand fighters that have been some of my all time favorites since I was a kid.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Wolverine
\n<\/strong>I\u2019m not the biggest fan of Wolverine, but as far as brawlers go, he\u2019s about as good as you get. Wolverine\u2019s been around for a very long time, and he\u2019s proven to his own against pretty much everyone from The Hulk, and Deadpool, to Apocalypse. He\u2019s a skilled fighter, martial artist, and tactician and he\u2019s almost always come back to prove he\u2019s more than just a berserker with adamantium claws.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Nightwing
\n<\/strong>I didn\u2019t follow Nightwing much during his tenure as the leader of the Teen Titans in the eighties. But I did follow his solo series from the nineties that followed his reign in Bludhaven, his evolution in to a complex fighter and vigilante, and his colorful array of villains and opponents that would test his meddle. I\u2019ve been a big Nightwing fan and I\u2019m glad he\u2019s getting his recognition.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Wildcat
\n<\/strong>I\u2019ll admit most of my knowledge of WildCat comes from his appearances in \u201cJustice League Unlimited.\u201d But his character was one of my absolute favorite superheroes, one of the bigger street fighters like Green Arrow who sought out to simply take down evil. As Ted Grant, he\u2019s a retired prizefighter who donned the costume to beat the crap out of criminals. He\u2019s also the trainer for other vigilantes like Black Canary.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Iron Fist
\n<\/strong>I used to have a big cache of old Power Man and Iron Fist back issues when I was younger, and I used to tear through them like there was no tomorrow. Iron Fist is a response to the massive popularity of kung fu films in the seventies, and has proven to be one of the more fascinating, dynamic, if misunderstood superheroes of the Marvel Universe. I hope we get another shot a live action series for him, soon.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Daredevil
\n<\/strong>Daredevil has been my absolute favorite Marvel Comics vigilante for years and years. I loved Frank Miller\u2019s run on his series, and I\u2019ve kept up with his presence in the Marvel Universe for over twenty years. I was there for his big movie<\/a> (don\u2019t judge me), and even adored his Netflix series. There was still so much more ground to cover as Daredevil is a multi layered, complex, and vicious superhero constantly at war with his morality. He\u2019s a powerhouse fighter with immense skill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, Marvel Studios premiered \u201cShang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings\u201d to much acclaim and box office success. Shang Chi has been one of Marvel\u2019s biggest and most prominent brawlers, a man who has mastered martial arts and proven to be a living weapon time and time again. In honor of Marvel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[64,125,240,256,568,1602,631,635,976],"class_list":["post-35803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-list-junkies","category-rot-your-brain","tag-adaptation","tag-batman","tag-crime","tag-daredevil","tag-justice-league","tag-kung-fu","tag-martial-arts","tag-marvel-comics","tag-stan-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35810,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35803\/revisions\/35810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}