[TheBlueMarvel]

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Originally Posted by Boogieman4hire

What about Radioactive Man?

Great question as he was one of the most fascinating to me based on my take on the team. Similar to Black Panther, Namor, and Doom (three characters in my top 20 of all time faves), Chen-Lu had geo-political and cultural allegiances that create sophisticated layers to the onion. If I had to use the classic D&D rubric of alignment that I alluded to earlier, I'd categorize Dr. Chen as neutral/neutral or 'true neutral'. There have have been times in which he's been mobilized at the behest of the Chinese government functioning more out of obligation/nationalism rather than being on the same page, there have been times when he's clearly not a hero, and there have been times in which he's been obviously noble. I really dig this sort of character complexity, when it's done with aplomb and makes sense as it does with Chen Lu and the other characters I mentioned. Most humans can be fairly complex and this fact should be reflexively represented in comic character development...I like linear, transparent, uncomplicated and unambiguous people also, but as someone that likes to study people and things, tangled wrinkles in personalities tend to hold my interest far longer.