What ever happened with these brave superheroes?
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Man, I could have eaten a bag of Scrabble tiles and shit out a better origin story than that. Whatever EIC at Marvel greenlit that garbage needed fired along with the writer.
They could have just used Nanites ffs.
That's exactly where my mind went when I heard about the character. Have it set up so that the uncle/father/whoever the hell was working on an experimental nanite cloud designed to maintain always-on Internet connectivity and enhance the human body in the process. Nanites infect the kid before they're ready for prime time, he gets super powers, and you get Chuck 2.0 in comic book form. I mean, hell, the unoriginal fucks rip off every other idea under the sun, so why not go for broke and go with one of the oldest sci-fi tropes in existence?
Jake 2.0 did it before Chuck. There's probably other examples before Jake too.
Oh, crap. Got my "geeky dude gets super-abilities accidentally grafted onto him" shows from the '00s flipped around. I totally meant Jake 2.0, but my head mashed together that, Chuck, and Covert Affairs (which also had Christopher Gorham in it, but not as the lead). Thanks for catching that.