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Chris Schweizer has a great rundown of the Marvel Universe's biggest smokers.
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My favorites that he lists are in no particular order.
GAMBIT - for obvious reasons.
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REED RICHARDS - It's as if the pipe were invented for his nerdy stretchy face.
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J. JONAH JAMESON - No type of smoking goes better with screaming growling menace like a fat stubby cigar and J.J. owns it.
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BANSHEE - The cigarrette enhances his European-ness. It also shows of his pubby beer drinking side. Is Banshee dead?
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ELECTRO & BULLSEYE - Smoking enhances their villainy and menace. It takes them from costumed clowns to realistic seedy criminals. You can easily imagine them in prison bartering for smokes or smoking a cigarette after a bank heist to relax.
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Why bring this up?
Because some groups have taken offense to how William Hurts character in The Incredible Hulk was smoking. That is ridiculous the type of props and vices a character has enhances the character. It delivers quickly and clearly the type of person the character is with out to much work. This is a free speech issue. I understand not wanting to tell kids smoking is cool, but it's not the hero smoking it's the villain.
Come on?
Who are your favorite Comic book smokers?
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