Hot Blooded / Comic Books

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• In Astro City, the Point Man jumps into action now and thinks about the consequences next month, if at all.
  "What is this? All the time, you don't dare this, you don't dare that. Sister — I DARE PLENTY!"
• Artemis has very strong emotions and is always itching for a fight and even when she's talking down others she's generally shouting regardless of how stealthy it would benefit her to be. WW Vol 2 makes it clear that Diana finds this trait endearing as Temi won't lie nor back down from her position no matter what.
• Black Canary: Depending on the Writer, Dinah is prone to reacting quicker than she thinks. It caused her to butt heads with Oracle more than a few times when they first started working together, and she's generally very afraid to jump into the thick of it.
• In an early issue of Daredevil, old Hornhead comes to see the Plunderer is one hot blooded customer, possessing a "fire" to him that is so bold, Daredevil could pick him out of a crowd of hundreds. Daredevil is blind.
• The Doom Guy has more hotblood pumping through his veins than every anime character combined.
• ElfQuest: Rayek and Kahvi. Their daughter should have been a thermonuclear bomb, but she turns out to be a serene mystic. Go figure...
• Empowered is usually a neurotic mess, but when she can actually pull herself together, she qualifies nicely for this. Her friend Ninjette is like this most of the time, to Emp's ongoing frustration.
• Guy Gardner of the Green Lantern Corps, with a heaping dash of Boisterous Bruiser. Unsurprisingly, he became a Red Lantern, since their trademark power is to spew boiling blood at their enemies.
• Hawk and Dove: Hank Hall/Hawk is quick to anger and fights first and asks questions later (if at all). Depending on the Writer, he’s either always like that or can calm down before he gets out of control.
• The Incredible Hulk: The angrier Hulk gets, the STRONGER Hulk gets!
  • The Red Hulk. His blood is actually Hot... so much so that he'll actually pass out once it hits a certain level.
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1992): Although he chastised Link for being stubborn and foolish, Roam himself is rash, haughty and quick to battle. It ultimately leads to his death.
• Lois Lane. She's expert at near-suicidal investigations, and she will make sure that even the times her husband has to rescue her will yield front page material.
• Shazam!'s Freddy Freeman has always been more hotheaded and impulsive, more of a typical teenage boy than the pure-of-heart Billy Batson. While it takes a lot to get on his bad side, he's had to be restrained from killing Captain Nazi on more than one occasion, and rescuing the bullying Bryer brothers from the top of a collapsing Ferris wheel via suitcase wedgie is very much on-brand for him.
• Namor the Sub-Mariner has been mad at everyone and everything for about 80 years now.
• The second Superboy (Kon-El/Conner Kent) was very much this, as well as Fun Personified. It all went away when he learned he was half-Lex Luthor, causing him to go Darker and Edgier.
• Supergirl:
  • All incarnations of Kara Zor-El are emotional, passionate and headstrong women, and some of them are quite hot-tempered (her New 52 self) or tend to charge into situations without thinking (her post-Crisis counterpart).
  • Her anger is an actual plot point in the Red Daughter of Krypton arc, in which she attracts a Red Ring of Rage and can hardly control her emotions.
  • In Demon Spawn her co-worker and rival 'Nasty' picks on her, and Linda goes to her office to cool off... by swearing and punching a wall.
  • In Krypton No More: Kara will yell at whoever slights her cousin and by the same token she will slap him if he is doing something wrong.
  • In Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl both main characters count, being two emotional, passionate and stubborn women. Kara tends to be more impulsive than Batgirl and Barbara is more short-tempered than Supergirl, though.
  • In War World Kara is enthusiastic, strong-willed, determined and eager to jump right into the fray.
• Johnny Storm/The Human Torch from Ultimate Fantastic Four. Like his powers, he's a very temperamental person and it doesn't take much for him to go berserk on things with his powers.
• The Flash: This is Wally West's main distinction from his mentor, Barry Allen. While Barry was calm and methodical, Wally is impulsive, snarky, quick to anger, and incredibly opinionated.
• Everything in Warrior, the comic by the Ultimate Warrior, even the narration is Hot-Blooded.
• X-Men:
  • Most of the more fervent anti-mutant detractors end up coming across like this, but for a heroic example, see Sunspot and Cannonball of the New Mutants. One's a solar-powered superstrong and the other can smash into things with a blasting field.
  • And Sunfire, who is so hot-blooded he's on fire.
  • During Stan Lee's days of Purple Prose, all characters perpetually flipflopped between Hot-Blooded and Navel Gazing. No one just said anything, they either shouted or mused. But it's all good.

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