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In contrast is the [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] practice of giving heroes and villains [[DarkAgeOfSupernames gritty one-word names.]]

* Asbestos Woman, a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Marvel villain.

* Creator/DCComics' [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] Sandmen. (The title character of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' is a) not a superhero and b) [[IAmNotShazam not called Sandman]].)

** Marvel also has two other Power Men (one an obscure character from UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks, the other a LegacyCharacter to Luke).

** ...of course, they were about 30 years late to the party; the Legion of Substitute Heroes existed back in UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks, with characters like Stone Boy, who had the ability to turn into an immobile statue; Color Kid, who could change the color of things[[note]]though, if the ComicBook/GreenLantern Corps got their hands on him, he'd be indispensable[[/note]]; and... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Arm-Fall-Off Boy]].

** There was also Element Girl, an obscure DC hero who later turned up, suicidally depressed, in ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989''.

* DC covered all the bases (twice):
** Element Lad of the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes
** Metamorpho ("the Element Man"), a silver age hero... sort of. Rex Mason really didn't want to be a superhero at all, he just wanted to return to normal. And his boss was a low-rent Luthor wannabe named Simon Stagg, who often blackmailed or otherwise coerced Rex into doing some pretty shady stuff.

* There was also Element Girl, an obscure DC hero who later turned up, suicidally depressed, in ''ComicBook/TheSandman''.

* Creator/DCComics' [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] Sandmen. (The title character of ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' is a) not a superhero and b) [[IAmNotShazam not called Sandman]].)

* The Impossible Man of (mostly) ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' fame.

* [[WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}} Metro Man]].

--> '''College girl''': Hey, are you Minuteman? Can we have your autograph?
--> '''Minute Man''': My-noot Man! Do I look like a soldier from the Revolutionary War? I don't think so! Am I wearing a three-cornered hat? No! I turn small. Think!
--> '''College girl''': That costume makes you look gay.
** There actually ''is'' a Minuteman in VideoGame/FreedomForce.
* ComicBook/{{normalman}}, the only person on the planet Levram ''without'' superpowers (due to not actually being a native).
* The titular character of ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan,'' although that's simply what the series names him, not how he's referred to in-universe.
* ComicBook/PhantomLady
* Radioactive Man, a nuclear-powered Chinese physicist.
** Let's not forget the [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons other Radioactive Man]], with sidekick Fallout Boy.
* Stupendous Man from ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes.

*** Streaky the Supercat

*** Comet the Superhorse (Who, unlike the others, was not a Kryptonian animal brought to Earth but a centuar magically transformed into a horse with super powers.)
*** And finally, Superturtle, who was not technically a member of the Legion of Super-pets but was a one-page backup feature in a number of comics and is part of the Superman Family.

* WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles: Elastigirl. (Brief mention was made of other "supers" with names following this pattern: Dynaguy, etc.)

* The ComicBook/MetalMen, with individual elements as members; Gold, Iron, Tin, Lead, Mercury, and [[TheChick token female]] Platinum (although these days, she's joined by Copper).

* Spoofed by the webcomic ''Supermegatopia'', which features a team called the Men-Men. Their roster includes Fire Man, Space Man, Sails Man, Snow Man, and even a [[TheChick token female]] called Milk Man. Their leader is an anthropomorphic chair called [[LateToThePunchline (wait for it)]] Chair Man.

* ''VideoGame/WonderBoyIIITheDragonsTrap'' lists the [[BalefulPolymorph turned-to-animal forms]] as "Lion-Man", "Mouse-Man", "Piranha-Man"... and the regular form as the groan-inducing "Hu-Man".

* Machine-Man, best known now from his time with ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}.

** Later, we meet Barebuttman and Pancake-Loving Man.

* ''Film/PumaMan'' (he flies like a moron!)

* This trope is often used in insults, typically taking the form of (unpleasant animal/object/etc)-man