1 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/E-Man_4098.jpg]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:240:[-E-Man and his partner/significant other Nova Kane.-] ]] |
3 | ''E-Man'' is a comic book SuperHero created in the 1970s by Nicola Cuti and [[ComicStrip/DickTracy Joe Staton]] for Creator/CharltonComics before moving over to Creator/FirstComics. |
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5 | Long story short: E-Man started out as a packet of pure (sentient) energy born from the explosion of a nova. On Earth, this energy discovered that it could change itself from energy to matter (lampshaded by UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein's formula: E=mc[[superscript:2]], which became his ChestInsignia), enabling said energy to assume human form. Befriending one Nova Kane (née Katrinka Kolchinzski), an archeology student at Xanadu University who works part-time as an exotic dancer, the energy man from space decided to live on Earth using his shape-changing and energy blasts to fight evil as E-Man. |
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7 | Other characters included seedy PrivateDetective Michael ("Don't call me {{WesternAnimation/Mickey|Mouse}}") Mauser and a rather curious-looking koala named Teddy Q. |
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9 | Not to be confused with [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse He-Man]]. |
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11 | !!''E-Man'' provides examples of the following tropes: |
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13 | * ActionGirl: Nova, once she gains energy powers similar to those of E-Man. |
14 | * BattleCouple: E-Man and Nova. Especially after Nova becomes an EnergyBeing like E-Man. |
15 | * BrainInAJar: The Brain from Sirius, a recurring foe, is a [[MyBrainIsBig huge]] brain in a container. |
16 | * ChestInsignia: As stated above, E-Man has E=mc[[superscript:2]] for a chest insignia. |
17 | * ComicBookFantasyCasting: E-Man was originally modelled after Creator/RobertRedford. |
18 | * EnergyBeing: E-Man started as pure energy that developed sentience prior to coming to Earth and [[HumanityEnsues assuming human form.]] |
19 | * FieryRedhead: Nova's hair is a bright shade of red. |
20 | * LivingBattery: One villain was a millionaire who used homeless people this way to power his mansion (the story was written in the 70s during the height of the energy crisis). |
21 | * MeaningfulName: Michael Mauser shares his surname with his gun. |
22 | * MsFanservice: Nova works part time as an exotic dancer to pay for her tuition, as stated above. |
23 | * PunnyName: Nova Kane (Novocaine) and (E-Man's civilian identity) Alec Tronn (electron). |
24 | * SewerGator: Big Al, a villain introduced in "The Sewer of Doom" story, is a talking, cigar-smoking albino sewer gator who wants to conquer the world in the name of reptile-kind. |
25 | * TelephoneTeleport: E-Man, as an EnergyBeing, has this as an ability. |
26 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Going from energy to matter (any kind of matter) isn't a problem for E-Man (and later Nova). |
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