Manikin
Okay, so time travel is a pretty cool power. But this dude has about the opposite of it. Whitman Knapp can summon three of his "genetic relatives" from the history of human evolution - a protoplasmic blob (useless), a caveman (useless), and a super-smart future dude (pretty useful). So the question is why doesn't he just stay as future dude all the time? Did he really need to hit things with a club so badly?
ShadowHawk
So finding things to make fun of in the early days of Image Comics is like shooting fish in a barrel, if the barrel is actually the barrel of your gun. But one of the dumbest concepts was ShadowHawk, an armor-clad vigilante who was attacked by gangsters and injected with AIDS blood. His war against crime was characterized by breaking his victim's spines - classy.
Dazzler
When comic book companies decide to be topical, bad things happen. Hence the Disco Dazzler, a spangle-suited soft-rock singer who was developed by disco label Casablanca and Marvel to bring some of that Saturday Night Fever to the printed page. The disco fad died, but Marvel stuck with the character, loosing one of the worst fashion disasters to ever fight crime upon the world.
Thunderstrike
So there's this guy, right? The Mighty Thor. Pretty awesome, giant hammer, Norse God? They're making a movie about him. But in the nightmarish 90s, the powers that be at Marvel decided that Thor wasn't hip enough, so they carted him off and replaced him with... THUNDERSTRIKE! Who was just Thor in a sleeveless leather vest with a goatee. Dig that tagline: he's trading the Rainbow Bridge for the Brooklyn Bridge. Because all the real menaces to humanity live in Park Slope.
Wild Dog
With the Punisher becoming one of Marvel's most popular characters in the late 80s, DC decided they needed their own gun-toting dispenser of bullety justice. Who they got was Wild Dog, a former college hockey player who... shoots criminals. While wearing his old hockey jersey and mask. Luckily Gotham City's police are all idiots.
