Was going through my comics recently

[The Lemurian]

So I recently decided to re-read all my reprints of old comic. There's one of the Avengers, way way back before I was born, where the last picture is a group shot. And just based on that shot, I realized something - all the original members of the Avengers were nerds. Iron Man, aka Tony Stark? His day job is genius inventor, so he qualifies. The Hulk? He used to be a nuclear physicist. Thor, secretly Doctor Donald Blake, who runs a clinic for poor people - not just a nerd, but with the social conscience he completely qualifies as a nerdfighter. The Wasp is a cosplay nerd. Ant-Man - seriously, fighting crime with ants. That's made of awesome, right there. Thus inspired, I decided to test this information: How many superheroes are nerds? Spider-Man? Check. Superman? Alias journalism nerd Clark Kent? Check. Batman, criminology nerd? Oh yes. But this led me to a peculiar note - if, as the brothers Green claimed, there was an imaginary divide between nerds and jocks, then obviously the best way to dissolve that conflict is to bring them together. Since nerds are reading comics about nerds, why not get comics about jocks? Unfortunately, there seem to be no comics about solo jock superheroes. In the X-Men, the best the only serious jock they had was Cyclops, who was sidetracked by a reputation as the dumb one for most of the last decade. Meanwhile, the giant metal X-Man, Colossus, is a sketch nerd. The best I could find was Green Lantern Hal Jordan: fighter pilot by day, space-police guy by night. Which is a shame, because if nerds and jocks are ever going to come together, then a middle ground must be found. If comics cannot provide, then I am saddened. But then, I just did a sociological treatise based on four-colour ink and exclamation marks; in one sense, I'm already quite sad :)

[The Lemurian]

the lemurian's brother, "billythehick", hijacking this account to make a single post.

The punisher: army hardass turned murderous vigilante
Nick Fury: army hardass turned... actually that's just what he is.
The Thing: Fighter Pilot turned superhero
Carol Danvers: Spy turned fighter pilot turned astronaut turned superhero, and also an alcoholic.
Ka-zar: raised by dinosaurs. how jock is that?
Cable + Bishop: Superpowered soldiers in world encompassing wars, lost in time. megajocks
Angel: Born with a silver spoon in his mouth. definitely jock.
And also: cyclops is not a jock. he wears glasses.

[Melanie]

Wow, I never really thought about all of those superheroes being nerds... it makes sense now, though. You're right, there really isn't a middle ground between nerds and Jocks...