Is The Phantom the only sexually-active superhero?

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Marvel superheroes tend to have pretty realistic sex lives... if by realistic you mean "pretty much everyone over the age of eighteen in the Marvel Universe can be connected through sex to Tony Stark". Except maybe Rogue, for obvious reasons. Although she and Gambit seem to make it work somehow.

Well, Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic Four, is married to Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman, and they have two children, so we can presume they've been sexually active at least twice. Peter Parker is married to Mary Jane Watson (or was, before Mephisto altered time so that they'd never met in exchange for saving the life of Aunt May... you know what, never mind), Clark Kent is married to Lois Lane, Bruce Wayne had a son with the daughter of Ra's al Ghul, Tony Stark is a notorious womanizer... these are just the first characters off the top of my head, the ones featured in recent movies. Short answer: there are plenty of sexually active superheroes.

Goku (from Dragonball Z) somehow managed to conceive two sons...

Secret of the Ark, indeed...

Love The Phantom's expression...

I thought you had to sign a non-disclosure statement about that. Besides, Lois Lane is all better now...

Roger,

you have NO Idea. At least 2 maybe 3 of the seminal works of my career have involved sexually active Protagonists.

T-Slice

In brightest day, in blackest night,
No woman has ensheathed my might.
Let those who think that all is right
Bemoan my fate--Green Limpworm's Plight.

Gambit gets lucky.

@TONYFINGHARRIS - heh heh heh - you said "seminal"

Then there was Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune, who were rather blatantly...not that there's anything wrong with that.

Is it just me, or is the 'P' in 'Phantom' looking distinctly limp and droopy?

The Ghost Who Gets His Swerve On!

Also, you want a sexually active hero? Read a Conan graphic novel.

Black Canary, Huntress, and Catwoman explain why several DC superheros have some...issues in this song, "Birds of Prey" from Batman: The Brave and The Bold TV series:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAFP0IoMfsA
~~~

As far as superhero movies go, Bruce Wayne made it with Vicki Vale in the 1989 movie. Superman got it on with Lois Lane in SUPERMAN II.

I remember a Fantastic Four storyline where Johnny Storm (aka the Human Torch) became intimate with a Skrull named Lyja. For the record, Skrulls are shape-shifting aliens. Johnny consummated the deed with Lyja while she assumed the identity of Alicia Masters (the erstwhile love interest of Johnny's partner Benjamin Jacob Grimm, the ever-lovin' blue-eyed thing). Lyja seemingly produced an egg from the union, but at the end of the story arc it was all an illusion. What a loss of nerve! It would have been interesting to explore the implications of raising a half-human/half-alien child. Oh, but I forget, DC's teen titan sorceress Raven is just such a hybrid. Her alien father was the universe scourge Trigon.

Come now, the Phantom is a brawny epitome of self-assured masculinity. The woman in the picture must be an Amazon!

I remember reading in an old Reader's Digest where a fan wrote to the creator of "Flash Gordon" inquiring whether Flash and Dale Arden (his female companion) ever made love. Now, as you recall, "Flash Gordon" was a serial comic which appeared only in Sunday newspaper editions. The creator's response: "Never on a Sunday."

DC's boy sidekicks have turned out to be major horndogs. Speedy fathered a child by the assassin Cheshire and has "had" the alien princess Starfire, who was once engaged to Dick Grayson, who had an affair with the former Batgirl, Barbara Gordon. That's before the big "52" renoot, in which we now learn Starfire will shag anythiung in pants, and Batman ts Catwoman's booty call.

You have it backwards: there are very few superheroes (of adolescence or older) who AREN'T sexually active these days. And by "very few" I mean "Tim Drake."

Captain America and Sharon Carter, when not busy fighting international threats, are almost always on top of each other destroying Roger's furniture. Seems Agent Carter is rather adiccted to super-soldier-serum-powered action.

And you can't never forget She-Hulk, who just slept with EVERYBODY, and with "everybody", I say "probably Shuma-Gorath too".

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