X-Men's Most Underrated Hero Was Rick Sanchez BEFORE Rick & Morty
The most underrated and one of the lesser-known X-Men heroes proved himself to be Rick Sanchez before Rick and Morty ever aired. Rick and Morty originated from a web series The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti which was a spoof on Back to the Future. While Rick and Morty’s origin has nothing to do with the X-Men, one Marvel Comics’ mutant exhibits the same brilliance, cynicism, and love of mind-altering substances as Rick Sanchez, but he was around long before the Rick and Morty character.
James Bradley aka Doctor Nemesis made his first appearance in 1941’s Lightning Comics #6 but was retconned and included in the main Marvel Comics’ continuity in 1993’s The Invaders #1 by Roy Thomas and Dave Hoover. Doctor Nemesis is a mutant and possesses a self-evolved intellect, meaning he is a genius of the highest caliber and only gets smarter every day. Bradley has also given himself bio-technological enhancements, primarily in his eyes, giving himself the added abilities of x-ray vision, hyper-optics, and mutant gene detection.
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Doctor Nemesis is similar to Rick and Morty’s Rick Sanchez in a number of ways. Firstly, their levels of intellect are on par with one another as both can create anything they put their minds to. While Rick has a portal gun to travel to different dimensions, Doctor Nemesis built himself a time machine. Rick has given himself robotic augmentations in the form of, what he describes as, ‘Inspector Gadget’ limbs, and Bradley made himself enhanced eyes. Not only are they basically equally as smart, but they share a few personality traits as well. Doctor Nemesis has made it clear in more recent X-Men comics that his one
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