As we move forward in this age of rapid communication, personality testing and identification becomes more and more critical. In order to better communicate with others we need first to understand what type of people we are. To meet this need, there seems to be a dramatic increase in the number of personality tests available. Indeed, with these sophisticated psychological tools, you can learn all kinds of things about yourself and how you best fit into the mix.
Recently, however, I’ve become skeptical. I mean, c’mon; can a list of questions and numbers really add up really add up to enlightenment?
Like I said, I had my doubts. That is, until I found The Superhero Quiz
Forget the Multiple Intelligences. Forget Emotional Maturity. Forget IQ. Nevermind Rorschach. Now I have some information I can use.
My results:
As you might imagine, I am not all together pleased.
I mean, Superman? Yawn. I’d rather be a little darker, more mysterious. Yet according to the results, I’m closer to being Supergirl than Batman. I should have rated the importance of gadgets higher.
At any rate, it’s obvious I need to work on my dark side.
So, as long as I was at it, I figured a good place to start might be The Superhero Quiz’s alter ego–The Super Villian Quiz.
My results:
Not bad. I can live with being a Dr. Doom. I guess he’s pretty cool. Not sure what to think of that “vanity” thing but I can examine that issue in more depth at my next counseling session.
Which reminds me . . . I’ve been meaning to do a little follow-up. Shortly after posting this cool picture of a superhero I created all by myself, Jeff Herbert, an alert reader who also (as luck would have it) just happens to be the creator of Hero Machine, left this comment:
Glad you liked it, Chris, I hope you had as much fun creating your character as I did creating the program.
One thing, though, you’d be better off using the full version on UGO.com, the only licensed site for hosting HeroMachine, as it has all the latest items and expansion units in it. The one at MarvelC is not authorized, they just kind of ripped it off from me without asking, and they won’t take it down. People!
Jeff Hebert
HeroMachine creator
Obviously I rushed right over to check it out. Jeff’’s right (of course). This site totally ROCKS! They even have a couple of versions of the Hero Machine that you can choose from, including Rock Star Edition, and Real Life Edition, which I used to nurture my villainous vanity and create this strikingly accurate image of (you guessed it) me.
What? You don’t think so?
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6 responses so far ↓
1 John // Oct 18, 2007 at 4:46 am
Next time I have time to kill I’ll check that out.
2 Sam Sizer // Oct 18, 2007 at 5:09 am
Mine:
80% Green Lantern
60% Superman
60% Hulk
55% Spider-Man
47% Robin
Then I had Super-girl and Batman way down the list haha.
For Super-villains I got…
47% Dr. Doom (the same as you)
42% Apocalypse
40% Magneto
39% Mr. Freeze
36% Venom
Then the following ones were only 1-3% less than the one before, I was very close on most of them except for the last two which had big drops, which were Riddler and Catwoman.
3 Evil Dude // Oct 22, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Heh heh. I am SO evil. >:)
4 Evil Dudette // Oct 22, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Yeah, you’re cool.
5 Jake Wisse // Oct 29, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Shocker, I’m Green Lantern and the Joker.
6 The Main Erik // Jun 23, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Hi Mr. Wondra. I took the quiz and guess what? For heros I am the Hulk and the Green Lantern. And for villain I am Juggernaut and Venom. I guess I could have guessed that!! Hope you are having a good summer!
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