Random Most Unexpected Day Jobs Worked By Superheroes (14 items)

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  (#3) Captain America

  • Captain America, Volume 5, Captain America Comics, Civil War

  Steve Rogers has been many things in a lifetime that has spanned a century - soldier, Super Soldier, Avenger, and director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Even before he was a military man, however, Rogers carried an interest that has only occasionally been depicted in the pages of his comic adventures - a passion for art.

  Long before he encountered the Super Soldier Serum, Rogers showed a real knack for drawing - something that came in handy when designing Captain America's costume. When he woke up from decades in the ice and had to find his place in the modern era, Rogers spent some time trying to establish a normal life for himself - and that included taking on a couple jobs as a commercial illustrator. He even did a stint as a comic book artist, which included illustrating comics about himself - which must have been a bizarre experience. Eventually, Rogers revealed his identity to the public, however, and had to leave his other work behind.
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  (#2) Deathlok

  There have been many Deathloks in the annals of Marvel Comics, but they're all fairly similar - cyborgs from the future with extremely lethal capabilities. The individual known as Deathlok Prime features the body of an unrepentant serial killer paired with a noble and heroic AI, a combination that probably shouldn't even be allowed on school grounds, much less in a teaching position.

  Still, when the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning found itself in desperate need of substitute teachers, Deathlok Prime made the transition from Wolverine's X-Force squad to the teaching staff. Deathlok's lessons primarily consisted of informing students of their precise statistical odds of experiencing tragic ends - which, in all honesty, is probably an important part of the curriculum at a school for mutants. He stayed in the role until he went back to the future.
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  (#1) Barbara Gordon

  • Birds of Prey

  Barbara Gordon has had an interesting character history with DC. She goes by the name Batgirl to this day and seems to be perpetually a year or two out of college - and yet, she's also one of Batman's oldest allies and a mentor to generations of subsequent Batgirls. She's also old enough to have held a major public office.

  Before her continuity was rebooted several times, Barbara had spent several years as a member of the United States Congress. She campaigned for the position because she realized her vigilante actions weren't striking at the root of her country's problems - but she still found time to dress up in a cape and beat up crooks, even while Congress was in session!
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  (#7) Hawkeye

  Clint Barton has always been a man of the people. After all, he's been on the roster of Earth's Mightiest Heroes for decades on the strength of his archery skills and plucky attitude alone - and yet, he's never forgotten his humble roots as an orphan raised in the circus. That could lead to some confusion as to why Hawkeye spent much of his recent time as a landlord - a source of income that isn't always thought of as altruistic - but as it turns out, even that was an act of heroism.

  Wanting to get away from the glitz and glamour of Avengers HQ for a while, Barton and his crimefighting partner, Kate Bishop, took up residency in a Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment. When he learned that the man who owned the building was involved in organized crime and threatening to triple rent, however, Hawkeye saved the day by buying the building out from under him. From then on, Barton became the most benevolent landlord in Brooklyn, never hesitating to help out a neighbor in need - or bust out his bow in defense of the block.
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  (#6) Wolverine

  • Marvel Comics Presents, The New Avengers

  Wolverine is the best there is at what he does, and that usually involves a lot of punching and slicing. He's never been known as a patient man, and he didn't receive a formal education; instead, he spent much of his childhood living with wolves in the woods. All of which makes the mutant known as Logan a questionable choice to teach at a school, never mind serve as a headmaster - but somehow, that's exactly what he did.

  Following the events of Schism, Wolverine grew uncomfortable with the X-Men's bad habit of putting teenagers on the frontlines and decided to reopen the old Xavier school under a new name - the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning. Logan didn't just run the new institution, he also taught several classes, including "World History: An Eyewitness Account," "The Art of Fighting Without Fighting," and "The Art of Fighting With Fighting." Against all odds, Wolverine proved to be a fantastic headmaster and ushered in a new generation of world-changing mutants, remaining in the role until his temporary demise.
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  (#10) Iceman

  From the beginning, Bobby Drake - a founding member of the X-Men - has always been the "fun one." Iceman's inability to take himself seriously is both his greatest strength and his greatest weakness as a character, which makes it especially peculiar that he would choose a career typically thought of as antithetical to a good time: accounting.

  While taking a break from superheroics, Drake went to college, got his CPA, and enjoyed a brief period of employment at the law firm of Harras, Anderson, and Brown. When Jean Grey returned to life, however, the original X-Men got the band back together and Bobby left accounting behind - at least for a time. Years down the road, he would also keep the books for the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning, where he worked under Headmasters Wolverine and Kitty Pryde.

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