But screw it. Let’s say you were making a 7 character team to protect Earth, but could only choose characters from movies done on MST3K. Who would you pick?
Off the top of my head:
Prince of Space. Guns wouldn’t work against him, so that would be a boon.
Ator. Our weapons expert and more reliable than any Hercules (they’d end up sleeping or flirting with the villain ladies)
Gamera, for the bigger sized threats
Samson/El Santo for up close fighting on human scale
Batwoman (Wild World of version) Has enough of a scientific mind to make tech and counter it…plus has a network of agents to help if needed.
Sybil. Sure she dicked over George for a bit, but she was the one who killed the villain of the movie. Magic user of the group
Jet Jaguar. Because you need a robot on the team. Can act as back-up for Gamera too if needed.
Gotta’ have Moon Grey in there. She IS the undead, after all. We know how the kids today love that kinda’ thing. Plus, every comics universe needs at least one Reporter Girl™.
Also, Paper Chase Guy. He doesn’t look like much, but he did defeat Megaweapon. Maybe we could put him on rocket-powered roller skates, instead of that annoying bike.
Lemmankinan (he even has his own ‘failure’ theme song)
John Manston (Rocket Attack USA, the hero who saved New Yor… oops, never mind)
INPIT Agent Walker Stevens (Dr. Z - in the battle between two masters of science and nature, Stevens drove slowly, stumbled about the swamp, and crawled feebly. He couldn’t help his girlfriend, couldn’t save the world, couldn’t prevent the villain from hatching his evil plan. Good one dickweed)
Richard (Clonus Horror - but seriously, what did you expect, he died, he caused others to die, that he got as far as he did is sort of an accomplishment)
Dr. Ted Nelson (Melting Man - “Shazam!” Subsisting on a diet of strength inducing crackers, Dr. Ted merely has to shout his name to become invulnerable, bullets bounce right off h… oh crap!)
As much as I love Estelle (which admittedly isn’t as much as Crow) can we get Vadinho from Pumaman as our magic user? Not sure who got more of a raw deal characterwise, him or Apache Chief in Superfriends.
I don’t know if the rest of the team would like his back-up plan of “Suicide Bomb the Enemy”. …well except Gamera, who would see it as an easy way to get some flames to munch on.