The Midas Touch: The Top Characters To Go Gold

Apple may have just figured out that golden variants drive fanbases wild, but the comics industry [...]

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Apple may have just figured out that golden variants drive fanbases wild, but the comics industry has exploited the mineral's marketability for decades. We're not sure why comic book characters, concepts, and covers (so many covers) are better when they have that extra shimmer to them, but the Midas touch has always left the industry a little brighter.

In honor of the golden Macbook, we polish off the top five characters who have gone gold.

Ultron

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When you finally succeed in wiping out all organic life, you treat yo'self. Such was the case in Marvel's 2013 Age of Ultron event, when the evil android upgraded his previously silver shell for a golden upgrade after killing the Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

Aunt May

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Hey, remember that time Aunt May became the Herald of Galactus? Peter Parker's beloved mother figure has always been comics' Golden Oldie, but she once took that role quite…literally in Marvel Team-Up #137. But don't worry, ol' May didn't turn into a killer of worlds. She managed to find a cosmic doughboy who, yes, baked planet-sized cakes and treats and satiated Galactus' never-ending hunger. Where were you on that one, Silver Surfer?

Iron Man

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Afraid that his suit was scaring the crap out of civilians in the old "Tales of Suspense" days, Tony thought that by making his suit gold, he'd somehow look less like a lumbering harbinger of death. Thankfully, this gold treatment quickly lost its luster just eight issues later, when Iron Man made the real upgrade to the classic gold and red.

X-Men Gold Team

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Back when the X-Men franchise was bigger than Ego, the Living Planet, Marvel decided that the world just wasn't big enough for one X-Team. Splintering the merry mutants into two squads—the Gold Team and the Blue Team—the separate titles gave the individual members their proper breathing space (and Marvel more money). With Storm, Ice Man, Jean Grey, Colossus, Archangel, and Bishop filling out the roster, the team lived up to it's high-pedigree namesake. Sure, they didn't have Wolverine, but we'd much rather have to Omega-level mutants on our side than a grumpy chain-smoker.

Gold Frieza

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Even anime has jumped in on the gold craze. As we saw last week, Dragon Ball Z villain Frieza is getting his gold on in the Dragon Ball Z: Fukkatsu no F (Resurrection of F) film. Apparently, one of the side-effects of resurrection in the DBZ Universe is turning gold. Sounds better than the DC Comics universes, where all you get is a mullet.

Are there any characters to go gold that we missed? Sound off in the comments below.

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