On a (slightly 
) more serious note, I just saw an announcement of a new Marvel character being introduced in What If…? Dark: Moon Knight #1 named … Luminary! 
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Gasp, what? Do the Big Two (real) companies not even check to see if a name is already taken by a fake comic publisher any more? (Or, y’know, a tabletop game publisher.)
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DC has a Luminary as well, who was also called Shard at some point. AFAIK he appeared only once in a single panel in JSA, as one of six corpses Johnny Sorrow turned most of the “Seven Shadows” super-group into. They were a “created in the modern day” team that supposedly operated in Golden Age Chicago in 1944, and were pretty much made up solely to be killed - off panel no less. A narrative trick I truly despise, I might add.
Digging just a little deeper, Luminary is an android superhero from City of Heroes MMORPG, and appeared in three issues of the short-lived comic spinoff. I think I punched her evil duplicate Nightstar one time, back during my housemates’ brief flirtation with the game.
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Ahem. Caped Crusader animators listening to The Letters Page? No one may remember The Scholar, but they know his villains.
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in the comics adapted from Batman the Animated series there was a story where Robin (Tim Drake) was depressed that he only fights psychos and that there are no goofy theme villains anymore and Nightwing (Dick Grayson) tried pretending to be a lion themed villain.
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Back in my Champions days one of our GMs threw a lion-themed villain at us whose supranym was “the Mane Enemy.” I still haven’t fully recovered.
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