Recorded answers
2,465 recorded answers
How to approach it
Empty your memory before you commit to a guess. Give yourself two minutes to list every airborne hero who surfaces without effort, then switch registers on purpose: animation, imported dubs, direct-to-video films, team books with decades of roster churn, licensed spin-offs, novels, games. Each register unlocks names the previous one buried. Next, play with word roots for sky, air, wing, flight, star and bird, and check which of them are genuine codenames rather than descriptions. Afterwards, walk the alphabet and mark the letters you never touched, since those gaps usually hide a forgotten corner rather than an empty one. Hand in the strangest name you can honestly defend; popular picks all clump in the same low band.
Get a hint
Begin with the obvious silhouette, a hero whose trademark move is simply rising off the pavement, then widen across every format you can name: printed pages, Saturday cartoons, imported dubs, web strips, tabletop rosters and prose.
A little more
Move from the marquee names into roster filler: reserve members, one-arc allies, international squads, legacy replacements and licensed spin-off heroes who still ended up with a codename and a costume.
One step further
At the sharp end, hunt heroes built on a single altitude gimmick, an element, a rank, a trade or a bird welded to a codename, plus names you would only ever meet two clicks deep in a fan wiki.
Reveal answers 2,465
- NightingaleDeep Cut85points
- NightmareDeep Cut85points
- NightshadeDeep Cut85points
- NightshineDeep Cut85points
- NightstarDeep Cut85points
- NightveilDeep Cut85points
- Nikki PowerglovesDeep Cut85points
- Noh-VarrDeep Cut85points
- NorchaviusDeep Cut85points
- NorthstarDeep Cut85points
- NorthwindDeep Cut85points
- Nosa'elgDeep Cut85points
- Nova 0:0Deep Cut85points
- Nova OmegaDeep Cut85points
- NubiaDeep Cut85points
- Nubian PrinceDeep Cut85points
- NukeDeep Cut85points
- NuklaDeep Cut85points
- NukloDeep Cut85points
- NuminaDeep Cut85points
- O.D.Deep Cut85points
- Oboro ShirakumoDeep Cut85points
- ObsidianDeep Cut85points
- OkonokoDeep Cut85points
- OlapetDeep Cut85points
- Old Man PhoenixDeep Cut85points
- Olga IlyichDeep Cut85points
- Oliver (Mighty Med)Deep Cut85points
- OliversityDeep Cut85points
- OlympianDeep Cut85points
- Olympian IIDeep Cut85points
- OMACDeep Cut85points
- OmegaDeep Cut85points
- Omega SentinelDeep Cut85points
- Omega the UnknownDeep Cut85points
- Opto309VDeep Cut85points
- OrbitDeep Cut85points
- OrionDeep Cut85points
- OrlanDeep Cut85points
- OroDeep Cut85points
- OsirisDeep Cut85points
- OspreyDeep Cut85points
- OtomoDeep Cut85points
- OutworlderDeep Cut85points
- Owl (Centaur)Deep Cut85points
- Owl GirlDeep Cut85points
- OwlwomanDeep Cut85points
- OyaDeep Cut85points
- PakoDeep Cut85points
- PaladinDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring curve is remarkably flat, which reflects crowding far more than merit. Most recorded answers sit at 85, a single one climbs to 100, and only 141 slide to 60. That bottom step almost certainly holds the marquee names thousands of players type within seconds. Everything else shares the 85 band whatever its fame, from Adam Strange and Air-Walker to Aero and Ajak, because the scorer measures distance from the crowd rather than depth of trivia. Anpanman's solitary 100 proves the point: a figure colossal in one market and nearly unknown in another, so hardly anyone else reached it. The lesson is that the gap between a respectable answer and a superb one is not obscurity for its own sake but a real, defensible name absent from the first wave of guesses. A recognisable second-string hero beats a household name, and a genuinely buried one beats both.