According to Entertainment Weekly, the star of Hercules Goes to New York is following up his stint as Governor of California by adopting a slightly more believable persona: costumed superhero. Arnold is teaming up with huckster extraordinaire Stan Lee to bring his wit, charm, and mind-altering steroid abuse to the four-color world as: The Governator!
“When I ran for governor back in 2003 and I started hearing people talking about ‘the Governator,’ I thought the word was so cool… The word Governator combined two worlds: the world of politics and the movie world. And [this cartoon] brings everything together. It combines the governor, the Terminator, the bodybuilding world, the True Lies…”
“The Governator is going to be a great superhero, but he’ll also be Arnold Schwarzenegger,” Lee says of the semi-fictional character. “We’re using all the personal elements of Arnold’s life. We’re using his wife [Maria Shriver]. We’re using his kids. We’re using the fact that he used to be governor. Only after he leaves the governor’s office, Arnold decides to become a crime fighter and builds a secret high-tech crime-fighting center under his house in Brentwood.”
Sounds great. Finally, a superhero we can all relate to. The Sudetenland Superman. The Bavarian Batman. The Austrian… Aquaman? Sure, why not.
Keep in mind that the previous almost-real-life person who got turned into a cartoon by Stan the Man was Pam Anderson. Stripperella, remember? No? Nothin’? The Puppet Master must’ve wiped your memory. Faded frontal lobe, true believer!
P.S. Speaking of embarrassing superheroes, pics of the new Wonder Woman are starting to surface:
Judging by her expression, she just found out she’s being written by David E. Kelley.