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Inspired by discussion in the Supporting Characters thread, has there ever been a super-hero who was employed as a butler in his secret identity?

There have, of coure, been various crime-solving butlers in fiction, and Kato served as the Green Hornet's sidekick, but that's all I can think of.

The closest I can think of is in the Richie Rich comics, where Richie and his butler Cadbury had super-heroic identities at one point in a series called Super Richie, in which they fought crime wearing costumes and using gadgets--sort of Batman-and-Robin knockoff.

Butlers are plenty heroic all on their own! Alfred, Jarvis, Samuels, Peabody ...

i'd say Alfred qualifies. i mean,just look at all he has to do, and put up with.

Cadbury rocked!

Butler as a secret identity sounded like a silly concept when I saw this thread, like - why would someone who had powers or whatever, bother being a butler in their civilian life? Then it seemed a perfect way to go about unnoticed, gain access to places and information one wouldn't normally etc. I can see some kind of modern day Scarlet Pimpernel type crusading against the 1% and their illegal practices by being a vigilante by night. (if you want to jump on that bandwagon - it'll be as dated a concept as Green Arrow's rantings from the old GL/GA issues, yelling about "fatcats" but I can see it...)

I guess the villain The Outsider had a butler secret identity - he posed as Alfred, after all.

There's a groovy Silver Age Superman story where he has to give up his Clark Kent identity and, as I recall, one of the replacement secret identities he tries out is a butler.

Why stop at the butler? Imagine a super heroic Downton Abbey with the whole 'Downstairs' staff a secret super-team!

They'd have to contend with those 'Upstairs' as well as the super villains on the loose!

If it were a loner hero with a secret ID, the Downstairs would soon be in on it- even Clark Kent couldn't maintain such a masquerade in close quarters for very long. I suppose the individual butler with a single master and no supporting staff, such as we see in comics, could work. That position's really more of a housekeeper than a butler, really. In the traditional sense.

Ooh, this is brilliant!

Yes, ML is brilliant.
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On 'Johnny Test', a Cartoon Network series, Johnny's brilliant twin sisters created a talking, evil cat. The villan cat has a butler named Albert, who's usually fairly neutral in the crime business but he does whatever the cat wants.
In one episode though, he works with Johnny as a good hero because he's not ticklish and the bad guy that Johnny has to rescue his sisters from is called the Tickler.

Why has no superheroine ever had a maid?