Here is an archive of all the past top five lists I've one over the years.

Based on a request from longtime reader Nick Marino, let's take a look at the top five superhero mullets.

NOTE: Right off the bat, we have to examine what exactly constitutes a "mullet." The definition I will be using for this piece is as follows. A haircut where the person has relatively short hair in front and long hair in the back. The joke about mullets is "business up front, party in the back." So if you just have long hair period, you don't have a mullet. Similarly, if you wear your hair in a ponytail, you don't have a mullet. A mullet and a ponytail are different things. That said, there are people with mullets who then also had ponytails. I'll still count them.

Along these lines, then, perhaps the most famous superhero mullet of them all, Superman post-Reign of the Supermen, was not actually a mullet.



At least that's not what Dan Jurgens intended. He just intended it to be "longer hair." Other artists, though, would occasionally draw it as a mullet, like this infamous Brian Bolland Wonder Woman cover...



But that's going off-model.

Similarly, Star Brand? That's not a mullet...



Darick Robertson Nova? Close, but also, not a mullet...



(Rich Rider then started wearing his hair in a ponytail)

Darick Robertson Justice? Yes, but only for a short period of time when he got out of prison...



Quasar? Not for the time when I think most people are thinking about...



but yes, he eventually had one...



Jericho only briefly went to a mullet. Mostly, he just had that huge afro...



I just didn't want to go past a list about weird hairstyles without talking about Jericho.

Rick Jones had one for quite a while, but he's not really a superhero, so he doesn't count...



(He also started wearing it in a ponytail a lot towards the end of his time in the Incredible Hulk)

Captain Planet doesn't count. Yes, he had a comic book based on his cartoon series, but come on, he's a cartoon character mainly.



Okay, on to the Honorable Mentions!

Dargo, the future Thor

It's a LITTLE long in front, but not long enough to disqualify it from mulletdom...



Captain Atom

One of the many sins Extreme Justice foisted upon us was mullet Captain Atom...



Venom

I think people misremember Eddie Brock's hair trajectory. He actually did not hit mulletdom until the first Venom mini-series...



But get there he did.

Rachel Summers

For the most part, early on, Rachel wore a small ponytail, but she did eventually tip over into mulletdom...



Starman

The Will Payton version of Starman rocked a strong mullet...



Now we're into just flat-out insanely difficult decisions land, where any ONE of these people could easily have made the top five. But, well, they didn't. Read on to see who the final two (hair)cuts were, and the beginning of the top five!

Wonder Man

Someone had to lose, Wonder Man, and you are just so good at losing, I figured it might as well be you...



Changeling

This is absolutely the hardest cut of them all.



Changeling rocked the mullet a lot longer than most, which is why it is tough to cut him (for instance, he was STARTING his mullet around 1990 when Wonder Man cut his off around 1993), but I dunno, I think he sort of grew it out a bit past mullet stage by the late 1990s, during that brief period when he was a bad guy...



so I guess I was mistaken in how long he kept it.

5. Bishop

Bishop's awesome mullet deservedly got him a spot on the top list...



but he interestingly only kept the mullet for a few years before shaving his head...



4. Dick Grayson

Dick is a tricky one, in that he did not last THAT long with a mullet, as he went to a ponytail relatively quickly (and then early on in the Chuck Dixon/Scott McDaniel Nightwing ongoing series, he lost the really long hair entirely), but his mullet was SO prominent that I think he deserves a spot here.

His mullet power was very strong early on, as he is the only person I know whose hair could start here in the beginning of an issue...



get to this length at the end of the issue...



and then be able to get a long haircut and end up with a mini-mullet the next issue...





and then a full-blown mullet the next issue...



That's some strong mulleting right there!

The end of that issue, (New Titans #90), by the way, has a classic example of team mullets...



By the time he left the New Titans, Nightwing was fully dedicated to the mullet...



One of the reasons he is so high, though, is that he even rocked a mullet when he was temporarily BATMAN!!





By the time he went to the ponytail, his hair was getting kind of out of control...



Go to the next page for the top three!

3. Tony Stark

Even before he was fully into the mullet era, Tony Stark embraced 1980s fashion...



His haircut was just stuck in the 1970s.

Here it was in #99...



Here it was in #200...



and it looked the same 20 isues later...



But then they made a specific change to bring Tony into the mullet era!





With the perm? That is so perfect I cannot believe it.

2. Invisible Woman

One thing John Byrne made a point of on his Fantastic Four run was to give the characters modern hairstyles. He was actually well ahead of the game with Sue Richards' mullet, which actually predates all the other mullets on this list, which is why I have her ranked so high. Byrne was ahead of the mullet game...









1. Longshot

Like I said, Invisible Woman's mullet actually predated Longshot's, but come on, with her, it was just a temporary hairstyle, with Longshot, it was his absolute defining look!





After disappearing from the X-Men books for a few years, he came right back with the mullet...



And when he showed up again, over TWENTY YEARS since his original appearance, he was still rocking that mullet...







He eventually did cut it, but I bet the next writer who uses him brings him back with the mullet. It's just his iconic look, which is why he makes it as #1.

That's the list! Agree? Disagree? Let me know! Also, feel free to point out other heroes with mullets - there are a ton of them out there!