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homo punching bag posted:Pretty sure it's just a Green Lantern pun. Aren't the rings powered from fear or something? Or was that Paralax? Green Lantern rings are powered by willpower. The parallax thing comes from a retcon where Hal Jordan went evil and killed an entire city but they wanted to bring him back later as a good guy so they made it so that actually parallax was an entity of fear (the opposite of willpower I guess) and the only place they could imprison him was the main GL power battery and he actually possessed Hal making what he did not his fault. Also Parallax was yellow which is why the rings didn't work against yellow (they aren't anymore (I don't know if they changed this with new 52)). But yeah the rings generally pick people who are "fearless". Or if you just happen to be around.
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homo punching bag posted:Pretty sure it's just a Green Lantern pun. Aren't the rings powered from fear or something? Or was that Paralax? It is a Green Lantern pun, Hal main characteristic on the 80's-90's was being fearless and nowadays is being able to overcome fear. Green Rings are fueled by willpower while Yellow are powered by fear.
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Apr 11, 2014 17:45
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zoux posted:Green Lantern rings are powered by willpower. The parallax thing comes from a retcon where Hal Jordan went evil and killed an entire city but they wanted to bring him back later as a good guy so they made it so that actually parallax was an entity of fear (the opposite of willpower I guess) and the only place they could imprison him was the main GL power battery and he actually possessed Hal making what he did not his fault. Also Parallax was yellow which is why the rings didn't work against yellow (they aren't anymore (I don't know if they changed this with new 52)). Actually, willpower isn't the opposite of fear, courage is. The opposite of willpower would just be laziness.
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Apr 11, 2014 17:49
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Ravane posted:Actually, willpower isn't the opposite of fear, courage is. The opposite of willpower would just be laziness. Well there ain't a ring of courage bud.
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Apr 11, 2014 17:50
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More to the point, when the rings pick out new recruits, they go 'Person of X, you have the ability to overcome great fear. Welcome to the Green Lantern Corps." So yeah, its a joke on how a certain Ferris aircraft pilot gets to qualify for a job as a space cop.
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Apr 11, 2014 18:24
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Ravane posted:Actually, willpower isn't the opposite of fear, courage is. The opposite of willpower would just be laziness. Goon Lanterns?
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Apr 11, 2014 19:27
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______ of Something Awful, you have the ability to overcome great cheese burger. Welcome to the Goon Lantern Core
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Apr 11, 2014 22:07
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"Just got a prius, can I join the Green Lantern now?" "GODDAMNIT JEFFREY, I TOLD YOU WE'RE NOT AN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION GROUP. YES, WE PROTECT THE EARTH, BUT WE DON'T GIVE A poo poo ABOUT GOING GREEN!"
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Apr 11, 2014 22:15
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boom boom boom posted:what a horrible slogan for a commercial airline It sounds like a Qantas slogan actually.
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Apr 11, 2014 22:48
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Ravane posted:Actually, willpower isn't the opposite of fear, courage is. The opposite of willpower would just be laziness. They have hope powered Lanterns, and it seems to me that hope is the opposite of fear. But in the comics it's the opposite of rage, which doesn't make any sense, shouldn't that go to the love powered Lanterns? at least compassion being the opposite of greed works
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boom boom boom posted:They have hope powered Lanterns, and it seems to me that hope is the opposite of fear. But in the comics it's the opposite of rage, which doesn't make any sense, shouldn't that go to the love powered Lanterns? at least compassion being the opposite of greed works The emotional spectrum isn't quite actual opposites, but each has various properties that can bounce off some of the others. The blue light of hope weakens both red rage and orange greed, because it soothes the former and offers a better tomorrow, whilst for the latter hope gives dreams and aspiration that override the selfishness of greed. Its also the most powerful of the seven basic lights, because hope is the power and desire for miracles. At least, that's the logic the comics run on. The love ones (Star Sapphires) meanwhile kinda run both ways, in that they can be both the good 'power of love' archetype that was at the heart of many a magical girl series, or axe crazy 'lovers scorned', obsessed with a very twisted ideal. They formed out of the latter but started shifting over to the former, especially as members question the logic in being about love when they weren't, well, actually fostering, supporting and encouraging love. When it goes all out, it can use the bonds that people have with each other to ensure they are not taken apart - even by death. The Indigo Lanterns... can actually be kinda twisted, because for a while, if you ended up part of their Corps, compassion was forced on you. You became so concerned with everyone and everything else you lost all sense of personal being. Things have shifted since then, but I stopped reading the GL books after the New 52 hit. That said, I would actually like to see a GL show maybe spinoff from either Arrow or the upcoming Flash series. Both to redeem the concept to mass audiences, but also just to definitely cement the idea of a TV universe that DC and CW can get going.
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I wasn't sure up till now but I can now say with confidence that this thread has well and truly slipped into hiatus mode.
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Astro Nut posted:That said, I would actually like to see a GL show maybe spinoff from either Arrow or the upcoming Flash series. Both to redeem the concept to mass audiences, but also just to definitely cement the idea of a TV universe that DC and CW can get going. I can't even begin to imagine how bad the special effects would be for a GL TV show.
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Krad posted:I can't even begin to imagine how bad the special effects would be for a GL TV show. Go full practical. Just have giant, papier-mâché fists painted green everywhere. This is also my plan for a Hulk TV series.
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Phylodox posted:Go full practical. Just have giant, papier-mâché fists painted green everywhere. Hulk is really just a rip-off of Jekyll and Hyde. They should make a tv series out of that, though. A hulk tv show would just do more harm than good.
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Ravane posted:Hulk is really just a rip-off of Jekyll and Hyde. Hulk is a rip-off of Jekyll and Hyde where the twist is the giant brutish monster is the good one, although that isn't a facet of the character non comic media tends to embrace all that often.
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Ravane posted:Hulk is really just a rip-off of Jekyll and Hyde. They should make a tv series out of that, though. A hulk tv show would just do more harm than good. People are aware that there was a TV show, right? Or is this at the point of ancient history and I should accept the inevitable march of time leading to my own death? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqZuhrDM5vE
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Boogaleeboo posted:Hulk is a rip-off of Jekyll and Hyde where the twist is the giant brutish monster is the good one, although that isn't a facet of the character non comic media tends to embrace all that often. The Hulk isn't good or bad. He's not some 'roided out Forrest Gump, he's a force of nature too stupid to direct his rage and strength towards anything unless it's punching him in the dick. He's not a twist on Jekyll and Hyde, unless you're talking about SOME current iterations of him. He's an everyman's power fantasy with some strong subversions - the ability to be all powerful but no opportunity to appreciate it.
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Ravane posted:Hulk is really just a rip-off of Jekyll and Hyde. They should make a tv series out of that, though. A hulk tv show would just do more harm than good. There's the BBC show from a few years back.
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Some Numbers posted:There's the BBC show from a few years back. I was actually making a reference to "Do No Harm" which was a 2013 NBC series based on Jekyll and Hyde. It was cancelled after two episodes.
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Some Numbers posted:There's the BBC show from a few years back. Jekyll is a loving amazing series and should be watched immediately.
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Ravane posted:I was actually making a reference to "Do No Harm" which was a 2013 NBC series based on Jekyll and Hyde. And it wasn't even that bad. It was just a 1hr drama on NBC during the last 8 years. You know, canceled.
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B.B. Rodriguez posted:And it wasn't even that bad. It was just a 1hr drama on NBC during the last 8 years. You know, canceled. Grimm is on its third season and got renewed for a fourth.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Jekyll is a loving amazing series and should be watched immediately. With a typical bullshit punchout Moffatt ending. "HYDE IS THE POWER OF LOVE" 
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eriktown posted:With a typical bullshit punchout Moffatt ending. "HYDE IS THE POWER OF LOVE" The actual, final scene made no sense to me and I choose to believe it doesn't exist. The rest of the series is really good though.
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Some Numbers posted:Grimm is on its third season and got renewed for a fourth. That is the exception. 90% of Nbc shows have been canceled in the last 8 years. Plus Grimm is the only show they have getting decent numbers in the same demo as Arrow.
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B.B. Rodriguez posted:And it wasn't even that bad. It was just a 1hr drama on NBC during the last 8 years. You know, canceled. In that show didn't Hyde hire people to kill Jekyll?
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boom boom boom posted:In that show didn't Hyde hire people to kill Jekyll? As far as I remember, no, but Jekyll had him effectively suppressed through drugs for life 5 years and it really pissed Hyde off to the point, when Hyde was in control, he put him in an impossible situation with a stolen drug dealers car and a lot of drugs.
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Are there any disabled superheroes? Or superheroes with congenital dwarfism? I think I'd like to read about a superpowered man with Down's syndrome. I, of course, don't mean Xavier or Daredevil. Xavier doesn't need to walk and Daredevil can see with his ears. That's cheating. I mean superheroes that are significantly disadvantaged. Like the Flash with no legs. Or cyclops.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_%28comics%29quote:Puck is about half the size of the average man. His condition causes him varying amounts of constant pain.
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Yeah, but he's not disadvantaged or anything. I mean, his superpower is being able to run into things and knock them down. If he were in "pain"-pain, I doubt he'd do that. I think he had a fake version of achondroplasty, which caused that pain. (edit: welp, I guess they said that in the wiki.) Kinda by definition if you're a superhero you're NOT disabled, though. The Hulk's retarded, though. Drifter fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Apr 14, 2014 |
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Oracle.
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I was just answering the dwarfism part. There's tons of blind superheroes.
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Blob's pretty fat.
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Aphrodite posted:I was just answering the dwarfism part. Being a super hero usually makes the disability much less severe than it realistically. Like Daredevil is only blind in the loosest, most liberal definition of blindness. But, technically, you could say he's legally blind.
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MrFlibble posted:Being a super hero usually makes the disability much less severe than it realistically. Like Daredevil is only blind in the loosest, most liberal definition of blindness. Yeah right, I mean, Dr. Midnight's blind, but he's literally the best surgeon in the world and talks to a loving owl or something for gently caress's sake. None of these people is inconvenienced in any way shape or form by their supposed disabilities. The only superheroes inconvenienced in any way are the ugly ones. I've never seen a legit superhero with any actual physical problems that they have to learn to live with in any serious way. Well, Tony Stark was an alcoholic (IT'S A GENE) but even then, whatever. The only thing you have to worry about being a superhero is (if you're a woman) how you're going to be raped or killed or (if you're a man) how your girlfriend is going to be raped or killed. Drifter fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Apr 14, 2014 |
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Echo is deaf. Hal Jordan is literally retarded.
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Drifter posted:Yeah right, I mean, Dr. Midnight's blind, but he's literally the best surgeon in the world and talks to a loving owl or something for gently caress's sake. So you've never read Birds of Prey, I take it. But
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zoux posted:Echo is deaf. Hal Jordan is literally retarded. Well she's kinda with Daredevil in that she's only technically deaf, but speaking of Echo, Taskmaster has literal Super-Alzheimer's.
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There's tons of hosed up mutants like Glob, Ugly John, Beak, Martha Johnson, etc.
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