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Personally, I call this a blatant abuse of powers. The idea was that if you teleported into something solid, you'd die because two bodies can't occupy the same space. You want to make me believe that there's enough empty space in the Blob's guts for both Nightcrawler AND a shark?
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Ashcans posted:Can Blob turn his power on and off? If not, how did he get nipple rings? Did he find some piercing parlor with the power cosmic or something? Double sided tape for piercings and a sharpie for the tatoos.
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Aug 12, 2014 03:54
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WickedHate posted:Between the nipple rings and cheese doodle express it's hard to take that seriously. Neige posted:Personally, I call this a blatant abuse of powers. The idea was that if you teleported into something solid, you'd die because two bodies can't occupy the same space. You want to make me believe that there's enough empty space in the Blob's guts for both Nightcrawler AND a shark?
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Aug 12, 2014 04:04
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Neige posted:Personally, I call this a blatant abuse of powers. The idea was that if you teleported into something solid, you'd die because two bodies can't occupy the same space. You want to make me believe that there's enough empty space in the Blob's guts for both Nightcrawler AND a shark? Doesn't Nightcrawler teleport by passing through some other dimension? Or was that just one of the cartoons? 'Cause it looked to me like he was holding open a portal inside Blob. Not that that's any better, but still.
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Aug 12, 2014 04:20
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redbackground posted:I'm not sure why you would in the first place. If it's a parody, it's not a great one, but without any further context, the dramatic, unexaggerated narration and the fact that it was posted in the Badass panels thread gives the idea it's meant to be taken as an awesome moment, but it's just goofy.
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Aug 12, 2014 04:22
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WickedHate posted:If it's a parody, it's not a great one, but without any further context, the dramatic, unexaggerated narration and the fact that it was posted in the Badass panels thread gives the idea it's meant to be taken as an awesome moment, but it's just goofy.
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Aug 12, 2014 04:28
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And now you understand why they have child-proof caps.
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Aug 12, 2014 04:32
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And I'm not saying it should be highbrow art, just that elements of it clash horribly.
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Aug 12, 2014 04:33
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It's one of those comic book things, where it goes so far beyond what you'd expect that you accept it. It's a semi evil Night Crawler too, right? If I remember correctly, he's from AoA and only helps out Uncanny X-Force to get revenge, and abandons them as soon as it serves his purpose So it falls under the category of bad guys being able to do more extreme poo poo with their powers than the heroes. It's a brutal version of Superman flying backwards around the globe to turn back time. If it'd been the aforementioned teleporting grenades inside Blob's guts, it wouldn't work as well.
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Aug 12, 2014 06:59
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Skwirl posted:It's one of those comic book things, where it goes so far beyond what you'd expect that you accept it. It's a semi evil Night Crawler too, right? If I remember correctly, he's from AoA and only helps out Uncanny X-Force to get revenge, and abandons them as soon as it serves his purpose So it falls under the category of bad guys being able to do more extreme poo poo with their powers than the heroes. It's a brutal version of Superman flying backwards around the globe to turn back time. Yeah, AoA Nightcrawler was literally only with X-Force so he could kill AoA Blob (who was also in 616) in retaliation for Blob killing his wife. He ditched the team mid-mission to do that shark-kill then hosed right off. Then he died in some crossover trying to get back home. Teleporting a shark into a man is silly, but hey, it's a comic involving a man whose power is being so fat he is literally immovable so whatever, I think it strides the line between funny and cool just fine
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Aug 12, 2014 07:47
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Uthor posted:Sharks? Who said anything about sharks? (I did.) The guy whose job it is to say "hey guys this is really dumb do something else" dropped the ball pretty bad on this one.
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Aug 12, 2014 08:04
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It's like they just keep trying to top the Ultimates blob.
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Aug 12, 2014 08:16
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I'll always love that sequence though because that shark looks like it died and went to shark heaven.
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Aug 12, 2014 09:29
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Pierson posted:I'll always love that sequence though because that shark looks like it died and went to shark heaven. It did in the end 
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Aug 12, 2014 10:24
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It died doing what it loved.
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Aug 12, 2014 10:32
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Hi I'm The Blob and my superpower is being really really fat. Take me seriously motherfuckers.
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Aug 12, 2014 10:49
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Flesh Forge posted:Hi I'm The Blob and my superpower is being really really fat. Take me seriously motherfuckers. Sure, in his first appearance the Blob was explicitly introduced by Professor X saying something like, "To me, my X-Men! Cerebro has detected a mutant who could be the deadliest threat to the entire world!"
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Aug 12, 2014 11:13
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Well, to be fair, they probably would have dawdled around if he said "To me my mutants! Cerebro has found a really, really, really fat guy!"
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Aug 12, 2014 11:18
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It would've been entertaining if Angel or Iceman or somebody had said, "Come off it, Xavier. Last time you said that you sent us out to fight the Vanisher." (Also true.)
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Aug 12, 2014 11:55
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zoux posted:Oh no how will intergalactic badass Captain Marvel deal with the threat that is some sharks. And why is she wearing flippers?
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Aug 12, 2014 11:55
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I always wondered why they bothered with UNUS THE UNTOUCHABLE because, basically the dude's power was "Hey, I can't be touched by anything. Seriously, it's like a body wide force field and I totally just, have pretty much no offensive capability whatsoever", but damned if he WASN'T A MUTANT POWER THAT COULD THREATEN THE VERY FABRIC OF THE EARTH ITSELF! I think he became a supervillain because people kept calling him Anus though. That's gotta leave a mark on you growing up.
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Aug 12, 2014 12:30
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I always wondered why they bothered with UNUS THE UNTOUCHABLE because, basically the dude's power was "Hey, I can't be touched by anything. Seriously, it's like a body wide force field and I totally just, have pretty much no offensive capability whatsoever", but damned if he WASN'T A MUTANT POWER THAT COULD THREATEN THE VERY FABRIC OF THE EARTH ITSELF! If I remember correct Unus could turn his power on and off at will. Being able to become invincible whenever you want is pretty goddamn powerful with even a minor amount of thought. Also he could hit you with a baseball bat. 
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Aug 12, 2014 12:53
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Eh, kinda. It started to get the better of him until it started pushing away all the air and suffocating him. It's a nifty power, but at the same time you can be buried alive, lobbed in space, lobbed into the ocean, poisoned, blinded, deafened, etc. Just cause something can't touch you doesn't mean you can't be hurt or killed by something else. My point though, wasn't that it's a poo poo power or not a poo poo power, it's that it's hardly the POWER THAT COULD WRECK THE VERY SUBSTANCE OF THE PLANET that Prof. X always said about these guys. I think at the height of his power, he was hanging out with the blob in the circus, and I think he even went on a wrestling streak for a while. Not really the world ending threat that Prof made him out to be.
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Aug 12, 2014 13:33
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Metal Loaf posted:Sure, in his first appearance the Blob was explicitly introduced by Professor X saying something like, "To me, my X-Men! Cerebro has detected a mutant who could be the deadliest threat to the entire world!" That day, Jean Grey was amazed to discover that when Xavier was saying "Cerebro has detected a mutant who could be the deadliest threat to the entire world", what he meant was, "I love you."
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Aug 12, 2014 13:40
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Everyone loved and/or was creepily obsessed with Jean in early X-Men, because she was the only girl on a team of guys. One element of early Claremont that's often overlooked is that he actually referred back to the Silver Age run quite a lot (up to and including the time Cyclops convinced the Sentinels that the best way to destroy mutants was to fly into space and fight the sun), and when Xavier introduces the team to Lilandra for the first time, and Jean is there, he says something well dodgy like, "She is Lilandra, princess of the Shi'ar, and I love her as I once thought I loved you."
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Aug 12, 2014 14:11
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Ashcans posted:Can Blob turn his power on and off? If not, how did he get nipple rings? Did he find some piercing parlor with the power cosmic or something? Well, like he said, nothing gets inside him unless he wants it to. (Or: in AoA, Norrin Radd decided to settle down on Earth and run a piercing parlor. Your choice.)
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Aug 12, 2014 14:14
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Parahexavoctal posted:Well, like he said, nothing gets inside him unless he wants it to. As long as I get a choice, I'm going with option two.
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Aug 12, 2014 14:23
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I'm sorry I posted something that was a little bit silly in a comic book forum. Here's something 100% serious to make up for it.    N.E.X.T.Wave #1
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Aug 12, 2014 14:47
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ImpAtom posted:If I remember correct Unus could turn his power on and off at will. Being able to become invincible whenever you want is pretty goddamn powerful with even a minor amount of thought. So that's why police never shoot white men.
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Aug 12, 2014 15:49
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Is Elsa Bloodstone any good outside of Nextwave?
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Aug 12, 2014 17:37
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Shark week you say:  I heart King Shark All from Secret Six.
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Aug 12, 2014 17:52
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Hakkesshu posted:Is Elsa Bloodstone any good outside of Nextwave? Don't bother with her eponymous pre-Nextwave series.
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Aug 12, 2014 17:59
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Hakkesshu posted:Is Elsa Bloodstone any good outside of Nextwave? Elsa Bloodstone post-Nextwave : Elsa Bloodstone pre-Nextwave :: Machine Man post-Nextwave : Machine Man pre-Nextwave.
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Aug 12, 2014 18:13
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Didn't someone make him lovely again though?
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Aug 12, 2014 19:31
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Yeah, everybody who wrote him after Nextwave.
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Aug 12, 2014 19:55
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With all the recent Marvel success, I think a self-parodying Nextmovie should totally be possible. Yeah, that will never happen.
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Aug 12, 2014 20:03
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Mr. Maltose posted:Yeah, everybody who wrote him after Nextwave. No, he was great in Marvel Zombies 3. Then he was all "beep boop I am a robot" in all his appearances.
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Aug 12, 2014 20:06
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It boggles me how Bender-Lite is such an enlightened step up for Machine Man. Dude was great in Nextwave because everything was, taken out of that system he was just as dull but now with added sass.
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Aug 12, 2014 20:26
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Metal Loaf posted:Sure, in his first appearance the Blob was explicitly introduced by Professor X saying something like, "To me, my X-Men! Cerebro has detected a mutant who could be the deadliest threat to the entire world!" Isn't the Blob's power actually gravity control, and he's just really stupid? Source may be one of those terrible Generation-X novels from the 90s (one of the times Synch was thinking about other people's powers or something)? Either that, or my brain is playing tricks on me. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Aug 12, 2014 |
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PoptartsNinja posted:Isn't the Blob's power actually gravity control, and he's just really stupid? Someday I'll find the X-writer who decided to make every stupid power secretly an AMAZING MOLECULAR POWER that the user was too dumb to use properly, and I will end them.
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