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Ferrule posted:I figured it was him through context clues but can he also change color as well? I thought it was a mistake at first as well. He can't change color, but he can use any color in his body (like yellow) and since Sinestro is conveniently yellow, black, and pink, well, it's an easy transformation (though you may notice that his Sinestro has red skin so it's not perfect) TwoPair fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Jan 1, 2016 |
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Ferrule posted:I figured it was him through context clues but can he also change color as well? I thought it was a mistake at first as well. Sinestro's palette can be copied with Plasticman's once you include the black and gold on Plastic Man's uniform.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 01:41 |
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I'm the snidely whiplash face on Plastic Sinestro's chest
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 01:41 |
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I was just about to ask if he'd suddenly become able to change his colors before noticing the skin was the wrong color. I really need to read Plastic Man, it looks like Cyborg looking at Sinestro to check the mustache is a great touch.Gavok posted:Here you go. And thank you, that's exactly what I was looking for!
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 01:54 |
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Travis343 posted:I'm the snidely whiplash face on Plastic Sinestro's chest It's honestly a better symbol. He should ask Plas if he can licence it for the Corps.
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Keeshhound posted:Isn't Plastic Man functionally immortal? I can't honestly think of a better use for that than harassing evil superman. Yes. He got atomized once. Like, literally broken down into individual molecules and scattered throughout the cosmos. One of the Justice League b-team members put him back together, and after that he quit being a super hero for awhile. It's worth mentioning that during this Batman very seriously said he considered Plastic Man to be one of, if not the, most powerful members of the Justice League because of this. I'll be damned if I remember what the series was, though.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 03:42 |
I think Plas is completely indestructible, completely immune to mental influence, and has his wacky rubber powers. While the BatMetrics may be biased, that's a pretty good toolkit.
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Who What Now posted:Yes. He got atomized once. Like, literally broken down into individual molecules and scattered throughout the cosmos. One of the Justice League b-team members put him back together, and after that he quit being a super hero for awhile. Joe Kelly's JLA, which is honestly in the running for best JLA run. He wasn't scattered through the cosmos, though. Just the ocean for a ridiculous amount of time.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 04:29 |
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Mr. Maltose posted:Joe Kelly's JLA, which is honestly in the running for best JLA run. He wasn't scattered through the cosmos, though. Just the ocean for a ridiculous amount of time. Eh, functionally the same thing. I was just a wee lad at the time, and I remember feeling vindicated that even Batman thought my favorite JLA member was pretty powerful. But yeah, he's also possibly agelessly immortal.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 04:36 |
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Doesn't getting frozen gently caress with his rubbery-ness, or am I mixing him up with Mr. Fantastic? He's gonna end up getting frozen with Supes' super-breath and then shattered, isn't he? I expect nothing happy out of Injustice.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 05:28 |
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Well it wouldn't kill him, but freezing him would keep him out of commission for a while...
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 05:32 |
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Who What Now posted:It's worth mentioning that during this Batman very seriously said he considered Plastic Man to be one of, if not the, most powerful members of the Justice League because of this. I'll be damned if I remember what the series was, though. Not this one I'm sure, but I don't care. he could kill us all...
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 05:43 |
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Doc Hawkins posted:Not this one I'm sure, but I don't care. loving Frank Miller...
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 05:48 |
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Doesn't getting frozen gently caress with his rubbery-ness, or am I mixing him up with Mr. Fantastic?
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Who What Now posted:Yes. He got atomized once. Like, literally broken down into individual molecules and scattered throughout the cosmos. One of the Justice League b-team members put him back together, and after that he quit being a super hero for awhile. Batman also considered The Ten Eyed man to be his most dangerous/deadly foe, and the dude literally just had an eyeball on each finger. Maybe he's not the best DBZ scouter around.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:40 |
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Doc Hawkins posted:Not this one I'm sure, but I don't care. That's kind of how it was in the Kelly JLA thing. From what I remember, the League went back in time 3,000 years and had some kind of adventure in Atlantis. They all were killed and then resurrected. All but Plastic Man for some reason. Then they returned to the present and Batman realized that Plas didn't come back because he didn't die in the first place. He can't die. He was just scraps of himself, spread across the ocean floor, completely conscious for 3,000 years. They tracked him down, put him together at HQ and Firestorm was all, "lol I bet he's going to be bouncing around and stuff." Batman's all and tells him to shut the gently caress up because they're dealing with a being that's pretty drat powerful and probably out of his mind from being alone with only his thoughts for several thousand years. Plas left the team for a while and tried to live a normal life with his estranged son, but Batman brought him back because Martian Manhunter went rogue and was no longer weak to fire. Plas was Batman's ace in the hole on that because he can't be mind-controlled and his morphing powers are superior to J'onn's.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 06:45 |
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Wait what? J'onns was supposed to be on a molecular level, yeah? Like that was a plot point when he fought Superman, and thus could grow spikes that would actually penetrate him. Yeah yeah, people's power levels and skill sets vary wildly from run to run.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 07:17 |
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Johnny Aztec posted:Wait what? J'onns was supposed to be on a molecular level, yeah? Like that was a plot point when he fought Superman, and thus could grow spikes that would actually penetrate him. To summarize the arc: Batman puts together a new JLA team, and for some reason that no one can understand, he invites Plastic Man to join. Plastic Man does his goofy cartoon character schtick and generally serves as comic relief. Then the Martian Manhunter goes crazy, turns into a 40 story tall shapeshifting fire demon and tries to destroy the world by mind controlling world leaders into launching nukes. While the rest of the League is chasing ICBMs, Plastic Man turns into a 40 story tall goofy cartoon character and punches J'onn through a building. Batman explains that he brought Plastic Man into the League just so he would have someone who could go toe to toe with the Martian Manhunter, since he's immune to telepathy and he's a more imaginative shapeshifter. Then North Korea gets nuked and we get that one page where flash rescues an entire city's worth of people by running at 180 quintillion times the speed of light or something like that.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 07:48 |
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I always liked that scene in Morrison's JLA where Circe turns Plas into a pig and it stops him for all of half a page, if that.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 08:03 |
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Was that Millar that made him Big Barda's dress? Patton Oswalt had him do the same to Poison Ivy when she tried to poison a party at the Justice League moon base.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 08:22 |
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 10:04 |
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I'm one of the weirdos who can't stand Joe Kelly, especially his Deadpool (Duggan/Posehn forever), but I recognize how good his Plastic Man is. Those Injustice scenes are top notch, though, and totally convinced me to pay full price for a comic fr the first time in months (Comixology has tricked me into treating comic like Steam sales).
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Die Laughing posted:Was that Millar that made him Big Barda's dress? Patton Oswalt had him do the same to Poison Ivy when she tried to poison a party at the Justice League moon base. Mark Waid, apparently: http://everything2.com/title/JLA+%252333
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 11:01 |
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That set of panels was the very first I ever saw of Plastic Man
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 11:05 |
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That bit is great and it's Plastic Man to a T. E: in universe proper of coyrse: Kyle Baker run rules/Jack Cole stuff holds up amazingly well E2: grant Morrison and Mark waid have both had him change color, which is weird considering their slavish devotion to continuity Emo Szyslak fucked around with this message at 11:10 on Jan 1, 2016 |
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Doesn't getting frozen gently caress with his rubbery-ness, or am I mixing him up with Mr. Fantastic? Batman's method of stopping Plastic Man from Tower of Babel was to freeze him and then shatter him with a hammer.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 11:12 |
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Shapeshifting when you're not limited by biology is a pretty top-tier superpower. I guess Plas doesn't have any way of getting out of the sun if Supes throws him into it though. It wouldn't kill him, he'd just be stuck.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 14:58 |
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Gavok posted:Plas left the team for a while and tried to live a normal life with his estranged son, but Batman brought him back because Martian Manhunter went rogue and was no longer weak to fire. Plas was Batman's ace in the hole on that because he can't be mind-controlled and his morphing powers are superior to J'onn's.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 15:05 |
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As far as I know, his brain is just distributed throughout his body, so it'd be hard to get a read on his mind.
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:As far as I know, his brain is just distributed throughout his body, so it'd be hard to get a read on his mind. I think they go for this "his mind is as rubbery as he is" approach.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 15:12 |
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Injustice is great, period. Plastic Man being written in-character is just the latest thing it got right.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 15:26 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:I think they go for this "his mind is as rubbery as he is" approach. From what i vaguely remember, it's this to a literal degree- his brain is rubber, so it can't be read or controlled by a psychic for the same reason robots can't- it's not biological.
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Serious Frolicking posted:Injustice is great, period. Plastic Man being written in-character is just the latest thing it got right. I'm a lazy broke bastard, but everything I've seen of the series on this board has told me that somehow the quickie tie-in comic to a violent video game is the best written thing to come out of DC in years.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 17:07 |
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Avulsion posted:To summarize the arc: Batman puts together a new JLA team, and for some reason that no one can understand, he invites Plastic Man to join. Plastic Man does his goofy cartoon character schtick and generally serves as comic relief. Then the Martian Manhunter goes crazy, turns into a 40 story tall shapeshifting fire demon and tries to destroy the world by mind controlling world leaders into launching nukes. While the rest of the League is chasing ICBMs, Plastic Man turns into a 40 story tall goofy cartoon character and punches J'onn through a building. Batman explains that he brought Plastic Man into the League just so he would have someone who could go toe to toe with the Martian Manhunter, since he's immune to telepathy and he's a more imaginative shapeshifter. Then North Korea gets nuked and we get that one page where flash rescues an entire city's worth of people by running at 180 quintillion times the speed of light or something like that. I have only ever seen the North Korea panels with Flash anyone have the JLA kaiju battle pages?
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 17:29 |
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Kyle Baker's Plastic Man is vulnerable to acetone. It's not his kryptonite, since kryptonite doesn't melt Superman...I guess it's his Dip, like from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 17:36 |
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Sometimes he just rips them in half. Anyway Darth Vader Annual
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 17:41 |
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drat it, Sentry, you had ONE JOB! Actually, you also had to keep the Void in check on a daily basis, but... okay, you had TWO JOBS! Choco1980 posted:I'm a lazy broke bastard, but everything I've seen of the series on this board has told me that somehow the quickie tie-in comic to a violent video game is the best written thing to come out of DC in years. It's actually helped a lot by existing alongside New 52 because as dark and messed up as it can be at times, the underlying point is, "This is NOT how it should be!" Kind of like Plastic Man's rant. New 52 never had that self-awareness.
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# ? Jan 1, 2016 17:53 |
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SilverSupernova posted:Sometimes he just rips them in half. Are we posting this in the good comic book art thread as well, because wow, man
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