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Cabbit posted:At the same time, "You're better than me at an area of science" is incredibly high praise coming from Reed loving Richards. Yeah that is what makes it great, Reed honestly means it as a compliment.
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Which is why that Pym beats Reed scenario rings false, Reed Richards isn't a boasting gloating dick. Him telling Hank Pym he knew more about Pym Particles would have just been Reed presenting a fact and never meant as an insult. Being tactless, blunt, absent minded and honest with no regard to people's feelings is what make Reed Richards a dick. Pym would have gotten there to find a 36 page packet explaining things while Richards built some impossible bullshit on the other side never even looking up until Pym actually beat it and by then Richards would be so absorbed in whatever he made that he forgot the science off completely.
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Always freaking hated that panel.
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goldenoreos posted:Always freaking hated that panel. Great red text title material, though.
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E: Better answer, Chris Roberts? Malachite_Dragon fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Mar 6, 2016 |
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Flesh Forge posted:Next issue: Mister Fantastic opens an E/N thread "I'm just trying to save the world using math and my wife keeps bothering me to spend more time with my kids. I don't feel like she understands how important my work is. Any advice?" "DOOM THINKS YOU SHOULD SEVER"
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TwoPair posted:"I'm just trying to save the world using math and my wife keeps bothering me to spend more time with my kids. I don't feel like she understands how important my work is. Any advice?"
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Namor, stop signing your posts.
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The Atom was based on a real person as well, Joe 'The Mighty Atom' Greenstein was a strongman who was only 5'4" and 140lbs, but was freaky strong. His life story reads something like a superhero comic. http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=651068116795
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Say Nothing posted:The Atom was based on a real person as well, Joe 'The Mighty Atom' Greenstein was a strongman who was only 5'4" and 140lbs, but was freaky strong. quote:In 1928 a Buffalo newspaper mentioned that he secured a Fairchild FC-2 loving AIRPLANE to his hair with a chain, then held the aircraft in place while the pilot revved the engine up to 30 miles an hour. Another strongman tried this same feat of strength a few years later and died when he scalped himself. 
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Richards, you fool. Clearly the answer to increasing your genius is to give yourself more autism.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Christ Richards is a dick. This is what he changed his name to when he decided 'Mr. Fantastic' just wasn't enough any more.
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Discendo Vox posted:Great red text title material, though. 
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The lazy eye is a nice touch.
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Just let the text linger a little longer, and it'd be perfect.
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It's kind of weird that the Atom's motivation was basically "is very short". I mean yeah, writers moved on to the normal guy can't compete with demigods kind of angle, but I can't imagine that kind of character being conceived of today.
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Isn't that what Puck was originally though? Like Byrne intended him to just be a (relatively) normal dwarf. Not that Puck is super recent but still a bit later than The Atom.
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I think Scaramouche means specifically with how the Atom's whole thing is compensating for being short and showing the world he's strong in spite of his height.
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I never thought Puck actually was shown to HAVE very much motivation, he always seemed to be just "short curmudgeonly agile guy" 
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Dwarfs are a totally separate thing anyway. Atom isn't a dwarf, he's just short, and obviously we still have an idea of physically imposing people today, but the divide between men who are "tough" and men who are "weak" is very of the era. Atom is kind of cool in that context, but the concept doesn't carry the same weight today. WickedHate fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Mar 7, 2016 |
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If you've ever watched an "open weight" MMA competition, you know that short people actually do get their asses beat in fights with big guys.
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Yeah but conceptionally "haha that guy's shor-holy poo poo he's kicking our asses!" just isn't as fresh.
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I only bring it up because due to movies, a lot of people actually think that if he knows the secret art of Karate, a tiny guy can beat up a room full of bikers.
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Lurdiak posted:If you've ever watched an "open weight" MMA competition, you know that short people actually do get their asses beat in fights with big guys. I don't pretend to know anything about fighting but I imagine that there's a difference between trained MMA fighters and random mooks on the street.
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Avulsion posted:I don't pretend to know anything about fighting but I imagine that there's a difference between trained MMA fighters and random mooks on the street. Yeah, random mooks on the street will stab you.
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There's still something to be said for the man who raises himself up beyond what society thinks him capable, and stands shoulder to shoulder with gods. Without starting with billions and billions of dollars I mean.
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Basically Joe Greenstein's story, except he became a strongman rather than a superhero.
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Lurdiak posted:I only bring it up because due to movies, a lot of people actually think that if he knows the secret art of Karate, a tiny guy can beat up a room full of bikers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRK_OMQGQlc
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Lurdiak posted:I only bring it up because due to movies, a lot of people actually think that if he knows the secret art of Karate, a tiny guy can beat up a room full of bikers. This is a recurring theme in another thread I like to read/post in
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Flesh Forge posted:This is a recurring theme in another thread I like to read/post in I once saw a 3 page derail in a boxing thread about if Butterbean in his prime could defeat Mike Tyson today. Fighting sports fans are worse than superhero fans.
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Cassa posted:There's still something to be said for the man who raises himself up beyond what society thinks him capable, and stands shoulder to shoulder with gods. Shoulder to elbow, you mean.
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I don't know the issue, just been told it's from the Thor solo series post-Civl War. Thor is pissed that Tony cloned him. Also, Tony threatened to invade Asgard.   I'd love to post the whole thing  and while some would say a one-sided beatdown isn't badass, I just love seeing Civil War Tony get his just deserts for some of the assholery he pulled.
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Not Civil War, Thor didn't come back for that. It's from his solo series which started a little bit afterward.
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 Shows what I know. I'll edit my post, hopefully someone can tell me where it's from.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:I don't know the issue, just been told it's from the Thor solo series post-Civl War. Thor is pissed that Tony cloned him. Also, Tony threatened to invade Asgard. Ever since Bendis cranked up Shellhead's power level, he's been such an enormous rear end in a top hat, which makes the beat-downs wonderful when they happen. This one's from New Avengers: Illuminati.      
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Hm yes let's have a fistfight with someone with super-strength and can breathe water in his element, this can't possibly go wrong! For someone so supposedly super-intelligent, Tony is really really loving dumb.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Hm yes let's have a fistfight with someone with super-strength and can breathe water in his element, this can't possibly go wrong! Is there still a difference between Namor's power level on land vs. underwater? I seem to recall a time when it was explicitly known that you do not want to face him underwater.
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If his socking Iron Man through the ceiling for calling him not a king is any indication, I'm gonna go with no.
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