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mind the walrus posted:Well that's it. He's Hawkeye without the swagger and come-from-behind confidence. I love him playing off Spider-Man or Captain America. I was less of a fan of his Shadowland mini or Heroes for Hire though HfH did pretty well with him. He's just not really a leading man or protagonist for a book I don't think.
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Selachian posted:Yeah, Paladin dated Wasp for a while but she eventually ditched him to go back to Pym. That's probably the closest he's actually gotten to an A-lister. I like the idea that Janet has people- not just ONE, but multiple- that she pays purely to deal with all her booty calls. That's a 1% problem, there.
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Gaz-L posted:I like the idea that Janet has people- not just ONE, but multiple- that she pays purely to deal with all her booty calls. That's a 1% problem, there. The Devil Wears Unstable Molecules
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NorgLyle posted:He's one of my absolute favorite Marvel D-listers. My impression of Paladin, dating all the way back to an old issue of Marvel Two In One where he was teamed up with Spidey and Dazzler (and wearing a hideous green and yellow version of his costume) is that he'd very much like to be an amoral dickbag but can't quite ever manage to pull it off. He doesn't see himself as a hero, he doesn't try to do the right thing; if anything he tries really really hard to do the tactical realism expedient thing but can't ever quite manage to pull it off. I don't remember which issue -- it might have been the MTU one you mention -- but I recall a fight where Paladin was bragging to Spidey that his suit gave him "the strength of three men." (Which is kind of sad in itself when you're fighting freaking SPIDER-MAN.) Spidey's response: "Which three -- Moe, Larry, and Curly?"
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NorgLyle posted:He's one of my absolute favorite Marvel D-listers. My impression of Paladin, dating all the way back to an old issue of Marvel Two In One where he was teamed up with Spidey and Dazzler (and wearing a hideous green and yellow version of his costume) is that he'd very much like to be an amoral dickbag but can't quite ever manage to pull it off. He doesn't see himself as a hero, he doesn't try to do the right thing; if anything he tries really really hard to do the tactical realism expedient thing but can't ever quite manage to pull it off. He's a great foil for Cap. He's a big part of the Superia Strategem storyline from '91. The gist is that he and Cap have to fight The Femizons, which is just another excuse for Paladin to hit on women. And any character, written well, can star in a book. See: Superior Foes and Boomerang.
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Red posted:And any character, written well, can star in a book. See: Superior Foes and Boomerang.
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Selachian posted:I don't remember which issue -- it might have been the MTU one you mention -- but I recall a fight where Paladin was bragging to Spidey that his suit gave him "the strength of three men." (Which is kind of sad in itself when you're fighting freaking SPIDER-MAN.) Strength of three men definitely isn't enough: 
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Lobok posted:Strength of three men definitely isn't enough: This feels like a scene out of JoJo. "You're wrong! My stand, [NICKLEBACK], is a lot stronger than ten men! THWIPTHWIPTHWIPTHWIP!"
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WickedHate posted:This feels like a scene out of JoJo. ftfy
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WickedHate posted:This feels like a scene out of JoJo. Oh come, it'd have to be the 60s Spider-Man theme - or the one from Spectacular Spider-Man.
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The Question IRL posted:By the Great Green skinned Ogre, Of course they are. 
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WickedHate posted:Hero is a good song and was a great choice for the first Spider-Man film. 
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NorgLyle posted:Oh I 100% agree and I'd love to see him get a regular gig in something. My thing with Heroes for Hire was that they tried to write him as a hard luck good guy and while that can work, as Hawkguy demonstrated, it isn't right for Paladin and loses a lot about what makes him such an appealing character for me. I remember he was pretty good during the dark reign Thunderbolts.
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Wade Wilson posted:Of course they are. That's a pretty cruel thing to do to Nickelback, doncha think?
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prefect posted:That's a pretty cruel thing to do to Nickelback, doncha think? They're both money-grubbing one-note poseurs, so little of column A, a little of column B.
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mind the walrus posted:Yeah that's a p. ballsy cabbie to openly gently caress with the guy like that. His first guess was Spidey, that means he's a New York cabbie
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AnonSpore posted:His first guess was Spidey, that means he's a New York cabbie I have no idea if it's the case. But the green sweater and short hair is making me think that's Sandman driving the cab.
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Section Z posted:I have no idea if it's the case. But the green sweater and short hair is making me think that's Sandman driving the cab. Ok Marvel, get on this: twenty to thirty pages a month of Cab Driver Sandman. He's gone straight, but uses his occupation to gently caress with C-List heroes and villains for laughs. Make this happen!
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Ok Marvel, get on this: twenty to thirty pages a month of Cab Driver Sandman. He's gone straight, but uses his occupation to gently caress with C-List heroes and villains for laughs. Make this happen! If it was funny I'd buy it.
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prefect posted:That's a pretty cruel thing to do to Nickelback, doncha think? Kiss get bonus points for "kiss meets the Phantom of the park"
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Ok Marvel, get on this: twenty to thirty pages a month of Cab Driver Sandman. He's gone straight, but uses his occupation to gently caress with C-List heroes and villains for laughs. Make this happen! It doesn't even have to be Sandy. It can just be Joe Schmoe, Superdick behind the wheel.
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Choco1980 posted:It doesn't even have to be Sandy. It can just be Joe Schmoe, Superdick behind the wheel. It'd make more sense to be Overdrive.  (How did he get these fantastic powers?!) 
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:Overdrive has such a specific powers set and I love it. Yes. I felt he was criminally underused in Superior Foes. They didn't make enough ridiculous, souped-up vehicles. I once played a guy in Mutants and Masterminds (basically superhero D&D) that had Overdrive's powers. It was amazing.
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What exactly are his powers, apart from rad driving skills and extremely genre-savvy career planning?
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Dolash posted:What exactly are his powers, apart from rad driving skills and extremely genre-savvy career planning? If you ever played Crackdown and remember watching your vehicle upgrade, he has an extremely loosely defined ability to do that to any [motor?] vehicle. Or if Pimp My Ride was a show where each person's car was changed not by a team of mechanics and body shop wunderkinds but by Xzibit's Midas touch, that is Overdrive.
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WickedHate posted:Wait, how the hell did a mob boss's injection do that? That's so broadly defined and magical! It's like if an amateur chemist mixed some prescription drugs together and created the Green Lantern ring. Mister Negative himself had vaguely defined magic powers so it's not too much of a stretch.
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WickedHate posted:Wait, how the hell did a mob boss's injection do that? That's so broadly defined and magical! It's like if an amateur chemist mixed some prescription drugs together and created the Green Lantern ring. nanomachines, son. dang, you walked into that one so incredibly hard. like, i have never seen a better opportunity to use that quote.
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WickedHate posted:Wait, how the hell did a mob boss's injection do that? That's so broadly defined and magical! It's like if an amateur chemist mixed some prescription drugs together and created the Green Lantern ring. Unstable molecules?
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WickedHate posted:Wait, how the hell did a mob boss's injection do that? That's so broadly defined and magical! It's like if an amateur chemist mixed some prescription drugs together and created the Green Lantern ring. You probably don't want to look up Chemistro, who invented an alchemy gun. I suppose you could  Overdrive's powers by saying the nano-bacteria were already pre-programmed to work only within the narrow scope of advanced machine vehicles and with all the knowledge/specifications on the other technology necessary and compatible for pimping them up? Maybe some other beings looked at Earth and erroneously thought that cars were the dominant lifeform and created the nano-bacteria to rapidly evolve and change them, like when someone comes along in comics and decides to mutate humans.How Mr. Negative got his hands on it though, who knows. Fell out of the sky?
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Serious Frolicking posted:nanomachines, son. Yeah okay I can buy that actually.
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