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Well since we did the Squadron and there's been talk of him. I think we'll just go ahead and knock this one out. Day 51: Nighthawk Here's both Nighthawks as written up in the Marvel Handbook.    
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They both got their powers from drinking strange concoctions that somehow gave them both the same powers. Psychosomatic telekinesis does it again.
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As I understand it, and I don't, really, Grandmaster created the Squadron Sinister by gathering, manipulating and empowering random people that he happened to know were heroes in an alternate earth, because he thought that'd be the best way to beat the mightiest heroes of this earth. So it's not quite a coincidence so much as a cosmic entity being a plagiarist.
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The only real important difference you need to remember between the two Nighthawks is that one likes to show off his butt.
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I'm sad that the Supreme Power versions never got to be in a Handbook.
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NorgLyle posted:I'm sad that the Supreme Power versions never got to be in a Handbook. I'm not. 
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The very beginnings of the book were pretty good and fun. It's just a shame that JMS went crazy or whatever.
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NorgLyle posted:I'm sad that the Supreme Power versions never got to be in a Handbook. I'm pretty sure they got this in 2005 and then nothing else until the Fact Files series. 
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I have nearly the entire run of Defenders, and Nighthawk II is the most boring, generic character ever. The only thing notable about him is how long he managed to stick with the Defenders when the membership was changing every other month or so.
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So did these two ever meet in a diner or what
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Selachian posted:I have nearly the entire run of Defenders, and Nighthawk II is the most boring, generic character ever. The only thing notable about him is how long he managed to stick with the Defenders when the membership was changing every other month or so. I actually kind of love that about Nighthawk; he tries so hard to turn the Defenders into a legit superhero team, and it never works.
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What I like about Nighthawk is that he's a guy who tries really hard to be a superhero but deep down he's more of an accountant or a CEO. But darn it, he really wants to be Batman!
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:I actually kind of love that about Nighthawk; he tries so hard to turn the Defenders into a legit superhero team, and it never works. Lurdiak posted:What I like about Nighthawk is that he's a guy who tries really hard to be a superhero but deep down he's more of an accountant or a CEO. But darn it, he really wants to be Batman! Nighthawk's dad was the CEO of some Big Pharma company, too, wasn't he? That would be an interesting take -- the rich boy who became Batman Lite because he could, since he never had to work & had a ton of money. He's trying to make his mark on the world by building a superhero team but deep down he's a staid, corporate type and dealing with the kinds of people who'd fall into superheroics isn't really his deal. I think you guys figured out a way to make non-Straczynzski Nighthawk worth reading!
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TripleU posted:Nighthawk's dad was the CEO of some Big Pharma company, too, wasn't he? That would be an interesting take -- the rich boy who became Batman Lite because he could, since he never had to work & had a ton of money. He's trying to make his mark on the world by building a superhero team but deep down he's a staid, corporate type and dealing with the kinds of people who'd fall into superheroics isn't really his deal. I think you guys figured out a way to make non-Straczynzski Nighthawk worth reading!
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Was that Nite Owl's background? I really don't remember anymore. He was the least awful character in Watchmen, from what I can recall, so maybe.
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I believe he was an engineer (built all his own tech) who also wrote articles for ornithology journals.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I believe he was an engineer (built all his own tech) who also wrote articles for ornithology journals.
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Day 52: Slug He's really fat. So yeah.   His distinguishing feature is his long torso? OK Handbook.
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So basically he's the Kingpin without the physical fitness. Special Skills and Abilities posted:The Slug's high percentage of fat enables him to float effortlessly in water. It's not a special ability if large swathes of America have it.
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Another very wide man.
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The most impressive one is: Special Ability: Somehow doesn't have diabetes.
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Cactus Jack posted:The most impressive one is: That's totally an assumption your part sir! I'm sure there's an insulin based story with Slug sitting in a desk somewhere at Marvel HQ.
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No, the fact that his light sensitive eyes rate above his weighing a thousand pounds as a limitation is his super power.
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I feel like I should know why that guy is a Party Nazi but it's escaping me atm.
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Seeing Cap face down in an obese man's tit, I'm finally over the classic Cap costume.
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Didn't Slug randomly show up in New Avengers only to be revealed to be a Skrull?
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Rirse posted:Didn't Slug randomly show up in New Avengers only to be revealed to be a Skrull? Do you think Skrulls back in their empire are worried that people are secretly humans?
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Rirse posted:Didn't Slug randomly show up in New Avengers only to be revealed to be a Skrull? Yeah, during Secret Invasion he was one of the many c-list villains in Hood's gang. Hood used Dormammu-vision to figure out he was a skrull and ganked him.
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gently caress. Now I want Mystique to infiiltrate the Skrulls. I'm just going to put Mystique Agent of S.W.O.R.D. out there.
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Open Marriage Night posted:gently caress. Now I want Mystique to infiiltrate the Skrulls. I'm just going to put Mystique Agent on S.W.O.R.D. out there. Honestly the skrulls are so beaten down at this point that it'd be pretty mean to go and gently caress with them. But that's still a fun premise.
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Mystique copies Death and fools Thanos. An escalating series of events where she's in over her head.
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Lightning Lord posted:I feel like I should know why that guy is a Party Nazi but it's escaping me atm.
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Nomad's life is a really depressing journey.
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I had that Web of Spider-Man annual with Slug on the cover as a kid and he literally puts a random thug underneath his fat folds and smothers him to death in it. hosed me up as a child.
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Ever since I first saw him in some book I've been curious about how the Slug came to exist. Marvel already had Kingpin, the original Stay Puft Crime Boss and they also had the Blob whose power is literally superfat. What possessed them to say 'You know what? We need one more enormous fat dude but I feel like we should rastafy him by about 10 percent or so."
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Tato posted:I had that Web of Spider-Man annual with Slug on the cover as a kid and he literally puts a random thug underneath his fat folds and smothers him to death in it. hosed me up as a child.
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No, but Garth Ennis DID write the Marvel Knights Punisher storyline where a kid's obese mom falls on top of him and dies, forcing him to eventually eat his way through her decaying giant body. He then develops an intense fetish for it and starts murdering homeless folk in the subway so he can build a giant mountain of dead bodies to dig inside of.  I don't know what else to say besides "Garth Ennis" Tato fucked around with this message at 09:53 on Apr 14, 2017 |
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loving Garth Ennis
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