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Isn't it something like the part of his brain that regulates his beams sees the ruby quartz color and assumes he's already blasting, so it doesn't have to open up the punch dimension? I had thought it was psychology rather than physics.
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Kalli posted:Sometimes he'd also lift his sunglasses and cheat at pool. Gotta love that early Claremont era where part of Cyclops' mutant power was being good at math. The least badass thing possible. You be nice to Amadeus Cho!
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Honestly "being good at math" is a *lot* of character's superpowers and can be insanely badass. Bullseye is an example.
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ImpAtom posted:Honestly "being good at math" is a *lot* of character's superpowers and can be insanely badass. Bullseye is an example. Karnak, arguably.
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Pieces of Peace posted:Karnak, arguably. Nah, and most of these are dumb examples. David Beckham was one of the best people in the world at getting a soccer ball to go exactly where he wanted it to and no one ever said he was "good at math." Same with most top athletes. Also I got straight As in geometry and I loving suck at pool.
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Admiralty Flag posted:In all fairness, IIRC Cap also has some heightened intuitive understanding of physics/geometry/trig (shamefully I don't have a copy of OHOTMU to verify) that allows him to know exactly how to throw his shield to get the best ricochets and to have it return to where he will be. I don't remember if it was part of super soldier serum or he just practices so much he instinctually knows it (which is admittedly cooler than just having it as a power) Somebody post the panels where Taskmaster was helping train somebody to be Captain America/helping Cap retrain his shield throwing skills after some injury or other, TIA.
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Somebody post the panels where Taskmaster was helping train somebody to be Captain America/helping Cap retrain his shield throwing skills after some injury or other, TIA. I don't have that, but I do have this:  and this: 
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Who is that in the first one?
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Precambrian posted:Isn't it something like the part of his brain that regulates his beams sees the ruby quartz color and assumes he's already blasting, so it doesn't have to open up the punch dimension? I had thought it was psychology rather than physics. I mean Cyclops has existed for long enough that ever explanation posted so far is probably accurate.
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Between Hawkeye and that Cyclops/Daredevil panel from the last page, it's starting to irk me that all these heroes look alike. I mean I knew it wasn't Cap because of the (weird) diddling line, but from there it was ???.
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SonicRulez posted:Between Hawkeye and that Cyclops/Daredevil panel from the last page, it's starting to irk me that all these heroes look alike. I mean I knew it wasn't Cap because of the (weird) diddling line, but from there it was ???. Well, most superheroes are from the 60's or earlier, and aren't allowed to age hardly at all, so they tend to all be handsome white young adult men.
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Skwirl posted:aren't allowed to age hardly at all There was a supplement for the first Marvel Super Heroes RPG - I think it was the NYC box set - that said, effectively, "We've seen Spider-Man graduate high school, go to college, and grow and mature into adulthood. Meanwhile, Daredevil has been 29 years old this entire time. The solution to this paradox is to just relax and let it go."
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:There was a supplement for the first Marvel Super Heroes RPG - I think it was the NYC box set - that said, effectively, "We've seen Spider-Man graduate high school, go to college, and grow and mature into adulthood. Meanwhile, Daredevil has been 29 years old this entire time. The solution to this paradox is to just relax and let it go." No one is allowed to turn thirty in the MCU
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ImpAtom posted:Honestly "being good at math" is a *lot* of character's superpowers and can be insanely badass. Bullseye is an example. Bullseye is not badass he kills old ladies and children, that's simply rude.
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Skwirl posted:No one is allowed to turn thirty in the MCU They allowed it (briefly) for Cap!
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Slow agers aren't allowed to turn 70. It's their 30.
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It's possible for characters to grow old, but just like how it feels when you're in your teens or 20s, growing old is only possible in some distant or alternate future.
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What age was Professor X in the original Uncanny series? He seems like he's always been roughly 50ish while others verrryyyy slowly aged around him. Over 50 years. I'm trying to think of a character who would benefit from aging in real-time.
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sticksy posted:What age was Professor X in the original Uncanny series? He seems like he's always been roughly 50ish while others verrryyyy slowly aged around him. Over 50 years. He was basically Yul Brynner so maybe in his 40s, which Brynner was in the 1960s.
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Hilariously? He might have been in his mid 30s when the series first started. He was drafted to Korea fairly young, and that was 1950. X-Men started in 63. Even if he was 25 that would still put him at 37 come the beginning of X-Men, and he was probably a little younger than that. The bald thing and hanging around with Magneto makes him seem older than he is.
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Mulva posted:Hilariously? He might have been in his mid 30s when the series first started. He was drafted to Korea fairly young, and that was 1950. X-Men started in 63. Even if he was 25 that would still put him at 37 come the beginning of X-Men, and he was probably a little younger than that. The bald thing and hanging around with Magneto makes him seem older than he is. I'm 37 and I think my hair is starting to thin...gently caress!
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Toshimo posted:I don't have that, but I do have this: I'm sorry, did Stark just insinuate that four SHIELD agents beheaded or bisected themselves throwing Cap's shield, and seventy-three others are grievously wounded as a result of their attempts? SHIELD's still a government agency, I thought, does OSHA not apply? Why didn't they stop at one critically wounded attempt? Has SHIELD always been this repressively authoritarian to its front line agents?
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Pacra posted:I'm sorry, did Stark just insinuate that four SHIELD agents beheaded or bisected themselves throwing Cap's shield, and seventy-three others are grievously wounded as a result of their attempts? Would YOU listen if your boss told you "hey don't throw the shield of the literal embodiment of heroism in the United States" and you were just SO SURE you could pull it off? Also I took it as Tony got wanged in the head by the four poorest tosses, and that the ones in the hospital might just have broken wrists/hands/forearms going by how they probably tried to catch it like a frisbee or tried to do what Hawkeye is doing. Hell, it looks like Hawkeye's about to break his thumb there.
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Pacra posted:I'm sorry, did Stark just insinuate that four SHIELD agents beheaded or bisected themselves throwing Cap's shield, and seventy-three others are grievously wounded as a result of their attempts? I think they all volunteered. I mean, this was in the post-civil war era, so SHIELD was basically at its most authoritarian, but I presume all those people chose to do it to hopefully become the new cap. And Tony, really, really wanted a new Captain America. Especially if he could get one on his side. He did give the shield & costume to Bucky in the end.
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sticksy posted:I'm 37 and I think my hair is starting to thin...gently caress! I'm 34 and i have some thinning too. Of course since my dad, grandfather and all my uncles went bald it was inevitable. One of my uncles went bald at 18.
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OptimusShr posted:I'm 34 and i have some thinning too. Of course since my dad, grandfather and all my uncles went bald it was inevitable. One of my uncles went bald at 18. It's a recessive gene carried on the X chromosome, so your maternal grandfather has way more to do with whether or not you'll go bald than your dad or anyone on their side of the family (genetically speaking, they might be a big enough assholes to cause stress induced hair loss).
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Skwirl posted:It's a recessive gene carried on the X chromosome, so your maternal grandfather has way more to do with whether or not you'll go bald than your dad or anyone on their side of the family (genetically speaking, they might be a big enough assholes to cause stress induced hair loss). LOL yeah I should have mentioned that all my uncles are on moms side and her dad went bald too.
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Pacra posted:I'm sorry, did Stark just insinuate that four SHIELD agents beheaded or bisected themselves throwing Cap's shield, and seventy-three others are grievously wounded as a result of their attempts? But yeah I read that as 'the other four guys ducked or hit Tony's dome instead.'
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I'm sure I read an old Shield series where Nick Fury killed some staff psychics by overworking them until their brains burned out.
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that panel of him catching the shield badly misunderstands how arm straps work. clint is taking his missing thumb really well in the next panel.
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SonicRulez posted:Between Hawkeye and that Cyclops/Daredevil panel from the last page, it's starting to irk me that all these heroes look alike. I mean I knew it wasn't Cap because of the (weird) diddling line, but from there it was ???. Recently since he stopped dressing in full costume, Hawkeye's been leaning really hard into "always wearing some amount of purple" to make him stick out from his other white male counterparts See, like this. (I was gonna post this in the funny panels thread but discussion made it relevant here and the last part is kinda sorta badass in a way if you squint). Hawkeye - Freefall #1:   
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I'm pretty sure Daredevil's secondary mutation is that anyone he beds will die.
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Gologle posted:I'm pretty sure Daredevil's secondary mutation is that anyone he beds will die. STDD
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Gologle posted:I'm pretty sure Daredevil's secondary mutation is that anyone he beds will die. The blind woman only went insane, I don't think she ever died.
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Skwirl posted:The blind woman only went insane, I don't think she ever died. Anyone Daredevil doesn't bed will ALSO die.
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I feel like the four agents who aimed for and/or hit Tony’s head should maybe hang around, they show good instincts
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Kalli posted:Sometimes he'd also lift his sunglasses and cheat at pool. Gotta love that early Claremont era where part of Cyclops' mutant power was being good at math. The least badass thing possible. ..."spacial"?
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its an uncommon spelling of spatial.
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