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Randalor posted:... Psycho Mantis. That's literally Psycho Mantis. Well, okay, he also had telekinesis. He had the power...to move your video game controller
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There was an X-Men character who had the power to explode but only once because he would die doing it. That would be a pretty lovely power. I haven't read the whole Krakoa storyline but I guess he could explode more in that because they would just bring him back to life?
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May 15, 2024 20:30
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Push El Burrito posted:There was an X-Men character who had the power to explode but only once because he would die doing it. That would be a pretty lovely power. That is what happened, yes
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May 15, 2024 20:39
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Mooseontheloose posted:The worst power would be telepathy without being able to block out all the thoughts you want to not hear. Like, imagine being even in a small town and having to hear everyones thoughts and you can't develop a way to block out the useless/bad stuff you are seeing. Literally a Buffy episode.
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May 15, 2024 20:42
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Maybe we all have the power to explode, how would we know
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Maybe we all have the power to explode, how would we know I'm not gonna try!
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May 15, 2024 20:45
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Hovering just off the ground sounds pretty fun. Outside, yes. Indoors, that 2" would mean I'd be constantly cracking my head on doorframes.
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May 15, 2024 20:48
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:Maybe we all have the power to explode, how would we know I've had enough depression to know that if I had the power to make myself explode with a stray thought I would be a crater in the ground by now.
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May 15, 2024 20:49
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how do they even know if they really have the power if they never even used it or been revived?
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PhazonLink posted:how do they even know if they really have the power if they never even used it or been revived? Cerebro has some ability to figure out what a mutant's powers are. There are some extremely fuckin' lame mutant 'powers' like 'smells like spiders'
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May 15, 2024 20:54
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PhazonLink posted:how do they even know if they really have the power if they never even used it or been revived? Yeah that's what I'm saying!! ImpAtom posted:I've had enough depression to know that if I had the power to make myself explode with a stray thought I would be a crater in the ground by now. ImpAtomBomb
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Honestly I always thought Superman's Vision/Sight combo would just be an unending hell. You see through everything, hear everything and it never ends. It's inconsistent whether he can turn it on and off but even if his hearing is always on that is a nightmare.
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May 15, 2024 21:01
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ImpAtom posted:That is what happened, yes Why do people fear mutants? *makes mutant suicide bombers*
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May 15, 2024 21:33
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When I was in university and hotfooting it across campus I always wanted the power to just hover slightly and move by skating, like my favorite bad guy robot from Gundam Then heelies came out, and I recognized what a stupid loving idea that was if you don't normally skate and also don't have feet the size of garbage can lids to help keep you upright
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May 15, 2024 21:37
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Push El Burrito posted:Why do people fear mutants? *makes mutant suicide bombers* To be far by Krakoa they'd moved to "You were right to fear us", it was a whole thing.
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May 15, 2024 21:37
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My Adventures with Superman kind of plays with that, he mentions his superhearing to Jimmy in an episode and is like "I hear everyone all the time, and you know what?" "What?" "They all have problems!"
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May 15, 2024 21:59
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"Superman!!! Save her!" "Who? Huh?" "That lady! She's being attacked! Don't you hear the screaming?" "Yeah. I hear the screaming. I hear so, so much screaming."
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The much-superior director's cut of the Affleck Daredevil movie has a scene where Matt is about to spend some time in a sensory deprivation tank just so he can get some good sleep, and he hears a lady crying out as she's being attacked, and chooses to get to sleep rather than go out and help her, because he can't do everything and he's exhausted, and it is emotionally affecting and visually striking. So of course it got cut
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May 15, 2024 22:04
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TGG posted:Honestly I always thought Superman's Vision/Sight combo would just be an unending hell. You see through everything, hear everything and it never ends. It's inconsistent whether he can turn it on and off but even if his hearing is always on that is a nightmare. I can’t stop imagining everything about Superman would be a living hell. You can crack the world in half with your bare hands. Every time you hug or kiss or so much as touch your loved ones, you gotta be constantly terrified of the fact that one wrong twitch could demolish them completely. Roll over too forcefully in your sleep and that’s it. God forbid you sneeze. It must be horrible.
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Phylodox posted:I can’t stop imagining everything about Superman would be a living hell. You can crack the world in half with your bare hands. Every time you hug or kiss or so much as touch your loved ones, you gotta be constantly terrified of the fact that one wrong twitch could demolish them completely. Roll over too forcefully in your sleep and that’s it. God forbid you sneeze. It must be horrible. Hence this speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl_5UwS57X8
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May 15, 2024 22:14
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Dude just did several 9s/11
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Haha holy poo poo I've never seen Superman so hulked out His head looks so tiny in that space between such broad shoulders.
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He can't see through his eyelids right? Like I've heard that astronauts in space constantly see lights from cosmic radiation when they close their eyes and that sounds horrifying, I can't imagine being able to see always. Like how would he even sleep? How does he work, his existence is just an utter nightmare to think about. The fact that he can not be a cosmic horror makes him so much more impressive. TGG has a new favorite as of 22:55 on May 15, 2024 |
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credburn posted:Haha holy poo poo I've never seen Superman so hulked out That's just Bruce Timm's art. All his dudes are massive triangles.
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Phylodox posted:I can’t stop imagining everything about Superman would be a living hell. You can crack the world in half with your bare hands. Every time you hug or kiss or so much as touch your loved ones, you gotta be constantly terrified of the fact that one wrong twitch could demolish them completely. Roll over too forcefully in your sleep and that’s it. God forbid you sneeze. It must be horrible. Yeah, My Adventures With Superman WAS amazing and should be watched by everyone.
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TGG posted:Honestly I always thought Superman's Vision/Sight combo would just be an unending hell. You see through everything, hear everything and it never ends. It's inconsistent whether he can turn it on and off but even if his hearing is always on that is a nightmare. Yeah, that was the whole point of this scene in Man of Steel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcdFURryKjA So much so that they call back to it when he's fighting Zod, and reference again in BvS when he's trying to find his mom after Luthor kidnaps her
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apparently in the bad superman ripoff comic Irredeemable, The Superguy spends time in the vacuum of space/the moon to get away from all the noise. (oh and then something super bad happens and then he snaps and goes killing all the Bad)
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PhazonLink posted:apparently in the bad superman ripoff comic Irredeemable, The Superguy spends time in the vacuum of space/the moon to get away from all the noise. (oh and then something super bad happens and then he snaps and goes killing all the Bad) The super bad thing was he tells not-Louis Lane and she immediately responds by telling the world At least I think it was, it's been over a decade since I read it last Len has a new favorite as of 02:55 on May 16, 2024 |
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Yeah I remember that bit, he tells her he's "Superman" and she just hops right on air in the radio show or whatever they are doing and goes "This lying gently caress is Superman and has been lying to me and all of us all the whole time, Clark is Superman!" He pretty much breaks from there, ends up turning into a way worse Homelander, destroys most of the world, travels to another dimension, travels back in time and inspires Siegel and Shuster to create Superman and then blinks out of existence. Good comics there. Also I think Lex Luthor is gay for him.
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that’s pretty funny that she immediately spills
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well why not posted:that’s pretty funny that she immediately spills
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Alhazred posted:Literally a Buffy episode. Something similar also happens to Arthur Dent in Hitchiker's Guide, though this time he learns the language of birds only to find out that all they're talking about is uninteresting dreck that he now can't unhear.
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Splicer posted:She's pretty mad that her famous crush (boyfriend? I forget) had been hanging around her in disguise every day for years pretending to be her doofus friend and confidant. There's a similar story that's the reverse of that in Astro City - the 'Lois Lane' character comes up with all sorts of wacky schemes to reveal 'Superman's identity, and when she finally succeeds, he's like "What the hell, couldn't you respect my privacy?" and flies off into space never to be seen again.
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I barely remember that comic but I do remember that for a book called Irredeemable they spend a good amount of time trying to redeem that guy. Also drat Astro City is good.
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TGG posted:Also I think Lex Luthor is gay for him. Well that's just canon.
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TGG posted:I barely remember that comic but I do remember that for a book called Irredeemable they spend a good amount of time trying to redeem that guy. That kind of makes sense. He’s irredeemable, but proving that requires a fair number of tries at doing it in the first place. The title would only be undercut if any of them actually succeeded.
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Arivia posted:That kind of makes sense. He’s irredeemable, but proving that requires a fair number of tries at doing it in the first place. The title would only be undercut if any of them actually succeeded. I don't remember if he ever really does, I just remember Superman sinking Singapore. Can't say I blame him too much for that, though. We all have rough days.
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He doesn't, the idea of the comic is that he was never a good guy, but a nice guy. The elevator pitch was 'What if Superman couldn't stop reading youtube comments about himself.'
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:He doesn't, the idea of the comic is that he was never a good guy, but a nice guy. Heh, Megamind had Superman as a Nice Guy. And come to think of it, there's a reason all the actual good Superman media, and even the drat Silver Age stuff, has Superman have internal and external dialogue and overall themes about his self perception, ethical dilemmas, and how he considers it important to be seen as a hero to be actually be able to effectively be a hero. That if he fucks up any of that poo poo gets real scary real fast is probably one reason why 'Evil Superman' stories still end up working; because there's lots of ways to explore how it can go wrong. TV Homelander is basically Superman with morals as taught by modern capitalist America.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:He doesn't, the idea of the comic is that he was never a good guy, but a nice guy.
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