How are you defining superpowers?
It's a real burden being right so often.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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§ ita § - May 10, 2004 2:37:59 pm PDT #2486 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sumi - May 10, 2004 2:42:24 pm PDT #2487 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Tights -- I think tights are probably important, or at least a silly mask and one of your superpowers is keeping the mask on your face with no visible means of support (see Robin and Nightwing).
Also, Cataclysm arrived here and since I came home during a tornado warning -- well, it just all seems so right.
§ ita § - May 10, 2004 2:45:06 pm PDT #2488 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Tights are more popular than superpowers.
amych - May 10, 2004 2:45:58 pm PDT #2489 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Well, superpowers don't look nearly so good stretched over those lovely superhero quads.
Gris - May 10, 2004 2:46:51 pm PDT #2490 of 10000
Hey. New board.
no visible means of support
Spirit gum. Clearly. That stuff is awesome.
P.M. Marc - May 10, 2004 2:52:03 pm PDT #2491 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Well, superpowers don't look nearly so good stretched over those lovely superhero quads.
Two words for you:
Clark/Bruce.
IJS.
Volans - May 10, 2004 2:56:58 pm PDT #2492 of 10000
move out and draw fire
How are you defining superpowers?
As what makes the hero a superhero. Be it being a brick, or shooting energy bolts, or being really fast, or squirting sticky goo out of your wrists, or being bugfuck insane.
Mmm, yeah, tights. Good point.
amych - May 10, 2004 2:57:00 pm PDT #2493 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
(plei just made my day lalalalalala)
amych - May 10, 2004 2:59:00 pm PDT #2494 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
As what makes the hero a superhero. Be it being a brick, or shooting energy bolts, or being really fast, or squirting sticky goo out of your wrists, or being bugfuck insane.
But being bugfuck insane (why yes, I am assuming Batman here. Don't I always?) is very specifically posited as not a superpower -- powers aren't just what makes a hero a hero, they're something supernatural or extranatural. The whole premise of the batverse is that it's the mission, not the being-from-some-weird-planet, that makes the hero.
Actually, I think the mission belongs on your list.
Volans - May 10, 2004 3:06:14 pm PDT #2495 of 10000
move out and draw fire
I was wondering how to express what I think you're saying with "the mission." Batman's I get (and I was kind of joking about insanity as a superpower, but that's a whole 'nother thesis), and Wonder Woman's is canon. But what's the mission of, say, The Flash? Does every superhero have a mission? Can they have a default setting of "stop bad guys?"
Save the world?