Scott would never.
Tell that to Madelyne Pryor.
That's one spunky little girl you've raised. I'm gonna eat her.
The Mayor ,'End of Days'
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§ ita § - Jun 28, 2004 5:20:37 pm PDT #4274 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Theodosia - Jun 28, 2004 5:38:55 pm PDT #4275 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Turning to diamond strikes me as a dubious superpower.
DavidS - Jun 28, 2004 5:40:05 pm PDT #4276 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Turning to diamond strikes me as a dubious superpower.
Not if you're fighting The Glass Baron!
§ ita § - Jun 28, 2004 5:42:25 pm PDT #4277 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Turning to diamond strikes me as a dubious superpower.
It jacks her strength and durability higher than most everyone on the team.
Juggernaut class isn't half bad.
She has some sort of achilles heel, but I assume she's watching it.
victor infante - Jun 28, 2004 6:45:38 pm PDT #4278 of 10000
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Did it take money to put her back together? I thought it was a reference to plastic surgery.
She's made comment of her plastic surgery before.
Scott would never. He has issues about that. His father abandoned him and Alex and their mom to go superheroing about the galaxy.
Tell that to Madelyne Pryor.
Ita's got you there. Methinks carrying psychic baggage may well bw Mr. Summers' actual mutant power.
Polter-Cow - Jun 28, 2004 7:17:05 pm PDT #4279 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Powers Vol IV: Supergroup.
Dude.
Just...dude.
Dude.
Hoo boy, oh yeah. That's FG-3, right? Which has a splash page of a massive evisceration, and ends with Zora's death? Yeah, it's crazy shit.
Michele T. - Jun 28, 2004 8:22:51 pm PDT #4280 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
The next Powers collection isn't all backstory, though. It picks up with our two leads where we left 'em at the end of the tale, with some time having passed and Christian Walker's hair having mysteriously changed colors [tm things I am bitter about for no really necessary or discernable reason].
Mr. Broom - Jun 28, 2004 8:28:05 pm PDT #4281 of 10000
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
I like Emma's turning-to-diamond thing because, while it has its bonuses, it's not entirely practical. Genetic mutations aren't required to be practical, and I like that they're recognizing this more in recent years. Perhaps the most deus ex machina thing in X-Men has been that every mutant's mutation is directly beneficial for either fighting crime or perpetrating it. As someone who has an actual genetic mutation himself, I like the much more real idea that sometimes a mutation just is. Beak is a good example; dude looks like a half-chicken, half-human. He can kind of fly, but not well, and he doesn't have any other apparent useful upturns to his mutation. Done soapboxing now. Go about your business.
Mr. Broom - Jun 28, 2004 8:28:09 pm PDT #4282 of 10000
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
I like Emma's turning-to-diamond thing because, while it has its bonuses, it's not entirely practical. Genetic mutations aren't required to be practical, and I like that they're recognizing this more in recent years. Perhaps the most deus ex machina thing in X-Men has been that every mutant's mutation is directly beneficial for either fighting crime or perpetrating it. As someone who has an actual genetic mutation himself, I like the much more real idea that sometimes a mutation just is. Beak is a good example; dude looks like a half-chicken, half-human. He can kind of fly, but not well, and he doesn't have any other apparent useful upturns to his mutation. Done soapboxing now. Go about your business.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2004 3:55:41 am PDT #4283 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Perhaps the most deus ex machina thing in X-Men has been that every mutant's mutation is directly beneficial for either fighting crime or perpetrating it.
The ones that figure into the plot, sure. But we get to see scads of mostly nameless secondary characters (think of many Morlocks, for instance, or Genoshans) who have nothing useful that they can do.
The X-Men is a self-selecting group, and so are their opponents.
And given that the diamond form makes her one of the strongest and toughest people on the team, it looks more practical than some of the other X-Mutation.