The New Improved Official Stupid Question Thread Marvel Edition

[TheCorpulent1]

He's still a maybe, though. No one seems to know for sure whether he's a mutant, or if his "power" even actually qualifies as a power or merely a physical version of the rare photographic memory some people have in real life.

 

[Manic]

Prodigy (The New X-man, not the Slinger) had a power that's responsible for his being able to fight. He had the power to temporarily absorb the skills and knowledge (but not the powers) of anyone he came in proximity to. When he lost his powers during M-Day, everything he learned and forgot was still locked in his subconscious. Some of his psychic classmates unlocked that portion of his subconscious, and now he has full access to every fighting skill he ever gleaned from someone when he still had his powers. Supposedly he knows every formal fighting style that Wolverine (and probably a few other people) knows. He can also perform surgery, but that's another story.

 

[JewishHobbit]

He had all the knowlege of everyone he's ever been around (since his mutant power kicked in).

So he'd have all the fighting skills of Wolverine, the strategic mind of Cyclops, the intelligence and expertise of Beast, etc.

Honestly, why they don't utilize the kid is beyond me. He's just kinda the black kid in the background. Ticks me off. He was my favorite character from the New X-Men.

 

[Varient]

He had all the knowlege of everyone he's ever been around (since his mutant power kicked in).

So he'd have all the fighting skills of Wolverine, the strategic mind of Cyclops, the intelligence and expertise of Beast, etc.

Honestly, why they don't utilize the kid is beyond me. He's just kinda the black kid in the background. Ticks me off. He was my favorite character from the New X-Men.

He was slated to die,... Like a number of heroes like Sync who had a power duplicating the effects of a more popular character.

 

[Manic]

If Prodigy was slated to die, believe me, KY would've done it while they were writing him. He was actually one of the few characters they took a shining to-- like Pixie, Elixir, and Nezhno. I think it's just an issue of current writers not having an interest in him. He has no place in X-Force, Guggenheim didn't want to use him during Young X-Men, David has found his additions for X-Factor and sees no need to change it, Ellis is just using Whedon's Astonishing cast minus Colossus and plus Storm, and Fraction... actually, there's no reason Fraction didn't add Prodigy to the X-Club. He's giving panel time to Karma. What the hell, man?

 

[Havok83]

K/Y actually did kill him...lol. Then they had Elixir bring him back to life. I love Prodigy. He was one of my favorites from New Mutants and hate how he's never used.

 

[Anubis]

Maybe he'd be better off fiddling around with some teams outside of the X-Men. I mean, it's not like he's a mutant anymore. Young Avengers newest member, Coal Tiger?

 

[Manic]

Prodigy - Never used
Magik II: The Sequel - Used all the time, even though the real Magik is back

 

[Havok83]

Maybe he'd be better off fiddling around with some teams outside of the X-Men. I mean, it's not like he's a mutant anymore. Young Avengers newest member, Coal Tiger?

lol...dont even get me started on the Young Avengers. Marvel's best new group of young characters this decade that they arent utilizing

 

[Anubis]

Tell me about it. Wasted potential.

 

[Varient]

k/y actually did kill him...lol. Then they had elixir bring him back to life. I love prodigy. He was one of my favorites from new mutants and hate how he's never used.

beat me to it,...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

X-Prodigy (that's what I'm calling him) sounds kind of like a writer's nightmare, to be honest. If the kid can do pretty much anything anyone he's ever met can do, what's left for everyone else? He'd become a plot device.

 

[Manic]

Well, it's anyone he ever met before M-Day. That just accounts for his old high school teachers from Chicago and anyone in the X-Men who was his teacher. So that's...

-The knowledge of people who went to college for a few years.
-Beast's medical and scientific knowledge
-Wolverine and Shadowcat's martial arts (he wouldn't have accessed Psylocke's because his powers were telepathy based, and he couldn't glean skills from any psychic who kept their mind guarded)
-Nightcrawler's fencing and theatrical skills
-Gambit's pickpocketing and card-throwing (which should come in handy if Prodigy ever finds a top hat to throw cards in)
-Shadowcat's hacking skills (assuming her slight telepathic resistance didn't stop him)
-Iceman's... uh... accounting skills and knowledge of tax codes.
-Wolverine and Archangel's notorious skills in the sack

Basically, he could defend himself in a hand-to-hand fight, fix stuff, and operate on the injured. I'd say Cyclops' tactical skills were more of his method of thinking and less of a learnable skill, so Prodigy was always relying on what his teachers assumed to be his own tactical mind. He's probably the last person you'd want in a fight against anyone with superpowers, so I could see plenty of situations where his absorbed skills couldn't be used as a plot device.

 

[Drakon]

X-Prodigy (that's what I'm calling him) sounds kind of like a writer's nightmare, to be honest. If the kid can do pretty much anything anyone he's ever met can do, what's left for everyone else? He'd become a plot device.

I know one thing he can't do.

 

[knightrightnow]

One, is Spideys web fluid come from his hands as portrayed in the movie, or web slingers he made?

Two, can Deadpool really teleport, seemed shocked by that in the movie, and again saw it in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2? He doesnt in the comics, so what gives.

Thx all

 

[Anubis]

1. Originally it was web slingers that he made, then the movie came out, and they did something in the comics where it came out of his hands, then One more Day happened, and he's now back to the Web Shooters.

2. DP could teleport, but it was due to a device his buddy Cable gave him, not dumbass weapon X power swapping.

 

[Manic]

One, is Spideys web fluid come from his hands as portrayed in the movie, or web slingers he made?

First it was the slingers he made, then from his own hands, then from the slingers again.

Two, can Deadpool really teleport, seemed shocked by that in the movie, and again saw it in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2? He doesnt in the comics, so what gives.

Thx all

There was a time during Cable & Deadpool where Deadpool has access to Cable's Bodyslide teleporter.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Well, it's anyone he ever met before M-Day. That just accounts for his old high school teachers from Chicago and anyone in the X-Men who was his teacher. So that's...

-The knowledge of people who went to college for a few years.
-Beast's medical and scientific knowledge
-Wolverine and Shadowcat's martial arts (he wouldn't have accessed Psylocke's because his powers were telepathy based, and he couldn't glean skills from any psychic who kept their mind guarded)
-Nightcrawler's fencing and theatrical skills
-Gambit's pickpocketing and card-throwing (which should come in handy if Prodigy ever finds a top hat to throw cards in)
-Shadowcat's hacking skills (assuming her slight telepathic resistance didn't stop him)
-Iceman's... uh... accounting skills and knowledge of tax codes.
-Wolverine and Archangel's notorious skills in the sack

Basically, he could defend himself in a hand-to-hand fight, fix stuff, and operate on the injured. I'd say Cyclops' tactical skills were more of his method of thinking and less of a learnable skill, so Prodigy was always relying on what his teachers assumed to be his own tactical mind. He's probably the last person you'd want in a fight against anyone with superpowers, so I could see plenty of situations where his absorbed skills couldn't be used as a plot device.

Sorry, I must have missed the "not the powers" part of your original explanation. Yeah, he's not too bad, then. Does he know how to do everything as well as the original person? I mean, Hank knows a lot of book stuff, but at least a part of why he's considered a leader in genetics has to be based on personal talent. Stephen Strange and Don Blake got all the normal training other surgeons get, but their natural talent made them leaders in that field. X-Prodigy may know martial arts skills, but part of martial arts training is honing your body so it's fully at your command for the contortions and stress necessary to practice the moves, so is X-Prodigy in good enough shape to even do all of the moves he knows? Et cetera.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

One, is Spideys web fluid come from his hands as portrayed in the movie, or web slingers he made?

Two, can Deadpool really teleport, seemed shocked by that in the movie, and again saw it in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2? He doesnt in the comics, so what gives.

Thx all

Web Slingers.

No Deadpool can't teleport. The only power he has is the artificial healing factor. He isn't even a mutant really.

He had a device back in the day that his pal/tech guy Weasel built him. But this was pretty dodgy, sometimes malfunctioned...or Weasel would steal the batteries from it for his gameboy.

Then in Cable and Deadpool their DNA got mixed up. So Deadpool shared Cables body slide power.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Wasn't Cable's bodyslide "power" not actually his own power, either? I thought he used some kind of device for it.

 

[Manic]

Prodigy is in standard shape for a teenage superhero, which means he's ridiculously buff for a 17 year old who spends almost no time working out.

When he still had his powers, he sparred with Wolverine once. It was a formal martial arts fight (not a plain ol' training brawl like Wolverine does with Armor), and Prodigy fought Logan to a tie. So strictly speaking, he knows how to use those martial arts skills, but he's never had to use them in a real fight. When Hellion got injured during Messiah CompleX, Prodigy helped Beast perform surgery. We've never seen him perform the surgery by himself, though. The only skills we've seen Prodigy use in a real situation without assistance were his technical skills, like repairing Cerebra after the birth of Hope shorted it out.

Prodigy was basically a character with a ton of potential, and a lot of skills he's inexperienced with using. He's in "possible Mary-Sue, but never been used as a Mary-Sue" territory.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Interesting. He and Cecelia Reyes should've been on Beast's science team.

 

[moraldeficiency]

Didn't he originally have a teleporter from Tolliver back when he was messing with X-Force? I think he's had a teleporter from one source or another pretty much his entire comic book history.

 

[Manic]

Interesting. He and Cecelia Reyes should've been on Beast's science team.

They really should've. I mean, Fraction pulled in obscure characters like Dr. Takiguchi from Marvel's old Godzilla comic in the 70s. RIP, by the way.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Wasn't Cable's bodyslide "power" not actually his own power, either? I thought he used some kind of device for it.

Yea there was a teleport matrix in his old ship, on Providence at the time of C&DP. I think he could just connect to that.