The Official Stupid Question Thread: Marvel Edition - Part 3

[Anubis]

Not it's not, it's stupid. Guy tossing busses around gets shot and dies or a guy gets buried under a building and survives, but he's pretty much stuck until he starves to death.....stupid. Super Strength and Invulnerability are half powers.....like flight. They pretty much need to be coupled with something else or it's just useless.

 

[The Question]

It works pretty well for Brit.

Seriously, only having indestructibility as a power is still wicked useful. Yeah, in that specific scenario you mentioned he'd be in a lot of trouble, but that's a very specific scenario. He'd still be a complete beast in hand to hand combat. The human body is capable of dishing out an enormous amount of damage, and the main thing that limits us in that regard is if we hit too hard we hurt ourselves. Not a problem when you're indestructible.

Being bullet proof is also generally very useful.

All in all, if you took a non powered hero and made them indestructible and nothing else they'd still be a lot more competent.

 

[Anubis]

Doesn't have to be a building.....could be wet cement, dropped in the ocean, manure.

 

[The Question]

Doesn't have to be a building.....could be wet cement, dropped in the ocean, manure.

I mean, yeah, it'd be possible for him to be defeated. Doesn't make it useless.

 

[Anubis]

Of course alone it's not useless......it's just not as useful as having both.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

useful does not equal interesting.

 

[Anubis]

Then read about that fat guy that was in the Initiative then, and leave Luke Cage alone.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

I would if I could. But as long as Bendis works at Marvel, that dude is gonna be ****ing everywhere.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Bendis is gonna be on a lot fewer books soon, meaning the Luke Cage love-fest is coming to an end. I'm actually wondering if he's even gonna be in Dark Avengers still or if he's getting the full boot from the Thunderbolts program.

 

[chamber-music]

Luke Cage has super stamina and healing factor as well as the strength and durability.

I like Luke Cage 90s solo comic that was pretty good.

There are characters like the Blob and Unus the untoucable or the Juggernaut who super invulnerable too.

 

[Anubis]

Actually, Unus is the only one that is invulnerable and that's it......and we all know how interesting that guy is.

 

[chamber-music]

Funny thing is Unus force field was not impenetrable. The Hulk smashed it once which doesn't even make sense but whatever plus Unus name was one letter away form Anus.

Anus the untouchable!

 

[Anubis]

And yet, he still manages to provoke indifference......that's just sad.

 

[Specter313]

Actually, Unus is the only one that is invulnerable and that's it......and we all know how interesting that guy is.

Especially since he's dead.

 

[Varient]

I've always hated the idea of Luke having super strength. He should just be a normal dude with unbreakable skin. That's an interesting power alone.

Based on the powerset and what was supposed to have been done in the first place,.. Superstrength is a given - We've typed about this before - Superstrength requires alevel of durability that equals resistance to harm in direct proportion of how strong you are.

I don't think invulnerability alone is interesting, and in everycase it has been tried it is either regulated to supervillians, or was a "meh" with the comic book crowd as a hero.

(Laurel kent anyone?)

If anything,.. I feel Cage is STILL underpowered - based on feats.

Meh,.. on that note: I can't think of ANY hero who i'd like to remove a power from to make them more "interesting" That's kind of silly,.. no offense.

 

[Varient]

The stats I read for the movies (Ang Lee's mainly) say that Hulk's skin is 10 times thicker than kevlar. I'll stick with that and let the healing factor handle the big stuff.

Okay,..
I pulled mine from stuff I read in the Hulk books and the Marvel universe.

On Healing factors?
What justifies?

For example: Both Luke Cage and Spiderman Heal from damage in 1/3rd the time your average human does,.. Is THAT a healing factor?

Ironfist can aqccelerate his healing using CHI to something closer to Wolverine - but it requires "to-tal concentwasion" and is not something that is on 24/7 - is THAT a healing factor?

 

[Anubis]

Especially since he's dead.

Like any comic book character, he's only dead because somebody hasn't found a reason to bring him back.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Why all the hate for AvX? I like it...

 

[Anubis]

Then we hate you.

Nah you're cool, I guess, I don't f**kin' know you so everybody starts at Meh with me.

It's just that, like most events like this, it throws everything you know about the characters out the window just so they can tell the story how they want it to go down. Read the last 40 plus years of Marvel, then figure out how the f**k any of this boos**t could go down the way it has. Same thing happened with Civil War.

 

[CConn]

Not to mention, just the premise of the series is ridiculously trite to begin with it.

 

[runawayboulder]

If Civil War was a 10 on the outrageous mess scale, I'd give AvX at least an 8. Maybe an 8.5, at least Spider-Man didn't do anything ******ed this time around.

 

[Havok83]

Why all the hate for AvX? I like it...

Everyone has their reasons for hating it. For me, first was how it butchered and rewrote the Phoenix Force mythos for the sake of the plot and being a huge fan of Jean grey and the Phoenix, it was painful to read. With that said, I ignored it and tried to focus on the series which I thought was a good read in spite of that but it grew more and more harder to look past the bad characterizations. AvX has been an inconsistent mess. The timelines of the books dont eacn match up with each other and you'd think they'd be more in sync considering its a crossover. Hope was already over with Iron Fist in new anvegers, like a month before she joined up with the Avengers in the main series. Avengers v4, just depicted the fight scene between the P5 which already occurred in WaTX, 1-2 months prior. The fights in AvX dont correlate to how they are written in the main series, etc.t...its little stuff like that makes me wonder where the heck are the editors and people trying to maintain continuity between the books. It wasnt so bad when it started but the flaws of the series are alot more apparent now. Its just not good. The premise behind the fighting is stupid anyway bc 90% of this could have been avoided had each side properly communicated to the other.

 

[Manic]

I hate Hero vs. Hero fights in general, because they almost always boil down to neither side even attempting to explain what's happening. It's like a classic Three's Company misunderstanding, except everyone needlessly beats the crap out of each other instead of just assuming John Ritter is gay.

 

[Jordacar]

Has Matt Murdock ever run for District Attorney, or some similar elected office?

 

[The Question]

Has Matt Murdock ever run for District Attorney, or some similar elected office?

No.