View Poll Results: Do Silver Age characters ever need to use the bathroom?

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  • No, never! They are free of all naughty bits!

    5 13.51%
  • Well, possibly. But only Bad Guys.

    1 2.70%
  • Um, yes, a few. Maybe. They function in the woods, and behind furniture.

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  • Yes, of course. Such things all take place off camera.

    21 56.76%
  • Yes. I even make people designing bases and space ships budget space for bathrooms.

    6 16.22%
  • Yes, of course. We role play it.

    1 2.70%
  • Yes, of course. Most of our adventures take place entirely in the bathroom.

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    Poll: Do Silver Age characters ever need to use the bathroom?

    So, a friend and I were having a 2 a.m. IM chat about a silver age CU game I may be co-GMing, when he mentioned that Silver Age characters have no private parts, and never need to go to the bathroom. He backed this up by asserting that the Baxter Building and Avenger’s Mansion had no bathrooms. Well, a quick google search shows that the Four Freedoms Plaza has plumbing, but I can’t find a map proving that it has toilets.

    So, in the Silver Age, did toilets exist? Do Silver Age characters have private parts? And, do Silver Age characters ever need to use the bathroom?

    Please discuss.

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    Re: Poll: Do Silver Age characters ever need to use the bathroom?

    All I'll say on this issue is this: Franklin Richards had to come from somewhere
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    Yes, of course. Most of our adventures take place entirely in the bathroom.
    Makes "To the Batcave, Robin!" take on a whole new meaning, doesn't it?
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    Re: Poll: Do Silver Age characters ever need to use the bathroom?

    While Silver Age characters do need to use the bathroom (they just have dramatic control, so they never lose control in critical situations), evidently Klingons do not. Early D7 Battlecruiser deck plans didn't have bathrooms, assumably because it made them even more ornery.
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    Re: Poll: Do Silver Age characters ever need to use the bathroom?

    Definitely. In fact, the OHOTMU shows exactly where the bathrooms are in the buildings they provide blueprints for. The main characters just never need to use them when they're "on stage."
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    Re: Poll: Do Silver Age characters ever need to use the bathroom?

    Quote Originally Posted by Whitewings
    Definitely. In fact, the OHOTMU shows exactly where the bathrooms are in the buildings they provide blueprints for. The main characters just never need to use them when they're "on stage."
    Heh. My co-GM will be apalled at such Iron Age revisionism.

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    Re: Poll: Do Silver Age characters ever need to use the bathroom?

    Silver Age characters do it offstage, they actually -can't- do it on panel.

    Iron Age character have the ability, but only when they're urinating on something/someone, hurling feces, soiling themselves or something else shocking.

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    Re: Poll: Do Silver Age characters ever need to use the bathroom?

    Quote Originally Posted by JmOz
    All I'll say on this issue is this: Franklin Richards had to come from somewhere
    The Celestials brought him in a little basket.
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    Re: Poll: Do Silver Age characters ever need to use the bathroom?

    It's not just superheroes. Nobody in the Silver Age went to the bathroom. That's how Superman could just pick up those buildings, which were flat on the bottom and sat on the street. No plumbing, no foundations, nothing. dw
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    Re: Poll: Do Silver Age characters ever need to use the bathroom?

    I would say no for Lois Lane, Gwen Stacy and Wonder Woman.

    Yes but off camera for everyone else.
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    Re: Poll: Do Silver Age characters ever need to use the bathroom?

    On a slightly related note, did it ever occur to anybody else that since the Flash has a hyperactive metabolism that requires that he has massive food intakes, nobody's ever mentioned that this means he should have a similar, uh, waste output increase?

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    Re: Poll: Do Silver Age characters ever need to use the bathroom?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CrosshairCollie
    On a slightly related note, did it ever occur to anybody else that since the Flash has a hyperactive metabolism that requires that he has massive food intakes, nobody's ever mentioned that this means he should have a similar, uh, waste output increase?
    You're doing for bathroom humor using how fast the Flash is -- and you choose to mock the speed and frequency of his urination???



    Oh, if only there were some other funny joke we could make using the Speed Force and Flash's wiener...
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    Re: Poll: Do Silver Age characters ever need to use the bathroom?

    Quote Originally Posted by Mutant for Hire
    The Celestials brought him in a little basket.
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    Re: Poll: Do Silver Age characters ever need to use the bathroom?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lightray
    Oh, if only there were some other funny joke we could make using the Speed Force and Flash's wiener...
    It's already been done here. Warning: the previous link contains extremely crude humor.
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