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

[OddHat]

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.

[JmOz]

All I'll say on this issue is this: Franklin Richards had to come from somewhere

[Lightray]

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?

[Silbeg]

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.

[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."

[OddHat]

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.

[nexus]

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.

[Mutant for Hire]

All I'll say on this issue is this: Franklin Richards had to come from somewhere

The Celestials brought him in a little basket.

[Darren Watts]

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

[phydaux]

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

Yes but off camera for everyone else.

[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?

[mattingly]

On a related note...

http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/Gian...otscript?SK=86 and http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/Gian...otscript?SK=87

[Lightray]

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...

[JmOz]

The Celestials brought him in a little basket.

LOL, pos rep for you

[Mutant for Hire]

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.