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I always thought the Napoleon Of Crime was a cat.

Ward: She's a groupie, all the hacking into SHIELD, tracking powers. She might as well be one of those sweaty Cosplay characters crowding around Stark tower. Skye: WHAT?! I would... [whispers] it was just one time. --Agents Of SHIELD, Season 1, Episode 1

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"Do not tell The Hulk how strong The Hulk can or cannot be! The Hulk is as strong as The Hulk needs to be! The Hulk is as strong as The Hulk wants to be! NO ONE IS AS STRONG AS THE HULK! DO YOU HEAR ME! NO ONE!!!"

Okay--no Googling now--can anyone guess the identity of this cosplayer?

The Joker pic with all the heads is especially creepy. I noticed the Penguin's head up there--I wonder if there's a larger version of that pic with Riddler and Catwoman's heads--to name only a few.

I'd give her an audition at the very least.

Sweet Apple Cider! Where was she when they were casting for the Supergirl TV series?

I think that might be Hermione Granger under that cosplay--

Certainly works for me.

That's what I thought about Dean Cain. You may have a point, though.

I imagine he calls himself Captain 'Merica. This, of course, is Captain 'Murika--

For a moment I thought this was Patrick Warburton in the costume--but it's a New York cosplayer named Michael Byrnes--

Extra creepiness points if the spider and the scorpion were somehow still alive.

An Endurance Drain is also a possibility--the target is laughing, convulsing and struggling against the effect so hard that he becomes exhausted. There might even be long term effects--I remember an episode of Underdog called--I kid you not--"The Tickle Feather Machine." Simon Bar Sinister invented it so that he could win an election by making everyone else too happy or too tired to vote. If you can find it you may be able to glean some ideas from that. Hope that helps.

THA WINNAH--AND NEW CHAMPEEN!

Great Caesar's Ghost! I wasn't expecting The Inquisition!

Solar Powered Plane Completes Flight From Japan To Hawaii Longest leg of flight around the world.

A couple of positive items-- Saudi Prince To Donate Fortune To Charity Tim McGraw Giving Away Mortgage Free Houses To Veterans

Teens Storm Georgia Wal-Mart Apparently they wanted to see how much damage they could cause. I almost posted this in the Champions forum as a WWYCD. It's one thing to go one-on-one with Grond or Ogre on a rampage--over four dozen aggressors, even non-powered, are much harder to contain.

The company that makes them--and the LE agencies they market to--very likely don't see it that way. They see them as a less-lethal method of ensuring compliance, much like the Taser was supposed to be a less-lethal method of subduing a perp to get him into custody. The fact that the Taser has proven lethal in certain instances hasn't deterred its use, and I consider it doubtful that the the first death to occur--and it will--from these electric shackles will deter their use as well.

I would hope, at the very least, that the officers trained to use such devices are required to subject themselves to their effects before being allowed to inflict those devices upon prisoners in their custody. But I think in actuality the training for the devices consists of little more than watching the DVD that accompanied them.

Don't forget The Hulk and The Sub-Mariner. Especially not The Sub-Mariner. I like the outfits for Elektra and Red Sonja--they could be characters in a Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy HERO campaign. In fact, a lot of these outfits look like they belong in another genre besides a four-color superhero world. For some of the designs, that's a comment--for others, a complaint. It's like the artist kind of, sort of missed the point about super-character costumes--especially when it came to Vampirella. Like any costume, a superhero costume does more than conceal the original identity--it creates a new identity, one different, distinct and immediately recognizable. Doctor Impossible says it best-- "In street clothes I'd just be a criminal. Which I am, of course, but in the costume I'm something more. I wear the flag of a country that never existed and the uniform of its glorious army, spreading forth the dominion of the invincible empire of me. Doctor Impossible."--Soon I Will Be Invincible, pgs. 89-90 Yes, you can fight crime without circus tights and a cape, or a high-tech battlesuit, or mystic robes. But a superhero's costume represents something more--strength and speed, power and prowess, and the courage to use all that for the greater good. And something more--the idea that others can do the same, can find it within themselves to use their strengths and abilities for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, for any other just and noble cause. I don't quite get that sense from the costume redesigns on that page. Yes, they're practical, and yes, they're decidedly not "stripperrific." But I wouldn't call them inspiring--I wouldn't call them memorable. Just my thoughts on the subject--take them as you will.

Most, if not all of the actors listed have done voice work--that doesn't make them exclusively voice actors. Seriously--Brad Pitt? Jennifer Love Hewitt? They've done a whole lot more than provide voices for animated characters.

Okay. Thank You for clarifying that.