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Actually, the classic vampire had a strict limitation on its ability to spread: one could not become a vampire who did not choose to succumb to the vampire. One had to be invited in, and allow themselves to be bit. Several times.

Those who did not not only had knowledge to defend themselves, but had the daylight hours to attack.

Now, by the nineties, they became super heroes and lost the whole 'damnation' thing, even if the angst of Lestat et al made one forget that point.

Supernatural vampires, in no story I'm familiar with, can starve to death.

One of the advantages of different takes on a creature can easily be seen in the vampire. The vampire tales of the seventies did not frighten anymore by the eighties, so they became glossier, and, with movies like The Lost Boys[/i}, popularized the pretty redeemable vampire that then would become so popular in the nineties, so that vampires moved almost completely out of horror. Actually, Let Me In is a nice, haunting return to more horror based vampires, imo. Near Dark would be a good example of an unusual take on the vampire as a horror story before this as well.

Ravensloft would be a good example of a departure, in its time, from vampires as irredeemable monsters in games.

Another example would be the classic Nasferatu vampire, which, for years, was not generally the go-to appearance, but has occasionally been used to great effect.

Can someone tell me?

The destruction of time itself.

There's actually a character like that in the web fiction Worm. You see her when you look at her, but as soon as she leaves your gaze, you forget she exists. And thus have no reason to look at her.

Can that question be answered?

Do it!

Have you been watching me?

Do I want to answer that?

Bananas?

What about invisibility that's on all the time. That would be pretty crappy.

I actually was working on an NPC with this, who actually had to spend END to stay visible, and, if knocked unconscious while visible, could actually die from the drain. If not visible when unconscious, imagine, if they were in bad shape, the difficulty of finding them and tending to them.

Bunch of what?

I, of course, will have to re-read your post to see if you disagree with me on anything.  In which case I will know you are wrong about always being right.

It is not necessary, since, if you are right, then it would be impossible for my post to disagree, since, I too, am absolutely correct.

Been enjoying the reads. Look forward to the next one.

How did our relatives get involved in this?

Do not mess with the Protectorate Infiltrators for the Fragmentation of Federal Law Everywhere.

I understand P.I.F.F.L.E. is currently in Oregon.

So, we're talking possibly four speedsters in upcoming episodes. Thawne, Flash, Jay Garrick Flash(I'm itching for him to get his powers back), and Zoom.

I found The Turtle's power, when shown from the view of someone having something taken, strangely similar appearing to Zoom's.

I think there is a difference between trying to be PC and trying to make movies that include characters that the viewers will relate to. When the 'Golden Age', and 'Silver Age' both were periods where marketing was mainly toward white folk, the characters from these eras who have had decades to gather diehard followings are going to mostly be white, and any new characters are stuck competing against these as the foundational source material.

I see no betrayal by taking characters from a period where depiction of race was, at best, fairly weak, and changing them. Literally, it's not like the entire Justice League and all the characters and supporting characters in the story are being changed to another race, it's actually addressing that exact thing being done in the first place to fit the times.

Introducing some minority Justice League member who the other's have seniority on would be a rather weak approach.

And WWI or WWII for Wonder Woman makes no difference to me. Why would the Olympians even consider them a separate war?

And Freya has no name recognition value as far as marketing a big movie. If you can sell Ant Man, you can sell a any of a number of the goddesses, though pronunciation probably will be an issue(and don't kid yourself, most of the money made on that film was not from die hard Ant Man fans, if there were that many die hard fans, Ant Man would pretty much always have been an ongoing comic series with staying power). In what circles wide enough to pay off a movie budget can everyone name who Freya is?

And finally, just to muddy things, the first three X-Men movies were entertaining at the time they came out in exactly the same way other blockbuster action movies were, for the same reason, the level of special effects and action filming that had not grown stale yet, as these things always do. For repeated viewings, they have had the same issues.

And I loved Watchmen, except for the fight choreography, which, though outstanding, was thematically totally NOT Watchmen, with the possible exception of the alleyway fight between the KTs and Nite Owl and Silk Spectre. The other fights had the actual fights from the comics, buried in glossy, though excellent, choreography, which took from the dark grit of the comic. And when Comedian jumps off of Archie to take on the mob by himself, I die a little, every time. Overchoreographing required the last fight with Ozymandius to go three steps further to stay ahead of all the other fights, which meant, at the moment he caught the bullet, anyone would assume he could do it.

I'll just end by saying that all my above points are clearly right, and so there is no need for us to continue this discussion.

Is there any question?

Counterclockwise.

Play what?

Second base?

Everyone passes out one day, and a week later all the women give birth to blonde alien children.

Forest Gump, the Prequel Trilogy:

Forest: Lieutenant Dan?

Clone Trooper 1: G'day.

Forest: Lieutenant Dan?

Clone Trooper 2: G'day.

Forest: Lieutenant Dan?

Clone Trooper 3: G'day.

Forest: Lieutenant Dan! You've got no legs!

Darth Maul: Not funny, Forest.

What about those of us who live in a state where it's illegal to play it face to face?

Don't add them until the water is boiling.

Don't add them until the water is boiling.