Matt the Bruins

Re: The 2006 Mopee Awards! Excepting Joss Whedon's title, yes, they have.

Re: Best and Worst Costume/Appearance Changes Isn't she technically also referred to as Captain Marvel, with only various superheroes knowing that her name is "Mary"?

Re: [Worst Ever...] Reasons to be a superhero "It's the only way I can keep the teddy bears from eating me!" Brilliant! adds rep

Re: Ideas for a circus/carnival themed villain team You could always have a mermaid in one of those big tanks of water - everyone thinks she's just some babe in a fish tail costume until they get too close and she reveals her sharklike teeth...

Re: Best and Worst Costume/Appearance Changes Yeah, you'd think that someone who ended upchanging gender unwillingly would be all about dressing like their former self, adopting a haircut more reminiscent of the former gender, etc. Yet instead of flannel shirts and labcoats, Langkowski always seemed to dress like Jennifer Beals in Flashdance.

Re: Best and Worst Costume/Appearance Changes My vote for best costume change would be when Neil Gaiman and Scott Hampton had Zatanna return to her classic stage magician's outfit for Books of Magic. Not that the super-hero suit was that awful, but it couldn't hold a candle to her original costume.

Re: The Weird Power Posting Game. Adding Insult to Injury: 30 Hit you so hard your grandma yells 'ouch!': 10d6 Mind Scan, Linked to STR (-1/4), Limited Power: only works on grandmother of Hand-to-Hand Attack target(-2) plus 10d6 Mind Control, Linked to Mind Scan (-1/4), Limited Power: only works to make target of Mind Scan abruptly yell as if in pain (requires Ego+10 result)(-2)(100 ActivePoints)

Re: Quiz/Brainstorm: What's your Special Ability? My amazing power was "You can move any object made of tinfoil through sheer will alone!" Wow, I would have been the most useful companion EVER to the second Doctor, since all his monsters were made of tinfoil. In lieu of that, I guess it would make for super-accurate throws as a concessions dealer handing out candy bars at sporting events. Thus ensuring your death in a riot should you ever go on Disneyland's "It's a Small World" ride.

Re: The best retcons of all time That's generally true, though there were exceptions. For example, Earth-1 was supposed to split into two parallel time tracks in 1985, one in which the Great Disaster resulted in Kamandi's future, the other in which its absence led to the future with the Legion of Super Heroes. Instead, the Crisis occurred and made the whole point moot. But divergence was supposedly almost impossible to cause, it didn't happen with every instance of time travel like it does at Marvel. I think my favorite retcon would be Perez' post-Crisis revamping of Wonder Woman. That was a thing of beauty.

Re: Worst comic book superfight ever That's the one. Though technically, it wasn't the pre-Crisis Superboy from all those Legion of Super Heroes comics, but rather the nearly identical Earth-Prime version of that Earth-1 character. Still kinda hard to watch someone with the same identity and upbringing as our Clark Kent become a deluded mass murderer, but I could have lived with it if they didn't also flush Siegel & Schuster's orginal iconic creation down the toilet at the same time.

Re: Char: Power Girl In the 80s the Earth-2 Kryptonians, while less powerful than the Earth-1 versions, could still do things like fly faster than light, break the time barrier, etc. From the looks of things the pre-Crisis characters that returned in Infinite Crisis retained those power levels, and as such the Earth-2 Superman would be WAY overpowered compared to the modern post-Crisis one. I don't know if Power Girl's abilities stabilized to match her cousin's after she found out her true origin (my tenure as a reader of DC Comics ended, not coincidentally, with the end of that series), but if so she'd be considerably more powerful than Supergirl.

Re: Worst comic book superfight ever My vote would have to go for the climactic fight of Infinite Crisis #7, where the Golden Age Superman, essentially the founding father of the entire superhero comics genre, got beaten to death by a murderously insane younger version of himself after being pointlessly dragged out of a respectful 30 year retirement. I stopped buying DC Comics after that one hit the stands.

Re: Vampires in Supers Setting To be fair, for all his supernatural power Dr. Strange has the proportionate strength and speed of... a middle-aged neurosurgeon. He's been nearly killed by a knife thrown by a disgruntled Roman Catholic cardinal as well.

Re: Wierdest powers... I think Crazy Jane from Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol was one of the oddest and most fascinating characters I've seen. She suffered from multiple personality disorder, and each of her 64 personalities had its own super power, some of them exceedingly weird. For example, The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter could bring her paintings to life, and Lucy Fugue somehow managed to set up vibrations that slowed to a crawl the pace at which God's negative counterpart could unmake the universe.