Clonus

Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act

Scientists often seek to deduce the metabolisms of extinct animals by looking at the rates at which their bones grow. The method resembles cutting into a tree and looking at the thickness of the rings of wood within, which can reveal how well or poorly that tree grew any given year. Similarly, looking at the way bone is deposited in layers in fossils reveals how quickly or slowly that animal might have grown. Grady and his colleagues not only looked at growth rings in fossils, but also sought to estimate their metabolic rates by looking at changes in body size as animals grew from birth to adults. The researchers looked at a broad spectrum of animals encompassing both extinct and living species, including cold- and warm-blooded creatures, as well as dinosaurs. The scientists found growth rate to be a good indicator of metabolic rates in living animals, ranging from sharks to birds. In general, warm-blooded mammals that grow about 10 times faster than cold-blooded reptiles also metabolize about 10 times faster. When the researchers examined how fast dinosaurs grew, they found that the animals resembled neither mammals nor modern reptiles, and were neither ectotherms nor endotherms. Instead, dinosaurs occupied a middle ground, making them so-called "mesotherms."

No, that's just art photography. Fantasma is a European villain-for-hire who uses her powers of illusion-casting to confuse and bewilder those who would apprehend her and her clients, allowing them to escape.

There were some things that bothered me about the pilot, and let's not get into how I saw the pilot.

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The one-drop rule is a sociological and legal principle of racial classification that was historically prominent in the United States asserting that any person with even one ancestor of sub-Saharan-African ancestry ("one drop" of black blood)[1][2] is considered to be black (Negro in historical terms). This concept evolved over the course of the 19th century and became codified into law in the 20th century. It was associated with the principle of "invisible blackness" and is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status.

At this point I'd like to point that the costume that they actually went with for the show did not in fact use Man of Steel's muted palette, so clearly that the publicity shot that began this thread was before they'd settled on a final look. Also the Flash's future costume looks to be brighter than the one he is currently using, and that probably reflects the idea that (contrary to expectation) as he gains more experience as a hero, he'll spend less time floundering in moral ambiguity.

These things are relative. Barry's mother was killed, just about right before his eyes and his father was unjustly convicted for that murder and is still in prison. Most of his opponents kill several people before Barry even gets on their tail. Once he gets them, he commits kidnapping and holds them illegally in a private black site without even a toilet. Except for the murderers he decided to just let run free as long as they didn't reveal Barry's secret identity, which was only a secret to his foster sister, who he is going to marry. In pursuit of this noble cause he has been working respectively with another murderer (who was in fact the man who killed his mother), the man who built the weapons for the 3 murderers Barry let go, and a woman who is destined to create a few bodies of her own. He was inspired to take up the cause by his friend from a neighbouring city who has made a career of out of murdering people who should live and not killing anyone who should die. In pursuit of the cause he lured his father figure into being complicit in his numerous felonies. Next episode he's going to fail to save his mother via time travel. Don't whine about spoilers, we've already seen him fail. That may not be as dark as Arrow, the series about the second-worst superhero in the world, a man who ruins everything he touches, but it's substantially darker than the character from a chick-flick who one day says "Y'know, I haven't been living up to my full potential. In fact for some reason I'm wearing glasses I don't need just to look less attractive even though I haven't been a superhero yet and thus don't even have a secret identity to protect. I think I'll save a few hundred lives before going back to my job working for one of the ladies from Sex and the City".

Time to pick a winner.

Speaking as a GM I find TVtropes to be a valuable resource when trolling for ideas.

A _derivative_ character created in 1959.

Have you seen his mom?

"No man is a sinister brooding presence to his mother"

http://k1project.org/hiroshima-and-nagasaki-the-long-term-health-effects/

The most mysterious of the superhero Minotaur's foes is Muerto, who counters Minotaur's strength with his own power to turn intangible. He tends to attack unexpectedly while ranting about the way Minotaur's death is "overdue". He does a fairly good job of pretending to be a supernatural personification of death. Actually he's just a guy in a skull mask that contains mental controls over his intangibility circuitry, a deranged scientist seeking to avenge someone who died in the accident that transformed Minotaur.

http://thefutoncritic.com/video/2015/05/10/video-nbcs-fall-trailers-for-blindspot-heartbreaker-people-are-talking-and-the-player-396001/20150510nbc03/

An American Idiot in Theda

And at least the winner by default is a good one although the picture wasn't really intended to depict three different suits. Your turn.

Let's bear in mind what her cutie mark and special talent are. Her cutie mark is a falling star. Like all celestial object marks this seems to represent great magical power but more specifically, the ability to bring others down to a lower level. It is quite simply the nastiest special talent we've ever seen or are ever likely to see, topping the previous winner, Diamond Tiara who is only talented at being a snob. Starlight's mark came after her toxic personality which was probably shaped by being a blank flank long enough she hated everyone who had a cutie mark.

http://marvel.wikia.com/Earth-199999

No, hunh? For the record for that one I would have gone with: Atomic Angel, a superheroic android whose greaves and bracers let her fly and produce energy blasts. But let's try again:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5771978/36/The-Last-Warden

The truth is, the "stick someone in the leg with a hypo" thing isn't simple. Or likely. It's the kind of thing a GM does when they just want to remove any chance the character has of fighting back despite the lack of practicality in involved in a plan that can so easily fail if the target happens to stand in the wrong place or you just hit the subcutaneous fat rather than a blood vessel. That being the case it's reasonable to make the unavoidable sneak attack something that will work unless you're just shooting for a comedic interlude. If you are going at it from the point of view of the characters trying to carry out the abduction on Clark Kent...why not just walk up to him and point a gun at him? It would even work for a reasonable value of "working". Clark Kent would let himself be kidnapped both to protect his secret identity and to find out what was going on.

http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf