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Re: looking for non-Causasian pulp roles If you don't want sidekicks, then perhaps villains I would like to draw your attention to Dragon Lady from the period comic strip "Terry and the Pirates", the half-caste pirate queen who, in the years leading up to American participation in World War II became a hero of sorts as a leader of Chinese resistance against the Japanese invaders. Then there's Twenty Faces, Edogawa Rampo's Lupin-like master of disguise who got an heroic makeover in a fairly recent cartoon.

Re: Popularity of Superhero Groups in a Shared Universe 1. The Avengers and the Fantastic Four have done a lot more actual world saving than the X-Men, and the saving they do gets a lot more publicity. 2. The X-Men are "racially" exclusive. Which do you think would be more popular with white people, a superhero team named the Rainbow Coalition, or the Black Powers Alliance? 3. The front man of the Fantastic Four is the world's greatest genius. Even the crumbs that fall off his table have been key to the technological advances of the last 20 years in his world. The front man of the Avengers is a flagsuit of unimpeachable integrity who used to punch out Hitler.

Re: Attractiveness - Comeliness Vs. Striking Appearance What you should do is consider Striking Appearance + relevant skills.

Re: A Thread For Random Links Great moments in newspaper retractions. http://kipwblog.blogspot.ca/2012/08/blog-post.html

Re: Superman Averts World War II? In my version, he intervenes on August 31st, the day before Germany invades Poland during the Gliewitz incident. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident. He tries to "arrest" Hitler and turns him over to the Court of International Justice in Brussels along with the SS troops who actually carried them out and the concentration camp prisoner they were planning to murder as stage dressing for the hoax. In the comic book book story the actual Superman intervenes in the invasion of Poland on what would have been a day or so after the 17th of September, and "arrests" both Hitler and Stalin.

Re: Superman Averts World War II? Frankly...I don't agree with Wylie. While Danner couldn't single-handedly win the war, it was well within his physical capability to ensure that any one of those futile frontal assaults would instead become a victory just by taking out a few machine guns. You may have noticed that it's not really my scenario. It's cribbed from an actual Superman story with minor modifications. That's why I made him an alien who doesn't quite understand the limitations of the International Court of Justice and the League of Nations that sponsored it until he learns the hard way. Not Russian society. Understand he doesn't do anything about nations declaring war. Had the Germans just gone ahead and said that Poland had something they wanted and they were gonna beat up Poland and take it, he would have stayed out of it. After all, he absolutely will not kill humans, and that leaves him ill-equipped to decide wars. But he flew out to Poland under the impression that private citizens were committing crimes that risked starting a war. He loses his temper when he discovers that it's a frame-up job and tries to bring the perpetrator to justice. But, discovering the hard way that just doesn't work, he doesn't keep on doing it. That being the case, the primary impact of his stunt is psychological. At first, nobody knows what his limits are, in any sense of the word. If they decide to call his "bluff", he's not going to charge out into the thick of battle and try to single-handedly win the war. But they don't know that. They don't know whether he can single-handedly win the war or just fly back in and pop Hitler's head like a grape. The title of this thread is not "Superman wins World War II". It's Superman averts World War II...with a question mark. If the superclone can't do that, he shrugs and goes back to simpler issues that he actually understands. What might end up happening is that he just ends up delaying the start of the war until 1942 when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. The Germans join in and attack Poland while sending creating robots, monsters and villains to menace the United States, hoping to defeat the superman, and consoling themselves in their failures that at least they are keeping him sticking close to home...unaware that he'd be staying home anyway.

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Re: Ctrl+V We can hardly count Rhoda as near-main cast without counting Diane. As for the only way a population that skewed making sense, I can think of one way it makes sense. Suppose just for the sake of argument that lesbians had some kind of mysterious reason to seek one another out. If that were the case then once a single lesbian was introduced into the storyline from then on there would be an elevated chance that any new new female character introduced would turn out to be a lesbian. But why would lesbians be attracted to each other? I shall have to ponder this.

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Re: World War Two Campaign GURPS Weird War II had the samebito, reptiloid undersea dwellers who served a "Dragon King" as possible Japanese allies.

Re: Superman Averts World War II? Actually its harder than you may think to do lethal amounts of damage to a human sized object that can fly faster than any airplane of the time and can't actually be killed with one hit. An intensive artillery barrage is bad enough that if one was coming at him, he'd probably beat a hasty retreat, but he's eminently equipped to do that. Also it's hard to surprise him what with his ability to detect and understand radio and see right through conventional camouflage.

Re: World War Two Campaign Pearl Harbor is a long, long way away from the mid-atlantic (where Atlantis usually located). It would probably be part of a completely different undersea nation's territory and if all the Atlantean attacks occurred in the Atlantic, it probably wouldn't make that much difference to their level of alertness at Pearl. Perhaps more significantly the kind of measures they'd take against the Atlanteans, wouldn't be all that useful against aerial attack. The Atlanteans would attack with with commando groups and kaiju, not flying machines.

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Re: Superman Averts World War II? He does not. Nor does he know very much about stuff that happened before his arrival on Earth in 1938 (coinciding with the first issue of Superman in our timeline). Thus he doesn't intervene in the Rape of Nanking or the invasion of Ethiopia in part because he was light years away when that was happening. However there is another issue which is that his attention was drawn to Poland by what appeared to him to be conventional criminality, the supposed attacks on Germans by Polish terrorists. In short it's the actual Nazi propaganda leading up to the war that draws him into the situation. He actually goes there to try to stop those crimes that threatened to start a war and is infuriated when he realizes that he's been fooled.

Re: Superman Averts World War II? Able to fly at just short of the speed of sound, toss a tank, lift a destroyer, bend a battleship's main gun and "see and hear" the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Thus he can listen in on radio and see people (as indistinct blobs) through walls. A direct hit by an artillery shell causes injury. Luring him into a trap with a ton of dynamite would knock him unconscious for an extended period.

Re: The Good and Bad about Marvel and DC [ATTACH=CONFIG]44125[/ATTACH] Huntress may not have worn a mask, but she was definitely wearing a costume. I just regret that I never got to see the Smallville BOP crossover. Dinah was dead weight though.

Re: Superman Averts World War II? Stalin's invasion of Poland came 16 days after Hitler's invasion and would have been cancelled if something had somehow gone awry.

Re: Superman Averts World War II? Because he didn't notice Stalin doing anything that was a crime in the jurisdiction where he was doing it.

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Re: Superman Averts World War II? The superman is an alien based in the United States (but unlike Superman arrived as an adult, explaining his naivete about how things work on Earth). The first issue of Superman was in Summer 1938 so his knockoff would have been fighting crime and rescuing kittens for about a year before the Germans are ready to invade Poland. I'm assuming that he has the same scruples against directly killing humans (because really it's like dealing with misbehaving toddlers by killing them) so he will not pop Hitler or Tojo's head. I'm also roughly following the actual Superman issue where he tries to deal with Hitler and Stalin by abducting them and turning them over to the League of Nations. My superman turns Hitler, and the evidence and witnesses to the murders committed to the International Court (because he doesn't really understand what the International Court did, which was mediate treaty disputes). Well, Hitler would return to Germany, the Court of International Justice not having the authority to pass judgement on him. However, the time of appeasement had largely passed. Britain and France were prepared to declare war if Germany made one more move and I doubt that Roosevelt would consider the German threats credible particularly if the superman is regarded as an American who would presumably be on their side. It's possible though that they'd put a kidnapping warrant out for him. This would not greatly concern him but would alienate him from further attempts to get involved in human warfare. Thus, he lets the Japanese do anything they want if they have the nerve and pays no attention to the Communists.