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G-Unit was already taken.
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Has there ever been a Black Hole? which sounds like a villain and is just a terrible, terrible name.
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Dec 17, 2015 05:12
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Graviton once teamed up with three other villains to rep the four forces, villainously. The strong force guy was just strong and made duplicates, instead of exploding things into hydrogen. 
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Dec 17, 2015 05:15
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zoux posted:Has there ever been a Black Hole? which sounds like a villain and is just a terrible, terrible name.
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Dec 17, 2015 05:54
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redbackground posted:There's Black Mass, who also has them gravity powers. There's also this Black Hole, courtesy Gerber. e: Black Sun, Jonathan Black, Zey-Rogg (zero-g), G-Force and octo-sapien Squizzle fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Dec 17, 2015 |
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Dec 17, 2015 06:00
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The Thom Kallor Starman had gravity powers
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Dec 17, 2015 06:02
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Squizzle posted:There's also this Black Hole, courtesy Gerber. 
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Dec 17, 2015 06:02
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Squizzle posted:Zey-Rogg (zero-g) Disgusting.
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Dec 17, 2015 06:10
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redbackground posted:There's Black Mass  Metal 
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Dec 17, 2015 06:46
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Opopanax posted:There's also Acts of Vengeance where they all traded The best part of Acts of Vengeance was that Spider-Man is playing host to a knock-off power cosmic, and so everyone who gets switched to him just gets the tar beaten out of them.
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Dec 17, 2015 07:20
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Are the Blob's powers gravity related?
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Dec 17, 2015 07:56
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Patrick Spens posted:The best part of Acts of Vengeance was that Spider-Man is playing host to a knock-off power cosmic, and so everyone who gets switched to him just gets the tar beaten out of them. Captain Universe Spider-Man never gets enough love. Punching the Hulk into space is worth it alone. Magneto, Graviton, Goliath, the Tri-Sentinel, and whoever else were fun to see get humiliated as well.
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Dec 17, 2015 08:33
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Rhyno posted:Query: She was great as Power Girl's friend/sidekick.
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Dec 17, 2015 12:50
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prefect posted:She was great as Power Girl's friend/sidekick.
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Dec 17, 2015 12:52
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Dario the Wop posted:Wasn't that a different Terra, unrelated to GF? I don't actually know the DC histories that well. All I know is that I enjoyed reading those comics.  
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Dec 17, 2015 12:55
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Yeah, it's right there in those panels - Power Girl's friend Terra is a refugee from a subterranean world, different character from Tara Markov in New Teen Titans. Amanda Conner's PG really was great. Wish we could've seen that Vartox on the Supergirl show.
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Dec 17, 2015 13:05
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Dario the Wop posted:Amanda Conner's PG really was great. Wish we could've seen that Vartox on the Supergirl show. Wish we could've gotten a Power Girl show instead.
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Dec 17, 2015 14:38
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Clamknuckle posted:Are the Blob's powers gravity related? More inertia-related, I'd say. I believe if you destabilize whatever he's standing on, he'll fall.
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Dec 17, 2015 15:36
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Senior Woodchuck posted:More inertia-related, I'd say. I believe if you destabilize whatever he's standing on, he'll fall. I thought sometimes they'd have him ripped away from the ground and tearing big chunks of the ground with him?
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Dec 17, 2015 16:07
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Density related, like that one guy in the Hellfire club.
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Dec 17, 2015 16:24
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Endless Mike posted:As a scientist, I ran a second study to check your results and it confirms that Geo-Force is terrible. The original two runs of Batman and the Outsiders are so batshit insane that they are amazing. Because they are such a terrible super team. In the opening arc, half the team (including Batman) get pistol whipped by random evil soldiers. And Geo-Force gets riddled with bullets, killed and buried in a shallow grave. Which, it turned out to be a method of powering him up. How awful is that?
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Dec 17, 2015 17:30
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Idran posted:I thought sometimes they'd have him ripped away from the ground and tearing big chunks of the ground with him? I distinctly remember a panel where the Hulk was lifting really hard and big pillars of earth were coming up attached to the Blob's feet.
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Dec 17, 2015 17:57
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Older superheroes (e.g. Superman) who have energy beam powers tend to shoot the beams from their faces. Somewhat more modern superheroes (e.g. Carol Danvers) tend to shoot beams from their hands. There are exceptions, but when did the dominant blasty style switch from faceblasts to handblasts?
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Dec 17, 2015 21:46
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prefect posted:I don't actually know the DC histories that well. All I know is that I enjoyed reading those comics. Read Starfire, Terra's appeared in that.
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Dec 17, 2015 22:35
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Squizzle posted:Older superheroes (e.g. Superman) who have energy beam powers tend to shoot the beams from their faces. Somewhat more modern superheroes (e.g. Carol Danvers) tend to shoot beams from their hands. There are exceptions, but when did the dominant blasty style switch from faceblasts to handblasts? I always associate eyebeams with DC characters and hand/fist beams with Marvel characters. But that may just be a function of time.
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Dec 17, 2015 22:49
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Marvel probably uses hand beams more often because they have a character whose entire power is eyebeams. On the other hand aside from Kryptonians I can't think of any DC characters known for their eyebeams.
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Dec 17, 2015 22:53
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Martian Manhunter, with his vaguely-defined "Martian Vision"
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Dec 17, 2015 23:04
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Travis343 posted:Marvel probably uses hand beams more often because they have a character whose entire power is eyebeams. On the other hand aside from Kryptonians I can't think of any DC characters known for their eyebeams. Darkseid's Omega Beams are the only ones I can think of.
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Dec 17, 2015 23:10
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Travis343 posted:Marvel probably uses hand beams more often because they have a character whose entire power is eyebeams. On the other hand aside from Kryptonians I can't think of any DC characters known for their eyebeams.  And J'onn J'onzz, the Manhunter from Mars! And anyone who blasts things from their mouth, or forehead. I'm betting that more than a few Legion of Superheroes members count, but heck if I'm going to try remembering them all. A number of robots fire eyebeams, as well. Just thinking out loud here: There does seem to be something offputting or inhuman about head/face blasts, versus hand blasts. Maybe that's why so many robots have them, and why even after they fell out of fashion, more "cosmic" characters like Darkseid still spray death from their eyes. That, aside from Superman references, could also be why disproportionately many of the faceblasters I can think of also have capes (and fly or hover)—capes are regal as all hell, and can make a character seem that much more aloof. As more accessible, flawed, human Heroes became the norm, so did hand blasts and capeless costumes. The Vision, as an inhuman flying robot with a cape and forehead lasers, is like Exhibit A here. A late example, but god drat, everything else fits.
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Dec 17, 2015 23:22
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If I remember correctly Gambit used to charge objects with his eyes (hence the red eyes look) and would then throw them. It was later retconned to be that he charged objects with his hands.
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Dec 17, 2015 23:36
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Madkal posted:If I remember correctly Gambit used to charge objects with his eyes (hence the red eyes look) and would then throw them. It was later retconned to be that he charged objects with his hands. That's right, I'd forgotten all about that.  Now I'm sad I sold my X-Men 266 for $20 because I was a poor college student. 
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Dec 17, 2015 23:51
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Ghost Rider has the Penance Stare. That's some kind of energy, right? And there's always Chamber. So, unless you're a demon or a filthy mutie, shoot your energy out of your hands like God intended.
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Dec 18, 2015 00:14
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Inkspot posted:Ghost Rider has the Penance Stare. That's some kind of energy, right? And there's always Chamber. Wait does the Punisher count then 
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Dec 18, 2015 00:24
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I don't remember his comics counterpart but there was a guy in the Flash tv show whose powers where eye beams.
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Dec 18, 2015 00:46
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Read Starfire, Terra's appeared in that. Though because Kory's doing the 'naive stranger to Earth culture' bit in that book, Terra's actually the assimilated immigrant showing her the ropes.
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Dec 18, 2015 01:15
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zoux posted:Speaking of Geoforce why are there so few gravity powered superheroes? There are like a billion electricity guys, magnet guys, light guys, etc. I can think of two that are exclusively gravity, Graviton and the redundantly named Gravity. Maybe it's too hard to come up with decent names. Probably because gravity is such a vague force to work with. The only things people can do with it are fling objects around, which a lot of other powers let people do anyway, (see: telekinesis), or pin people to the ground by making them too heavy to move. And then the character's like a one-trick pony. Also flattening people I guess but then that's why there's gravity based villains around with not many heroes in the same field...
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Dec 18, 2015 07:16
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On the subject of eye beams there's this great set of panels from the Flash #150. The plot is Wally West has gone back in time to Crisis on Infinite Earth's to try and help the heroes beat the Anti-Monitor in place of Barry Allen. It doesn't work and he keeps having to use time travel to get do-overs. There is one part where a load of characters like Superman and Power Girl are all blasting the Anti Monitor down with eye beams. And inexplicably one of the people doing it is Captain Marvel, who has never shown eye beam powers. So it just looks like the kid hero starts blasting the bad guy with eye beams because everyone else was doing it that day, and he just wanted to fit in.
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Dec 18, 2015 08:47
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TwoPair posted:Probably because gravity is such a vague force to work with. The only things people can do with it are fling objects around, which a lot of other powers let people do anyway, (see: telekinesis), or pin people to the ground by making them too heavy to move. And then the character's like a one-trick pony. Also flattening people I guess but then that's why there's gravity based villains around with not many heroes in the same field... Wasn't Graviton a fairly major Avengers arch villain for a while? I remember in the pilot of EMH he hosed up the Avengers pretty bad, even handled the Hulk ok. BTW what happened to him, last thing I remember him doing is being some sort of higher up on AIM Island.
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Dec 18, 2015 18:10
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zoux posted:Wasn't Graviton a fairly major Avengers arch villain for a while? Despite being ridiculously powerful, Graviton was a bit of a jobber villain for most of his existence after his first appearance. He became more of a big deal as the chief enemy of the Thunderbolts in the 1990s.
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Graviton is like defined by being one of those dudes who would be a godlike villain if his personality wasn't that of a dumbass MRA loser.
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