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Post by berkley on Jul 21, 2020 16:21:05 GMT -5
Looking at the images, it reminds me that strength really isn’t important in some scenarios. Or not as important. Captain America and Iron Fist are apparently equals in strength, but a battle between those two would not be about strength, not all of it. Skill would play a part as would Iron Fist’s martial arts techniques.I used to have some WWF cards which had strength and weight comparisons. But if we go by the same logic (don’t worry, I know wrestling is fictional, too), well strength can matter in some bouts, but a high-flying speedster can overcome a big guy. Don’t forget, the WWF’s Virgil (slim, quite small and fast) handed the hugely muscular Warlord a loss in Warlord’s final WWF bout. Which I’m sure most people here watched in person (it wasn’t a TV taping). I'll take Captain America in that fight. When they met in the Iron Fist series - and through a misunderstanding initially fought, in the tried and true superhero fashion - Captain America was written as clearly superior to Iron Fist in strength, if I remember. And I thought this was the norm at the time - the idea that the super-soldier formula made CA significantly stronger than unenhanced, "street-level" superheroes like Daredevil, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2020 7:04:55 GMT -5
Just a personal view, but I don’t think Spidey should be as strong as Silver Surfer. And given Surfer’s Power Cosmic, shouldn’t he be nearer to Hulk, Thor and Thing (I read a reprint once where Surfer subdued Abomination).
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Post by Batflunkie on Jul 22, 2020 8:56:14 GMT -5
Just a personal view, but I don’t think Spidey should be as strong as Silver Surfer. And given Surfer’s Power Cosmic, shouldn’t he be nearer to Hulk, Thor and Thing (I read a reprint once where Surfer subdued Abomination). Maybe when Spidey briefly had the powers of Captain Universe, but otherwise, not likely
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 22, 2020 9:10:14 GMT -5
I don’t think there’s any way that The Surfer took him out physically without his powers.
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Post by badwolf on Jul 22, 2020 9:43:25 GMT -5
Just a personal view, but I don’t think Spidey should be as strong as Silver Surfer. And given Surfer’s Power Cosmic, shouldn’t he be nearer to Hulk, Thor and Thing (I read a reprint once where Surfer subdued Abomination). I don't think the Surfer is physically that strong. He's been overcome by mobs of normal humans. But with the power cosmic... he basically shut down the world in the third issue of his late 60s series. That's why I don't think he's any good as a member of a team like the Defenders... he has to be de-powered too much.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2020 7:26:03 GMT -5
As a kid, I saw the deleted SUPERMAN II scene where the Arctic Police pick up Luther and the Kryptonians. I remember thinking being an Arctic Police cop might be cool.
So I was disappointed to learn that no such force existed. I wanted a job with them. The scenery would have been lovely, but I doubt there’d have been many arrests!
(And, no, I don’t need a pedantic response about how the Arctic has a police presence, or certain forces might operate there, I’m making a light-hearted comment that doesn’t need dissecting, thank you. No offence, just a pre-emptive view).
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 23, 2020 9:11:35 GMT -5
(And, no, I don’t need a pedantic response about how the Arctic has a police presence, or certain forces might operate there, I’m making a light-hearted comment that doesn’t need dissecting, thank you. No offence, just a pre-emptive view).
Spoilsport...
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 23, 2020 9:13:38 GMT -5
The Arctic is under Santa's jurisdiction; you'll find a group of elves, in mirrored sunglasses and buzzcuts, patrolling the area. Polar bears have been complaining for years about police harassment.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 23, 2020 9:45:08 GMT -5
The Arctic is under Santa's jurisdiction; you'll find a group of elves, in mirrored sunglasses and buzzcuts, patrolling the area. Polar bears have been complaining for years about police harassment. Send in Homeland Security. They'll show those damn polar bears whose frigid tundra is whose.
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Post by brutalis on Jul 23, 2020 9:58:45 GMT -5
The Arctic is under Santa's jurisdiction; you'll find a group of elves, in mirrored sunglasses and buzzcuts, patrolling the area. Polar bears have been complaining for years about police harassment. Dont forget the Arctic PSP; the Penguin Secret Police! The Tuxedo squad are bad asses!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 23, 2020 9:59:28 GMT -5
The Arctic is under Santa's jurisdiction; you'll find a group of elves, in mirrored sunglasses and buzzcuts, patrolling the area. Polar bears have been complaining for years about police harassment. Send in Homeland Security. They'll show those damn polar bears whose frigid tundra is whose. Oh, wait, those bears are white. Never mind. The brown ones are the terrorists! Even their name claims that they're horribilis!!!
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 23, 2020 13:22:30 GMT -5
I've been trying for hours now but I can't get it to work but there's a gag in here about Arctic Police kicking down a crack igloo door and yelling "Freeze!"
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 23, 2020 14:25:48 GMT -5
I've been trying for hours now but I can't get it to work but there's a gag in here about Arctic Police kicking down a crack igloo door and yelling "Freeze!" When the Arctic po-po kick in your igloo, it's called a wall-rush.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 23, 2020 20:14:41 GMT -5
I've been trying for hours now but I can't get it to work but there's a gag in here about Arctic Police kicking down a crack igloo door and yelling "Freeze!" "Did you hear something outside?" "We're in the Arctic; it's the wind.""Sounded like something scratch......" CRASH! SLAM! "Police! Everybody Freeze!""Already there!" "I think I just thawed my pants!
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 26, 2020 8:23:36 GMT -5
Outiside of comics, Anubis turned up in an episode of Filmation's the Young Sentinels, aka The Space Sentinels, as an alien who was the basis of the god. Enki Bilal did pretty much the same thing in Gods in Chaos, the first of the Nikopol trilogy, though Filmation beat them to the punch. Of course, the Sentinels Hercules, Mercury and Astrea's names all came from mythology and the premise was they were all ancients taken from their time to be trained as Sentinels, returning in our near future. However, that would suggest they took the names from Earth myth, rather than those figures were the inspirations, as they return far later. There was also an evil Sentinel, Morpheus The premise, obviously, is the Green Lantern Corps, which, itself, was heavily influenced (swiped) from EE Smith's Lensman Saga.
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