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Post by Jesse on Jan 30, 2022 21:14:07 GMT -5
Doesn't get much better than Jack Cole or Kyle Baker's Plastic Man!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2022 21:24:45 GMT -5
Going to give a little shout out to Mr. Gum as well, this cover always made me smile:
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 31, 2022 5:32:45 GMT -5
Plastic Man pulls a head in the home stretch. Fixed it for you...
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 31, 2022 6:30:41 GMT -5
A goofy power works best with a goofy hero so I voted for Goofy, oops, I mean Plastic Man. Ralph would be my second choice.
Cei-U! I summon the proverbial stretch of the imagination!
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Post by Dizzy D on Jan 31, 2022 7:57:54 GMT -5
I think Reed Richards is the only superhero that I can think off where his enemies don't care at all about his superpowers. Nearly every other superhero, the villains are thinking of ways to overcome their abilities: Superman? Break out the kryptonite. Nobody seems to care about Reed Richards' powers, because he's still the smartest man on the world when depowered.
Mmm.. while typing this, a couple of minor characters with relatively useless/joke-type powers to come to mind who compensate with skills/weapons/tech.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 31, 2022 10:43:22 GMT -5
I'd almost go with other, for E-Man; but, he wasn't a stretchy hero as much as able to shift shape, while mostly inspired by Plastic Man. He kind of carried forward the inventiveness of the Jack Cole Plastic Man comics, more than the imitations. They emphasized the stretching, while E-Man captured the transformation into other objects. People kind of forget that Plastic Man emulated not only the stretchyness of plastic, but the ability to mold it into different shapes. E-man was not a stretchy character.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 31, 2022 12:29:27 GMT -5
I'd almost go with other, for E-Man; but, he wasn't a stretchy hero as much as able to shift shape, while mostly inspired by Plastic Man. He kind of carried forward the inventiveness of the Jack Cole Plastic Man comics, more than the imitations. They emphasized the stretching, while E-Man captured the transformation into other objects. People kind of forget that Plastic Man emulated not only the stretchyness of plastic, but the ability to mold it into different shapes. E-man was not a stretchy character. Hence the first sentence.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 31, 2022 13:24:48 GMT -5
No love for Stretch Armstrong and stretchy Hulk?
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Post by Marv-El on Jan 31, 2022 14:28:04 GMT -5
Y'know, I remember those Plastic Man cartoons of the 80s but I don't remember a single thing of the episodes I watched of it. Plas has never clicked for me.
I haven't read enough of Ralph to have an opinion one way or the other, something to fix perhaps.
I've been a Family man for years so I had to go with Reed. The brains to use such a wonky power effectively plus I love the now classic trope scenes of Reed stretching his head, his arms, his fingers, to manipulate some huge Kirby-tech device(s).
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 31, 2022 15:14:21 GMT -5
I was going to say Deadpool, but his second movie showed that he's not that stretchy.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 31, 2022 15:37:17 GMT -5
E-man was not a stretchy character. Hence the first sentence. Writing a sentence stating he’s not a stretchy hero and then discussing him anyway, is kind of silly. I think Superman abs Batman have stretched in their silver age adventures. Should they be included too ?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 31, 2022 15:39:56 GMT -5
Hence the first sentence. Writing a sentence stating he’s not a stretchy hero and then discussing him anyway, is kind of silly. I think Superman abs Batman have stretched in their silver age adventures. Should they be included too ? That's stretching the definition.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2022 15:48:27 GMT -5
Spaghetti Man of the Super-Globetrotters or Coil Man of the Impossibles for me. It's a power that always worked better in animation than it did on the comics' page. And I agree with Cei-U! that it's a goofy power that works better with a whimsical character than a more serious one, and both Spaghetti Man and Coil Man bring the whimsy. -M
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 31, 2022 16:08:21 GMT -5
Elastigirl.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 31, 2022 16:46:42 GMT -5
She's definitely the hottest stretchy superhero. Did I say that out loud?
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