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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2022 14:00:32 GMT -5
I was just re-reading Amazing Spider-Man #23, and after the Green Goblin decides to fly away and escape, Spider-Man attempts to fire off his webbing aiming at the Goblin's glider and... He's out of webbing. Curses, foiled again! While Spidey may be shocked in yet another example below, we the readers of course never are. What other classic recurring examples can you think of where "just at the most inconvenient time", things tend to reliably fail for our favorite characters?
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Post by MDG on Aug 12, 2022 15:12:26 GMT -5
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Post by Batflunkie on Aug 12, 2022 15:33:23 GMT -5
Man, early Silver Age GL milked the "weak against yellow" thing as much as it could
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Post by Calidore on Aug 12, 2022 16:21:16 GMT -5
How the hell did he not notice all that yellow?
'70s Supergirl's on-and-off powers would often turn off at dramatically opportune moments. Good thing she never needed saving by Spider-Man. They'd then need a third hero to come around.
Hey, that could be fun--creating a long chain of superheroes finding themselves unable to help the previous one(s) due to bad luck or timing.
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Post by Batflunkie on Aug 12, 2022 16:49:32 GMT -5
How the hell did he not notice all that yellow? To be fair, the missle story is an early GL adventure (like Showcase #22 first appearance early), so he's probably just figuring out as he goes along
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Post by tartanphantom on Aug 12, 2022 17:17:44 GMT -5
I was just re-reading Amazing Spider-Man #23, and after the Green Goblin decides to fly away and escape, Spider-Man attempts to fire off his webbing aiming at the Goblin's glider and... He's out of webbing. Curses, foiled again! While Spidey may be shocked in yet another example below, we the readers of course never are. What other classic recurring examples can you think of where "just at the most inconvenient time", things tend to reliably fail for our favorite characters?
Unbelievable... Spider-Man "fapping" when he should have been "thwipping".... no wonder he's out of web fluid.
The only thing missing from that picture is some Spidey "groggy-sparklies" around his head.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 12, 2022 17:30:53 GMT -5
Tony Stark's transistors always ran out of power at the worst moments.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 12, 2022 18:11:32 GMT -5
Minute Man's one hour of power elapsed at inconvienent times as well as Aquaman's one hour without water
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2022 18:39:07 GMT -5
Thor's 60 seconds without him hammer would always happen at the most inconvenient times.
-M
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Post by Batflunkie on Aug 12, 2022 19:23:41 GMT -5
Thor's 60 seconds without him hammer would always happen at the most inconvenient times I think my favorite instance of this is during the Troll War arc where the Trolls are convinced that merely possessing the cane with grant them the power of Thor, but Blake just grabs it while they're not looking and transforms
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Post by Calidore on Aug 12, 2022 20:29:31 GMT -5
Minute Man's one hour of power
Um...
Or was that the nickname his girlfriend gave him?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 12, 2022 20:43:22 GMT -5
Minute Man's one hour of power
Um...
Or was that the nickname his girlfriend gave him?
I think you're confusing him with Johnny Quick
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Post by james on Aug 13, 2022 13:06:46 GMT -5
Not 1 but 2 X-Men that succumb to Magneto every time in some manner or another.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2022 19:22:39 GMT -5
I'm going to add Johnny Storm to the list of "heroes on a timer"...how many times did we hear "I'm almost out of flame!"
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Post by foxley on Aug 13, 2022 20:35:01 GMT -5
The Martian Manhunter would frequently run into ordinary citizens lighting cigarettes, burning leaves, etc. whenever he was pursuing bad guys.
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