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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 13, 2023 21:47:34 GMT -5
Just imagine if Cosmic Boy falls for someone with the same polarity! They would repel each other when they got close to one another.
Wildfire has further burdens. he is stuck listening to that stupid song, from a thousand years before.
Being around Timber Wolf would be awkward, as he greats you by sniffing your butt.
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 14, 2023 8:48:51 GMT -5
Telepathy seems like it would be a real bitch to have. On the flip side I think Mr Fantastic's power would be fairly handy You'd think so, but incase of Mr. Fantastic, try to imagine how circulation would work ? Does your heart need to work harder to push blood to hands and legs? Would you need more oxygen or are your cells just stretched and in that case would you get issues keeping an isotonic environment within your body? When you make yourself flat like a pancake, would your lungs stop working? Would your hands work with delays because nerve impulses would need to travel a far longer distance?
Being a real world Mr. Fantastic would be a nightmare.
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Post by badwolf on Mar 14, 2023 9:29:48 GMT -5
Plus it's just freaky.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 14, 2023 10:24:20 GMT -5
Plus, most people lose flexibility as they age; would Reed have trouble with his elasticity? Imagine if he couldn't reconstitute his shape easily.
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Post by jester on Mar 20, 2023 10:40:07 GMT -5
Doug Moench stated in an interview regarding the MOKF villain Shadow-Stalker that he couldn't figure out how the flails attached to his head wouldn't just rip out his hair, if not tear his scalp off entirely.
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Post by MWGallaher on Mar 20, 2023 11:24:38 GMT -5
Telepathy seems like it would be a real bitch to have. On the flip side I think Mr Fantastic's power would be fairly handy You'd think so, but incase of Mr. Fantastic, try to imagine how circulation would work ? Does your heart need to work harder to push blood to hands and legs? Would you need more oxygen or are your cells just stretched and in that case would you get issues keeping an isotonic environment within your body? When you make yourself flat like a pancake, would your lungs stop working? Would your hands work with delays because nerve impulses would need to travel a far longer distance?
Being a real world Mr. Fantastic would be a nightmare.
I've got a complicated hypothesis about how Reed's powers work, but the short version is, he's not "stretching" at all; he's warping (external) space-time in relation to his body. From his internal, physical perspective, his body is completely normal, it's the external world that's warped, with space-time compressed or stretched according to his intentions. In other words, from Reed's body's perspective, his left hand is still only a meter or so away from his head (so blood flows normally, for example), but everything around him is distorted so that, say, a warehouse wall 50 feet away (from an outside observer's perspective) is also a meter away. If his powers function like this, then Reed's brain is a critical aspect of his ability to use his superpowers, because he has to mentally translate a severely distorted environment into its "real-world" equivalent. Things would look so utterly bizarre when he starts using his powers (again, from Reed's own perspective) that someone with an ordinary mind, if they could experience Reed's powers, would freak out and be entirely incapable of orienting themself in space.
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Post by badwolf on Mar 20, 2023 11:56:24 GMT -5
Doug Moench stated in an interview regarding the MOKF villain Shadow-Stalker that he couldn't figure out how the flails attached to his head wouldn't just rip out his hair, if not tear his scalp off entirely. Not to mention hit himself in the face.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 21, 2023 11:01:31 GMT -5
I'll see your Shadow-Stalker and raise you one Razor Fist! The power I would find the most terrible in real life might be mind reading. Just imagine finding out what people really think about you; or how they're really far shallower or untrustworthy than you would believe. I think it would drive most people to perpetual reclusion.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Mar 21, 2023 11:23:51 GMT -5
I wonder about powers like Bouncing Boy's or others that would be, if not useful in an everyday setting, would at least be helpful in a mugging or whatever, but would also destroy the clothes you're wearing.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2023 19:03:01 GMT -5
You'd think so, but incase of Mr. Fantastic, try to imagine how circulation would work ? Does your heart need to work harder to push blood to hands and legs? Would you need more oxygen or are your cells just stretched and in that case would you get issues keeping an isotonic environment within your body? When you make yourself flat like a pancake, would your lungs stop working? Would your hands work with delays because nerve impulses would need to travel a far longer distance?
Being a real world Mr. Fantastic would be a nightmare.
I've got a complicated hypothesis about how Reed's powers work, but the short version is, he's not "stretching" at all; he's warping (external) space-time in relation to his body. From his internal, physical perspective, his body is completely normal, it's the external world that's warped, with space-time compressed or stretched according to his intentions. In other words, from Reed's body's perspective, his left hand is still only a meter or so away from his head (so blood flows normally, for example), but everything around him is distorted so that, say, a warehouse wall 50 feet away (from an outside observer's perspective) is also a meter away. If his powers function like this, then Reed's brain is a critical aspect of his ability to use his superpowers, because he has to mentally translate a severely distorted environment into its "real-world" equivalent. Things would look so utterly bizarre when he starts using his powers (again, from Reed's own perspective) that someone with an ordinary mind, if they could experience Reed's powers, would freak out and be entirely incapable of orienting themself in space. That is such a clever take...in the spirit of Alan Moore, the reveal could be a story called "The Elasticity Lesson". And I'm only making a pun on the title, I really think the concept is rather brilliant!
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Post by badwolf on Mar 23, 2023 12:54:20 GMT -5
The power I would find the most terrible in real life might be mind reading. Just imagine finding out what people really think about you; or how they're really far shallower or untrustworthy than you would believe. I think it would drive most people to perpetual reclusion. I already assume all of this.
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