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Kara: When you only see good [visions], nothing's special anymore. All the pleasant surprises are taken out of life.
Sara: But, when you only see bad stuff, even the smallest bit of good news makes you happy!

"And given most representations of hydrokinesis, I'm sure most people were expecting a fairly elegant power. Noooooooooooo."

Godfrey: No, my heart and my fists forge ever onwards, burning with justice!
Driver: They're burning all right, but looking closely, isn't that ice?
Godfrey: ...Wait, hold on a moment. You're right... Why are they ice? It's weird that I'd be using anything other than fire... I'm always burning with passion, after all! What the heck?

"[...] As for what they can do to not make it suck this time, well, I don't think that's complicated. Go back to the source material and remind people why this was popular in the first place. Embrace that unique mix of 1960s family sitcom archetypes and pop sci-fi weirdness. Actually do something character-wise with the self-contradictory nature of the characters; Mister Fantastic is a stick-up-his-butt starch-shirt stiff, whose power is to be the most flexible, malleable guy alive. Invisible Woman is a showy glamourpuss, whose power is stealth. The Thing is a raw nerve of feelings and emotion and expressiveness and big sadness and big jolliness and a zest for living, whose body is rock-hard and impenetrable. Human Torch wields a core, immensely-delicate elemental power, and he's just a dumbass teenager. Any half-decent screenwriter should be able to bang ninety minutes out of that, easy."
Moviebob, "Fantastic Four Sucks: Now What?"

A burning firefighter, and an ice-cold fire-starter!
Galo on himself and Lio, Promare

"Do you think I should try to act more like an Ice-type Gym Leader? Like, do you think I should be more cool and distant? That sort of thing I have trouble with."

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