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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Kang is one of the main reasons En Sabah Nur became Apocalypse. See, Nur was abandoned at birth due to his obvious mutations, but he was adopted by Baal, the leader of a group of bandits called the Sandstormers. It was Baal who would go on to mold his adopted son into the Social Darwinist he would grow up to be.
Then Kang under his guise as the Pharaoh Rama-Tut sent his forces to track down and slaughter the Sandstormers since he wanted to claim Nur as his own soldier (knowing what he would one day become).
Baal and Nur took refuge in a cave, but Baal's injuries were mortal. Before he died, he revealed to Nur a cache of Celestial technology he had found in said cave and tasked him with avenging the Sandstormers.
Disgusted, but not surprisedThe usual trick for these things is to have limitations, yeah. One that isn't used so often but works pretty well is the Logical Weakness of super-speed requiring a insane amount of caloric burn and thus you can't be always on superspeed mode, necessitating to pace yourself or you'll run out of energy before long and just black out.
A good friend of mine had a hero character called Expresso, whose powerset was super-speed but specifically fueled by caffeine, and thus had to keep chugging down ridiculous amounts of coffee to maintain his sense of velocity, but he also had to take care not to O.D on it (as even a superhuman body has a limit to how much caffeeine and super-speed its metabolism can take). That allowed the character to have a more workable power-set.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."If they ever do the "Kang was a Pharoah in Ancient Egypt" thing - which admittedly they probably won't because it's stupid and arguably insenstitive - they really ought to change the name.
Because ugh, "Rama-Tut" is stupid and definitely insensitive.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jun 15th 2019 at 8:40:47 AM
I mean, that's not his real name, just one he chose because grew with with the Theme Park Version of history. Kang's real name is Nathaniel Richards.
Your fascination with villains is starting to sound borderline religious in nature at this point.
Please don't throw yourself in a vat of chemicals or anything of the sort.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
It's actually not nearly as all consuming as I make it sound. My fav Pixar movie is Inside Out, for instance. One of the few without a villain.
I just have this really strong stance that if you're going to bother having one, don't treat them like garbage.
Edited by GNinja on Jun 15th 2019 at 4:50:37 PM
Kaze ni Nare!
It's more that I don't feel the right emotion in response to it.
Like, even knowing that a villain has done horrible things, I rarely genuinely hate them, so them being humiliated just feels mean and makes me sad.
That's really all there is to it. My sense of schadenfreude doesn't work right.
Kaze ni Nare!

That’s why Yo-Yo has such a good superspeed power
The snapback is a good limitation to prevent things from being too overpowered
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