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TeChameleon Since: Jan, 2001
#126: Sep 8th 2013 at 3:00:05 PM

-*chuckle*

It's probably just as well that the movie didn't play up Cap's shield to the degree that the Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon did. When it's clocking some poor mook and smashing a castle tower in half in the same throw, there's something a bit weird going on. Around that point, I started joking that the only artifact in the series that was more magical than Thor's hammer was Captain America's shield >.>

KingZeal Since: Oct, 2009
#127: Sep 8th 2013 at 6:25:06 PM

I've mentioned this before: actually effective and tactical leadership, like what Cap is supposed to have, doesn't work well within a team whose main schtick is that they bitch at each other a lot.

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#128: Sep 8th 2013 at 6:41:16 PM

It is a good thing Captain America is not on The Defenders then, isn't it?

And speaking of Aquaman syndrome, the Incredible Hulk has to be the most worthless defender ever. He has no money, no magical powers and no intelligence. He just hits things, really hard, often things his teammates needed not to be hit really hard. They would be better off with Drax or something.

edited 8th Sep '13 6:56:23 PM by Cider

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KingZeal Since: Oct, 2009
#129: Sep 8th 2013 at 6:54:10 PM

Well, his immunity to telepathy and astral entities may come in handy.

And really, on the off chance you do need something hit, there's no one better to do it.

NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#130: Sep 8th 2013 at 7:00:39 PM

Exactly how much immune is he to telepathy, anyway? Because I remember him, for instance, being mentally affected and enslaved by Onslaught, and then freed from it by Cable.

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#131: Sep 8th 2013 at 8:52:46 PM

[up]Well, you also have to remember that there's several different incarnations of the Hulk, each with their own levels of strength and psyches. I think that the Hulk during much of the 90's was the Professor Hulk, so maybe that's why Hulk got enslaved by Onslaught.

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#132: Sep 8th 2013 at 8:57:47 PM

The Hulk's psychic resistance, much like everything else about him, varies depending on his anger. During Onslaught, he was much more intelligent, making him less angry, making him more susceptible to telepathic attacks.

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#133: Sep 9th 2013 at 9:26:40 AM

The Hulk has come a long way from being a Rage Elemental. Now, he's basically just one of The Many Henshins of Bruce Banner, each a seperate character and identity.

I miss rage monster Hulk. He made sense.

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#134: Sep 9th 2013 at 9:45:47 AM

A little while back on SNL, there was a sketch about The Avengers movie (Jeremy Renner was hosting). It was pretty much 7 minutes of "Hawkeye's just a guy with a bow."

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#135: Sep 9th 2013 at 6:37:23 PM

"I'm out of arrows!"

"Well how many did you bring?"

"A lot. Like, eleven."

"But there are like 10, 000 aliens out there!"

"And I killed eleven of them. You're welcome."

You mean that one? [lol]

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NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#136: Sep 9th 2013 at 6:40:59 PM

Can you have a Reverse Aquaman Syndrome? Like, something where the audience just goes 'this character is too powerful, I just can't buy them'? Since I mentioned my mother earlier, she had this problem with the Martian Manhunter in Justice League. "So, he's as strong as Superman, with most of his other powers too, plus telepathy, shapeshifting... Is there any power he DOESN'T have?"

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#138: Sep 9th 2013 at 6:52:49 PM

Yeah, but since she's mostly familiar with the movies and the DCAU, in the later of which Superman could be quite the punching bag often while J'onn tended to be spared more, and since the animation never was big on setting characters on fire, those shortcomings were less evident there.

TeChameleon Since: Jan, 2001
#139: Sep 10th 2013 at 4:13:55 PM

Actually, he does have 'Martian Vision', which as far as I can tell, is pretty much the same as heat vision :/

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