Post often overlooked, forgotten neat abilities and general fun facts for heroes/villains. I'll start
>Wonder Woman can talk to animals

>>149639544 (OP)
I remember this one actually. From exactly zero episodes of Justice League.

>>149639544 (OP)
Venom's cloaking ability.
Gambit's hypnotic charm.

>>149639544 (OP)
Fun fact: Wonder Woman is my wife

Admittedly Ewing reminded everyone but
>Hulk can see ghosts and can smell lies

>>149639577
>Gambit's hypnotic charm
It would explain his stupid fucking eyes

Magneto can hypnotise people using his magnetic attraction

>>149639544 (OP)
Superman can turn intangible. Aquaman can mind hax humans. Thor can stop time. Carnage can transmit his body through the internet. Iron Man can absorb the energy from a human body to freeze them in place.

>>149639544 (OP)
Wally West used to be able to imbue objects with Speed Force and cause them to explode by vibrating through them.

>>149639544 (OP)
But I remember this one. Almost never comes up, but it's definitely a thing she can do.

On that note, can't remember if it's in continuity or not right now, but Conner Kent's tactile telekinesis.

>>149639544 (OP)
>>149639567
>>149639710
Absolute uses it to great effect sometimes, especially in the flashback sequences

>>149639686
>Superman can turn intangible
I'm assuming that's just vibrating at high speed like Flash

>>149639710
>On that note, can't remember if it's in continuity or not right now, but Conner Kent's tactile telekinesis.
Referenced in the current Superman run

>>149639733
Absolute is great.

>>149639764
Yeah, I gotta read that still. What issue does it start with?

>Superman likes Metallica
>Batman doesn’t know how to cook or do laundry
>Wally is Linda’s second husband
>Barbara and Jason Bard were actually engaged precrisis
>Alan Scott and Obsidian like baseball, hate the Yankees, and like musicals
>Guy Gardner used to be a teacher/social worker
>Batman canonically shitposts on the internet to hide his identity
>Dinah Lance isn't a natural blonde
>Barry was the first leader of the JL
>Swamp Thing has a daughter but Constantine was technically the biological father because Swamp Thing took over Constantine's body to conceive the child
>Evil Raven crashing Dick and Kory's wedding was such a last minute change that a published Flash issue from around that time refers to them as husband and wife
>Under Perez Hippolyta was supposed to be the reincarnation of the first neolithic woman killed by a man by Byrne's dumb ass had the neolithic woman be a different character
>Geoff Johns’ first wife was a black woman and that’s why the Crimson Avenger he created and Peek-A-Boo in his JSA and Flash runs were black women

>>149640039
>>Superman likes Metallica
based
what's his favorite song?

>>149640039
>Guy Gardner used to be a teacher/social worker
That backstory is back thanks to the New History of the DCU.

>>149640039
>>Batman doesn’t know how to cook
He can grill and that's all that matters...

>>149640105
Based, fuck the cop Guy

The Bat family sometimes utilizes a henchman persona called Knute Brody to internally sabotage a certain supervillain's scheme as his main schtick was he's extremely clumsy and not too smart. Batman, Robin, Batgirl and even Alfred have rotated using this persona

>>149640090
His favorite album is Justice For All.

>>149640492
how can one man be so based?

>>149640492
>Superboy
Man, this is a good thread to bring up his TACTILE TELEKINESIS, since he never ever ever ever brings it up. No, sir.

>>149640492
That's a lot of words

>>149640362
Naw cop guy is cool

>>149639686
Thor has so many bullshit asspull powers from the Silver Age that it's ridiculous.

>>149641191
not really

>>149640039
>>Superman likes Metallica

Jimmy Olsen listens to 70s funk compilation CDs.

>>149639710
doesn't Superman himself have tactile telekinesis too? no other reason why he should be able to hold and lift a falling building when it should realistically collapse and implode under the stress

Moon Knight is named as such because his original power was that his strength doubled during full moons (which he, naturally, used to fight werewolves). This was dropped pretty much immediately afterward and never mentioned again.

>>149639544 (OP)
A forgotten power is how Miles' Venom blast used to be a slight electric jolt as a defense mechanism instead of the fucking electricity lightsabers that Ziglar writes about or the nuclear explosions in the Insomniac games

>>149641232
No only superboy. They’re very very clear about the fact Superboy got tactile from a different genetic metahuman donor, not Superman.

>>149640492
I wonder how heroes balance it, I can’t even cope with going to a part time job and forcing myself to sit down and play or watch something

>>149639544 (OP)
Cyclops and his geometry powers/

She-Hulk exponential strength & being a serial rapist.

Mary Jane is a descendant of Red Sonja and can summon her form when needed

>>149639686
Superman is cheating he has dozens of powers people just forgot about like his ability to shapeshift by beating his face, or shoot rainbows out of his hands that contain superman midgets that are just as powerful as him

Anyway, Namor had fish abilities when he first appeared.

>>149641232
>>149641248
No he's right sort of, there was a stupid explanation for Superman being able to lift shit by Byrne post crisis without it falling apart called the Superman Bio Electric Field or Superman Field or Superman Aura

Also Matrix Supergirl had the same powers as Kon

>>149641307
No you’re conflating different things

The bio electric field isn’t from that Byrne story, that’s a later explanation just why his clothes don’t rip, it’s a forcefield on his skin not tk.

The Byrne story wasn’t about why things don’t fall apart, it’s why he struggles to lift heavy objects while standing but not while flying. Nothing to do with falling apart, only to do with why it’s no longer heavy to him. Not reasoned with any forcefield.

Matrix Supergirl isn’t a kryptonian, she’s a gummy robot made by Lex Luthor to mimic Superman’s powers using tk instead. Kon at this same decade was explained away as not really a kryptonian but a regular human modified with telekinesis to imitate kryptonian strength, because execs wanted Superman’s powers to be uniquenso Supergirl and Kon both had to be telekinetic while Superman just had ordinary strength.

They’re very very clear about this in all the profiles and stories of them together: Matrix has tk (robot), Kon has tk (human experiment, Superman has flight and superstrength (kryptonian).

>>149641338
I don't remember one about his clothes not ripping cuz that was like a huge thing in the 90's with beat up torn shirt and cape Superman. There was one about clothes being clean earlier wasn't though.

Admittedly I haven't read the Byrne story since it was out so maybe I'm misremembering but doesn't the explanation for the field start with him holding the nose a plane? And then later explained as he has to be touching something so he can extend his field over it?

All Star I think he was able to expand his field which is an elseworlds but still

>>149641363
No, that’s a complete different story by a complete different writer, also nothing mentioned or to do with tk

Where the misconception comes from is here, he lifts up this base from the ground and says “huh, this was heavy to move on the ground but now I can lift it without trying, I guess my flight bypasses my need to lift things”

>>149641242
Actually, in Moon Knight's first appearance, he was just a mercenary with silver weapons sent by the Commitee to capture the Werewolf Russell. He had no ties to Khonshu or any supernatural abilities, and "Moon Knight" was just a name picked by the Commitee to further kick Russell down. In his first major run this was retconned though.

>Deadpool doesn't like chimichangas, he just likes how the word sounds

>>149639544 (OP)
Eh, Diana's ability to talk to animals comes up more often than you'd think. It's at the very least not forgotten. Now her immunity to fire? THAT is something that people straight up forgot.

Medusa controlling her hair even after it is off her head

>>149641501
what's more amazing is how he still loves her despite all the cheating

Aquaman is roughly as strong as Superman.

>>149639544 (OP)
Batman and Robin used to have a Therapist teammate who would send them back through time with hypnosis

This wasn't just a one-off whacky story either it happened every single issue for 19 years, from 1944 to 1963. This guy was in close to 100 different Batman issues repeating this exact same plot every time. Someone desperately wanted him to be part of the Batmythos forever

>>149641501
>2000's Marvel: Let's demystify all out characters and make them into one note assholes.

Donna had more abilities whenever she was associated with the Titans of Myth due to being given gifts and powers by them.

>forcefields
>cold and darkness manipulation
>generic photonic blasts
>the starfield is an actual map of space and she's able to track people/navigate using it

>>149640039
>Batman doesn’t know how to cook
How do you fuck up soup
You cut shit up, put it in there, and boil it until stuff is soft

>>149641307
>>149641363
so what's the actual explanation for how he's able to lift up things that should otherwise collapse under their own weight, if it's not tactile telekinesis?

>>149641509
this one was used in powerscaling arguments all the time until the JL movie made him a weak bitch against Jesusman, so while mentions of it went down it gave extra vitriol to comic fans who hated the DCEU's portrayal

>>149641810
there's been no official explanation given yet, it's just a thing.
He's not the only hero to do that, Lantern, Wonder Woman, most of the Justice League have even on the same page as him.

>>149639686
Thor's time travel powers were at least explicitly removed rather than just "forgotten". Except for the fact that he lost the power in a story from the 60s/70s, which means that all the flashback stories involving him (and fuck me, there's a lot) do forget that he would've had the power at the time.

>>149641509
>>149641819
I don't know about this one but I will say Aquaman is a lot stronger than people give him credit for. On land, he's effectively Golden Age Superman, and underwater, he's like post-Crisis Supes. Mera's the same, she's not just a mage type with the hydrokinesis. She could legit kill regular humans or low level metas quite easily with her bare hands if she wanted to.

Fuck the JL movies for making him as weak against Superman as they did. A lot of comics have it so that if he gives it his all, he can at least make Superman feel a punch on dry land or something. As much as I liked the Aquaman movies, he felt a little weak there too.

>>149641823
Lantern could probably always cast a wide layer around whatever object it is, but youre right about Diana and maybe others too. I figured in Superman's 90-year history it would be mentioned at some point

>>149641307
>Superboy uses telekinesis to fly
>It's tactile telekinesis
Superboy can only fly by touching himself

>>149642063
We don’t even have an official explanation how he flies. Best was once Lex theorised he has an anti-gravity organ somewhere

>>149641870
>On land, he's effectively Golden Age Superman, and underwater, he's like post-Crisis Supes
how are they different? not a Superman comic reader so I have no clue

>>149641208
Naw.

>>149642075
Golden Age Supes is the OG version of the character that can 'only' lift up cars, run faster than speeding bullets, leap tall buildings, etc. Notably, he couldn't fly. He also didn't have his heat or x-ray vision iirc.

Post-Crisis is the version spanning from after Crisis on Infinite Earths to Flashpoint. Granted, his power level fluctuated in this period. Initially, he was depowered crazily from the insanely powerful Silver Age version. Basically if you've ever seen the DCAU cartoon, he was around that level. Think Golden Age Superman but a bit more powerful overall, with flight and his other powers. He couldn't even fly out into outer space without having a specially made suit for that.

Then as time went on, starting from the early-mid 2000's, he got a power boost and began to be powerful again, even being able to fly out into space, lifting objects that were several thousand tons in terms of mass, fighting what you may call 'city-busters', if not planet busters, on much more even footing.

But yeah, Aquaman in the comics has been closer to the latter period of post-Crisis Supes for a long time now. Dude's a beast underwater.

>>149639773
1

>>149642130
interesting, thanks for the write-up! I always assumed he could always breathe or fly in outer space but I guess not. and what about Silver Age Superman was so powerful? did anything change in the bronze age since we haven't mentioned that so far?

>>149640039
>Superman likes Metallica
>Guy Gardner used to be a teacher/social worker
>Batman canonically shitposts on the internet to hide his identity
>Dinah Lance isn't a natural blonde
>Geoff Johns’ first wife was a black woman and that’s why the Crimson Avenger he created and Peek-A-Boo in his JSA and Flash runs were black women
But I knew all of these already. Guy being a teacher/social worker adds so much to his character. Glad to see it's back.

A few more:
>Zatanna has a fear of puppets
>Aquaman had a mixed Inuit son post-Crisis
>Hal Jordan once came on to Supergirl when she was barely legal iirc
>Supergirl and Mary Marvel were best friends for awhile post-Crisis

>>149642178
>interesting, thanks for the write-up! I always assumed he could always breathe or fly in outer space but I guess not.
No problem.

Nowadays, when he flies into outer space, he just holds his breath. I think it was like that in the Silver Age too but I wouldn't put it past writers to just have him talk in space...just cuz.

>and what about Silver Age Superman was so powerful?
Just good ol' power creep.

>did anything change in the bronze age since we haven't mentioned that so far?
I believe in the Bronze Age, he was mostly as powerful as he was prior, but there was an attempt by Dennis O'Neil to depower him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman_Saga_(Superman)

>>149642084
Him being a cop is better. Makes the joke about the guardians liking him more than Hal funnier too.
>Hot head cop that gets the job done vs the overly cocky test pilot fuck up

>>149642282
that joke still works if he's a teacher/social worker tho

>>149639544 (OP)
not really

>>149642335
Not really. What part of being a teacher or social worker would make a character predisposed the being a hotheaded douchebag with a heart of gold? His personality and interplay he has with the guardians fits a cop better. Those other professions are more blue lantern territory

>>149642420
I think in terms of some rich test pilot dude being bested by the more-liked lowly social worker it makes sense

>>149639544 (OP)
>>Wonder Woman can talk to animals
I loved that shit. It's those things that differentiate one fliyng brick from another. Just like having a lasso instead of a sword or bracers insteads of shields or forcefields.
Or being shaped from clay instead of being just another demigod

Keep that shit unique, retards

>>149642559
You get that same effect with a cop though and it fits Guy's personality more

>>149641462
>battle skirt
Modern wonder woman just sucks

>>149642614
His cop retcon is lame and generic af. A trite backstory if I've ever heard one.
Him being a lawyer was billions of times better

Miles Morales has shitloads of new powers to show he's a better Spider-Man than Spider-man.

>>149642614
nah cops get way more lenience with shit, makes things unearned just like pilots do. making Guy a teacher or whatever just rubs it in more

>>149642616
skirt is so much better, there's no shortage of superheroines in leotards, skirts are better they just need to have the stars

>>149642628
It's not trite so much as it just naturally works with the character. His rapport with the guardians for example is similar to a cop navigating the bureaucratic red tape
>Lawyer
eh better than social worker or teacher that's for sure

>>149642732
>Rubs it in more
At the cost of not making sense for the character. What cops or pilots do or don't get away with is irrelevant. It's still a mundane job compared to Hal's and works well with him gelling with the guardians better than Hal

>>149641509
The little fins on the back of his boots used to be much bigger and formed a fishtail when he swam.

Black Bolt rearranging matter to make different matter

Black Bolt turning matter into anti-matter

BB manipulating energy in the brain

hypnotism

Prior to this the master blow hadn't actually been done in like 30 years. It was mentioned in WWH

>>149642771
It's trite. Half of the cops from 70s-80s-90s movies have the same origin.
And changing origin to characters should be forbidden no matter what

>>149642738
No it's not, and nobody cares about the others. CHange the others

>>149643153
Naw man it's like saying John McClaine it trite. It's just a natural extensions of Guy's personality. Plenty of vigilantes have Punisher's same basic setup and they can still be great on a case by case basis.
>And changing origin to characters should be forbidden no matter what
Yes we should all have to go through tedious story beats like Clark going to an orphanage before the Kents get him. Fuck all that "surrogate parent" nonsense with Alfred too.

>>149643193
No it's not. MacClane is a cop with a cop origin. Guy got a generic cop origin as part of a shitty reboot.
>if you do this, also do that
no, kys.

>>149643242
>If you do this, also do that
You explicitly said origins shouldn't be changed.
>MacClane is a cop with a cop origin
You understand we're talking about Green Lantern, right? This exact logic applies to Guy

>>149639544 (OP)
>>Wonder Woman can talk to animals
The silve age Hawks could do so too.

>>149639544 (OP)
it's actually one of those powers that once writers find out about it they keep using everywhere

>>149639686
>Thor can stop time
What?

>>149643262
>You explicitly said origins shouldn't be changed.
Yes, which couldn't be more different from evolution/adjustment/refinement
for example: WW being dramatically shaped on the beach instead of a figurine popping to life is refinement. GOOD
WW suddenly becoming another shitty demigod is change for the sake of change. BAD
>You understand we're talking about Green Lantern, right? This exact logic applies to Guy
no it doesn't. he wasn't a cop before, and it added nothing. Just family issues thaat were mandatory for the new52 debooted shit

On another not, there was a guy that looked like Joss Whendon stuck outside my home unable to pass the closed gate, asking for help, just next to the tragically obvious big button that opens it

>>149639544 (OP)
>>Wonder Woman can talk to animals
I wouldn't say this is very forgotten since Absolute Wonder Woman is extremely popular right now (to the point it's more popular than 95% of main universe books) and her animal empathy is used constantly there as a main character trait

>>149643336
anyone who's played d&d knows how useful Wild Empathy can be
it's also why Pet Pal is a mandatory perk in Divinity Original Sin

>>149643707
>evolution/adjustment/refinement
A change actually being any of these is completely arbitrary though. Guy has a personality that matches him being a cop and it positions him to have a potentially dangerous background like John and Hal's military backgrounds. This one turn contrasts them to Kyle's more laid back job making him more unique. All in all it's a good change for the character

>>149643737
>Absolute Wonder Woman
That shit is WW in name only, again

>>149643853
All you do is defending thecurrent statusquo because it's the current status quo.
So no

>>149643853
>Teacher.
>Not dangerous, and laid-back.

>>149643931
I was reading GL before new 52 though and you are the one technically defending current status quo >>149640105
The change just fits his character better. I genuinely don't see the problem with it.

>>149643939
It's not an inherently dangerous profession, yes. Social worker could potentially be more dangerous even

>>149643968
>The change just fits his character better.
literally no
> I genuinely don't see the problem with it.
yeah you don't

>>149644078
>Literally no
Care to explain? Because every reply from you so far has been some variation of
>Old good, new bad

>>149643917
it's more WW than the entire previous decade of WW comics

>>149643161
youre a dumbass, the skirt just makes more logical sense and asking every other female capeshitter to forego leotards when it's not even Wonder Woman's best look is stupid

>>149643917
t. Tom King
absolutely wondy is literally better than the last several decades of the character in main continuity. Especially "muh Amazons are immigrants murdered by metahuman ICE agents because they just wanna live in America with their adopted black kids instead of their post scarcity island paradise where they're all immortal!!!" or New 52's dumpster fire.

>>149645205
I still maintain that the Azzarello New 52 run was alright besides the retarded origin changes like her demigod status or the silvery look. if you imagine it as Elseworlds it's not a bad run at all, better than every other New 52 run except Batman

>>149640039
That Hippolyta idea kinda seems dumb. What made THAT particular death special enough for a reincarnation.
It also make it seems that any action done by a man to a woman is negative, or that anything bad that happens to a woman is worse somehow.

>>149645274
anon she was killed, I'd consider that pretty fuckin negative. also the Amazonians' whole deal is about that

has someone mentioned Superman changing his face to a Jap yet or is that too popular as a meme to be "forgotten"

>>149645205
it's mid
retards have overrated previous runs like this before, and not even that long ago (Rebirth)

I'm convinced everyone trashing on Absolute WW haven't read the comic or are (un)paid Tom King shills

>>149645248
>better than every other New 52 run except Batman
See, you had me intrigued but then you say this shit that makes me question your taste.

>>149644155
NTA but Guy as a cop doesn't make any sense because, while Guy is a cocksure dickhead, he is ultimately a hero with a heart of gold, and cops are just sad boy thugs and cowards who hide behind a bureaucracy so they can bully people without fear of retribution. Guy isn't a coward, so QED him being a cop makes no sense.

>>149639663
Magneto can literally do anything with the "power of Magnetism", so eh.

>>149639686
>Thor can stop time.
Well, Mjolnir can or could.

>>149645660
Wasn't that a power that was removed by Odin? So not so much forgotten as no longer applicable.

>>149645596
fuck, I meant to say *early New 52, when they were just starting out

>>149645628

>>149645685
Immortus tricked Thor into giving it up.

>>149641513
Just like the holodeck episodes of TNG, this is the shit writers do when the creative tank is empty.
Nowadays they just rotate which rogue is "taking over Gotham" or introduce a new Robin.

>>149645731
Which power was it that Odin removed from the hammer then? I know that's a thing.

Supermans solar flare

It kind of comes back and leaves, but Green Lanterns can transmutate stuff. Like makinf Kryptonite

>>149645774
Like Magneto, Green Lanterns can do whatever the plot requires.

>>149645746
I can't think of anything besides Odin taking away Thor's ability to use Mjolnir.

>>149645785
My favorite is in Blackest Night when the rings can suddenly duplicate to be worn by another user in emergency scenarios. Is that ever established anywhere else before that?

>>149645548
>you can't dislike what I like
grow up

>>149639544 (OP)
not a power but I'm always surprised by people not knowing that Batman has a separate glider and doesn't just flail his cape in the sky. I think Arkham is just that pervasive in modern pop culture that people conflate his cape with air gliding almost always

>>149639544 (OP)
Jimmy Olsen married a gorilla.

>>149645845
It looks cooler with the cape.

>>149645845
when Arkham came out it felt like that was always the case because it's the most ovious thing to do

>>149645845
I think its because it just looks cooler. B:TAS had him using the glider quite a bit.

I'm pretty sure Batman Begins or TDK also did the same with the whole "your cape hardens when an electric current runs through" thing, I think the latter

>>149645811
yes.
Originally the last Lantern ring on earth was owned by Kyle after Parallax destroyed the others. Then a time travelling Hal Jordan came to the present and showed Kyle how to make duplicates of the ring for others.
100% of all Green Lantern rings right now are duplicates of Hal's ring

>>149645845
I mean, didn't TDK do it first?

>>149639544 (OP)
They showed off Judge Fargo's and visavi cloning showed Judge Dredd's face in the comics almost 45 years ago.

>>149645873
Thanks, anon sounds kino. Know the issue numbers by chance?

>>149645699
Snyder's run on Nu52 was shit from start to finish.

>>149646022
Green Lantern #100 by Ron Marz (it continues for like 3 issues, Hal repopulates the Lantern corps at the end)

>>149639544 (OP)
The only reason Wolverine joined the X-Men was so he could assassinate Professor X. Then Charles erased his mind so he could be an X-Man for real, but Wolverine is actually grateful for it.

>>149646022
>>149646069
checked again, it ends 107

>>149639710
Conner has more than that; he has matter manipulating telekinetic powers.

>>149646652
The canonical form is 'dismantle'

>>149646652
>stabbings up 6000%

>>149645873
Speaking of Hal's ring, all the GL rings used to have an impurity that gave each one a unique bonus ability. Hal had a few though, one being able to duplicate his ring but the other was being immune to stabbing or impaling or mortal wounds some such thing which was in the same issue.

Kyle wore Hal's ring specifically for that ability in Emerald Knights I believe.

>>149642616
She originally had a skirt you dumb fuck

>>149641509
Base level Superman but that's debatable. He's Earth's most powerful natural organism

>>149648075
Who, Aquacuck? No chance lmao

>>149648135
He was threatening to kill The Joker in this which gave Batman incalculable strength to protect him

>>149645845
Moon Knight's cape lets him glide with it and fly like the Arkham Knight Batman cape too, I think people just assume Batman's works the same since his cape being a cool high tech tacticool glider that also doubles as a bullet-proof shield when he swings it in front of his face like Dracula makes more sense than it being purely cosmetic and him needing to rely on an actual paraglider and grappling hook only.

I'm like 95% sure I've seen him cape-glide in actual comics too occasionally so even writers forget, but there's some pretty famous stories where if he had the Arkham cape the outcome would be totally different. In Hush his suit is so weak that merely having his grapple hook cut unexpectedly is enough to nearly kill him, as he has no other ways of breaking his fall, no parachute or glider, and the suit's armor doesn't even stop him breaking his arm on the way down and nearly dying as he falls. Pure gravity from an average rooftop height is enough to almost kill Batman in Hush, hard to believe it's the same guy who's survived falling from orbit and getting punched/thrown around by parademons and Darkseid in justice league teamups (yeah yeah "muh he parries the blow or moved with the hit to reduce damage! even incidental contact with Darkseid would turn you to tomato paste without fucking power armor which his suit is often shown to be a form of)

Like in pic related Arkham bats is totally fine.

>>149641508
I want him to tell her I want a divorce and kill her
Black bolt deserves better than inhumans
He has potential to be the aura farmer of marvel
Just stand there and stare till he has talk someones head off

>>149648242
meanwhile the most recent issue of moon knight
Batman having a less functional cape than moony feels dumb when Marc's is mostly used for aura farming poses and he doesn't even fight with it like Batman does with his cape and he doesn't even have one in every outfit.
I'm gonna go check and see if I can find Batman cape gliding in his regular outfit since I'm almost positive I've seen it happen (I also remember the Hush scene because I remember thinking how dumb it was at the time watching the animated movie until I learned it actually happened that way in the comics too, talk about a jobber moment, mother fucker you're a billionaire and you don't even carry a second grappling hook???)

>>149642071
He helicopters around ?

>>149648305
okay I'm not crazy, I went back and checked dark patterns and he does jump out a window holding his cape bunched up in his hands in front of him to glide like an actual bat (it's also a cloth suit that even regular police/rent-a-cop handgun calibers can pierce and wound him in, so definitely not the shit he wears to fight Darkseid)

>>149641637
>3lbs chicken
>4 peppercorns
what kind of recipe is this?

>>149648066
It was an old shorts-skirt hybrid, than she started wearing shorts, than the leotard.

>>149645746
Does he still have his weather control powers besides storms and lightning? He used to be able to conjure up pretty much any weather. conditions.
I know Odin either removed the Donald Blake TF enchantment or transferred it to Beta Ray Bill's hammer/

>>149642420
>What part of being a teacher or social worker would make a character predisposed the being a hotheaded douchebag with a heart of gold
His history of parental abuse and the bad habits it ingrained in him losing him the job. Which can be played for laughs or angst.

>>149639704
i dont feel like digging up the page but wally west (in the new teen titans run) can wave his hand in a circle to create a strong air current that can blow the oxygen away from someone's face in a sustained way to basically choke them out remotely

this is a stupidly OP ability that he uses once and then never again

>>149639686
>Aquaman can mind hax humans
Aquaman can instantly mentally torture someone by using his powers to attack the reptile brain of a person

he uses this once in morrison's JLA run and then never again as far as I know

>>149641462
even /co/'s favorite writer is using it

Black Bolt keeping everyone in attilan alive

>>149649883
King needs to fall down 4 flights of stairs.

>>149639544 (OP)
Kinda remind that Hulk could manipulate magic like it was clay, but can't find the page

>>149649603
Why does a fish person have the ability to mentally torture someone? That makes absolutely no sense.

>>149645925
I believe Batman Returns was the first

>>149646215
Wait I thought that was just Ultimate X-Men this was in 616 too??

>>149639686
>Carnage can transmit his body through the internet.
SHOW YOURSELF

>>149650143
His talk to fish gimmick evolved to "telepathy but more convoluted"

>>149650143
Shared evolutionary history means he can fuck with humans brains somewhat even if we're not as close to fish
Also remember he was already talking to whales and dolphins so it's not like mammals are off limits

>>149650143
writers trying to make him cool by giving him more powers that sort of relate to the ones he's always had

>>149650628
The Ultimate story came first, the 616 one was written 6 years later. It’s also called Original Sin, which kind of keeps it under the radar since there was a different event called Original Sin.

Daredevil in very early days knew where True North was with his senses by detecting the earth's magnetic lines.

>>149651085
Was this in that Wolverine Origin book by Daniel Way?

>>149640039
>Batman doesn’t know how to cook or do laundry
Batman is shown several times cooking. He might not be a michelin chef, which I doubt with the batwank, but he can cook well enough

>>149650143
All fish can do that

>>149648242
>hard to believe it's the same guy who's survived falling from orbit and getting punched/thrown around by parademons and Darkseid in justice league teamups
that's because those are always bullshit feats

>>149650845
Yeah, this. It actually does "make sense" so far as comic book super powers go if you think about it.

>>149651230
You know what that actually makes so e decent sense

>>149651287
Yep, he wrote a one-shot for it but it’s still the Origin storyline.

>>149650770
>>149650845
Reminds me of this comic
>>149650872
>writer tries to make lame character cool by giving new over-powered abilities
many such cases

>>149643968
It fits his character superficially, but making him a teacher adds some nuance to Guy as a character.

>>149642282
>>149642335
Honestly, I don't know why Guy couldn't just be both a teacher and a cop at different times of his life.
I mean, if John can be both a soldier and an architect, Guy could also handle two professions.

>>149652279
It's not superficial. Doing that job everyday takes strong will power and shows his desire to do good through action
>>149652294
Honestly yeah he's the type to tryout several careers

>>149652234
More or less.

>to live in the sea, atlanteans need to be super strong/tough.
>Aquaman actually has telepathy that works on marine life.
>Since life came from the sea, it works on everything, really.

>>149652489
if aquaman went back in time millions of years could he talk to ancient species of fish?

>>149652412
I say it's superficial because that's exactly what you'd expect out of someone like Guy, something like a teacher on the other hand says something more about his character that you don't usually see expressed from him.

>>149652234
how does a special gene in your body let you speak languages anyway? I can understand if it's like a mild telepath power where it requires you to touch the user to gain insight into their brain, but how does Cypher's power even work? does he just look at someone and suddenly speak their language?

For some reason Post crisis Jim Gordon was Barbaras uncle instead of her father

>>149653254
Figure it's like those guys that are naturally super good at math or puzzles and can calculate or figure stuff out almost instantaneously. He only needs the minimum amount of information to grok syntax and whatnot.

>>149653254
>how does a special gene in your body let you speak languages anyway?
It doesn't. Capeshit writers don't even have a middle school level grasp on biology or any scientific area which is very apparent if you examine their writings with even the tiniest bit of scrutiny.. The powers conferred on someone having the x-gene, metagene, etc. would require hundreds if not thousands of genes working together to produce the effect. You're just supposed to accept it, no questions asked.

>>149653552
Was that the case in The Killing Joke?

>>149653690
yeah but that makes sense if it's like human languages, but how is he able to understand Krakoa's speech lmao

>>149654046
that's why is should have been a mutated X Chromosome not a gene

>>149652412
>Doing that job everyday takes strong will power and shows his desire to do good through action
Which is why teacher or social worker is a perfect fit, and cop is fucking terrible.

>>149654046
not that the whole thing still makes any sense but this is why I prefer the retcon about X-Gene being a product of Celestial experimentation instead of just 60s irradiated humans, it's more sensible in comparison

>>149648135
That might be the worst drawn Batman I've ever seen

>>149641870
>Mera's the same, she's not just a mage type with the hydrokinesis. She could legit kill regular humans or low level metas quite easily with her bare hands if she wanted to.
Loki is another example. He's obviously nowhere near Thor but he could absolutely body anyone at or below Spider-Man's power level. Any average Asgardian could. There's a panel somewhere that I can't find of Spider-Man being shocked at how strong Asgardian kids are

>>149648135
>>149648149
average Batwank as usual, not worth bothering
>>149648075
>He's Earth's most powerful natural organism
if we're not counting Diana then sure

>>149654416
this is a reference to spider-man breaking his hands from punching superman?

>>149652848
Not really superficial so much as just a natural fit for the character
>>149654281
I don't understand. Being a cop takes way more courage and willpower than the other two options. It's a good fit for Guy

>>149654746
That would be really scary if they did that in a modern story

>>149652489
>>149652622
I've got one where he's down in the ruins of old Atlantis fighting Ocean Master and tries to summon help but there's nothing but these weird mutated deep-sea fish around and all he gets is feedback and they attack him.

>>149654083
Like math, all languages have a basic structure even if those structures differ from one another. It's essentially just super-pattern recognition.

>>149654046
That's literally how genes work. You have groups of master control genes that control a series of other genes, so if you trigger, say, a single gene coded to "make eye" it makes an eye, rather than having to go through and alter each individual gene below it. A minor tweak to a leg gene in fruit flies will cause extra legs to grow, or grow out of their head. A lot of powers are simply basic body/cell functions writ large.
It's still bullshit because the mutation needs to be self-stabilizing not to mention other factors that wouldn't play in the real world but it's slightly less bullshit than it seems on the surface.

>>149641549
I really wish they'd give all the Wonderfam members different powers somehow.

The different weapons/weapon abilities are nice but Donna rarely uses hers beyond catching somebody, and after the new 52 (or at least the 2014 volume) Cassie doesn't really use the lasso's lightning either.

>>149655173
>Being a cop takes way more courage and willpower than the other two options
barely, it's quite the privileged life since you learn to take things for granted and you know you can get away with certain things. being a teacher or social worked puts him through the grinder but still supports him having a herat of gold beneath that rough exterior, to say

>>149650143
>>149650770
Telepathy makes more sense than fish having a shared language and loyalty to one man and since Aquaman has his own book he's free to go full Scanners with it. People get mad cause he doesn't have jobber "muh willpower" telepathy like Xavier or Martian Manhunter.

>>149656292
>Privileged life since you take the in bgs for granted
This isn't true though. Cops could potentially get shot at or attacked for mundane things like traffic stops. People in that position actually value life greatly considering they could lose theirs just going to work.
>Put him through the grinder
How are cops not put through a grinder? This same logic can work with his cop origin. Social workers and teachers have more of a blue lantern vibe. Guy would feel even ineffectual in those positions

>>149641307
>>149641338
>>149641363
>>149641381
Wait, wait. I thought tactile telekinesis was how Superman was able to fly. If he doesn't have it, how do they explain him flying?

>>149639582
Fine. I wanted Jumpa all along.

>>149656370
Fletcher studios, to avoid to having to animate him jumping around.

>>149656370
It's semantics. Superman does it with solar powered bio aura but Superboy does it with psychic energy.

>>149642190
>Hal Jordan once came on to Supergirl when she was barely legal iirc
Other way around, 17 year old Supergirl was flirting with Hal. Then she dressed as a little girl and flashed Lobo.

Lockjaw has force fields

>>149656670

>>149656680

>>149656334
>doesheknow.jpg

>>149656757
Concession accepted

>>149655173
>>149656334
Ah, I'm going to assume that you're European. No, most cops are petty tyrants who are never in danger and contribute literally nothing to society. They are usually dudes who peaked hard in highschool and desperately want some kind of power, or ex-military crayon eaters who cannot get any other job. They're aren't "put through the grinder," they are a protected class of thug. I can see how this might be confusing if you are from a country that actually has a functioning police force, or you're only aware of American police from a Dick Wolf TV show.

>>149641243
That's not forgotten, it's an upgrade. Like how Peter's spider sense went from a slight warning of danger in a general area to fucking precog perfect dodging

>>149657725
So Guy can't be a cop because you have a hyperbolically negative view of them? Just say you don't actually have an argument and take the L. Btw Green Lanterns are cops. So maybe not the comic for you

>>149657817
>Uh, uh, I don't like your argument so it's not a valid argument!

>>149657841
You're broadly proclaiming that everyone in a certain profession, that's necessary for a functioning society, is evil. It's legitimately not a valid argument

>>149657884
What country are you from?

>>149657817
>Cops are all cowardly bullies
>Guy is not a cowardly bully
>Therefore, it doesn't make sense for Guy to be a cop

I dunno, that argument makes pretty good sense to me.

>>149657905
You can't say for certainty that everyone in a profession is a cowardly bully though. Not a valid argument

Batman hates rock n roll.

>>149657926
Enough of them are that they do their damndest to force out anyone that isn't.

>>149658426
No not really. You could apply this same overly negative assessment to any profession. Doesn't make it unequivocally true

>>149654461
>natural organism
>Diana
Made from clay or demigod, doesn't count

>>149658646
Golden age Wonder Woman powers came from her psychic prowess unlocked through training.

>>149658644
Again, we're talking about American cops, because that's where Guy is from. I'm glad you're from a functioning country, but it doesn't really apply here.

>>149657958
He has a seething obsessive hatred of anything edgier than classical music
That comic was also written by a pedophile

>>149658793
What I said applies to American cops. You're weirdly paranoid about cops for someone who apparently likes a comic about them patrolling space

>>149659260
>What I said applies to American cops
Yeah, I understand your confusion. It doesn't actually apply to American cops. Our system is completely broken.

The idea of space detectives flying around space solving space mysteries is pretty dope, though.

>>149657958
he also does not eat nachos

>>149659413
>It doesn't actually apply to American cops
Yes it does. Again, maybe find a comic that doesn't involve cops if you hate them so much

>>149639686
>Carnage can transmit his body through the internet
Imagine him doing tech support in some call center hell.

>Carnage this is the 5th time this month a customer of yours has suffered a "fatal accident," one more time and you're getting written u - ACK"

>>149639544 (OP)
If Conan smiles he looks just like Superman.

>>149659900
>You don't like the fact that a bunch of shitheads constantly abuse their power and make life worse for literally no reason while expecting to be lionized by the public!? Then you're not allowed to like space detectives stories!

>>149659985
I mean, yeah. Green lanterns are cops and you have a weird hate boner for the entire profession/concept. So why do you like GL?

>>149639710
didn't she do it on the Linda Carter show? I remember her getting information from a bird.

>>149660041
just because our police system is a broken mess doesn't mean that I think that it's impossible to have a useful police force. The concept of law enforcement isn't inherent evil, but the implementation pretty much guarantees a state sponsored gang of thugs with too much power and zero accountability. The fact that our cops are, at best useless and at worst criminals, has nothing to do with fun heroic adventures in space solving space mysteries, anon.

>>149639544 (OP)
Hey guys! Just dropping in to remind you that I have tactile kinesis! I hope you haven't forgotten! Anyway I'm going to go hit on some older chicks and tell them that I have tactile kinesis! Later!

>>149660102
Nothing you're saying cops are bad for is a universal constant though. You've been consistently biased and hostile so it's hard to take any claims to open mindedness seriously here

>>149660261
Again, in America it is pretty much a universal constant. We're talking about American cops here, no some hypothetical good cops.

Are there mathematical outliers? Certainly, I'm sure that there are as many good cops as, say, literal serial killer cops. But most cops are just kind of terrible, and the system enforces this.

>>149639577
>Venom's cloaking ability.
That shit's just an application of his color change ability. And his color change ability is used constantly.

Superman can see souls.

Miles favorite drink is lean.

>>149660078
It's been posted >>149643336

>>149640039
>Batman doesn’t know how to cook or do laundry
That just contradicts a lot of the times showing otherwise

>>149640039
>>149640154
>>149641637
>>149651524
>>149660513
Most recently, Batman has been shown to have learned after Alfred's death.

>>149650845
even then, he just talks with fish, right? he doesn't "fuck" with them

so at most he can "talk" to a human's reptile brain. that shouldn't torture them.

>>149654416
Now I *could* be wrong but iirc, aren't average New Gods also much, much stronger than humans as well?

>>149660288
Naw they're net positive and making Guy one wasn't a bad change. You sound sheltered tbqh

>>149641272
That's not rape. She-Hulk doesn't lie about having a smaller form, nor does she turn back until after the sex.

>>149660998
he can directly control fish, he's literally king of the sea
he can't control people but he can seize your lizard brain and cause immense pain

>>149662492
It's clearly a form of deception.

>>149641221
Yes really

>>149660366
What's point of that?

USAgent has super strength.

>>149662333
>You sound sheltered tbqh
Highly ironic.

Wally West is unambiguously the fastest Flash. They tried for a brief time to hype up Bart as the fastest because he absorbed the Speed Force, but they course corrected and it's always Wally.

>>149665378
He also has a prosthetic arm and leg made out of an alternate reality Venom symbiote.

>>149665420
>Thinks the traffic police are the SS
>Implies others are sheltered
Time to put the screen down, bud. Read some GL

>>149657958
Batman was raped by sid vicious

>>149665840
>Has apparently gotten his entire view on the police from Law and Order
>Has the temerity to call other people sheltered.
Like I said, highly ironic.

>>149639544 (OP)
Green lantern can't block or grab yellow things

might be me forgetting stufff, but wasn't supergirl into black dudes or was it superman being into afro african women or whatever term they used back then

>>149656993
sad that you think it's a concession, sadder that you think cops are ever not privileged or actually put through a grinder like social workers who have to scrape to make ends meet every day. you really need to stop watching cop dramas because that's what your intuitions of the police seem to be derived from

>>149658646
now that's just mean

>>149660041
I think anon was pretty damn clear on hating the American police system, not just the concept of police and law enforcement as a whole. you keep trying to conflate those two to try and win the argument but it just comes off as ignorant or desperate or both.

>>149667121
this sounds like a /co/ gag and not a real thing

>>149666893
far from forgotten

>>149639544 (OP)
remember when Spidey had stingers below his hands?

bump

>>149660102
>>149660288
>>149665420
>>149668262
>posters who have never held a job that contributed to society
please get off the internet and hang out with someone in person, I beg you. Touch grass as the kids say.

>>149666824
>>149668223
>You get your idea of police from tv
Not really. I'm just saying they are a net positive and not storm troopers that lord over civilians like other anons are claiming
>>149668262
Right, he's clear on that distinction and I'm not conflating it with anything. I'm outright saying he's wrong to be so paranoid a about police. Hope you that clears it up for you

>>149669335
Which Spidey?

>>149669335
Didn't he get them back during Spider Island? Are they gone again?

>>149669335
That's Kaine

>>149671781
Kaine has them now but first it was Peter.

>>149670648
>sheltered retard tells me about "touching grass" because he grew up watching police dramas and think the majority of the police force is full of competent, honest officers

You guys have been having the same obnoxious argument about Guy being a cop for days, get back on topic.

>>149671745
Peter Parker of course
>>149671775
I don't remember actually, kinda rusty on that era
>>149671781
it was Peter first when he became te host of The Other, and after that passed it became Kaine during Spider-Verse. I'm pretty sure after that it was the MC2 Peter too.

>>149671775
I thought they were gone after OMD

>>149671959
>Because he grew up watching cop dramas
This is like the third post accusing people of watching cop propaganda while discussing a comic that is arguably cop propaganda. The plot has been lost

>>149639544 (OP)
Kitty Pryde is a skilled hacker. I guess she just got behind the times.

>>149672617
the "hacker > saying nigger" pipeline is real

>>149666893
anon the thread is about obscure shit, GL's weakness to yellow is like the most commonly known weakness for the guy