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Originally posted by Set:
quote:...Does it rob her of her powers when it touches her skin (if so, full body suit with mask, like Sensor Girl!)?...
I've been wondering about that forever, too.
It's right up there with "If Rogue wants to play spin-the-bottle with whomever, why doesn't she just take those inhibitor manacles that the Hellfire Club stuck everyone in once and make herself a couple of bracelets out of the SAME MATERIAL ?!"
Yeesh.
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I was always under the impression that NG was given powers by the night. I never thought of the sun as actually taking them away,although that's obviouly correct, in a way, I guess.
But on the other hand, she HAS always lost her powers in ANY kind of light, right? Has that been shown consistantly?
Hum. What wavelenghts effect her? Does she have powers in space? Would blacklights change her abilities? I wonder why Brainy doesn't find her possible abilities and limitations interesting?
As to her invulnerability, I've always thought of her is at least partically invulnerable. I mean, I don't know how she could hit something like a cement wall and not have broken bones if there wasn't SOME special protection there.
Wolverine's is metal bones and almost instant healing, but NG's never had or shown either of those.
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quote:Originally posted by Candle: As to her invulnerability, I've always thought of her is at least partically invulnerable. I mean, I don't know how she could hit something like a cement wall and not have broken bones if there wasn't SOME special protection there.
It seems like 'super-strength' has turned into code for 'strong *and* tough' in the last decade or so of comic-dom. Spiderman, for instance, is often shown (in movies and comics) being shoved through walls or getting backhanded by people like The Hulk, which would turn him into spidersplat, since he's never had the smallest hint of 'super-toughness.' Same with Wonder Woman and Thor, both of whom used to have to block *bullets* (with bracer or spinning hammer), but both of which can suck up blasts of destructive force able to knock jetliners out of the sky and collapse buildings with only some soot-smudges and a determined expression to show for it.
On the one hand, I consider it sloppy creeping revisionism, for these characters to become more and more invulnerable / super-tough as the writers enjoy showing them get beat up more often. On the other hand, some of them (like Thor) probably should have been darn near invulnerable from the start.
Ultra Boy is an odd corner case. He'd almost have to retain at least a *smidge* of invulnerability when he's using his super-strength (and perhaps even his super-speed!), or else his fist would shatter like glass the first time he punched something with super-strength.
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Or just using super strength to lift something. If there wasn't some latent use or protection of invulnerability, the first time the tried to use superstrength to life something they would literally rip their muscles apart. Has to be a certain amount for the body's self preservation.
Human's have varying degrees of this. Pinch yourself and you can do it with no problem...but use sharp fingernails to do it and you will most likely stop before cutting the skin with pressure. Same thing i would imagine.
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quote:Originally posted by rickshaw1: Or just using super strength to lift something. If there wasn't some latent use or protection of invulnerability, the first time the tried to use superstrength to life something they would literally rip their muscles apart. Has to be a certain amount for the body's self preservation.
Human's have varying degrees of this. Pinch yourself and you can do it with no problem...but use sharp fingernails to do it and you will most likely stop before cutting the skin with pressure. Same thing i would imagine.
Seems like Marvel tried to deal with some of these issues way back when they introduced Guardian (I think that's his name). He's like Supes but he has things like TK that helps him hold buildings together when he lifts them and things like that.
DC seemed to want to build that kind of sensible physics stuff into Kon, too, with his TK (telekinesis) powerbase.
The problem with the idea of stopping before you get hurt is that would usually be based on pain levels, right? But there's a lot of athletes that get hurt, sometimes permanently, everyday just doing 'normal' levels of activity. So pain isn't really a very accurate guage.
That and NG couldn't even prevent her outfit from getting messed up when she fought Jo. He might have pulled his punches and resorted to ripping her clothes to make his point, but a 'bad-guy' wouldn't. She'd have to have super defensive moves to keep from getting hurt.
It would seem that her power might be based in magic rather then science.
Maybe that's why Brainy isn't more interested in her. He might suspect that he wouldn't like the answers.
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The small sample of posters that replied here overwhelmingly would've voted Sizzle in. She received 8 'yes' votes.
Night Girl, surprisingly, received 4 votes. I wonder if the outcome would've been different if we hadn't seen that a Lydda had joined the ACTION LSH?
Turtle caught 3 voters' fancy. I hadn't thought of him as analgous to Ferro Lad, but he pretty much is.
Gazelle, the character that actually got full membership, didn't receive a vote (though Blockade Boy observed that he would've voted for her as a legionnaire, though not as a reader).
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