What Super Hero's Just Can't Be Stopped Fighting Crime?

This is a serious subject that demands expert analysis. I regularly do "Hammer Time" with Thor. This is what retirement does to you folks

Ahh, but the question was to analyze the varying merits of each superhero's abilities and decide which aside from the ones I mentioned would be most likely to evade capture. You just went off on all kinds of tangents there and avoided the single question. I am marking you down 10 points for this.

We have always had Super heroes. Gilgamesh and Beowulf come to mind. At the beginning of the 1900s, on through the 1930s,,, we had fictional heroes. They just didn't wear costumes like we see today. they were called Mystery Men.

The first hero to wear a tight costume was The Phantom. And for whatever reason, (probably because the comics were largely a visual medium) heroes quickly all wore these tight colorful costumes.

And before there were mythical super heroes, there were gods aplenty. Ghosts and goblins serve the same purpose. Flights of imagination are a way to relax.




Of course, any living thing from another world would change everything we thought was real.

But even when I was a kid, I thought Superman was silly. How would a creature from another planet with a far greater gravity, happen to be shaped like us. He has the exact same musculature, the same features. the same organs. He is the same size as us.

When I was a teenager, I had a friend that was really into comics. I remember us discussing how Superman's powers would work. Flight makes no sense. Heat vision makes no sense.

And if he had the power to lift a mountain, he would be denser than neutronium. He would have his own gravitational field. Wherever he walked, he would sink into the ground, even if he walked on rock.

And the idea that, under a red sun, he lost all his powers, was ludicrous. He would still be enormously strong, still invulnerable. Maybe he wouldn't be able to shoot heat beams out his eyes... but he would be the same person. Have the same physiology as before.

Anyway, it's a discussion about nothing.

On the other hand, I was seriously interested, as a teenager, to learn to levitate. And I'm sure it was because of Superman. I read dozens of books on the subject (not tricks, really levitation). Of course, it was all nonsense. But my brain was still not formed all the way, and I was uneducated.

I remember for a few years, really making efforts to levitate. Even today I always dream I can fly. Always. And in the few seconds it takes me to wake up, that illusion fades....and I'm just me again.

Weird.

Oh, and there are several DC characters that are nearly omnipotent. The Phantom Stranger, Deadman, Doctor Fate. Green Lantern, Spectre, In Marvel, there are plenty of beings that are so powerful that they can move planets with a thought. But they don't fit the term "Crime fighting hero".

And, what is James Bond, but a super hero? Sherlock Holmes, Zorro, Hercules....all fantasies to satisfy our lack of a feeling of power.

I think Marvel heroes are more popular, because they are character driven stories...and it's easier to imagine you being like them.

We cannot even imagine what it would be like running at the speed of light.

By the way, running at even 10% of that speed would instantly though you off the surface of the planet into space. Because you would be going at a high multiple of escape velocity.

More time I could have been spent working.

Fixed for you.

The most popular Franco-Belgian comic book heroes were likely Tintin followed by Spirou. But a lot if not most franco-belgian comics follow the same pattern. Someone that had good character but otherwise rather ordinary (Spirou was at first a hotel attendant), trust in extraordinary circumstances.

tbh it is beyond hooman comprehension the amount of effort them fkrs expend on bein' totally useless without realisin' what they dowin'.


"We could piss liquid gold and they wouldn't value it -- so why in hell should we bother?"

They would have to have godlike powers. The Flash, who can move at the speed of light would be impossible to catch. In fact, he would be impossible to see if he didn't want to be seen.

Ah, yes, out today, will be looking for reviews online, and you of course.

You must be new here.

There is one man "The Man With No Name" on this forum who actually thinks he is Batman.

As for Groot: "I Am Groot"

I haven't bothered to even listen to the new stuff. With so much classic Abba music from their peak days still sounding fresh, who needs a rehash?

I listened to snippets of the whole album online. The two singles were instant, classic Abba, quality songwriting, well structured, melodic quality songs.

The rest was just mediocre filler material that of which would not even have been acceptable to use on there earlier albums as lesser tracks. Their was only really one other track, an un-released single that was just ok.

Very disappointing. I think they did the two new tracks and the re-hash of the old song and ran out of steam and inspiration. Then rushed out half baked filler stuff to flesh it out for an albums worth.

Not a great last ever album legacy. I suspect even die hard fans were hugely disappointed after the promise and quality of the singles. Even I cried, they were that good.

That's probably why all the Abba euphoria pretty much dried up. Pity, They could have showed the world what quality songwriting is like again and so far superior to the unmusical stuff that is around today. No melodies, tunes, nothing memorable, subtle. Timbrality (volume) of all instruments is now set the same level in the recording.

If you want a recommendation, the band, or two brothers, that compromise Sparks, are now producing the best pop tunes around that they have ever done. In there 70's no less, better than ever. You can go on You-Tube and find it all to listen to. Try the recent "A steady drip, drip, drip" album and about half of their previous one, "Hippopotamus."

Some examples: All That, Edith Piaf, Stravinsky's Only Hit, Left Out In The Cold, Dick Around and loads more good stuff.

They even wrote a rock opera recently, some good tracks on that.

Will the kids of today listen to them nope, unfashionable, old hat

I remember it and have had my 5 yr old watch it, too.

Most of the forum is Americans and the median age is probably something like 55.

They don't know who San Goku or Saitama are. There's no difference between Majin Buu, Naruto, Lee Kuan Yew and Sukarno to America.