Icicle Niceicle 1517 
Ocs,Boops,Tickles&Memes
The Sonic movie is being pushed back to February 14th 2020, so they can remake Sonic’s design without having to give the animators and artists crunch time.
The Nerd Thread (comics, movies, anime, cartoons, video games, lore, fun stuff, ect.)
Darth Prime 
@Jarkes
Yeah but it didn’t rub your face in with what a strong female character she was she just was.
Yeah but it didn’t rub your face in with what a strong female character she was she just was.
Scrabbleman 
[screams in German]
@icey wicey 1517
That has to be one of the greatest news I’ve heard this year.
That has to be one of the greatest news I’ve heard this year.
Dustcan 
Dogs
And done with the Parasite Eve novel.
I am now a certified liver and kidney transplant surgeon.
I am now a certified liver and kidney transplant surgeon.
Dustcan
Dogs
@Jarkes
Not as much as you’d think but as about as much as you’d expect, yeah. It’s much more a character piece than action story, but you can still see where the game got all its themes and plot points.
I also keep forgetting that the game is a sequel and not an adaptation or re-imagining.
Not as much as you’d think but as about as much as you’d expect, yeah. It’s much more a character piece than action story, but you can still see where the game got all its themes and plot points.
I also keep forgetting that the game is a sequel and not an adaptation or re-imagining.
Icicle Niceicle 1517
Ocs,Boops,Tickles&Memes
Man, looking at some clips of the Yu-Gi-Oh GX dub, it’s WAY worse/more corny then I remember it.
I love it.
I love it.
Darth Prime
@icey wicey 1517
Everyone makes fun card games on motorcycles but I find a private school on an island dedicated solely to teaching about a children’s card game is far more preposterous.
Everyone makes fun card games on motorcycles but I find a private school on an island dedicated solely to teaching about a children’s card game is far more preposterous.
EotD
I beat LoZ:BotW!!!
This might not be completely on topic but it’s sort of comic related so I figure it works here well enough and this has been circling in my mind for a time and I figure I might as well put it down.
So I’ve been thinking about superhero stories and the like from comic and whatnot so I sort thinking of what I would do if I were making one. And for me what I would want to write about is someone with the ability to turn off other superheros powers, basically a null effect over a certain range, say like 30m or the like. Reason being is that that has never really been explored, the idea of a in world with superpower, someone has the ability to turn them off. Cause you get stories like in Justice League where the government tries to form an Anti-superhero taskforce or the like. Well what if there was a guy who you could just send up with a shotgun and shoot Superman and it worked? It’s basically adding paper in a game where it’s been mostly scissors vs rock. Because generally with superheroes they tend to rely on their powers. Sure you have the occasional mcguffin that will turn the powers off for dramatic tension (see kyptonite or the like), but you never see a character with those powers and I think that is an untapped route to take a hero or anti hero or villain, because for all intents and purposes, they’re a normal human and can be hurt by normal human things, it’s just superheroes are so used to having extraordinary powers that they tend to rely on them so much. It also be an interesting way to deal with some villains. Like say you had a terrorist suddenly develop Superman levels strength and endurance and so they go on a rampage and start wreaking shit only for them to come across this guy, so over confident in their ability only to wind up getting an asskicking or dead because of the circumstances around the power null guy. I just feel like that is an untapped power that a lot of people don’t consider all that much.
So I’ve been thinking about superhero stories and the like from comic and whatnot so I sort thinking of what I would do if I were making one. And for me what I would want to write about is someone with the ability to turn off other superheros powers, basically a null effect over a certain range, say like 30m or the like. Reason being is that that has never really been explored, the idea of a in world with superpower, someone has the ability to turn them off. Cause you get stories like in Justice League where the government tries to form an Anti-superhero taskforce or the like. Well what if there was a guy who you could just send up with a shotgun and shoot Superman and it worked? It’s basically adding paper in a game where it’s been mostly scissors vs rock. Because generally with superheroes they tend to rely on their powers. Sure you have the occasional mcguffin that will turn the powers off for dramatic tension (see kyptonite or the like), but you never see a character with those powers and I think that is an untapped route to take a hero or anti hero or villain, because for all intents and purposes, they’re a normal human and can be hurt by normal human things, it’s just superheroes are so used to having extraordinary powers that they tend to rely on them so much. It also be an interesting way to deal with some villains. Like say you had a terrorist suddenly develop Superman levels strength and endurance and so they go on a rampage and start wreaking shit only for them to come across this guy, so over confident in their ability only to wind up getting an asskicking or dead because of the circumstances around the power null guy. I just feel like that is an untapped power that a lot of people don’t consider all that much.
Phantom Rider
You are already booped.
@EotD
Well, there is Leech from X-Men, but he’s seldom a major player (usually someone people are trying to protect/use/kill, any of which is harder when you lose your powers if you get near him. If TV Tropes speaks the truth, we’ve seen him able to shut down mutants, Inhumans, Spider-Man, and the Power Pack, but the Fantastic Four were unaffected at least once. There was also a guy called Wipeout in the X-Tinction Agenda storyline, though I’m not sure if it’s his power or if he had mutant-power-shutting-down tech (I think it’s the latter.)
Well, there is Leech from X-Men, but he’s seldom a major player (usually someone people are trying to protect/use/kill, any of which is harder when you lose your powers if you get near him. If TV Tropes speaks the truth, we’ve seen him able to shut down mutants, Inhumans, Spider-Man, and the Power Pack, but the Fantastic Four were unaffected at least once. There was also a guy called Wipeout in the X-Tinction Agenda storyline, though I’m not sure if it’s his power or if he had mutant-power-shutting-down tech (I think it’s the latter.)
EotD
Sorry about rambling on about my weird idea, just something that I wanted to get down.
I beat LoZ:BotW!!!
Cause to follow up on my post I have this concept in my head.
So basically I have it where the world has some sort of superhero turn on moment where like 1% of the world suddenly got superpowers and the exploration that would go into that, like how governments and the general populous would react to that. For instance, China now has a large population of superpowered people, whom are covertly “conscripted” into the Chinese military. After all that’s arguably what governments would do, try to use superpowers as a new battlefield tactic.
In the US I would have it still be voluntary but that the government offers much better incentives (like given superheros insurance and liability coverage for the accidents they may cause) if they join the government program and subtly push insurance companies to hick up their prices for heroes that don’t join to more or less fiscally pressure them into joining.
Of course this also means political tensions get even more heighten as things go on. And so my idea is that the null person is just a normal average solider, a regular guy so it seems, not one of the superheroes. But because he’s in the army he has to respond to international threats from the army.
So my idea has an Islamic terrorist with the powers of the Hulk (super strength and invulnerability but not the only when he’s enraged part) who was trained in secret from Iran to go on a rampage against Israel. Real reason for this is so I could make a pun and call this guy “Iran Man” (Get it, cause it’s a pun on Iron Man…yeah I know not that great)
So the US sends in it’s team of superheroes to fight this guy. anyways the terrorist is actually much more powerful than the team and he’s just wreaking shit up, except this is all told from the solider POV, an everyman caught up in the massive world destructive power that’s happening around him.
Eventually after trying to escape, the soldier accidentally manages to wind up in a room with the Hulk Terrorist and so he tries to shoot at him but his gun is jammed as the terrorist slowly mock him as he strides over to grip the barrel of the gun, to twist it into a u shape as a show of strength, but when he does that, he finds it doesn’t work, just as the soldier get’s his gun clear and unloads into him, killing him instantly.
It then cuts to later on where the US government is trying to find this guy, knowing how his powers basically rewrite the book that was just rewritten a few years ago, as now the US might just have the greatest ace up their sleeve with the superheroes arms race going on in the world and they need to find him.
That’s all I have for the concept at the moment. I have a few other ideas for it, like in reality about 10% of the population was really affected but it was only in minor ways and that the most common superpower was the ability to only need like 2 hours of sleep (a joke on the fact that superheroes like Batman never seem to need to actually get 8 hours of sleep) or that most of them all have super endurance as an extra ability and stuff like that
So basically I have it where the world has some sort of superhero turn on moment where like 1% of the world suddenly got superpowers and the exploration that would go into that, like how governments and the general populous would react to that. For instance, China now has a large population of superpowered people, whom are covertly “conscripted” into the Chinese military. After all that’s arguably what governments would do, try to use superpowers as a new battlefield tactic.
In the US I would have it still be voluntary but that the government offers much better incentives (like given superheros insurance and liability coverage for the accidents they may cause) if they join the government program and subtly push insurance companies to hick up their prices for heroes that don’t join to more or less fiscally pressure them into joining.
Of course this also means political tensions get even more heighten as things go on. And so my idea is that the null person is just a normal average solider, a regular guy so it seems, not one of the superheroes. But because he’s in the army he has to respond to international threats from the army.
So my idea has an Islamic terrorist with the powers of the Hulk (super strength and invulnerability but not the only when he’s enraged part) who was trained in secret from Iran to go on a rampage against Israel. Real reason for this is so I could make a pun and call this guy “Iran Man” (Get it, cause it’s a pun on Iron Man…yeah I know not that great)
So the US sends in it’s team of superheroes to fight this guy. anyways the terrorist is actually much more powerful than the team and he’s just wreaking shit up, except this is all told from the solider POV, an everyman caught up in the massive world destructive power that’s happening around him.
Eventually after trying to escape, the soldier accidentally manages to wind up in a room with the Hulk Terrorist and so he tries to shoot at him but his gun is jammed as the terrorist slowly mock him as he strides over to grip the barrel of the gun, to twist it into a u shape as a show of strength, but when he does that, he finds it doesn’t work, just as the soldier get’s his gun clear and unloads into him, killing him instantly.
It then cuts to later on where the US government is trying to find this guy, knowing how his powers basically rewrite the book that was just rewritten a few years ago, as now the US might just have the greatest ace up their sleeve with the superheroes arms race going on in the world and they need to find him.
That’s all I have for the concept at the moment. I have a few other ideas for it, like in reality about 10% of the population was really affected but it was only in minor ways and that the most common superpower was the ability to only need like 2 hours of sleep (a joke on the fact that superheroes like Batman never seem to need to actually get 8 hours of sleep) or that most of them all have super endurance as an extra ability and stuff like that
Sorry about rambling on about my weird idea, just something that I wanted to get down.
EotD
I beat LoZ:BotW!!!
@Phantom Rider
Yeah I admit I’m not terribly familiar with X-men but like you said he’s not a major player. I mean I get why, you have a superhero universe, your whole point is to show off this wild powers that you can do. It just strikes me as a wasted potential for story options. Like imagine if there was a power null bounty hunter out there who took contracts to kill off heroes or something of the sort
Yeah I admit I’m not terribly familiar with X-men but like you said he’s not a major player. I mean I get why, you have a superhero universe, your whole point is to show off this wild powers that you can do. It just strikes me as a wasted potential for story options. Like imagine if there was a power null bounty hunter out there who took contracts to kill off heroes or something of the sort
Phantom Rider
You are already booped.
@EotD
I forgot, another place to see the concept in action is The Flash season 5: Cicada feels that all metahumans are a scourge that must be eradicated, and has a dagger that shuts down all metahuman powers. (Though it’s not exactly as you suggest - the dagger is controlled by Cicada’s thoughts and so we’re not dealing with someone who’s totally weaponless but for the depowering ability.)
However, to say that the concept isn’t 110% untouched doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t do it your way too! I just bring it up because you might find that storyline interesting if the concept is something you’ve long wished to see.
(Oh, and I’d say the US government would conscript as well, just in secret. Maybe not “every mutant gets rounded up,” but maybe some government official keeps tabs on people with powers he or she really feels would be useful; when ready to deploy, maybe suddenly false criminal charges appear against you that you’re told will all be cleared up if you just participate in a small mission to [insert country the US isn’t super friendly with at the moment here]. And then another… and then another…)
I forgot, another place to see the concept in action is The Flash season 5: Cicada feels that all metahumans are a scourge that must be eradicated, and has a dagger that shuts down all metahuman powers. (Though it’s not exactly as you suggest - the dagger is controlled by Cicada’s thoughts and so we’re not dealing with someone who’s totally weaponless but for the depowering ability.)
However, to say that the concept isn’t 110% untouched doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t do it your way too! I just bring it up because you might find that storyline interesting if the concept is something you’ve long wished to see.
(Oh, and I’d say the US government would conscript as well, just in secret. Maybe not “every mutant gets rounded up,” but maybe some government official keeps tabs on people with powers he or she really feels would be useful; when ready to deploy, maybe suddenly false criminal charges appear against you that you’re told will all be cleared up if you just participate in a small mission to [insert country the US isn’t super friendly with at the moment here]. And then another… and then another…)
EotD
I beat LoZ:BotW!!!
@Phantom Rider
Oh yeah I know that the concept isn’t completely untouched, I just feel it’s underutilized is all. Cause to me it’s a way to reinvent the power scaling, a sort of loophole that gets around it completely, which I feel is a strategic way of creating conflict.
And as for the US, I feel they would too but that’s why I went with the insurance increase and basically “Buying out” the heroes, that they wouldn’t “Force” them into conscription but that they would be exceptionally pressured into it, especially if their powers were great enough to warrant it, cause I feel like that is something people would do because they could then spin it as saying they don’t force anyone into the program, they joined voluntarily, just like how game companies say you don’t need to purchase loot boxes but they do all they can to make you buy them in game.
Oh yeah I know that the concept isn’t completely untouched, I just feel it’s underutilized is all. Cause to me it’s a way to reinvent the power scaling, a sort of loophole that gets around it completely, which I feel is a strategic way of creating conflict.
And as for the US, I feel they would too but that’s why I went with the insurance increase and basically “Buying out” the heroes, that they wouldn’t “Force” them into conscription but that they would be exceptionally pressured into it, especially if their powers were great enough to warrant it, cause I feel like that is something people would do because they could then spin it as saying they don’t force anyone into the program, they joined voluntarily, just like how game companies say you don’t need to purchase loot boxes but they do all they can to make you buy them in game.
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