He can select at what rate he percives shit, and it automatically kicks in high gear when he is in dangers
He can enjoy a movie but when he feels a bullet brush up against his neck, his super speed kicks in
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Who is the most unrealistic superhero?
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He can select at what rate he percives shit, and it automatically kicks in high gear when he is in dangers
He can enjoy a movie but when he feels a bullet brush up against his neck, his super speed kicks in
So is she. She can "walk on air" when using her powers
The Silver
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dudes, he can control it, he can perceive things in normal people time.
if you're gonna ask how and why, don't, speed force
Basically this.
That would make the Flash TV series much more boring xD
Finaika
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WTF
echoshifting
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Tippy Toe with a crystal head, lol
Heavy_D206
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The dude who eats planets seems pretty unrealistic.
Same principle is how Vision flies
The Silver
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that exact thing with the bullet and his speed automatically kicking in already happened in the show, they just choose to ignore it and have Barry be incredibly inconsistent so he doesn't beat every non speedster in an instant.
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He can select at what rate he percives shit, and it automatically kicks in high gear when he is in dangers
He can enjoy a movie but when he feels a bullet brush up against his neck, his super speed kicks in
Oh wow that's really cool then. Thanks for the info.
Exactly, when Papa Joe came in there emptying a clip and Barry grabbed all the bullets
Romars202129
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I'd like to see an alternate universe Batman where he just uses his money to double the police force and accomplishes twice as much good.
That said, by virtue of not having supernatural powers, Batman is easily one of the most realistic super heroes, no question.
That said, by virtue of not having supernatural powers, Batman is easily one of the most realistic super heroes, no question.
So much sucker punch move on that show. Can't forgive them for letting The Flash just stood there and let Mark Hamill strapped the bomb on him.
ThoseDeafMutes
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There's too many but anybody with regeneration powers bothers me mainly because it always comes with all of this secondary silliness. Like super regenerators don't just heal at a rapid rate, they can regrow things humans wouldn't be able and are seemingly immortal. In addition, they're sometimes depicted as being able to just infinitely regenerate and become unkillable, so there was that scene in Heroes season 2 or 3 where this guy named Adam was burried underground for a century, unable to die. Where does the energy to rebuild all the cells come from? Where does the structural material come from?
Wolverine must presumably have a portal to the meat dimension in all of his cells and the same place Scott's eye beams come from to power everything indefinitely.
Wolverine must presumably have a portal to the meat dimension in all of his cells and the same place Scott's eye beams come from to power everything indefinitely.
Huge Succeeded
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as someone who keeps up to date on the japanese webcomic that spawned the manga and anime (which is way ahead of the manga and waaaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of the anime), yeah, that's all there is to Saitama.
Saitama is strong because
he's a bonafide hero who worked for it
IMO is Batman given that the reader suspension of disbelief is tied to what humans are capable of doing whereas superpowered characters dont have this limitation.
just having how he has never Killed the joker is enough to make him the most unrealistic Comic book character, second to the Joker maybe.
just having how he has never Killed the joker is enough to make him the most unrealistic Comic book character, second to the Joker maybe.
There is a universe where after Bruce's parents were shot he grabbed the gun and killed the mugger. He then grows up to be Paladin. The Caped Crusader that just kills offenders on the spot.
Finaika
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Wolverine fights Azrael the Angel of Death everytime he dies, when he beats him he comes back to life.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I looked this up, and Paladin looks lame as hell
I think he means the episode with the teleporting chick. Someone (can't remember if it was her or someone else) shoots at Barry from behind him without him knowing, and he's able to turn around and catch or dodge the bullet (can't remember which) before it kills him.
I remember people debating how he knew the bullet was there. It couldn't have been sound, because the bullet was traveling faster than sound, so it must have been the same as in that comic, where he felt it touch his skin and was able to react fast enough before it got any further.
Superman seems like he is invented by a arguing 5yo in the playground.
Two arguing kids:
"I have superstrength!"
"So, i have a gun!"
"But I have metal skin too!"
"I have an atom bomb"
"But I can FLY!!!"
Etc etc etc.. And if your hero is so invincible you need a artificial weakpoint like Kryptonite, you have a borring hero too
Two arguing kids:
"I have superstrength!"
"So, i have a gun!"
"But I have metal skin too!"
"I have an atom bomb"
"But I can FLY!!!"
Etc etc etc.. And if your hero is so invincible you need a artificial weakpoint like Kryptonite, you have a borring hero too
It wouldn't work. Gotham is a cursed city. That's one reason he won't kill the Joker even though he realizes that would be the best thing to do. Gotham would just produce something worse.
Superman isn't invincible. He's hard to hurt but he isn't invincible. A few different Supermen have died.
Finaika
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"I have magic!"
Did it involve Kryptonite in those cases?
(I know there are good Superman stories out there. Doesn't change the fact that he is quite a borring hero to begin with imo )
Nope, the most famous Superman death happened because he got the shit beat out of him. He fights a lot of characters that can hurt him.
Sibersk Esto
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His most famous instance was just getting beat to death.
I mean, duh.
My vote goes to most of Flash's non-speedster villains outside of Captain Cold. They are made to SPECIFICALLY counter the Flash.
In fact the Flash in general is the most out there because he goes from simply super fast to SPEED FORCE yada yada yada which is the nanomachines of super powers.
And is genetically compatible enough to reproduce with humans. Batman's sleep schedule ain't shit to that sort of unrealistic.
(I always assumed Batman works on 4 hours of sleep thanks to his peak condition, and you can fit in naps when you're the CEO).
Jor-El was the greatest mind in the most advance civilization in the universe. He found a world out of billions that shared the same physical traits of his kind and sent his son here because he wanted him to fit in.
Another thing. I believe it has been hinted that kryptonians have been on earth before.
That's good to hear. But isn't this a bit of a retcon of how the character was conceived? (I don't mind retcons at all btw)
I still never got into Supes, not in the comics nor the movies, because as a hero he is so 'convenient' and too perfect
See I was gonna make a thread explaining why these characters aren't op
Man people who say supermans boring don't read superman
Man people who say supermans boring don't read superman
There is no set power set for Supes. The creators just made it up as they went along. In the 80's DC rebooted the entire universe to streamline everything and made the characters more believable.
The Silver
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no, he's always been able to get plain beaten to death and he's never been invincible or even the strongest member of the Justice League.
the only outlier is the Silver Age which was more thanks to the comics code making it so Supes could never lose.
I admit. I don't. For reasons i stated. He just does not appeal to me at all.
Finaika
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Who is the strongest member of the Justice League?
BoosterDuck
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Truth, justice and the American way don't matter to you? ;_;
Imperial Bishop
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Answer to all Flash questions: Speed Force
When people love to post about Superboy Prime and punching wholes on reality it's hard to blame them.
It puts people off when they read how godly certain incarnations are like Silver Age.
You gotta understand superman is pretty weak compared to most of his villains
Take my avatar for Example. Dude outclassed the Jl and beat superman with TK alone.
No hero is op because their villains are almost always better.
Yeah people get snapshots of power without context it makes you think how could he possibly be beaten
I am from Europe?
BoosterDuck
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truth and justice?
The Silver
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The guy everyone keeps quoting with that attosecond pic, The Flash, he is practically as broken as you can get before you start moving into reality warping/cosmic power shit.
Martian Manhunter is also stronger than Superman.
Even Wonder Woman can get the drop on Supes on a good day.(provided Supes doesn't go all out from the start)
thetrin
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Cyclops does not shoot lasers out of his eyes. Lasers produce heat. Cyclops's blasts do not.
So he shoots Force out of his eyes? Even worse
thetrin
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So he shoots Force out of his eyes? Even worse
Yep! His eyes are interdimensional portals.
So he shoots Force out of his eyes? Even worse
I thought his eyes were portals to another dimension
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