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2021-09-02, 10:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Consistently Underestimated super-characters
Yes.
Like immediately before it. He stabbed himself in the face* to prove to Shanks how tough he was, and then pretty much straight after that stole and ate the devil fruit (he still has the plaster on his face).
* This is the real reason taking Django's chakram to the back of the head didn't worry him much, there ain't a lot of brain in there.
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2021-09-02, 11:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Consistently Underestimated super-characters
"That's a horrible idea! What time?"
T-Shirt given to me by a good friend.. "in fairness, I was unsupervised at the time".
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2021-09-02, 12:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Consistently Underestimated super-characters
He's clearly beyond "real life" human durability to cutting attacks. Just like everyone else in his setting and any comic ever. Pre-haki he has no more explicit resistance to cutting attacks than any other named character in his setting. Sure, shonen characters are tougher than real humans, but it's not an actual part of his power set. It's like how Batman can have his head smashed into concrete hard enough to shatter it and keep standing, yet still be a normal human within the setting.
His real super power is being stupid enough to think that drinking milk or eating meat heals wounds and somehow warping reality so it works.
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2021-09-03, 07:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-09-03, 10:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Consistently Underestimated super-characters
A problem with discussing "underestimated" in terms of comic book characters is that the rules (and the canon) are so fuzzy that writers can pretty much always justify whatever they want a superhero to be able to do. "Underestimated" implies that there's a power level that we don't acknowledge or that somehow holds up in that universe's rigid power structures, but those don't really exist in comic books so it's difficult to both identify an underestimated character and also not find a story in which they're actually given their time to shine.
I can't remember where, but I read a comment about a Flash v. Superman fight once that said "Superman is undeniably stronger than any other member of the Justice League, unless a writer wants him not to be." Batman will always have a gadget, the Flash will always just go faster, etc. The physical laws of the universe will allow this no matter what, because they're more malleable in comic books than in any other genre of fiction: the only real question is whether or not the writers will be able to sell this victory to the audience.
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2021-09-03, 03:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Consistently Underestimated super-characters
This is part of why I considered "underestimated" to mean "underestimated by the general real-world public"...not by the in-the-know or long-term comics fans, by the writers, or by "in-universe" fictional people. Using net-average power (not internet-average ) understanding or opinion of the characters, which are the furthest from net-expert power understanding/opinon.
That does kind of limit us to big name characters, so obviously we have to scale it to account for characters like Purple Man.
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2021-09-03, 09:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Consistently Underestimated super-characters
Eh- I was mostly thinking of a handful of different things- characters who perform consistently lower than a handful of dramatic spikes in power (Iceman being the poster child for this), characters who some writers (but not all) seem to think sort of suck and so write them at a lower level, and, of course, characters like Aquaman who the general public thinks 'Super Friends' when his canonical portrayal in his home media is more 'kicks Cthulhu's *** on an annual basis'.
... kind of heroic jobbers, I guess?Last edited by TeChameleon; 2021-09-03 at 09:11 PM.
Times being what they are, the stars aligning and the End of All Things barely registered as background noise.
At a bit of a loss as to what to do next, and with bills to pay, a certain Elder Thing has taken up bartending.
This is...
The Last Call of Cthulhu
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2021-09-03, 09:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Consistently Underestimated super-characters
A lot of shonen side characters could probably qualify.
Sure someone like Tenten or Choji aren't going to face chakra parasite gods any time soon but if you met them on the job, it'd better not be a mission to assassinate you because they still are badass ninja trained from childhood to use lethal weapons to fight and kill.Last edited by Lord Raziere; 2021-09-03 at 09:35 PM.
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2021-09-05, 09:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Consistently Underestimated super-characters
Moon Knight, seems like a Batman ripoff, but he has super powers (occasionally).
He can drain someone's powers/abilities by touch. He once stole Thor's name briefly to wield Mjonor, this was Age of Khonshu arc when he was acting as Avatar of his god. Since if "he is Thor", he can wield it.
But that arc is over so, don't expect that feat anymore.
When Moon is full he has Hulk Strength, but without that he can usually lift at least 450 pounds due to his god.
Granted, he (and everyone else) thinks he is crazy since he sees to talk to himself (talking to his god that only he can see).Last edited by Starbuck_II; 2021-09-05 at 09:08 PM.