New Powerset: Silver Age Weirdness

[Octogoat]

11 hours ago, Techwright said:

As silly as that was, I always chalked it up to Kryptonian technology, rather than any power he possessed. With his dad the leading scientist of Krypton, I'd expect the rocket came packed with useful Kryptonian science and technology.  Adapting it to be a quick peel-off and toss feature of his chest shield seems reasonable.  The real problem was that it was a one-and-done concept.  I don't believe it even had a Chekov's smoking gun build-up in the story.  A bit more explanation or appearances would have moved it off the shelf of the bizarre. 

 

What would you call that though the supinkydink?

[JKCarrier]

12 hours ago, Techwright said:

As silly as that was, I always chalked it up to Kryptonian technology, rather than any power he possessed. With his dad the leading scientist of Krypton, I'd expect the rocket came packed with useful Kryptonian science and technology.  Adapting it to be a quick peel-off and toss feature of his chest shield seems reasonable.  The real problem was that it was a one-and-done concept.  I don't believe it even had a Chekov's smoking gun build-up in the story.  A bit more explanation or appearances would have moved it off the shelf of the bizarre. 

I wouldn't be surprised if, in some early draft of the script, he just wrapped the bad guys up in his cape (a maneuver he used to do all the time back in the '70s). But someone decided that was either too mundane, or too hard to stage, or whatever, so we ended up with the Decal of Doom^TM instead. I remember comic book writer Denny O'Neil joked about how the screenwriters for multi-million-dollar movies could pull random nonsense that his editor would never let him get away with in a 25-cent comic book. 😄

[Techwright]

6 hours ago, Octogoat said:

 

What would you call that though the supinkydink?

I'd call it the Superwrap, but that's probably already the name of his custom burrito at Chipotle restaurants.

[Scarlet Shocker]

On 11/9/2024 at 9:38 PM, DoctorDitko said:

"I'm full of tinier men!"

 

Aquatic beings known as "Sea men" no doubt.

 

I love the silver age because I remember, as I got into comics in the early 70s, there were lots of people in my real life who were even weirder than that.

 

Some of the strangest seem to have become elevated to high office.

[Snarky]

[gameboy1234]

Being dead is fun!  How can we turn being dead into a power?

 

[momentarygrace]

On 11/11/2024 at 9:19 PM, gameboy1234 said:

Super intelligent gorillas are a staple of the silver age.  And how does one fight a super intelligent gorilla?  That's right! Sharks!

 

 

 

 

My pirate character was partially created because I wanted a thematic reason to get the first two Leviathan Patron powers. I just wish the Leviathan pool had continued the idea on through, for example I wanted Summon Guardian to give me a giant Land Shark buddy to fight alongside...

 

[momentarygrace]

Apologies for double post, hit button twice.

 

 

Edited December 23, 2024 by momentarygrace
accidental double post

[Techwright]

10 hours ago, gameboy1234 said:

Being dead is fun!  How can we turn being dead into a power?

 

 

Well... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadman_(character)

[momentarygrace]

11 hours ago, Techwright said:

Well... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadman_(character)

 

Deadman was one of my comics back when I collected. 🙂

 

I see your Boston Brand and raise you one Soul King

 

https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/Brook

 

[TheMoneyMaker]

I think there's some merit to this idea, but instead of one power set we'd need, we need 8.

 

One of each for the following:  Armor, Assault, Blast, Control, Manipulation, Melee, Pets, Support....plus I guess blend them as needed to get the EATs and VEATs sets.

 

Each set should have a variety of ridiculous effects with some crossover in themes but maybe something different about each one. And for a one day only special event, when everyone logs in, all ATs have their power sets replaced by the appropriate type. Slotting doesn't change, just what happens when you use the powers you thought you had. I think April might be a good month to have this event, but after the first day it could get really irritating and so should end pretty quickly.

[TheMoneyMaker]

17 hours ago, momentarygrace said:

 

My pirate character was partially created because I wanted a thematic reason to get the first two Leviathan Patron powers. I just wish the Leviathan pool had continued the idea on through, for example I wanted Summon Guardian to give me a giant Land Shark buddy to fight alongside...

 

Why isn't shark an option for monstrous heads in the costume creator?  **sigh**

[JasperStone]

On 11/14/2024 at 6:10 PM, Scarlet Shocker said:

 

Aquatic beings known as "Sea men" no doubt.

 

I love the silver age because I remember, as I got into comics in the early 70s, there were lots of people in my real life who were even weirder than that.

 

Some of the strangest seem to have become elevated to high office.

What  a sec so when Superman used to be able to do this

 

 

ummmmm .....

[Ukase]

One of these days, I intend to do a bit of a rabbit hole dive and determine just what this is? CCA? Like Tipper Gore was for records in the late 80's and early 90s? Making sure there's nothing too adult in them? Or is it something more sinister? 

[gameboy1234]

37 minutes ago, Ukase said:

CCA? Like Tipper Gore

 

Yes, exactly like that.  But probably deserves it's own thread, this one is about silly powers.  (The Comics Code Authority is rather famous in its own right, lots of info available on it.)