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Post by coke & comics on Mar 5, 2016 15:15:46 GMT -5
How about Wyatt Wingfoot? Jarvis? Maybe gaining powers is the wrong question. Does everybody either gain superpowers or at least put on a costume. Like Gordon becoming Batman. Or Jarvis becoming Crimson Cowl. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 5, 2016 15:35:42 GMT -5
If this little guy can gain powers and have his own costume, then anyone can  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 5, 2016 16:38:23 GMT -5
Aunt Harriet Ma and Pa Kent Thomas Kalmaku Iris West Jean LoringDiane Meade and many another Silver Ager. Didn't she become Eclipso after killing Sue Dibney ? If so, you're talking about an event that is as apocryphal as a fourth Indiana Jones movie. |
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Post by berkley on Mar 5, 2016 16:54:19 GMT -5
I don't recall Green Lantern's buddy Pieface getting powers How about Smallville Police Chief Parker in Superboy? Daredevil's Karen Page? I think they killed her off a few years before the trend really got going, didn't they? Or maybe she's been brought back since then. I haven't read Daredevil since the middle of the Frank Miller run, so I'm just going by what I think I remember hearing about it online. But regarding the trend in general, I think it just highlights the fact that in superhero comics, at least in their current form, characters of interest to fans and writers only insofar as they are super-powered; that in the hierarchy of characters, the non-super-powered aren't even 2nd or 3rd-rate (those levels are reserved for the less important superheroes and villains) - they barely count at all. Hence, to make Betty Ross interesting enough that fans want to read about or writers write her she has to be raised to the the ranks of the superhero aristocracy. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2016 17:00:50 GMT -5
As for Tom Kalmaku (i.e. Pieface) he did gain superpowers during Millennium and was one of the Chosen by the New Guardians.
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 5, 2016 18:32:06 GMT -5
As for Tom Kalmaku (i.e. Pieface) he did gain superpowers during Millennium and was one of the Chosen by the New Guardians. -M The ranks are thinning. That's why I sometimes pretend that comics ended before COIE.  I do hold out hope that Super Aunt Harriet -- or Hyper-Harriet, or Great Aunt, or The Sinister Spinster -- never showed up anywhere. |
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Post by Outrajs on Nov 13, 2017 8:26:23 GMT -5
It's that whole aggravating trend of having super-heroes interacting almost exclusively with other heroes (and villains) that helped alienate me from mainstream comics a couple of decades ago. My favorite series in the years since then (e.g., Starman, Sandman Mystery Theatre, Ostrander's Spectre) have all featured strong supporting casts of non-super folk. Sorry to hear it's still going on. Cei-U! I summon the pet peeve! My guess is that if a superhero is good...more are better. But I agree supers or metas or whatever we're calling them need a life outside of crime busting. They need this normal people in their lives so they can still be somewhat human and relatable. |
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