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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 13, 2019 18:22:17 GMT -5
Hypnotizing or mind wiping someone was common place in the silver age.
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Post by sabongero on Sept 13, 2019 18:32:46 GMT -5
Hypnotizing or mind wiping someone was common place in the silver age. And here I thought it was only Zatanna in the Identity Crisis that really caused a "big deal" of mindwiping as a superhero. |
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Post by rberman on Sept 13, 2019 22:41:07 GMT -5
Hypnotizing or mind wiping someone was common place in the silver age. And here I thought it was only Zatanna in the Identity Crisis that really caused a "big deal" of mindwiping as a superhero. See also Superman 2 (the film) or the finale of the Donna Noble arc in Doctor Who. |
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Post by profh0011 on Sept 13, 2019 23:18:24 GMT -5
GEEZ, what a thread! The stuff discussed here is exactly the kind of stuff that would make me NEVER, EVER wanna read another Marvel book for the rest of my life! And not many DCs, either.  |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Sept 14, 2019 12:43:45 GMT -5
So the original, Golden-Age Black Widow. One of my favorites.
Killed bad guys before they could reform in order to secure their souls for her master, Satan. (Pre-Code superhero books were kind of glorious.)
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Post by MDG on Sept 15, 2019 9:04:04 GMT -5
There's the earlier precedent of Doc Savage operating on criminals' rains to remove their criminal tendencies.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2019 10:25:51 GMT -5
There's the earlier precedent of Doc Savage operating on criminals' rains to remove their criminal tendencies. Same thing with The Shadow (in the movie) he surgically removed something (removing a part of his brain "that nobody uses") Shiwan Khan (played by John Lone) at the end of the movie. |
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Post by sabongero on Sept 15, 2019 13:43:57 GMT -5
Has this happened to all of us guys? We mention the name of another woman by mistake to a girlfriend or wife, and we she asked who is that "name," we immediately lie or "lie" and describe the "name" nonchalantly as someone else?  |
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Post by tarkintino on Sept 16, 2019 5:41:37 GMT -5
or the finale of the Donna Noble arc in Doctor Who. I thought was needlessly melodramatic and a forced dilemma. If Donna being half Timelord was going to kill her, why didn't he (The Doctor) use the same separation technology he used on himself one season earlier (with Martha) in "Human Nature" / "Family of Blood"? He completely took the "Doctor" essence/presence/memories out of his own body to become a human, so he had the technological means to do the same to Donna without mindwiping her. Again, needlessly melodramatic all to justify the departure of another actress portraying a companion. |
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Post by rberman on Sept 16, 2019 6:18:22 GMT -5
or the finale of the Donna Noble arc in Doctor Who. I thought was needlessly melodramatic and a forced dilemma. If Donna being half Timelord was going to killer, why didn't he (The Doctor) use the same separation technology he used on himself one season earlier (with Martha) in "Human Nature" / "Family of Blood"? He completely took the "Doctor" essence/presence/memories out of his own body to become a human, so he had the technological means to do the same to Donna without mindwiping her. Again, needlessly melodramatic all to justify the departure of another actress portraying a companion. The "Human Nature" technology did continuity no favors by making it easy to change species. That's game-breaking stuff that would have come in handy in "Smith and Jones" for instance. |
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Post by zaku on Sept 16, 2019 10:03:31 GMT -5
Hypnotizing or mind wiping someone was common place in the silver age. Aren't JLA 166-168 considered Bronze Age comics? |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 16, 2019 10:30:48 GMT -5
You’re right. It probably hasn’t stopped yet.
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Post by zaku on Sept 16, 2019 10:35:56 GMT -5
You’re right. It probably hasn’t stopped yet. But now they feel guilty about that. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 16, 2019 12:11:53 GMT -5
They never cared until Sue Dibney got murdered.
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Post by zaku on Sept 17, 2019 4:58:25 GMT -5
Well, if we are talking about superheros behaving badly, we can't ignore the baddest of them all. I'm obviously talking about Superman.  (I mean, where are sites out there dedicated to his superdickery) I have a theory about his post-crisis reboot. The official story is they did it to attract new readers or whatever. But I know this is some kind of cover-up. The real reason is another one. They knew that, as soon as the bunch of old white dudes who were writing his stories left and new blood arrived, Superman would have to spend one issue out of two justifying all the horrible things he had done. Like the time he thought it was a good idea to spank an adult woman against her will, or when he abandoned his cousin (a teen girl who had just lost her family and had just arrived in unknown world) in an orphanage literally MINUTES after he had just met her, or when he date raped a poor girl. Really, every new author would have been excited to write his/her version of Avengers Annual #10 (where Claremont had to painful explain that's is NOT OK to leave a raped woman in the hands of her rapist, while smiling and waving). But, unlike Claremont, they would have had DECADES of similar stories at their disposal... |
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