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[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It has the properties of bubble and gum

[–] StrongHorseWeakNeigh 27 points 6 months ago

Keep this guy away from the kids

[–] misterundercoat 3 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Worked for luffy. The stretchy people in hero comics are usually seen as side characters who are meh, even Reid Richard's is mostly known for his intelligence over his stretchyness.

[–] LeafOnTheWind 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Mrs. Incredible has those dangerously thicc thighs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

could she have just given herself a thicc ass using her extraordinary powers?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Primo stuff right there.

[–] jacksilver 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

While he doesn't get a lot of attention, PlasticMan is considered to be pretty dangerous in DC comics. He has a pretty cool run in the Injustice Comics (released alongside the games) .

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

In the Ultimate comics Reed actually uses his stretchyness to make himself even more intelligent by creating new wrinkles and pathways in his brain with his powers. He fixes his astigmatism too by just stretching his eyes back in the right shape resulting in better than 20/20 vision. It's kind of weird comic book science but I think it's a cool evolution of stretchy powers, truly controlling and manipulating the plasticity of his body on a conscious level.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yea that's actually dope, I love taking mundane sounding powers and pushing them to the extreme.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

How can Superman's power of creating a miniature Superman from his palm be made into a cool power and not something he doesn't even have anymore because it was lame?

[–] Klear 9 points 6 months ago

Super-Skrull can be pretty effective when he's not jobbing to the FF.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Tbf, that's Oda's imagination doing overtime. Reed Richards never gets past the Gum-Gum Pistol stage, I think his power would be considered way cooler if he hit Dr. Doom with a Gum-Gum Elephant Gatling or busted out Snakeman. It's not just about making them a serious main character, mangaka seem a lot more inventive with utilizing the potential for powers than their Western counterparts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yea I attribute it to the audience. Manga evolved as a mature and mainstream medium that wasn't just for kids. Comics, at least back then didn't evolve as much and as quickly. Video games as well until the last handful of years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

this rubber band man erasure right here /s

[–] feedmecontent 29 points 6 months ago

This applies to Western comics in the way where they tend to have used a campy version of the power in the 60s and have to grapple with what that means later. Like when Marvel gave the villain "molecule man" the power to control all molecules then were like "fine yes, also he's a demi god who can essentially control all things and has the combined energy across all universes to splode reality"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

be me

dnd campaign

ask dm if i can spawn bubble gum

he agrees and I leave party to give out gum on streets

dm gets mad and has my family killed while I entertained children

if I can’t be the good guy then I will be the had guy

[–] Skullgrid 18 points 6 months ago

right also applies to comics.... when written by grant morrison.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
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[–] DacoTaco 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Left? Dont you mean right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Ah yes right, my bad i was probably half asleep.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lactokenetic powers where the best thing I have seen on screen. To bad the second season never happened.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Misfits got 5 seasons, but being a UK show they only had like 6 eps each.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I refuse to believe anything after the first season was not another much worse show.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah true. I liked a couple of the new characters but I wish they hadn't just kept cycling through new powers. Feels like with the freedom to change the fundamental premise they started with it let them focus on lower hanging fruit stories than trying to create deeper plots with the established story.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Also by changing up the characters/actors you just can not really care since who knows if that character will be around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

First thought was grand fromage

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