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Phhh, at least, Quesada didn't kill Gwen Stacy. If he would kill MJ, he would actually become my personal hero.
Marvel's been trying to get rid of her for over 15 years (Clone Saga, death/seperation, Chapter One, Brand New Day, probably a few others I'm not remembering at the moment). But they also fold too quickly to pressure to bring her back every time they attempt to get rid of her. I doubt this attempt will be any different. I fully expect the Brand New Day thing to be reversed within a year.
People can make fun of his abilities all they want, but Doug Ramsey got around.
Doug was an awesome character.
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Ha! Next think you'll be telling me is that Psylocke is a white girl.Heh.
I kinda miss Psylocke's utterly scandalous May/December non-affair with Doug Ramsey (yanno, before he was dead and she was a ninja). Total hot for teacher / Mrs Robinson vibe going on with that one.
True, but also remember that he was in her head, linked in a way that I think only he and Warlock shared prior. Heck he actually freeed a mind controlled Betsy, just by letting her into his head.
Though Wolverine's snarky comment in X-force made me laugh. "You're forgetting the kid's one weakness. Y'know, bullets."
People can make fun of his abilities all they want, but Doug Ramsey got around.
I miss Psylocke's awesome hood, cloak, armor and mask costume.
The most useful power ever. I liked the roided up version of it in Age of Apocalypse.
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The most useful power ever. I liked the roided up version of it in Age of Apocalypse.People can make fun of his abilities all they want, but Doug Ramsey got around.
I miss Psylocke's awesome hood, cloak, armor and mask costume.
It was pothumus, but I loved what happened when Kitty introduced Doug's programs into Murderland in Excaliber.
Heck, even Doug's 'non-enhanced' power would be phenominal in the age of the Internet.
As it is now... can you imagine Doug at a WSOP tournament?
The most useful power ever. I liked the roided up version of it in Age of Apocalypse.People can make fun of his abilities all they want, but Doug Ramsey got around.
I miss Psylocke's awesome hood, cloak, armor and mask costume.
It was pothumus, but I loved what happened when Kitty introduced Doug's programs into Murderland in Excaliber.
Heck, even Doug's 'non-enhanced' power would be phenominal in the age of the Internet.
As it is now... can you imagine Doug at a WSOP tournament?
And that's where his powers would get scary for me. Once he makes the 'leap' from human languages to animal, computer, or god...even invertibrate or single celled languages, either he cracks up or humanity does.
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And that's where his powers would get scary for me. Once he makes the 'leap' from human languages to animal, computer, or god...even invertibrate or single celled languages, either he cracks up or humanity does.The most useful power ever. I liked the roided up version of it in Age of Apocalypse.People can make fun of his abilities all they want, but Doug Ramsey got around.
I miss Psylocke's awesome hood, cloak, armor and mask costume.
It was pothumus, but I loved what happened when Kitty introduced Doug's programs into Murderland in Excaliber.
Heck, even Doug's 'non-enhanced' power would be phenominal in the age of the Internet.
As it is now... can you imagine Doug at a WSOP tournament?
My favorite God Mode Doug Ramsey theory has him eventually becoming capable of percieving and reading the Akashic Records, giving him access to all the collective consciousness of all sentient beings that have ever been.
Some folks have taken that idea and ran with him possibly being able to speak directly to the fabric of reality or re-write it. At that point he probably has to have his own Vertigo title. :D
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To mess with his communication-based power, perhaps he could learn to apply it to others, causing them to mistranslate things, at first to become a one man Tower of Babel, muddling communications, and later perhaps extending to the point where he can mess up the signals between someone's brain and body, so that they collapse in a spasming heap of twitchery.
Alternately, he could get so good at communicating *with himself* that his 'brain and body become one' or some such hippy horsemanure, and he turns into a ninja, effortlessly moving through fight scenes, able to see the signals in other's bodies to avoid their moves, and able to move with faster-than-the-speed-of-nerves reactions to counter them.
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Alternately, he could get so good at communicating *with himself* that his 'brain and body become one' or some such hippy horsemanure, and he turns into a ninja, effortlessly moving through fight scenes, able to see the signals in other's bodies to avoid their moves, and able to move with faster-than-the-speed-of-nerves reactions to counter them.
I don't have the first two 'necrosha' tie in issues, but it's my understanding he did something like this as a T/O zombie. He was able to hold off Dani, Illyana, Bobby and Sam by reading their body language. It stopped working when Xian possessed tehm, as he couldn't read their body language anymore. I expect the writers to forget this in second coming. (OTOH, though his T/O infection is 'almost completely gone' I could see the circutry impulses allowing him 'faster-than-speed-of-nerves' movement.)
*sigh* I remember when professional fighters (Wolverine, Captain Britian) couldn't be countered by telepaths because of muscle memory. You'd skim their thoughts and get 'rip his head off' but it wouldn't tell you 'how' as the body was relying on movements done 100 times over.
*sigh* and that's why I'm not a fighter, I have to plan everything out, including how my body does something.
To mess with his communication-based power, perhaps he could learn to apply it to others, causing them to mistranslate things, at first to become a one man Tower of Babel, muddling communications, and later perhaps extending to the point where he can mess up the signals between someone's brain and body, so that they collapse in a spasming heap of twitchery.
Alternately, he could get so good at communicating *with himself* that his 'brain and body become one' or some such hippy horsemanure, and he turns into a ninja, effortlessly moving through fight scenes, able to see the signals in other's bodies to avoid their moves, and able to move with faster-than-the-speed-of-nerves reactions to counter them.
The Tower of Babel idea is a good one, but I think there's already another mutant who has that power.
Mind and body becoming one as "Hippy Horsemanure"? Come now, Set. This is my first documented disagreement with you. Mind and body becoming closer and closer is something that happens. A case could be made for good relfexes and subconcious judgement, whether you're a prize fighter or a mother of small children who has to regularly a car with weak brakes and bad shocks.
Matthew, isn't that why telepaths would just fry your brain?
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Mind and body becoming one as "Hippy Horsemanure"? Come now, Set. This is my first documented disagreement with you. Mind and body becoming closer and closer is something that happens.
Oh, I get that it happens in real life, I've been 'in the zone' playing raquetball, where I have no idea what I'm doing, only that I'm all over the place.
But when Wolverine does it, he's talking about it as he does it which is just ri-friggin-donkulous. You can't talk about what you're not thinking about, unless your mouth has it's own mini-brain...
When someone from Team Schnikt-Bub says that sort of thing, it's about as relevant to the real world phenomena as 'It's Clobberin' Time' or 'Hulk Smash!'
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Y'know, Doug's talents ought to make him a natural talent at certain forms of magic in the Marvel Universe, eh? Can't help but wonder if another Asgardian Wars-style storyline could have landed him a swiss-army-knife array of superpowers like Danielle Moonstar did.*
*I need to read Asgardian Wars again. That collection is pure joy.
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Matthew, isn't that why telepaths would just fry your brain?
I figure it would be more useful against the low-level telepaths. For a while it seemed most psychic characters could only read minds and maybe project thoughts, with little in the way of psychic attacks.
Kind of like the Baldy stories from Henry Kuttner(hey Planet Stories, can haz plz?). I don't think they ever touched on a non-telepath being able to beat a psychic through training and muscle-memory though. Missed opportunity. They did note how little use pure telepathy was when you have a mob wanting to kill you though...
