scans_daily: Justice League International #6 And Justice League International #7

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@ 2012-03-08 06:27 pm UTC

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creator: aaron lopresti, creator: dan jurgens, creator: matt ryan, title: justice league international

Justice League International #6 And Justice League International #7

Justice League International #6

Justice League International #7

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atom_punk
2012-03-09 11:34 am UTC (link)

Lol. Certainly possible. Oddly-specific powers are awesome.

"I can telekinetically move any object that is an oblate spheroid!"

"Well surely that's not a useful power at all. I mean, what in the world is in the shape of an obla- My god. The WORLD IS an oblate spheroid!"

"YES!!!! AND NOW I SHALL RULE THE WORLD!!! MWUAHAHA!"

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icon_uk
2012-03-09 12:53 pm UTC (link)

Yup, it's all in the application, and I'm a complete sucker for the creative application of apparently limited abilities.

Wild Cards has several examples of this, as does "Temps" a sort of UK alternate take on the same concept, where super-powers are regulated by the Department of Employment and those who have them can register them, getting a special allowance, but being on all for emergencies in return.

Most of them are, thus, not desperately motivated... Mention is made of a micro-pyrotic who could cause very small fires. No one in the UK could think of a use for it offhand, so he emigrated to America, where he quickly got an agent, donned spandex and became famous as Mr Misfire, who could cause criminals guns to fire whilst still in their holsters by igniting the gunpowder.

Or the guy who can teleport liquids, but only short distances, and so ends up using his power to basically nick drinks from the bottles behind pub bars! :)

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shadowpsykie
2012-03-09 04:18 pm UTC (link)

hmmm not exactly the same, but i think this was used in two ways in the recent teen titans issue.

a new villain (CREEPY ASS VILLAIN) who was able to paralyze WOnder Girl and Bunker but leave thier minds fully functional so that they would still suffer or something (which ithink is oddly specific)

However Bunker then realizes, well my powers are telekinetic, they are mind powers, if my mind powers are in tact, well let me try something *CRUSH!* Oh hey it worked! :D

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icon_uk
2012-03-09 04:27 pm UTC (link)

Not sure I saw that as specific, so much as intentional, since the villain was a sick little bugger IIRC.

Claremont has many such cases, most notably, off the top of my head, Worm of the Savage Land Mutates, who coats his targets in a slime he produces from his hands, which basically leaves the person aware, but their bodies are under Worm's mental control.

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	no subject beyondthefringe 2012-03-09 06:31 pm UTC (link)
	Or that characters from JMS' Rising Stars, who had telekinetic control of very very small things. Which was enough for her to become a secret agent and assassin, since she could constrict blood vessels and things like that. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

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icon_uk
2012-03-09 06:49 pm UTC (link)

Reminds me of Gypsy Moth from Spider-Woman (and later of the Thunderbolts, using the name "Skein"), she was telekinetic, but found that she could only work with materials that felt "soft" (one of the few examples where there was elaboration of some degree of biofeedback from telekinesis) which meant she could work with fabrics and threads... and then (similar to your example) realised she could also pinch blood vessels closed, her rich, elderly husband died of a heart attack shortly thereafter...

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atom_punk
2012-03-09 07:46 pm UTC (link)

-shudder- Stuff like that reminds me how fragile human beings really are.

A little air bubble in your veins, a clamped blood vessel, an electrical imbalance in the brain, and -poof- you're worm food.

Babylon 5 actually touched on that I think. Many alien races as well as humans had telepaths (which are highly prized) and a fraction of those telepaths are also telekinetics.

But the problem is that even the most powerful telekinetics can only move, say a penny with their mind. So for ages everyone wants to use drugs or genetic enhancement or cybernetics to increase the raw power of a telekinetic's abilities.

Then someone realizes with the same amount of force used to push a penny, you could seal a vital blood vessel, cause neurons to misfire, and so on and assassinate anyone without leaving any physical evidence.

Scary stuff.

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	no subject icon_uk 2012-03-09 08:08 pm UTC (link)
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atom_punk
2012-03-09 08:17 pm UTC (link)

We're everywhere....

....

...for your convenience

Welp. Hide yo kids, hide yo wife!

Seriously though. Those commercials scared the business out of me. That and the censored news-caster for ISN that was just a political mouth piece for the dictatorship that took over Earth.

Ancient alien galactic superpowers feuding for control and blowing up planets? YES PLEASE!

It's the human element that struck home, because propaganda is so prevalent as a tool, even (or rather especially) today. I think it really hit me because I'm Korean and I know that this is the kind of brainwashing people in North Korea are constantly subjected to, taught to trust and even worship their leaders.

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leikomgwtfbbq
2012-03-09 08:52 pm UTC (link)

I love that kind of thing, too. Whenever I write about characters with superpowers, I almost never go for cool powers like Superman's or Jean Grey's. It's always something ridiculous, because that's always incredibly fun. My favorites were the dude who sweated a corrosive acid (he was a star escape artist because he could easily get rid of ropes or chains) and the lady who had a "psychic GPS" power (which enabled her to naturally know how to get anywhere she wanted to go--she used it to find lost people and things).

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	no subject shadowpsykie 2012-03-09 04:19 pm UTC (link)
	you are great at writing cartoon villains :D (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject atom_punk 2012-03-09 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	Danke! Grew up in the nineties, Saturday morning cartoons and whatnot. Guess it shows :D (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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