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*** And as [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] rightly pointed out, alien heroes like Superman or the Martian Manhunter shouldn't have been de-powered at all because ''they don't have superpowers in the first place''. Their "powers" are the natural abilities of their respective species. Being a [[Flying Brick]] with laser-vision and a shape-shifting telepath is ''normal'' for them. It's like if the moon had an atmosphere, was habitable, the population consisted of weakling deaf people, and a human arrived on it. The human would be six times as strong as the weakling deaf people and could hear. Then this Act Of God happened, and all of a sudden the human is now deaf and is 1/6th as strong as he used to be. |
*** And as [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] rightly pointed out, alien heroes like Superman or the Martian Manhunter shouldn't have been de-powered at all because ''they don't have superpowers in the first place''. Their "powers" are the natural abilities of their respective species. Being a [[Flying Brick]] with laser-vision and a shape-shifting telepath is ''normal'' for them. It's like if the moon had an atmosphere, was habitable, the population consisted of weakling deaf people, and a human arrived on it. The human would be six times as strong as the weakling deaf people and could hear. Then this Act Of God happened, and all of a sudden the human is now deaf and is 1/6th as strong as he used to be. |
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**** Particularly awful in that in the ''Invasion'' storyline, the alien Dominators release a superweapon that completely screws with the source of superpowers for life on Earth, rendering every metagene-powered hero dying and powerless... and aliens like Superman and J'onn remain entirely unaffected the entire time, and in fact play a key role in defeating the Dominators. |
**** Particularly awful in that in the ''Invasion'' storyline, the alien Dominators release a superweapon that completely screws with the source of superpowers for life on Earth, rendering every metagene-powered hero dying and powerless... and aliens like Superman and J'onn remain entirely unaffected the entire time, and in fact play a key role in defeating the Dominators. |
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***** Worse yet, "Invasion" is the DCU storyline that ''introduced'' the meta-gene as the explanation for superpowers existing among humanity. So, "Act of God" not only directly went against prior canon, it went directly against the original [[Trope Codifier]]. |
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** The whole thing finally comes full circle when {{spoiler|Superman and Wonder Woman have a son who ends up with super powers, rendering the aesop of super powers being "wrong" completely moot.}} |
** The whole thing finally comes full circle when {{spoiler|Superman and Wonder Woman have a son who ends up with super powers, rendering the aesop of super powers being "wrong" completely moot.}} |
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* The first issue the the new ''Zatanna'' comic begins with Zatanna tied up and threatened by Dr. Light and the Joker. She managed to escape and beat them. Then it's revealed that these are just actors, and this is all part of her act. Let's run that by you again: she incorporated two ''remorseless murderers'' into her act, one of whom is also a rapist. That's like David Copperfield hiring actors to play Richard Ramirez and John Wayne Gacy. And it's two murderers whom she has a ''personal grudge against.'' |
* The first issue the the new ''Zatanna'' comic begins with Zatanna tied up and threatened by Dr. Light and the Joker. She managed to escape and beat them. Then it's revealed that these are just actors, and this is all part of her act. Let's run that by you again: she incorporated two ''remorseless murderers'' into her act, one of whom is also a rapist. That's like David Copperfield hiring actors to play Richard Ramirez and John Wayne Gacy. And it's two murderers whom she has a ''personal grudge against.'' |
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