Well damn, it has been a long time if I missed the "Finally!" invisitext. But damn, this is really turning out well for the team. Of all things to send after an alien mind controller, demons?
Some criticism here and there can hardly be called relentless bashing. If the counter argument had just been "he doesn't do it for narrative reasons", then that would have been that, but people insist on trying to argue the point using in-story mechanics when the capabilities of the ring show more than clearly that some basic body upgrading should be both easy and fast, reversible too which is always a bonus.
Except what's actually happening is that certain people are trying to browbeat the author into contradicting his own canon to fulfill their own fantasies.
How exactly is any of this suppose to be intimidating him lmfao. We're not asking the SI to become some kind of kryptonian martian hybrid that functions without ring assistance here. We're talking about him using shown canon abilities in a rather obvious fashion to improve his body beyond his very lackluster human capabilities and your argument is basically that he can't because it'd somehow require the ring to keep it working for some reason.
Because the parts won't work together right, something that's been mentioned both in and out of story.
He hasn't got it in subspace. It's still in the mountain, in a secure vault.
Shrug and not care, probably.
Thank you, corrected.
According to the associated myths, it was made of hammered out halos. Whatever the truth, it is a powerful arcane artifact and still takes a large amount of power to put into or take out of subspace.
The Renegade hasn't pissed off the Light. Or at least not to the point where they're openly fielding anti-Gravyen weapons. Batman might be working on a thing or two, but him actually using it outside of a major confrontation would be a dangerous escalation against someone who knows where he lives.
It plugs into your brain and the only man to ever used it died raving in an asylum. Technology like that needs very careful testing, not being stuck in your head as soon as possible.
Not really. Once he had the symbol for 'Orange Lantern' it was just a matter of applying things he already knew.
I wasn't sure if I'd mentioned it outside of spoilers before.
He will, once this fight is over. Because against a force of unknown strength 30 seconds absence can result in companion deaths. Or NPC deaths, which is something he studiously wants to avoid.
Think I'll leave it.
And unlike holy water, it works on things that aren't Demons too!
Several reasons. Partly because he doesn't want the governments of the world to feel threatened by him. Partly because he's not sure what it would do to Human civilisation and partly because he wants to chat to the Controllers first.
It actually doesn't have any information on how to genetically enhance Humans. I mean, why would it? It has data on all sorts of gene mods various alien races have used over the millennia so if any of them turn up he can sort them out, but none of it is directly applicable to Humans. He already made power armour based partly on its contents.
You don't build the super-suit that takes a lot of effort and rare materials to construct for mass production. You build it to keep yourself alive while you work on other stuff that can be mass produced to improve the lives of everyone.
Given the sheer number of times the Guardians must have visited Earth over the centuries for there to be that many guardian containment units on the planet I find it rather mind boggling that they never did a genetic work up of the local sentient species...
Did you miss the bit where OL has a suit of power armor? Because he does.
I'm sorry, but you need to stop commenting. People who have read and remember the FAQ aren't allowed to post.
I swear it's like you don't even read the posts. The argument isn't that he should copy paste incompatible alien parts, it's that he should change some of the structural parts like how his muscles are woven and use far better material for them in the first place. Human bones are rather brittle and unflexible so that could also go, tendons could also use far better material. This kind of stuff doesn't require exotic effects to do or ring assistance to maintain and there's a lot more that could be done that's similar. Organs wise they could be made far better and be a bit decentralized to avoid the whole "sure death if there's a hole in them". His senses could also be vastly improved and new ones added using the example of mundane animals, let alone the rest of the universe. There's also a lot of variation between individual cells that do the same role, if he made use of the best cell for any given role and made all the others like them there'd also be a good increase in capabilities and this is a process that can be repeated as they the better batch mutate.
I think you mean that those who have read the FAQ are allowed to post.
I had asked about those containment units a couple months back, turns out most of them were on the Guardian ship, and are no longer on Earth.
He has power armour. It's pretty darn good. And -as I said- Humans already have tonnes of stuff that could improve everyone's lives adn they're not using it.
Depends what you mean by 'work up'. They did take a quick (by Guardian standards) look at the Human genome to see what effect the Life Entity was having, but they never sat down and plotted out ways to enhance Humans. And if they did, that sort of thing wouldn't be on the regular database. The Life Entity is supposed to be a secret.
But it could be a lot better then it is given the resources available to him.
Wouldn't they have to run acceleration projections with Human DNA to figure what sorts of effects it would have on human evolution?
I thought of this a little while ago, and came up with an answer I'm happy with. So the database he got at New Years only has information about technology that is common among interstellar civilizations. There's other stuff as well, but that's true for the tech part. When making artificial intelligences, the species creating it necessarily bases it on itself. Because each class of artificial intelligence is unique to each species, none become common throughout the interstellar community, and so they didn't make it onto the ring database.
It's been brought up in story before. The easiest way to improve, by including orichalcum and enchantments, means that OL can no longer fully recreate or repair his armor. Given how often he seems to get it damaged, destroyed, or upgraded, this is pretty reasonable.
It just came up in the story that he's going to try talking with the Rush Hour heroes, as they also use magic-based super speed and he might be able to figure out something based on that.
In other words, lots of work for dangerous experiments that are either of marginal benefit or he doesn't know how to do. And you are contradicting yourself, alien animal parts are still alien parts.
Ugh.
I do not buy this explanation for a second. The ring could do the simulations until it had the specs for a self sustaining biological system that can operate within Terran norms. Chimeras are a thing. This is not using the ring to puppeteer parts of his body. Hell, the Starro can work with how many species without needing a ring.
I addition to benefiting him by developing beneficial structural changes applicable to humans, he can stack them to Danner/Garrick enhanciles. While it may or may not make a difference on the Dannered, it would be a godsend for the speedsters, who are still just as squishy as ever, and cannot be Dannered after being Garricked.
Not really. If we make OL as a Superman expy without his ring, that does not mean the story is over, just like Superman being Superman does not mean his story is over. I am not really interested in the physical side as much as other things he cannot fix by Righteous Face Punching. And even with everything we are saying, he would still take a drop in power if the rings were countered, because of the sheer power of the rings. But that does not mean he should not be trying everything he can to boost his baseline self.
This is what I mean. I do not expect it to specifically have a human genome database. But I DO expect it to have a lot of data on biological systems in general. And with data base like that and a effing power ring, you should (and by you i mean the ring powered by your desire to do so) be able to fill in the blanks with pattern matching and clarke-tech simulations, and have it assemble a hooman adaptation and comparability template for all the biotech it does have.
I recently saw a series that was pretty much nothing but curbstomps. It was fairly engaging for me despite that and I think it became somewhat popular. One Punch Man, I think it was called.
Detachable Orichalcum plating would allow the ability to fully recreate and repair the armor.
He doesn't actually have to know how any of it works, that's the job of the ring, what danger would there be? He can undo any damage caused by a failed change, not that it should fail in the first place seeing as the ring can figure out end results. I was talking about animals from earth so no.
Uh, didn't OL have that super-genius robotics scientist?
Explicitly not the case in WTR. OL noted at the beginning of the story that a human/Kryptonian hybrid should be impossible, but the Genomorph bits somehow make it work. Also, Grayven explained to that one queen person that a female mate would be just as viable as a male one because the child would need to be created in a lab regardless of the gender.
Not if the orichalcum is damaged.
Yes, Doctor Morrow, who I mentioned at the bottom.
