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- New England
He's saying I'm hilariously awesome.
With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)
- Thread starter Mr Zoat
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He's saying I'm hilariously awesome.
ADeshantis
King on the Chromium Throne
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- United states
Ooh are we posting laughing animals now?
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- Ashtabula
Wow...modded again....I could go back and read what appears to be a really boring conversation....but I don't want to.
Anyway, so...what's so special about this Hunter guy? I've never heard of him. From the one wiki thing he really just looks like...well some dude with a time machine?
Anyway, so...what's so special about this Hunter guy? I've never heard of him. From the one wiki thing he really just looks like...well some dude with a time machine?
RichardWhereat
Feanor did nothing wrong.
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- Australia
You don't have to take the pills. Some people might love to take the pills.
Empiricist2
Let's play doctor!
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- Baton Rouge
Truggs was hardly interesting before Zoat got his hands on him. Same with Kadabra. So if the trend continues, this will be the third time traveller Zoat has made substantially better than their normal canon appearance.
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- Oblivion
He's basically the DC comics version of Doctor Who.
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- New England
Terrible in every way?
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- Hampden Park
That's Rosa Maledicta, queen of the Dread League and omnicidal sorceress.
Increasingly, yes. Some of the stuff he put Booster Gold through...
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- New England
That sounds vaguely sexual. Is it?
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- texas
And Paul is a guy with a gaudy piece of costume jewelry, I guess there's nothing special there either.
What makes characters interesting is what is done with them.
He's screwed Booster, but not in the sexual way. Which would be unlikely to happen in mainstream comics, since they are father and son.
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Dakkan Sall
Random Encounter
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- On the world map
Rip Hunter, pretty much THE time cop of the DC universe, working to get rid of reality-destroying temporal paradoxes, and help the 'true' timeline not get changed (at least too much). Has no official support network other than his own tech skills and knowledge of events, though he sometimes works with the Linear Men (a group with similar goals, when they exist in the continuity in the first place).
Pre-Flashpoint (and post, I think), Rip tends to use Booster as an agent in resolving dangerous time travel incidents, at least partially to keep his own identity/actions hidden from malignant time travelers. To facilitate these, he has convinced Booster to allow recorded history to see the latter as a blowhard, ineffective show-boater who could never have actually saved the world, so why should anyone bother going back in time to try to kill him? Booster has had to turn down an invitation to the Justice League, allow his best friend to be murdered, etc...
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Allon Marton
A Cool Title.
I don't see how any amount of trouble or even losses would really help with that. The problem is that his current opinion of these people is, these guys are barely organized idiots who would allow a terrible thing to happen to an innocent family to protect their own image. And, let's be honest, that totally happened, at least partly due to said terrible organization if I am remembering some of the excuses correctly. And when it was all over, rather than doing what at least some of them apparently felt they should do and turn him in over the murder of an acknowledged superhero, they did it again for the same reasons after he just got done yelling at them about it. He needs someone he still respects to point out whatever problems his current point of view has, but the list of people who's opinion he respects, and are willing to really sit him down and talk to him about it in depth, is frighteningly short. Sadly with generals randomly shooting up towns to kill innocent people and Lex staying with the light, the idea that anyone with any power in this world is either corrupt or stupid is not going to be challenged easily.
Or at least that is how it seems to me.
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I'd say a working time machine is at least competitive with a power ring for being the most powerful weapon in the universe.
If you're not under "good for the story" comic book restrictions under how you can use it.
(That applies to both power rings and time machines.)
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- Oblivion
To be fair to Rip it is Booster Gold. :lol
That shocking moment when you remember that the people around you aren't NPCs.
Look like the location was a trap. Although probably not for OL.
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- Australia
Name happens to be Hunter, eh? Perhaps it's Hunter Zolomon posing as Rip Hunter, either to give young Wally West a taste of personal loss, or to save him from the events of the Reach invasion, so Hunter still gets his powers in the future.
Let's not get all " I was that pizza, Wally!"
Depends on the situation. Time machines are great if you can use them at your leisure, and if you know how to construct and maintain them personally (given that timeline shifts may erase any other support structures). By themselves, they're not great at supporting a lifestyle which involves getting personally involved with events - although I suppose with one it would be possible to acquire a lot of other tech (including, possibly, power rings) which could assist with that.
Personally, I'd consider time machines, particularly of the H. G. Wells or Doctor Who form, a stepping-stone tech. You use the time machine to get hold of better tech (like power rings or something similarly psuedo-omnipotent), then use the better tech to locate and/or implement a means to upgrade your personal self to include time-travel powers, thus negating the need for an unwieldy machine to do it for you. Or if you can't get that, get a time-travel implant, or a time-travel belt/cuff, rather than a machine you have to park somewhere.
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- Oulu
Huh. I totally read that in the voice of Arthur Darville, and I don't even watch the show.
Kinda sorta. See Hedonic Treadmill.
However, for normal humans right now, you can pretty much choose to either: Try and improve your/the/given situation/state OR try and be happy. Pick one.
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- Ashtabula
That explains the whispers of pure hate I felt.
I mean...if the ring didn't do anything then sure.
Some characters aren't interesting no matter what you do with them. Like Thanos....fuck Thanos, and fuck whoever thought Marvel having a Darkseid was either needed, or a good idea.
Well...considering power rings literally WERE time machines back in the silver age, not sure about now, I'd say they still pull ahead.
It's funny you should say that; the entire book is available in free podcast form.
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- Hampden Park
And in e-book form, though the podcast is better. The e-book version changes the order of events and they make less sense.
Winged One
Not the Simurgh
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- definitely the ground
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- They/Them/It
How did you distinguish it from your usual state of mind?
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- Sector 2814
Darkseid had a rather... Destructive... Means of preventing time travel in the Foundations storyline of Legion of Superheroes. Destructive in the sense of "destroy the concept of time itself, except for a small patch he protected for himself."
I feel like a few other means came up in Legion stories, but I'm not recalling them specifically at the moment.
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