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Yeah I found it as well. Not trying to screw with ya, but I swear her coins have been brought up. It's driving me nuts now.

....just watch. I'll remember in like 3 months...and then wonder why.
I think there was a throw away line about her coins, from when she was tied up in Oh-Els closest. I will see if I can find it...
"Got that right." Her right hand heads towards her pocket. What's she going to do, throw change at me? "And I'm going to-."
Oh and I found the post about Truggs giving her the coins, but it was just another reader asking if Truggs might of given the too her, as he know she could use them.

Zoats responce was:
So my bad on that one.
 
Well, there's no guarantee that the 'Return' was aimed quite correctly (if at all). Paul might be getting dropped into an alternate timeline/reality, or too 'early/late' in the one he started in, etc...

If Zoat wanted to go that route (I doubt he does) it could also work too well and return someone to their true origin, which in Paul's case would be his original non-super Earth. With a power ring, and whatever he's got stored in it.
 
Personally, now that Paul knows about Dana's coins, he should probably see about getting them checked out when the two get back to their time period. Especially by Adom and Blaze since those coins sound a lot like Shazam's empowerment magic.
 
So yeah, Dearden has magic coins that give her power from Zeus, Mercury, Hercules, and Heimdall, for some reason. She's basically a dollar store Captain Marvel, complete with incoherent themeing. It's even more infuriating here, because there's only one out of place, which makes it worse. The writers couldn't find a Greco-Roman god associated with super senses, apparently. They don't even have the excuse of needing a specific first letter.

As I've mentioned before, they're Captain Action's magic coins. And not only did Captain Action have coins from all mythologies, but the gods of different mythologies were just different names for the same entities in his series. So Zeus was every sky father of every pantheon, Gaia was every earth mother of every pantheon, etc, etc.

They were also aliens who returned to outer space, so if one wanted to reconcile with the fact that there obviously are deities in DC franchise, assuming it was a situation like Marvel's Eternals makes the most sense, that aliens came to Earth, were assumed to be deities, and went with whatever names the locals called them.

But an earthquake happened while Captain Action was trying to study his coins, fusing three of them together- Hercules/Heracles, Zeus/Jupiter, and Heimdell, which he wore as a ring, and making him lose all of the other coins except for Hermes/Mercury.

Before that, he switched out divine powers as the mood struck him, carrying four coins in a belt buckle.

So if Zoat wanted to do anything with this, the now adult Action Boy might want his father's coins back from Dana, or Paul or Gravy might encounter godly doppelgangers in outer space, or Dana gets a nemesis, someone with the sorcery coin of Loki.

But I'm not holding my breath.
 
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So how exactly are these coins used/activated? Is it just carrying them...do they have to recharge? I'm not sure I understand the mechanics, and I'm actually curious.

Just having them on your person is good enough.

If Captain Action wasn't afraid of someone mugging the coins off of him he undoubtedly could have say had a suit of armor with slots for all his coins to have all the powers, but he figured four coins (plus an emergency back up coin hidden under his hat) gave out sufficient power without crippling him if someone took his coins.

He found an entire treasure chest full of those coins, and those weren't all the coins, his nemesis went looking for the other coins, he found the coins of the three furies to add to his Loki coin, for example.

Considering how extremely tight Dana's costume was as Obsession, the polite ideas of where she kept her coins is either she swallowed them, or hid them in her shoes.
 
I mean, true, but on the other hand, that seems far more sensible than Dana would ever come up with on her own.

Well, sadly, true, but who says she came up with her costume herself?

I mean the DC franchise has at least one tailor who specializes in making costumes for supervillains.

"Make a skintight costume that hides nothing but 4 coins" is probably a request such a tailor wouldn't even blink at.
 
Well, sadly, true, but who says she came up with her costume herself?

I mean the DC franchise has at least one tailor who specializes in making costumes for supervillains.

"Make a skintight costume that hides nothing but 4 coins" is probably a request such a tailor wouldn't even blink at.

I mean, I don't think she'd even think of where to put the coins until after she created/bought the outfit. She's... really not prone to thinking things through.
 
I can't help but notice that the magic Zeus-powered coins were functional at Vanishing Point.

She is actually a demigod isn't she?

Or I dunno the coins are demonic Demon Three powered... and that would be horrible.

Lol, what if Zoat got bored trying to fill the time skip and this is his way to get around it? XD

Considering he could have just had Paul having space adventures during the time skip...

isnt he supposed to be a supervillain?

For some reason he always wants the Legion Of Superheroes to exist.
 
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Lol, what if Zoat got bored trying to fill the time skip and this is his way to get around it? XD

I'm kind of hoping that Time Trapper missed the mark for some time traveling adventures.

World War 2 adventures with the All Star Squadron?

Wild West adventures with Bat Lash, Super Chief, Hex, Max Mercury?

The age of pulp heroes with Flash Gordon, Doc Savage, the Shadow, the Spirit, the Avenger, Rima the Jungle Girl? Yes, all those people got published by DC at one time or another.
 
Yeah I found it as well. Not trying to screw with ya, but I swear her coins have been brought up. It's driving me nuts now.

....just watch. I'll remember in like 3 months...and then wonder why.
Her coins were discussed in the thread back then, so you may be recalling those conversations, rather than something from an actual chapter

So, who thinks he was returned to his timeline, and who thinks it was back to the canon timeline?
If he ends up in a 'canon' timeline, then he'll either quickly find a way back to 'his' timeline, or the one he's in won't stay canon for long.

Though depending on when in a canon timeline he ends up. "Lets nip some of these problems in the bud, shall we?"
 
@MrZoat could you just add in something like:
No. It was natural speech, spoken by a person. Who was was understood perfectly fine by the person she was talking to.

True, but shoes seem to be the least uncomfortable options. Which is really kinda sad, given that having coins in your shoes wouldn't be far off from stepping on a Lego every time your foot hit the ground.
Most shoes have removable pads, and if they don't, Dr. Scholls sells them. Place a couple coins underneath the pad on each shoe, no problems. Also, coins are much thinner than Lego bricks. And don't have sharp triangular corners like lego's do. Just make sure the shoes can be laced or strapped fast to your heel. Having a slipper come off mid battle would be unpleasant. Making sure the invulnerability coin and the flight coin are separated is also a really good idea, since losing both mid flight = you are now splattered over the pavement.
 
Most shoes have removable pads, and if they don't, Dr. Scholls sells them. Place a couple coins underneath the pad on each shoe, no problems. Also, coins are much thinner than Lego bricks. And don't have sharp triangular corners like lego's do. Just make sure the shoes can be laced or strapped fast to your heel. Having a slipper come off mid battle would be unpleasant. Making sure the invulnerability coin and the flight coin are separated is also a really good idea, since losing both mid flight = you are now splattered over the pavement.

Huh, it's been so long since I've read the comics with Obsession in them I didn't notice that DC played with the powers given by the coins.

For Captain Action, there was no invulnerability coin (so he had to be careful when using Hercules' strength), and his flight came from the power of Zeus, he flew like Storm does, causing wind to carry him. Well, not true, there was probably an invulnerability coin, but it wasn't one of the four. Maybe the coin of Balder.

But apparently Dana flies through the speed of mercury and gets invulnerability through Zeus (I would have gone Hercules, but whatever). At least, according to the wiki. Which isn't always accurate, I know.

Good to know, if we get to see her in a fight I won't be surprised when she tanks something.
 
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