The Froggy Ninja
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I think nrablbcg was one of the guys who helped Klarion. Either way OL certainly has enough enemies to form a mutual hatred group.
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Well the proof is in the pudding (crazy comic book pudding though it is).
So it looks like she wasn't sufficiently unready for it to be noticeable?
The problem is that OL doesn't leave villains lying around where they can threaten him. The only ones that are actually dangerous are Klarion and Truggs.
People like Bane and Sportsmaster are non-threats and Zeus just doesn't have the creativity and inventivness to threaten Paul.
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At the end of Black Reign, OL has a interview where he mentions how Black Adam ripped her in half and it is mentioned later on when he is talking to the Russians
The Froggy Ninja
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Well Truggs and Klarion are creative enough to tell Zeus what to do and probably wily enough to make him think it was his idea. And every mastermind can use some henchmen kitted out with future schizotech.
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*facepalm* How did I forget that?
Thanks for reminder.
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Recall that Zeus still has to contend with Olympian politics and that, on the whole, the rest of the pantheon seems to rather like Paul.
Honestly, he might not even be that broken up by the divorce. Just means he can get back into the ol' dating game without having to worry about Hera turning his partners into catchy conversation starters.
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I originally thought this was wrong until I realized the difference of pronunciation in 'herb' between America and Britain.
As she raises
If he expected Jade to be fairly strong or skilled in ring usage compared to him, I agree. As it is, so long as he doesn't completely drop the ball the only thing in any significant risk is Jade's mental state. Jade won't have the power or skill to do anything bad before OL can intervene.
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Larfleeze having defeated and imprisoned Ophidian is the Ophidian's entire backstory, and - before OL merged with her - sole character trait.True.. What does CPB matter? Ophidian isn't there anymore. She's with Paul, and will help Paul if needed. One way or another Fleezy loses.
The CPB isn't powered by Ophidian, it's a device used for distilling enough of the energy of the universe to power an entire Corps. That it can also be used to trap Entities is an additional benefit. It's a scaled-up version of a personal lantern.
The fact that Larfleeze has a lantern designed to power an entire Corps, and the fact that he has an entire Corps of personal constructs that - when reabsorbed- have a combined ring charge of 10,000% is probably not a coincidence.
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It's also worth noting that Larfleeze in the comics has several abilities OL lacks - like absorbing magic, capturing the souls of the recently dead, and "eating" incoming attacks to become stronger while rendering yourself impervious - which, according to WoG, are a result of his greater skill.
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Things That Turned Out Bad - The Relationship Between Hal Jordan and Arisia | Comics Should Be Good @ CBR
This article has relevant quotes. According to the original story, Arisia was aged mentally as well as physically. If you take that at face value, then the fans who objected later on were objecting *only* to her calendar age; she was biologically and mentally an adult. Yes, it was a schoolgirl crush before the age-up, but not after the age-up.
There was also a later retcon which said she was actually much older in Earth years, which isn't mentioned in that article, but someone mentions in it in the comments, making her 240 Earth years.
This article has relevant quotes. According to the original story, Arisia was aged mentally as well as physically. If you take that at face value, then the fans who objected later on were objecting *only* to her calendar age; she was biologically and mentally an adult. Yes, it was a schoolgirl crush before the age-up, but not after the age-up.
There was also a later retcon which said she was actually much older in Earth years, which isn't mentioned in that article, but someone mentions in it in the comments, making her 240 Earth years.
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The Froggy Ninja
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Oh hell yes. That means that when Paul kicks his ass he'll be able to use Flezzy's ring database to figure out how to counter magic. Also since he has a mystical presence can John make him that anti-anti-scry focus?
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While him being happy about being able to date again is a valid point since when has he given a shit what the other gods thought and Parapaul took something from him. He's not gonna let that fly.
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Well, he does have to care somewhat - he couldn't manage to order Hades to break up with Persephone, for instance.
And Nyx scared him enough to back off from attempting violence.
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I hope Zoat has similar stuff planned for the high end of other colors, because otherwise Orange seems overpowered. Granted, it won't come up for quite a while, in story and IRL.
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Pretty sure Nyx is a titan and thus way scarier than him and there's a difference between him being able and willing to tell other gods what to do and him being able and willing to do whatever the fuck he wants himself regardless of what other gods tell him to do.
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It might not be something that occurs in-story, given Larfleeze's age vastly outstrips any other potential ring-slinger I can think of. If the truly high-end techniques require a billion years of steeping in the requisite emotion, we'll probably only see Larfleeze and maybe some Maltusians wielding said techniques.
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Poor them. Somebody should really check what Fate's done with them.
Now that you mention it, wouldn't Nabu be a member of Paul's rogue's gallery?
*facepalm* How did I forget that?
To be fair, it happened entirely off-screen.
Need I remind you that this is a guy who has not even shown up in the story yet. Although, given the title of this chapter (Date Night), perhaps he might show up to ruin Paul's romantic options.
Billy Batson is emotionally more mature whenever he turns into Captain Marvel, and I don't anyone would argue that he should have a relationship with any adult.
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Yeah, but that's because Captain Marvel being in a relationship would automatically mean that Billy Batson is also in a relationship, or at least has the memories and emotions of being in one. If he were somehow permanently locked into his Captain Marvel form, I don't think it would be unreasonable for him to be in a relationship (all assuming that the Wisdom of Solomon really does make him sufficiently mature, which seems likely). Billy's situation isn't comparable to Arisia's, assuming we take the whole 'mentally aged up as well' thing at face value.
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He does have the potential.
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Both, to varying degrees. One thing that got my attention was a scene where they're in bed, Hal is clearly very exhausted and thinking 'Close the blinds! Close the blinds!' while Arisia is sitting up with the remote, fully energized, watching & laughing at something on TV. I'm not sure that relationship was healthy for either of them.
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Thank you, corrected.
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I try not to support that kind of stuff on principle because the relationship has the whole not-jailbait fetish written all over it. And do not care about "other cultures" and such, the whole situation is depicted as it is because some comic book artists have a hard time not sexualizing women, even if the female in question is prepubescent.
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Uh...even if the female in question is prepubescent.
Are you sure you know what that word means?
Because the images linked in arromdee's post above don't like prebuscent at all.
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Who said that I was talking about just Arisia? Also, big boobs do not make you more mature.
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Sure, from the outside perspective it's really skeevy because the writers did the whole "she's a young girl with a childhood crush" thing first, and then changed it in a rather arbitrary and unconvincing fashion. And I certainly understand regarding it as a creepy and unfortunate storyline. But from within the story, the explanation behind it covers all the objections and is presumably plausible, given Hal accepted it. And I find storylines and characters that differ significantly from conventional standards to be the most interesting - a plot line revolving around the debatable legitimacy of artificial personality traits is more interesting than one in which the whole thing is dismissed out of hand with "she's drawn young-looking so we're going to treat her as a human child without further thought". It's part of why I find Captain Marvel such an interesting character - he regularly undergoes a transformation that explicitly changes who he is mentally, which raises all sorts of interesting questions.I try not to support that kind of stuff on principle because the relationship has the whole not-jailbait fetish written all over it. And do not care about "other cultures" and such, the whole situation is depicted as it is because some comic book artists have a hard time not sexualizing women, even if the female in question is prepubescent.
But yeah, the actual storyline as written was kinda lacking in the interesting parts, and seemed more focused on some sort of wish-fulfilment on the part of the author. Though I did see an analysis that suggested that it was intended to be an "appearances don't matter as much as what you are inside" special message kind of thing, in which case it was just handled somewhat poorly - if she was meant to have been an adult all along, who merely appeared young to humans, then the backstory of Hal rejecting her due to her not being mature enough doesn't fit, and nor does the idea of her mind having been aged-up along with her body.
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