Originally posted by xkalybr
Superman does everything at a super human level. All his powers are great. Simply take each of his powers away and see how he would function.
X-ray eyes, heat vision, and cold breath are great to have, but he could still be Superman without them.
Super speed, to include speed flight, is a key ability. Without it, it makes him not have the ability to fight crime half way around the planet at a moments notice. He would stay in Metropolis more often, like Batman is with Gotham.
His super intelligence is impressive, but that innocent boy scout mentality holds him back, which is why villains like Lex Luthor, and even Batman will always out think and out strategize him.
Super strength and durability. This power is practically 2nd to none to other heroes.
Superman takes so much more beatings than he should because he has no fight skills, and simply figures those punches he takes won't hurt him so bad. I mean, he is so fast, you figure he would never get hit, but he does, always. His strength saves him always, plus the fact that most villains can't hurt him.
If Superman lost his strength and durability, and kept the rest of his powers, he would nowhere be as great a hero. He'd get beat a lot more.
I'd say his Class 100 strength and durability is his most impressive attribute.
Let me add, imagine if Superman, at full power, learned some fight techniques, he would truly be unstoppable vs the really strong baddies. Maybe Batman showed him some pressure points, nerve hits, and how to evade punches.
What kind of hero would you like to have for the 21 century and beyond?
Upgrading all the comic characters from west and east, if we could have our superman reliving his life path...how would he be in this new times?
OR
If we could redesign the new superhero, using the background of pre-21st century comics (DC & Marvel) and anime (jap/chinese) put together,
-how would our ultimate hero now be?
-what would be his placing with all the comic/anime characters in this new&modern time?how would they interact?
-How would the rest of the comics world (especially superman---if its not him that we are redesigning) accept/welcome this new hero into their team? what would his place be?
-if they (like the UN) could form a organisation of heroes (like the JLU) but without compromising their individual potential in solving cases? how will it be?
{if we could redesign all that exists now, how will it be better?}
Let Your imagination run wild. For instance:
What would be the role of a character who has all of superman's powers, all of batman's abilities/skills including martial arts(as a way to use and control,develop and manipulate his latent superpowers), through his training learns to nullify&counter himself of kryptonite, even use it as some tool or medicine. He also learns to use all his force firmly on errant humans (just like Batman(mood) / Kenshin (principle)), and forcefully to deal with threats greater than he can handle (battousai+Batman). These would be so trained/drilled into him, tat even if he goes berserk, his trained reflexes will take over, without compromising his true good intentions.
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What would be the role of such a character, given that he was born like supes in a farm, and got influenced by the bad news around, decided to use his powers for good, and like the batman decided to take his vigilante role to a whole new level, with the anticipation of alien races just like him, that he might meet in his future.?
Say for starters he works his way to become a mega-entreprenuer of a technological hub for humanitarian purposes, where like Bat's can delegate jobs, learn about bad politics and inside news with the big shots, while due to being the one of the wealthiest of men and a leader, has money, resources, time and not to mention super abilities, to do his crusade?
Let's say we give the him some limits: He is limited to a maximum (fully-powered) strength of moving asteroids, not whole planets but at the same time allowing warp-speed travel by moving faster than the speed of light, outside of earth. Within earth he is bound by earth's atmospheric factors, so is just slower than light.
a) How else would he marry both superman's and batman's AND/OR the other chinese/japanese character's chracteristics, for both earth-based and inter-galactic crusades?
b) Wat would his suit be like, what technology will his suit possess? given he is an international figure/crusader; what vehicles would he use, what equipment would he invent to use?
c) types of cases, crimes? people he'll meet etc....
d) will he have additional powers?for example?
Please add in your suggestions for this new character.
*He is not meant to substitute the originals in anyway, but in the spirit of creating a new-version of himself or a totally new hero entrant with the best of all the other DC,Marvel,even Jap/chinese anime put together.
{*I havent read any other thread on this kind of thing, if there is lemme know...but please suggest you opinion; anyway see my next thread for my rationale behind this thread}
