[Bored at work so I figured I'd make up some crazy scenario to hopefully spark conversation].
Here's the scenario:
Our real world is hit with a zombie virus like in the Comic/TV Show The Walking Dead. By happenstance our comic devotion happens to allow us all to have one passive, non-offensive power from our favorite comic book character for survival in our real world. For example, if your favorite character is Superman, you would either get Superman's Super-Hearing or Super Vision, if your favorite character was Green Lantern you'd either have indomitable will to survive (Rick Grimes mindset) or a lantern which can be used to produce light but must be recharged 2 hours for every 30 minutes of use after it's initial 24 hour charge. If your favorite character were Spider-man you'd have olympian level agility/parkour talent or a 6th sense about danger (Walker Sense; you'd be able to know when a Walker or other threat was was within 20 yards of your position). If your favorite character is Batman you'd either have superior ingenuity or ninja stealth. If it was Ironman you'd have programming skill or engineering skill. If Wolverine you'd have either an increased sense of smell or tracking ability. If Captain America you'd have strong leadership/inspirational appeal or increased accuracy with object throwing, etc.
Anyway:
Taking into account who your favorite character is, as well as who the favorite characters of your fellow KMCers are, create a 6 man survivor group and predict how long you would survive in the zombie world if the 6 of you all had to meet at some location (starting from where you all are located currently, waking from a coma in your local hospital like Rick did with your newfound trait) and stick together using your abilities in order to survive.
Extra stips:
-No healing factors.
-No weaponry.
-No offensive powers of any kind (super strength, superspeed/time manipulation, energy projection/matter manipulation, telepathy/telekinesis/psychokinesis/etc, forcefields, and any other offensive power/ability are off limits).
-You maintain your own real world physical conditioning and whatever items you have on your person at this time (clothing/shoes, phone, contents of pockets, any food or beverage in your current possession, any bag you might currently have in your possession [backpack, purse, etc]).
-You incur any side effects that the use of the powers would inflict on a person who was uninitiated to their use. For example, Superman's super-hearing would cause headaches until you adapted. Super-vision would cause vertigo until you adapted. Spider-man's agility doesn't come with endurance or increased muscle density/wall crawling, etc.
State the members of your team, who their favorite character is and what passive ability they would have in this scenario for your survivor group. Also state what the plan would be in order to communicate with each other and meet up to survive. The people you choose can chime in to clarify who their character is and what passive trait they would choose is.
From Marvel :
Wall Crawling (either from Spiderman, Nightcrawler, etc..). The city or forest is now your playground. Walkers would NEVER catch you and you can avoid humans since they've basically given up on urban areas (because of all the Walkers).
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Being that close to ALL of those walkers would still be dangerous. You'd eventually slip up (pun not intended) in a city. Forest would be better. Make a series of tree forts or something. That would be cool.
They'd never catch you. They're slow as hell and have no way of reaching you even if you were a few feet out of their range.
Get yourself a nice sharp metal object 3ish feet long and you can scale the walls, hang upside down from the ceilings, and empty out entire buildings full of Walkers in total safety.
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..even the outer hells are indifferent matters for they bow only to potent and archaic Nodens.
Smart choice. Misdirection wouldn't be an offensive power in my opinion. Solar absorption is also a very smart choice. However, you get a passive trait from your #1 character, not any character you happen to like (for example, in my case my top 3 are Sinestro, Apocalypse, and Punisher, but Apocalypse is my #1, so I wouldn't have Sinestro ability to induce/empower with fear, his lantern, or his leadership, I'd be using Apocalypse's passive traits like his skill of demagoguery, survival skills, teleportation, appearance alteration, and intellect (genetics/engineering/millenia of experience).
Also, you don't have any skill with these abilities, you simply wake up with them in the zombie apocalypse with your own current knowledge/physical characteristics/belongings.
And yeah, I'd likely use Apocalypse's teleportation. I was thinking demogoguery as I could become like The Governor, but I don't need that to be a leader. I was then thinking intellect but I'd still need resources and civilization is a wreck.
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However, Marwash, you need to explain how we'd be able to form up with me being on the West Coast and most of us being hundreds of miles apart. How would we coordinate?
I'm a teleporter in California with no experience using my power. Teleporting from Oakland to Berkeley or San Francisco in of itself has numerous risks, some you are on the East Coast or Midwest. I'd have no idea where I was going or what was already there when I arrived. And I'd have to always teleport in high to make sure I didn't teleport into anything (wrecked car, building) then teleport to the ground before I fell. It'd be great for supply runs to places where I know the layout. Also for setting up shop in the higher floors of skyscrapers. But it'd have a learning curve.
You'd likely end up killing yourself by phasing and becoming tangible in the ground or with an object inside you in your sleep or in a panic. You don't get the characters skill with the power, just the power. If you wanted J'onn's intellect that'd be a different story, but you wouldn't get his phasing skill/experience.
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