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hmm, tough one. vulcan has some pretty good tp resistance and she doesn't really use tp offensively anyway. if sersi were an idiot and tried energy projection or tried getting physical, she'd lose for sure, but i don't think he would have an answer for being transmuted. he'd have to muck with the energy in her brain before she had a chance to turn him into a tree or something since it's hard to see him dealing with the transmutational energy. could be a quick draw, but his meddling in her brain wouldn't be something he'd lead with, but transmutation may not be her first go-to either.
in general, sersi and at their best, sersi, but that doesn't mean vulcan can take a couple--unless someone can make a case for his being able to do something once he's been changed into a glass statue or something....
Nah. Don't let the Vulcan fanboys get you with that myth. Their whole idea of Vulcan centers around cropped scans, unsupported fan theories, and sometimes outright lies. I didn't even know how ridiculous his wiki entries were, until I realized folks must be getting that misinformation from somewhere and checked them out.
I agree that Sersi turns him into a PS5 though.
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i wasn't really relying on anyone or even any particular scans--it was more a general sense of things. i know he broke out of a mental trap against the guard, and i don't recall him being own by any of the x-men's telepaths, which is itself quite a feat. i also recall in his early appearances his mind being tricky to read or attack, though his earliest appearances are muddled by his combined power set.
you have something specific in mind that suggests he isn't at least pretty solid against tp?
Sorry to just drop requotes of myself, but this same issue comes up every year.
He didn't overcome the Guard's trap through mental defense though.
And when he was younger, Xavier built an entire mental world for him to live and train in, unbeknownst to Vulcan. https://postimg.cc/yJdrHkSB
Vulcan has demonstrated no TP defense. It's really just Vulcan fans' wishful thinking, and stretching the Rachel ambush far beyond what it was(she didn't even use TP on him there). People reference his proximity to X-telepaths in Deadly Genesis, but none of them actually tried to attack him. Xavier was depowered. Emma was out of range. Rachel only tried at the end, and it worked fine, granted it wasn't an attack per se.
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you could be right. i'll disagree that a psi bolt would have taken him out though. i think he is more than durable enough to handle it, and psi bolts will affect people with or without tp defense.
i also think a lot of what you showed were passive uses of tp--SOMETIMES the results of passive vs offensive tp are different. i'm thinking of times people have gotten into hulk's head for example, but when he wants them out he usually gets his way.
your points are definitely fair though. but without actually seeing him taken out by a tp attack, i'm still not convinced he has no defenses. the proof to suggest he does though is...sketchy at best.
Hulk actually has feats of kicking people out of his head, or similar, though. I would agree some of these aren't active attacks, but they were unwelcome intrusions. The Nightside/Oracle thing was pretty unambiguous though. They attacked him with an illusion mid-fight, and it worked. They just decided to talk him down from there. He never actually broke the illusion. I disagree on the psi-bolt thing, but that's ultimately a side issue I guess.
I don't usually take hardline stances like this, but it feels so cut and dry here. We have multiple instances of folks getting into his head, but, literally, zero instances of him ever resisting telepathic attacks. Despite that, this fan made myth of Vulcan's mental resistance persists.
Why give him the benefit of the doubt when all the evidence points to him being mentally vulnerable with zero resistance feats saying otherwise? If folks claim he has TP defense, it shouldn't be hard to show it. If I made this claim about Amora, Fantomex, Juggernaught, Magneto, Superman etc, I could back those up with scans.
I won't drone on about it for pages upon pages, and everyone is welcome to their opinion of course; however, I feel like the burden of proof is on the opposition here. Those who think Vulcan has TP defense need to cough up the showings. (There are none btw.)
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I'm not even asking for high end immunity type stuff, like Enchantress blocking Red Onslaught. Even people with just general resistance/training: Wolverine, Thor, Gambit, Cyke, Mystique, etc--they all have resistance feats that Vulcan cries himself to sleep wishing he had.
And it's not like Vulcan is obscure. He was the centerpiece for multiple arcs and events that dominated an entire section of the Marvel universe for years.
Granted, said arcs were mostly garbage.
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which is, i guess, part of my hesitation. in all that time, i could argue that someone at some point, given all the telepaths in the x-men and even the guard, should have taken him down with tp. but no one did. getting into someone's head is not the same thing as taking someone down. i'm not saying chuck was incapable of taking him out psionically--i'm just saying that since i didn't see it happen, i question the idea that he's as defenseless as you are suggesting.
truth is though, i'm not invested enough in the topic to really dig into it. you have a strong case, but since no one ever took him out with tp, that missing final coffin nail leaves room for doubt.
He was only around the X-Men for his introduction though. Xavier was powerless at the time, and Emma arrived after the conflict was over.
Then he flew to space, where 95% of his career occurred, with the Guard working for him. Rachel was his only consistent telepathic opponent, and he kept Oracle around to block her.
I guess I don't see when a telepath could have actually attacked him. Oracle was with him for essentially his whole run and explicitly protected him from mental assaults. She is fairly strong despite not showing up often.
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