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The Authority Respect Thread

Authority Respect Thread

Notes:
1. This thread is broken into sections based on the characters.
2. I don’t consider the Kev story arc nor the Lobo crossovers to be continuity. They’re hilarious and cool, but not really believable. So there’s 1 scan from Kev in this thread but that’s it.
3. This is merely feats. For anyone unfamiliar with these characters, I’d recommend picking up something of The Authority. They’re Wildstorm comics (owned by DC) and are sweet as hell.
4. Enjoy! This is how a respect thread should be done. Many others are very good too, and there’s plenty that are better than this thread, but some are woefully bereft of substance.
5. I’m missing issues 1-6 of Volume 1 (The Relentless arc). There are a few cool feats (like the Doctor telekinetically holding Italy) but every other major Authority arc should be covered here.
6. With Spider-Man and now The Authority, I’m trying to cover everyone that I know a lot about. Next on the list are Alan Scott and/or The Tick, but I have a ways to go before I have enough on them to make a respect thread.

Part I. Apollo
Part II. The Midnighter
Part III. Angie (The Engineer)
Part IV. Jack Hawksmoor
Part V. Swift
Part VI. The Doctor
Part VII. Jenny

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DigiMark007 Forum Leader

I. Apollo – Basically a Superman type. Uber-charged, he’s probably on par with the big guy, but otherwise a bit lower.

Clearing the moon with his heat-vision. The 2nd scan shows how it was basically spreading over the entire moon.
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Running through the head of a Giant Man lookalike, killing him instantly
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Generally being a badass. The 2nd scan is particularly cool because he incinerates a massive group of super-types simply by emitting an aura of heat.
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Diving into volcano lava and suffering no ill effects
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Taking out a series of fighter jets
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Crashes into a space station with a “docking bay the size of a continent”. Judging by that, it’s probably the size of a small planet. He doesn’t destroy it completely, but the size of the explosion is telling and impressive.
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After alluding to Superman’s “faster than a speeding bullet” he proceeds to streak across a single panel multiple times, killing a bunch of giant-alien-things.
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A fight with a telepath who gains the strength of those he controls. By this point, he had taken over roughly 70% of the population of Earth, and had previously punched Apollo around the world (before he was charged a bunch). So saying he’s Class Million+ probably isn’t an exaggeration. Apollo also lifts and topples a skyscraper that was taller than any building in Los Angeles.
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B. The Midnighter – Can run millions of combat variations through his head before a fight even starts, and has implants that allow him to see the enhancements other people have. Also has slightly enhanced strength/healing/agility/etc. Generally just a supreme badass.

Fighting a group of young supervillians sent to create havoc. He kills some, dodges others, then communicates with The Carrier to send them all to their graves. He leaves one alive so he can lop his head off.
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Walking silently on a metal catwalk mere feet away from the replacement Midnighter, who had similarly enhanced senses.
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Not a great scene for MN’er, but here it’s revealed that he has a backup heart. The one Seth ripped out was later replaced and healed by Angie and the Doctor.
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General ass-whipping
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A cool fight where he owns a chick with targeting enhancements implanted within her.
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Another sweet fight. Mortally wounds a beast-thing about 3 times in as many panels that had taken Hawksmoor to school earlier H2H.
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Showing some alternate-dimension bad guys how the Authority rolls…
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III. Angie – Almost like a GL, except with liquid machinery. She can build nearly anything her advanced intelligence can think of.

Growing a replacement set of lungs so she could breathe in an inhabitable atmosphere, then creating some big guns out of her hands to fight a giant-turd-thing.
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Making a giant rocket-pack to get to the moon quickly
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Growing doubles of herself (I think she can manage close to 30 at most) to do a bunch of things at once.
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Industrial-sized bug zappers.
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Here she takes the force of an atomic bomb point-blank, and all she says afterwards is “That wasn’t fun.” Also manages to run an internal analysis of the dude before the explosion. Wolverine fans can cry now…this nuke’s for real. 😛
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Infects enemy guns with a nano-virus. Also a funny Doctor feat below.
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Swats aside warheads aimed at her.
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Creates an electrical storm to take down a field of jet-fighters.
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Channels who knows how much water through the streets of Paris via metal tubes.
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Creates a double of herself small enough to go into Midnighter’s brain.
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IV. Hawksmoor – King of the Cities

Spider-Man would be jealous.
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Dodges bullet-fire, and tells some buildings to cave in the heads of the attackers.
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Has Paris “swallow” a bunch of guys.
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Crushes a giant robot with a building
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A cool scene where Jack does some acrobatic dodging, punches a car with the street, then creates a series of concrete pillars to block gun fire and crush people.
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Crashing at least a few city blocks into a church.
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V. Swift – Honestly, Swift is cool but not terribly powerful. She’s like Hawkgirl with a bit better flight speed and maneuverability, and no mace.

Flying straight through brick walls, killing people as she goes.
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Matches speed with and takes out a jet fighter.
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VI. The Doctor – A hippy whose every thought becomes reality. If he wasn’t such a coward and a druggie, he’d pretty much be unstoppable.

Turning a solid steel door into mountain air.
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The infamous scene where he turns some villians’ bones to Calvin Klein’s “Just For Men”
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Stripping the atomic bomb guy of his powers completely.
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Turning people who work for an inter-dimensional gambling ring into dice.
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This one amuses me. He transports a human bomb to an unborn dimension. The guy explodes, creating a “big bang”, and thus creating a new universe.
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Gives some soldiers boobs.
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Floods a bad guy with every single experience the human race has ever experienced.
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Temporarily stops time around the Authority.
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Has an ocean swallow some military carriers.
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This one’s pretty uber too. He cuts off a telepath’s link to about 70% of the world’s population, and also grows himself to the size of a large building and eats the guy.
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Gives an entire city of people gills to breathe underwater.
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Not much happens in this page, but the bottom panel is The Doctor traveling back in time with the Midnighter.
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Throws the Eiffel Tower at a spaceship
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VII. Jenny – Since neither has a ton of ‘screen-time’ as it were, this is both Jenny Sparks and Jenny Quantum. Jenny Sparks is like Electro x 5. Jenny Quantum is too powerful to accurately quantify at the moment. The first feat is Sparks. The rest are Quantum.

Jenny Sparks electrocutes the brain of an organism roughly the size of a continent. The carrier is the size of a city, so you can see the difference in just the Carrier compared to the brain in the first panel.
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Jenny Quantum creating an explosion big enough to take out a few city blocks when she was still a newborn.
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Remaining invisible to a MN’er replacement mere feet away.
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Protecting the entire Authority from a blast that destroyed Washington D.C.
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Dimension-hopping.
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Infinite City. This is the dimension Jenny simply ‘created’ from her subconscious so that she could converse with her past lives.
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Protecting Earth from the Carrier exploding.
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Making tiny quantum bursts explode inside the brain of Henry Bendix
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Hope you enjoyed it. And Respek The Authority!

-DM 😎

A.J Restricted

nice digi

DigiMark007 Forum Leader

A.J Restricted

👆 🤘

Mr.V Senior Member

Fastest respek thread ever 👆

A.J Restricted

yup

DarkCrawler KABOOOOM!!

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Hell, it's Finland. 😄

Great thread.

Accel Senior Member

Now that's how to do a Respect Thread!

Good job Digi.

DigiMark007 Forum Leader

Thanks guys. 🙂

Barring some old Stormwatch stuff for a few of them, and the "Secret History of the Authority" run (and my missing Relentless arc), this is pretty much every major feat of the Authority. They're still relatively young as teams go, but I counted just over 100 scans...so I was happy with the outcome.

And I prefer this method rather than slowly stretching out the scans over a bunch of pages. This format makes the thread easier to navigate, even if subsequent pages will be rather boring in comparison.

🙂

The only "major" feats that aren't here (that I know of) are:
-Jack wearing the city of Tokyo as body armor (from Stormwatch)
-The Doctor telekinetically holding Italy in place while the rest of the world turned
-The Doctor turnng a swarm of superhumans into trees
-Engineer creating a field of microscopic blades capable of cutting someone at the molecular level.
(the last 3 are all from Relentless)

outarddwarf Battle Juggerpope!

Great digi

DigiMark007 Forum Leader

🥷

I'm thinking I'll have bump this a good deal for it to be noticed since a lot of people don't read Wildstorm.

Khellendros Sin in Pants

Jawsome.

Blair Wind The Iron Avenger

nice...now Digi...in a fight who would you pick Strange or Doctor? He seems to be able to do anything he wants......

DigiMark007 Forum Leader

Originally posted by Blair Wind
nice...now Digi...in a fight who would you pick Strange or Doctor? He seems to be able to do anything he wants......

Depends. The Doctor should win, but he's constantly written as a flake, so it's not unreasonable to assume Strange would be the more disciplined of the two and figure something out. At the very least, Strange could counter-act his control over reality on himself, so The D couldn't turn him into a ham sandwich in the opening seconds of the fight. Strange does have experience countering reality control (IG anyone?).

Still, The Doctor has more overall power and versatility. Written to potential, he should win every time. In reality it would probably be more like 6/10 though.

Private Pion Senior Member

Hey, I do think this thread is good, but I think the last Doctor Feat is actually a Jack Hawksmoor one, judging from Jack's reaction and nature of the feat.

DigiMark007 Forum Leader

Originally posted by Private Pion
Hey, I do think this thread is good, but I think the last Doctor Feat is actually a Jack Hawksmoor one, judging from Jack's reaction and nature of the feat.

I can see how it could be seen that way, but the purple glow gives it away. That's The D's trademark color, and it's also doubtful that even Jack could hurl the Eiffel Tower into space. It's also out of context with just that 1 scan, and I think I remember it showing the Doctor doing something to that effect the page before it.