Originally posted by ODG
^ Yes, he did. It can be reasonably argued that it is easier to undo stuff than it is to accomplish it in the first place but I'm still gonna give this to Maxwell Lord.
Would you say it's easier to undo someone's telepathic influence than to initiate mental dominance/illusions or what have you?
Storm's has more trouble clearing weather than creating it.
^ Hmmm... there are two sides to the argument, I guess. It certainly sounds more logical that it's harder to repair catastrophic mental damage than it is to cause it in the first place. But when it comes to dominance/illusions... I'd like to think it should be easier for the person who caused them in the first place to undo them. Here, it's like creating a forcible veil over people's eyes and undoing it is just willing them back to their natural state.
It certainly makes it easier to swallow that Maxwell Lord, who had just engaged in a knockdown dragout brawl with Booster Gold and being burned by Captain Atom, could accomplish a global tp feat -- on a scale that was equal or greater than his original one -- when completely unprepped and unprepared.
Originally posted by ODG
^ Hmmm... there are two sides to the argument, I guess. It certainly sounds more logical that it's harder to repair catastrophic mental damage than it is to cause it in the first place. But when it comes to dominance/illusions... I'd like to think it should be easier for the person who caused them in the first place to undo them. Here, it's like creating a forcible veil over people's eyes and undoing it is just willing them back to their natural state.It certainly makes it easier to swallow that Maxwell Lord, who had just engaged in a knockdown dragout brawl with Booster Gold and being burned by Captain Atom, could accomplish a global tp feat -- on a scale that was equal or greater than his original one -- when completely unprepped and unprepared.
Does Emma have any feats on par with Maxwell, with full blood supply? Supposedly, his feat worked on MM, who is a global tp level.
Originally posted by ODGI'd say so. When Max preformed global mind-phuckery, he hooked himself up to a sizable external blood supply. Had he not done this, he would have bled out/died during the process. Yet even with the extra blood, said feat still took a HUGE toll (it was shown in flashbacks that he was incapacitated for an unknown amount of time afterward.) However, when Max undid said mind-phuckery, he was not utilizing any external reservoirs of blood-- and he was never KO'd/incapacitated. Furthermore, if we compare illustrations pertaining to the amount of blood he visibly lost during both of these feats, you'll find that he lost substantially more preforming the initial mindwipe-- further implying that it was much more difficult/strenuous/taxing as a whole.
^ Hmmm... there are two sides to the argument, I guess. It certainly sounds more logical that it's harder to repair catastrophic mental damage than it is to cause it in the first place.
On a sidenote: I just realized that when Max was resurrected during BN/BD, he gained an enormous boost in power. Dunno how I missed that before...