beatboks
ready for the loony bin
Originally posted by krisblaze
Shroedinger in the Hellsing-verse might fit that bill actually.I don't buy anyone within your cide-wide area of influence is automatically won over by your powers.
I also don't buy that those with high-end telepathy or those whose powers are simply mind-contorl would be won over.
I also disagree with the idea that you need to connect with someone in order to effect them telepathically. Off the top of my mind I can think of cases where both Rachel Grey and Maximus the mad use telepathic attacks without being in contact with anyone. Xavier has also displayed the ability to unleash long-range attacks without connecting to anyone.
I'd also like to add that my forcefield protects me from possession, telepathy and various other forms of control.
The thread stated we get to choose a single power. The power I'm choosing is the magic ability to control the emotions over anyone within the area of an average city of me.
Telepathy by default requires a level of concentration and focus. every single example of it ever being used in fiction shows that. Those two things are aspects of higher brain function, emotion is base brain function, automatic response. By it's very nature it interferes with focus and concentration. A love struck fool is easily diverted from any task at hand.
A telepathic attack is by the very nature of it an attack on the mind. How can one attack a mind without making some type of contact with it. The mind/ brain is where emotion centers lie, so naturally any ability to control emotion (even magical) would have to have a connection to the mind of the one with it. Making any type of mental assault on someone with that type of ability would mean you came into contact with the ability.
There are countless examples in comics of some of the most powerful TPers that exist being overcome by intense emotion.
Martian Manhunter taps into the entire human race and flood D'Kay and D'Razz with their emotions
MMH completely overcome by the emotions of Black Adam in WWIII
Brain wave Jnr over come and a cowering simpleton when faced with Obsidian seeing all the despair and and dark emotions that his soul manipulation had absorbed.
Look at Jean Grey's entire history. She started out as ONLY a TKer despite being the most powerful TPer in all of Marvel. Held back from her own potential by her own fear. Fear making her completely incapable of using her power.
I cold list a LOT more, but the canon is there, emotion is the best counter to powerful TP that comics have ever had, always was.