05-22-2012, 09:15 PM | #71 | |
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Re: differing power levels within a party: The Avengers
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That said, past a certain level of difference things just start to break down. Teaming almost anybody with silver age Superman was always a stretch, even the skilled writers had a hard time with it, because he was already better than most people even at their specialities. At the height of his character's power, Superman was faster than the Flash, more capable underwater than Aquaman, if he used them effectively his supersenses would make him a more effective detective than Batman, about the only things that he was not (or at least shoudl have been) better at than the other specialists were things like magic. The only other major DC title players in his league in those days were maybe Green Lantern, or Firestorm, or someone with power on that scale..and even there his superspeed and supersenses, properly used, would be more than enough to tip the scale. Marvel ran into this problem (infamously) with Jean Grey after she became Phoenix, she was so far out of the scale of the rest of the X-men that it was almost impossible to work with. It was the same problem as with silver Superman, only worse since she was even more powerful than he was. There are some special cases, of course. Doctor Strange is one of the most powerful comic characters out there, but he's not that hard to match up with others because the nature of his powers makes him oddly human. (I recall an incident in which some enemies of his, knowing he would have all the supernatural bases covered, and knowing he'd kick their ass in a magical fight, nearly got him by planting a conventional bomb in his house.) |
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05-23-2012, 10:55 AM | #72 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Re: differing power levels within a party: The Avengers
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Heh. I always liked the rough parity between him and Doctor Fate. Strange has the edge in magical ability (MO), but Fate gets the useful bump to his strength and durability from the enchantments on his vestments. |
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