05-23-2017, 12:11 PM | #31 |
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Re: [Supers] Stat Wonder Woman
Superheroes are allowed hyperbole too. Or heck, maybe in that continuity, Hermes isn't as swift and Hercules isn't as strong as moderns think.
Even average looking people now would be amazing in any olden urban zone if only for not having disease caused scars and signs of childhood malnutrition.
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05-23-2017, 01:10 PM | #32 |
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Re: [Supers] Stat Wonder Woman
If Themyscira an independent country, why is she draped in the colors of Old Glory?
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05-23-2017, 01:14 PM | #33 |
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To placate her new nation's gods. Very Roman-esque courtesy.
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05-23-2017, 01:20 PM | #34 |
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Re: [Supers] Stat Wonder Woman
Or those could be Themyscira's colors. After all, the UK and France also share red-white-and-blue in their own flags, though in different patterns. There's a few other three-bar flags in those colors, too, whose names escape me.
Besides, in the shots of the movie, her outfit looks to be more red-gold-and-blue.
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05-23-2017, 01:38 PM | #35 |
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Re: [Supers] Stat Wonder Woman
Because she's a spy. Honestly that was a Wonder Woman story I always wanted to see. The one in which the United States finally realized she was a foreign agent who had infiltrated the War Department on an intelligence mission and dressed like a flag to avoid suspicion of her mission to undermine the American Way of Life. I'm sure they would have had a sense of humour about that in the early days of the Cold War.
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05-23-2017, 01:39 PM | #36 |
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In the WW TV series with (sigh) Lynda Carter, they explicitly said it was a sign of respect and courtesy to the country she was being sent to help (and S1 of that show was punching Nazis for Old Glory, so it worked pretty well).
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05-23-2017, 02:07 PM | #37 |
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I like the write up but have a few comments.
I would give her Charisma 2 as she is very good at motivational speeches and such. Speaking of which I would give her Public Speaking and Diplomacy. In most versions she always struck me as very diplomatic, though sometimes suffering from a CF penalty. Both skills would fit a classical Greek education. I would drop the DR 100 and just go with the IT:DR but add Cosmic no minimum damage to it. Maybe DR 3 or 5 to avoid hurting her hands when she punches things. And stat up her sword, shield, and bracelets. Between the shield and bracelets she can counter most deadly attacks and the IT:DR lets her absorb what gets through rather well. Edit: The movie one seems to have Wealth and its easy enough for someone who has been around as long a she has to accumulate it.
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05-23-2017, 02:17 PM | #38 |
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Good thing it was never anything she claimed, but just something that the writers put in captions about her, then, eh?
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But I like the Champion of the gods theme.
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