08-18-2019, 08:21 PM | #11 |
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Re: Professor Planck [250 pt]
I know, right? She's gonna be earning those points. :)
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08-18-2019, 08:27 PM | #12 |
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Re: Professor Planck [250 pt]
Yeah, removing the skill and putting it back up fixed the issue.
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08-18-2019, 08:29 PM | #13 | |
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Re: Professor Planck [250 pt]
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08-18-2019, 08:43 PM | #14 |
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Re: Professor Planck [250 pt]
Yeah, I more or less conceptualized this one as per pg 139 of Supers; with legal recognition of super identities she can honestly fight crime as 'Professor Planck' while keeping 'Mary Pham' out of it, because who wants to be trending on social media? She can't be a vigilante, of course. And if there's a government registration system in her world, she signed up for it at the first opportunity.
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08-18-2019, 09:42 PM | #15 | |
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Re: Professor Planck [250 pt]
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The bigger issue is vigilantism - this super would need a setting where costumed heroes are legal. |
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08-19-2019, 04:43 PM | #16 |
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Re: Professor Planck [250 pt]
A couple of relevant posts from "Law and the Multiverse". (For those that aren't familiar with it, it's a long-running blog from an actual lawyer who's also a comic book nerd, so he likes to examine questions just like this from a (US) legal point of view.)
Superheroes and Alter Egos Costumes and the Confrontation Clause (The short form: it's not entirely clear -- of course not, it's law -- as courts can and have made exceptions to publically identifying witnesses. Such exceptions are rare, though. But one big loophole is that this is all only relevant if the super is giving testimonial evidence -- that is, they personally are testifying to criminal actions they observed from the supervillain, or whatever. Merely, say, capturing a bad guy and leaving him hanging an a web with an affadavit pinned to his chest for the police to pick up doesn't require testimony. And for witnesses that are testifying, you can only ask relevant questions. "What is your real name, Superman", might not be considered as relevant. But then, there's the exception to the exception -- the defense might want to establish identity for purposes of impeaching the super-witness, if they could show some personal bias or whatever.) |
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