04-19-2016, 11:26 PM | #51 | |
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Re: WWII + Supers = ???
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04-19-2016, 11:32 PM | #52 |
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Re: WWII + Supers = ???
The Commonwealth nations including India would be pressured to lend supers early on. If Japan gets bogged down in China then those forces are used in Europe and Africa.
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04-19-2016, 11:35 PM | #53 | |
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Yes, but the 2005 posts were presuming an equal opportunity source for supers. In that light, whether your social mores let you make fullest use of your supers is a consideration. |
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04-20-2016, 12:44 AM | #54 |
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Re: WWII + Supers = ???
That leads to the thought, what about the various supers cropping up in any populations that are pushed into camps of one sort or another, Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, mentally challenged, Japanese in America, "quislings" etc.
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04-20-2016, 02:23 AM | #55 | |
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Homosexuals and gypsies would have options broadly similar to Jews. Japanese Americans might follow the lead of the Nisei units and be America's crack troops in the fight against Imperial Japan but they might also turn their powers resisting the internments. A mentally challenged super would presumably still be mentally challenged absent a power that negated it. He might be a bigger threat to himself or nearby innocents than he was to the enemy. Whether that's inadvertent or not probably doesn't cut any ice with either the public or the authorities. Quislings were fairly effective as long as the Axis, primarily the Nazis, could provide military backing to them. A quisling who didn't need that backing might last much longer and be more effective. That's a rather scary thought, isn't it? |
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04-20-2016, 06:26 AM | #56 |
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Re: WWII + Supers = ???
In Marshal Law the Golden Age heroes of WW2 were too busy fighting each other to alter the war and even the ones at home were involved in rackets to get war bonds.
The Boys version of these heroes were over bloated egos trying to prove that they were better than soldiers. The soldiers were annoyed with idiots who gave their positions away and the amusing thing was the heroes bodies could be mushed, crushed, torn but the brain kept going. "aim for his shield, the one on his chest"... |
04-20-2016, 09:17 AM | #57 |
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Re: WWII + Supers = ???
I suspect that the Germans would find some application for a large female superhuman population. Perhaps Gestapo partisan suppression squads.
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