OOC: Justice League thread

[Neale]

So, pooh...

I get the feeling you wanna be bringing in Spidey? Well... I did say anyone who fit the morality of the League... and he certainly does... so, bring him in! (Whodathunkit... Spidey in the JLA! Gonna be veddy interesting..) So, I guess there will be a late arrival in the teleporter tube. To fit you into continuity, however, will be a bit tricky... Would you mind contacting me via email or AIM or MSN to discuss it?
AIM: Neale42
MSN: NealeH42
email: ghenders@email.unc.edu

 

[NicelyNicelyJOHNSON]

Powers

Sorry to be a bothersome person, but I still don't know his powers, I know that he can communicate with any sea creature, but that is it. If there are anymore, tell me, even if it is a really obscure one, I am very creative.

 

[Neale]

Gotcha, effendi

We took care of it over IM, which is a great way for anyone else with questions about their characters to contact me. Or MSN, or email... I'm not hard to find.

 

[poohlive]

You see, that's the problem. I know Spiderman, personally. We hang out on Friday's. I know that Spiderman wouldn't want to go to the moon to try out for the JLA. He's a loner, and being that I think I should bring him into the plot, not the League.
Spiderman will join a group if he feels that the earth is in peril, not just to join a group because there is a group out there to join. If it's at all possible, I would like to think of a good way to start my character into this himself.


::waves at Lava:: you know, I hear Big Blue isn't being as nice as he should be. A spider always knows how to treat a lady though....

[Edited by poohlive on 05-11-2001 at 11:51 PM]

 

[Neale]

pooh...

I trust you to handle it with style... this isn't exactly what I had in mind for the thread, but if anyone can make it work, you can. Good luck!

 

[poohlive]

Ahhhhhh... The power!
Thanks Neale. I didn't try to go over your helmet or anything, it was more to the side, I swear.

And now... for some magic.

 

[Morwen]

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[Mackdaddy_74]

Thanks for the opening Neale, you rock!!

Muahahahahahaha!!!

Name: Dom-al
Height: 6'6"
weight: 250 lbs
eyes: sky blue
hair: long, curly, and jet black
Facial hair: Goatee of course, it became mandantory for villians to have one. Don't believe me? Look in the revised villians hand book, page 69, subsection b, paragraph 8, line 3.

Bio:

Tired of the political uproar on Krypton, not to mention being sentenced to life in the phantom zone for unspeakable crimes, Dom escaped Krypton in his personal spacecraft. Later learning of Krypton's destruction, he proclaimed himself the Last Son of Krypton.
Wondering from one planetary system to the next, he discovered the powers he gains in the ones that have a yellow sun. Using these powers, he carves a path of destruction and takes whatever he wants and needs.
Eventually word of another Kryptonian reaches him, and Dom heads towards the planet called Earth to truely become the Last Son of Krypton once and for all.


[Edited by Mackdaddy_74 on 05-20-2001 at 10:08 AM]

 

[Weevil]

Oh...Fine. I'll turn down the jackass. I've been real busy though so my posting to this and the other threads I'm on will continue to be very sporadic

 

[Mackdaddy_74]

Oh BTW, I will be extremely busy with work for the next couple of weeks, so I will post as much as I can. I want to keep Dom hidden from the heroes for now, until things return to normal. (Think Darth Maul from Episode one)

 

[NicelyNicelyJOHNSON]

Entomology

poohlive, as I was reading the Marvel post, with the Alien Magneto thing. I couldn't help but think about this.

"Damnit, if only a radioactive fly had bitten him instead of a spider, he would have been here in half the time and could have helped."

I am an Entomologist, and I know that this just isn't true. I know that you think it would be, and for all intents and purposes I know it was just a thought he had. But being an Entomologist, I had to say something. First off I have to look at the powers he gained from the spider. He can climb walls. Spiders don't really stick to walls, they have small hook-like appendages on the end of each leg that grab on to rough surfaces. That is why they can't climb bathtub walls, and other smooth surfaces like that. He doesn't have spinnerets, so he had to make web shooters. The only things that makes sense, are the agility, which is a bit exaggerated anyway, and the strength, but with that he can only really lift as much as a pro body builder. Ants (my fave) are the ones with incredible strength, 20x there own weight. Also, the spider sense is just from having more than 2 eyes, if any at all, some spiders have none. Wind plays the biggest part in all this. When someone moves, the spider picks up the small disturbance in the air with the very small hairs on its body. Now then, taking in all of this, lets see how he would be if he had been bitten by a fly. First off, flies don't bite, so he really couldn't gain the powers unless it threw up on him. Since flies clmb walls, he would also be able to do this as Flyman. If he was going to fly, he would have to gain wings. I don't think that he would get Supermans flying ability because flies use wings, not powers to fly. These would have to be gigantic wings, probably the wingspan of prehistoric Pteradactyls, because they would need to lift a human. They would be made of approx. a two inches thick membranous skin, which may break because of the large surface area. They would also come from his back, not his arms, so it would be hard for him to be stable while in flight. The only way he may be able to gain flight, would be like gliding, he would have to jump off a high building, because he would not have enough power to just take off from the ground. This would probably make the time longer since he would have to climb. Also, he probably wouldn't be very fast, because of the disproportionate and heavy wings. Seeing as how he didn't gain spinnerets, I doubt he would gain the ability to regurgitate the corrosive stomach acid that flies, as well as spiders, need to use to break down their food into liquids. So basically he would be a regular person who had enormous wings, and could climb. This would make him even more hated because of his hideous wings. He wouldn't even be able to walk, because of the length of the wings, he would need to crawl on all fours.


[Edited by NicelyNicelyJOHNSON on 05-13-2001 at 04:02 AM]

 

[NicelyNicelyJOHNSON]

Re: Me...

*watches as Pheonix passes out...* Painted on, almost leather....it is! Guess we are going for the new and improved, slightly naked....LAVA...lol

*saunters over to ren..."did you say amateur?"* Er....too much porn....


i wonder if aqua man can wash off my shorts...I did say they were 'painted' on...that must be my arch nemesis.....j/k..

Yeeeeeehaaaaaw. I am playing the part of Aquaman for this evening, and could arrange for that to happen.

 

[Weevil]

Re: Entomology

poohlive, as I was reading the Marvel post, with the Alien Magneto thing. I couldn't help but think about this.

"Damnit, if only a radioactive fly had bitten him instead of a spider, he would have been here in half the time and could have helped."

I am an Entomologist, and I know that this just isn't true. I know that you think it would be, and for all intents and purposes I know it was just a thought he had. But being an Entomologist, I had to say something. First off I have to look at the powers he gained from the spider. He can climb walls. Spiders don't really stick to walls, they have small hook-like appendages on the end of each leg that grab on to rough surfaces. That is why they can't climb bathtub walls, and other smooth surfaces like that. He doesn't have spinnerets, so he had to make web shooters. The only things that makes sense, are the agility, which is a bit exaggerated anyway, and the strength, but with that he can only really lift as much as a pro body builder. Ants (my fave) are the ones with incredible strength, 20x there own weight. Also, the spider sense is just from having more than 2 eyes, if any at all, some spiders have none. Wind plays the biggest part in all this. When someone moves, the spider picks up the small disturbance in the air with the very small hairs on its body. Now then, taking in all of this, lets see how he would be if he had been bitten by a fly. First off, flies don't bite, so he really couldn't gain the powers unless it threw up on him. Since flies clmb walls, he would also be able to do this as Flyman. If he was going to fly, he would have to gain wings. I don't think that he would get Supermans flying ability because flies use wings, not powers to fly. These would have to be gigantic wings, probably the wingspan of prehistoric Pteradactyls, because they would need to lift a human. They would be made of approx. a two inches thick membranous skin, which may break because of the large surface area. They would also come from his back, not his arms, so it would be hard for him to be stable while in flight. The only way he may be able to gain flight, would be like gliding, he would have to jump off a high building, because he would not have enough power to just take off from the ground. This would probably make the time longer since he would have to climb. Also, he probably wouldn't be very fast, because of the disproportionate and heavy wings. Seeing as how he didn't gain spinnerets, I doubt he would gain the ability to regurgitate the corrosive stomach acid that flies, as well as spiders, need to use to break down their food into liquids. So basically he would be a regular person who had enormous wings, and could climb. This would make him even more hated because of his hideous wings. He wouldn't even be able to walk, because of the length of the wings, he would need to crawl on all fours.


[Edited by NicelyNicelyJOHNSON on 05-13-2001 at 04:02 AM]

NNJ, You need to take a valium or a zanex or whatever. Yeesh. It was just a witty Bon Mot.

 

[NicelyNicelyJOHNSON]

I know

I know, I just love to talk about bugs, they are my thing, and its also fun to explain the physics of marvel and dc.

 

[Neale]

LOL

Okay... there just MIGHT be a bigger geek around than me... Welcome, NNJ!

 

[poohlive]

Wait a minute, you are honestly correcting me for mistakes about a Marvel character? I can see where this is coming from Johnson, but why are you bashing me? I am just role playing along the lines of the character. You want to find corrections, why don't you start with some of the other characters that don't fit into anything. At least Spiderman's powers are reasonable. All he has are some web shooters and some great agility. A woman who can turn herself into lava?
Wait just a minute. You decided that the fact that I made one sarcastic remark about a fly holds more precedence than a woman who can just turn herself into lava. You think it's more reasonably for a human being with veins and blood and crap to become molten lava, the beginnings of the earth than for a human's dna to become fused with a fly's?
Sorry Lava, just using you as a reference point, personally I love your character, and my own.
How about aquaman himself? Do you think that a man can just become water? Does that strike you as being more resonable than a spider sense? Is H2O somehow more pheasable than radioactive spider dna?
Have you ever considered that maybe the fact that the spider was radioactive his own dna had been changed. Perhaps his legs adapted to not being able to climb up smooth surfaces and made it so that they could just stick to anything. Maybe the fact that a spider could only be sensable to things that moved the air or was only in his sight made him adapt a 6th sense for feeling danger.
Well, I am all for the entomology of a normal every day spider, but the last time I checked Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider.
And while we're on those lines, couldn't a fly when induced to radiation somehow get teeth and a regular working mouth? Is that even a possibility? I suppose someone who works along one line of field wouldn't exactly consider the facts of radiation.
That's the great thing about radiation, it changes things. All be it, more than likely it would just melt your insides and fry your brain, but the possibilities are endless.
Unfortunately in the end it still doesn't change the fact that this is merely fiction. A man can be bitten by a spider and get cool powers. A man who has been bitten by a spider and gotten cool powers can envision what it would be like to get fly DNA instead of spider DNA for just a few seconds before he goes off to battle.
You see, I am a fictologist. A person who studies fiction, and in this line I am an expert at what I know.
Anything else you would like to know?

 

[poohlive]

What is Derkion anyway?

 

[Mackdaddy_74]

So are Dom (Cool nick name huh? )and Genisis the only baddies?

 

[nightray]

don't fore git the vampir with the demins and who just kicket spidys ass.

[Edited by nightray on 05-16-2001 at 08:08 PM]

 

[NicelyNicelyJOHNSON]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

poohlive, first off let me apologize. I just like to talk shop. Anything that has to do with arthropods or more specifically insects draws my attention. Personally Spiderman is one of my fave heroes because of his namesake and powers. My fave insect is the Ant, so you would think that Antman or Goliath would be my fave. But since his powers really had nothing to do with ants but the fact that he can be small, I don't really like him. Since Spiderman is the only one who has any realtion to his arthropod name, I love him. Sorry if I made you mad, but that response made me laugh so much, it is so hilarious!!!!!! Sorry if I made you mad, I was only trying to explain his powers, its fun to do because his is really the only powers you could explain due to the fact that he got his powers from something that is real. Evyone else has no correltaino to the source of tehre powers. Green Lantern my have a ring as teh source, but how the hell does that really make solid images?!?!?!?! We know how spiders do stuff, so we can then see how Spidermans powers could have been picked up.

 

[poohlive]

Well, seeing as how feet were needlessly stepped upon I do accept your apology, and take one of my own. I do not take criticism easily, and thought that was a peronal attack on me.
In which case, I retaliate with the only weapon I have... humor.

 

[NicelyNicelyJOHNSON]

I am glad that you understand now. I want to have Aquaman jump in and save you, but I don't see what he would be doing there. Maybe I could convince Neale to let one of the characters I made help out Also, depending on the spider, he may have more powers than they gave him. With a Wolf Spider *shudders* he may have gotten the power to slowly rot away skin cells from someone else. I think that if it had been a poisonous spider, he would be a lot more dangerous. As I said, I like Spidey a lot, and wish that I could help you out.

P.S. do you have MSN, AIM, ICQ, or yahoo?

 

[Renegade]

How about aquaman himself? Do you think that a man can just become water?

Wait, are you thinking of Hydroman(sp?)or does Aquaman now have the ability to turn himself into water now too? Haven't kept up with the old King of Atlantis since Eric Larsen's run ended. Dang, knew I should read more comics. lol

 

[poohlive]

Whichever man could turn himself into water was the man I was thinking of. Waterman, waterboy, h2oman, Drinkingman, Hydroman, Poolman. One of those... take your pick.
I have aol, but I never use it. I don't even check my email anymore, except once in a great while. And don't worry about Spidey. I honsetly didn't think Nightray would come on as hard as he did, but if we're going to play rough, we might as well do it on good set terms. In either case, Spidey doesn't need help yet....
The appropiate word to accent there is yet.

 

[nightray]

I'm sorry I came on stronger then you wher expecting but you you rely dont expct demons to go esy on eny one do you. If I relly havin don much of being rely evil befor so now I'm going for it and its hard for me hold back but if I do to much let me now and I'll back of abit.