(Part 2) Best products from r/whowouldwin

>Any suggestions? I don't know much about Static :P

Here's some suggestions and info!


STATIC

my favorite quote "Don't start none, won't be none"

Publisher: Milestone Media llc.

Created by: Denys Cowan, Dwayne McDuffie, Derek Dingle, Christopher Priest and Micheal Davis

1st appearance: Static #1, 1993

Facts: He’s most famous for having his own award winning cartoon series on kids We lasting 4 seasons and making guest appearances on the cartoon network Justice League.

Real Name: Virgil Ovid Hawkins

Nationality: American

Team Affiliations: Teen Titans, Shadow Cabinet

Legal Status: High school minor with no criminal record

Weight: 140 lbs Height: 5’7

Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown

Skills and Abilities: Virgil is a keen scientific mind

Known Relatives:Robert Hawkins (father), Jean Hawkins (mother), Sharon Hawkins (sister), Homer Hawkins (grandfather), Cassandra Hawkins (Cloned Sister)

Alternate reality children: Larry Hawkins (Son), Sadie Hawkins (Daughter)



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Personality

On the outside, Virgil appears to be a relatively typical example of a teenager that grew up in the nineties. He can be loud, sarcastic, falsely confident and in many ways annoying. But once you get past his exterior appearance and antics, it is easy to see that he is an awkward (and somewhat geeky) youth that deeply cares for the people who surround him and truly has the best intentions at heart.


Virgil was always the class clown and a bit of a geek in middle school. His antics and humour were his only coping mechanism that kept the bullies off of him, and gave him an “in” with the popular kids. As he transitioned to high school, he became less impressed with doing what was funny, and became more focused on doing what was right. Like a young Peter Parker, Virgil has a deep understanding of the phrase “with great power comes great responsibility.”


Despite this, Virgil is a bit of a ham, and will take any chance he can to through a sarcastic barb at his opponents and batter their self-confidence as well as their body.

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Powers

Kno. wn Superhuman Powers: As a result of exposure to the “Quantum Juice” laden tear gas that was unleashed at the Big Bang, Virgil’s body gained the ability to generate and release large amounts of electrostatic energy which he can utilize for a variety of different effects.
He has full control of the amount of electricity he releases; he is capable of mentally restraining his output to a simple painful shock or a full charge blast that is capable of delivering enough voltage to kill a full grown man at a distance.

 He can also use his body as a transformer; in the past he as absorbed the electricity from a nearby power source and utilized the access energy to augment his own power.

 When Virgil’s is actively utilizing his powers, anyone who makes direct contact with his body is in danger of being electrocuted (Virgil himself is immune to such dangers).


Static can use his electrostatic energy in other ways rather than simply emitting electrical energy. With concentration, he can: alter the charge on the atoms of both organic and inorganic matter (causing them to become attracted to or repelled from opposite charged objects), monitor and broadcast radio-wave transmissions, or by manifesting lines intense electrostatic force around metallic objects, he can cause them to be surrounded by an intense magnetic field that he can use to manipulate them.



The magnetic fields he creates in this manner are highly potent; the strongest field he can create without utilizing an exterior power source can levitate an object the size of the average sedan. Static makes good use of this facet of his power; he often performs feats as simple as magnetically levitating convenient objects (like a trash can lid) while standing upon it to effectively gain the power of flight, or shaping ferrous objects during battles into: cages, lassos or whatever is needed to hold his opponents prone.


Through some unknown application of his abilities, Static can create a durable electrostatic field of force. The field can reflect metallic objects like bullets or pipe with ease, and in some unknown manner can also withstand intense impacts from other non-ferrous objects. The exact strength and/or nature of the field is currently unknown.

Abilities: Virgil is a surprisingly gifted student that possesses a natural comprehension of the natural sciences. He is able to apply scientific theory and analysis to most problems that he encounters in the field and come up with a workable solution within a very short period of time.

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cool stuff

So yeah.... PLEASE PICK STATIC!!

Start with this!! static shock trial by fire

Then go to this static shock rebirth of the cool

More information here and here

Lots of pictures showing why you should respect static go here to a respect thread

Comics

Anything Static, Anything Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes). These characters are fairly new compared to most in DC and their stories and powers have only gotten better. Highly highly recommended. These 2 are what got me to stop being a snobby Marvel-only fanboy.

Zatanna Vol 3. Just fantastic. If you like magic-based superheroes this is a great read. Constantine and (pre-52) Zatanna are probably the best reads for magic characters.

Immortal Iron Fist Vol 1. Honestly, it's not for everybody but if you like martial arts superheroes I would at least give this trade paper-back a shot. Thanks again to /u/Wallzo for recommending it to me like a year ago. :P

I guess it would be weird if I didn't give any Gambit recommendations:

Gambit vol 4 is my personal favorite. There's not a ton of backstory you need to know and it's not overly convoluted with Thieves Guild information like some of his others, it also gives you a really good glimpse at what Gambit would be like if he stayed around New Orleans as a city-tier hero. It's really not often recommended but seriously... listen to me... seriously, Gambit works best as a NOLA street hero. It's a great read.

Gambit vol 5 is really good too. The writers have a good handle on character and it focuses a lot more on his stealing and heist-y side so if you like that stuff that's a good read.

Hellboy stuff. BPRD is REALLY good right now but a little hard to get caught up with on back info. If you're up to the task, it's worth it.

Books

I'm not huge on current fiction so bare with me or just skip this part. I like late 1800s to mid 1900s fiction.

Right now I'm reading the Arsene Lupin series by Maurice Leblanc. Arsene Lupin is a Sherlock Holmes contemporary and very similar in style but instead of a detective he's a gentleman thief. He's actually the source of the gentleman thief trope - dude who leaves notes behind and tells cops what he's gonna steal in advance... that sort of thing. Also the anime Lupin the Third is an homage to Arsene and is meant to be about his grandson.

If you're interested in Noir-style detective stories, I highly recommend grabbing a Raymond Chandler collection. I'm still working through this one, it's massive.

My favorite lesser known book is The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear. I read it for the first time when I was like 14, but it still appeals to me. It's just very imaginative, the worldbuilding is amazing, and it's really just the perfect book for someone in this sub. Lots of super interesting/exotic characters and places. I did read it when I was 14 for the first time, but while I wouldn't call it dostoyevsky, it's still very good. My favorite book of all time is either Leaves of Grass, fahrenheit 451, or maybe Cat's Cradle. I'm not sure.

The sub I spend the most time on is /r/smashbros. I play Melee competitively, and I've gotten pretty good at it, I guess. It started as a hobby, but it kind of became my secondary source of income (I'm in college, so I work part time at a pizza place, and then win small amounts of money from tournaments, lol). I really enjoy the game. It's such a fucking difficult game that progressing in it feels incredibly rewarding. It's really therapeutic.

Best Ice Cream flavor is sicilian orange, and if you disagree, you're a bad person.

Well, I don't like to get into it because I definitely don't want to hate on other people's fun, but what you should know about me is that I don't love superheroes as much as I love trolling them. My own comic collection is full of stuff you've probably never heard of.^1 I'm such an insufferable hispter I even wrote a book about the pains of indie artists.

So please forgive me for hating. I love /r/whowouldwin and I come here to have fun, make friends and [learn](#spoil "how to better troll super heroes").

^1 Some links to my favorite obscure hipster-scarf comics, for science:
Derelict,
Robot 13,
To The Power Against,
Bully's Bully,
Modest Medusa,
Rust,
Cura Te Ipsum,
Eye of the Gods,
King of RPGs,
Jeff,
Here There Be Robots,
Banished, and a couple of my actual friends:
Violator Union,
Butts 2 Butts,
Decrypting Rita. I love obscure shit. I love it so much!

I'm just not seeing it. I can definitely see it being true for the comic/super hero community, but not the population as a whole.


Wonder Woman has stood as the prime example of female empowerment among super heroes for decades. She was the first, longest lasting, and most successful strong female lead in a traditionally male dominated medium and that really sticks out to people, going so far as to have a Wikipedia page dedicate to her cultural impact and numerous books dedicated to her impact on feminism. There just isn't a heroine that has had such an impact on modern pop culture.

The Aeneid is a great story, but it's like reading the Iliad or the Odyssey; great if you have a basic idea of the characters already, otherwise not so great. I recommend Ovid's Metamorphosis or Edith Hamilton's Mythology. Lots of people on this site hate on Hamilton, but she does a great job of getting the basics down. She devotes a large section of her book to exclusively Roman stuff.

If you want very, very simple, I grew up reading [this book] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072BTHV68/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1) several times a week for two years (I wish I could say I was exaggerating. I had no life). Very simple, with a good section on how the Romans changed the myths a bit.

The important thing to know that if it's a book on Greek Mythology, it's almost completely interchangeable with Roman Mythology.

> let's just chill out with the speculation

You'd like that wouldn't you? But this place is the Central City of speculation. So -

1. Yeah, unified field theory had now been established to be real in Before Watchmen(not in Rebirth) a couple of years ago. Doc is make of this energy and wield that which unified the universe. The Force, personified, in a way.
   
   
2. Gravity is the strongest force in the universe we know of. It binds billions of stars together that are trillion and quadrillions of miles apart.
   
   
3. Being composed of that force DOES mean something. He wields the fabric of the universe like Flash wields the speedforce. Manhattan is the fabric of existence given form, free will and a personality. That's big, and it was all established years ago, in a different series, but nobody bothered to notice until Rebirth.
   
   
4. Want to "see an indication of this"? Then read Before Watchmen: Doctor Manhattan
   
   
5. Seriously? Like we don't know what we're talking about when we say "universe"? He can step in and out of time and the universe itself. He can WILL entire other universes into existance or out of it. Established in, you guessed it, Before Watchmen, years ago.
   
   
6. He can manipulate it. To repeat his quote: "I am the most powerful being in the known universe. I can do anything." He is stated, in Before Watchmen to be unarguably omnipotent, all-powerful. However, he is not omniscient, all-knowing. Nevertheless, as we know "The world's smartest man is as big a threat to me as it's smartest ant."
   
   So yeah, I'm chiller than the surface of Mars right now because my boy makes Jesus Christ look as powerful as Gwen Stacy dangling from a web-line.
   
   
   

So the statues were in an Earthlord created city, but pretty much every other race had lived in it at some point. I don't think anyone knows who created the statues in the first place. Maybe Marethyu? As for those stories, they are e-books which you can find on pretty much any e-book store, but the Amazon links are here and here. The first one is of pretty decent length and is actually pretty good, the second one is more action-filled less story, but it's decent if you want to read more.

There's a hard limit on human reaction speed which doesn't have anything to do with overcoming the inertia of your arm's mass. It's about 50 milliseconds. Still enough time to throw more than 3 punches in a second, but I can see how that might overall be the high end limit. Who am I to argue with Bruce Lee's instructor?

I recommend the book The Sports Gene by David Epstein if you're interested in the topic. Some of the more interesting bits of the book involve exploring the hard limits of world class athletes. For instance, the fastest reaction time among boxers was Muhammad Ali, who was very, very close to this theoretical 50 millisecond reaction time....something like 56 or so. If there are people with faster reflexes, they have never been tested.

Another interesting fun fact: the physical characteristic that professional baseball players have isn't reaction time. It's eyesight. The theoretical limit on that is something like 20/8 vision, which is found in about 1 in 10,000 normal people, but about 1 in 20 professional baseball players.

If "Soon" is in a few hundred years. Technological balances change during timescales like that you know.

So uh this existed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Poland_(1025–1385) And sure, there were internal power struggles -that doesn't mean it didn't exist as entity, or that it couldn't martial forces against an outside threat. Nobody traces the foundation of Poland to the foundation of what, the commonwealth? The traditional date is 966.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Legnica

That's the forces of the Kingdom of Poland, the Holy Roman Empire, and crusader knights facing down against the Mongols.

As for Georgia, they were martialing for a crusade, and were a lot stronger at the time than they are nowadays. The sources say a hundred thousand knights, which is certainly an exaggeration, but 50,000 - 100,000 martialed men, including mercenaries and their Cuman allies, isn't beyond the scope of imagination. This isn't from an old book either, it's according to this book :

http://www.amazon.com/Genghis-Khan’s-Greatest-General-Subotai/dp/0806137347

Feel free to quote any sources better than a history professor and prolific author, feel free! Hell, you can look some about that very attack up in the Google Books preview of that book and check out the sources for yourself!

Sure, maybe they didn't have exactly the same styles as Europe - but feel plate and heavy calvary they certainly did have, and given that the Muslim forces were still easily contesting European ones at the time I don't think being part of the same "Technological sphere" is exactly high praise.

Oh, so they couldn't sustain sieges which were thousands of miles from their homeland? Gee, I'm sure that has a ton of relevance for their general aptitude for it, and especially for a pitched field battle!

Europe was maybe ahead of China with access to superior metal resources - but Georgia, Khwarizmi, and the other Islamic principalities? You ever hear of Damascus steel, kind of top of the line back then? It ain't from London. Europe wouldn't be solidly ahead of the Islamic world for centuries yet, and only decisively ahead by the 1600s. The Mongols trumped Islamic forces right up until the Mamluks, with rudimentary gunpowder weapons, beat them after they were well past their own height of ability and political unity.

> It depends. Outside of major events (usually only for Marvel and DC) most comics start their development process pretty close to release. A skilled team of artists, pencillers, writers, etc can churn out an entire comic in a month. And regardless of initial intention, the book they published used and made constant reference to C-137

According to this Polygon article, the comics are finished at least 3 months in advance. Considering how they likely were working on it for at least a month gives us a 4+ month time period for the creator of the comics to suddenly and, without announcement, change his stance and the characters the comics followed. Since this idea was likely tossed about for a while beforehand (since the guest artist had to be contacted, with meetings setup, etc), we can expect that development of this one probably isn't too far off from an 8 month mark. I wasn't able to find much indication that this specifically differed for each issue, so save for guest artists, the timeframe probably is about 4+ months as well.

Also, as for your mention of the book, which I assume is the first one, it's a compilation of the first 10 comics. Since the characters have been repeatedly established to be C-132, it's likely that any references made to C-137 were either not referring to the main cast or typos.

Considering how ambiguous, albeit leaning towards my side of the argument, all of this is, it's best to consider the Doofus Jerry point, at best, unarguable, and at worst, entirely inapplicable to our Rick.

> Thats not how feats work. Batman has never tried to or needed to turn himself into a pickle, but even though he plausibly could, Rick still is the only one with feats in that area and thus is the clear winner if we were examining each of them in that area.

That's because Batman's demonstrated the technical prowess after multiple excursions with it - Rick, on the other hand, hasn't dealt with more powerful magic beyond the Devil's magic. You can't compare Rick to Batman based on raw encounters in this regard if they both haven't had a comparable experience in some way.

The Necronomicon on amazon

>Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Avon; 1st edition (March 1, 1980)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0380751925
ISBN-13: 978-0380751921
Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.7 x 6.8 inches
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First result when I searched "Grail" in Kitchen

>Transporting rich images of the Knights of the Round Table into the realm of highest gothic fantasy, this ceremonial Holy Grail rises to take its place as a highly prized Medieval centerpiece. Perfect for Gothic ritual or to set the mood as historic renaissance decor, this Medieval Design Toscano exclusive is cast in quality designer resin and hand-painted in metallic gold tones. For display use only. 5"dia.x9"H. 2 lbs

As bludgeoning weapons, I'm going to have to conclude that the Holy Grail, being 2lbs, would deal much more damage. Also, it's probably a lot easier to wield since you have a neat little handle. It'd be easier to swing around than having to hold a book.

R2: you could splash the Holy Water at the book & probably dissolve it, which honestly would probably bode better for the Necronomicon wielder, since he can just use his fists now... But regardless, I'll give it to the Holy Grail

R3: the radio will probably summon demons, plagues, and curses that are just as likely to hurt the Necronomicon wielder as they are at the Holy Grailer. No advantage there. Grail still takes it.

Johnny probably gets about as much respect as he deserves, because he's permanently stuck in "immature teenager" characterization mode.

Ben's unique in that he's one of the strongest characters in the Marvel Universe, but a lot of fans and many of the writers don't understand how smart and experienced he is. he entered the series as a war veteran, he's got a degree from the same college that Reed and Doom attended, and he was a professional test pilot with some boxing and wrestling experience. Ben's got a pretty decent power set, but what sets him apart is his willpower, fighting prowess, and applied intelligence. the basic test for what separates a great FF writer from a decent to mediocre one is whether or not they realize that Ben is the smart one on the team.

for my money, the Waid & Weiringo run on the book is one of the best:
https://www.amazon.com/Fantastic-Four-Wieringo-Ultimate-Collection/dp/0785156550

https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterRant/comments/9ei0xf/recent_godlike_feats_for_chaos_and_ctan_to_a/

https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Mars-Warhammer-Graham-McNeill/dp/1849708495

https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Mars-Warhammer-Graham-McNeill/dp/1849708495

And the 8th Edition Necron Codex on page 9 says the C'tan created black holes and destroyed solar systems. Its on page 9 of the 8th Edition Necron Codex.

>Glutted on the life force of the Necrontyr, the empowered C'tan were near unstoppable and unleashed forces beyond comprehension. Planets were razed, suns extinguished and whole systems devoured by black holes called into being by the reality-warping powers of the star gods. - Necron Codex, 8th Edition, page 9.

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And BTC ignoring the fact that the warp is ever shiting and utterly incomprehensible to mortal minds. Typical.

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Take a look at this, BTC. It confirms what Cruzzfish1 said.

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Just as Tzeentch manifests and appears in many different guises, many of them fluid and shifting, so too, the realm of the Changer of Ways constantly adapts to its master’s whims, desires, moods, and, of course, the demands of his Thousand and One Plots. Observers human, xenos, and daemon perceive and interpret this territory in a wide variety of ways. In fact, some scholars and a few of the more coherent first-hand witnesses who have survived contact with Tzeentch’s realm have suggested that neither mortal nor daemon, save perhaps the most powerful Lords of Change, can grasp the true nature of Tzeentch’s shifting realm. Most who visit the domain of the Great Mutator quickly go mad; those of exceptionally strong mind and strong will can perhaps interpret but one facet of the often crystalline landscape that, like Tzeentch himself, has an infinite number of faces. Many commentators suggest that the mind can only perceive this world of warp energy wrought into something resembling solid form through symbols or metaphors—images created by the mind of the iron-willed in an attempt to make sense of pure Chaos and constant change. *In fact, many commentators rely on paradoxical metaphors even to describe the process of perceiving Tzeentch’s realm itself: sculpting with fog, describing a dream as it occurs, singing silently, painting with mist, and the like. The Great Ocean is a sea of madness and insanity, and his realm is the concentrated essence of such things given form."*Source: Black Crusade - Tome of Fate

Tzeentch's realm is infinite and infinitely warping.

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And those characters in Barrington J. Bayley's Eye of Terror book witnessed Daemons playing with stars and so on, and they came out alive.

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https://www.amazon.com/Eye-Terror-Warhammer-000-Novels/dp/0671783904

https://www.amazon.com/Eye-Terror-Warhammer-000-Novels/dp/0671783904

That is from Hickman's run of Fantastic Four, the entire run is amazing so I'd recommend getting the entire thing here:

http://www.amazon.com/Fantastic-Jonathan-Hickman-Omnibus-Volume/dp/0785165665