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    422 months ago

    Worked for luffy. The stretchy people in hero comics are usually seen as side characters who are meh, even Reid Richard’s is mostly known for his intelligence over his stretchyness.

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      In the Ultimate comics Reed actually uses his stretchyness to make himself even more intelligent by creating new wrinkles and pathways in his brain with his powers. He fixes his astigmatism too by just stretching his eyes back in the right shape resulting in better than 20/20 vision. It’s kind of weird comic book science but I think it’s a cool evolution of stretchy powers, truly controlling and manipulating the plasticity of his body on a conscious level.

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      72 months ago

      Tbf, that’s Oda’s imagination doing overtime. Reed Richards never gets past the Gum-Gum Pistol stage, I think his power would be considered way cooler if he hit Dr. Doom with a Gum-Gum Elephant Gatling or busted out Snakeman. It’s not just about making them a serious main character, mangaka seem a lot more inventive with utilizing the potential for powers than their Western counterparts.

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        32 months ago

        Yea I attribute it to the audience. Manga evolved as a mature and mainstream medium that wasn’t just for kids. Comics, at least back then didn’t evolve as much and as quickly. Video games as well until the last handful of years.

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        12 months ago

        Then there’s Worm, where the character who talks to bugs becomes an in setting powerhouse

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    292 months ago

    This applies to Western comics in the way where they tend to have used a campy version of the power in the 60s and have to grapple with what that means later. Like when Marvel gave the villain “molecule man” the power to control all molecules then were like “fine yes, also he’s a demi god who can essentially control all things and has the combined energy across all universes to splode reality”

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    192 months ago

    be me

    dnd campaign

    ask dm if i can spawn bubble gum

    he agrees and I leave party to give out gum on streets

    dm gets mad and has my family killed while I entertained children

    if I can’t be the good guy then I will be the had guy

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      42 months ago

      Lactokenetic powers where the best thing I have seen on screen. To bad the second season never happened.

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            32 months ago

            Yeah true. I liked a couple of the new characters but I wish they hadn’t just kept cycling through new powers. Feels like with the freedom to change the fundamental premise they started with it let them focus on lower hanging fruit stories than trying to create deeper plots with the established story.

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              32 months ago

              Also by changing up the characters/actors you just can not really care since who knows if that character will be around.