Interesting superpower questions

[Smackgiver]

Also, to briefly weigh in on the Bruce Wayne vs. Tony Stark intelligence debate - I don't think there is a clear, obvious winner.  Can we all agree that both are not only geniuses, but at the high end of that spectrum?  There is also quite a bit of proof that both characters have improvised, adapted, and otherwise compensated for unplanned adversity.  Both are excellent at thinking outside the box.  The only clear distinctions between the two, based upon my exposure, is their innate aptitudes.

Tony blows Bruce away at high tech, mechanical innovation.  They are comparable at quick thinking and adapting to curve balls thrown at them.

Bruce blows Tony away at strategy (long term), planning/preparing, and deduction.  They are comparable at tactics (short term).

The reason I slightly lean toward Batman over Iron Man is due to the context of WHD's challenge - who would you want protecting you vs. attacking you.  If the question were more of - which would you turn to to avert a worldwide disaster, I'd go to Iron Man

 

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 I have to admit, I think either one would be very scary to be on the bad side of. Batman is always brooding and dark and gritty, but Tony Stark is capable of it, too, I think. Not a profound, grudging, long-lasting hate like Batman, but his knowledge is so clinical that he doesn't even have to kick your butt close up. Tony, if properly angered, would probably send a mini-drone to air-lift a tiny packet of cyanide to your terrace all the way in France, just to drop into your tea while you're not looking. Still...

Batman has the urge to actually come and confront you up close, to see you feel remorse for what you've done, or to see your fear as you're about to face justice. He wants the villain to feel bad, to feel sorry and to know they're facing justice by HIS hand. He has to leave his mark everywhere, with the Bat-signal, and Batarangs and Bat-Shark-Repellant. Iron Man, on the other hand, is more 'drop the mic and walk away'. He hasn't really been shown to care that the villain/enemy knows it was him who took them down. So, as for who's got the tactical upper hand, though, I have to say, on hindsight, yeah, tactical superiority could go either way between them, with the proper writer at the helm. The only real difference is the motivation for doing it, and they're style of getting it done.

And I don't really get how Deathstroke came into the conversation, but still, despite having 9 times the mental capabilities of ordinary people, I don't take Deathstroke. Aside from the fact that he's a bad guy, he's been defeated before by Batman, DESPITE his 9-times-enhanced mental faculties. Not to mention, Batman supposedly has a database on the weaknesses of every superhero in the Justice League. Don't you think that means he also has a database on every villain he's faced? So, yeah, no. Deathstroke is out of the question.

In fact, the only reason I actually take Batman over Iron Man, is if we're referring to the Batman-Fanboy-hyped comic-book version of Batman, who has mastered an impossible number of martial arts, earned an impossible number of degrees in numerous academic fields and is almost-preternaturally prepared for anything.

Otherwise, if he was, say, Nolan's Batman (as probably was intended as the case, with the picture's original poster), then no, Iron Man all the way. Iron Man's got a much more fun and multidimensional personality, seems actually to learn from his encounters rather than always having the right answer, and his flair for the dramatic matches mine. In being perfectly okay with killing villains (where Batman is not), he would blast the ever-living heck out of any bad guys that came his way. And with Darth Vader's resources at his disposal, his, Deadpool's and Vader's kills would be an intense and action-packed light show. And better yet, we get all of that, and with none of the hipstery, libertarian counter-culture elitism that Batman's most extreme fans tend to embody, and none of the preachy justice monologues that Batman himself sometimes seems to embody.

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[Celadon's Penultimate]

Blue Lanterns. I'm an optimist, a hoper and a dreamer, through and through. My faith is not easily shaken.

That's my answer to both parts of the question.

[Myself]

I think I would be a green lantern; when I want to do something, virtually nothing can stop me. I think I'd also pick to be a green lantern as well.

[Smackgiver]

For the first question, I would want to be J'onn J'onzz, White Lantern.

For the second part, an Alpha Lantern corps member, the highest honor the Guardians can bestow upon an individual.

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[Smackgiver]

Nope.  Didn't have a clue.  I really don't know much about the different Lantern Corps, other than the Powers/abilities section in the DC Wiki.  

In that case, I think I'll just stick with Green all around.

[Smackgiver]

Strike that - I was doing some internet meandering last night and discovered that Barry Allen was a blue lantern for a time. That would be my response to the first question.  

As for the second, still going with green

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Celadon's Penultimate wrote

QUESTION 3: If you could take any group of supers (including HEROES and/or VILLAINS) from ANY fictional universe to form a team that DOES NOT already exist, who would you group together, what would you name the group, and why?

The Dark Knights-

Batman

Black Panther

Black-Suit Spider-Man

Moon Knight

The Shroud

plus Raven and Spawn (unfortunately, not pictured above)

[Smackgiver]

Good grouping,  Wulf.  I'd also add Blade as an additional supernatural flourish the keeps with the darkness theme.  

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Oh, heck yes, I totally forgot about Blade.

Not to mention, Cloak and Dagger. Oh! And Obsidian and Abyss.

It'd be a regular X-Men of dark, broody characters.

[WonderDrow]

Don't forget about The Darkness 

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Oh, yeah! Nice!

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Six people are found dead in a chapel, murdered by a witch, this afternoon.

These people were alive and well, partying with you and your group last night. While you were at this party, the witch hands one of your friends a sealed envelope and tells them to hold onto it for her. Multiple people see this happen.

Inside this envelope is the chapels only key, which you use to open the chapel the next day. That means that, from the time the witch gave your friend the envelope to the time you used it to open the door, the chapel was a closed room. And yet, people that must have been killed during that time-frame are piled in there.

Things that are definitely true:

1. Regardless of whether they were living or dead, the six people entered through the chapels front door.
2. Only one chapel key exists.
3. It is impossible to unlock the door to the chapel without the chapels key.
4. When the door to the chapel is locked, it prevents all methods of entry or exit.
5. This morning you took the sealed envelope from your friend, thereby obtaining the real key to the chapel.
6. The Key to the chapel truly was the object given to your friend by the witch.
7. The envelope the witch entrusted to your friend and the one that you opened are definitely the same.

How did the witch get the victims into the sealed room? The answer absolutely must not involve magic.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Is the witch perhaps a hypnotist?

[WonderDrow]

The friend is the butler, and he's in a love relation with the Witch.
After you left the party they suggested to those people to have the after drink in the chappel.

Where the Witch killed the people.
After that the friend closed the door.
The witch put the key back in the envelop and resealed it.

If resealing isn't an option then the lock was a Keycard lock, and the envelop contained an RFID proximity keycard.

So basically, the butler did it.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

That's actually ingenious. Not to mention, it was said that a key was given, but never that the chapel was closed in the first place. So, it's entirely possible that the person--'you'--was in on the plan with the witch. She gets all cryptic with their friends to pique their interest--"Hey, kids, wanna see a dead body?"--promising that she has some secret to show them, pertaining to the key. Out of curiosity, they follow her into the unlocked chapel. She kills them, takes the key back, meets up with 'you' (who promptly locks up behind the witch's job, using the same key they will use to open up the the chapel the next day), and the two go out for late-night lattes to celebrate a job well done.

[WonderDrow]

Another solution is with the time that the bodies were moved to the chapel.

The corpses could have been moved into the chappel AFTER receiving and opening the envelop from the friend.

After all, it says that you use the key to open the chapel the next day, but not when, and not that you discovered the bodies.

In that case you were the butler, who killed and moved them.

[Philote]

Rage is useful with Blood. If you're on low health, you will deal more damage and thus heal yourself more when you need it.

Ghost has the chance to apply affects twice per attack, which is good with Poison, but I assume it would also have each attack reduced by armor and things like Spikes.