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Post by stevep on May 2, 2020 10:21:26 GMT
Both, naturally, but there are also those of a more supernatural origin and other more complex situations.
Immediately created images of James being pursued by randy ghosts, zombies, vampires etc. 
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Post by lordroel on May 2, 2020 10:22:07 GMT
Both, naturally, but there are also those of a more supernatural origin and other more complex situations. Immediately created images of James being pursued by randy ghosts, zombies, vampires etc. Steve
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Post by simon darkshade on May 2, 2020 10:33:20 GMT
Unfortunately for Bond, some of them will be...
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Post by lordroel on May 2, 2020 10:35:05 GMT
Unfortunately for Bond, some of them will be... Beautiful vampires, knowing Bond who can make a Soviet female spy defect, i see no problem of having other none humans fall for him as well. |
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Post by simon darkshade on May 2, 2020 10:36:23 GMT
No and yes. The newspaper editor exists, but the likes of Lex Luthor wouldn’t last long in the Dark Earth USA. I assumed Lex Luthor would fit right into this universe. An anti-social villain doesn’t really fit in, given the prevalence of magical law enforcement, paladins and a public conducive to a more wholesome image. He would end up being executed after his first major crime. |
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Post by lordroel on May 2, 2020 10:43:00 GMT
I assumed Lex Luthor would fit right into this universe. An anti-social villain doesn’t really fit in, given the prevalence of magical law enforcement, paladins and a public conducive to a more wholesome image. He would end up being executed after his first major crime. But Luthor is the Yin to Sumperman Yang, so who is Sumperman main evil foe in the Darkearthverse. |
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Post by stevep on May 2, 2020 11:23:15 GMT
An anti-social villain doesn’t really fit in, given the prevalence of magical law enforcement, paladins and a public conducive to a more wholesome image. He would end up being executed after his first major crime. But Luthor is the Yin to Sumperman Yang, so who is Sumperman main evil foe in the Darkearthverse.
Possibly some sort of alien such as Brainic IIRC the name? They would have the chance to escape into space when defeated.
With the more conservative nature of DE then its likely that major villains would be executed. It was probably only because the comics needed them as recurring characters that ones like Luther or the Joker for instance in Batman weren't simply executed.
The existence of Superman would of course given clear proof of intelligent live outside the Solar system. Which is likely to have some impact as well.
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Post by simon darkshade on May 2, 2020 12:10:26 GMT
He doesn’t have a single archenemy, but opposes a range of foes who are against truth, justice and the American way: evil wizards, master criminals, Space Nazis, Satanic cultists, mad scientists, vampires, liches, Soviet superheroes and villains and some figures we haven’t met yet...
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Post by lordroel on May 2, 2020 12:16:36 GMT
He doesn’t have a single archenemy, but opposes a range of foes who are against truth, justice and the American way: evil wizards, master criminals, Space Nazis, Satanic cultists, mad scientists, vampires, liches, Soviet superheroes and villains and some figures we haven’t met yet... And while he is not doing that he is just a average reporter. |
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Post by simon darkshade on May 2, 2020 12:27:26 GMT
Not so average; Clark Kent has quite the journalistic profile and happens to be around the scene of quite a few major events.
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Post by stevep on May 2, 2020 13:45:04 GMT
Not so average; Clark Kent has quite the journalistic profile and happens to be around the scene of quite a few major events.
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Post by lordroel on May 2, 2020 13:46:55 GMT
Not so average; Clark Kent has quite the journalistic profile and happens to be around the scene of quite a few major events. I wonder how he achieved that. I always have wondered how a female Pulitzer price winner named Lois Lane could not see pass those glasses of Clark Kent. |
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Post by simon darkshade on May 2, 2020 16:53:36 GMT
To be honest, my experience with Superman extends to the first two Christopher Reeve films, Man of Steel and maybe seeing some cartoon version at some point in the 1980s. I've watched a couple of Batman and Spiderman pictures over the years, but have no other knowledge of or interest in comic book superheroes, be they DC or Marvel. Therefore I cannot account for anything that occurred with Superman in @.
On Dark Earth, it would be a simple matter of mental manipulation through superhuman psychic powers.
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Post by stevep on May 3, 2020 11:14:28 GMT
I wonder how he achieved that. I always have wondered how a female Pulitzer price winner named Lois Lane could not see pass those glasses of Clark Kent.
For the same reason why the main villains in both DC and Marvel never got [permanently] killed, either in battles with heroes or by legal execution no matter how bad their crimes. Because it would ruin a key element of the plot. If you don't have very powerful villains, where super smart like Luther or super powered then it gets boring, especially with someone as mega powerful as Superman rounding up 'ordinary' crooks. Then its better if you find a way to keep them about, both because you can have some interaction between them and the heroes and because it saves you having to invent new super villains just about every other episode.
With Clark/Superman its not just Lois. You have the rest of the Daily Planet staff, most noticeably Jimmy and Perry - many decades since I read the comics as a teenager/preteen - who are supposed to be highly intelligent and arch investigators and they never even seem to have considered how closely the two are connected.
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Post by simon darkshade on May 3, 2020 13:00:17 GMT
Quite right. That is why I’ve gone for something of a supernatural explanation as to why no one quite makes the connection between the two; some think that there is a bond of sorts, but their suspicions extend more to Kent being a human ally/follower of Superman.
As for the issue of the villains, I’ve tried to avoid that here, with supervillains being killed or executed on several occasions. New threats and villains emerge, albeit many not quite on the level of some ongoing nemesis types that I gather occur in the films and comics, but there are also ongoing thematic threats - the big enemies in the Cold War; the old enemies of the Space Nazis and Fu Manchu; the ancient enemies of witchcraft and black magic; and the independent enemies of mad science, organised crime (more on this in a bit) and emerging new organisations.
There are limits on DE superheroes. Superman is the most powerful: he is bulletproof and largely shell-proof up to medium artillery, can fly and leap tall buildings, outrun a train, lift cars and tanks, use X-ray vision and very powerful ESP and his ordinary senses of sight and hearing are twenty times better than an ordinary man. He has a supragenius level of intellect and is involved with working out many problems of science. He has powers of regeneration and healing, but there is always a cost. He ages much, much slower than an ordinary mortal. His powers also appear to be growing and evolving.
He is vulnerable to mass attacks with ordinary weapons, is slowed and made less powerful by some forms of atomic radiation, has proved quite vulnerable to new forms of magic and has his traditional problem with kryptonite. In WW2, he, along with other American superheroes, was not used on the battlefront due to suspected enemy possession of super weapons (something like the Spear of Destiny, but different) as well as the fact that they were not immortal and could be killed. The loss of a superhero would be a great blow to morale, national defence and the overall war effort.
After the war, in a more complex world, there are new challenges to face.
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