"touch" was such an essential aspect of rogues powers. I hate the fact that now her ability to take powers by touch has been transformed into some cheap imitation of hope and mimics power copying.
"touch" was such an essential aspect of rogues powers. I hate the fact that now her ability to take powers by touch has been transformed into some cheap imitation of hope and mimics power copying.
I LOVE it. I like to see characters powers grow into something more and versatile.
I think it's pretty neat she doesn't need to touch you anymore. It gives her options: Touch Absorb or Distance Absorb.
Distant power absorbation was a boring upgrade and not needed. But I still don't like that it was forgotten in Excalibur when MMX was released the same year. It is a shame.
That's not an evolution or narrative growth though. It's just a convenience, and a deus ex machina trap for sloppy writers.
A GROWTH of Rogue's mutations to temporarily "take" a mutant's powers and mind —would be to temporarily "give" a mutant's powers and mind to another.
Agree 100%.
It's the limit put on her powers that made them so interesting. She could beat almost anyone, BUT she had to get close to them. That makes for interesting fight scenes.
Agreed, I'm glad it was forgotten since she's already OP with her current powerset and that was overkill and not very entertaining to read in a battle.
Yes Carey's version is my fave. Even though towards the end she got more towards power mimicry via touch, while I liked it better at the beginning when she still weakened the people whose powers she copied/stole portions of.
We've got a bunch of mutants who can Mimic and Synch with other mutants' powers or minds from a distance, and some are quite Hopeful Prodigies at it. The tactile aspect of Rogue's power is unique, and a limitation with or without being uncontrollable. Rogue having a degree of control is a good evolution of her power; her previously tactile power now being yet another distance duplication is not.
Originally Posted by The General, JLA #38
Making the characters more powerful does not make them more interesting and this only leads to an arms race in which it is increasingly difficult to write the characters.