Oh Lord, he's mentioned Vargas.
*Pulls popcorn out to watch ensuing reactions*
Oh Lord, he's mentioned Vargas.
*Pulls popcorn out to watch ensuing reactions*
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Last edited by Guy1; 06-15-2016 at 06:31 PM. Reason: just editing it to be better
Yeah, but if you... man, we're getting into weird analogy territory, like if you disintegrated Superman's arms he wouldn't be able to go "fool! Little did you know that my arms and I are one and can be remade from me!" and will his arms back into being from pure nothingness. - Pendaran
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Every time you say the name of some kind of nonsense martial art, an angel gets its wings, and Val Armorr learns the martial art, retroactively founds it, then super karates the angel unconscious with it.
The only reason Val has the ability to auto-learn and retroactively found the Angel-KOing martial arts is that he used a martial art that he'd auto-learnt and retroactively founded on himself to give him that ability (while knocking out a newly-winged angel in the process).
While dodging logic.
DC made the right move here. For a character who is supposed to be all about h2h fighting, it's boring for them to have a skill that lets them predict their opponent's next ten moves from a random eyebrow twitch. The exception would be someone like One-Punch Man, which is a deliberate satire.
And the notion that someone's tenth move in a fight can be predicted from a random eyebrow twitch that happened a minute prior is silly, because it isn't just a skill of the "body reader", it implies that every person in the world has such bizarre tells. It's as silly as killing someone by driving their nasal bone into their brain with an uppercut.
Last edited by MidTierHero; 06-15-2016 at 05:52 AM.
Pretty much like I already said. Cain's "body reading" was elevated to something FAR more than simply body reading. It's become some sort of outright telepathy or precognition to the point of it being used as an automagic "I WIN" button in various rumbles. "It doesn't matter how skilled 'X' is, because Cass already knows the next 50 moves they're going to make because he blinked once."
The idea is supposed to be that she understands body language (the eyebrow thing just being an example, but including the tensing of muscles, where your eyes dart to, the kind of micro-expressions truth experts read that most people miss, etc.) as well as a trained communicator understands their primary language. Every nuance you can get from tone, word choice, inflection, cadence, etc. she gets from people's bodies. And then take that to a comic book extreme.
There were certainly times where I thought it went a little far - I think it worked on shapeshifters, for example, and while I can see her reading them in a given form, as long as they stayed in that form, being able to read the body language of something that has uses for its body that you really cannot have considered seems... off to me. But as far as reading that someone is going to feint? I can absolutely see that. Just like if someone is irritated and tells me they are fine I can often tell, "they don't sound fine." I'd imagine a psychologist or other people trained to note deception would be much better at that than I am. And really, Cass was trained in nothing but physicality for her whole life.
What she does is not possible in the real world, true. But if you can accept that you can replace someone's linguistic abilities with a more physical skill like that, it's also not that out there, really.
I get you don't like it, but compared to her striking force, or Batman's durability, or Nightwing's acrobatics, it doesn't seem that far out there to me.
MidTierHero doesn't like that Cain has been given wins over Captain America, is what it comes down to, as far as a variety previous comments made in this direction. I presume there's characters Ambarenyo is preferential to that have been argued to a loss on board similarly with regards the Cain Batgirl, given that it's moved on to less things about the character and what they feel works for them in the sense of larger narrative, and more specifically instead this:
We're about a step off from this being a gripe about the board thread really.It's become some sort of outright telepathy or precognition to the point of it being used as an automagic "I WIN" button in various rumbles. "It doesn't matter how skilled 'X' is, because Cass already knows the next 50 moves they're going to make because he blinked once."
I wanted to say that the other post managed to be more subtle about the taunting/baiting, but we had this:
For some history, in one of the few occasions on this board that MidTierHero will make something other than one off posts that tends to read as nothing but contradictory for the sake of, then not reply to anyone who replies to said post with a question, he'll ocassionally actually respond to Sharp, generally about Batgirl, generally in ways that see him off from a thread. Sharp is known pretty heavily for hating that nosebone thing. He's complained about it a fair bit. So this is basically a combo sort of "gloat about a Batgirl nerf, get in a jab at someone they know likes the character over it."And the notion that someone's tenth move in a fight can be predicted from a random eyebrow twitch that happened a minute prior is silly, because it isn't just a skill of the "body reader", it implies that every person in the world has such bizarre tells. It's as silly as killing someone by driving their nasal bone into their brain with an uppercut.
(For the record I don't really care about Batgirl in any incarnation as actual Batgirl. Well, the Spoiler Batgirl, I kinda liked her, or more the idea of her perhaps.)
Last edited by Pendaran; 06-15-2016 at 08:05 AM.
Temporarily closing this for review. Hang tight guys.
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