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castor wrote: Laurel Kent-an Intresting idea for a character(hey i am invulnerable-and only invulnerable, and thus have to figure out how to be useful without being able to do anything specifically super), but your right not actually a good character.
I disagree on this count. In my eyes, the problem was that she was a character way ahead of her time. By today standards being invulnerable is a pretty big deal since it implies a level of ancillary abilities potentially very devastating, but back in the day she was like Superman minus a lot, which ruined the whole deal.
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castor wrote: Laurel Kent-an Intresting idea for a character(hey i am invulnerable-and only invulnerable, and thus have to figure out how to be useful without being able to do anything specifically super), but your right not actually a good character.
I disagree on this count. In my eyes, the problem was that she was a character way ahead of her time. By today standards being invulnerable is a pretty big deal since it implies a level of ancillary abilities potentially very devastating, but back in the day she was like Superman minus a lot, which ruined the whole deal.
Valid points. The fact that she was part of the Legions joke squad in most of her appearances didn't help either, and from what i have read most of those where she get punched to establish how powerful the villian is(Supergroups-tricky places for bricks). But there is a clever idea that could be executed better.
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Beyond that, clothing simply made no sense for her given it was just going to get blasted away, but she did have to conform to at least the minimal requirements of polite society. I don't believe she had access to "super fabric" from Krypton, so had to make do with whatever could be made on Earth, which would be blasted away by the end of any violent confrontation with another super.
Still, I think they could have used her in the Legion, if for no other reason in that she had a flight ring and could effectively become the ultimate kinetic kill weapon. If her body couldn't be dispersed (broken), then all her kinetic energy would be transferred to the target. If she hit a warship at high enough relative velocity, she'd likely blast it into pieces. Same would go for even an asteroid.
Of course, military style destruction wasn't the Legion's mission, so there wasn't a way to use her.
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Raa wrote: One thing I never understand about Laurel Kent. She only has one power of being invulnerable. With this in mind, why does she have short hair? Superman used his heat vision to give him a shave and a cut. Poor Laurel does not have this.
I guess that by the 30th century they might have figured out how to create some kind of super-scissors for this kind of problems, especially considering the existence of Daxamites and other invulnerable-ish alien races.
shadar wrote: Like most of you, I have mixed feelings about Laurel, but I have to admit she had a particularly sexy flair. While some superheroes show off their powerful, bulging muscles beneath skintight costumes, Laurel's ultimate power was the impermeability and indestructibility of her bare skin. So showing a lot of skin was akin to displaying her power, which all good comicbook heroes do.
Beyond that, clothing simply made no sense for her given it was just going to get blasted away, but she did have to conform to at least the minimal requirements of polite society. I don't believe she had access to "super fabric" from Krypton, so had to make do with whatever could be made on Earth, which would be blasted away by the end of any violent confrontation with another super.
I can't honestly comment on this part, since I'm not sure how rare the super-fabric was in those stories, although it might be possible that there was some alternative by the 30th century.
shadar wrote: Still, I think they could have used her in the Legion, if for no other reason in that she had a flight ring and could effectively become the ultimate kinetic kill weapon. If her body couldn't be dispersed (broken), then all her kinetic energy would be transferred to the target. If she hit a warship at high enough relative velocity, she'd likely blast it into pieces. Same would go for even an asteroid.
Of course, military style destruction wasn't the Legion's mission, so there wasn't a way to use her.
This is pretty much what I mean by ahead of her time. The simple fact that she was indestructible made Laurel potentially able to exert several times the strength one might expect from a human of her size and built, but this kind of thinking wasn't common back in the day. A lot of other legionarries suffered a similar fate (Colossal Boy comes to mind since he was supposed to be trained policeman, but hsi skill-set was never used as far as I know).
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He gets everything I like about her character. Lovely, strong, sweet, emotional, lonely. Unconsciously sexy.
The muscles remind us whose cousin she is, but the tears remind us that, unlike Kal, she lost the world she grew up on.
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While the guy might not feature superwomen as much as we like, most of his female characters are definitly very badass.
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