Well if the barrel is heavy enough you could theoretically take it apart and use it as a handy club.
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by Northern Dominus » Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:14 pm
Well if the barrel is heavy enough you could theoretically take it apart and use it as a handy club.
by Mighty Asgard » Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:21 pm
Nakarisaune wrote:Yeah but you could use the shield to stop yourself dying immediately.
Probably.
by Northern Dominus » Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:23 pm
Maybe for the same reason that most bad guys aim for the emblem in the middle of Batman's suit where the armor is thickest? Bright colors attract the eyes very quickly.Mighty Asgard wrote:Nakarisaune wrote:Yeah but you could use the shield to stop yourself dying immediately.
Probably.
If you're small enough to fully hide behind it, otherwise you might still get hit and die from blood loss.
Which prompts an interesting question: Why do all the bad guys aim for Captain America's shield?
by Terintania » Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:24 pm
by Altruistic Paladins » Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:34 pm
Northern Dominus wrote:That's so ambiguous, even your "normal" Captain America seems pretty superhuman. At most I'd imagine Burton would have a footspeed of about 35 mph, bench close to 2,000 pounds, and have a 70-80 inch vertical, for a very baseline example.Altruistic Paladins wrote:
What about peak human abilities, the moral center-point for the Marvel Universes that do not involve the word "Ultimate", the Avengers, and a creation by Jack Kirby alongside Joe Simon?
So yeah, better than even the finest athletes, but nowhere near superhuman.
Plus you have to remember this involves running down an alleyway exposed to energy and ballistic fire. All the phsyical ability and skill in the world doesn't matter if somebody gets one lucky shot off. Better to bring the building down around their ears rather than risk getting waylaid by some lucky punk with a gun.
by Mighty Asgard » Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:39 pm
Terintania wrote:I'm thinking of coming back to this RP. No clue what's going on, and what's happened, though...
by Nfhd » Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:47 pm
Mighty Asgard wrote:Terintania wrote:I'm thinking of coming back to this RP. No clue what's going on, and what's happened, though...
Some students have gone on a mission to Ireland, aiming to capture some rogue superhumans. Other than that only regular school stuff has been going on.
Also, everyone is pregnant.
by Altruistic Paladins » Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:48 pm
by Nakarisaune » Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:48 pm
by Mighty Asgard » Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:50 pm
by Northern Dominus » Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:08 pm
At least in Ultimate they go the Superhuman route so that it's not an issue.Altruistic Paladins wrote:Northern Dominus wrote:That's so ambiguous, even your "normal" Captain America seems pretty superhuman. At most I'd imagine Burton would have a footspeed of about 35 mph, bench close to 2,000 pounds, and have a 70-80 inch vertical, for a very baseline example.
So yeah, better than even the finest athletes, but nowhere near superhuman.
Plus you have to remember this involves running down an alleyway exposed to energy and ballistic fire. All the phsyical ability and skill in the world doesn't matter if somebody gets one lucky shot off. Better to bring the building down around their ears rather than risk getting waylaid by some lucky punk with a gun.
That depends upon the writer. Some writers do a good job at keeping his abilities along the lines of "peak-human" and make up for it with good writing that shows that Captain America is really skilled and is thus able to take advantage of everything at his disposal and be tactically intuitive with it so that he can take on people with actual superpowers (the shield helps). With worse writers, you can see Captain America talking about how he only has "peak human abilities" while using a truck as a weapon. Ideally, he should be able to lift 800 pounds overhead; run at 30 mph; work at peak efficiency for several hours of intense physical activity; react at 20 kph; etcetera. Basically, he can operate at the peak of human capability, operate at world record capacity.
by Garboshia » Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:57 pm
by Ularn » Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:04 pm
Mighty Asgard wrote:Northern Dominus wrote:Uh, Mighty Asgard...the Lynxes' aren't gunships, they're transports. The gunships are the apaches
The whole idea is that the apaches use their autocannons and rockets to bring the house down and collapse one end of the tunnel. When that happens the Lynxes running the "racetrack" over Kildare observe for any sudden mass exodus' of a house not directly next to the one being reduced to rubble and call it, letting other squads home in on the other end.
A real super soldier would have been able to make to with transport helicopters. Just saying.
by Camicon » Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:24 pm
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by Subject X7 » Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:31 pm
by Altruistic Paladins » Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:42 pm
Camicon wrote:I'll try and get a post up later tonight. I'm traveling for most of tomorrow, and probably most of the day after, so don't expect much from me.
by Altruistic Paladins » Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:43 pm
by Mighty Asgard » Tue Jul 31, 2012 3:20 pm
Garboshia wrote:Name: Burt Kristoff a.k.a. 'Celsius'
Gender: male
Age: 44
Nationality: Canadian
Height: 5ft. 4inch.
Weight: 200 pounds
Hair: short, red hair with a few grey areas
Eyes: blue
Costume (if any): blue pants and blue shoes with a red shirt and red gloves
Abilities: expelling and absorbing heat energy
Subject: P.E.
Brief Bio: Burt Kristoff is an okay guy, when his temper doesn't flare up. Burt was a former police officer who tried to play things by the book and was popular with victims of crimes because of how he tried to sympathise with them. Sometimes he'd sympathise with them a bit too much. Burt lost his job for utilising excessive force when he arrested a rapist. Ergo he tasred the criminal and started hitting him with his baton with no intentions of stopping and had to be pulled away by three other officers. One of these officers still has bite marks on his arm from Burt. Burt learned he had the ability to control heat when he saw his story on the news. When people started talking about how wrong Burt was for being so aggressive Burt's temper flared up and his t.v. started melting under his gaze. Burt was quick to become a superhero after that and called himself 'The Flame of Vengance' hunting down criminals and giving them third degree burns before turning them in (once he learned he could absorb heat energy in an area and freeze people solid he started calling himself 'Celsius'). Needless to say Burt has been arrested by the police and other superheroes for his aggressive behaviour when dealing with the more unsavoury than usual members of society. Burt came to the school looking for a job due to him being constantly fired in all of his other ones. He thought that he could actually keep this one considering that he was a "goddamn force of nature against those fucking bloodsuckers! Melting and freezing those bastards faces off!" (Burt's own words in regards to his role against the vampire invasion). The school only accepted him under the condition that Burt takes medication for his anger issues and sees a psychologist regularly.
OOC: yeah I know Burt's pretty cliche but I thought this RP looks interesting and I don't have the patience to write down a complex character especially if this RP turns out to not be my kind of thing, in short Burt's a nice guy with anger issues who became a superhero because he just likes the idea of beating the tar out of some sick bastard in the morning. p.s. could someone bring me up to speed n this RP? Well if I'm accepted that is
Subject X7 wrote:Name: Johnathan Cole White
Gender: Male? Well, the alien equivalent of a human male
Age: 175 earth years, 35 biological years
Nationality: Classified
Height: 6'7"
Weight: 190 lbs
Hair: Not visible
Eyes: Not visible
Costume (if any):
Abilities: Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator arm: Basically, his hands function like the gravity gun in Half-Life 2, the following is a demonstration of how his powers work.
Subject: Technology, Chemistry, Science
Brief Bio: After crashing in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, Johnathan was taken in by a kind waitress at a nearby diner. The military confiscated his ship, and took most of the technology with them to Area 51. Later, he broke in and recovered a few of his scientific instruments, inclusing his stasis beam. He eventually caught word of a space station being built, one that would house the various abnormalities in the human race, and some extraterrestrials. He waited, and as soon as it was finished and students arrived, he began his journey in his ship to the Super Hero High.
Sorry for the crappy bio, I'm working on 3 different sites at once.
by Corrian » Tue Jul 31, 2012 3:28 pm
by Nfhd » Tue Jul 31, 2012 3:39 pm
Corrian wrote:
Space Core is awesome.
Space. Space. Wanna go to space. Star. Star. Star. Star. Wanna go home.
GlaDOS is also awesome.....in being a complete jerk way.
by Altruistic Paladins » Tue Jul 31, 2012 3:41 pm
by Corrian » Tue Jul 31, 2012 3:53 pm
Nfhd wrote:Corrian wrote:
Space Core is awesome.
Space. Space. Wanna go to space. Star. Star. Star. Star. Wanna go home.
GlaDOS is also awesome.....in being a complete jerk way.
Valve why u no count to 3. We want portal 3.
by AETEN II » Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:02 pm
"Quod Vult, Valde Valt"
Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P.
Nationstatelandsville wrote:"Why'd the chicken cross the street?"
"Because your dad's a whore."
"...He died a week ago."
"Of syphilis, I bet."
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