quote:Originally posted by jab: any way it turns out its gonna be awesome. especially when she gets knocked up.
*GASP!* What if Earth Man accidentally absorbs the power to conceive and winds up being the one getting knocked up!?!
From: elizabeth,nj | Registered: Jul 2003
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quote:Originally posted by jimgallagher: I'd like to think that yes, people can overcome their racism, but this is no run of the mill garden variety racist. This is an evil, power hungry, megalomaniacal control freak who has done grievous personal harm to half the Legion and becoming intimately involved with him should be antithetical to any Legionnaire's personal belief system.
IMHO, of course.
Well said.
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From: Frederick, MD | Registered: Aug 2003
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quote:Originally posted by jab: any way it turns out its gonna be awesome. especially when she gets knocked up.
*GASP!* What if Earth Man accidentally absorbs the power to conceive and winds up being the one getting knocked up!?!
Brilliant!
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From: Frederick, MD | Registered: Aug 2003
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I'm reviving this thread because I just noticed something relevant.
In Superboy #237, which was written by Paul Levitz, Shady tries to distract Wildfire so her teammates can steal the Quintile Crystal. (Never mind why.) She does so by pretending to seduce him, saying:
quote:Imra and Garth [who had just gotten married] are so happy -- and I'm no closer to being married than I was when I joined the Legion. You know I only joined because I'm attracted to powerful men!
Now this is a very embarrassing scene which presents Shady in a negative light, and I suspect Paul regrets having written it, but the thing is, Shady's comments actually make some sense. As we all know, she did join the team partly because she was attracted to Brainy, and then when she discovered he already had a girlfriend, she "sunk her hooks" into Mon-El. This comes up again in one of the last issues of v3, I forget which one, where Shady says that on her planet, it's normal for Talokian women to choose men without the latter having much say in the matter.
So Shady's fling with Earth-Man was actually consistent with the way Paul has been writing her for thirty years. Shady was not acting out of character in sleeping with Kirt.
I still think, though, that as unfortunate as Paul's portrayal of Shady may have been, he cannot be accused of pervasive sexism -- he generally does an amazing job of writing female characters, especially compared to other writers of his generation.
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From: Providence, RI | Registered: Feb 2005
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quote:Originally posted by googoomuck: Is it possible that Shady's attraction to Earth-Man was a side effect of Brainy's special enhancements to Earth-Man's flight ring?
That's an intriguing thought.
Brainy made it clear that the ring was supposed to have some sort of effect on Earth-Man, and yet Earth-Man seemed to short that out with his Green Lantern Ring. What if he didn't just turn it off, but somehow reversed it (probably not deliberately, since I don't think he actually was all that clear on what it was doing anyway), so that, instead of being influenced by the ring to be more tolerant of and cooperative with his Legion teammates, they were influenced to be more tolerant of him?
It would explain various Legionnaires being okay with him walking up and touching them, to absorb their powers. I could see Colossal Boy not reacting fast enough to stop him, or even Element Lad biting his tongue and putting up with it, but when he walked up and put his hand on Projectra, I expected her to judo-flip his mutton-chopped ass through the nearest wall.
It also says something about Earth-Man's attitudes about power that he touched Shadow Lass all the live-long day, and never once bothered to use her powers. He probably considered her powers 'weak' or something.
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