Writer's Block: A super debate
Mar. 19th, 2011 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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... somebody's not really trying.
The answers I could read seem to fall into two categories: "Green Lantern, obviously", and "Spider-Man, because I don't know anything about Green Lantern."
Let's assume that "the powers" don't include the quirks of the particular secret identity: if I get Spidey's powers, I don't get Peter Parker's constant parade of personal catastrophes. If a little blue guy hands me a green ring, I don't suddenly become prone to recurrent head injuries or finding loved ones stuffed into household appliances.
It's still no contest.
On the one hand, we have The Proportional Strength of a Spider.
On the other, we have The Most PowerfulWeapon Tool In the Universe.
It's a starship on your finger, complete with tractor beams and replicators.
No. Contest.
Addendum:
Yes, since the '90s, the writers keep calling the ring "the most powerful weapon in the universe", but to me, the question isn't "how many asses can I kick with these abilities?"
It's "how many lives will these abilities let me save?"
If you could either have the powers of Spider-man or the Green Lantern, which would you choose, and why?
... somebody's not really trying.
The answers I could read seem to fall into two categories: "Green Lantern, obviously", and "Spider-Man, because I don't know anything about Green Lantern."
Let's assume that "the powers" don't include the quirks of the particular secret identity: if I get Spidey's powers, I don't get Peter Parker's constant parade of personal catastrophes. If a little blue guy hands me a green ring, I don't suddenly become prone to recurrent head injuries or finding loved ones stuffed into household appliances.
It's still no contest.
On the one hand, we have The Proportional Strength of a Spider.
On the other, we have The Most Powerful
It's a starship on your finger, complete with tractor beams and replicators.
No. Contest.
Addendum:
Yes, since the '90s, the writers keep calling the ring "the most powerful weapon in the universe", but to me, the question isn't "how many asses can I kick with these abilities?"
It's "how many lives will these abilities let me save?"
