Here’s what I mean: The Flash once fought a villain (Abra Kadabra, IIRC) who convinced him that he did NOT develop super speed by getting struck by lightning and drenched with chemicals. He told Barry Allen that he had been lying paralyzed in a hospital bed with his injuries and burns ever since then. (He almost succeeded in making Barry believe that it was all a fantasy Barry had in his coma, and never trying to use super speed after he was released!)
There must be a lot of other heroes who could be retconned out of their power like this. Who would you tell, “No, that’s not what REALLY happened; it was like this….” And then prove to them that they didn’t have powers after all…? Could you bring them out of their self-delusion and back to sanity…?
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2007-01-23 10:42:20 · 4 answers · asked by cdf-rom 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
Great answers so far, and tough choices as to who's best! Thanx especially, Mitchell, for mentioning Flash #200, I had forgotten the issue number.
Anybody else...? Come on, who's not really a super hero? Who's been so traumatized by their 'origin' that they've retreated into a compensating wish-fulfillment fantasy?
2007-01-25 02:10:56 · update #1
I would easily take Cap America. The feeble, weak, man with aspirations to be a hero. And lookee here, a magic potion that will make you, big, strong, brave, and a hero to everyone. After the injection, you are the one hero who can single handedly defeat Hitler and have all the praise of the entire world. Oh but guess what Steve? That never happened. Thats just a fanstasy you had in your head while lying in a hospital bed with severe brain damage that the so called "super-soldier" serum did to you. You never fought in WWII. You never had a kid sidekick fighting a bunch of nazis with guns, I mean how stupid is that! An underwater king in a speedo?!?! A norse god of lightning?!? What the hell is a Kree/Skrull War?!? These are just delusions of grandeur of a weak coward.
You are nothing. You are a coward. You are nobody.
2007-01-24 11:51:20 · answer #1 · answered by Kurse 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ah! The classic Flash 200 scenario.
To pull this off you need to be able to:
1) Negate the hero's powers.
2) Make them look normal - i.e. a hero like Metmamorpho is a hard sell.
3) Contain them some place where the illusion will not waver.
I have selected Frank Castle, the Punisher. After altering his memories of the incident that his wife and children are killed I bring them back into his life at half way house.
So what if they don't look like you remember them, you have been a little bit off, you are just not believing that they are still here Frank.
I stage some minor plot that he solves, thus satisfying his suspicions and leaving him more open to my influence.
Ahh Villainy, the smell of it.
2007-01-23 18:56:42 · answer #2 · answered by mitchell2020 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Daredevil really isn't a blind hero. His father glued his eyes shut for most of the time. When radioactive waste was spilled on him, the glue was melted, but he forgot how to open his eyes. People think he is blind, but actually all of his senses are enhanced, including his sight. He got the name daredevil from taking a dare to act like a devil whenever wearing a mask.
And his teacher was stone, not stick.
2007-01-23 18:48:57 · answer #3 · answered by Luna 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Bruce Wayne is Chinese not White. He knows Kung Fu and all Japanese martial arts. His butler is Kato. He has long hair like me.
2007-01-24 14:58:17 · answer #4 · answered by Falcon Christian Li 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋