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Post by Doctor Bong Crosby on Oct 2, 2015 21:09:09 GMT -5
If you were to be stranded on a desert planetoid (with a breathable atmosphere) and you could choose 3 avengers to be stranded with, which ones would you choose?
My choices: Hawkeye, Hercules and Crystal.
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Post by humanbelly on Oct 3, 2015 11:15:29 GMT -5
If you were to be stranded on a desert planetoid (with a breathable atmosphere) and you could choose 3 avengers to be stranded with, which ones would you choose? My choices: Hawkeye, Hercules and Crystal. I have a few quick qualifier questions, Doc-- 1) The planetoid has the basic fundamentals for survival, one assumes? Fresh water, some sort of edible vegetation & game, caves and/or tall plant life for shelter from the elements? 2) Do the folks with inherent super-powers still have them? Do guys like Tony & Clint have their gear or no? 3) Any prospect of rescue as a motivating element? Or is it potentially on the planetoid for the long haul? HB
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Post by humanbelly on Oct 3, 2015 11:20:03 GMT -5
And Doc. . . CRYSTAL??? Yeesh, really- Her main super-power is fostering immense discord between whatever males happen to be in her orbit-! You're just assuming, then, that Hawk and Herc would kill each other off, and simply leave you and the young woman there together, sailing into the alien sunset w/out another soul to trouble your bliss-? Tsk, tsk, tsk-- HB
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Post by Doctor Bong Crosby on Oct 3, 2015 15:00:16 GMT -5
And Doc. . . CRYSTAL??? Yeesh, really- Her main super-power is fostering immense discord between whatever males happen to be in her orbit-! You're just assuming, then, that Hawk and Herc would kill each other off, and simply leave you and the young woman there together, sailing into the alien sunset w/out another soul to trouble your bliss-? Tsk, tsk, tsk-- HB You know, HB, on second thought, maybe you´re right. To be sure, Crystal has often been what you said but, at the same time, I think on most of her appearances she´s been characterized as a very compassionate human, err, inhuman being... . And it´s that aspect of her personality that I was focusing on when I made my selection. That, plus it couldn´t possibly hurt to have someone around who can control earth, air, fire and water. But I think I would exchange her for the Beast, whom I had totally forgotten about when making my original selection. To answer your questions: 1) Yes, the planetoid is big enough and can provide in abundance all the bare necessities for human life to exist. 2) The avenger selected would have her/his powers intact or, in the case of Iron Man or Hawkeye, armor or bow and arrows. 3) Lets throw a curve ball and say Galactus is mad at you and your companions and built a cosmic barrier for you that makes it nigh impossible to leave. So lets say you may be there for a while... .
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Post by humanbelly on Oct 6, 2015 10:46:24 GMT -5
Man, this is the kind of exercise in blue-sky speculation that just gets ridiculously more difficult the more you think about it. Going with characters you might generally "like" isn't really a reliable gauge of whether they'd be ideal planetoid-mates, y'know?
Volatile or extreme personalities want to be scratched right off the bat. (I did a small national theatrical tour right out of grad school-- believe me, extreme personalities in hard day-to-day situations in a small isolated community are not at all a good thing. . . )
It's going to want to be two men and two women. We all naturally pair off-- we're built that way-- even if everything is completely above board and plutonic. And I think any group is better off with both sexes equally represented.
Yeesh-- self-esteem problem. How do ANY of us measure up as useful in a group of castaways where the other three are flippin' AVENGERS??? Cripes, ya don't want to be the "pet" regular guy that can't contribute or has to be protected. . .
Hmm. Hmmmmm. Hmmmmmmmm. Tough, this is tough. . .
HB
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Post by humanbelly on Oct 7, 2015 8:44:01 GMT -5
Okay, so making my first-cut would be:
Janet Pym Steve Rogers Hawkeye Vision T'Challa Black Widow Beast She-Hulk Monica Rambeau Thing Wendell Vaughn (Quasar) Jim Hammond (Torch) Spider-man Firestar Jocasta Scott Lang Stephen Strange
For me, it would really be way less about power sets, and more about who wouldn't make each other crazy under pressure in long-term isolation. A few of these may be on the fiery side-- but definitely not in a toxic way.
HB
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Post by Doctor Bong Crosby on Oct 7, 2015 16:54:01 GMT -5
Of course, being a good conversationalist and genial would be a must, as well.
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Post by humanbelly on Oct 7, 2015 20:28:34 GMT -5
Yeah-- Yeah, yeah, yeah-- that's a good parameter, Bong. We're gonna lose some truly nice folks, but being able to fill long hours with enjoyable conversation is pretty darned important for maintaining group sanity. Ahhh-- we're gonna lose Cap, that's too bad. Who do I still like for this?
Janet Pym Hawkeye Beast She-Hulk Monica (an active & good listener-- it occurs to me that's also a necessary component) Thing Spider-man Scott Lang Stephen Strange-? Ah! Okay, I can make my choice from this group then-- a group I'd be happy to survive with:
Spidey She-Hulk Monica Rambeau . . . aaaaand The Humanbelly!
It's-- hunh-- it's actually a group of fairly regular (albeit admirable and high-achieving) folks who had the mantle of superpowers thrust upon them. Their basic normal-person decency is what makes them attractive for this scenario.
HB
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Post by spiderwasp on Oct 7, 2015 21:51:30 GMT -5
Interesting question and especially hard to keep down to only 3. Not sure how useful powers are because if we are the only ones there, fighting skills would be irrelevant. That makes a lot of itcome down to personality for me. I actually have to say my male/female groupings would be a bit different than Humanbelly's. I've never mentioned the fact that I'm gay here because it was never important but it would be in this scenario. That makes Living Lightning my first choice since Northstar isn't an Avengers and Wiccan and Hulking are way too young. My best picks for female companionship that I think I'd really enjoy would be She-Hulk, Wasp, and Hell-cat but I don't think any of them would be happy with just Miguel and I guess that makes it Wasp and Hawkeye. I love Janet and she and Clint have a history so that should work out. Besides, he would be awfully handy to have around for hunting and LL would be great to get fires started to cook what he caught. I won't be sexist enough to say Jan would do the cooking though. That could me my job since I have no powers and besides, I don't think I'd want to eat anything she cooked. Being a spoiled heiress, I doubt she can boil water. She can be our leader.
So, there you have it: Living Lightning Wasp Hawkeye
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Post by Doctor Bong Crosby on Oct 8, 2015 0:01:35 GMT -5
Conversely, we could also pick the 3 we would like the least for sharing a planetoid with. I´m gonna go with the Sub-Mariner, Sersi and US Agent.
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Post by humanbelly on Oct 8, 2015 9:06:48 GMT -5
Interesting question and especially hard to keep down to only 3. Not sure how useful powers are because if we are the only ones there, fighting skills would be irrelevant. That makes a lot of itcome down to personality for me. I actually have to say my male/female groupings would be a bit different than Humanbelly's. I've never mentioned the fact that I'm gay here because it was never important but it would be in this scenario. That makes Living Lightning my first choice since Northstar isn't an Avengers and Wiccan and Hulking are way too young. My best picks for female companionship that I think I'd really enjoy would be She-Hulk, Wasp, and Hell-cat but I don't think any of them would be happy with just Miguel and I guess that makes it Wasp and Hawkeye. I love Janet and she and Clint have a history so that should work out. Besides, he would be awfully handy to have around for hunting and LL would be great to get fires started to cook what he caught. I won't be sexist enough to say Jan would do the cooking though. That could me my job since I have no powers and besides, I don't think I'd want to eat anything she cooked. Being a spoiled heiress, I doubt she can boil water. She can be our leader. So, there you have it: Living Lightning Wasp Hawkeye Miguel's a solid choice, SW. Geeze, he'd be better in this scenario than Northstar, regardless--- Northstar always struck me as being second only to Quicksilver when it came to innate speedster-type aggravation and crabbiness. Also REALLY helpful to have some type of fire-starting power-set, yeah? With Hawkeye, part of me thinks that if you were ever gonna find an A-list Avenger that was homophobic, it would be Clint. BUT-- he grew up as a carny performer, didn't he? A little society that does tend to be quite accepting and tolerant? Underneath his machismo, there may be surprisingly open mind. And if not, it would be a HOOT to see him be forced to come around to a more enlightened frame of mind. . . which he surely would. Someone like USAgent, on the other hand-- yikes. Yeah, I was wondering if my only contribution might be cooking as well. HB
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Post by spiderwasp on Oct 8, 2015 17:48:49 GMT -5
Conversely, we could also pick the 3 we would like the least for sharing a planetoid with. I´m gonna go with the Sub-Mariner, Sersi and US Agent. Interesting. I certainly agree with USAgent being an excellent choice. I'm in agreement on that one. Therefore my picks are: Moondragon USAgent Dr. Druid I don't think I could take it.
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Post by humanbelly on Oct 8, 2015 22:10:38 GMT -5
Conversely, we could also pick the 3 we would like the least for sharing a planetoid with. I´m gonna go with the Sub-Mariner, Sersi and US Agent. Interesting. I certainly agree with USAgent being an excellent choice. I'm in agreement on that one. Therefore my picks are: Moondragon USAgent Dr. Druid I don't think I could take it. Geeze-louise. . . The Unholy Three. Ultimately, Moondragon (vastly more powerful) would, uh, delete the other two, and then make us (the one left alive) her personal mind-controlled lackey. HB
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