Why are some super-villains written off as lame and pathetic losers who can never amount to more?
Why can't you legitimately try and make the likes of Stilt-Man and Killer Moth into serious Darkseid and Dr. Doom level threats?
Why are some super-villains written off as lame and pathetic losers who can never amount to more?
Brody Cooper
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Carson Wright
Not everybody can be a Darkseid level threat, that’d be dumb
Nathaniel Scott
I don't think you can make the guy in armored stilts into a Doom or Darkseid-tier thread.
But I want to see someone try.
Ryder Torres
comic writers are lazy edgy boys who think they are writing serious business and have a pathological fear of being called childish.
Christopher Cox
Because you're not Alan Moore. But also because the villain needs to lose to the hero. How is it not obvious?
Camden Cook
>But also because the villain needs to lose to the hero. How is it not obvious?
But what if the villain was the hero all along? What if he's saving the world by robbing banks while wearing stilts?
Connor Ramirez
because not everyone can be doom or darkseid the issue is that super hero comics are a big place and even if you do write a story where stilt man has the uppe rhand on whatever hero and is a threat at that moment in time it's all situational and can hardly ever be duplicated with the unreal amount of characters that share villains rhino fighting spider-man can be taken seriously because of the difference in strength but rhino fighting the hulk is completely different and will just make rhino look like an idiot for even trying
Nathan James
>But also because the villain needs to lose to the hero.
The Joker has lost a hundred million times to Batman at this point. Yet he is still treated as the most dangerous son of bitch around still.
Levi Davis
Because he somehow manages to stump the bat. Remember in 'return of the joker' how Bruce only found Tim because the Joker wanted to. In 'the dark knight' he had to make a fancy machine just to determine where he is.
Gavin Taylor
The way is not to make them "Darkseid level", just competent and a legitimate threat now and then. Like for example Killer Moth's only real goal should be a successful anti-batman who occasionally fucks Babs
Samuel Perez
Not every bad guy needs to be a cosmic threat.
Owen King
Making everybody competent is stupid, you need a gag character. Spice things up
Brandon Martin
A gag, not a fucking punching bag. Don't confuse the two
Aiden Adams
Traffic Man may not be a world threat, but he delays everyone trying to get home or to work. Kicking his ass would make you a hero to all.
Ryder Reed
>This is San Francisco, pilgrim, not New York. Dig?
kek not anymore
Jayden Thompson
Sure, sure. How about a few female characters, for a change?
Tyler Wright
Didn't Millar say Stilt Man killed Daredevil in Old Man Logan or some shit?
Angel Lewis
THANK GOD FOR STILT MAN
Owen Baker
If someone is not powerful enough to be a legitimate threat, or just wears some elaborate brightly colored snake or cat suit and just robs banks then they are kind of retarded.
Electro, Sandman, Hobgoblin, Abra Kadabra, those guys are scary but very low ambition. but when they put on a mask and try to rob a bank people are legitimately terrified of them.
But guys like Captain Cold, Boomerang, Cyclone, Armadillo have no real reason to want to waste their time putting on a costume and fighting a superhero in the streets. They can just save their time, buy a normal gun and rob people like normal and possibly get away with it in towns that have no heroes.
Brayden King
There's only one way to make Stilt-Man a serious threat.
Dylan Walker
>But guys like Captain Cold, Boomerang, Cyclone, Armadillo have no real reason to want to waste their time putting on a costume and fighting a superhero in the streets. They can just save their time, buy a normal gun and rob people like normal and possibly get away with it in towns that have no heroes.
Are you casual or just fucking dumb? The entire reason Leonard Snart became Captain Cold is because conventional robbery was fucking impossible thanks to The Flash, hence why he got the cold gun to begin with.
Jordan Flores
Armadillo isn't a guy in a costume, he was turned into a monster armadillo man.
James Watson
Do you hear yourself?
Ian Thomas
>get away with it in towns that have no heroes.
Landon Peterson
There's practically no such thing in the DC universe, and even in the pockets with low hero activity you're not going to turn over a profit.
Evan Johnson
Like Ladystiltman? Or Screwball?
Daniel Walker
>Leonard Snart
>Snart
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David Clark
He accidentally creates a hydraulic lift system that can spring his legs out at the speed of light creating mass destruction.
Luke Garcia
>Still gets caught every single time he tries to rob anything
His plan is still dumb. Only now he looks like a moron while doing it.
Jayden Parker
Years ago someone wrote a green text about Stilt-Island, where Stiltman raised the island of Manhattan on stilts high enough to be out of US jurisdiction and the heroes had to stilt it up to get there.
David Cook
>Darkseid level threat
>gag character
Why not both?
Nathan Gutierrez
Cold gets away more than you think.
Brayden Sanders
stilt man looks pretty ominous and forboding
if silver surfer had stilts instead of a surfboard
Caleb Murphy
Didn't Stilt Man actually manage to beat the Champions?
Wyatt Cox
That sounds like the type of story that should have happened already. It's just too ridiculous NOT to happen.
Benjamin Cook
Stilt man was pretty powerful during his first story, he had a shrink ray that he used on his crimes, but it's be funnier if he actually managed to be a competent criminal just using stilts, we have too many gag characters that are treated as complete jokes, it'd be nice to have more characters that can be funny but put up a fight at the same time.
Evan Carter
Anthony Price
>why isn't every story "THE ENTIRE MULTIVERSE IS GOING TO BE DESTROYED"
Jack Nelson
Big this
Anthony Brooks
>making Stilt-man a planetary+ threat
>enhance the mixture of armor and science
make his armor incredibly durable and strong, almost impenetrable and nearly indestructible. indestructible elastic armor covers all of his body, giving every area of his body incredible protection from all physical harm. Non-removable helmet infused into him, maybe the armor and the man have become one. Using science and his armor, he can launch massively powerful attacks, his stilts holding enough power to casually topple entire buildings and easily crush houses.
>mild telekinetic synergy
have his stilts able to grow and decrease in size almost instantaneously by his will alone. Because of this, and the immense durability behind his armor, he can also launch himself into the air and easily land on the ground miles away, crushing whichever he chooses, or even shrinking the stilts down as he lands to minimize the repercussions of his impact, granting him fast mobility in both the battlefield and outside.
>assorted technological toys
he undergoes a techno-sociopathic transformation; he often brings bombs, cooks up viral plagues, and uses his understanding of engineering and technology to create expanding stilt-like objects throughout any city, town, county, or even nation. these objects can expand either upon his will or by electronic command, and smash those in his way, move the property of resisters, and knock over entire city blocks of apartments, houses, and businesses.
>high intelligence combined with arrogant sociopathy and feelings of invincibility
manipulates the portrayal of himself as a hero through public and private channels of influence while he establishes and reinforces his iron will upon a given populace and sees no problem with creating alliances or destroying them in order to shape his perceived utopia. He will be cunning, sadistic, violent, and dedicated.
Tyler Morgan
Have him punk the Kingpin, Magneto and Doom and this could be the Marvel crossover of 2020.