@jphulk26 said:
How is it you seem so intelligent, yet so limited in imagination? Change Dr. Psycho´s powers, so that he can match Diana.
How many times has Braniac´s powers been changed and upgraded to match Superman?
How many times has Metallo had to be upgraded or Parasite to match Superman ever growing power levels?
So why is it so difficult for you to imagine that Dr. Psycho could be given telekensis that gives him a forcefield as well as psychic abilities, which would make him a major match for wonder woman? Or reality distortion? Why is that so difficult?
All the major DC villains have gone through hundreds of iterations, why are WW´s villains so difficult to do that with?
She will never have an established rogues gallery if they continue the path you are asking them to tred, because none of her villains will stick.
If Dr. Psycho is so bad why is he being used as a Superboy villain? It drives me insane the way DC think about WW and her mythos.
It is so easy, take the the work ethic you use for Batman and Superman and Green Lantern and try that for one or two years with WW and her villains, and see how she does. FOR INSTANCE See how an animated show might elevate Cheetah, Dr. Psycho and Ares in the eyes of younger generations. It´s just pure B.S.
I am not limited, I am simply going about this in another fashion than as a superpower-arms race thats always escalating. As for changing Psycho, that would be fine, but as far as I am concerned; you need to either make him a demigod in his own right or powered by one. Because I am a firm believer in the notion that there is a difference between a mortal and a god, and now Psycho has to contend with one.
I respect what you said there. It´s not all about power, but I was replying to what you have been referring to. You were the one who was bringing up his power level in comparison to WW, which is why I focused on that, but he also needs a story, a modern update that is compelling and will allow him to match the great charisma of WW.
I am not a firm believer there is a difference between mortals and gods. I am a firm believer that a good story is a good story is a good story. Added to that WW pre-52 was not a demi-god. I believe in good heroes vs good villains. Mortals should be able to fight Robots like Terminator, Gods should fight men like Superman and Lex etc. As long as there is a good compelling story behind it, that is all I care about.
Braniac is a machine, him constantly making upgrades to himself is quite natural, same with Parasite. Same is true of Metallo whenever he falls into the hands of someone willing to make the upgrades to his chassis.
My point was that heroes and villains in the DC universe always have upgrades to their powers or alterations to their origin depending on the interpretation of the character the story is going for. Look at Doomsday and his power upgrades, or Gorilla Grodd who now can absorb brainwaves to make himself more intelligent. The Joker has had countless origins and upgrades to his abilities depending on the batman story they are trying to tell. Sometimes he can´t fight at all and needs henchmen, sometimes he is a physical match for Batman. Sometimes he has scientfic knowledge etc etc etc. that is how great villains are made. By now I would have expected to see several different versions of Ares, Dr. Psycho, Dr. Poison etc. All with tweeked power sets and origins. That is when writers will get excited about putting their own spin on these charracters.
It's not difficult, but it is straying outside of his normal fields of power. Like giving Lex Luthor super-strength. Make him smarter, not stronger.
Lex Luthor is given a power suit to make up for his weakness against superman. Clearly, if people hadn´t developed Lex, we could easily be talking about him in the same way we´re talking about Dr. Psycho. It makes no sense that a mere mortal can take on a man who bathes in the sun. the reason it works is writers make it so. They figured out ways to make him a challenge. To all intense and purposes Psycho is actually even more powerful than Lex, so what is the problem. He´s called Dr. psycho, not Dr. Telepathy, so why not add more mental based attributes to him, give him a clear reason for havin these powers and why he is hostile to women, all of which would make sense to his gimmick. Is he a pure psychopath? Is he a tragic villain, scarred by his past? is he a villain who percieves himself to be the hero? what?
Because for the last 30 years at least, Diana hasn't been merely resilient to the powers of people like Psycho; she's been completely immune. These people couldn't develop powers to overcome this immunity in the first place, and not at all when it was later reinforced by Athena. Not even Fernus had that kind of power.
My opinion, making WW immune to psychic attacks is OP. I would not write her as that powerful at all. She should only be immune with the Lasso and that´s it. She needs more obstacles as a hero, not less, and I don´t care one bit about cannon. It´s fiction. change it.
Her villains don't stick because they have essentially been miscast, move those over to places where they are of more use and then create something that actually works rather than continue to beat the same old dead horse in the hopes it might suddenly come back to life.
--- Her villains don´t stick, because DC doesn´t use them properly. They fire guys like Rucka who wanted to work with the character and write an Earth One with her years ago. They cancel projects with her like her all-star comic, they don´t make movies of her, they don´t make writers stay consistent with her mythos etc etc etc. Most of Batmans main villains became iconic because of his movies or cartoons. Same with Lex Luthor. It is not some inherent magic quality within the characters.
Because they are a better match. His powers makes him a challenge to Superboy, but Superboy himself is not a pushover for Psycho either.
I have no idea why they are a better match. You haven´t given me one good reason.
So we come full circle and think an animated show will automatically fix everything? It won't unless it's handled properly and the comic writers actually pay it any heed.
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