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Tweak says, "BARROWMAN!!!!"

dorksidefiker (dorksidefiker) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-13 13:23:00

Entry tags:

char: amadeus cho, char: delphyne gorgon, creator: clayton henry, creator: fred van lente, creator: greg pak, title: incredible hercules

In which an ego gets some much needed deflating

From Incredible Hercules #122

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	crinosg 2009-04-13 04:00 pm UTC (link)
	God, that NEVER gets old. (Reply to this)

	seriousfic 2009-04-13 04:31 pm UTC (link)
	Who else votes for Tom Tresser to visit the Marvel universe and its Amazons? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bluefall 2009-04-13 04:46 pm UTC (link)
	::prepares to stuff the ballot:: (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	seriousfic 2009-04-13 05:25 pm UTC (link)
	Roslin fangirl. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bluefall 2009-04-13 06:54 pm UTC (link)
	I haven't the slightest idea what you could possibly mean by that remark. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	unknownscribler 2009-04-13 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	Not having seen the season 3.5 /4 / whatever of BSG, I suspect it's an icon reference? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bluefall 2009-04-13 07:57 pm UTC (link)
	Eh, just that Tory is a ballot-stuffing Roslin fangirl. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	retro_nouveau 2009-04-13 06:02 pm UTC (link)
	Well, I don't hate him. But a one-way ticket to Earth-616...? Don't worry, Tom, we'll see that she gets her peach pit back. Buh-bye now! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	gwalla.livejournal.com 2009-04-13 05:00 pm UTC (link)
	I less than three Delphyne so much. (Reply to this)

	volksjager 2009-04-13 07:20 pm UTC (link)
	eek,green just does NOT go with plaid. Some one should say something to her. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	angelophile 2009-04-14 08:40 am UTC (link)
	Other than "hubbah!" you mean? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-04-14 10:39 am UTC (link)
	well maybe they should just pull it off her... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jarodrussell 2009-04-13 07:54 pm UTC (link)
	Man, remember when Amadeus Cho was cool? You know, before they ruined it by writing stories about him. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	colonel_green 2009-04-13 08:42 pm UTC (link)
	Uh, no, I don't follow. I found him incredibly annoying until about the end of iHerc's first arc, when he finally got a bit of humility. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jarodrussell 2009-04-13 08:54 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I know. You and everyone else. No, in comics no one likes a genius until they've been broken and humbled. Geniuses aren't appreciated until either the joy's beaten out of them. sigh I love television. You'd never get fun, ego-centric geniuses like Rodney McKay, Sheldon Cooper, Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Dr. Drakken, or the like in comic books. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	escherichiacola 2009-04-13 09:35 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, you don't get those Too Clever By Half characters. The fun is that you don't have to like em. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jarodrussell 2009-04-13 09:42 pm UTC (link)
	The fun is that you don't have to like em. Yes, and comics are just chock full of that kind of fun. Hooray for fitting in! (Reply to this) (Parent)

colonel_green
2009-04-13 10:01 pm UTC (link)

I disliked him because he showed about acting obnoxious and running rings around far more established characters, and always being right, including have figured something out about the Hulk that no one who'd known him for decades had ever happened upon. He was perilously close to the dreaded Mary Sue label.

After the first arc he finally got some humility while remaining a smart-aleck know-it-all (most of the time) (though I think the thing that really sold me on the character was his realization in #120 about what the hardest thing for him to do was).

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	cmdr_zoom 2009-04-13 10:36 pm UTC (link)
	Motto, exactly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	angelophile 2009-04-14 04:00 am UTC (link)
	I dunno, I thought it was always inherent in the character that he was both incredibly smart and incredibly dumb at the same time. I never really saw it as a sudden thing at the end of some arc or another, just something where he'd been showing all along that intelligence isn't the same as wisdom. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jarodrussell 2009-04-14 01:01 pm UTC (link)
	Bingo! That's what I like about that kind of character, you get to have smart ass but you also have a super-practical person for them to play off of: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard; Tony Stark, Pepper Potts; Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Perry the Platypus; Dr. Drakken, Shego. I'm bore to apathy of every heroic character in comics being super-practical all the time. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	janegray 2009-04-14 04:32 am UTC (link)
	his realization in #120 about what the hardest thing for him to do was Out of curiosity, what was that? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	colonel_green 2009-04-14 06:49 am UTC (link)
	Nothing (ever since his family were murdered, when he sees friends who need help, the hardest thing for him to do is not help). (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jarodrussell 2009-04-14 01:02 pm UTC (link)
	What? Isn't that the essence of super-heroes: that when they see a problem, they are in a unique position to help. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	janegray 2009-04-14 02:58 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, I see. Just like Harry Potter. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	gwalla.livejournal.com 2009-04-14 12:17 pm UTC (link)
	The joy was beaten out of Amadeus in his first story, remember? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jarodrussell 2009-04-14 01:04 pm UTC (link)
	Well, okay, my enjoyment of him. An angry super-genius kid getting all up in Reed Richards and SHIELD's business may border on Mary-Sue-dom, but given the stuff they were pulling at the time...it was satisfying. (Reply to this) (Parent)