jack@hp-dcde.UUCP (05/14/84)
I too, have my doubts about the "anti-power" gun. Perhaps it contains Gold Kryptonite! It is based on the (dubious) assumption that powers are somehow "tacked on" to a normal person, as opposed to being an integral part of the person. Agreed, perhaps you could drain the gamma radiation out of the Hulk and he would become Bruce Banner. His extranormal abilities are indeed "tacked on". But what about Nightcrawler, as Moriarty said? Or the Sub-Mariner? His "powers" are perfectly normal to him, it just happens that he's one of the few homo mermanus/sapiens around. Presumably his abilities are typical of his mixed genetic heritage. And what would happen to Hawkeye? Would the Vision turn into a hardware store? The point I'm trying to make is that there's no firm line between plain old abilities (typing, say) and controlling the weather. Just a matter of degree. -Jack Applin
richard@dartvax.UUCP (Richard A. Brown) (05/21/84)
Forge's gun is effective against MUTANTS, not against other types of superheroes/supervillains. That means people like hawkeye, Ironman, and the Vision wouldn't be affected, seeing that there powers come from other sources besides mutated genes. Nightcrawler, on the other hand, would still look the same, but would lose his power to teleport. (Remember all those power neutralizers that the Hellfire club came up with a while back?) Read X-men 178(?) when the X-men try to rescue Kitty from the Morlocks, and Leach stops them by neutralizing their powers. -Richard Brown
crigney@uok.UUCP (05/25/84)
#R:hp-dcde:634966496:uok:11900020:000:348 uok!crigney May 24 19:34:00 1984 If Rogue can drain someone's powers, then why can't a mechanical object? How about Rom's Neutralizer? There are any number of examples of powers being neutralized or suppressed. Next thing you know, Forge will create a gun that gives the powers of the target to the wielder - SuperGyrich! Carl ..!ctvax!uokvax!uok!crigney ..!duke!uok!crigney