The Holy Grail, too. One was in Nazi Germany, the other in Imperial Japan, and the concept was (probably) created by Roy Thomas for his All-Star Squadron series, published in the 1980s but set during the war.
As for comics written during the war… I don’t know how writers justified the more powerful heroes not casually ending it. I’m guessing they didn’t even try.
A traumatized teenage girl with a switchblade—that she’s never used before—compared to the same girl unarmed, true, to draw an analogy.But to torture it further both pale in comparison to a collected teenage girl with a cutlass that she’s extensively trained with.
My point being that the amount of “useful in a fight” in this case, in my view, has become so low as to make it dubious to use at all.
Mrs O’Connor …a thing of beauty, but useless in a fight
Brian Ekers:
Yep, specifically, All-Star Squadron # 4, set right after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Easy. Captain America is Captain America, the Human Torch is the Human Torch, etc., but he’s still, you know, just one guy, against armies; and the Axis have their own supervillains, don’t they?
How is Rogue not a powerful fighter? She can kill you with a touch and steal your power at the same time.
Ranchoth’s point was that the Rogue of the X-Men movies (NOT the comics) couldn’t kill with a touch, she just absorbed powers… which means she’s useless in a fight against opponents who have no powers. That, plus absorbing someone’s powers appeared to take a few moments, so if she was facing more than one powered opponent, one of them could clobber her while she was absorbing from the other one. (Again, this is the Rogue of the movies, not the comics.)
You remember the first time she used her powers in the movie, right?
They tried for Superman. It was a weak explanation, but at least they get points for making the attempt.
As Waldo Pepper (no, not that one) pointed out, the first person we see Rogue use her powers on in the movie is her (presumably) unpowered boyfriend. So it does work on normal people, although it’s not clear exactly what she’s taking from him, since in other scenes, she only seems to absorb powers, and not memories.
I think she’s taking generic lifeforce (in D&D terms, she’s giving people negative levels). For metahumans, powers go along with that, but it’s still dangerous to everyone.
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I see what you did there…and I lol’ed.
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