A question, about the “bursting shells breaking skin” part. Does that mean he’s somewhat invulnerable all-around, or just his skin is somewhat-invulnerable? I mean, it’d kind of be a letdown if pistol bullets wouldn’t break your skin, but still could break your ribs and rupture organs. :smack:
I might try to try out for an Olympic team…say, Taiwan’s, just in time for the Beijing olympics. For no other reason than it would make me laugh.
And, if the storyboards for the alternate opening to The Incredibles can be taken as evidence, Mr. Incredible’s flesh does seem to be less suseptible to injury, even if he’s not fully invulnerable. (The Omnidroid might have been made out of Adamantium or something, which was why it could hurt him.)
I was talking specifically about the incarnation Cartoon Network is now running. Where Krypto is the main star, and as far as I can tell, no humans are to be seen.
Well, Saddam did have access to bursting shells. Unless you think that the conventional artillery of the Iraqi army was loaded with giant nerf arrows.
How about you combine those two, and deliver pizza for the mafia, so you would get a cool car for when you got tired of jumping over buildings. Just watch out for giant Aleut people.
Well, he was certainly invulnerable to small-arms fire. The pistol of the governor’s butler had no effect, nor did the machine guns of the arms’ dealers goons. He even went head-to-head with a fighter plane and was able to shrug off hits from its machine-gun (at least .30cal, I’d guess) as well as its propellor blade, and all this was just in his first two appearances.
I’d leave Smallville and go see Mr. Roosevelt in Washington, offering my services to my country (as long as I didn’t have to work for J. Edgar Hoover <G>). When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and Hitler declares war on my country in three years (of course, I don’t know at the time that they will), I suspect that Uncle Sam might have some things for me to do.
In modern-day DC comics, the justification they used for the superheroes not getting directly involved in World War 2 was that Hitler held the Spear of Destiny, and that mystical artifact nullified their powers.
I never thought there was a need to retroactively justify their non-involvement. Short of Superman, or one of the other more powerful heros, going on a mission specifically to assassinate the Axis high command, I don’t think there was all that much they could do to change the course of the war. Superman, however powerful he might be, could only be in one place at a time. WWII had a vast number of battles in many different places. It’s only in retrospect that we know which ones were vitally important and which weren’t.
WWII-era Superman wasn’t capable, IMO, of “levelling Germany.” WWII Green Lantern, especially with the whole vulnerable to wood thing, was likewis not capable of levelling Japan.
Think about it. What could one of them do that wasn’t done (for real) using squadrons of bombers, amphibious invasions, espionage, etc.? Did the Axis powers crumble overnight from those things?