ChasNicollette
Allons-y Means Let's Go.
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Then, yeah, it would take a longer exposure for them to exhibit greater levels of powers.
The length of required exposure varies depending on the continuity and/or the writer.
Sometimes a Kryptonian can just step out of their ship and be instantly cranked up to eleven. But in John Byrne's seminal "Man of Steel" miniseries after "Crisis on Infinite Earths," it took gradual exposure over the course of Clark's childhood and teenage years on Earth for him to become Super-powerful, hence no "Adventures of Superman When He Was A Boy" after Crisis. When the Post-Crisis Kara Zor-El arrived on Earth in the Batman/Superman comic (and the movie adaptation, "Apocalypse"), she had been soaking in simulated yellow sunlight for the duration of her long journey in suspended animation, so she had no lines no waiting. When Kon-El of the animated "Young Justice" first showed up, he had charged up with a solar suit for his force-grown cloning cycle of 16 weeks to get a limited level of power.
You see Clark's powers developing slowly on "Smallville," but Zod and his people were basically as powerful as Clark in the "Man of Steel" movie as soon as they rolled up to the curb. So there's no set gauge for this sort of thing.
But yeah, more often not there's some kind of charge-up period.
What series are you reading?
Bingo..
As a side note I'll also add (though many might scream) in the new 52 Superman also took awhile to get to full power. In fact in the now DC You as i believe they call it, he's currently powered down, and at one point was hurt by high calibur bullets. Wonder Woman had to remove the bullets in order for his body to heal up.
And just to add to what Chas said about Man of Steel, although the Kryptonians were at full power, it did take them awhile to adjust to what their bodies could do, hence why they were having issues with their senses and why Zod didn't figure out how to fly until the last half of their fight.
Didn't New 52 Superman develop a new power, a "solar flare" effect, and that's what's shorted out his powers?
...yeah, I imagine the learning curve for the MoS movie villains wouldn't have been nearly so sharp if their bodies had taken time to build up the power rather than immediately popping the needle from "E" to "F." So that's one instance in which their becoming instantly godlike worked, if briefly, to Clark's advantage.
In keeping with our theme of "Star City: The Soundtrack," I've been using song titles from Thirty Seconds to Mars as the post-titles for all my J'onn posts.
Check out the most recent song.
Could not be more appropriate, I'm kinda freaking out about it.
(The song title is a link to a music video with some equally eerily appropriate imagery.)
"Echelon," by 30 Seconds to Mars
Look at the red red changes in the sky
Look at the separation in the border line
But don't look at everything here inside
And be afraid, afraid to speak your mind
It took a moment before I lost myself in here
It took a moment and I could not be found?
Again and again and again and again I see your face in everything
It took a moment the moment it could not be found?
What's with the fascination with the Echelon
What's with the constant questions that you have this time
What's with this circumstancial consequence
Find oversight before this night will ever rise again
It's all you've got inside your head, better get up and leave instead
It took a moment before I lost myself in here
It took a moment and I could not be found?
Again and again and again and again I see your face in everything
It took a moment the moment it could not be found?
To find ourselves lost here within we need the reasons why
So we take this bridge with the other's that will thrive in the great divide
Look at the red red changes in the sky
Again and again and again and again I see your face in everything
Again and again and again and again I see your face in everything
It took a moment before I lost myself in here
It took a moment and I could not be found?
Again and again and again and again I see your face in everything
It took a moment the moment it could not be found?
In keeping with our theme of "Star City: The Soundtrack," I've been using song titles from Thirty Seconds to Mars as the post-titles for all my J'onn posts.
Check out the most recent song.
Could not be more appropriate, I'm kinda freaking out about it.
(The song title is a link to a music video with some equally eerily appropriate imagery.)
"Echelon," by 30 Seconds to Mars
Look at the red red changes in the sky
Look at the separation in the border line
But don't look at everything here inside
And be afraid, afraid to speak your mind
It took a moment before I lost myself in here
It took a moment and I could not be found?
Again and again and again and again I see your face in everything
It took a moment the moment it could not be found?
What's with the fascination with the Echelon
What's with the constant questions that you have this time
What's with this circumstancial consequence
Find oversight before this night will ever rise again
It's all you've got inside your head, better get up and leave instead
It took a moment before I lost myself in here
It took a moment and I could not be found?
Again and again and again and again I see your face in everything
It took a moment the moment it could not be found?
To find ourselves lost here within we need the reasons why
So we take this bridge with the other's that will thrive in the great divide
Look at the red red changes in the sky
Again and again and again and again I see your face in everything
Again and again and again and again I see your face in everything
It took a moment before I lost myself in here
It took a moment and I could not be found?
Again and again and again and again I see your face in everything
It took a moment the moment it could not be found?
I just realized where I first heard this song.... The Core.
Wow. You know, I've been reading through our story here for a couple hours and listening to the songs we've chosen as soundtrack. I almost have shivers.
Do you guys feel that too? I mean we've made some amateur mistakes and it's a little broken up but we're writing some very powerful stuff here. This is epicly good writing. If we cleaned it up and made it mesh a little more, this could be one HELL of a series of graphic novels.
...or a TV show coming this fall/winter season to a CW near you.
Already making the spin to the network, eh?
I am searching for a good 30 seconds to Mars song to post my reply to.
Wow. You know, I've been reading through our story here for a couple hours and listening to the songs we've chosen as soundtrack. I almost have shivers.
Do you guys feel that too? I mean we've made some amateur mistakes and it's a little broken up but we're writing some very powerful stuff here. This is epicly good writing. If we cleaned it up and made it mesh a little more, this could be one HELL of a series of graphic novels.
Although, Nev, I can't help but be curious--
--what do you see as our mistakes?
Something we can fix, or avoid in future?
Not mistakes, per se, more like inevitable results of the format. We're posting in a shared creative writing thread on a message board and of course sometimes there have been gaps in time between posts (not all of us have rolodex brains like yours) so there are some formatting issues and inconsistencies that would interrupt the flow if we were to try and take it and turn it into a book.
But nothing a good editor couldn't fix.
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Capricorn
I'm having almost as much fun coming up with songs for the posts as I am writing the posts themselves. And a chance to write a great one liner was perfect!
That was a pretty bad-ass one-liner!
Grant secretly enjoys engaging in ironic banter, it plays nicely into his tendency to taunt.
I couldn't resist. I read what you posted and was like; "Seriously? Who says that kind of thing and doesn't deserve a butt kicking?"
Hey, Nevyn?
I'm rewatching episodes of "Young Justice," and Khaji Da finds Apokoliptian technology and transmissions very upsetting, says it's "not compatible." In contrast, New Genesis tech seems to be... soothing. Would this also be true of your Khaji?
*opens mouth, then closes it* I need to watch that episode.
I don't know. Let me do some research and think about it.