Comic
books are rife with this phenomenon. In some cases it is about personal
constraint and moral choices and those I can excuse as not ineffective.
Professor Xavier points out frequently how he could force confessions
and control people but he sees that as a violation of ethics he cannot
stand by. But some heroes really do not use their powers effectively at
all.
The Flash is a really great example of poorly used powers.
- With swords he could slice and dice anyone or anything in seconds. If he does not want to kill then he could slice their clothes and armor off and destroy their weapons.
- With a bo staff, club, nunchaku, nightstick or mual he could magnify the impact of his super speed many times over.
- Bolos and even sling shots would be devastating at super speed. Even if he sling shot fired rocks at normal speed and strength he could do it so quickly a criminal is pelted with piles of rocks.
- With a gun he could shoot at someone from every possible angle and direction at once so he does not need to get close or get hit. This would be especially useful against brawlers.
- Against superhumanly durable opponents he could cover them in plastic explosives in under a second.
- He could quickly gather water for use against fire people or fire and flammable components for use against water and ice people. He could literally throw buckets full of water at them and before the first one has hit them there would be hundreds of buckets of water.
- He could rapidly dismantle and reconstruct anything you could possibly need in moments. Theoretically he could build a tank by hand or assemble any number of things by the hundreds in his downtime for use against villains.
- Flash could zip by and take anything he needs to right out of people's hands.
- He could scoop bullets out of the air with a large frying pan and send them back at the ones that fired them.
- Why does he not know advanced martial arts? He could train very QUICKLY. Even without a teacher he could practice throwing stars until he gets good. In one hour he could throw thousands of throwing stars and knives.
- He could master lots of skills this way.
As Thaddeus Howze recently pointed out Ant Man and The Atom could be so much more effective than they are.
- They could plant various devices on people for tracking or sabotage.
- They could implant any number of things in someone's body. Drugs, trackers, poisons, tanks that return to full size...
- He could climb into your ear and then go to full size once inside your head.
- Or leave a grenade in your nostrils.
- Or a landmine in your stomach.
- They would be impossible to keep out of any facility no matter how secure. They just shrink small enough to get through as a photon.
- He could be placing spy cameras and mics in every villain's lair in the world. And every company's R&D department, lab or computer room.
- Have a gun that is actually 50 artillery cannons mounted together. The explosive shells expand to full size only after they are fired.
Any hero
that refuses to use weapons such as guns is not being realistic. It is
fine to knock out the common crooks with batarangs or a shield but once
you are facing superpowered freaks the big guns should come out and add
to the already significant skill.
Batman
has confiscated copies of many of his enemies weapons that he never
uses. It could be useful to keep a freeze ray or other things in the
trunk occasionally.
Batman has proven that most Green Lanterns
are very unimaginative with their rings. Batman has when using power
rings created guns, jets, load bearing support structures and much much
more. Most ring users create very simple objects or comically useless
ones like boxing gloves. A little study of engineering and structural
design could go a long way into creating more effective objects. The
needle like point of a rapier is far more deadly than a broadsword.
Superman is
very sloppy. He is not as fast as the Flash but he is fast enough that
most enemies should never hit him. He should not lean on his
invulnerability so much. It has cost him many fights.
Wolverine could
keep a bomb strapped to himself in case he ever needs to get out of a
jam. Or hide it in the space between his organs in his gut. He could
blow himself up and still regenerate.
Super geniuses
continually waste their genius. Worse than that, they use their genius
but never dig up the past inventions that could easily save the day
again later. Why are they not outfitting all of the heroes with advanced
gadgets like force fields and such? Why are evil geniuses not selling
these things more on the open market?
Why don't more Super Geniuses
use drones with varied weapon packages and backup equipment? Riot
control drones, heavy weapons drones and utility drones should be
standard as well as high speed chase drones and surveillance drones so
the bad guys don't get away when the hero stops to give someone first
aid or the bad guys move to a faster vehicle.. Large drones that carry
dozens of small drones that can be used as a swarm to search an area
then picked up and used again in another area. Why doesn't Batman have
drones ready to drop any weapon he could possibly need, flying 24/7
cloaked? Some comics have depicted this idea but most of the time it is
untapped.
Most Superheroes are extremely
jealous and paranoid. Iron Man once made Spiderman a powered suit and
it was amazing. He then had bulletproof armor and extra robotic legs to
help him fight and move. Every Avenger should have access to Stark's
technology. Speaking of, every Avenger should have Asgardian
enchantments put onto their weapons and armor or separate magical
weapons and armor they can pull out "just in case". Why not give
Blackwidow a spider backpack to aid with her infiltration with rockets
and pistols with mini Arc reactors that fire repulsor beams? That would
be so cool!
The same people they trust with their lives and secret identities they do not trust to share their gear with.
Iron Spidey Much of the suit does not have mechanical points except the back and thing but potent armor. ▼
Overly sexual but still the closest thing I could find to Black Widow
with Stark armor on the internets. ▼ (SHIELD armor in this case)
Iron American ▼
I could go on and on but mostly it would just be different versions of
the above examples. Still, not sharing gear is the biggest mistake most
of them make.
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