Jim-Butcher.Com Community Please support this site by buying from the Jim-Butcher.Com Store!
March 13, 2010, 09:10:44 PM *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

Login with username, password and session length
News:
 
   Home   Help Search Calendar Login Register  
Pages: [1] 2   Go Down
  Print  
Author Topic: Throwing cars...  (Read 5579 times)
LordDresden
Posty McPosterpants
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 2818


View Profile
« on: October 06, 2009, 08:11:39 PM »

I loved the bit in the novel in which MJ reveals how unnerving (ulcer-making, really) it would be to be married to (or otherwise tightly involved with) a superhero that you really cared for.  She'd seen on the news where the enemy had been throwing cars at Peter.

That's the thing, in the Marvel Universe everybody's seen various superpeople in crazy fights, it's part of everyday life like car crashes or scandals or H1N1.  But when MJ watches the news, she doesn't see 'supervillain throwing cars at Spidey', she sees 'supervillain throwing cars at Peter'.  Quite a different thing, and a deep level of personal helplessness, sort of like being married to a cop or a soldier only worse, and and with live video of the dangerous parts usually at hand.
« Last Edit: October 06, 2009, 08:13:12 PM by LordDresden » Logged
SteaksandNewBoots
Participant
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 60



View Profile
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2009, 02:53:23 PM »

Makes me think super heros should only date other super heros.  A. They live a similar lifestyle.  B.  It is harder to accidentally hurt them.  C. You don't have to worry about super villains using them against you as much.
Seems a bit selfish to date normal people.
Logged
Gman
Posty McPosterpants
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 1878



View Profile
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2009, 04:08:36 PM »

Makes me think super heros should only date other super heros.  A. They live a similar lifestyle.  B.  It is harder to accidentally hurt them.  C. You don't have to worry about super villains using them against you as much.
Seems a bit selfish to date normal people.

Kind of reminds me of a certain Wizard named Harry. Superhero dating someone with powers would be ideal but I guess it depends on how few supers there are and if the vanilla mortal truly knows what they are getting into.
Logged
Blaze
Posty McPosterpants
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 8461


Written anything good, lately?


View Profile
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2009, 04:49:13 PM »

The heart wants what the heart wants. 

I can't watch my husband and sons in SCA combat.  (Especially the sons, because I want to grab a broom and shoo the bad people trying to hit my Babies!)
Logged


Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.
dornwolf
Participant
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 70



View Profile
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2009, 01:17:39 PM »

Well look at the plus side the blasted the marriage away so no more worries there. (Yes I'm a little pissed at that)
Logged

PSN ID = karasthecrow
LordDresden
Posty McPosterpants
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 2818


View Profile
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2009, 08:24:32 PM »

Well look at the plus side the blasted the marriage away so no more worries there. (Yes I'm a little pissed at that)

You're not the only one.  Quesada made a lot of enemies with that, both for doing it and for how it was done.  It's turned up over on tvtropes.org repeatedly.
Logged
LordDresden
Posty McPosterpants
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 2818


View Profile
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2009, 08:27:50 PM »


I can't watch my husband and sons in SCA combat.  (Especially the sons, because I want to grab a broom and shoo the bad people trying to hit my Babies!)

A coworker of mine was relieved that her daughter (now about 18) didn't want to be a cheerleader.  She (the daughter) is short and slender so she'd be the one the other girls tossed in the air and caught.  The mother said she was sure it would give her an ulcer to watch them throw her daughter up in the air the way they do the smallest girls.

(In actual fact, cheerleading has one of the highest injury rates of any athletic activity among teens, IIANM it's higher than tackle football.)
Logged
neurovore
Seriously?
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 19435


View Profile
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2009, 11:15:33 AM »

Makes me think super heros should only date other super heros.  A. They live a similar lifestyle.  B.  It is harder to accidentally hurt them.  C. You don't have to worry about super villains using them against you as much.

But you do have to worry about all the extra danger they run in their own title.
Logged
Blaze
Posty McPosterpants
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 8461


Written anything good, lately?


View Profile
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2009, 03:13:10 PM »

A coworker of mine was relieved that her daughter (now about 18) didn't want to be a cheerleader.  She (the daughter) is short and slender so she'd be the one the other girls tossed in the air and caught.  The mother said she was sure it would give her an ulcer to watch them throw her daughter up in the air the way they do the smallest girls.

(In actual fact, cheerleading has one of the highest injury rates of any athletic activity among teens, IIANM it's higher than tackle football.)

SCA combat is VERY VERY safe.  No one has ever sustained a serious injury doing SCA combat (caused by the combat, at least -- some people get heat stroke, but not for lack of Chirurgeons and Water Carriers shouting at them to stop before they overheat.)
Logged


Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.
jtaylor
Posty McPosterpants
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 3234


Bob: Offline but not forgotten.


View Profile
« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2009, 06:36:40 AM »

SCA combat is VERY VERY safe.  No one has ever sustained a serious injury doing SCA combat (caused by the combat, at least -- some people get heat stroke, but not for lack of Chirurgeons and Water Carriers shouting at them to stop before they overheat.)
While it is true that no one has suffered life-threatening injury in SCA combat, I know several people how have broken arms or ankles in Heavy combat. Duke Gaston broke his arm when a shot hit his vambrace, and I know of another gentle who broke a leg falling off a ramp storming the castle at Gulf War.

I hate to worry a mother more, but there IS risk of injury in heavy combat, which is why you have to have a signed waiver on record before you can be authorized.
Logged
Pages: [1] 2   Go Up
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.8 | SMF © 2006-2008, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
Page created in 0.149 seconds with 17 queries.