Re: Character with most under-used potential?


"Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> For Marvel: Cypher

You beat me to it!

> Can translate any language with minimum exposure of same.
> But "language" is merely a pattern of information, including:

His power was specific to "communication".

> Body language.
> Facial expression,
> Voice analysis.
> Truth analysis.

Not quite on that one, he would be able to tell if it was a conscinous lie,
but wouldn't be much use if someone believed what they were saying
regardless of it's veracity.

> Handwriting analysis.

Again, no, there is no quantifiable

> Foresenic analysis.
> Criminal profiling.

These aren't linked to communication, so I doubt it.

> Fighting style.

Yup.

> Stock market trends.
> Weather forecasting.

Umm, no, neither of those are patterns of predictable communication, if
anything they are the things that his power could NOT work with as they are
genuinely random.

> Physics.

This was hinted at in the Warlock series, where Warlock using Doug's powers
read a complex physics formulae and comprehended the cosmological principles
behind it. That was the one and only time we saw that side of things, and we
never saw Doug do it.

> Psychology.
> Field medicine.

Again, not really as these aren't communication based.

There was also the never explored concept that Doug could understand the
language, but not necessarily the context, so whilst he'd be able to
translate a joke in Japanese that depended upon Japanese cultural awareness,
but might not find it funny.

As you say though...such wasted potential....



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