On Thu, 05 Mar 1998, Matthew Campbell <mgcampb@CLEMSON.EDU> wrote:

Brendan wrote:

On Thu, 05 Mar 1998, Matthew Campbell <mgcampb@clemson.edu> wrote:

On the one hand, it seems like Cap would be totally helpless against
boomers.  However, in comics he regular goes up against incredibly
powerful opponents and somehow finds a way to defeat them.

        He's like Batman except he's upbeat like you said earlier.

Oh yes.  There have been about a bazillion debates on comics newsgroups 
about who would win a fight between Batman and Captain America.  The 
general consensus is that it's too close to call.

        Very true.  Hmm, if events crossover with the Marvel world, what
happened to Adamantium and Vibranium?  Genom would absolutely love to get
it's hands on those two metals, even if no one has any idea how to combine
them into Cap's shield.

^_^  Common error here.  Cap's shield is made from Vibranium and an 
alloy of steel.  Adamantium came later, from unsuccessful attempts to 
duplicate the shield.

As for Genom....  Vibranium was only ever available from one place, and 
the available supply of Wakanda might well have been used up or 
destroyed.

Who says Genom doesn't have adamantium?  It's just that it's really 
expensive, and hence not practicle for large-scale use.  
(Remember a corporation has to _justify_ its expenses.  They 
can't throw money around like a government.)  Probably too heavy to use 
on boomers, as well.  Now they might well have the secure vaults of 
Genom tower lined with the stuff........

Of course, the door would be open to bring in the rest of the Marvel
universe later.....

        If you write it right you can crossover almost anybody.  Still
let's think of the easy folk who would still be in their prime in 2032:
Nick Fury,
Wolverine,
The Hulk,
Thor and the other gods.
Well that's not all the really long lived folk but it some of them.

I'd love to see Hulk or Thor, but let's face it.  You might as well 
bring in a Dragonball Z character.  No one could stop them.  I don't 
think even one of those particle laser satellites could kill the Hulk.

	Unless the real reason Quincy is always a boomer when he appears 
somewhere is because he's actually a construct of the Leader.  Or if you 
wanted to get really crazy, try this concept:
	Some scientist at Gemon comes up with a compact high powered reactor 
using theories that had been used to make the Gamma Bomb.  Which in fact was 
what the reactor could be turned into through an overload procedure.  The 
hulk who's been living incognito in his banner form for a while decided that 
this justifies him coming out of retirement.  And of course when A boomer 
with a gamma reactor goes into overload in megatokyo, he tosses into the 
ionosphere.  For the Ionosphere anyways, it detonates not to high above the 
city, blasting a god portion of the population with Gamma Rays.

Nick Fury might be cool, but he's sort of interchangable with any 
generic super-spy.  I can't believe no one would have killed Wolverine 
by then.  (I sort of dislike Wolvie.)

	The only force anywhere that can kill Wolvie is droping Sales.

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Matthew Campbell 
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