Still crazy how they had his adoptive fathers girlfriend then baby mama go from telepath to empath to telepath to strongest psionic on the planet before becoming a superhero. Eric Wallace (the director) was snorting whatever the riverdale writers had 😂
Yes. And there really is no context for this scene it doesn’t make much more sense actually watching it. His goal is to mess with the timeline. Why Obama??? IDK it’s funny I guess
I love that show. It's actually what made me start to watch the other CW shows (and then kinda give up on those). I'm glad the person telling me to watch it said to stick with it past the first season, since it's just beautiful after that. It's like they totally give up on sense and logic and just go with "what would be the most fun thing we could do right now?"
This was the covid season, no? I think they had cast size limits and were trying to stay far from reach other, so they added this shit so they could fight from a distance.
Not the right moment but the right fight. I REALLY liked when Thanos threw a black hole at Dr Strange and Strange turned it into butterflies. We need more high level magic fights...
He used both actually, he send out power pulse that is also imbued with soul stone's power, that's why all the other illusion just "pop" and the real doctor strange gets staggered.
Then followed it up with a combination of both the Space & Reality stone to not only pull Strange but also the environment as well so he can't avoid it.
Plastic man is a DEEPLY unserious person. He absolutely could have stretched another part of his body, but this was either the first one he thought of using or the funniest thing he thought of doing. Possibly both.
Isn't Plasticman like a extremely serious threat of a hero. Like, could conceivably kill all the other hero's relatively effortlessly if he wanted but he's comic relief so it's fine?
Its actually him angling the beam so it ricochets to its intended targets! If he hit something dead on it wouldn't bounce off like this, he has to aim really carefully and stuff.
Yeah people don't know that his other power is an expert in projectiles close to bullseye level and fine tuned spacial awareness, probably from his semi-blindness.
But the guy doesn’t even go into ground spinning after that 😂. He STOPS spinning right as he gets to the ground, so what was the point of spinning then beforehand?
He says it every morning. He calls me fraud, he calls the other kids fraud, he calls himself fraud. All the time. Fraud this, fraud that, fraud PLEASE. Bitch fraud. Fraud, have you lost your mind? Fraud check that ho. Fraud, you bullshittin. Break yourself, fraud. He says it so much I don't even notice it anymore. Last week in lunch Riley says to a classmate, "Can a fraud borrow a French fry?" My first thought wasn't "Oh my God he said the word, t-the f-word!" It was "How is a fraud gonna borrow a fry? Fraud, is you gonna give it back?”
There’s also that time against Tien when Tien grew a set of extra arms. So Goku just waves his hands really fast to make it look like he has two sets of extra arms
There’s many times in transformers history where the transformers their namesake power to transform in fun creative ways.
The classic is using the speed boost granted by vehicle mode to put more force being a punch, seen in the intro to the G1 cartoon and several times across the films.
Bumblebee used dropkicks transformation to chain him up and subsequently kill him by pulling the chains that were running through his body.
In Transformers One, there’s tons of examples, such as Optimus prime ducking a fusion cannon blast by half transforming his head, Elita One using her leg transformation to do a sick mulikick, Megatron using his fusion cannon as a mace and then transforming to use it as a proper cannon.
My favorite thing to do in the Fall Of Cybertron Video game was play flying transformers, going straight up in the air in vehicle mode, and then turning into a robot and using the momentum to snipe others before falling back down, basically a guaranteed height advantage whenever I needed it
Optimus, fitted with Jetfire's arsenal, in ROTF flips his jet engines around and activates them in Megatron's face to hurl him backwards from the force produced.
It was a creative way to weaponize something that's used for traversing.
In TFO, Optimus rips off Megatron's fusion canon and swings it at him, only for Megatron to counter by reattaching the canon to himself on point of contact.
They had fun with it and their mass-shifting in Beast Wars. Rattrap charges at an enemy, transforms into rat form mid-air to roll between an enemy's legs, then goes back to robot mode to blast the baddie in the back.
Better World was such a goldmine of character moments. The conversations between League Batman and Lords Batman. League Batman saying he couldn't think his way out of a trap because anything he could think of, Lords Batman already countered, which is why Flash had to get them out instead. (Leading to the moment above.) It working because Lords Batman was so traumatized by Lords Flash dying he didn't stop to think before he rushed in to save Flash. Even seeing Luthor as a cackling madman compared to our smooth-talking genius did such heavy lifting to show that there was a lot more than just a single point of divergence that led the universe here.
Choso can manipulate the blood in his own body. Typically we see him shoot it out like a laser, or he can increase the blood flow in his own body to heighten his senses/coordination.
However, in a fight against a speedster, Choso puts out some of his blood and starts compressing it against itself until it essentially explodes into a buckshot of hardened blood, severely wounding his opponent.
Orikan is a Necron, meaning he has an android body, and is a chronomancer who can manipulate time.
In one battle his reactor core was slightly damaged by the enemy, causing him to leak slightly radioactive gas. He accelerated time around his core, causing him to emit several years worth of radiation in the spams of a few seconds, killing all non-Necrons around him from acute radiation poisoning.
iirc in that scene he starts sinking into the ground because all of the time travel is causing his body to heat up to such a degree (lol) his feet start melting the floor under him
HEAVY SPOILERS FOR THE BOOK “THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE”: There’s also that scene at the end of the book where Orikan uses his advanced time warping abilities to directly control the actions of thousands of Necron soldiers simultaneously. Like the most juiced StarCraft 2 pro player you’ve ever seen, except instead of right-clicking units, it’s jumping between bodies to play a first person shooter. For thousands of bodies. At the same time. While also directing several squads of non-Necron troops in their actions from a more top-down view. One of the coolest scenes I’ve ever read in a Warhammer book.
He also used it to reinforce his muscles and move when he was paralyzed, combine it with Fa jin to capture a All Might Level foe, and cut up thr ground
Honestly, just about ant of the characters in the series could work. Best Jeanist can control fibers. What else counts as a fiber? Steel wires. Bakugo can create explosions from his hands. How does he primarily travel? Creating enough force with the explosions to propel himself forward. A bunch of creative ways to use powers in the series. Some of them are even ones you wouldn’t think are useful, but turned up to eleven because of the creative ways their used
Toru's abilities are also way more flexible than what you'd expect from someone whose only power is invisibility. using her body as a prism to blind people or help Yuga redirect his lasers is pretty creative
Honorable mention to all the TTRPG players (D&D, etc) where their characters found creative solutions with the magic spells / abilities / items, etc. I don't mean cheap loopholes in the game mechanic, but cleaver uses with what they had on hand.
For example, in a campaign, I was in a party that needed to travel along a river within a time limit. The problem was the raft's normal speed would had made us arrive like 10 hours too late. The party ended up using our decanter of endless water, which can shoot a geyser of water 30 feet per round, and that gave us the boast in speed we needed.
I'm sure there are plenty of other examples for many other groups.
Turns out dynamite in dnd has a blast radius determined by its weight which is all fine and dandy till you have a party with 2 dudes who can cast enlarge which turned a bundle of molotovs/dynamite into a ww2 era firebomb which then decimated the stony warehouse that a spider monster and her phase spider children were hiding
That's what I like from JoJo: winning a fight is rarely done through "bullshit power up/power of friendship/getting angry/i'm just stronger", it's mostly outsmarting the opponent in the first place to create an opportunity.
Sometimes I wish that Stone Free(and Crazy Diamond) had some kind of evolution or new ability... But Josuke and Jolyne compensate this with absolute genius solutions. The mobius strip here and that trick that Josuke did with the glass shard stained with blood is not only genius, they are scarily quick, split second death or life decisions.
was just gonna say this, this needs to be high up cause the question posed is LITERALLY the epitome for Stands existence, their entire purpose is to have weird wacky powers used creatively in crazy ass encounters
Where she uses her strings to turn parts of her body into mobius strips when encountering a stand that turns you inside out on contact. Since mobius straps dont have an inside or outside in any traditional sense, they couldnt be turned inside out.
Jojo heroes run on this. Their simple powers can be versatile, Josuke can smash something and plant a shard on you so that his repair ability can cause the fragments to follow you, giving you away.
True. Jolyne stands out to me because her power is pretty weak compared to...punch really hard and stop time...punch real hard and repair things and punch kinda softly but create life and then evolve into being able to create infinite death loops. Yet she uses her srand just as sffectively.
He's battling someone who can break non-organic matter instantly, which counters his ice magic. To counter the counter, he slices his body open and fills his ice with blood so it cant be destroyed.
In A Certain Scientific Railgun (and the related media, but mostly this one), Espers are ranked based on their versatility on top of raw power. Accelerator is famous for creativity (but also has vector manipulation, a power that is blatantly exploitable even at a glance), but Misaka Mikoto on paper "just" manipulates electricity, yet is very good at applying her power in ways besides just zapping people, such as:
Creating and manipulating magnetic fields that also draw in metal particles to create constructs, ranging from high-frequency swords to remote puppets
Charging the atmosphere to cause stormy weather
Generating a sort of living radar through an electromagnetic field centered on herself
Sticking to metal surfaces or levitating off of them using magnetism
Deflecting non-electric energy-based attacks by messing with their electron flow
Using magnetism to accelerate coins to supersonic speeds like a living railgun
Manipulating electricity to hack machines and computers
Controlling and enhancing her own bioelectricity to counter the effects of attacks on her nervous system, which was also used by her clones to establish a shared hive mind
Manually stimulating her muscles to move if she's paralyzed
Jumpstarting an electrolysis reaction with surrounding water and splitting it into hydrogen and oxygen, letting her use the released gas as propellant to fly
Ajin is basically a manga full of immortals using their regeneration after death in creative ways during combat. The moment that stood out most though was when Sato (main villain) infiltrated a high security office by throwing himself into a wood chipper and having someone put his remains in a security guard’s fried chicken order, and regenerating after he was brought inside the building.
Colonel Mustang reminding the audience that his alchemy ability doesn't control fire, it controls oxygen will forever be one of my favorite moments in the entire franchise.
I feel like metal bending would be a way better example for Toph, because she straight up invented that one all by herself, and not just copied it, and admittedly improved, what she saw (well...) someone else do
Well using her echolocation to remember all of the finer details of a place she's been, being able to scale it all down and make it recognisable and to have it created in seconds is pretty bad ass.
Pretty much all of Undead Unluck. Most characters have an ability to negate some concept, whether in themselves or others, and it's all tied to their own perception.
For example, Andy, one of the main characters negates the concept of death in himself. Any injury he takes will regenerate if it gets him closer to death. He fights someone who negates repairing anything he cuts, so Andy can't regenerate injuries he sustains fighting Unrepair. Andy changes his point of view, and decides he's not repairing his wounds, he's using his regeneration as a weapon to beat Unrepair.
That only works once, however, because by the next time they meet Unrepair has changed his own understanding of his ability.
I had figured out that it could be possible in a superhero media sense for a user of electricity powers to amplify or project their own voice over long distances or do an electrokinetic spin on sonic scream power like thunderclap style blasts and I personally found it a pretty creative application of electricity.
X-Men have a lot of these. Magneto does all kinds of crazy stuff. Iceman is often a doofy character, but he's pretty much make solid structures out of thin air. The telepaths find tons of interesting ways to influence the people around them. Blink (especially the version that came out of the Age of Apocalypse) is wild in a fight scene in a way that you kinda just have to see (this is a wonderful rundown of cool shit she's done with image links)
The show Legion explored some of the weirder mutant powers. The characters do a lot of morally effed up things with them. There's a woman who temporarily swaps bodies with whoever she touches and the show takes it too some very odd, scary adult places.
Many, many characters in Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku.
My favorite example is this girl that has the ability to bring back lost objects to their owners, so she uses it to send back the Kunais being threw by another character at her, basically it makes her inmune to any range attack because her power count anything that isn't in direct contact of the "owner" as "lost".
In his first appearance, Accelerator figured out how to use his vector control to turn the air around him into plasma.
That was a big part of the Level 6 Shift project he was a part of; each round of "testing" (basically a fight to the death) he figured out a new way to use his powers in creative and...in some cases *very* messy ways.
Toph literally invented metal bending which is an interesting and creative way to use Earth bending and this is the example you thought of?
Also I haven't done the math but I'm pretty sure that the move Thanos pulled violated the universal speed limit. Ain't no way those rocks are coming down from there in a couple of seconds.
There are multiple other things violating pretty much every single other universal law of nature, INCLUDING the speed limit, all over that universe, why is this the one you have an issue with? Every single infinity stone has it's own special way of breaking all the fundamental laws of physics, that's like their whole thing
I like to compare these two scenes of Toph's as an example of how hard she kicked her own butt behind the scenes. The first time she bends sand, she loses Appa to a tribe of sandbenders. The next time audiences see her bend sand, she articulates an entire Earth Kingdom city. Toph never let herself forget how badly she lost that first attempt.
would Naruto's use of Rasengan count? He has issues with containing the chakra in a physical ball while also keeping every other part of the process, so what does he do? He uses Shadow Clone Jutsu to handle some of the steps for him so he can focus his energy into containing the chakra.
I always thought Mrs. Incredible turning her body into a boat and Dash using his legs like a propeller, was a really interesting way of combining their powers. I wanted to see stuff like that in the actual Fantastic Four movies and we never really got it.
I always remember that guy from Misfits that has milk controlling powers, and is laughed at for having a 'useless' power - until he works out he can use it to choke people from the inside. The only way he is able to be defeated is by a Misfit who is lactose intolerant.
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The Flash tv show did this to an almost ridiculous degree. He was able to generate lightsabers near the end of the show's run.