Tenzhi

If the new one edges out the "original" one in popularity and the newer generation subsequently forgets about said "original" because of it, it could be said to have effectively killed the original.

He DID show up...

...in dagger form.

I was expecting RED to be comparable to The Expendables in this analogy. Each has a bunch of awesome actors in an action movie, where the line-up alone is strong enough to be a selling point.

When introduced she said something like 'no relation to that woman on TV'.

Now, where did that Vuvuzela batarang quote come from?

How about skipping the bad CG altogether? This early all they should have shown was a figure in the shadows with ominously glowing eyes, anyway. And the later full reveal would be better served by costuming and/or makeup than those horrible CG FX. I've seen Doctor Who monsters which were apparently made out of trashbags that looked better than that CG.

Yes. Hence the "terribly CG'd". That Darkseid looked horrible.

My attention to detail is a bit wobbly, but the physical prop that he apparently inscribed: wasn't it a shiny silver seamless one-piece thing in the shape of a bullet?

I can't help but wish that he hadn't stopped it in time, in any case. That Cat Grant is very annoying.

I also can't help but feel that Smallville's "Darkseid" is going to literally be Clark's dark side manifested in a terribly CG'd form. I always expect to be disappointed with this show. I'd drown my bitterness in Flash cakes if I could find any around here.

Yes, geeks should know better than to presume a villain's bullets are mundane when they have clearly been shown to be otherwise.

Personally, I was more disturbed that Deadshot seemed to be channeling a bit of Jonah Hex. Hawkman seeing a vision of his wife in Lois was also disconcerting, though it ultimately seemed to be a herring of the reddish sort.

Given that what would conventionally be considered the cartridge seemed to house technical components (as seen with the first bullet, which seemed to sprout wings/some sort of guidance system), it would be ignorant to presume Deadshot's bullets work the same as mundane gunpowder-propelled bullets. I believe Clark has stopped conventional bullets in slow-mo before which did not have the cartridge attached.

I thought it tasted like burning...

Thus far I've found the anime to be cheesy-bad, but in a way such that I have to watch it because I can't believe how silly it is.

I wish I hadn't've added to their success. Such a regretted purchase Reach has been. The best thing I can say about it, is at least there weren't any Flood in it.

Some of my favourite (albeit cheesy) "ninja" have been in old kung fu movies. I vaguely recall one with "ninja" of each of the five elements (earth, fire, water, wood, and metal). Fun stuff.

And at this point Hattori Hanzo has been romanticized into a fantastic being almost as much as, say, the Three Brothers from Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Indeed it isn't. After retreating just far enough away from a fray the other day, I stood there and ever-so-slowly regained my health while watching the enemy run after me to the end of its invisible chain, then calmly return to its assigned spot only to suddenly recall that it was angry and repeat the somewhat comical process.

Because you're too quiet, and no one trusts the quiet ones.

Sure you can. Defeating any given foe doesn't mean that they won't ever attack you again. Indeed, such is a staple of comic book superheroes and their ineffable foes. Just because Doctor Baron (The Evil Arch-Duke of Imperia) kidnaps Captain National and the Fantastic's macaroni casserole next issue doesn't mean he wasn't defeated in the previous issue.

Sounds like a serious medical condition. You should get your liver checked post-haste.

If it's any consolation, I would also say that your Invulnerability Tanker should be able to hit those caps without Tough or IO set bonuses.

I'd say you have a very strange world view if, putting shonen trips and tropes aside, techniques that range from city-destroying brute force to the finesse of killing someone a thousand times in their own mind don't count as "badassery". Or possibly a world view that simply eschews the fantastic (like those sticks that hang around in mud ). A non-fantastic Ninja mastermind would basically be a guy followed around by a group of poorly-dressed Batmans. In such a powerset, I would want the third tier pet to get a filament-noose DoT hold (since insta-kills are out of the question).

And it definitely sounds like Ninjas are getting gypped on defense.