Monday, October 15, 2007
Billionaire Attempts Suicide
Hmmm. They've posted the first of the Super Rares for Mutations and Monsters, and it's an experienced version of the Hulkbuster armor.
Tony Stark is supposed to be one of the premier inventive scientific minds of the Marvel universe. Take all the hyperbole about Thomas Edison, grant it full truth and shift him into the early 21st century along with a family fortune to give him one helluva running start - add the good looks of a playboy and years both as a munitions designer and then as one of the Avengers in his Iron Man armor - and you have Tony Stark.
Unfortunately, as with all fictional characters he's often at the mercy of writers of considerably lesser brain spark.
When faced with coming up with a way of combating a creature of vast, virtually limitless physical strength - a being who becomes stronger and more resistant to damage the angrier he gets - how would one of the most inventive creative geniuses with cutting edge technology and almost unlimited financial resources? A nerve gas? A cryogenic device to drop him into a subzero torpor? An antigravity bubble so that all that vast strength of sinew and limb is largely nullified? Teleport him to the LaGrange point between Earth and Moon?
Sadly, none of the above if you're at the whim of the wrong comics writer. Instead, you demonstrate amazing testosterone levels and stupidity by trying to beat the most physicaly powerful being on Earth at his own game. What you get is a Hulkbuster.
A 6 range, single target suit of armor that requires the wearer to come into close combat in order to deal maximum damage is a... highly questionable strategy. That wearing the armor apparently removes his ability to apply a sword to the occasional Gordian Knot with even a single click of Outwit only makes it worse.
The clause in the movement special power has me wondering if we're not only getting another Hulk (beyond Green Scar and Rampaging Hulk) in the set, but that the third one will be a giant. Eh. Well, with Green Scar being 230 points, if the as-yet-unseen Hulk is the World War Hulk version it's likely to be even more points, so at least there should be plenty of room for the Hulbuster to pull in an ally or two.
He's going to need it.
Well, at least it looks fairly cool.
Hmmm. They've posted the first of the Super Rares for Mutations and Monsters, and it's an experienced version of the Hulkbuster armor.
Tony Stark is supposed to be one of the premier inventive scientific minds of the Marvel universe. Take all the hyperbole about Thomas Edison, grant it full truth and shift him into the early 21st century along with a family fortune to give him one helluva running start - add the good looks of a playboy and years both as a munitions designer and then as one of the Avengers in his Iron Man armor - and you have Tony Stark.
Unfortunately, as with all fictional characters he's often at the mercy of writers of considerably lesser brain spark.
When faced with coming up with a way of combating a creature of vast, virtually limitless physical strength - a being who becomes stronger and more resistant to damage the angrier he gets - how would one of the most inventive creative geniuses with cutting edge technology and almost unlimited financial resources? A nerve gas? A cryogenic device to drop him into a subzero torpor? An antigravity bubble so that all that vast strength of sinew and limb is largely nullified? Teleport him to the LaGrange point between Earth and Moon?
Sadly, none of the above if you're at the whim of the wrong comics writer. Instead, you demonstrate amazing testosterone levels and stupidity by trying to beat the most physicaly powerful being on Earth at his own game. What you get is a Hulkbuster.
A 6 range, single target suit of armor that requires the wearer to come into close combat in order to deal maximum damage is a... highly questionable strategy. That wearing the armor apparently removes his ability to apply a sword to the occasional Gordian Knot with even a single click of Outwit only makes it worse.The clause in the movement special power has me wondering if we're not only getting another Hulk (beyond Green Scar and Rampaging Hulk) in the set, but that the third one will be a giant. Eh. Well, with Green Scar being 230 points, if the as-yet-unseen Hulk is the World War Hulk version it's likely to be even more points, so at least there should be plenty of room for the Hulbuster to pull in an ally or two.
He's going to need it.
Well, at least it looks fairly cool.
Labels: Heroclix, Hulkbuster, Mutations and Monsters
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