I've seen it, and it isn't really clear D: All it says is that his core body temperature was reduced to near 0K, etc etc. Nothing that he could create ice structures, etc, so I just assumed that the suit produced a frigid environment for AZ to survive in (kind of like an astronaut suit, but colder :)) ), and his attacks involved him opening up his suit and letting the cold out, damaging himself in the process with "fire" (since anything above 0K was as fire to him). With Elemental Wrath, though, it would seem like he himself is the source of the cold, not the suit.
I didn't pick up on that Ryan had the powers of ice, I personally thought it was the suit aswell. Though it is in Comics, so if falling in nuclear waste can give you powers then I guess it only makes sense being caught in a cryo lab explosion could also give you powers.
I imagine with his core temperature dropping to 0K he starts to drop the temperature of the environment around him, much like an ice cube making your water colder. He is pretty much a livong heat sink. I think the suit both keeps him alive from the scorching heat of room temperature AND prevents his body from causing everything around him to freeze.
Christopher's comment makes me think that his condition hadn't reached equilibrium and has been getting worse and worse and growing stronger and is more actively seeking to regulate the environment around him, becoming even stronger than his suit can counter... but at the same time he is learning to focus that cold into attacks, if not control it entirely.
Actually I was thinking more along the lines of her powers freezing her, the ice is just rubbing salt in the wound. Then again, I have nothing but intuition to base this statement upon
I think there might be an alternate to Tachyon
Team Leader Tachyon: She used to be a hero, then she took a bulley to the knee (yeah I went there) from Ambuscade it looks like.What good is Iron Legacy if Ambuscade is still running around?
I thought the character looked like Spite...
What would be a bigger failure for the team leader (Tachyon) then not being able to get there to help wraith in the end
To me TLT seems to instead of focusing on attacking Villans she is coordinating the team. Setting her teammates up thematically which explains the Draw mechanic.
The alternate Spite could foreshadow a Promo villan card for him in a near future ?? :P
Many incapacitated sides of heroes are direct references to known frames in comics (or other media?) I think i can identify some from the top of my head (although it is very late here and I am having problems to write in English, I will do my best):
-Fanatic: staked to a wall, a reference to the Angel (from the x-men) staked to a sewer wal by the marauder "Harpoon" during the Mutan Masacre
-Haka: Reference to the Hulk weightin a mountain over his shoulder during the Secret Wars
-Argent Adept: As Drakossozh said, a refence to Wolverine. He was put in the cross in Australia, and was resqued by Jubilee.
http://enbuscadeltiempoperdido.blogspot.de/2006/04/alguien-se-anima-con-una-saeta.html
- Legacy: the death of superman
-Young Legacy: the death of supergirl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crisis7.jpg
-Dark Visionary: It really reminds me of the Phoenix force...
Sorry for the spelling guts, time to go to bed!
My word, I hadn't noticed that. Does this mean the Visionary is based on Phoenix/Jean Grey? WHOA.
Bunker: Engine of War is a reference to Iron Man: Demon in a Bottle.
All of Wraith's are references to Batman covers.
Unity's is a mock up of the prison where Magneto is kept in X-Men 1 and 2.
Elemental AZ could be a reference to Capatain America being trapped in ice berg.
Well, some Visionary references:
Rachel Summer is a character from the X-men comic books. She is the daughter of Ciclops and Jean Grey from the future in an alternate timeline. She has basically the same powers as jean grey (Telekinesis, Telepathy), she even becomes attached to the phoenix force. In her future, the sentinels (the giant robots created by the goverment to hunt mutants) have taken over the world, most mutants have been eliminated (including most of the x-men characters), and the rest live in concentration camps. So rachel sent herself back in time to avoid her timelime to happen (i am making the story simplier, but you can see that the reference is there).
But the Visionary also have refenreces to Jean Grey herself: After the first encounter with the Phoenix Force, Jean Grey's body remained in the ocean for many years: her powers protected her body in a telekinetic cocoon. Also, in the Dark Phoenix Saga, Jean Grey is dressed at some point as the Black Queen in a black and very revealing outfit:
References for the Dreamer:
In an episode of the first season of buffy the vampire slayer ("Nightmares"), there is a boy who is in a comma, and his nightmares are becoming real. This idea was later reused by Josh Weddon for his X-men comic series ("Astonishing X-men" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astonishing_X-Men) In the first comic book of the series, there is a mutant girl called Tildie Soames (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tildie_Soames), whose nighmares become alive monsters. The first time her powers manifested, she was sleeping in her mother's bed, and the monsters killed both of her parents and some police agents.
I mean, CAN you do a psychic without making at least some Jean Grey/ Phoenix references? Anyone with powers like that would be very susceptible to going crazy-town, and since the human mind paired with psychic abilities has limitless potential, going crazy-town would be bad news bears. Of course, the Phoenix is an entity outside Jean Grey as well, but the same idea: that you could actually go crazy simply because you have powers that are far and beyond the boundaries of human understanding (say, time travel, altering timelines) and that you could, if you were psychic, make your worst side into an actual personality with thoughts all her own- that is a totally legit direction to go in and would be shadows of the Phoenix.
I maintain that there is at least as much Raven as Jean in Visionary.
... and, of course, I maintain that it is clearly evil Absolute Zero tagging Tachyon. Those hoses!
Ironic
P.S. As for Shattered Timelines stuff being sad... it is the Bad Future, right? The whole point is that none of this should really happen, if the heroes get their act together.
Oh yeah, Raven's in there too. That whole dark side that may or may not be trying to get out at all times thing. (Of course, I don't know enough about my comics publication history, but Raven is a relatively new character, right? if so, she has shadows of dark phoenix too. the interplay of characters inspiring other artists is one of my favorite parts of the entire genre)
Also, I am really curious what the deal is with The Scholar's incapacitated side. I'm not really at all interested by his theme of "just kinda lucked into godlike power and wanders around being an aimless plot device," but the fact that his Bad Ending seems to depict him gaining radically more power really has my attention. Was the Philosopher's Stone some evil artifact all along, as per Full Metal Alchemist? Is some mystically-minded baddie trying to augment and brainwash him? Or is he just being torn apart by the power he has channeled? Exciting stuff!
Ironic
P.S. Team Leader Tachyon's Incapacitated Side is sad, but I was much more depressed by Eternal Haka.
I think door number 3 fits the Scholar's incap. side. Right now he has will, but he loses control and the power takes over. Turning him completely into a force, which would probably stay stationary instead of acting to right wrongs.
It is very late, please forgive oncoherencies
I would agree with Chaosmancer: it kinda looks like he becomes controlled by the Philosopher's Stone, which in my opinion is neither good nor bad-it just is. He loses control over the Stone, and he becomes like a force of nature, destructive or helpful.
Also note that there are 4 elemental corners, which seems to depict his 3 elemental forms. But opens question for the 4th one. Could be just his normal golden blast O.o
The symbol in the upper left on The Scholar's incap side looks very similar to the Nightmist/Gloomweaver nemesis symbol.
Also, the Japanese on the back of The Fixer's character reads "Owari", "the end". While I'm at it, on the front of his card there's a character that means to fix or mend. It can be pronounced "zen" or "tsukuru". (Before you ask, different "zen" than in "Zen Buddhism".)