QotD #142 Reply: I normally don’t play favourites, but Daybreak is the exception. Why? Maybe I just don’t like teenaged Heroes, or maybe I’m just biased against “new” characters. Anyway, here’s them ranked from my least favourite (#1) to my favourite (#5):
- Aeon Girl: She’s a blasted Scion of OblivAeon! Why is it bad to have one or two OblivAeon Shards* lying around (laying around?), but not a battery full of OblivAeon power‽ I tell you, if OblivAeon returns, Aeon Girl will be at fault. (One of my RPG characters would definitely attack her on sight.)
- Headlong: I dislike this pseudo-speedster guy because his powers are just so lame. He can become frictionless. What does that let him do besides fall over every scene? Fine, I guess he can “skate” around. So, that’s his power: a guy with rollerskates. “Watch out, Myriad! I’m gonna slide into you!”
- Rockstar: I don’t mind the pun name (I like puns : )), and I don’t remember her being based on a real person, but I’ll take your word for it. Uh, the following comments are about the fictional character “Rockstar,” not the person who inspired her, so please don’t take ghostly vengeance on me. Anyway, she just kind of feels boring and “meh.” Her rock powers aren’t all that unique or interesting. She kinda seems like a stereotypical teenager.
- Muerto: He, too, seems neither remarkably good nor exceedingly bad. I do somewhat dislike him for being Ra in the Vertex Timeline, because that’s not “my” Ra. I only put him above Rockstar because Thiago Diaz (who was also coincidentally based on a real person who might have died, I don’t remember) was an existing character in Sentinel Comics, unlike these Johnny-come-latelies.
- Muse: I like her the best because she’s the most already-established character in the Sentinels Canon on this team. She’s already been through the whole Dreamer thing, and has the most existing connections with other characters.
Yeah, the lifeline thing is cute, but it doesn’t excuse being the herald of the worst threat The Multiverse has ever seen.
Now, I have nothing wrong with the actual characters of Aeon Girl and Headlong, just their existence and lam powers, respectively.
As for who I’d want to be, definitely not Aeon Girl or Muerto. I like being human. Headlong’s powers are still lame and Rockstar is still boring, so I guess I’ll go with Muse on this one too.
Question of the Day #143: Suppose you’re on a game show, and you’re given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, “Do you want to pick door No. 2?” Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?
*Yeah, I know they’re called “Oblivion Shards,” but I think that was just to not spoil The Big Guy’s name.