No, phantaskippy has it pretty right. Beauty, physical attractiveness, and attractiveness, are three related but not synonymous concepts.
I hate to disagree with you and I don't want to derail this thread but every thesaurus I have access to lists these words as synonyms.
Essentially:
As phantaskippy pointed out, you can find something beautiful without being attracted to it.
Likewise, you can also find something physically attractive without being attracted to it.
So reality > thesaurus.
I still stand by original statement on Bloogo regardless of what word you want to use. I feel pity for Bloogo because he just ends up being a punching bag that didn't necessarily deserve it.
So you don't think Bloogo is adorable?
Because pretty sure phantaskippy was replying to the "Most Adorable Person in the Sentinelsverse" question.
Nope
You might want to check the back of your cards, they might have a unique design.
I think this is why I didn't think of Rebecca at first.
She's good-looking and the insanity card can have an edge of dangerous attraction to it, but the fact that she is likely unisurable and likely leaves failed romantic partners in literal pieces makes her edge into the territory of scary scary lady.
Thinkin about villains, I wonder if how the various Glamours look without their masks…
I don't personally think Becky is sexy; I just think she's adorable.
Villain sexy is a whole other ball of wax; villains being creepy sexy or scary sexy is half the appeal there, IMHO.
(I'm not terribly big on the whole "they're just misunderstood" angle; whenever I have a villain as a fave character, I like them precisely because they're entertainingly horrible.)
I do want to derail the thread! I'm sure the mods can sort it out.
The thesauruses (thesauri?) are tools for finding words that mean similar things - not all the words that are listed as synonyms mean exactly the same thing. For example, Merriam-Webster lists 'astonishing' as a synonym for 'wonderful'. If the words all meant exactly the same, then why would you be looking for a different one? It's the nuances and connotations that are make the difference, and they are critical when dealing with a complex and subjective subject like beauty (et. al.)
As a brief aside, as far as I can tell the words 'gigantic' and 'enormous' do mean exactly the same thing, which is why it amuses me that someone felt the need to combine them and make 'ginormous'. I mean, didn't we already have enough identical words for 'very large'?
English is a horrible mongrel of a language which mixes up it's influences and never can quite choose which of it's parents to follow.That is why many words can have multiple meanings. For example wonderful is a synonym and an antonym of awful depending on which meanings you choose. And you can choose the meaning you like as long as it's obvious by context.
I'm aware that different synonyms can imply something that the original word does not, for example the word reform implies a need for change that the word change itself does not .That is the main reason for using a synonym it implies a secondary meaning that you also want to convey.( Or perhaps your looking for a more neutral word).
I agree that nuance and connotations are important, but those are things that are hard to convey through print. For example in our case if you are talking about the attractiveness of a person, normally one would have to specify that you did not mean (just) physical attractiveness. Thus it is up to the speaker to set the nuance of an attraction based on shared interests or what have you. Also in this thread we are not talking about sunsets or rainbows or Eulers equation or other inanimate objects that can be described as beautiful.The context is the beauty of people ( and aliens), it is unfair to bring these other things into the conversation , they are not relevant to the beauty of people. And when one is talking about the beauty of people , attractiveness is one of the nuances implied by the word beauty in that situation. The beauty of another person is not just aesthetic the way a tiger is. When a person describes another person as beautiful, physical attractiveness is implied.
I would say that in this thread , talking about this subject the nuances and connotations are on my side of the discussion.Of course nuance is set by the majority and thus I could be in the wrong.I wouldn't call myself a lover or especially interested student of the English language so I don't even know why phantaskippys post annoyed enough to reply in the way I did
Would just like to point out that I have never found anyone physically attractive. So if I'm judging stuff by appearance I'm gonna go by how cool/cute I think it looks. So the doggy is cute. Bloogo is sort of weirdly cute but kind of cool-looking at the same time (he's a great big rhino-monster-thing! That's pretty cool!). If there is a choices of humans and non-humans when it comes to "Which of these do you like the look of the best?" I am not likely to go for any of the humans. I'm trying to think if there are any human-looking Sentinels characters I think look cool...hmm...well, Apostate on his flip side has the cool wings and the blue fiery stuff everywhere...that's pretty cool. But I wouldn't refer to any of them as "beautiful" (I tend to use that word more for...I dunno, big sweeping landscapes and stuff) and would never say any of them are "attractive".
So maybe this thread isn't for me but I feel like I should point out that not everyone fancies people :P.
For me, who I "fancy" is based almost entirely on personality instead, so while I can find people attractive from an aesthetic standpoint, that is not the same thing as who I find romantically attractive.
Like I definitely think Ambuscade is physically attractive, but I sure wouldn't date him. Argent is handsome, but I find that trying to socially interact in general with anyone more serious than myself rarely goes very successfully. The "who would I actually date" list looks more like Setback, who's just incredibly nice and sweet and goofy, and perhaps Captain Cosmic who seems intelligent, kind, cheerful, and with a slightly goofy sense of humor (anyone who throws a double-decker bus at bad guys gets my vote).
I agree that I have never been physically moved closer to another individual by their very presence, like magnetic poles… because attraction…
I apoligize, the discussion of the English language has made me goofy and wont to do terrible things to the fine art of humor. I shall excuse myself and think about what I have done.
You, me, and Anthony Drake
Adam posted!
I think The Broker is hot
I want to echo Powerhound's question about who else poses for the pledge drive calendar. Is it a villains-only thing? Do the heroes have their own equivalent charity fundraiser pinup calendar? In the Publishing Universe, did Sentinel Comics ever put out swimsuit issues?
She-Hulk is a female Hulk, and most would say she's pretty dang attractive.
Maybe it is a Mordengrad exclusive, like the Firefighter calendars only for those who work for the Gloruous Baron Blade.
Legacy of course has been in many charity calendar events, probably Bunker as well, while Maia's high profile life means there are no official shoots, but she's got a few pics floating around from Spring Break.