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Marvel during that era was weirdly obsessed with the LSH. Wolverine started off as a "we gotta get us our own Timber Wolf" knock-off...

Though as noted, he's really a Mon-El copy, since the whole Imperial Guard started out as LSH expies on the part of Dave Cockram and...

Too right. The wiki lead me astray. To the broader point, yes. Gladiator is a Superman clone. Pure and simple...

Yeah, but in this case it was the same artist drawing a deliberate homage to his own earlier cover, including choosing similar...

While John Byrne is as fond of repetitive poses as the next artist (more so, really, especially the Byrne choke) the Superman cover is...

Are you implying that Gladiator and Superman are similar?

My point was that it only followed because it was a brand new take on the character. It should have otherwise been known long since.

It sort of makes sense if you assume all his other powers are basically psychic, too - so his sensory powers are various forms of...

It reminds me of one of the few times Warren Ellis wrote Superman where he says all his powers come from gravity control and then says...

Oh, I know about Aberrant, I was just making a 90s Superboy joke. It was his thing, much like Psylocke’s tendency to soliloquise about...

We do at least get quite a few of them in Lower Decks, both in the episode where they visit DS9 and the alternate versions later in the...

I think you mean tactile telekinesis. “It’s the 90s and I haven’t mentioned how my tactile TK works for a whole issue!”

Yes. We're always trying to save each other even if it's a bad idea, even if we know it's a bad idea. There are thousands of accounts...

I think that the Holodeck can create actual clothing and food, or can at least act as a food synthesizer on a larger scale. Why do...

Actually it seems like I was misremembering (or misunderstood when I first watched Picard). According to Memory Alpha, S31 is mostly...