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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6029845" data-attributes="member: 177">Depending how closely they adhere to the comics, the Tesseract is not Asgardian technology.&nbsp; It is a renamed &quot;Cosmic Cube&quot; - renamed to avoid the cheese factor, I assume.In the Marvel universe, several civilizations have created Cosmic Cubes.&nbsp; A couple are created on Earth - the first by AIM (of Red Skull fame), made by semi-accident.&nbsp; The Skrulls (the Chitauri of the movie are the Ultimates-line version of Skrulls) also made one, as did others - Asgard notably *not* having made one in the main continuity.If you're doing it as merely a physical power simulation, yes.&nbsp; If you allow for appropriately heroic levels of tactics, leadership, trickery, and inventiveness, it becomes less so.&nbsp; Hawkeye succeeds not just because he has arrows (the pointy end goes in the other man!), but he uses them in just the right way&nbsp; - to exploit a weakness, for example.&nbsp; The Marvel Heroic RPG handles such things pretty well, actually.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6029845, member: 177"] Depending how closely they adhere to the comics, the Tesseract is not Asgardian technology. It is a renamed "Cosmic Cube" - renamed to avoid the cheese factor, I assume. In the Marvel universe, several civilizations have created Cosmic Cubes. A couple are created on Earth - the first by AIM (of Red Skull fame), made by semi-accident. The Skrulls (the Chitauri of the movie are the Ultimates-line version of Skrulls) also made one, as did others - Asgard notably *not* having made one in the main continuity. If you're doing it as merely a physical power simulation, yes. If you allow for appropriately heroic levels of tactics, leadership, trickery, and inventiveness, it becomes less so. Hawkeye succeeds not just because he has arrows (the pointy end goes in the other man!), but he uses them in just the right way - to exploit a weakness, for example. The Marvel Heroic RPG handles such things pretty well, actually. [/QUOTE]

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