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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 992435" data-attributes="member: 505">In fairness, both Martian Manhunter and Green Lantern are obscenely powerful and should really be able to handle the problems in most of the episodes by themselves.My problem is that they handle both of these characters, Manhunter in particular, by dues ex machinaing them out of the fight.  As I said on another thread, how many times have you seen Manhunter just grab his head, scream, and fall to the ground?  You can almost set your watch to it.  It's just lazy writing.OTOH, I'm glad they ditched his vulnerabilty to fire.  I always thought that was stupid, especially since he has heat vision.  "Let me use my heat vision and...argh!  Fire!  My powers are fading!"  Did the people who created him even think these things through?Plus, they don't even know if he's vulnerable to fire in the comics anymore.  In some issues he is, in others, he isn't.And I didn't even notice the "yellow" thing with Lantern in the cartoon.  I've heard that the new comics GL doesn't have that weakness any longer, so I guess they just carried it over.BTW, Cartoon Network has been running JLA during their afternoon Toonami block, so I've gotten a chance to rewatch the shows and 2 things occurred to me.First, I think the look of the animated Cheetah sucks.   Am I alone in this?  She just looks so...generic.  I would have preferred something closer to the comics.Secondly, I don't think we've seen the Leaguers unmasked, have we?  I mean, GL, Manhunter, Superman, and Wonder Woman don't wear masks, but have we seen the real faces of Flash, Batman, or Hawkgirl?  I think it would be a nice touch to see them in their civilian lives as they get the call for a mission.  This especially applies to Hawkgirl, since we know she is lost and can't find her way back to her homeworld.  What does she do, hang out with Manhunter all day on the station?  That in itself is concievable, but does she keep the mask on all day, too?  Unless Thanagar has a masked, Mexican wrestling culture where eveyone wears thier hoods all the time, that would be a bit silly. I realize that the wrestling comment would be lost on some people, so I should explain that.  Basically, Mexico produced a genre of films which starred actual masked wrestlers playing themselves as they battled spies, monsters, aliens, etc..  Since they wore the masks in the ring and didn't want to show their faces on the screen, they kept their hoods on all the time in the films, giving us such great sights as a guy in a suit and tie, wearing a mask.  Seriously, it does look really cool, especially when they throw down with a werewolf or something.</blockquote>

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