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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1524491" data-attributes="member: 5171">Well, Superman pretty much follows the rules for dramatic tension.  He has to get knocked around for awhile, and then he gets angry or determined and then smacks the bad guys down.  This is alluded to in the fight between Supes and Grundy, and in the fight between Supes and King or Ace or whoever the strong Royal Flush guy was.  He trades punches for awhile, holding back and rolling with the punch (ie, getting knocked around), and then he eventually raises the level of force used.  The unwritten rule is that most of the time, the JLA is using kid gloves, even on bad guys.  In the episode where Supes "died", Wonder Woman took out the big threat with a burst of power and speed that would have ended the threat a whole lot earlier had she bothered, and Flash said something to the effect of "You know, I always played around in the fights, because I knew Supes would be there to protect me.  I can't do that anymore."And in the "team gets broken up by evil group" episode, Superman's damage-absorbing nature is laid clear.  During a training exercise, Supes is shown taking a pounding, until finally he beats the bad hologram up and kills it (one of GL's creations).  GL says "You were taking a lot of needless hits out there," and Superman flatly says something like, "We're not all created equal.  I take those hits because I can, because it's one more hit that one of you doesn't have to take."  Because of his power, he's got a martyr complex, and feels like he has to take all the beatings.Didn't notice the issues with Hawkgirl on the show, but given that her mace uses electricity, I can imagine some kind of resistance to electricity on her part.  As for it getting Supes, well, it was a room made by the bad guys specifically to knock their other selves out.  I'm sure that Red Sun radiation or Kryptonite was involved at some level.  And hey, we're all gamers here.  How many times has the fighter in your group failed his Fort save only to see the weak wizard make it?  Randomness happens.Luthor's plotgun annoyed me, too, but I mentally edited it to "messes up the mental connections necessary to use those powers, so that it works regardless of whether the power comes from being an alien, gifts from the gods, mutation, or a device".  Not a whole lot better, but, eh.  Draining powers, regardless of the realistic viability thereof, is a staple of the comic-book world.</blockquote>

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