My Wife is in TV Guide - Who Wants To Be A Superhero 2

[jonathan swift]

So far, I've got to say Defuser and Hyper-Strike are the forerunners. Hyper-Strike maybe the most. He has a mix of Major Victory's charisma and Feedback's likeable nerdiness.

 

[trancejeremy]

Defuser is too pushy, IMHO. It's going to catch up with him eventually.

 

[jonathan swift]

Defuser is too pushy, IMHO. It's going to catch up with him eventually.

Probably. But last year I thought Major Victory was a shoe-in.

 

[jonathan swift]

Hyper-Strike didn't like his costume, could be bad news for the fan favorite!

 

[trancejeremy]

Probably. But last year I thought Major Victory was a shoe-in.

Yeah, but he was robbed.

 

[jonathan swift]

Limelight is staying in this one. It's Mitzvah or Mindset. I'm leaning towards Mindset getting the boot for being a jack.

 

[trancejeremy]

Spoiler

Good guess!

 

[jonathan swift]

It could have gone either way. I think what pushed him over was how arrogant he came off. Mitzvah isn't gelling with the group, but isn't as outright antagonistic as Mindset was.

 

[Richards]

Spoiler

Yeah, of the three of them, Mindset had two strikes against him: picking on Ms. Limelight and putting his teammates in danger in that spelling bee. Compared against Mr. Mitzvah protecting his face (which didn't actually prevent him from hitting the buzzer anyway) and Ms. Limelight basically just being a ditz, he was the logical choice to go. (Arguing that Stan was wrong after he had already made his decision didn't help matters either.)

And great job, Hygena, on making it past the claustrophobia and the fear of bees! I thought it was pretty funny, up on the roof at the end, when right after Stan first admonishes one of the heroes, he then says "Hygena" and she kind of jumps, like "Oh no -- what did I do?" only to have Stan praise her for a job well done.

I'd say the following are on the short list for near-future elimination: Ms. Limelight (she's not really heroic at all, and pretty much a ditz), Whip-Snap (I'm getting tired of the "poor me" sob story all the time and the turn-on/turn-off tears), and Parthenon (he seems more concerned about his "bling" than about being a superhero). It'll be interesting to see how it turns out.

Johnathan

Edit: Are we editing for spoilers now? I kind of assumed this was a thread for discussion about the particulars about the show, for those who had seen it. Oh well, I guess it won't hurt to be safe.

 

[Felon]

Actually, I think the Mr Mitzvah character could appeal to Stan pretty heavily. After all, the former Mr Lieber (or Lieberman, depending on the source you check) and his artistic partner the former Mr Kurtzberg spent the first part of their careers including Christmas specials for their universally "christian lite" characters to appeal to the broadest audience possible. He might find a jewish superhero drawing his heroic inspiration from taking the mitzvah (good deed) to it's furthest conclusion kinda cool.

I think you just illustrated pretty aptly that Stan (who favors his pen name unilaterally) probably isn't too interested in that direction. Also, note how his take (i.e. retcon) on Mitzvah was that he gets his power not from a divine source, but from "life"--something nice, generic, and non-denominational.