Here's what I don't get. With all the cool photos they could have of the mutants, why would they stick a picture of Brett Ratner in the middle. Does anyone who might see this movie give a crap what Brett Ratner looks like?

Who the hell can't fly?

You mean besides Wolverine, Colossus, Cyclops, Night Crawler, that ice-frost guy, Professor Xavier, Pyro, Sabretooth, Mystique, Bat Man, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, the Flash ... ?

Aquaman!

Point taken, but flight is kinda a secondary power, isn't it?

Name another hero whose power is flight and nothing else.

Didn't they revamp Angel in the comic book to have titanium wings (or admantium) with darts that could spray towards the bad guys?

Accch du lieber ... hit post too soon.

bamf

So Marvel would agree with Ace, then ...

Yeah, they turned him into "Archangel," and gave him, get this, some actual offensive power.

The only hero I can think of who can only fly is The Tick's sidekick, The Moth. Who is acknowledged to be a joke.

OK, so what could you say about the original Angel? They never really played up the guy's killer lats, did they?

But I remember that he had the whole wind power thing - buffets, blasts, gusts and such to move people and things around.

What a hell of a mutant power. You know the jokes must have been pretty good when the wings were just stubbies. They were probably perky too.

All of the original X-Men were pretty low-powered in the beginning. Iceman was more of a Snowball, Cyke's optic blasts had about the impact of a wet towel being snapped, and Marvel Girl only had weak-ass telekinesis- no telepathy.

But y'know, then the braces came off, and...

Er... Zeplin from Harbingers, all she could do is fly.. And she was like uh, Fat... so thus the nam. As to Angels Powers:

Powers and Abilities:
peak human strength, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, eyesight, and hearing, hollow bone structure, zero body fat in his body, feathered wings allowing flight, healing power in his blood rejuvenates him and anyone with a compatible blood type it touches, carries a mystical sword.

Well, that is the updated Angel... now appearing in the comics. He has his feathery wings once again also.

"Name another hero whose power is flight and nothing else."
Hawkman

Oh yeah... at least he had a sling, though.

And was just kinda cool.

Unlike Angel, who even had a, let us say, less than threatening name.

Hawkman, had that whole Berserker Rage thing... And he could swing a pretty good mace.

Falcon, too, actually.

E:

That stuff about "peak human strength" etc. means they're really weak. Superheroes have "peak human strength" as a baseline.

True, there is also Condor from DC. A 3rd Rate Hawkman. And Hawk Girl/Woman.

Fraiser looks good

The Vulture. OK, he's a villain, but all he does is fly - and despite his being an old fart, he gave Spider-Man a pretty good fight.

harvey birdman, attorney at law

Actually, the Tick's sidekick's name was Arthur. He just had a flying moth suit.

SPOOOOOONNNN!

Check the "Kirsten is all about class" link.

Definitely not 36 year-old boobs. Very nice.

Links like this are the only reason I lurk on this idiot-blog ;-)

Did you check out the second page?

Especially the part about flying vs. literacy?

And I quote:

While you're reading, you can learn how to build explosives out of feces, and use them to explode people's heads.

Pretty good.

Better:

Every group needs a guy like Hawkman -- someone stupid enough to do whatever you tell him. When we were kids, we always had one friend who would eat things you found on the ground to see if it would kill you. He'd touch the fence to see if it was electrified, and you could shove him into the river to see if the water was cold. Sometimes just for fun, you'd make him eat a soup you made out of ketchup and grape jelly. It took some work to trick him sometimes, but deep down he knew it was his job. He knew he could be replaced if he ever objected too much. Why do you think the Super Friends sent Hawkman first whenever a weird glowing thing fell from the sky? "Damn. Whatever that is, it looks pretty radioactive.... Hawkman, you're the only one... strong... enough to go look at it. We'll monitor you from here."

He's like Tonto, but with wings and a mace.

[by the way, why a mace? Does anyone really use a mace besides level 1 clerics?]

Yeah, Arthur never had a superhero name. He was just an accountant with a very particular sense of fashion. "Oh, I can fly, but, but my wings are back in my room..."

Although once the Roman God of the Aqueduct called him "Rabbit-Man".

Name another hero whose power is flight and nothing else.

If you're going to start categorizing, where does Batman fit in? Or NightOwl?

God, I am such a geek. And if you know who Night Owl is, then you are too.

I can't believe I actually argue on the subject of homosexuality with you geeks.
Of course you're okay with the gay thing -- you're homos.

Are you kidding? Obsessing over stories about balloon-breasted women fighting in tattered spandex is about as heterosexual male as you can get. Sure, without actually scoring with chicks and stuff, but still, that's hetero, man.

Maybe not Chris Klein alpha heterosexual...

...beta heterosexual, sure.

Like Chris Klein back in Jazz Choir.

I don't know who Night Owl is! That must mean I'm cool!!!

Bawdy indeed...

Nite Owl I had a domino mask and a right cross. Nite Owl II at least had the wonderful toys, including the Owlship and the pocket laser.

All these sorts of folks (Batman, Nite Owl, and so on) were categorized by Steven Long as "Trained Paranormal Operatives" in the sense that their gear and training, though not superhuman, raised them so far above a standard human that they were effectively supers. It came up as a legal case indicating that there was no violation of civil rights if the villain Utility were confined within Stronghold, a super-prison, though he had no powers, owing to the inability of any normal prison to hold him.

And if you know who Steven Long or Utility are, you're a real geek. Otherwise, you're a poser.

ANGEL meets HAWKMAN meets THE VULTURE meets BIRDMAN and the feathers fly