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FEB 24, 2005 01:23 PM
Slander said:
JoshXXX said:
Jeff_Fries said:
Who is that, Mr. Incredible?
OMFG!!!! That's Longshot. He has the power to change luck on his side, but if he does, then an equal ammount of bad luck happens to him. He also has telepathic abilities to where he can read objects pasts and futures. Finally, he was "created" with light, hollow bones, like those of a bird, which increase his agility. He sucks almost as bad as Aquaman.
[FANBOY]Actually, Longshot only gets the bad luck if he uses his probability manipulation selfishly. If he does it in defense of the innocent, with pure motives, he suffers no ill-effects.[/FANBOY]
damn it, i closed the tags but I'm stuck in fanboy mode...
Longshot fit the age in which he was written. He fit the tone of the book during that time period...except for not being a mutant in the slightest bit. The above picture is a shitty rendition of the guy, though...Longshot doesn't have the ability to grimace. He was like a big dumb happy puppy.
Toughest thing I ever saw him do in the X-Men was throw his paltry blades at just the right angle in just the right spot to dislodge Juggernaut's helmet, so that they could rip it off and do some psychic mojo on him. I suppose that makes him useful for team-based manuevers; he'd set up a lot of shots and get a lot of rebounds, I reckon. He would also be useful for stymying long-winded soliloquies of villains...
Mr. Sinister: "So, X-Men, you finally see the utter brilliance of my plans, and your own overwhelming stupidity in stumbling--" *slips on a banana peel* "Stop laughing! That wasn't funny! Oh damn, I've lost my place...?"
Aquaman is the hero that the other heroes picked on. Longshot is the hero that Aquaman picks on.
The Marvel Directory says that he does, infact, create bad luck for those around him, or even himself..
Throwing blades didn't have anything to do with his luck, I thought.
Basically, the only time I can think of where he'd be useful is Uncanny X-Men Special: X-Men Do Atlantic City.
[Edited on Feb 24, 2005 by JoshXXX]
FEB 24, 2005 02:39 PM
FEB 24, 2005 02:49 PM
RIP.
FEB 24, 2005 06:18 PM
JoshXXX said:
Aquaman is the hero that the other heroes picked on. Longshot is the hero that Aquaman picks on.
The Marvel Directory says that he does, infact, create bad luck for those around him, or even himself..
Throwing blades didn't have anything to do with his luck, I thought.
Basically, the only time I can think of where he'd be useful is Uncanny X-Men Special: X-Men Do Atlantic City.
[Edited on Feb 24, 2005 by JoshXXX]
Did you ever read the original Longshot Miniseries? It was pretty clearly stated what situations bring him bad luck in that series. It was, I believe, in a conversation with his ram-headed sidekick Quark, that Longshot came to this realization. I think it was in the first issue, but it might have been the second.
It's up to you who you believe, but all I can say is, I know what I've read from that series. And that is: he doesn't suffer the bad luck effects as long as he's using his good luck virtuously and with pure motives. If the Marveldirectory.com (the official marvel site doesn't actually have anything to do with this site, it seems...) entry doesn't mention that specifically, it's only giving you part of the information. In other words, the directory entry isn't wrong...it's just not telling you the whole truth, probably because the guy who wrote it didn't have the space to go into more detail, or he's really busy in his job as a Staff Sergeant.
It also doesn't mention the fact that Longshot and Wolverine like the fisting... 
His blades are just pieces of equipment. But it's possible to get a "lucky" shot with anything, right? So it follows if you consciously manipulate probablities, you're gonna get a lot of lucky (or unlucky) shots with the stuff you use.
FEB 24, 2005 08:14 PM
Marvel Directory, btw, is crap. The listing for Blob makes me nauseous.
...It is not yet known if there is an upper limit to the Blob's ability to absorb impact. While he could easily survive a head-on collision with a bus traveling at a hundred miles per hour, even a highly ferrous meteorite fifty feet in diameter on top of him at terminal velocity, it is not known whether he could survive a collision with an object traveling at near light speed. Further, it is not known whether his skin's imperviousness to heat could survive the 11,000,000-degree heat at ground zero of a multi-megaton atomic blast.
Slander
Dayton, OH
May 2004
FEB 24, 2005 06:10 AM