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  1. 3 hours ago, Magnamax said:

    I guess I disagree that Clock King being good with schedules makes him better at abducting Alfred. Does he have any evidence of being able to break into something like the Batcave? Ratchet being able to leverage rats to infiltrate, escape, and keep Alfred hidden will make him more likely to get a payday. Plus, I think he has much more experience with Batman.

    Well, there have been several versions of the Clock King, which are detailed in the Wikipedia page.

    It really depends on how generous you want to be with the version. I'm opting for a generous interpretation.

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    The second Clock King has the always-active ability to see what is about to happen four seconds or so into the future, allowing him to anticipate an opponent's every move.[14] He is also a technological genius, creating devices such as teleporters, communications jamming equipment, and even an anti-gravity platform, all of them modelled after timepieces.

    Robust (to the second) planning coupled with items such as teleporters and communications jammers looks attractive to me in this scenario.

    I imagine that extorting Bruce Wayne takes some serious planning.

     

     

  2. 5 minutes ago, Peypeypeypey said:

    Belle's father is a brilliant inventor, but he's also socially a pariah. I don't even remember Gaston manipulating him specifically. I remember him manipulating other people to say he's crazy. When did Gaston manipulate Belle? I don't remember that

    Gaston manipulates Belle via her father.  It's pretty straightforward in the script, and yes she escapes which is all well and good, but now I think you are just being intentionally obtuse. I'm done in this one.

  3. 6 hours ago, Peypeypeypey said:

    I don't understand why people keep saying that Gaston is some kind of good manipulator.

    He manipulated Belle and manipulated her father right into the mad house. He manipulated the whole town like a virtuoso.

    See, I'm on the other end of the scale and don't understand why people don't see his abilities.

  4. Mystery Inc. is notoriously difficult to scare off a case. You can reference any of the various animated series going back to the 70's and the movies and count on less than one hand the number of things that have scared them off a case.

    I don't think either one of these characters can literally scare the team off the case. 

    However, I do think either one of them could misdirect Mystery Inc. off the case. Or, make them think there is no case. I'm liking Gaston's chances here since he's got charisma and a normal, not mysterious approach.  If Mirage tries to use illusions she's just going to intrigue Mystery Inc. and suck them into investigating.

     

  5. This is a really difficult one. You could make a case for either, and it would be a reasonable argument.

    Alfred is an orderly personality that has a schedule which give Clock King and advantage.

    Alfred visits the Batcave which for sure has bats in it, and surely rats in some capacity. To be fair, bats are flying rats. That give Rat Catcher an advantage.

    but the question before us is... "Who can get ransom money?"  Which one of these blokes is most likely to get one red cent out of Bruce Wayne?  I favor Clock King to be one step ahead of the Detective and get a pay day.

     

  6. I think Mordor is one of the more consistently dangerous terrains in play.  However, I believe that the skillful character can get through it and I lean Hicks here.

    In the film Return of the King we get a really good look at how Mordor operates and we learn a few things.

    •  it has wide stretches of open wasteland.
    •  the Eye passes over you if you keep your head down.
    •  it's fairly easy to get Orcs to fight one another - case in point, when Sam solos the tower looking for Frodo.
    •  Shelob will not survive an encounter with Hicks future tech, nor will any Orcs.

    It's really down to Hicks not be spotted by a Nazgul, IMO. Hicks has no chance against a Nazgul which cannot be killed by men. It's literally gender specific what can kill it.

    I think, in general, Hicks has the right training and attitude to keep low and get through a day.

     

     

  7. Hera is the patron Goddess of marriage and all the things surrounding it which could extend to family and so forth. A powerful deity for sure, but I'm not sure where that attracts Vampires.  

    Isis is a player in the cycle of life, death and rebirth. As Vampires are essentially reborn from death, I see an angle there for Isis among Vampires. 

    I would have to go with Isis here.

  8. 1 hour ago, Pizzaguy2995 said:

    So yeah, Tobey Maguire’s spidey sense is very unreliable and not nearly as effective as the comics Spider-Man, so I really doubt it’ll help him out against Deathstroke. You know, the guy who consistently keeps up with and tags Kid Flash (Wally and Bart).

    Except you seem to be citing the Comics Deathstroke version, which is out of bounds.  You'll need to come up with feats for a Tier 9 version of Deathstroke - like from the DC movies or something.

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