No Sikh Superheroes? Why not? and What can we do about it?

Sinister · #10 (**permalink**) 23-Aug-2008, 10:19 AM

I got to thinking one day (which rarely happens) … what would be the ULTIMATE superhero … A hero that is UNDEFEATABLE?
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/sikh-youth/22784-no-sikh-superheroes-why-not-what.html

Then, while relieving myself at a urinal, I got a Eureka moment:

A superhero that DOES NOT EXIST, is the ultimate superhero!

Instead of creating a tangible superhero character, create a depraved, desparate and hope filled environment that just believes in his existence!
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/showthread.php?t=22784

And I give you the Birth of Mr. Ambiguous

Think about it:
All that the reader can know about Mr. Ambiguous is what the derranged social environment makes him out to be.

he/she is just a rumor circulating amongst people who are too incapable to confirm his existence…a superhero, that regardless of questionable existence can manipulate how people in the comic book think and carry out a task.

What other superhero powers can be UNDEFEATABLE?
A superhero that can Freeze time and manipulate his surrounding environment while time is frozen.

Don’t know if its been done before

But like I said before, ‘good’ superheroes always have a weakness.
So these aren’t very good ideas.

cheers bro

BhagatSingh · #11 (**permalink**) 23-Aug-2008, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Sinister

I got to thinking one day (which rarely happens) … what would be the ULTIMATE superhero … A hero that is UNDEFEATABLE?

Then, while relieving myself at a urinal, I got a Eureka moment:

A superhero that DOES NOT EXIST, is the ultimate superhero!

Instead of creating a tangible superhero character, create a depraved, desparate and hope filled environment that just believes in his existence!

And I give you the Birth of Mr. Ambiguous

Think about it:
All that the reader can know about Mr. Ambiguous is what the derranged social environment makes him out to be.

he/she is just a rumor circulating amongst people who are too incapable to confirm his existence…a superhero, that regardless of questionable existence can manipulate how people in the comic book think and carry out a task.

What other superhero powers can be UNDEFEATABLE?
A superhero that can Freeze time and manipulate his surrounding environment while time is frozen.

Don’t know if its been done before

But like I said before, ‘good’ superheroes always have a weakness.
So these aren’t very good ideas.

cheers bro

Mr. Ambiguous = God so won't go there.

Mr. Time = way too confusing,

, i have thought about it MANY times!!
what if I go back in time and kill my dad?....

But ya keep the thinking process going.

on a side note: with the comics I want to create, I want it to be possible for someone to make a game out of them. So Mr. A. and Mr. T. work for comics and movies but not for video games.

Sinister · #12 (**permalink**) 23-Aug-2008, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by BhagatSingh

what if I go back in time and kill my dad?....

NO NO
he cant go back in time...he can only freeze time (and then kill his dad if need be)

Mr. A is NOT GOD because Mr. A doesnt exist! god exists .... right?

cheers

BhagatSingh · #13 (**permalink**) 23-Aug-2008, 11:12 AM

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NO NO
he cant go back in time...he can only freeze time (and then kill his dad if need be)

Hehe then yes, that makes him too strong. Some who can run at lightning speeds can accomplish this slowing of time. The main character of my "Mutants" storyline is able to run at high speeds, how he does this, I don't know (I am working on some sort of explanation). He can percieve moving things as if they aren't moving, plus he can move very fast, so he can engage in this frozen world like a normal human. He often gets nightmares about getting stuck in this sort of world.
This "slow time" ability of the character won't be available to the player in multiplayer mode.

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Mr. A is NOT GOD! because god exists .... right?

Riiiight.... well, it doesn't matter.
But Mr. A. sounds like God
" that regardless of questionable existence can manipulate how people in the comic book think and carry out a task."

"All that the reader can know about Mr. Ambiguous is what the derranged social environment makes him out to be."

"Instead of creating a tangible superhero character, create a depraved, desparate and hope filled environment that just believes in his existence!"
sub in GOD for Mr. A.

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cheers

Sinister · #14 (**permalink**) 23-Aug-2008, 11:45 AM

i also like useless/extremely ditsy superheroes...you know, like inspector gadget...

don't know why but i always felt i related to them and their helpless state the most.:p
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/showthread.php?t=22784

anyways, good luck bro.

BhagatSingh · #15 (**permalink**) 23-Aug-2008, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Sinister

i also like useless/extremely ditsy superheroes...you know, like inspector gadget...

don't know why but i always felt i related to them and their helpless state the most.:p
Maybe because we feel helpless most of the time.

anyways, good luck bro.

Thanks, will need it!

Narayanjot Kaur · #16 (**permalink**) 24-Aug-2008, 18:00 PM

Is the problem for Mr. A. that he has only a nirgun swaroop and is dependent on his creator for the sargun form?Whereas his creator is dependent on The Creator for what happens to him next?

Like....too many interfaces? Slow download? Browser times out?

Sinister · #17 (**permalink**) 25-Aug-2008, 06:04 AM

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Originally Posted by aad0002

Is the problem for Mr. A. that he has only a nirgun swaroop and is dependent on his creator for the sargun form?

NO NO,

There are no theoretical problems that exist for Mr. A, because Mr. A doesn’t exist. Ambiguous Constructions and Uncertainties do not have problems…just different levels of splendor and intoxication.

Mr. A's entire theoretical existence is dependent on the beliefs of that particular comic book society.

Nirgun/Sargun are not inaccurate but rather inadequate dichotomies describing the state of Mr. A’s existence:
Mr. A’s description and construction will be limitless (constantly growing/fluid character) yet limited to the sum total of the societies immediate mental capacities. Like an Orwellian construction of big brother…Mr. A is a superhero that can be defined and parameterized by something as rigid as Social consciousness and by something as fluid as microscopic symbolic interactionism...language dependant. (a person can go as far as to say Mr. A’s character development is a function that is dependant upon time)

In the minds of these comic books environmental characters, he exists purely as a psychological construct that fools-around and takes advantage of the populaces tolerance for ambiguity (hence the name Mr. Ambiguous).

He is a psychological construct that affects a characters psychological construct…a potent agent of agency that cannot be discerned.

Oh yea, and he fights ‘bad guys’!

cheers

Sinister · #18 (**permalink**) 25-Aug-2008, 06:07 AM

It’s not worth it to become a superhero. According to Slave Morality it is equally rewarding to dwell in a state of anonymous mediocrity…why not create a superhero that can bore people to death?