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Harry is most like (Favourite DC superhero)?

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Talby16:

--- Quote from: Talby16 on October 23, 2017, 06:44:33 PM ---I went with Dresden as Green Lantern. My reasoning: Number 1, will is what powers a green lantern. We have seen Harry use his will in numerous situations both mental (with Lash and with the outsider in Cold Days) and physical (facing down Mother Winter and her mental bonds in Cold Days). Number 2,  lanterns use their will to create constructs to fight with. Kind of like what Harry does with soul fire. Furthermore, Harry uses a number of physical constructs that he pours his magic (directed by his will) into. Number 3, Green Lanterns police a sector of space. Harry initially starts out just "policing" Chicago, but he has transitioned to much more. First a region of America as a Warden Commander. Then all of America via the Paranet. Followed by being The Warden of Demonreach responsible for the big bads drawn from all over. Now he the Knight of Winter which covers almost half of the Fae (in addition to his White Council duties). He has moved beyond being the "Batman" of Chicago (a role I would actually give to Butters pre-KotC). He is responsible for a huge "sector of space" a la Green Lantern.

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To further my analogy I add number 4: Whoever the Green Lantern is (Jordan, Stewart, Raynor), he belongs to an organization tasked with maintaining order. Each lantern draws power from a similar place and uses their will to shape it according to the situation they find themselves in. The power comes from a similar place, but it expresses itself in different ways according to each individual lantern. Now reread that paragraph and substitute wizard for lantern. Pretty close resemblance in my opinion.

jonas:
With the one exception of the powers, Harry is totally Batman.
 Orphan, loves his city, bad guys piss themselves when he shows his face, even his allies are leery of him, anger/vengeance issues, PG was a huge joke on him being batman, Butters was actually being 'Harry' whenever he did his batman shtick even all his toys were actually miniature versions of Harry's 'artifice' spells he'd done with Bob, Outfit that makes him 'superhuman' in resilience, ect.

Con:
Thank You Jonas!

Aminar:

--- Quote from: jonas on October 23, 2017, 09:27:53 PM ---With the one exception of the powers, Harry is totally Batman.
 Orphan, loves his city, bad guys piss themselves when he shows his face, even his allies are leery of him, anger/vengeance issues, PG was a huge joke on him being batman, Butters was actually being 'Harry' whenever he did his batman shtick even all his toys were actually miniature versions of Harry's 'artifice' spells he'd done with Bob, Outfit that makes him 'superhuman' in resilience, ect.

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Sure. But Harry is poor and Batman is overrated/never the underdog despite the fact he should be, while Harry is always the underdog when he really shouldn't be.

jonas:

--- Quote from: Aminar on October 24, 2017, 01:07:41 AM ---Sure. But Harry is poor and Batman is overrated/never the underdog despite the fact he should be, while Harry is always the underdog when he really shouldn't be.

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Batmans always the underdog, but through the same wizardly virtues of foresight and planning ahead both utilize methods to take down their foes and track their targets. One has magic, the other technology. Neither is naturally powerfully physically or resilient and yet often they must battle those that are, and ally themselves with them to even the field.
Bat's legend is well maintained while Harry's just hitting his stride, The money is less of an issue now and could be even less so easily, and he's getting a little smarter every book. He actually preempted Nic AND Andurial in SG. Soon he'll make it look easy vs lesser fae queens and minor vampire courts lol.
*Batman's only overated because your thinking in the now, where he's everywhere and can beat anyone. He underdogs it all the time, think his comics lasted this long because he's just so overwhelmingly powerful? He thumbs his nose at the more powerful beings and thinks nobody should die meaninglessly, just like our resident Wizard P.I(both private investigators too)

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