http://www.metafilter.com/tags/superpowers Posts tagged with 'superpowers' at MetaFilter. Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:42:03 -0800 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:42:03 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/78510/Super%2DUseless%2DSuper%2DPowers <a href="http://superuseless.blogspot.com/">Super Useless Super Powers.</a> A cute website with dinky cartoons and fun descriptions of those super powers which, if you were to be blessed with one, would be pretty much damn-near useless. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.78510 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:42:03 -0800 cartoon fun superpowers useless benzo8 http://www.metafilter.com/63115/Wondertwin%2Dpowers%2Dactivate <a href="http://www.autoadviceoffl.com/superpowers/">9 Superpowers made real.</a> <small>[Via <a href=http://digg.com/>Digg</a>.]</small> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.63115 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:40:41 -0800 Birdman Climbing Cyborgs Flying Invisibility Lasers Leaping Lightning Meditation Mythbusters Powers Sith Superpowers Tum-mo Voice X-Men homunculus http://www.metafilter.com/40350/No%2Dcapes <a href="http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html">No capes</a> , <a href="http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/dungeon_a.html">no monoguing</a>, and no <a href="http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/dungeon_a.html"><i>ex machina</i></a>. Brad Bird's '<a href="http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:287450">The Incredibles</a>' notched the clich&#0233;s of the superhero genre - if not all action/adventure movies - with a thick red marker. These lists have apparently been circulating since 1994. Why do (bad) writers persist in using these plot devices? tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.40350 Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:51:45 -0800 capes film flying movies stories storytelling superheros superpowers vhsiv http://www.metafilter.com/38407/Batmansmart%2DSupermansuperpowerful <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/pageoneplus/corrections.html">Today's weird correction from the NY Times (reg required, of course).</a> More fuel for the old "who would win in a fight, Superman or Batman?" debate. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.38407 Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:45:10 -0800 Batman brokenlink corrections NewYorkTimes Superman superpowers TheSpirit WeRegretTheError WillEisner braun_richard