he didn't die because he was somewhat lucky and a hero skilled enough to figure out how to not get shot.
7. The character must NOT rely heavily on luck.
As a super-hero protagonist that luck factor is crazy high. Your argument is that he doesn't get shot, therefore he is resistant to it, that is the metagaming. If someone can site an example of bullets being deflected, slowed, stopped, repelled, resisted, and/or anything else, then that would be a valid point. Just saying that it doesn't happen is pretty much meaningless.
I will concede that they are pretty good at dodging a known threat if they are prepared for it.
I'm just going to say it. RAM, when it comes to twisting people's words into monstrosities that don't even resemble their original selves, and then acting like a douchebag attempting to throw them in the speaker's face, you are almost as bad as Barbarossa.
Almost. I'm beginning to suspect that you people's nonsensical reactions are somehow rooted in the old D&D campaigns we played.
Just because someone is a little lucky, that doesn't mean they're some damn leprechaun. Anyone that comes through a firefight without getting hit can be described as "somewhat lucky". All I'm saying is, Static goes through a whole super-heroing career and never receives a gunshot wound that's capable of crippling his physical capabilities. That is the definition of lucky. But even luck runs out, there has to be something besides that or else he'd be dead a hundred times over. Another thing that's worth mentioning is that Static Shock was a cartoon. I'm amazed they were even allowed to show gangs, if they showed people shooting at Static on a regular basis they'd have been ripped to shreds by the moral guardians. So instead let's think about this this logically: Metal weapons and bullets versus a person who can magnetize and move metal at will. Citation or not, it's pretty obvious what's going to happen.
How much power would it take to pick up that giant coin in the Batcave at 20 meters and roll it that distance in something close to two seconds? Because that's the thing that sticks out in my mind, but maybe there's a better example somewhere.
That is magnetism, and rolling, it really isn't all that impressive compared to shooting lightning, which has all manner of issues and really ought to be impossible on a couple of different levels. I think that we have to just accept that their lightning works differently, and call it a form of magic that can be brought into the world.
This is a contest with a robot that can punch people at 1,000,000 horsepower, an acid-bleeding hive mind predator that has all the powers of Spider-Man, a demonic roadie armed with a giant axe and the power of heavy metal, a telepathic half-bunny girl, a giant purple dinosaur, a man who can transmute objects by punching them, a 13-year old boy with hammers capable of manipulating time, and The Lord of the Rings . Don't start bringing logic into this now.
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