Tenzhi

Many sets can be made to look Dark as well.

Given the attached comic, I thought the implication was that the titular statement was one of those crazy notions that could be defeated with an argument that involved going down a waterslide. Basically, 'the title is a silly notion and while someone, somewhere is apparently patting themselves on the back for it, I'm having fun with Water Blast' seemed to me to be the message.

I understood the joke and didn't find it funny. That's my experience with xkcd in general, though they do have the occasional smirkworthy gem.

I was on a roll listing things off the top of my head. I didn't dare lose momentum of thought.

If I put deeper thought and/or some research into it I could probably come up with a whole lot more. The point being that it's a common theme. More common than capes. Possibly more common than alliteration.

Same here. Even if I haven't been able to bring myself to play the character for quite some time, I'll be loath to delete it for the sake of concept alone.

Indeed. But one has to be willing to accept and adapt to the fact that things may not change, even if some day they might. Well, one doesn't *have* to, but the obstinate alternative can cast one in quite the petulant light.

Indeed. His power sets are Cry Moar/Get Beat.

"Oh dear, I wonder who is going to steal my powers, chop me up, and ship me to another dimension *this* week. Woe is me. ::weep::" - Norrin Radd

My hope is that it's getting looked at as part of proliferating it...

I liked it. It put me in mind of some versions of Wong Fei Hung's "No Shadow Kick", not to mention Chun Li's "Lightning Leg" attack. The sort of attack you'd use on a huge fat guy, followed by Cobra Strike, followed by the fat guy exploding into bloody chunks.

The OP seemed to me to indicate that they had all the relevant information and they weren't happy with it, and that only solutions that don't currently exist would be acceptable. In my experience with internet discussions, there aren't a lot of good places to go from that starting point. The best bet might be to throw one's hands up and walk away, but how often does that actually happen en masse?

As for giving them some part of the fun to entice them to pay for the whole: there inevitably has to be a line drawn somewhere, a point where the "fun" is cut-off, and not everyone will be happy with it. Give everyone a free inch, and some will want free yards, others will want free miles, and that one guy will insist he should get a parsec (and one weirdo will ask for free metres, but the Imperials will shout him down). When you explain that they have to pay for more than an inch and they complain about how unfair that is, well, we arrive back at the best bet being to throw one's hands up and walk away and how unlikely that is to occur on the internet.

Don't be blinded by the super strength, flight, and invulnerability - Rogue's power is to *steal* powers. The only way to be more thematically attached to the name would be if her power was to backstab people.

I find it interesting that you went through X-Men related characters and left out - just off the top of my head - Beast, Iceman, Angel, Blob, Phoenix, Juggernaut, Leech, Multiple Man, Toad, Magneto, Pyro, Quicksilver, Storm, Marrow, Strong Guy, Dazzler, and Colossus.

It's common enough to be a common theme associated with superheroes. It *might* not have a majority prevalence.

The class divide was always there, the division just used to be more complete. The serfs couldn't whine at the nobles about it much, if at all, and thus we never had to respond to it.

No reason other than to suit the topic 'clever/cliche Water Blaster names'...

Chance to heal or +Regen to self for each attack.

The latter annoys me as well, but given that the character was purposefully excluded from their own bubble effects when said effects were turned into targeted AoEs shows that it's clearly not a limitation that hinges on being able to target yourself.

I thought they used to be, but sometime in the 90s became surpassed by bats, 'coons, and skunks.

But his Instant Healing is still a toggle.

It's not visually KABOOM-y enough for me to be attached to the KB.