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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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I'm not bashing Howard the Duck, I think he's a good character and if it was his own little world it might make more sense to me, but the parts where he's apparently on-par with Spider-man and Man-thing just boggle my mind. A world of Superheroes, where they use their unique and extraordinary powers, or some super high-tech to fight the bad guys and protect the ordinary people, who would probably die if they tried doing what the heroes do. The supers often get close to dying themselves.
So... how does Howard Duck survive?
I don't really know much about Howard Duck other than he's a three-foot tall anthropomorphic duck from a dimension where that's a common thing. I get the impression that he's supposed to be a gritty, no-nonsense tough guy with a capacity to do what is right to some extent... without much reason to do so.
Not that you need a reason to be a good guy, I suppose you could say it's his nature, but he doesn't strike me as the kind of character who WOULD go out of his way over and over again without a reason behind it. But it's not my character. They could make Howard the Duck a beaver and whatever I say about it doesn't have to matter.
What I'm getting at is, he's so out of place that I have no idea what place he should be in otherwise. How does he compete with the rest of the Marvel heroes? How does he survive any encounter with a supervillain? By beating them up the old-fashioned way? If that was all it took I think the superheroes wouldn't be needed anyway.
Plus, Howard's a Duck. A three-foot tall duck. How the hell does he overpower a normal human being, let along someone like Spider-Man?
No hint of sarcasm here: but i'm sure there's at least SOME reasons what he works in the Marvel Universe, and honestly I know next to nothing about Howard save the Nostalgia Critic review of the live-action movie, and the Wikipedia article. So, if anyone would like to explain this to me, that would be awesome.
"I don't think so! Let's see how tough you are without it!!"