You know, a disability that's actually a super power can be done right.
Daredevil is everyone's favorite example. Well written, cool abilities.
The key is that you need it to be a trade off, or at LEAST make the powers fix the disability. Like it's cool that Dr. Strange in the MCU has his fucked up nerves in his hands, permanently disabling him, but the use of the Sorceries fixes his shakes.
If at the very goddamn minimum, powering up the Sentry juices made her able to walk, run, fly, and otherwise function normally, I'd commend them for it. It would bring that "I hate myself when my powers are gone, I'm so fucking useless" arc and we could get some character development.
But I guess that type of writing is reserved for people with even a minimum of competence.
It was only a short 4 or 5 series but everyone knew she was going to be the one at the end with the powers. The story couldn't even do anything interesting like bringing back The Void, it just read like paint by numbers highjacking of yet another legacy character.
Don't forget the parts where the roster of potential replacements had only one white guy and he ended up being the villain of the story, killing every other potential except the walking rolling meme. His name when he gained the Sentry powers?
Racing wheelchairs (which this obviously isn’t, and I don’t know if that would work for someone with teh palsy) are unironically considerably faster than walking…
However the real answer you’re looking for is stairs. They need only run up some damn stairs, lol. Or steal her glasses, I imagine.
I mean that’s the thing - if the serum thing fixes her vision, shouldn’t it also grant her the ability to walk..?? Lol…
and I don’t know if that would work for someone with teh palsy
Apparently they do. They have slots among other disability categories in track events. Though they only have a couple of events in the Paralympics, and only at the highest ability level for the condition. 2020 Paralympic results for the women's 800 meter, classification T34. They can maintain higher speed in slightly longer distance events, so they actually surpass able-bodied counterparts there. But still, ideal track conditions. No square corners, no hills, no curbs or potholes or cars, no dirt, rocks or litter to gum up the wheels.
Yeah, they showed the Paris Marathon on tv the other day, and, as you say, one of them went around a square corner too fast, in the first four minutes or so, and rolled, badly…
They have to have sentries (appropriately, lol) or rather stewards, on bikes, riding alongside them, just in case that happens…
Then again, having witnessed someone having to be carted off to hospital during an able-bodied marathon, I would say that distance is probably not good for anyone, if you run it too often, lol.
Sprinters generally seem to be in better health, as do cyclists, provided either are clean…
Back to cp though - watching it is interesting, because it varies so much in severity, that it must be really damn hard to classify them, especially for swimming and running…
Though para-classification is a minefield at the best of times, now that we’ve moved from “amputee sports” to “any and every disability, including invisible ones”…
Edit: I used to know a girl with cystic fibrosis, who based… Much of her identity around being a wheelchair. The day that I realized that she could walk, unsupported, just with difficulty, was quite a revelation…
Like, I get why she needed the wheelchair, but to have so much of your identity be “Look at me, I’m doing so much despite my chair”, and then get up and walk across the room, while tipsy - I found that a bit disconcerting, tbh, lol…
I know, Cerebral Palsy/Paralysis, but these days...
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whoa whoa whoa. shes not fat.
lol... all those memes are now a reality. a race to the bottom, literally.
You know, a disability that's actually a super power can be done right.
Daredevil is everyone's favorite example. Well written, cool abilities.
The key is that you need it to be a trade off, or at LEAST make the powers fix the disability. Like it's cool that Dr. Strange in the MCU has his fucked up nerves in his hands, permanently disabling him, but the use of the Sorceries fixes his shakes.
If at the very goddamn minimum, powering up the Sentry juices made her able to walk, run, fly, and otherwise function normally, I'd commend them for it. It would bring that "I hate myself when my powers are gone, I'm so fucking useless" arc and we could get some character development.
But I guess that type of writing is reserved for people with even a minimum of competence.
I bet she’s a lesbian Muslim too.
Magento: Mark my words girl, I survived your predecessor I will survive you.
Solarus: Sentry?
Magento: -_-!
It was only a short 4 or 5 series but everyone knew she was going to be the one at the end with the powers. The story couldn't even do anything interesting like bringing back The Void, it just read like paint by numbers highjacking of yet another legacy character.
Don't forget the parts where the roster of potential replacements had only one white guy and he ended up being the villain of the story, killing every other potential except the
walkingrolling meme. His name when he gained the Sentry powers?Ryan Sentry.
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Racing wheelchairs (which this obviously isn’t, and I don’t know if that would work for someone with teh palsy) are unironically considerably faster than walking…
However the real answer you’re looking for is stairs. They need only run up some damn stairs, lol. Or steal her glasses, I imagine.
I mean that’s the thing - if the serum thing fixes her vision, shouldn’t it also grant her the ability to walk..?? Lol…
Apparently they do. They have slots among other disability categories in track events. Though they only have a couple of events in the Paralympics, and only at the highest ability level for the condition.
2020 Paralympic results for the women's 800 meter, classification T34. They can maintain higher speed in slightly longer distance events, so they actually surpass able-bodied counterparts there. But still, ideal track conditions. No square corners, no hills, no curbs or potholes or cars, no dirt, rocks or litter to gum up the wheels.
Yeah, they showed the Paris Marathon on tv the other day, and, as you say, one of them went around a square corner too fast, in the first four minutes or so, and rolled, badly…
They have to have sentries (appropriately, lol) or rather stewards, on bikes, riding alongside them, just in case that happens…
Then again, having witnessed someone having to be carted off to hospital during an able-bodied marathon, I would say that distance is probably not good for anyone, if you run it too often, lol.
Sprinters generally seem to be in better health, as do cyclists, provided either are clean…
Back to cp though - watching it is interesting, because it varies so much in severity, that it must be really damn hard to classify them, especially for swimming and running…
Though para-classification is a minefield at the best of times, now that we’ve moved from “amputee sports” to “any and every disability, including invisible ones”…
Edit: I used to know a girl with cystic fibrosis, who based… Much of her identity around being a wheelchair. The day that I realized that she could walk, unsupported, just with difficulty, was quite a revelation…
Like, I get why she needed the wheelchair, but to have so much of your identity be “Look at me, I’m doing so much despite my chair”, and then get up and walk across the room, while tipsy - I found that a bit disconcerting, tbh, lol…