I think you know what this is for. Any pointless (or pointed ) questions you have on the issue of the show can be posted here. This might prove a good place for newbies top ask what's going on and stuff.

Okay so I'll start the convo with a question of my own (And yes I did start this topic specifically for the reason of asking this question, and other weird ones like it :P):

Do we ever actually see Sparx power up in the series? Because I don't remember ever seeing her even though she must've done.


Is Chuck right when he says Lord Fear only carries his staff in his "left hand".

No, we never see Sparx power up. I've wondered about that myself.

I think I recall seeing him hold it in his right . . . I guess we could work it out fairly easily, though. If the limp is in his left leg, then he'd mostly hold the staff in his left hand, and vise versa.

Aye, I agree.

I thought that when you had a bad leg you held your stick in the OPPOSITE hand to the bad leg to avoid banging it? :unsure:

LF's injury is on his right leg, he wears a band of material like a bandage (in near the same place where Sparx has that metal band). Contry to this he does usually hold his staff in his left hand.

Ther eare though several occasions when his staff is in his right hand, so maybe LF is ambidextrous? It would fit in better with his fight sceens, because he never seems to stick to keeping his hands in one position? Generally speaking though when blasting his left hand is the top hand (directing the blast) and when blocking it is lower (as the stronger arm is usually).

As for Sparx powering up, no, we have yet to witness that, though she must do as Ace hands the transformer over to her at least once in series 1.

Hm... yeah, Fear is a musician and I read something once about them having to be asble with both hands...

And prompted by this raised issue by Feef - what IS that metal band for anyway?

If you've ever seen any military movies, you'll know there is usually a side arm holster on the leg. That's the effect I am guessing they are trying to re-create using that band.

No, musicians don't have to be ambidextrous. I'm a pianist myself, which is close enough to the organ, and in my experience that doesn't matter. Charlie Chaplin was a talented violinist, who turned to comedy because he was left-handed, which meant he couldn't properly play in an orchestra...

On the subject of handedness, I've noticed that LI seems to use her right hand for explosives, and left hand for any other chemical effect. Not sure if I'm right about this or not--observation's not my strong point. Still, I'd assume that unlike fanon!Draco she's right-handed.

Thigh holster--yeah, fits. :) Thanks for that, Feef.

Oh, right, must've been wrong then. Wow... poor Charlie Chaplin... that's awful not being able to do one thing you love because of a psysical problem which isn't even really suppsoed to be a PROBLEM/ :S I wodner WHY most people in the world are right handed?

And ncie point feef - probably what they were dgoing for, a bit IITS though, since I don't really expect to see Sparx with a gun.

Well, technically not with the piano, but an organ has at least 2 rows of keys and numerous other bits and bobs to deal with, so being ambidextrous would probably be nessesary to play it well.

Now, whether LFs can play to any standard is another matter. :P

Oh he can PLAY. It's his SINGING that's the problem :P

It is pretty bad.

Hey, I wonder if LI can sing? She has a very melodious voice...

I think I'd prefer it if she had about as much musical knowledge as the average shallow puddle, but she does sort of hum or whatever while she's juggling in 'Choices'...and yes, she does have a voice like a phone sex operator (or at least, like my conception thereof). And I believe the actress put out a CD.

I think it’s very possible that LI can sing – you're right Sarah, her actress can, I believe. Michael Riley looks like he’d have a not-too-glass-shatteringly-bad singing voice… Sparx would probably sound like Bjork, only better :P. And Mark’s got choirboy written all over him (he WAS in Les Misrables) :lol: *Is still praying for a musical episode*

I can see Ace being the type to sing in the shower. Mark, now, I'm not sure would sing in public, and the same goes for Sparx. LI, now, hasn't got the sort of 'exhibitionist' personality that those inclined to public musical or dramatic performance possess...

Possible. Might still be a hummer though when extremely happy or showing off :)

Hang on lady illusion has a spider on her head, right? well two questions:

1.Why a spider?

2. What does a SPIDER have to do with illusions? Other than that they make webs to catch prey, like invisible nets… does she do that, you think? Weave nets to catch her prey? It certainly seems that way… she does it several times over the course of the series.

1. They couldn't animate hair.

2. She can climb really well.

3. Spiders are EVUL.

1. Curse that IITSness >_<

2. yeah I forgot that, guess that's the link... strange though, it's not her main power.

3. Spiders rock ^_^

I think we have to take into account both the animation problems with hair (think back to the Lara Croft hair arguments of the 90's) and the fact that all the evils (save Fear and Googler) have some kind of animalistic features that relate to their char. Pigface is a ...pig, and therefore looks like one. Anvil is a rhino, widely known to be highly aggressive and none too smart (they charge at anything that moves). The Rat is a rat (rats are considered to be dirty and sneaky).

You just have to think of a spider and the metaphors you usually associate with it to know what they were trying to get across. Someone, who may not be top of the food chain, but is more than capable of trapping her prey.

2. If you go with the X-Men-type "powers don't develop until puberty or beyond that," which is helpful as you don't have so many superpowered toddlers BBQ-ing their babysitters, you could easily imagine that she had the climbing abilities before she developed the other ones, which could explain the 'spider' association. Maybe it was her codename before she went with Lady, especially if she wasn't born an aristo. And in Uberverse Anna and I had the Dark Elves divided into several Clans, including the Spider-clan.

3. Arachnophobia's a classic fear. Fits in with the whole 'evil' thing, but there's also Charlotte's Web and the fact that spiders are quite good for the environment. Hey, does it make her an anti-Sue if the animals she's associated with are creepy-crawlies? In the videogame apparently she keeps spiders for pets.

2. All very possible :D I like the theories, and perhaps powers don't develop till puberty. (Though baby!Li blasting her Babysitter would pribably be entertianing :D

3. Did she? Didn't know about that... cool :D yeah makes sense I suppose. And one of the questions on the watersprings test discredits creepy crawly characters being attracted to the character, so there's an antisue point for her :D but then most of the characters get pretty high marks on that test. There's not enough negative questions, I think.

2. Yeah, she wouldn't have been a very attractive child at all.

3. No. The test is good for pointing out the universal Sueish cliches and it's very amusing, but very few original characters, originalfic or fanfic, would pass it. More negatives would help, but the factors that make a character developed are really hard to quantify--REAL faults, canon characters IC, believability level, and so on. Not to mention that it's also possible to have Sues that pass tests like that, and they're less infallible tools than rather humorous lists of cliches.

2. Maybe felicity fury is based on one of her mortal babysitters back when she was a kid :P

3. Yes unfortunately Sue tests tend to be unreliable. Hopefully my effort will be okay though :) Maybe we should email that guy and let them know they need more negs.

2. Felicity's more of a human-related construct, the odd New Age person--if sorcery exists in the 6D (for which we do not have canon confirmation) it's certainly not that kind, which would be laughed at in a world with real powers. :P But who knows.

3. 'M sure it will be. :) Maybe, but there's no such thing as a perfect Sue test--they're just helpful for laughs and handing to Suethors.

I'd just laugh if they put a character named Mary Sue is season three. :P

Me too. :P It'd be a good parody, I hope.

Me three, but I don't think they know about sues on the Ace team :P if they did they would've worked a little harder on Kat.

No, it's very much a fanfic term. But we know Rick Sigglekow reads fanfic... :P

Yes we do :P could have been a one off though.

But if he does, say, take a glance at the messageboard I would like to yell sat him to DO SOMETHING ABOUT KAT AND ADD MORE HEATHER! :P

Yes!

*chants*

MORE HEATHER LESS KAT! MORE HEATHER LESS KAT!

...Okay, enough immaturity. :P

hey he's gotta hear it :P

Isn't that that arguement where the designers wanted to give her a ponytail in the first game, but couln't, because it would've taken too much animating? I read about that in a magazine...

Yeah, it also would have taken up a lot of disk space and made the game more expecive to produce and buy.

I thoguth so. I see in later versions of the gamr though with advances in money and technology, that problem seems to have been worked out.

Hey is it just me, or did anyone else find her being atatcked by SPIDERS a little daft in that game? I mean why didn't she just stamp on them? There wasn't a stamp move, was there?

Look, if that many spiders were attacking you, would you attempt squishing them all? What if they were poisonous?

there were never THAT many that I can remember. bewides they'd have to get ON to you first. They can't do that if you're stamping on them.

Is it just me who noticed that when Lady Illusion attacked Ace with the “bomb” that gave him human emotions, the energy burst focussed in on his heart as it faded? Cute ^_^

Guy's got a heart of gold. Literally. :P

Seriously emotions? Linked to the heart? Could this be a suggetsion of the Knight's having a "heart" in that form?

I don't think the CGIs would have a 'literal' heart, actually, but it's obvious from ep 6 that they regard the heart as having 'symbolic' value as the seat of emotion. So it makes sense that the explosion seemed to affect Ace's heart area, even though I doubt he's literally got anything inside his chest other than code.