> "Acolyte Of Glorious La Parka~" marcocable.com> wrote in messagenews:g70lts$s6s$1@aioe.org...
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>> "rwa2play, The Northern Lariat" gmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:48910ca3$0$7336$607ed4bc@cv.net...

>>> Acolyte Of Glorious La Parka~ wrote:

>>>> "rwa2play, The Northern Lariat" gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>>>> Becoming something you're not [was LH] wrote:

>>>>>> In article<488fb4a2$0$20927$607ed...@cv.net>,
>>>>>>   "rwa2play, The Northern Lariat"gmail.com>  wrote:

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>>>>>>> Becoming something you're not [was LH] wrote:

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>>>>>>>> In article,
>>>>>>>>    "GregoryD"gmail.com>   wrote:

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>>>>>>>>> "David E. Powell"msn.com>   wrote in message
>>>>>>>>>news:def0c4f5-57c3-40a7-8a0f-b502b981de06@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
>>>>>>>>> On Jul 29, 12:41 pm, Anonymousremailer.paranoici.org>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:

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>>>>>>>>>> Explain the appeal, fanboys.

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>>>>>>>>>> He wasn't from a far off planet, given some magic ring or zapped
>>>>>>>>>> by
>>>>>>>>>> radiation. He's just a guy with dark baggage fighting a lonely war
>>>>>>>>>> against evil. His greatest powers are his brains and he's a
>>>>>>>>>> determined
>>>>>>>>>> human being at the core.

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>>>>>>>>>> Similar appeal to Iron Man.

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>>>>>>>>>> I'm not really into comic books and all but I get this.

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>>>>>>>>> He's not "just a guy."

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>>>>>>>>> He's a freaking billionaire who has the magical ability to make
>>>>>>>>> groups of
>>>>>>>>> people with machine guns to drop their weapons and try to fight him
>>>>>>>>> hand to
>>>>>>>>> hand one on one.  If he were just a guy, the first movie would have
>>>>>>>>> been
>>>>>>>>> about 20 minutes long, because as soon as the Chinese police
>>>>>>>>> arrested him,
>>>>>>>>> that'd be all you ever heard about him.