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Whirlwind and Blizzard visit the Black Market, a secret club for supervillains.





Later they meet Whirlwind's ex Firebrand.



Date: 2014-08-09 07:08 pm (UTC)
freezer: (Default)
From: [personal profile] freezer
Since when does Whirlwind generate whirlwinds, rather than spin really fast?

Date: 2014-08-09 10:23 pm (UTC)
silverzeo: (Default)
From: [personal profile] silverzeo
And wasn't his power come from his suit too?

Date: 2014-08-09 10:56 pm (UTC)
ablackraptor: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ablackraptor
Nope, he's a mutant.

Date: 2014-08-10 06:40 pm (UTC)
grazzt: (Default)
From: [personal profile] grazzt
His suit had spinning razor blades, to add a bit of lethality to his power set.

Date: 2014-08-10 12:39 am (UTC)
icon_uk: (Default)
From: [personal profile] icon_uk
He's developing his mutant powers?

Given than he rarely seems to spin his upper body when flying, it always implied to me that either his entire lower body was connected to his upper half by some sort of weird biological pivot rather than a spine, or else he can generate whirlwinds mentally and the apparent physical spinning is more "being caught in his own updrafts" than anything, so being able to summon a small one up in his hands doesn't seem THAT wrong to me.

Date: 2014-08-10 12:53 am (UTC)
bizarrohulk: (Default)
From: [personal profile] bizarrohulk
No, he definitely spins. Trapster, of all people, once defeated him by gluing his feet to the ground just as he started using his powers. The results were ... not pretty.

Date: 2014-08-12 11:02 am (UTC)
avantre: (Default)
From: [personal profile] avantre
Perhaps he used that ignomious defeat as a drive to further develop his powers?

Date: 2014-08-09 07:13 pm (UTC)
zabilac: (Default)
From: [personal profile] zabilac
I find it rather hilarious that the villains have their own nightclub.

Date: 2014-08-09 07:37 pm (UTC)
crinos: (Default)
From: [personal profile] crinos
Why not? The villain bar has been a well established trope for years.

This just seems like a natural progression.

Also, count down until Punisher blows this place up.

Date: 2014-08-09 09:31 pm (UTC)
icon_uk: (Default)
From: [personal profile] icon_uk
Or Scourge... t(he)y has/have a tradition of such things

Date: 2014-08-10 03:31 am (UTC)
crinos: (Default)
From: [personal profile] crinos
I was gonna mention him, but I wasn't sure anyone would even remember he existed. Is Scourge even around anymore?

Date: 2014-08-09 09:30 pm (UTC)
icon_uk: (Default)
From: [personal profile] icon_uk
Back in the Gruenwald Captain America era, there was an entire chain called "The Bar with No Name", which were run exclusively for supervillains. This is I suppose the next logical extension of that.

See also Common Grounds for an even more oddball concept.

Date: 2014-08-09 11:14 pm (UTC)
bruinsfan: (Default)
From: [personal profile] bruinsfan
Geez, how many super villains were there supposed to be to make something like that feasible? Did they let in organized crime flunkies to turn a profit, or did patrons have to knock over a bank just to meet the cover charge?

Date: 2014-08-10 12:36 am (UTC)
silverhammerman: (Default)
From: [personal profile] silverhammerman
Maybe they just let the AIM mooks in once in a while and fleece them. Seems to me that anyone working for AIM probably doesn't have much experience with bars, so they could charge whatever they want.

I think the idea that blue collar super criminals are bad with money has been floated in more than one place, so those guys might be willing to pay a premium just to drink in peace, relatively free of harassment.

Date: 2014-08-10 12:41 am (UTC)
icon_uk: (Default)
From: [personal profile] icon_uk
Yeah, a "Bar with no Name" is probably the preferred place to go for the flunkies of AIM, Hydra and the like...

They can get a beer, some pretzels, tell a few off colour jokes and, like all of us, whine about their workplace like ordinary folks without being looked at as weird by saying things like "I had to clean out the mutant shark tank today... It wasn't even my turn, but Carl got himself eaten by that psionic ooze on Tuesday so i had to cover for him"

Date: 2014-08-11 07:36 am (UTC)
burkeonthesly: (Default)
From: [personal profile] burkeonthesly
"Can't believe this crap. Carl's died three times this year. And he gets sick leave for it. Sick leave. I get my supervisor up my ass if I take a day off to see the dentist, but friggin' Carl gets Paid Time Dead!"

Date: 2014-08-10 04:38 am (UTC)
q99: (Default)
From: [personal profile] q99
I figure they really have to let in minor no-names in order to make it work. There simply aren't enough villains who would go clubbing to fill a club regularly otherwise.

Date: 2014-08-09 07:48 pm (UTC)
shingi70: (Default)
From: [personal profile] shingi70
The Villian Bars really were the place for the blue collar late to early 30s guys to be changing out. So you have to assume there a place for the younger and wealthier set.

Date: 2014-08-10 12:42 am (UTC)
icon_uk: (Default)
From: [personal profile] icon_uk
Except they have Crusher Creel, Bullseye and Sabretooth in attendance and they are definitely not the younger set.

Date: 2014-08-09 09:16 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] drtechnobabel
Anyone else getting a strong 'Pocket D without the heroes' vibe from this? Not that it's a bad thing (we can always use more Pocket Ds), but still.

Date: 2014-08-09 09:24 pm (UTC)
jkcarrier: first haircut after lockdown (Default)
From: [personal profile] jkcarrier
Definitely. I half expected to see Null the Gull fly by in the background. ;-)

Date: 2014-08-09 09:42 pm (UTC)
icon_uk: (Default)
From: [personal profile] icon_uk
The bouncer giving the "No powers! No killing" thing would make a lot more of an impact if we hadn't already just seen Bullseye having killed someone.

Armadillo is a bouncer? Aww... I hoped he'd stay on the straight and narrow, that's a shame.

Sort of made up for by seeing Crusher Creel in a suit in his trademark "prison stripes" outfit.... is he still married to Titania?

Armadillo

Date: 2014-08-09 11:33 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] 7dialsmystery
Actually, this might be his legitimate job. He's a bouncer at a night club. Not many places are going to hire a retired villain. So working for villains in a (mostly) non-criminal venue might be his only option for legit employment.

Re: Armadillo

Date: 2014-08-10 12:43 am (UTC)
icon_uk: (Default)
From: [personal profile] icon_uk
I'm not sure that consorting with that many known and wanted criminals ub a probably illegal and unlicensed night club would count as a legitimate job.

Re: Armadillo's career change

Date: 2014-08-10 03:43 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] 7dialsmystery
I was thinking the club was likely a money laundering front. Most businesses used to launder money are legit except for how much profit they're making. The Black Market might sell 100 beers a night for cash or pre-paid credit cards but on the books they claim it's a 1000 and the $$$$ comes from some other illegal activity.

Date: 2014-08-10 12:18 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] md84
Trying to ask Bullseye to not kill people on a whim is like asking a normal person to give up breathing. Banning him from the club for life might be an option, but then he'd just kill you with a paperclip or something later.
Edited Date: 2014-08-10 12:18 am (UTC)

Date: 2014-08-10 12:44 am (UTC)
icon_uk: (Default)
From: [personal profile] icon_uk
But if you let HIM get away with it, others will think they can too. Actively barring him might have made for a nice scene, to show that they do NOT take that sort of a thing lightly.

Date: 2014-08-10 02:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daningram.insanejournal.com
In all fairness, Bullseye is one of the most feared killers out there. The rules for him might be a little different for him than say, Blizzard or Beetle.

Date: 2014-08-11 07:39 am (UTC)
burkeonthesly: (Default)
From: [personal profile] burkeonthesly
The special rule for Bullseye is: "No powers, no killing, unless you're Bullseye (or can kill Bullseye without spilling anyone else's drinks)."

Date: 2014-08-10 08:25 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] his_spiffynesss
The Rangers weren't exactly a top tier super team. And Dillo really didn't have any connections to the region, so I can see why he might have bailed on them once the SRA was no longer an issue.


As for Titania, I recall the two were kind of estranged. Something to do with Skeeter's obsession with She-Hulk. Though honestly she ought to give up on that unlikely happening and just give Valkyrie a call.

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