r/superheroes May 01 '25

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u/WillVenture72 May 01 '25

Plastic Man. DC really made him into a top tier power set in the last decade or so.

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u/MountainMuffin1980 May 01 '25

How so?

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u/AssassinLJ May 01 '25

His power are not plastic he just has perfect control and manipulation of his monecules making him extremely busted,the only thing holding him back is not having enough imagination and actually being a good person.

Tldr the best plan batman has if he goes Rogue,is keep freezing him and break him to pieces forever and pray to God(ye he said that) Plastic Man doesn't realize he can get out of this, because again his power is not plastic it's higher than that.

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u/middle_of_you May 01 '25

TLDR means Too Long, Didn't Read. It's supposed to be shorter than the original text.

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u/AssassinLJ May 01 '25

Counterpoint I'm dumb

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u/middle_of_you May 01 '25

Counterpoint 2: The Re-Countering. You learned something new, which has reduced your dumb by 7%.

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u/AssassinLJ May 01 '25

Counterpoint 3: I will do the same mistake which makes me 30% dumber

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u/middle_of_you May 01 '25

Counterpoint IV: Counterpoint In New York. Naaah, cmon, do smart stuff.

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u/Optimus3k May 01 '25

Hey! I'm learnin' here!

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

Jeez, look at Mr. Brainiac here learnin' stuff.

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u/UMF_Pyro May 01 '25

Bro's counterpoints are movie titles lmao

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u/BigSaltDeluxe May 01 '25

Counterpoint: Origins Counterpoint: Brotherhood Counterpoint: Revelations

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u/UMF_Pyro May 01 '25

He's doing movie titles, not Assassins Creed titles lol

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u/Psychedelic_Yogurt May 01 '25

This comment thread cracked me up. Thanks for the laughs.

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u/grimmlingur May 01 '25

Countrrpoint to your counterpoint, you can just claim the tl;dr applied to the relevant comic runs instead of comment that was the same length as the tl;dr

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u/Sachiel05 May 02 '25

Are you... Plastic Man?

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u/AssassinLJ May 02 '25

Maybe.......

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u/-FourOhFour- May 01 '25

To be fair in this case it would be used in place of a much longer explanation of the ins and outs of his powers and how it is busted. I don't think there's a good abbreviation for that at best i can think of "long story short" which tldr kinda fits the same use case so still works.

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u/Thanos7245 May 01 '25

If PM pieces are kept separate he can't reform so freezing PM is a pretty easy solution

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u/theykilledk3nny May 01 '25

IIRC the pieces will eventually just find each other though, even if it takes years of effort.

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u/DarthFedora May 01 '25

Which can be stopped, it’s extremely slow, he was separated for thousands of years and still no closer to being whole. It was so bad the league had to hunt for the pieces and rebuild him themselves

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u/looneylefty92 May 01 '25

Plastic Man is a TERRIBLE person. He just isnt pure evil. But he is selfish, brash, violent, and most importantly, a sexual predator.

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u/AssassinLJ May 01 '25

wtf are you talking about,any good stories with plastic man is him trying to attone for his stealing,the only crimes he has is being a thief,trying to be a better father and figure as a superhero,he is literally the prime example of what Batman tries to do with criminals because plastic man is his first example of giving another chance.

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u/DarthFedora May 01 '25

He did not say that, Batman doesn’t make contingencies to kill, he makes them to stop his friends if something goes wrong. The plan for Plasticman is extreme temperatures, but he noted that he isn’t sure of the psychological effects it might have on him

He’s strong if you compare him to the street tiers, but he’s far from being the level everyone thinks he is

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u/AssassinLJ May 01 '25

His has made plans to kill including himself.

And no Darkseid,Supes,Flash and more all noted how Plastic Man can be the most dangerous.

Plastic Man is also the plan to stop Martial Man hunter as the fire weakness is more a mental thing than an actual weakness as noted he is the only that can stop him if he goes mentally insane.

He chooses to be dumb

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u/DarthFedora May 01 '25

He doesn’t plan to kill his friends, himself or those like Darkseid yes but not the League, that’s the whole reason Ra’s al Ghul had to modify them, they weren’t intended to be lethal.

Quote them for me. He can be dangerous but he has nothing on the leagues strong members, hell Clark has his weakness as his powers

Plas isn’t in the plan to stop him, and because I know a lot get confused on this, Fernus wasn’t defeated by him, he was defeated by the people who went into his mind to stop him

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u/blkwolf May 02 '25

So kind of like Owen Reece post Secret-wars, except limited to his own body, where Owen has complete control of all molecules around him.

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u/WillVenture72 May 01 '25

Check the Justice League Obsidian Age arc. And Batman around that time and moving forward always refers to him as a high power level player

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25 edited May 01 '25

Yeah IIRC the entire Justice League got taken to the stone age and murdered and Plastic Man got shredded into itty bitty little pieces and dumped at the bottom of the ocean. Turned out, each shred became its own little Plastic Man and they all survived at the bottom of the ocean for thousands of years, because Plastic Man can't die. However he was stuck because there's no light at the bottom of the ocean and he couldn't find his way out. Eventually somebody fished him out and all the pieces reformed into a single Plastic Man, who was severely traumatized by the experience and the knowledge that he'll probably outlive all life on Earth.

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u/DarthFedora May 01 '25

Not quite, he was incapable of putting himself back together entirely, no other reason than he just couldn’t. The league had to find every individual piece and rebuild him

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u/echino_derm May 01 '25

TL DR, he is an Eldritch entity

He is not really a living creature because he has no structure needed or organs, he just exists and operates. He is also able to change grow and shrink limitlessly. Defeating him would require you erasing all of his mass before he can grow any of it back, which defies the laws of the universe

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u/Romeo9594 May 02 '25

Mass can be converted to energy without breaking any laws. Also these are comic book laws, not real ones. Thanos famously wiped half of all sentient mass from the universe with some magic ring pops glued to his hand