career jobbers

>>93159810
Muh, mind.

>>93159810
Can't have someone interesting win with an interesting powerset. That'd go against our motto: "rrrrgh i hit thing bad guy fall down"

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>>93159810
>make character stupidly overpowered
>he has to constantly job for the story to stay interesting

>>93159810
>jobbers
mom come look I used the buzzword I fit in somewhere I'm not a tryhard like those other kids who say 'cuçk'

>>93160619

Cuckposters were probably in diapers when the "J'onn is a jobber meme" was created.

>>93160523
See, the thing is MM was never meant to be a powerhouse like this.

His whole shtick was that he had these unbelievable Martian powers but used them to just try and fit in on Earth. He just wanted a normal life among humans.

Something most writers don't get is that J'onn is a pacifist, basically a monk. I think Kelly was pretty much the only one to ever fully utilize that aspect of the character. Some episodes of JL:TAS got it, too. Morrison also went out of his way to make J'onn an advisory member of the JLA instead of a full-time member.

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This guy jobs in his own fucking comic.

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>Career jobbers

No other reply in the thread will be as *literally* accurate as this one

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Any character who's powers are conditional, for instance need to charge up or have access to X thing, are intrinsically huge jobbers

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wtf is a career jobber superhero

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>>93161771
Character who routinely looses, usually to elevate the character that beat them. Pic related

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>>93159810

>>93161311


They drop the act when they're in real danger, but "the act" isn't a case of "I'm only using 10% of my true power!" So much as it is them not fighting smart and using greater precision in their abilities

the Endbringers do hold back in scale to at least some degree, but it isn't that wide a gap. I doubt they were holding back during Gold Morning for instance, but we didn't see anything crazy like Leviathan dumping the entire ocean on Scion or anything like that.

So....Inconclusive?

>>93159810
Now I'll simply use my telepathy to disarm him an-
AaahaaaaaaaAAAAAaAAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAaAAAaaAAaaAaaAaAAAaaaaaaaAAAAA

>>93161311
Did any of the capes find out that all of the Endbringers were holding back for every fight?

>>93162721
No they did not. Some of them found out most didn't...maybe in the sequal it's become widespread info.

>>93164511
Is there gonna be a sequel?
Did wildbow give a more concrete date?

>>93159810
What if he just doesn't want to be a superhero at all and does not give a shit about Earth problems. But everyone expects him to be one because he is fucking powerful?

So he pretends to be defeated or have his mind attacked so he can go back to the watchtower and watch movies and get back to not giving a fuck.

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>>93159810
Jobber of the decade

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>>93161311
This would literally the '/thread' post. If pic related didn't die to bugs.


>>93165342
Worm 2 happens after twig ends...and twig is on it's last arc.

>>93159826
Interesting power set? He's just superman with telepathy and shape shifting powers and a weakness against fire instead of kryptonite

>>93161771

"Jobbing" is a term popularized by professional wrestling in which one person in a fight loses (often spectacularly) to make the winner look powerful. Generally, especially when used outside of wrestling fandom, people use it when a character has lost when they "should" have been strong enough to win the fight.

Career jobbers would be wrestlers that pretty much always lose to whoever the management is hyping up this season. A career jobber superhero would be a superhero that is powerful on paper, but in practice is routinely wrecked by whatever villain the writers want to hype up this year.

>>93166835
Thanks a lot dude, i just finished reading interlude 26 and i'll be probably carving for more when I finish everything.
Are pact and tiwg worth reading or should I wait for worm 2?
Also, dying suffocated by bugs, fucking disgusting.

>>93161872
lol you missed the entire point of Zuko

>>93160523
Hardly "jobbing". Black Adam is fucking hardcore.

>>93166902
His power set can be interesting if you weaken or remove most of his flying brick powers and focus on the telepathy and shapeshifting. The problem is that his more unique powers are better suited to solo stories than team settings, and he isn't popular enough to carry a comic by himself.

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>>93161748
When he jobs because he doesn't want to harm someone or is trying to resolve it peacefully it's acceptable, but when writers have him actually fight and he still gets BTFO then you know they miss the point of the Silver Surfer

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>>93159810

>>93171014
He's a villain, he's supposed to job.

>>93166835
i just want an ebook of worm to read on my kindle man