Talk:Miraclewoman

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REVISION NOTICE - APRIL 2010

This article will shortly undergo a major revision to match the Marvelman revision currently underway. It will include the standard 'publication history' section and 'fictional character biography'. Any comments, views and suggestions always welcome, here or on my talk page. Thanks Archiveangel (talk) 12:27, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thoughts

In the comics the characters use their "superhero" and "civilian" names interchangeably for quite sensible reasons. However for histories and synopsises I feel it aids clarity to refer to the superhuman forms by the former and the unaltered forms by the latter. This could be due to my faults as a writer as I can't find a way to put across the state of affairs presented in fiction without bogging down and getting tangential, which I do enough of anyway (cite:everythingihavedoneonwikipedia).
However any of this crap some places use about "pantheon" being a team name should be discouraged with extreme prejudice.
Avril's previous individual page is a bit ORy IMHO but notes she has telekinesis and telepathy; I'm currently at a loss to find any evidence of the former and the latter seems to be more a case of her having a superhuman levels of perception, empathy and intelligence rather than a literal ability to read minds like Professor X or something. Seeing as both of these powers would have been of great use at various points (she would hardly have shoulder-charged KM if she could hit him with TK, and she would have been easily able to reassure MM about YM's feelings if she told him she could read his thoughts, even if she was lying or something) I'm not sure they should be listed as powers that MW has. Obviously the implications of the story are the superhumans can theoretically gain further powers with experience and practice (cf. Bates kicking everyone around and having eye-lasers because he's had 20 years more experience) and they theoretically have supereverything but for infoboxes we should stick to stuff that's been clearly shown. Again, open to correction if I've missed something obvious, sometimes I miss the wood for the trees.
I can't really find anything about the mechanics and/or canonicity of Total Eclipse. I mean presumably at the time Gaiman was required to at least okay it as he believed he part-owned the character but obviously it's a bit incongruous in the character's history and not mentioned at all in MM, or it seems many (any?) interviews with the creators.
Is there a story-in-progress template we can tag to the end of the Silver Age summary? I've intentionally kept SA summary material to a bare minimum for the time being. It does feel like the story is heading in a direction that might question if we're seeing the "real" Young Miracleman so taking too much of what's been published at incomplete face value could lead to a lot of backtracking, especially as we seem to be talking only a couple of months before we get the answers.

BoomboxTestarossa (talk) 18:24, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]