Re: Immortals

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 07:37:52 -0500, "Michael Pastor"
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>> >> Martian Manhunter has shown up.  Aquaman has taken afront at being
>> >> termed
>> > a
>> >> mortal.
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>> > Well he's not a mortal by human definitions, he's Atlantean. They
>> > only seem to live as long as humans though.
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>> Are you sure?  I thought the Atlantis Chronicles suggested that
>> Atlanteans had longer than usual lifespans.  Of course, that would
>> still make them mortal, but well beyond normal human lifetimes.
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>> >> Where is Aquaman and Wonder Woman?  For some reason I can see
>> >> neither 'hiding out', as some of the immortal baddies would.
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>> > Wonder Woman IS mortal. The spell which made her alive, made her
>> > mortal flesh and blood, empowered by the Gods, none of those powers
>> > was immortality.
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>> This just seems odd.  Diana was exactly the same as every other Amazon
>> with the exception of additional powers.  All of them were made from
>> clay and all were souls of women who were murdered by men.
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>The Amazons were not shown to be made of clay when they were created.  Their
>souls fell like so many raindrops into a lake of water and they emerged full
>formed women.  If anything material, they are made of lake bed mud ;-)
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>The only
>> difference with Diana was that her soul came from a pre-born female and
>> therefore had to age to adulthood.  I can't imagine why she wouldn't
>> have the immortality granted all other Amazons.
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>Precisely for that reason:  she had to age.

True, but we don't know whether or not she would stop aging, once she
hit the amazonian "prime" or target age.  It'd be pretty mean of the
gods to bless immortal Hippolyta with a daughter who aged normally and
would get old and die relatively quickly.  

Add in the Paradise Island factor AND Diana's time as a Goddess (which
Byrne apparently intended to be "permenant," according to tlak on his
board), and you really can't tell for sure.

Of course, we'll never see her age anyway, being as how it's comics
and all.  So, it's really a moot point.  Kind of like Marz freezing
Superboy's age.

Hal.
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