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Cutting guns in half
- Captain Amazing is dead. Casanova Frankenstein is about to unleash death and mayhem upon Champion City. The Shoveler has given his sandwich speech. The Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits clamber aboard their Herkamer Battle Jitney, and break into Castle Frankenstein, where they're immediately surrounded by the Disco Boys shooting at them with guns. So ... why doesn't the Sphinx just cut their guns in half with his mind?!
- If I'm not mistaken, in his intro scene, he reveals himself as having been standing right to the side of where the line of Disco mooks were standing. So it might be that his power works by line of sight, meaning he wouldn't have been much help without exposing himself to a lot of gunfire.
- More importantly, they sat in a tank(or "Battle Jitney"), with a huge electromagnet designed to pull guns out the hands of enemy gunmen.
- Come to think of it, yeah, how come we never hear anything about his powers after that? I was sitting here thinking his whole deal was subconsciously helping other people with their powers.
- The whole joke of the character is that while the Sphinx seems to have what are genuinely awesome psychic powers, the only thing the characters — including himself — are interested in is his trite, fatuous pearls of wisdom.
- His powers are terribly mysterious; there was probably a good reason he couldn't or didn't do the gun-slice again.
- His powers aren't terribly mysterious. His powers are that he's terribly mysterious.
- He's terribly mysterious, so therefore his powers are terribly mysterious by extension. The fact that he even can cut guns in half with his mind, even once, is pretty amazing, since it sounded like something Blue Rajah pulled out of his ass to talk him up when Furious wasn't impressed.
- The one thing we know about the Sphinx is that his powers are that he's terribly mysterious. The fact for certain what his powers are means that they are the one part of him that isn't terribly mysterious.
- His powers are so terribly mysterious, that they have to be mysterious, and he can only use them when they're mysterious. Once the power isn't mysterious, he can't use it again unless he's with different people, making them, once again, mysterious.
- This is part of the joke/point; the one potentially useful power he has, and he ignores it in favour of lame Ice Cream Koans. Although like Invisible Boy can only become invisible when no one's looking at him, it's possible the Sphinx can only do the gun-cutting thing if no one knows he's there; like said about, it would tie in with the idea that he's 'terribly mysterious'.
Shoveling a tunnel
- If the Shoveller's special ability is being able to shovel very well, why didn't he shovel a tunnel into Casanova Frankenstein's estate, rather than run along the lawn? Or would that be a job for The Digger?
- He shovels well, but you'd need months of time to dig out a hole like that by hand.
- "shoveling well" is not a superpower. He's a guy with a shovel, and he hits people with it. That's it.
- Digging a tunnel requires more than shoveling: It requires knowledge of how to set up supports and what nots.
- The power of shoveling is most formidable, but it's useless if the enemy's foundations go down to the bedrock. He's not the Underminer, after all.
- Let's put it in superhero terms, since it is a superhero movie. He is the Captain America of shoveling... he shovels at the peak human ability to shovel. But even the peak of human ability to shovel can't tunnel from outside an extensive set of grounds and up into a mansion in a matter of hours. So the Shoveler applies his shoveling to things other than shoveling out a hole. And if "shovel" still sounds like a real word after reading that, I haven't done my job.
Flammable Farts
- It's established more than once that The Spleen can light his farts on fire. Why does he never use this as a weapon?
- Setting you farts on fire is dangerous and turning your back to your enemy when you are VERY close is even more dangerous.
The Blue Raja and Names
- Twice in the movie, once when referring to the Bowler, and once when referring to her father, he'd gets the person's real name wrong. The thing is, he only does it those two times. I get the feeling like this was supposed to be a Running Gag, but it doesn't even happen enough to qualify for Rule of Three. Is there something I'm missing, or did the rest of this joke just end up on the cutting room floor?
Captain Amazing's death
- Okay, biggest question: why does Captain Amazing give the Mystery Men instructions on how to activate the doomsday machine, rather than simply untying him?
- He isn't giving them instructions on how to activate it. He's giving them instructions on how to deactivate it, but he's giving them badly, and they're interpreting them even worse. If Casanova Frankenstein is as smart about this as he is in every other scene, the thing is likely booby trapped to go off if Amazing is just untied.
- He's not just tied up, he's secured by metal clamps subject to some unspecified mechanism. It may be that the problem he (thinks he)'s most sure how to solve is how to shut down Frankenstein's evil plan, not get himself out of this chair; it might even be a clever idea if there are no instruments to get him out in the room itself.
