DIY Superhero Team

Last night I realised that my friends and I might be slightly nerdy.  No, really, it's true.  This realisation came about during a discussion about who we would put in our own version of the Avengers/JLA if we could have anyone hero all.

There were some rules we had to follow.  First, not Superman, this was quickly ammended to not any Kryptonian and no other overpowered characters (think Nemesis Lad or Q).  Second, if someone else chose a character you couldn't choose that character as well.  Third, they must be a hero or playable character, no supervillains, there is an exception to this if the villain had been a hero or at some point but it is understood that they would probably be unreliable anyway.

I present for your amusement my list:

Oracle
Of course she's going to be in charge of the team, no one else has the same level of organisation or information finding skills as Oracle.  The fact that she's in a wheelchair doesn't faze me either, she's still more hardcore than 99.9% of the planet's population.

Captain Jack Harkness
This was originally going to be the Doctor, but someone else got in first with that.  Still, a man who cannot die is definitely going to be useful on any superhero team.  At some point the supervillain is going to get his act together and say "Ah, I have successfully made this trap that contains the weakness of each and every member of your team, you will die before you can stop this armageddon device."  so it's definitely useful to have someone who'd simply say "I'm good." and get on with it.

Delta
Face it, if I want someone to punch a wall out for me I'm getting someone who can genetically alter themselves to not only achieve that, but also set everyone on the other side of that wall on fire or cause swarms of bees to follow his fist through said wall.  Also, he has a freaking drill for a hand!

Severus Snape
So this was a no brainer, everyone was trying to think of which wizard they wanted on their team, most people wanted Gandalf but I didn't even need to consider my choice.  Snape is a very powerful wizard who knows and is, on occassion, prepared to use evil magic for a good cause.  Why wouldn't you want him on your team?

MacGyver
This is a man who can make explosives out of two paperclips and a stick of chewing gum, need I say more?

Black Widow
I could choose someone else, but when the perfect spy is already available what is the point?  She is a master at both inflitration and interrogation.  She gets inside people's heads so easily you'd think she lived there.  Another big plus is that despite all the superpowered people around her, she never has one of those "Am I good enough to be here?" moments, she knows damn well she is.

Storm
Storm fills two roles on the team, riding the winds she can easily serve as aerial reconnaisance while she unleashed lighting on the baddies at range.  As an added bonus she has shown the ability to carry team members on the winds as well.

And that's my team.  In just seven members can anyone make a better one?

I finally get it.

As an owner/operator of a set of balls, I have been kind of satisfied that I'd never seen either Mean Girls or Bring It On as I had been assured they fall squarely into the category of "you will not enjoy this film unless you have the capacity to ovulate, a tendency to eat copious amounts of chocolate when sad, and are avoiding doing maths homework.  Not having seen these films, I have just descovered, has meant that I have missed out on soooo many pop culture references.

For a few weeks now I have been frequently told by friends that I should see them both so that I can officially be part of the 21st century.  Today I had absolutely nothing else on so I decided to bite the bullet an watch them both, and I have to say, they were not bad.  Well played friends, well played.


I now understand the following quotes, presented in gif format for your viewing pleasure:

I do musical theatre so I've been saying this one for years anyway.  Source

My friends do in fact say this - far more often could possibly be called for.  Source

I know at least one person who knows this cheer (including moves) off by heart, her reciting this to me may or may not have been what convinced me to actually watch this film.  Source

And of course how could I not like this scene, it's Eliza Dushku dancing all sexy like! Source

As for Mean Girls:

Its been eight years since this film came out and I only now understand the many long and boring conversations about whether fetch is going to happen eventually.  Source

Overnight everyone went from saying "there is no limit" to "the limit does not exist" I now realise why.  Source

30% chance has in fact come to simply mean yes for so many people I know.  Source

Also, I now get so many more of the pop culture references in blogs and generally online that refer to these movies, how have I survived so long without understanding this?  Stuff at Snark Squad (which is awesome) is particularly good at referencing both these films, I strongly urge people to check it out, for no other reason that it's awesome and deserves more readers.

There you go, I now get to consider myself officially a part of the 21st century apparently.

...Unless there are other major gaps in my pop culture experience, like committing some sort of terrible faux par involved in the use of gifs or something.