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Gordon Smith · 11-11-2009, 10:54 AM

Doc Savage and his crew are transported from 1939 and end up in Gotham City (comic-book continuity). The Bat-crew has disappeared. Can Doc handle the craziness? How long will he last battling the criminals of Gotham? Note for purposes of this scenario, Doc is spotted his personal wealth and technical resources.

Pendaran · 11-11-2009, 12:15 PM

Considering the wide scale of his personal resources and stuff, his network of skilled henchmen, and that the guy basically /is/ Batman sans costume, he does fine. I imagine Gotham's endemic and endless corruption is going to frustrate the living crap out of him though.

Gordon Smith · 11-11-2009, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Pendaran

Considering the wide scale of his personal resources and stuff, his network of skilled henchmen, and that the guy basically /is/ Batman sans costume, he does fine. I imagine Gotham's endemic and endless corruption is going to frustrate the living crap out of him though.

How do you think he'd get along with local authorities?

Pendaran · 11-11-2009, 04:59 PM

Depends if Doc is still in his habit of brain surgery-ifying the evil away, I imagine.

Gordon Smith · 11-11-2009, 06:42 PM

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Depends if Doc is still in his habit of brain surgery-ifying the evil away, I imagine.

I'm not sure if that would be common knowledge to the public and thus available to the local authorities. I seem to recall Doc keeping that a secret for the obvious reasons. If it is common knowledge, than yeah, that's not going to go over too well, especially with James Gordon.

FistofIron · 11-12-2009, 09:01 AM

How was the Batman/Doc Savage special?

Shellhead · 11-12-2009, 09:29 AM

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How was the Batman/Doc Savage special?

It was decent. The artwork wasn't my kind of thing, but it was good enough. The opening scene didn't quite make sense to me, but otherwise it was a decent story. The ending was inconclusive, since this was the intro to a new setting and product line. The big fight did not disappoint me. Doc was very impressive and yet completely in line with previous portrayals in both books and comics (DC and Marvel versions). Batman fans might be a little disappointed, but Bruce was basically up against a bigger version of himself with more training.

Shellhead · 11-12-2009, 09:32 AM

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Depends if Doc is still in his habit of brain surgery-ifying the evil away, I imagine.

I think that would be the biggest difference. Instead of a the revolving-door joke that is Arkham Asylum, there would be steady decline in repeat offenders in Gotham. Only metahumans like Killer Croc or Clayface might be unsuitable for Doc's brain surgery solution.

Alan2099 · 11-12-2009, 09:32 AM

Yeah, I think Doc could handle Gotham as good, if not better than Batman could. His biggest problem would actually be with the other good guys that don't like his methods.

Pendaran · 11-12-2009, 12:02 PM

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I think that would be the biggest difference. Instead of a the revolving-door joke that is Arkham Asylum, there would be steady decline in repeat offenders in Gotham. Only metahumans like Killer Croc or Clayface might be unsuitable for Doc's brain surgery solution.

Well, there's also the problem of the law coming after him for it if it gets out that he's doing so.

Spamotron · 11-12-2009, 12:44 PM

He might get away with the brain surgery thing on the Joker if he sells it as undoing the chemical damage from the acid bath.

Shellhead · 11-12-2009, 01:04 PM

It's interesting that Warren Ellis used an obvious Doc Savage character in Planetary, but the only person apparently doing that brain surgery as re-programming was the main villain.

FistofIron · 11-12-2009, 01:11 PM

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It's interesting that Warren Ellis used an obvious Doc Savage character in Planetary, but the only person apparently doing that brain surgery as re-programming was the main villain.

I wish we would've gotten to see more of Axel Brass.

Gordon Smith · 11-12-2009, 04:51 PM

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I wish we would've gotten to see more of Axel Brass.

Yeah, me too. That was an awesome pastiche.

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11-11-2009, 12:15 PM	#2
Pendaran Elder Member Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 19,927	Considering the wide scale of his personal resources and stuff, his network of skilled henchmen, and that the guy basically /is/ Batman sans costume, he does fine. I imagine Gotham's endemic and endless corruption is going to frustrate the living crap out of him though.

11-11-2009, 04:59 PM	#4
Pendaran Elder Member Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 19,927	Depends if Doc is still in his habit of brain surgery-ifying the evil away, I imagine.

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FistofIron The Brawling God Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 4,793	How was the Batman/Doc Savage special?

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Spamotron Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 457	He might get away with the brain surgery thing on the Joker if he sells it as undoing the chemical damage from the acid bath.