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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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08-03-2009, 01:44 AM
zuludelta
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This one always bugged me.
I know they were probably going for some personality quirk.
But really, if he just likes the demolition part of it and hates the water, why didn't he become an army EOD.
I know they were looking for a funny thing "hey, here's a water guy that hates water, that's great".
Just never made any sense.
They did that with Sub-Zero, too, IIRC. He hates the cold, but tolerates it because he likes getting pissed off & kicking Cobra's ass. The forced irony was sort of lame.
I guess you can trace the ironic personality quirk/specialty combo back to the days of Blowtorch (flame weapons specialist afflicted with low-grade pyrophobia) and Tripwire (klutz who happens to be good with disarming explosives) but at least there was some sort of reasoning behind it: Blowtorch is afraid of fire because he's seen close up what it can do to human flesh, and for Tripwire, the threat of explosives helps center and focus his perception and motor coordination into a Zen-like state of calm and control. With Depth Charge and Sub-Zero, it seemed like the filecard writer just threw in the ironic quirks for the sake of quirkiness.
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