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Ex USATC S160 No. 2253 "Omaha" heads through the picturesque Staffordshire countryside, at Basford on the approach to Cheddleton. The S160 was working during the Churnet Valley railways "Superpower weekend".
A battle between 2 of the greatest superheroine rivals.
Cast:
Ms. Marvel / Carol Danvers - myself
Rogue / Anna Marie - Gwen Steele
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The superhero had repeatedly suffered serious injuries while trying to climb walls in recent times. According to eyewitnesses, he also lost the ability to use spider threads to rescue himself and can no longer transform back into his other self.
Now one of our society reporters has managed to track Spiderman down in a burnout clinic where he is treated with the highest security measures in place.
From well-informed circles it is said that the mindfulness training with the well-known spider meditation works well.
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My contribution to this week's Fotosöndag theme "news"
(that is of course "fake news" in this case ;-))
Oi :)
Faz uns anos meu azul favorito saiu de linha, era da essence, e sem querer achei o mesmo tom de azul na maybelline! É perfeito!
Cobre com uma camada perfeitamente e seca com um brilho bonito. Mancha um pouco os dedos, é difícil de limpar (o da essence tb era), mas nada impossível! Espero q não manche as unhas na hora de tirar.
Usei pepel prata para unhas, esfarelei e coloquei com o dedo mesmo hehe e finalizei com TC da impala.
Dei uma aparada de leve nas cutículas ^-^ fica tudo tão limpinho, parece até q o esmalte fica com um acabamento mais bonito kkk
Um beijao!
The C&O 2789 on display at the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum in North Judson, Indiana. Currently undergoing a very slow restoration.
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Locomotive Services Limited Class 47s, Nos. D1935 (47257) 'Roger Hosking MA 1925 - 2013' & D1944 ((47501) 'Craftsman' speed through Lichfield Trent Valley on 21st April 2018 at the head of a private charter, 1Z26 1505 Crewe - Oxford. The train had earlier worked from Oxford to Crewe, and then onwards to Chester with steam traction (not yet confirmed but the Crewe-Chester-Crewe section was timed at 60mph). The fact that D1935 had worked north with its nameplate covered suggests that the charter was in connection with that locomotive being formally named 'Roger Hosking MA 1925-2013; I presume the gentleman is Jeremy Hosking's late father. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
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This Yosemite thunderstorm went out with a bang. It dumped about an inch of hail in the Yosemite high country and turned Tuolumne meadows white. As it cleared out at sunset, it left fog trails in the meadows, glowing mammatus clouds, and a rainbow over Lembert Dome behind us. You can see some leftover hail in the foreground. We forecasted the sunset (it was our second wild sunset in a row) and it was great to watch it with some fellow Escaypers, but the hail was a nice surprise :)
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Motography May 2015. We were fortunate enough to be on the Pt. Townsend-Coupeville Ferry while one of the mighty Trident class submarines was on it's way back to port.
Amalfi -
The dramatic scenery around the town of Amalfi in Southern Italy. This town was the centre of a maritime superpower between around 839 and 1200 AD. The road that clings precariously to the cliffs along the Amalfi Coast is something that needs to be experienced to be believed! ;) #Amalfi #italy #Campania #landscape #olympus #clouds #seascape #cliffs #travel
I think everybody has dreamt about flying. Being able to fly. This night I could. This night I was Superman...
For six word story.
Happy International Women's Day to all the inspirational female photographers on Flickr.
Put your feet up, have a cuppa and celebrate our superpowers
The Pink Vixen was trained as an assassin and then granted her superpowers by a demoness. Her main superpower is her body's ability to physically regenerate, making her immortal. However, she decided being an assassin was not for her and abandoned that life. She now uses her powers for good and helps run the League of Superheroines with her twin sister.
LNER U1 class Garratt 69999 and resident 0.10.0 58100 at the Bromsgrove coaling stage on 30 April 1949. 69999 was being tried out as a banker on the Lickey incline, the first of two occasions, both unsuccessful. Imagine these two in preservation!
Scanned from a negative taken by the late Doug Clayton, now the copyright of the Industrial Railway Society.
a cold dark afternoon at bradnop on the cvr's ipstones branch sees us s160 2-8-0s 5197 and 6046 lift an eight coach train up the steep gradient
the train's approach could be followed for some distance by the smoke and steam and chime whistle blasts
while sitting on a sofa. It's not so difficult after all and it certainly doesn't need superpowers!
Here I am, warm, well fed, healthy, sitting and relaxing doing nothing. I have nothing to complain of.
There are many other people not as fortunate, people whose job is to go out and deliver my food, health professionals who risk their lives to care for the sick, the sick who may die without any family visitors, the family who wait at home not knowing whether their loved ones will survive.
Compared to them, my task is trivial. It's the least I can do to help them by keeping out of the way. Absolutely, totally out of physical contact.
Outfit:
✿ JACKET: LUNAR - Lamu Jacket
✿ T-SHIRT: TRES BLAH - Slouch Tee
✿ JEANS: TRES BLAH - Cuffed Jeans - Doodles
✿ FANNY PACK: ISON - Fanny Pack (Group Gift)
Body:
✿ Hair: DOUX - Tyrisha Hairstyle
✿ Head: CATWA - Catya
✿ Skyn: PUMEC
Pere Marquette 1225 working a photo freight on the Great Lakes Central RR, Michigan on 26 September 2008. The train is passing the disused bean elevator at Henderson north of Owosso.
50048 'Dauntless' slowing for it's stop at Dawlish on 1-7-85.
Superpower for the Newton Abbot to Exeter local.
This is part of the Tom Derrington Collection and was purchased with copyright from Strathwood Publishing. I'm not sure whether this slide has been used in a book or whether it was surplus to requirements.
I have taken plenty of class50 photos myself and I lived in Devon for a couple of years in the late 70's. Most of the transparencies are in the ownership of Martin Loader [Hondawanderer website]. Some are still waiting to be scanned as are my colour negatives which I retain.
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She is WOMAN.
She is Mother. Daughter. Wife. Sister.
She is a Person.
She is Strong, Smart, Crafty.
She is Passionate, Courageous, Generous.
Cooking barefoot is only one of several superpowers.
She is Action, Emotion, Devotion.
She has Hope, Beauty, Power.
She has a Brain and she knows how to use it.
She Gives You LIFE.
She gives you RESPECT, LOVE, GRATITUDE.
She believes in you.
She will nurture you, fight for you.
She deserves nothing less from you.
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Ricky : "Sometimes I close my eyes and I pretend I'm a bird and that I'm flying. If I had a superpower, I would want to fly, I think."
Me : "That would be my superpower, too."
Atomic-powered superheroes have the coolest power sets. Not only do they get the traditionally "cool" superpowers such as super strength, flight, and invulnerability, but they also boast abilities such as matter manipulation and time dilation.
Firestorm's my second-favorite DC superhero - everything about him is super cool. Consequently, I've been trying for quite a while to make a proper purist version of him for my collection. The head has always been the hardest part; Flash's has visible pupils and doesn't look enough like a helmet, and it's quite difficult to find a good flame piece that can be integrated into the Nexo Knight visor solution I came up with about a year ago.
But now I think I'm quite happy with this final iteration. This figure boasts a 1x1 open stud plate with a scissor-cut tube threaded through the bottom to hold it in place in the visor receptacle. This allows for the attachment of any minifig hairpiece on top of the helmet. Adam was kind enough to give his opinions on whether the Syndrome or Ghost Rider flame piece looked better for a purist fig, and I agree that the smoother finish of the former lends it a certain kind of sleekness.
Captain Atom and Major Force are purist upgrades of my previous custom-printed versions. When I was looking for a suitable hairpiece for Atom on BL, I was really surprised to find out that Lego actually made an official pearl-grey version of his flat-top hair. The background choice for this shot was inspired by Captain Atom's ludicrous New 52 run where he phased into the time stream of life itself and literally became a Hindu God.
Check out my second photostream (tagged below) for the Jefferson Jackson variant that's actually going in my collection!
Fig formulas:
Captain Atom: Dimensions Cyberman torso, Titanium Zane head/hair, Captain Phasma legs, Scarlet Witch violet energy construct
Firestorm (Ronnie Raymond): NK Ultimate Macy visor, Syndrome hair, NK Ultimate Flama torso, Hyperion legs, Bart Simpson arms, MM Thanos shoulder armor
Major Force: LBM CMF Red Hood head, Hyperion torso, Bart Simpson arms, yellow legs
What's yours? :)
Porto Santo, Madeira Archipelago – Portugal
O meu superpoder é parar o tempo... Qual é o teu? :)
Porto Santo, Arquipélago da Madeira – Portugal
A steam engine covered with snow on Christmas Day 2013 in Fort Madison, Iowa. Santa Fe 2913.
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(From .......A photo story in progress.......maybe the last episode?)
At that moment we looked at each other and came to the same cosmic realization.......This "story" was going nowhere fast ........or maybe, as we rearranged the "chairs on the decks of the Titanic", this story was going in the most dangerous direction possible! We asked ourselves: What would we do if we saw our nation going fascist?
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What would you do if you saw your nation going fascist?
By Gary G. Kohls, MD
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Mar 28, 2006, 01:23
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Okay, so you call yourself a patriot. But what exactly do you think that word means?
Is it the patriotism that says, “My country, right or wrong?” Is it the patriotism that says, Might makes right? Is it the patriotism of Samuel Johnson who defined it as “the last refuge of the scoundrel?”
Is it the patriotism of the 16th century Protestant “reformers” who believed that every leader of any “Christian” nation was ordained by God, no matter how much that leader promoted the satanic mass slaughter of fellow children of God, and, therefore, Christians were to be unconditionally obedient to that leader? (See Psalm 137.)
Or are you the type of patriot that loves your country so much that you won’t let tyrants or the super-rich or the mega-corporations take it over out of their greed for more power and wealth? Are you the type of patriot that is willing to have a lover’s quarrel with your beloved country that may be temporarily under the control of those that are close to being indicted as international war criminals?
In order to find out which type of patriot you might be, you should read the following “hypothetical” situation; and then you can judge for yourself.
Suppose you are a white, God-fearing, church-going citizen in a country that prided itself on its inventiveness, its literacy, its art, its culture, its glory in past wars and its superpower status, and suppose you saw your democratic institutions and the human rights of your neighbors being degraded by the lawmakers of your nation.
Say that you saw a bunch of powerful legislators and corporations, who lied consistently to enrich themselves and who were obsessed with the desire to wage aggressive war. Say that they started to grab control of our country’s legislature, judiciary and military. Say these cunning politicians, with the support of ruthless financiers, gained control of the highest office in the land -- without winning the majority vote in any fair election -- and started taking away, in rapid succession, the rights of many of its minority citizens, declaring left-wing peacemakers traitors, purging anti-fascists and other resistance groups from their positions of power, eviscerating its democratic institutions, silencing the “liberal” sectors of the press, working to weaken and eventually violently destroy all political opposition, censoring or usurping the open-minded media and marginalizing and silencing the artists, the poets, the writers and the creative thinkers.
You would be in 1930s Germany and the tyrants would have been Adolf Hitler’s cunning henchmen. And what would you have done in that situation?
If you were an average white, affluent, employed citizen, with all the privilege and power granted to you by that majority status, you would have said virtually nothing in opposition, even as the rights of the Nazis targeted minority groups were legally being taken away, disappearing into the gulag of prison and mental institutions.
As an average Bible-believing Christian, you would probably have obeyed your German war-supporting bishops or pastors, almost all of whom had pledged a solemn oath of loyalty to the Fuhrer, duty-bound to follow him instead of their “Lord and Savior,” the nonviolent Jesus of Nazareth. Because of an out-of-context single passage in the Epistle to the Romans you, as an obedient German Christian would have been inclined to obey St. Paul and therefore the existing rulers in Berlin in the time of crisis rather than courageously and faithfully following Jesus, who forbade homicidal violence, said that all are equal in the eyes of God and that the followers should love -- instead of kill -- their enemies.
If you were an average white lawyer, physician or psychiatrist, you would have joined the Nazi Party, for doing otherwise would have jeopardized your practice. And you would have kept your mouth shut when witnessing the anguish of your Jewish, Slavic, Gypsy, socialist, liberal, or gay clients as they were forced to march toward -- and disappear into -- the concentrations camps and gas chambers.
But the question remains -- would you have been a good patriot? Or would you have been on the wrong side of justice by being obedient to the Fuhrer (“Leader”) and to the cloth flag (swastika) that symbolized his rule?
Knowing that any German citizen seen helping the “enemies of the state” was guilty of treason, on whose side would any of us have stood? Would we have taken the side of the innocents -- those oppressed or outcast -- or would we have stood with the fascists?
Knowing that revering the flag was regarded as a crucial act of patriotism would we have saluted along with the victimizers or would we have resisted?
On whose side would we have been, the freedom-fighting groups (labeled “terrorists” by the State) who were courageously and patriotically trying to save their beloved nation from fascism, or would we have been on the “safe” side with the militarists and corporatists and right-wing politicians who looked like they were going to be the winners? Our answer will reveal our politics -- and our theology.
Now fast forward to America 2006 . . . but that shouldn’t be necessary, for the point has been made.
Dr. Kohls is a Duluth, Minn., physician and a peace and justice activist who has an aversion to human slaughter, for any reason, in times of war or in times of “peace.” He is also a member of the faith-based peace organization, Every Church A Peace Church.
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I was shooting 100 speed film at 50iso with a yellow filter in incredibly low light, hand-holding the RB67. If I have a superpower, this might be it. I could see through the finder well enough to frame the shot, and almost well enough to be confident of my focus.
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'Crumbled'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm
Film: Shanghai 100
Process: PMK; 1+2+100; 10min
New Mexico
July 2021
rabbi habli hukumaon ah alhwikuni baswa swa-lihin
he amader probhu; amake bishes gwan dan karo . ebang amake punnabander antarbhukta karo .
eid moobarak
Esta idea tan sencilla la tenía clara desde hace muucho tiempo y jamás supe como abarcarla... es una chorrada pero me costaba que me gustase el resultado... en fin...
quería esta idea así sencilla... porque quería representar de alguna manera todas esas personas que pasan por nuestra vida y que sentimos que le estaremos agradecidos eternamente por ayudarnos en los momentos mas difíciles... por ayudarnos a levantarnos y por ser nuestro soporte....
He tenido la suerte de encontrarme con unos héroes y heroínas dignas de admirar por su fuerza y por su positivismo .... empezando por mi Madre, pasando por mi hermana, mis amig@s (físicos y virtuales) y terminando con la persona que me cuida cada día de mi vida. Mi Chico pero héroes podemos ser todos... no hace falta fundir el hierro a base de rayos láser.... tan solo tener la proeza de tender la mano en momentos de necesidad.
¡GRACIAS POR ESTAR AHÍ!
The ship looks 'better' on the inside than the outside.
(Wikipedia)
Rainbow Warrior (sometimes Rainbow Warrior III) is a purpose-built motor-assisted sailing yacht owned and operated by Greenpeace and intended for use in their activities such as environmental protests and scientific excursions. She was christened on October 14, 2011, and has replaced Rainbow Warrior II after further upgrades and maintenance of the older ship had been shown to be impractical.
The vessel is the first Rainbow Warrior that is not converted from another vessel. Her hull was constructed in Poland and she was fitted out in Germany. She has state-of-the-art facilities including advanced telecommunication equipment, specialised scientific equipment, and a helicopter landing pad. The ship is also designed to be one of the "greenest" ships afloat, and to showcase this quality, it runs primarily using wind power, with a 55 m mast system which carries 1255 sq meters of sail. The ship also has Volvo Penta D65A MT 1850 HP diesel-electric engine and carries up to 110'000 litres diesel fuel. On board the ship can store up to 59 cubic meters of greywater and blackwater, avoiding the need for disposal at sea. All materials, from the paintwork to the insulation, have been chosen with a view to sustainability, and each component has been supplied with transparent ethical sourcing.
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"Greenpeace’s flagship the Rainbow Warrior is sailing to Western Australia! It’s joining forces with coastal communities to defend our oceans and climate from Woodside’s dangerous plans for offshore gas drilling.
Western Australia’s oceans are like nowhere else on earth, home to whales, dolphins, turtles and dazzling coral. WA is also one of the sunniest, windiest places in the world, and with its smart workforce and export infrastructure it’s perfectly placed to become a renewable energy superpower.
But fossil fuel company Woodside has other ideas. It wants to drill for climate-wrecking gas in the middle of a coral reef, drop pipelines through endangered turtle habitats and conduct seismic blasting that could seriously injure whales. All to build its monstrous Burrup Hub gas project: the dirtiest fossil fuel project in Australia today.
WA is already suffering the impacts of climate change. West Australians are demanding stronger climate action and ocean protection - and Greenpeace’s flagship, the Rainbow Warrior - is on its way to join them.
The Rainbow Warrior is arriving in Albany - where Greenpeace started out in Australia - to celebrate 45 years since the end of commercial whaling. Then it's sailing north to Fremantle, then past iconic sites like Ningaloo reef to the waters off the Pilbara and Kimberley coastlines, where Woodside wants to drill for gas.
Along the way, we’ll meet, support and learn from the coastal communities who are demanding healthy oceans, a stable climate and a clean energy future for WA.
While the Rainbow Warrior is docked in Fremantle, we’d love to welcome you on board for a free tour of the ship! We'll also have opportunities to get creative - from badge making, to face painting and other arts and crafts, there's plenty for everyone to get involved.
Whether you are interested in a free tour of the iconic vessel or just stopping by to take part in the onshore activities, your support is vital to the success of this campaign.
We'll be open to the public on Saturday 29th April 9am to 5pm and Sunday 30th April 12pm to 5pm. The tours run every 15 minutes and lasts 30 minutes with the last tour starting at 4:30pm. Due to the Ship being fully operational even while in port, the tour does not include the inside sections such as the engine room, the mess and the dormitories etc.
There are limited spots for the tour so we highly recommend pre-booking a ticket to avoid disappointment.
This is a special moment in Greenpeace Australia Pacific history and we can't wait to share it with you!
We’ll need help on the day too! If you are interested in volunteering please fill out this form: act.gp/OpenBoatVolunteer and we’ll be in touch shortly.
Please note that the tour of the ship involves walking up and down some steep steps, which would require good mobility. Unfortunately due to the design of the ship, the Rainbow Warrior is not wheelchair accessible."
Have you ever dreamed of possessing super powers: like a hidden “S” under your shirt or Herculean strength? Or maybe just dreamed about being brave, a knight of courage? Or it could even be that your definition of “hero” is entirely different. Show us your interpretation and find your one #Hero photo in your photostream!
Once you've made your choice, tweet it to @flickr adding #TwitterTuesday. We'll showcase the best ones on Flickr Blog tomorrow.
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Name: Ema Raile
Age: 19
Alias: N/A
Abilities: Knowledge of tech, knowledge of the underground
Superpowers: Time manipulation
Affecting of superpowers when stressed: When stressed, Ema will slow, even stop, time. The time this lasts varies, depending on the level of stress Ema is experiencing and how long it takes her to calm down.
Nationality: Canadian
Description: Ema is tall, taller than most of her age. She has dirty-blond hair, with streaks of neon blue dyed into it. Slim, yet strong, build. Forest green eyes. Ema usually wears a black hoodie,
customized and spray-painted with her squad’s tag, matching the died streaks of her hair.
Background: Ema’s past was a stressful one. Her father abandoned her and her mother the instant he discovered her mother was pregnant. She lived with her mother for several years, though she quickly proved herself not physically able to take care of Ema. The social services came for Ema soon, taking her to her local orphanage. Being naturally tall, she quickly took to playing basketball, making many a friend during her time in the team, bonding particularly with those who had experienced something similar to her past. Once, during a stressful game, an opponent was jumping, the ball cupped in her hand, flying towards the hoop. And then, time stopped, well, slowed, time could never stop, nor could it go backwards. The game was won because of this. Years later, Ema found herself working in a gang, as a hacker. She had always been fascinated with technology, and being able to slow time allowed her to truly focus on this craft, even in the most stressful of times.
Fourth wall: A big thanks to my friend Emma for allowing me to use her likeness in this fig, she's an awesome friend (if a semi-recent one) and a very cool writer. (that's how we met) Anyway, good luck to everybody else who enters and a big thanks to Fantxtik for organizing this awesome contest.
Character Creation
The most well-known Cobra is Klaus Voorhees, now known as the King Cobra. He first appeared in Journey into Mystery #98 (Nov. 1963) created by writer Stan Lee and artist Don Heck.
Klaus Voorhees was a laboratory assistant, working with a professor trying to find a cure for various venomous snake bites. A combination of a bite from a radioactive cobra and the experimental anti-venom granted him superpowers, which led to him becoming the supervillain briefly known as the Human Cobra and then as the Cobra. The Cobra and Mister Hyde formed a criminal team for years, fighting various heroes such as Thor and Daredevil.
He later became a member of the Serpent Squad and a member of Sidewinder's Serpent Society. During a takeover attempt by the Viper, the Cobra actually opposed her rule and sided with Captain America to depose the Viper and foil her plans. The Cobra later took the name "the King Cobra" as he assumed leadership of the Serpent Society. When the Serpent Society became Serpent Solutions under the leadership of the Viper (Jordan Stryke, a different Viper) the King Cobra became a member of the group.
His nephew, Piet Voorhees, became the second Cobra and first appeared in White Tiger #1 (Jan. 2007) in a story written by Tamora Pierce and drawn by Timothy Liebe. Piet Voorhees was injected with the same chemicals that gave his uncle his powers and he became the second Cobra, working as a mercenary. On one mission he encountered the White Tiger, who defeated him. The Cobra later joined the Serpent Squad, organized by Sin and would also work for HYDRA as a mercenary.
Marvel has also used the moniker "Cobra" for two World War II Nazi villains and also a mercenary enemy of Moon Knight.
The original Cobra has appeared outside of Marvel Comics, most notably in "The Mighty Thor" portion of The Marvel Super Heroes as well as in episodes of The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers.
Klaus Voorhees was briefly known as the Human Cobra, then was known as the Cobra for many years and is currently known as the King Cobra. The Klaus Voorhees version of the Cobra was most commonly associated with Thor, Daredevil and, to a lesser extent, Captain America and Spider-Man. The character was created by Stan Lee and Don Heck in Journey into Mystery #98 (Nov. 1963) in which he first battled Thor. His next appearance (Journey into Mystery #105–106 (June–July 1964)) saw him team up with Mister Hyde for the first time (with Hyde being the brains of the team) and the duo had a few more encounters with Thor before their first battle with Daredevil in Daredevil #30–32 (July–Sept. 1967).
Fictional character biography
Career Criminal
Soon after deciding to start a criminal career, he was stopped by Thor. He then forged an alliance with Mr. Hyde, that continued for a very long time. They faced enemies like Daredevil and Spider-Man. Cobra also joined the Serpent Squad, they helped an Atlantean warlord known as Krang, but Cobra felt out of his element. Soon he again teamed with Mr. Hyde, but this time the partnership didn't last long. Cobra left Hyde behind when escaping Rikers Island. Later, Hyde was hunting him and he feared for his life, with the help of Spider-Man he was able to escape Hyde's wrath.
Serpent Society
King Cobra again teamed with others like him, this time it was called the Serpent Society. After several betrayals, Cobra was left the leader of this group. Now feeling like a new man, he decided to face his greatest fear, Mr. Hyde. He fought him face-to-face. After defeating him, he renamed himself King Cobra. He tried to get some order into this group, but it backfired and the group fell apart. King Cobra soon was arrested, and sent to the Vault. When the breakout happened he was among the escapees. A new hero Toxin tracked him down with the help of Mr. Hyde.
Civil War and Thunderbolts
When the Superhuman Registration Act went through, King Cobra joined the Thunderbolts.
The Savage Six
Cobra was captured by Taskmaster and Black Ant for a big trophy hunt set up by Kraven the Hunter. Kraven chose villains that were animal themed to punish them for disgracing the animal kingdom. King Cobra was one of six main animal villains that Kraven used to sell rich patrons on the hunt. Arcade, Kraven's partner, referred to them as The Savage Six.
Once freed after Spider-Man's interfering with Kraven's plan, Vulture liked the sound of the Savage Six and pitched to his other advertised big game baddies (Rhino, Scorpion, Tarantula, and Stegron) that they should stick together. Once together, they made their way to Hollywood to shut down a production of a biographical movie produced by Mysterio that painted them in a less than ideal life. Mary Jane was on set and confronted them to no avail. Luckily, Screwball, Master Matrix, and other supervillains getting a second chance as crew members were there to rescue her.
Sinister War
The team gets a second chance to ruin Mysterio's movie by attacking the premiere. Unfortunately, because Mary Jane is starring in it, she was in attendance, with Spider-Man as her plus one. He leapt into action, but his attempt was short lived. The new Sinister Six showed up to recruit Mysterio and did battle with the Savage Six.
They regroup with other supervillain teams at a graveyard where Spider-Man was hiding. Kindred let them know they were all hellbound and gave them all the same offer, the villain that kills Spider-Man will get a free pass in Hell. Eventually, Doc Ock uses a piece of Black Ant's helmet to knock everyone, including the Savage Six, out through the ear centipedes Kindred was using to control them.
Roxxon
King Cobra was hired by a resurrected Dario Agger to join a team of Thor's old foes to stand ready in case the god return to Midgard. Thor had been framed for Agger's own murder and been manipulated with "skald magic" (storytelling incantations). When Thor arrived to clear his name, he was attacked by these foes. They were able to get the jump on him, and Grey Gargoyle managed to turn him into stone, which Mister Hyde proceeded to destroy.
Thor recently upgraded his power with a new belt, materialized from the power of Zeus, which fought back against Grey Gargoyle's stone touch. Cobra and the others were scared by Thor's feat and retreated to Agger's side. He used them as bait once more, however, this time Thor brought reinforcements. Cobra filled the battlefield with his cobra gas, but Sif managed to knock him out.
When the dust settled, the foes were arrested and moved to a private prison owned by Roxxon.
Powers and Abilities
The Cobra possesses certain unusual physical powers derived from his mutagenically altered physiology which among other things help him simulate the movement of a snake. All of the bones in his body, including his skull, are malleable and his muscle tissue is exceedingly resilient, making his body very flexible and pliant. It is nearly impossible for him to break a bone or tear a muscle. Hence, the Cobra can survive impacts that would kill or inflict major injury upon a normal human being with little or no injury to himself.
The Cobra's flexibility enables him to slither into and out of very tight and small places. Through compressing his body, the Cobra can fit into any hole or slot down to four inches in diameter. By using his flexibility to wrap himself about a victim's body and then exerting his full strength, the Cobra traps that victim within his "Cobra Grip." No normal human being can break free of his grip unless he is extraordinarily well trained in fighting, and even many superhumanly strong beings would have difficulty freeing themselves.
Strength: able to lift own body weight, speed peak range - 700 MPH, Enhanced Durability. Short range energy projection, short duration, single energy type.
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Secret Identity: Klaus Voorhees
Publisher: Marvel
First Appearance: Journey into Mystery #98 (Nov. 1963)
Created by: Stan Lee (Writer)
Don Heck (Artist)
I have superpowers! They are to do with the wind, and nothing to do with lentils.
I can forecast the Spring weather. I can predict when the next gale will arrive. I can't actually raise a gale. But I can turn dead calm air into a fluky zephyr. Honestly, the business of siting a windfarm would be made so much easier by asking me. My fees aren't that high!
This is how it works. When the Mariposa plum flower buds swell I know, with high certainty, that the next wind will blow them, and the bees, off course for a good crop.
Here's how I disturb the calm: pick up a macro lens and head out into still air — unfailing!
That's why this scene might have been a bit sharper, a bit deeper in focus, a bit tidier; less ragged.
The gale arrived on cue, blowing out those petals. The shutter speed would have been lower, the focus sharper and the AI Servo AF mode switched off instead of hunting like mad to stay with the action.
Anyway, here it is, part 1 of a little do nothing project to record what's in flower. I missed the tiny and beautiful hazel flowers on the day it rained and the wind had already wiped out the Santa Rosa plum's flowers by the time I got here. I won't get everything: rosemary, forget-me-not, grape hyacith, daffodil and jonquil, dandelion, Pseudofumaria alba, the little alpine strawberries…there's almost always something for the birds, bugs and bees.
I braved the winds mid afternoon and went to Sodus Point. On the way home, I had to take a detour in order to get home. I was told that there were roadblocks 3-4 spots between Ontario and Webster along Lake Road. Once our power returns here at home, I need to take the shop vacuum and clean all the sand off the dash of my Equinox!! (hopefully, I pulled my camera in quick enough to keep it from getting "contaminated" by the sand).
We are without internet and power - our neighbor's metal storage building was uprooted by the wind and pulled down the wires out back. MANY people in the Rochester, NY area are without power. We lost ours just a couple hours after I took this image. I will try to get back on as soon as I can. I heard a couple people say that they were told it would be a week before power is back on. We will see....
We are doing ok - our portable generator is keeping us going at this time. My daughter's internet lets me do a quick check of my messages/emails when I bring my computer here.
Have a great weekend.