OK, i'll buy the forcefield in terms of keeping his head structurally intact and still attached to his body. i'll even accept that he would protect his head but not his helmet, because i would imagine that, for Mags, throwing up a forcefield to protect his person is automatic like flinching, but extending the bubble is a conscious thing, and he just wasn't that together at that point.
still, though, the eardrums thing was bugging me. for one thing, i've known people who've had their eardrums burst or punctured, and it's incredibly painful. i'm willing to chalk up the fact that Mags is not lying on the ground clutching his head and screaming to superhero machismo, but how does he hear?
or, more to the point: why bother mentioning ruptured eardrums when you plan on having the character hear? sloppy writing on GM's part.
though, i must say, the overall effect of the broken Magneto with the fucked-up face, bleeding from the nose, struggling to his feet, mumbling about his eardrums and whatnot while Scott kicks the shit out of him was really freaking cool. all the fights in this were really viscerally nasty. it reminds me of the scenes in the Invisibles where KM and Jolly Roger would gun down a room full of guards, and there would be people lying around everywhere screaming and babbling and holding in their guts, and of previous NXM incidents like Beak's savage assault on Hank, and the carnage in Genosha. i like the fact that GM generally takes the effects of violence seriously, to some extent. in his comics, it really seems like it hurts to get knocked around in these superhero fights.
i guess this is why weird glitches like this bug me so much.
and, yes, i had forgotten about the Alzheimer's thing. that's kind of bothersome, too. |
