>>>(Don was reasonably sure he could develop an implant that would fix
>>>that, but why bother? The guy would probably just be all ungrateful
>>>about it anyway.)
>>
>>His powers or his sense of humor? Either one could be helped with
>>some brain surgery, really...
>>
>><"OK, Scott, when I press this button, you're going to get a sense of [BR>>>humor. Try not to do something stupid like give Logan a wedgie, OK?"]
>
>I dunno... Don would be terribly afraid that if he did that, Scott
>would become drunk with power and start trying to use the advanced
>forms of humor first, before he was really ready for them, instead of
>starting with knock-knock jokes and working his way gradually up to
>the advanced forms. Knowing Scott, he would decided on the first day
>that he was ready for, say, sarcasm, or even irony, and the result
>would be a disaster such as the X-Men have never seen before. It
>would be appalling.

I just wanted to say that the above caused some severe breakage over here. The very idea of ol' one-eye having a sense of humor is enough of a boggle all on it's own. The idea that he could turn it on and off like Data's emotion chip...

Of course, the fact that Scott probably needs an emotion chip in the first place...

At least the movie version of him had a little bit of humor. He doesn't make jokes himself. But at least he has a little bit of warmth. It showed up in the scene with the kid in the train station and in his willingness to be amused by Logan's popping the single claw at him in the museum entrance. Also his willingness to take being the butt of one of Logan's insults, in order to ID the man, with some aplomb. That's better than the comic version has ever really managed.

I did wind up liking the version of him in X-Men Evolution though. He still was pretty serious. But he actually had the occasional wise-crack.

-Logan

	I like to see Kevin Costner get work. I think it's wonderful that in this age of steel and high tech plastics, they still use wooden actors. -Mark Kobrak