Human Target
While the famousMartian Manhuntermay own the great psychical idea in DC ’s Universe , and it ’s typicallyBatmancredited as the humankind ’s best " prep - time " expert , The Human Targetaka Christopher Chance has proven a even valet de chambre can beat up the Justice League ’s best … with the proper preparation .
In Tom King and Greg Smallwood’sBlack LabelseriesThe Human Target , Chance has shown himself to be just as skilled as the Dark Knight while lack access to the limitless resource that Batman typically enjoys . While Batman has gismo , vehicles , and weapons for every spot , Chance only has his camouflage and knowledge of his mark to work with . Chance assumes the identities of those who are in danger to prevent them from being harmed . This calling has given him an expert insight into the thoughts and behavior of other people , allowing him to well fudge them for his own finish . In this late series , Chance is working to uncover who poisonedhim while he was impersonating Lex Luthor . As all signs point to the former Justice League International , he has to figure out how to deal with the likes of Martian Manhunter and Guy Gardner while not have any power of his own .
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Guy confronts Chance at many different period inThe Human Target , but is outsmarted by him nearly every time . Chance get it on that he would instantly recede any lineal conflict against Guy , so he alternatively exploit Guy ’s militant nature and fear of losing index to put Guy into unwinnable situations . hazard tricks him into driving into oncoming traffic , fighting recede battles against Ice , and even consecrate up his tintinnabulation to Chance ’s friend in a Hal Jordan disguise . When meeting with additional members of the former team , Chance acknowledge thathe can not resist Martian Manhunter ’s telepathic probing . By using training that he received from a dissimilar telepathic alien in the past , Chance is capable to look through the memories of Martian Manhunter ’s thinker while his own are being sift through inThe Human Target # 5 .
Despite being considered one of the most powerful telepaths in the DCU , Martian Manhunter is caught off safeguard by Chance . He does not gestate a unconstipated Isle of Man to be prepared for such an attack , much less to be attacked himself .
The vocation of being a human target is inherently inactive , as it requires hold off for someone else to attack . probability is now reversing his role , using his skills aggressively to hound a object of his own . The preparation that would normally go into replicate the living of a node is now being orchestrate towards uncovering the identity element of his killer . When planning to interrogate Fire , Ice ’s former partner , he sound out that he want to know " what wall does she put around her , and where are all the helplessness in all those walls ? " Instead of defend those weaknesses , now he wants to exploit them .
Although he may not have any superpowers , Chance ’s commitment to understand how other people believe makes him just as formidable as any of the costumed characters that he interacts with . If he can not fight someone physically , he will find a way to get at them psychologically . The Human Targetshows that , just like Batman , with enough preparation Chance can figure out way around any DC Comicshero that stands in his path .
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