Tea, and thought experiment

[mneme]

drcpunk and I went to a tea shop, Sago, I think, in Flushing. I ordered an iced cafe mocha, which was quite good enough that I immediately began to wish I'd ordered a large.

drcpunk ordered iced peppermint grean tea,...which was -very- green, and strong enough that she was unable to finish it alone. I was strong enough that on my second taste of it, I began twitching (semi-voluntarily -- it was very strong), causing Lisa to wonder outloud if I was about to transform into something.

Which got me speculating (usually a mistake :) -- what if -most- green superhumans were mint-themed?

The Incredible Mint ("Mint Smash!")
Mint Lantern ("I'll just use my Mint Lantern Ring to make a giant mint-flavored hammer! Oh, no -- saffron, my weakness!")
Mint Arrow ("What, you resisted my stuporious Chocolate Mint Arrow? Well, let's see if you can escape from the sticky coils of my Mint Toffee Arrow!")
MintMan (Raised in the mint-fields, with incredible strength when surrounded by mint, and the power to mentally control the creatures living in, and on, mint!)

Of course, not all mint-based characters would be heroes; there would also be Mintania (the queen of the Minties, and secretly, a human changeling who has used magic to disguise herself as a Mintie for centuries) and Doc Mint (the supervillian merged with a giant ambulatory mint plant that provides him with as many vegitable arms as he needs!)

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[avram]

The Spearmint, with his boxing-glove spear, stun-spear, etc. Don’t forget his origin scene — “Criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot; I’ll need a form that will pierce them through with fear!...”

The Peppermint, whose experiments with pep pills left him with the power of super-speed.

MekkaMint, the robotic villain who only wants to get rich.

Captain Wintergreen, Mister Mentha, Lady Pennyroyal, and of course Curly Mint (“Nyuk, nyuk! Woo-woo-woo-woo!”)

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

Actually, I specifically asked if you were about to turn into Mint Man.

The rule we used was that only green super-whatevers were eligible, though perhaps Mystique and Nightcrawler were some kind of odd blue mints.

[uilos.livejournal.com]

Sigh. Jealousy. All we have here are coffee shops that have little tea bags in a corner and they look at you if you want tea, not coffe. Well, that's what I get for living in a backwater, middle of nowhere, college town.

[mneme]

*nod*

In this case, it's a chinese phoenomenon -- "tea shops" that sell a huge variety of very different drinks, both iced and not, though this is one of the better ones I've been to. So a town with a Chinatown would probably have something like.

[bugsybanana.livejournal.com]

I'm amazed you forgot to mention that Simpsons episode with the campy '60s Atomic Man TV series. "MINT!" as battle noise immediately came to my mind.

[uilos.livejournal.com]

Wow, I really massacred the typing/spelling on that post. Sorry.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Of course, I'm picturing the catagory on E-Bay for Mint Man collectibles: "Mint, mint in box."

[selki.livejournal.com]

let's see if you can escape from the sticky coils of my Mint Toffee Arrow

Do toffee and mint go together? I'm having trouble imagining the blend.

There's a cool Korean bakery/tea shop nearby, you should let me know the next time you're going to be in the area.