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I removed the following from the article because I don't think RPG stats belong in Wikipedia. Since large numbers of these "vital stats" sections have been added to various articles, I'm using Talk:Strength level (comics) to discuss this issue in general. Bryan 08:15, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Vital statistics

Name: Maxwell Dillon
Height: 5'11
Weight: 165 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Red
- Intelligence: Normal
- Strength: (unenhanced) Normal, (charged) Superhuman Class 10
- Speed: (unenhanced) Normal, (charged) Metahuman
- Stamina: (unenhanced) Normal, (charged) Metahuman
- Durability: (unenhanced) Normal, (charged) Metahuman
- Agility: (unenhanced) Normal, (charged) Metahuman
- Reflexes: (unenhanced) Normal, (charged) Superhuman
Origin of Superhuman Powers: Freak lightning accident at an electrical facility which resulted in a body-wide mutagenic change in his nervous system. This change transformed him into a living, electrical capacitator. Essentially, he can shoot electricity at people and kill them. When his body is charged with immense levels of electricity he becomes superhumanly strong as well.

Vandalism

The IP User:199.79.168.160, who removed the section on previous Electros, has been repeatedly cited for vandalism, and is apparently currently blocked. I've restored the section. — Tenebrae 21:36, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Magnetic Powers

Technically, Electro's magnetic powers should be just as good as his eletrical powers, since current flow and charge are related to magnetic force (through movement). Jackpot Den 00:44, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

True, but for Dillon to realize that, he'd have to be cleverer than he's often shown. Plus, Mangeto's already got the magnetism schtick. Dr Archeville 20:21, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Earlier Electros

In the interest of cooperation, I've refrained from bringing up that, in existing print-encyclopedia format, the chronologically first Electros would be up top, the first section after the introduction. Chronological outline is one of the basic tenets of encyclopedic writing, which is different from popular-press magazine writing. I've avoided reversions/mediation on this issue, so I ask that if we're going to do this as a popularity contest rather than an encyclopedia, let's at least retain the link I've returned to the lead. A bit of give and take here, please. - Tenebrae 10:27, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reason for deleting wikidate overlinkage

It's per Wikipedia style guidelines. This from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers%29#Avoid_overlinking_dates

Avoid overlinking dates

If the date does not contain a day and a month, date preferences will not work, and square brackets will not respond to your readers' auto-formatting preferences. So unless there is a special relevance of the date link, there is no need to link it. This is an important point: simple months, years, decades and centuries should only be linked if there is a strong reason for doing so. Make only links relevant to the context for the reasons that it's usually undesirable to insert low-value chronological links.

Usage of links for date preferences

year only. So 1974 → 1974. Generally, do not link unless they will clearly help the reader to understand the topic.
month only. So April → April. Generally, do not link
century. So 20th century → 20th century. Generally, do not link
decade. So 1970s → 1970s. Generally, do not link (including an apostrophe (1970's) is incorrect
year and month. So April 1974 → April 1974 Generally, do not link
new year and month. So April 2000 → April 2000 Generally, do not link unless they will clearly help the reader to understand the topic. Presently, articles only exist for combinations from the year 2000 to current
day of the week (with or without other date elements). So Tuesday → Tuesday. Generally, do not link.

--Tenebrae 03:32, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

More vandalism

The Marvel Electro images -- though not the Atlas Electro image -- was removed by the vandal User:4.244.48.62 on 15 March 2006 at 22:39 & 22:40. Since it's been indicated in the comics that the Marvel Electro is bisexual, this appears to be homophobic vandalism. -- Tenebrae 01:50, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gecko?

According to the page History User talk:Rtkat3 on 13:51, 11 April 2006 changed "A Counter-Earth version of Electro appeared in the Spider-Man Unlimited animated series" to "A gecko who is Counter-Earth's version of Electro appeared in the Spider-Man Unlimited animated series."

I'm afraid I haven't seen that animated series, and since anything's possible, is this vandalism as I suspect, or did the screenwriters get wiggy and have a gecko character? -- Tenebrae 15:27, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hyper-Electro deletion?

Can we merge this into the Electro file (under video games) or delete it outright? There is no reason that a character that appears only once in a video game needs its own entry.

Bisexuality

It was just removed from the article that an arc suggested he is bisexual. He's listed in the LGBT comic book characters category. Anyone want to comment on this so if it is either returned or removed after being returned, this discussion can be referred to to prevent revert wars? Sorry if this reads poorly, not in a coherent mood right now. --Newt ΨΦ 02:25, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

He's not lsited by Marvel as being Bisexual, or even gay. Your guess is as good as mine on who keeps putting it up. IronCrow 05:43, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's in Marvel Knights Spider-Man #2. There's your source. Thanos6 19:59, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- One panel that alludes to prison rape in an an out of continuity book shouldn't be enough basis for a character's bisexuality. It has never been mentioned again, as with most throwaway lines written by Mark Miller, its easily seen as an off color joke. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.199.54.190 (talk) 02:14, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - It's not a prison rape reference; in MKSM #2 Electro tells a shapeshifting prostitute that he's discovered "a new side of himself" and wants her to turn into one of the X-Men or "maybe Fin Fang Foom". I don't know if that's LGBT or what, but it's worth mentioning. I don't know where you got the prison rape thing, I thought it was Kangaroo II that was implied to be raped. --Noclevername (talk) 20:14, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - Who keeps removing this? 71.203.66.120 (talk) 07:01, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Atlas Comics' Electro

He's a very minor character. I'm not sure that big, clunky superherobox is necessary -- the cover by itself, to depict him in context is probably enough. Thoughts? --Tenebrae 23:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Electro vs. Elektro

Can someone clarify the connection between the first Electro listed on this page and the similar Golden Age Marvel robot named Elektro? Their similarities, including the former's apparent name change to "Elektro," are somewhat confusing. Maybe the article on Elektro should be combined with this one? Mookabear (talk) 20:00, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Split

As suggested at the project level, I've split off the Dillon character, but it still needs 2 things:

The lead expanded.
A publication history.

- J Greb (talk) 12:18, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Who hired Electro?

Was it the Drew impostor who hired Dillon to destroy the Raft? (JoeLoeb (talk) 05:04, 28 February 2009 (UTC))[reply]

Bisexuality Redux

The LGBT and bisexual categories have been removed from the page again, so I checked the above discussion. On the one hand, there doesn't seem to be any consensus to remove the information on this talk page. However, its also currently unsourced, and not referred to in the article at all. I don't have the books where it's referenced, I believe it was a Marvel Knights books and an Avengers, could someone punch up a couple of sentences on this and get it sourced? That should take care of the matter. Dayewalker (talk) 19:20, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Question about debut date

This article cites February 1964 as being Electro's debut date. However, on the Sinister Six page, it's indicated that this group debuted in January 1964 and that Electro was a founding member. So was January really his first appearance? Do we need to change the date on this page? Here's a link to what I'm talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinister_Six -- Tom H12 (talk) 03:00, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Electro appeared before the Sinister Six came to be (same with all the rest of the members). Jhenderson⁷⁷⁷ 05:09, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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