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That’s how Wonder Man was brought back

So funny story related to Doctor Doom.

Way back a family friend of mine was pregnant, and there was a baby shower, and she was wondering what to name her.

I joking around, and saying she should name her Valeria.

Fast forward to now, the baby was delivered and there were some issues that almost killed the mother and daughter but they'll live.

And the baby is named Valeria.

.....Is this my Doctor Doom arc?

I think this should be taken as a cautionary tale about the potential dangers of naming a baby after comic book characters.

Glad they're both okay.

Yeah, thankfully they both pulled through, and there's no long term complications or anything like that.

That said, gonna be really weird if by the time she grows up, we have an adaptation of the birth of Valeria in the MCU.

Like, my friends are already expecting me to go all Doctor Doom on her and just shower attention.

Can you equal the magnificence of Doom?

Because I don't think anyone can do that.

And unless the mother's husband is named Richards, it's impossible for you to go full Doom.

Though if his first name is Richard, you can get pretty close.

I was reading a fan comic about Aquaman and Namor and it noted how Namor's Atlantis' primary trait seems to be 'gets blown up a lot.'

At least the movie changed that XD

I'm pretty sure the only reason Namor is still king of Atlantis is because everyone who could potentially challenge his right to rule dies horribly every time the city blows up.

They're usually the people responsible for the city being blown up as well.

I feel like one of Ant-Man's most overlooked but scariest villains is the Whirlwind, who was dangerously obsessed with the Wasp. He created a fake identity and took a job as the Pym household's chauffeur to spy on them and get close to her, eventually making a move on Janet when Hank apparently died.

He eventually got therapy and tried to sort his life out. Of course, someone then shot him in the head and he was revived, but possessed by an amnesiac Ultron.

It's never simple.

I kinda want him to when he wakes up ask to go to krakoa after all. And then being told its gone.

Amusingly, Whirlwind was in the position for all that to happen because he didn't want to go to Krakoa. He specifically noted that he tries to keep the fact that he's a mutant and that his powers don't come from his suit or something a secret, both for practical reasons of tricking people who try to disable his powers and because he doesn't want anything to do with the X-Men and wider mutant community - he sees it as putting a target on his back.

I know thats why I think it'd be funny is what happened on inc made him change his mind but by now its too late.

He’s not wrong about mutant shtuff

He's right, but if he was a bit more Genre Savvy, he'd know that shit will find him eventually. The only way to avoid it is being so lame and obscure that no one will ever remember he exist, or so popular that not even death could kill him (but even that means he'll have to suffer).

Edited by Smoker130 on Mar 27th 2024 at 9:01:48 AM

x7 IIRC, the Living Laser was also obsessed with the Wasp, which is why he became a supervillain in the first place. I wonder if he and Whirlwind have ever talked about it. It'd be interesting if they viewed each other as rivals.

Edited by ClancyGardener on Mar 27th 2024 at 1:02:38 AM

Living Laser was already a supervillain when he met Wasp. He was obsessed with another woman but immediately became obsessed with Wasp instead and kidnapped her.

Alright last issue of Thunderbolts came out I guess and [[spoiled: Red Skull goes down in it]]

That was pretty lame. Not sure what to say the whole thing is very underwhelming despite their attempts at hyping up the new uber Red Skull whose been hiding in secret since WWII.

This books really feels like it only exists cause we are getting that Thunderbolts movie with the new same cast soon.

Considering how often Skull has "died", it's unlikely to stick.

@Smoker 130:

Even those methods are no guarantee of avoiding superhero bullshit. Being a nobody just makes it that much more likely Galactus will step on his home while he's in it (or Nitro gets hopped up on drugs again and blows up the town he's on vacation in, or the Punisher happens to run into him while grocery shopping and puts one between his eyes, or he'll get spotted by a Sentinel and hauled off to the mutant death camps, etc.), and hyper-popular characters die all the time only to come back and die over and over again. Really, Whirlwind was screwed the moment he first appeared in a comic book, because life in a superhero universe is a Cosmic Horror Story, and the writers, artists, editors, readers, etc. are all the various Cthulhu monsters (on top of the actual Cthulhu monsters that pop up from time to time).

Edited by TrashJack on Mar 27th 2024 at 6:48:40 AM

This makes me want a The Monster at the End of This Book style story, where a fourth wall breaker knows their in a story and tries their hardest to prevent all of these things from happening. They kind of did that with Gwenpool’s brother, but I’m not sure if they really did it as well as they could.

Edited by GateStarX on Mar 27th 2024 at 4:34:43 AM

Have I already made the joke that Tony Stark's new Sentinel Buster Armour is the first [[(spoiler: (Insert Name Here)-Buster armour]] that actually works?

Cause if I haven't I'm gonna do it right here.

Tony finally made a (Insert Name Here) Buster armour that actually busts something.

Took you long enough genius.

And now on a different tract, DIY'ers in the Marvel universe must be creating some insane shit. Like, with all the alien invasions they've foiled, there must be an endless amount of scrap tech that amateur inventors have filched.

The MCU actually had a pretty cool short film about a couple who find a Chitauri gun in the aftermath of the first Avengers movie and promptly use it to rob banks. Followed shortly by an episode of Agents of Shield where a group of firefighters end up dying gruesomely because they took a helmet off a dead Chitauri as a trophy and were promptly infected by an alien virus that humans have no immunity to. I wish we saw more stories like that in the comics. I always love stories where we get kind of a "bystander viewpoint" of what it's like living in a superhero universe. It's a big part of why Astro City is so good, for instance.

So why is Madelyn Pryor called the Goblin Queen? Any relation to Spidey's...long list of goblins?