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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
He attacks and kills Quire to enforce a one Quentin limit and because fuck Quire
Forever liveblogging the AvengersAlso, the X-teams are used to tackling telepathic illusionists like Mastermind and Traveller.
Mysterio's toolbox would potentially catch them offguard.
Arcade (another villain who's gone from Spider-Man to mutants) has his robots, but they're not so subtle - Wolverine and other characters with enhanced senses tend to spot them. Compare that to the Daredevil/Mysterio clash...
"No. It's not true! Its impossible! MY DAD IS A FLATSCAN!?"
That's perfect blackmailing material for Mysterio. The X-Men let him make his movie and he doesn't tell anyone he's related to one of them. To show he's not a complete bastard, he makes sure Netflix isn't involved.
Wasn’t one of the reasons for Quire’s riot at Xavier’s breakdown that he learned he was adopted
Also because he was on drugs and because he was an incel? But the adopted thing seems pretty big
Did he ever learn who his bio parents were? Because if not, that leaves a big opening for it to be MYSTERIOOOO
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The implication, I think, is that his real "parent" was the Phoenix Force. As he's ascending at the end of his arc, he talks about seeing a "big room" where his "real parents" are...
...and then in the final arc, we see him in the White Hot Room, home of the Phoenix.
I believe this was recycled from a scrapped backstory for Rachel.
Fuckin stole someone’s backstory
Worst character in history
Anyway new canon is that Mysterio fucked the Phoenix. The Phoenix is like Aw damn I keep making children and then abandoning them. Then it dumps Quentin in an orphanage
Edited by Bocaj on Aug 14th 2023 at 12:09:09 PM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIt’s a recurring bit that if Spider-Man’s rogues ever branch out, they have the potential to be bigger threats.
But on that note, it does kind of surprise me that Spider-Man usually doesn’t have much of a role in Crisis Crossovers, except Civil War and even then.
Heck, Miles had a bigger role than him in Secret Empire for some reason.
Edited by RedHunter543 on Aug 15th 2023 at 5:34:12 PM
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"Ultimate Spider-Man did have Nick Fury comment on something like the fact the Ultimates had all the time to be complete assholes because Spider-Man was single handedly keeping most of New York's superhuman terrorists occupied and hyper focused on him.
And Marvel's segregation of lines has always been there:
There's:
- Spider-Man World
- Avengers World
- X-men World
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Aug 15th 2023 at 3:56:15 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I'm reminded of that scene in the Boys where they are focus testing various words for terrorists with compound V and Homelander insists on Supervillains.
Much like how the movies have Jameson be the guy to name guys like Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"I know Doc Ock technically already fought the Avengers during his Superior Spider-Man phase, but they still thought he was Peter, right? So this comment makes me wonder if Ock would still end up whooping their butts even if they knew who he actually was.
Last I checked, Ultimate Spider-Man was probably the one singular thing about the Ultimate Universe that didn't go sour overnight, so it's kinda funny when writers weaponize this to say something like "hey, you ever wondered why a lot of these heroes are assholes? It's because of this one hero that didn't become an asshole!"
And the Ultimates wanted to train Ultimate Peter... Maybe Peter should've trained them!
To be fair, Ultimates 3 and Ultimatum were beyond spectacular in their Genre Killer awfulness.
X-men and the Ultimates both wiped clean by something so beyond godawful.
Plus, Ms. Marvel could never happen because they destroyed New Jersey. It was actually proof the Reset Button in comics wasn't always a bad idea.
To be fair, I added that part. Fury was more cordial and saying that Spider-Man's efforts actually were doing a massive part of the heavy lifting in New York that, technically, SHIELD should have been doing.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Aug 15th 2023 at 7:23:43 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.We've mentioned this already on this thread but it's true.
From a meta perspective, a few Spider-Man villains spent some years fighting other heroes (Rhino became a Hulk foe, and Sandman starting fighting the Fantastic Four as part of the frightful Four).
In-Universe, Electro has been noted to possibly be as powerful as Magneto, and of course, there's the Spot.
Shocker was part of a Masters of Evil Line-Up, and the original Beetle was also part of the group before founding the Thunderbolts.
I think a few of them have been farmed out to other heroes as well.
Also, didn't Ock once try to raid Avengers Mansion during an event?
One Strip! One Strip!X-men and the Ultimates both wiped clean by something so beyond godawful.
Plus, Ms. Marvel could never happen because they destroyed New Jersey. It was actually proof the Reset Button in comics wasn't always a bad idea.
Feel like ultimates 3 and Ultimatum show why without the various reboots or Death Is Cheap or Joker Immunity how empty the verse would feel.
Just curious why they didn't just make a new universe to do this all over again. Rather than butcher the old one and be shocked that it couldn't survive that.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."I’ve never heard official word about it but my impression is that too many of the creators got too excited about the possibilities of writing a post Ultimatum world
Like how Spider-Man was supposed to die in Ultimatum but Bendis decided to make his death it’s own thing and to introduce Miles
Loeb went on from writing Ultimatum to writing the fallout to the X-Men of mutants being blamed and losing their leaders
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It could also be utterly bizarre in its motivation.
Like Quentin wants to kill the X-men because they turned down his offer to make a pro-mutant movie with himself playing Cyclops.
And they're like, "What?"
"You could have financed it! You have drug money now!"
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