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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I assumed Mjolnir flew into space because it had no exception handler for "The user is summoning me, but the user just ceased to exist as far as I can tell". It'd have probably just kept flying in a straight line for all eternity had Thor not wound up back on Midgard.
That or it was flying toward one of those secret passages like Loki used between Asgard and Whatsitcalledheim, which happened to be in space.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Actually he seemed to suggest he wasn't very enthused about the character, saying her powers are vague and poorly defined.
Which is hilarious because he pushed for Scarlet Witch to be included in the movie, and she probably has the most ridiculously ill-defined set of powers this side of Doctor Strange.
Her mutation is that she can do magic.
I can't decide if that's brilliant or bullshit.
In honesty; magic works a lot better than 'probability manipulation' or 'reality bending'
When Scarlet Witch does something, in my head I say 'Magic'
When Scarlet Witch CAN'T do something, in my head I say 'Magic.'
It makes for simple reading.
Attempts to excuse her powers as probability manipulation inevitably fall flat when she inevitably starts manipulating probabilities that are flatly impossible anyway.
"I manipulated the probability of you instantly turning into a rabbit." No, f*ck you, that was magic.
Longshot's good luck powers are probability manipulation. Black Cat's bad luck jinxes are probability manipulation. What the Scarlet Witch does is sorcery, plain and simple.
edited 28th Jan '15 8:55:19 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.In practice, Carol's powers boil down to being a flying brick that also shoots zaps. And she's never turned back time by flying really fast so she's less ill-defined than superman at least.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersWelp it looks like that Funko POP ad
from a few days back might have indeed have some spoilers, and Marvel is trying to do damage control.
Wait, did Vision stop being dead?
@Speculating on the roster of an MCU Masters of Evil; considering the earliest we could see that team would probably be the Avengers 4, and it's not obvious at this point of tie what roster the Avengers will have at that point or what movies will proceed it, it's a little hard to speculate.
I'd love to see it though; something which frustratingly never has been depicted on screen is a proper super hero team vs super hero team fight. Frustratingly the X-Men movies always split up the teams into sparing pairs
Did the Vision die again recently?
I didn't know that he died again after the Disassembled thing.
edited 28th Jan '15 2:09:54 PM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the Avengers![]()
Vision was restored to life right after Fear Itself.
I think his death in Disassembled was what they were getting at.
Ah, I stopped keeping up with general 616 goings on after Siege, these days I just take interest in what I take interest in; like I read Age of Ultron and I had no idea what the deal was with Vision (I just assumed Ultron had acquired his body for temporal interface or something)
I'm interested in compiling a list of which MARVEL characters remained believed dead for the longest amount of time. Vision being dead for six years is quite impressive in this day and age.
edited 28th Jan '15 3:43:21 PM by Whowho

Originally that's what I thought but in the second Thor movie Mjolnir starts flying out into space to get back to Thor after he passes through one of the wormholes. If they were in entirely different dimensions it should have just sat there and waited until he reappeared in Midgard. It's probably just a situation where they're in the same universe but they're separated by such vast reaches of space that without the Bifrost travel between them is impractical.