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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Son Of Sharknado: ...I could kind of see Robert Redford as Cap if the MCU existed in the late 70s/80s. Also, Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk.
-One quick google search later- Mother of God...
Yeah, I kinda figured it was obvious they could just integrate Bixby and Ferrigno onto the silver screen.
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I take it this means a drastic decrease in shock deaths?
edited 11th Feb '15 12:54:14 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!![]()
There's a difference between occasionally bringing back characters in unique and impressive ways, and having a case of Death Is Cheap so bad that at one point a character had plan that involved dying and getting resurrected, with no plan in place for how he'd get resurrected, and it went off without a hitch.
edited 11th Feb '15 1:04:18 PM by Discar
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.It's because you need four pages to elaborate how this is totally not a reboot and completely different from Crisis On Infinite Earths.
It's because you need four pages to elaborate how this is totally not a reboot and completely different from Crisis On Infinite Earths.
There's an edit button for fixing typos. :P See, watch me fix tihs.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.The Marketable Spider-Man.
Alternate title: Spider.
- PETER: So, like, I turned 16 and all, and I was like, "Y'know what? I'm too cool for The -Man!"
edited 11th Feb '15 1:27:40 PM by TobiasDrake
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I think he really did go through a "Peter Parker is dead! I am THE SPIDER!" phase just before the Clone Saga.
edited 11th Feb '15 1:31:38 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!Yes, he did. He's also gone through a "Spider-Man No More" phase.
He has rejected both the Spider- and the -Man parts of the name.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I would add the caveat that characters are allowed to resurrect if the event moves the story forwards, rather than back. Think in the Winter Soldier. Yeah, Buck is back, but nothing in the dynamic of the character is remotely similar to how things were back when he died. His "resurrection" allowed the story to move forwards without being a step back to a previous status quo.
Otherwise, I am definitively with Drake on "move forwards, not back" thing. Even stupid things that happened due to bad writing. At most they should be revisited by a better writer. Have a flashback or explore their consequences better. But never annul them.
edited 11th Feb '15 1:34:38 PM by Heatth
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The logical next step is to reject both and rechristen himself "The Amazing -."
(See, it's just a hyphen now.)
edited 11th Feb '15 1:36:09 PM by spashthebandragon
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.![]()
I agree with that caveat.
People argue about, "What about bad writing?" but bad writing is totally subjective. One man's bad writing is another's favorite storyline. Joey Q is a profound example of this; One More Day happened because he considered the marriage to Mary-Jane to be a horrific misstep in the writing of Spider-Man. What many consider today to be the absolute pinnacle of Bad Writing in Spider-Man's history happened to expunge what the creator felt was Bad Writing on the part of someone else.
This is the reason why comics are such an interwoven ball of retcons; because everyone has a different idea of what never should have been allowed to happen, and everyone wants to use their turn at the pen to fix the "bad writing" and restore the character and story to how it "should" be.
edited 11th Feb '15 1:40:38 PM by TobiasDrake
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Well, that's the beauty with the MCU...they can now do it right, and better and built up on it inbetween.