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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
During the Morrison run, Professor X basically without splode did that to a hijacker. Just rooted around and changed how he felt about stuff.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersMarvel isn't completely devoid of foreigners. Apart from the previously mentioned there's also the British
lot
◊. They're interesting enough, as MI-13 is government sanctioned but basically just leaves it down to the supers who know what they're doing as they have a reasonable track record.
How the law works in regards to supers is very interesting. Just hard to base a fun story around, I guess.
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There was a Wolverine story like that. There was an impoverished part of Brazil where a mutant had basically conquered the whole area by using his powers to pose as some sort of divine entity and force everyone to join his cult.
Which is actually weird to me because you'd think a place like the Marvel Universe would be much more open to skepticism when so many so-called miracles can be dismissed with "That guy is just an alien/mutant/someone with advanced tech".
I feel that this will be forever my biggest disappointment with Marvel (which is saying a lot). The thing that makes super heroes books interesting, at last for me, is that instant world building that is, theoretically, constantly evolving independently of whatever single book you are reading. But writers never seem to explore to their full potential.
Uh, he already exist. There are two of them, in fact. Captain Britain
and Union Jack
.
Fun Fact: Captain Britain is Psylocke's brother. This probably means he can't be in the MCU. Union Jack is fair game, though.
edited 16th Mar '15 5:27:49 PM by Heatth
Union Jack is the one. The first one had no super steroids, but he was created by his government to be a super agent to fight in the War. The second one even had a variation of the Super Soldier Formula on his body. The third one had a a more Arthur-esque power enhancer.
At any rate, they are all patriotic flag wearing heroes who fight without overly flashy powers. The main difference from Captain America is that they are inspired more by Bond-like super spy than by the military.
edited 16th Mar '15 5:40:46 PM by Heatth
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I actually think they're more likely to be a shared case. Cap Britian was introduced completely independently of the X-Men and Psylocke actually started off as a Captain Britain character before she Commuted On A Bus to the X-Men franchise.
edited 16th Mar '15 5:42:37 PM by comicwriter
I knew he appeared in Captain America, but I've never noticed his clothes contained a triple cross emblem. It is not quite the Union Jack due the lack of colors, but it is rather close.
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I don't think they will bother with shared deals for anyone else unless it is important. Sure, Psylocke technically was introduced outside the X Men, but she is definitively an X Men character. Her brother is also often associated to the mutants and is not important enough to be fought over. Specially since Marvel already have other patriotic British hero if they really need one.
zsax: Not really, their power is basically their own.
As for how powerful they are, Thor and Herc and the other really powerful gods can suplex/magic blast planets, basically Type 5's on the Super Weight scale, most of the other main ones are Type 4's, and the average member of a godly race like the Asgardians are still Type 3 non-Flying Bricks. They're in turn nothing compared to the Type 6 Top Gods in the various pantheons like Odin. These guys are basically Cosmic Entities that can mess around with galaxies like stellar Play-Doh.
Heatth: That kind of world building would be cool, but I doubt it would work in the long term.
Am I the only one who thinks a patriotic British superhero is an odd, problematic and bad idea?
The British are certainly not known for their patriotism, in fact there's a cultural push against being patriotic, because, well, Britain is still associated with colonialism. Don't get me wrong, Brits have a lot of pride, but that's in a safe self-detrimental way, or when there is strait up patriotism, it's either a pride for Britain as a cosmopolitan country of cultures or the kind of pride you find in UKIP which in turn pulls a lot of hate and anger from a major population of Britain.
Even if the government was to make a national superhero, they would be reluctant to give that agent a patriotic code name, it would probably be some kind of euphemism like Trident is today to hide the shame of having an international violent force.
Whoa, did not know that about Falsworth either. Really, the Howling Commandos are such a severely underused group in the MCU, although that bit in Agent Carter was nice.
I don't think they necessarily need their own Captain Geographic I just think it'd be fun to see more heroes around the world. It could even be someone like Spitfire
.
There should be an MCU crossover with Doctor Who, given that Marvel UK actually used to publish DW comics back in the day. The Doctor would probably be a much better representation of a British superhero than a Captain Patriotic British superhero, which, yeah, is a bit problematic. Because imperialism.

Superheroism is always an act of extremism given enough super-power.
Heh, in the FoX-Men verse anti mutant sentiment hyped up in the 70s because one mutant stuck in East Berlin decided to single handedly blow up the Berlin Wall, causing a quarter of the city to be set ablaze.
But my point is, if people are throwing fireballs and dead-time-lines at each other, how on earth are muggles ever going to get the stones to take part in conventional terrorist organisations?
"Welcome to our secret organisation comrade, but you should probably know there's a rich bald guy in the US who will make your brain explode if he reads your thoughts too hard."
Actually I'd like the 616 universe to have a closer eye to things like civil liberties in a world with mind reading. Can a mind reader testify in a court of law? Damnit I wish Marvel was still running those Twitter accounts for their characters so I could ask Shulk for the answer.