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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I've often wondered why we haven't seen earth-bound supers that are also cops. It would cut about a bunch of the legal red tape they keep running into. Maybe there's some series about that somewhere, a cop who gains superpowers.
edited 22nd Oct '15 11:44:42 AM by Tuckerscreator
@The Ten Rings:
I had the idea that Mandarin could be a Palpatine-esque figure, who controls various criminal or terrorist organizations (including the Ten Rings) in order to accomplish certain goals and letting them run rampant when he doesn't need them, but also has influence and power that goes far beyond merely those groups, including both legitimate governments and organizations and maybe even connections with evil groups like HYDRA (a la Cross dealing with them).
Essentially, the Ten Rings would be pawns - Mandarin's anonymity would work well here too: even the Ten Rings themselves might not even know who he really is and falsely assume he cares about their objectives.
It'd work well for a Shang-Chi movie, because his whole thing is being trained to think his master/father was a good man sending him on missions of justice, only to discover that the man he looked up to was an evil monster using him to eliminate enemies to his schemes of world domination. Shang-Chi (or even an organization of similar assassins/warriors) could be an example of one of Mandarin's other pawns, and part of his Heel Realization would be discovering that - among other groups - his father/mentor controls the Ten Rings.
Though the main thing going against that is that, unless done exactly right, it'd probably be similar to what they did with HYDRA - unless Mandarin is established as one of HYDRA's longtime allies.
edited 22nd Oct '15 12:00:29 PM by KnownUnknown
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There was Savage Dragon.
He wasn't a cop who gained powers but he was a cop with powers.
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Well, he's not so much a cop as he is a Physical God taking the form of a cop just cuz.
edited 22nd Oct '15 1:15:32 PM by Tuckerscreator
Besides, the "normal" police don't even like Axe Cop or consider him one of them. He's only a cop because he says he's a cop.
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.I think the easiest way to have a Nova Force-powered Nova Corps without making them incompetent or redundant over the established heroes is to make them few in number and give a story reason why there can never be all that many of them for the foreseeable future. Perhaps the MCU version of the Nova Force requires exotic and incredibly rare materials to harness properly, making it impossible for Xandar to field more then a couple dozen true Novas at a time. Enough that all together they are a force to be reckoned with and can still be logically called a "corps", but few enough that they can't effectively police everywhere that's nominally under their jurisdiction or render other superpowered individuals irrelevant.
So apparently the Phase 2 boxed set has commentary on the Agent Carter one-shot.
I wonder if that'll reveal anything about its timeline.
Not as of yet. The DVD and Blu-Ray only came out last month.
EDIT: And apparently this guy is joining Season Dos
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edited 22nd Oct '15 3:16:06 PM by Tuckerscreator
Agent Carter has too many white dudes already! Why are they adding more?
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
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Kurtwood Smith is awesome. He needs to call somebody a dumbass on Agent Carter.
So why not add more characters struggling against that power system instead of more characters enforcing it?
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That's a relief.
I interrupt this talk to post this pic of Guardians of Galaxy.
This is so profoundly silly it's brilliant.
Pretty much. If Marvel wants to avoid making Mandarin just a comic-themed Osama Bin Laden, they can make the Ten Rings a terrorist group of loony fanboys who he simply takes advantage of.

The second season has been confirmed to take place in 1947, and the One-Shot was still in '46, so I think it's safe to say that it's been written out of the canon.
Item 47 did kinda get some followup in that the Hydra troopers at Strucker's base were shown using reverse-engineered Chitauri tech, but that's it.