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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Remember, Thanos started out as a Iron Man villain because the writer wanted to use his new creation in any story he could, the design started out as a copy of DC's Metron but was changed to a copy of Darkseid since "If you're going to make a copy make it of the baddest dude around" and he didn't really become what he is today until he was brought back for Captain Mar-Vell and Warlock stories.
edited 31st Jan '16 7:53:35 AM by LordofLore
"Spidey Super Stories" was actually a spin-off of The Electric Company, if memory serves.
Thanos also goes "Oops! I dropped the Cosmic Cube!" at one point.
He uses it to make an earthquake to offset Spidey and Hellcat, but the shaking causes him to drop it. What a klutzy, silly villain who is then arrested by normal police officers and taken to a normal human jail.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Oh no! Destructitron the Evil Cyborg is going to kill Ronda Rice if Time Travel Man doesn't fight him!
"Don't worry!" says Time Travel Man. "Using my ability to time travel I went back in time and convinced Destructitron to become an accountant instead of a supervillain!"
And so the day is saved by Time Travel Man!
Put in some interesting character drama and I'd watch it. Provided you actually show time travel man trying to make a person become an accountant against their will.
Mostly I want a MCU film about going to different historical eras and having swashbuckling adventures, a plot really common to the comics, but there no one plot or character that demands adaptation.
I guess exiles, but they're with fox, I guess you could do it with Lionheart/captain Britain, but that's more alternate universes. Though a lot of alternate universes seem to be suspiciously like the past.
I mean, Doctor Who pulls it off.
And Marvel has been racking up decades of continuity and too many Bad Futures to count. There's a lot of sandbox space there.
edited 31st Jan '16 2:01:01 PM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIt also gives you a way to introduce and play with Kang.
Marvel has said they want more immigrant characters so they can appeal to foreign markets, and they have said they want more diversity. So make me a non-cis-het-male immigrant character who time travels for a living visiting all those stupid cross over events and being all. "Hay, time line wise common superheros have existed for less then two decades, why does no one I talk to during the Kree-Skrull war know what the internet is?"
edited 31st Jan '16 2:06:23 PM by Whowho
Oh thats true.
If Kang is going to be dicking around with time and coexisting with himselves, definitely seems there should be a time-travel hero that is cleaning up after him.
Instead of just letting him fart back to the future and assuming you'll get him next time he takes over the world/tries to marry a 90 year old/tries to kidnap his younger self.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersActually, SHIELD has a subdivision for keeping the timeline intact. It's called, bluntly, TIME
(Temporal Irregularity Management and Eradication). It was part of Mark Waid's Indestructible Hulk run and they were helped by Zarrko the Tomorrow Man
, who is more commonly a supervillain.
But also, the Fantastic Four regularly travel through time as well and stop Doom and other villains from messing with the timestream. And Cable hops around, trying to set right what once went wrong, of course.
edited 31st Jan '16 2:24:34 PM by alliterator
Are we talking time travel?! Yes, I can bring up the best fusion of villains!
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edited 31st Jan '16 4:25:50 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.

Actually, why is the Thanos-copter so majestic/brilliant/glorious?