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That's basically my thoughts on the matter. I think the Avengers make the most sense when they're a specialist team. You can still do stories about Secret Avengers and vigilante types that are unsanctioned but the standard team should be a recognized organization. Even if they're not government run they should at least be sanctioned by them.
My point was not that the Avengers can't be stopped (I am sure if you throw enough resources towards them you will eventually take them down), but that the UN wants the Avengers as their protection against external threats. That doesn't really work that well if they are all either dead or in prison.
Except for Thor and Vision, the Avengers are humanities.
And Vision is humaner than some humans. They say so in the comics sometimes.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersOnce you have access to nukes, you are not normal.
I personally cannot identify with anyone who has the power to wipe out millions of lives in one go. It is beyond my normal everyday experience.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIt would be more considerate of him than standing there stoically while Medusa is forced to translate his various muscle twitches or whatever for everyone else.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThe troll question was whether Black Bolt should communicate in ASL (presumably specifically in the Inhumans show).
Which is a fair enough question, even if from noted troll.
And I think the Inhuman Royal Family is just super good at reading Black Bolt's body language. Someone should still give him a portable white board or something though.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThing is, ASL is a very human thing. Hell, it's American. It'd be odd to see Black Bolt using it to communicate among his fellow Inhumans, it's a bit like Aliens Speaking English. Which I guess the MCU already does, but still.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Communicating in ASL specifically would be weird since that's not even the only sign language used in English speaking regions. The Inhumans speaking English makes a bit more sense since it's the third most common language on the planet and is the dominant language in most international negotiations.
edited 8th May '17 12:33:10 PM by Kostya
If anything, it'd be more interesting for Black Bolt to use something akin to the Monastic sign languages
which are essentially predecessors to deaf language used by monks during the times they were not allowed to speak and/or took a vow of silence. It's much more primitive and less complex than actual sign language and it could raise some curious implications (maybe the monks learned this from the Inhumans or vice-versa?)
I'm not opposed to him speaking ASL with humans, but I think it'd be weird if he spoke between the Inhumans in it. Thus my suggestion of something more barebones like the monastic sign languages for when he's speaking to his own family.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."edited 8th May '17 3:40:01 PM by alliterator
ASL is not the only sign language in English speaking regions. Spoken dialogue could also be dismissed as a Translation Convention.

Why not just have the heroes serve as specialists on call?