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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Social Justice Necromancer, bringing back from the dead the social justice issues society forgot.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Man are we off topic
-casts the spell of thread realignment-
After End Game,what's the next thing they'll introduce ?I expect they may stay away from the multiple Earth's thing of comics but it's really interesting concept and it does mean they could other heros who are difficult to place in the cinematic universe like the Xmen
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverMarvel doesn’t really do alternate Earths that much, at least not in the way DC does. Alternate timelines and futures, yeah, but Spider Verse is the most prominent and whole hog the franchise has gone with “here’s a story exploring other realities,” and that already has a movie series.
Dr. Strange’s enemies are extradimensional, and I’d really love Shuma Gorath to be the Big Bad of an Avengers movie at some point, but it’s not treated quite the same way.
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Other way around, I believe. He started out in Doctor Strange, then showed up in a few of Marvel's Conan comics. Conan, meanwhile, I think previously crossed over with Lovecraft and had Shub-Niggurath. Who isn't actually all that similar, despite the names.
Edited by Unsung on Jan 9th 2019 at 11:33:42 AM
In Conan, Shuma-Gorath was such a dire threat to the world that its arrival is one of the few situations where Crom, a grim and loveless god who normally doesn't help mortals since he considers the power to strive and slay he breathes into the souls of men to be enough, will directly intervene to give Shuma-Gorath an asskicking.
Edited by M84 on Jan 10th 2019 at 2:37:11 AM
Disgusted, but not surprised
Well, the concept of the Infinity Gauntlet has to at least been around for a while. Why else would Odin have a replica of an artifact that didn't even exist yet?
Besides being a blatant Retcon, of course.

Social Justice Captain Planet.
Which is just regular Captain Planet.