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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I don't think his armor was ever invincible. His armor has gotten banged up, scratched, disheveled, whatever several times throughout the films (example in the first Avengers movie, when he gets caught in the carrier's propeller).
In Infinity War, I believe we see him going through a few suits, but is using nano-tech to bring out a replacement suit (I think it occurs during the fight with Thanos).
Like creepy stories? Check out my book!I felt the Cross "Tales to Astonish!" reference was actually pretty smooth in Ant-Man. I felt the most forced ones were Obadiah dredging a obscure Medieval term for weaponsmiths ("Iron Mongers") to Mythology Gag his supervillain name in a conversation and TIH dropping "the result could be.....AN ABOMINATION", but that one is less due the actual line and more because the delivery and the cinematography winks way too hard at the audience.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."![]()
That is one of the worst ones ever, I'll admit. Not Marvel though.
In general I prefer when those names are worked in the narrative through a legitimate nom de guerre (like Erik Stevens, a.k.a "Killmonger"), just drop them straight out through stuff like newspapers being dramatic (like the Raimi spidey films dubbed all their villains through Jonah Jameson being Jonah Jameson or Stark in the first Iron Man getting his name from the newspaper) or just skip the middle-man and have the characters wax poetically about life into their superhero/villain names (like the forgotten gem of a superhero film that was Darkman, with the character poetically concluding: "I'm everyone. And No one. Everywhere. Nowhere. Call me...Darkman).
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Regarding the adjectives, it's worth noting that they mean almost as much as the titles themselves as far as story identification goes. Writers will mix and match the adjectives to indicate concepts and characters crossing over.
For instance, what do you call an Avengers series about popular X-Men joining the titular team? "The Uncanny Avengers".
What do you call a Hercules comic that uses characters and ideas from the Incredible Hulk series? "The Incredible Hercules".
If you were going to write something about Thor being Brought Down to Normal and Iron Man building him a suit until he gets his powers back, you'd call it The Invincible Thor. If Captain America was filling in for Spider-Man, fighting his villains and hanging with his characters, he'd be The Amazing Captain America. If Black Widow lifted Mjolnir and gained Thor's powers, her comic would be The Mighty Black Widow. Etc. etc.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jan 20th 2019 at 9:05:44 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Come to think of it, Cap is one of the few big names with no extra name.
He's not amazing or uncanny or incredible or mighty or invincible or whatever Squirrel Girl is.
He's just Cap.
One Strip! One Strip!There are certain superheroes who simply never got a famous adjective. Captain America's comics were always simply called Captain America. Similarly, for characters who were introduced in other books and never really had their own (at least for a while), they also usually went without adjectives (like the Falcon). And, more recently (probably since the '90s), the whole "adding adjectives to book titles" has fallen in popularity.
But the ones that were introduced in the '60s were the ones that really did stick around: Uncanny X-Men, Incredible Hulk, Invincible Iron Man, The Mighty Thor, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, etc.
The use of adjectives has risen a bit more in today's comics, since it's seen as more of a retro throwback, but the adjectives tend to be more oriented towards story reasons, i.e. Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (that's her whole schtick: she can't be beat!), Unbelievable Gwenpool (because nobody believes her when she says that they are all comic book characters), Unstoppable Wasp (because Nadia is so cheerful, she's unstoppable, I guess?), and Immortal Hulk (because the Hulk can't die).
Spider-Man's just being greedy having so many descriptors to himself. "Amazing", "Spectacular", "Sensational", "Astonishing", "Friendly Neighborhood", "Superior", "Web of", "Adjectiveless".
Damn it Spidey, give a lesser known hero one of your monikers why don't ya?! How much of an ego do you have if you need twelve?!
Edited by chasemaddigan on Jan 20th 2019 at 12:48:11 PM
The Immortal Hulk? When did he go to K'un L'un?
Superior was more of a Doc Ock handle though. But then again, Spider-man also claimed names like "Bombastic".
Hmm... Forum game: come up with The Adjectival Superhero names for MCU characters, given what we know about them from their on-screen appearances.
Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Jan 20th 2019 at 11:49:58 AM
- The Renegade (Steve) Rogers - he has left his post in all of his movies, partly because the post wasn't what he thought it was
- The Overlooked Hawkeye - because he looks over things. Yeah... that's it.
- The Wily (Black) Widow
- The Scholastic Shuri - based on her zest for learning and happiness in her lab
- The Dutiful Okoye
- The Faithful/Loyal/Unwavering Falcon
- The Relentless Nick Fury
Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Jan 20th 2019 at 12:01:34 PM
After Superior Spider-Man established it, "Superior" became the adjective for being an evil version of the title hero. For instance, a mind-whammied Tony Stark who had his personality flipped to evil starred in "The Superior Iron Man".
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jan 20th 2019 at 11:06:37 AM
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Has anyone in the MCU ever described Tony or the Iron Man armor as invincible? That seems like a no-brainer reference, but I don't recall anyone ever doing it.
I really want them to somehow adapt the "amazing!" "spectacular!"
◊ moment for Spidey at some point. Not against Mr. Fantastic, though.
I could see it working against Mysterio: for the whole film, after all, you have Mysterio making himself look impressive and likely making Spidey look like a chump, and then at the end you get Spider-Man show real un-staged ability and prowess in defeating him and the moment gets adapted then. I could imagine Mysterio throwing illusions and minions and all sorts of crap at the webhead in the end, and Spidey - the genuine article - blows/breezes past it all.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jan 20th 2019 at 5:52:33 AM