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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The Spirit of Vengeance, dude(tte), it's not supposed to be a paragon of morality, or even all that rational.
Though personally I still prefer the way the movie did it (and my finger bones nearly tore themselves off my hands writing this) when all you need to have is a soul for the Penance Stare to work, as the Ghost Rider there is far more Christian and has a "Hell's Torturer" thing going on.
Edited by HailMuffins on Jan 30th 2019 at 7:24:11 AM
The more ridiculous thing is that writers come up with so many outs for Ghost Rider's Penance Stare (it won't work on someone's as insane as Deadpool, or someone who feels they're completely self-righteous, or someone who enjoys what they do, or...) to the point it becomes effectively useless and only really good for a few extremely limited scenarios.
By this point I'm actually surprised the Ghost Rider still even tries given there's so many caveats to it.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."So, I was rewatching Ant-Man and the Wasp yesterday and remembered that Janet van Dyne said living in the Quantum Realm had changed her. "It's not just about adaptation, it's also evolution." And that got me thinking.
We know that Endgame will have something to do with the Quantum Realm and probably time travel. What if, in traveling back to prevent the Snap, they expose the entire world to the Quantum Realm and its Quantum Energies...causing a leap in evolution among some people. You know...mutants.
I mean, they wouldn't outright say mutants, but it would be implied. And because the Quantum Energies were scattered throughout time, mutants would have already existed...due to Timey Wimey-ness. Or something.
In any case, even if this doesn't happen, I'm still saying that Janet van Dyne is the MCU's first mutant.
Which isn't to say the Quantum Verse can't be responsible for some kind of Mass Empowering Event that causes mutants to be born. The Infinity Stones could also be responsible — it wouldn't be unbelievable if all of that cosmic power being unleashed had some kind of lasting effect on people regardless of whether The Snap is reversed or not.
That's not too different from what happened in the original X-Men comics. The reason they are called Children of the Atom is because the detonation of the nukes in WW II led to a spike in mutant birth rates. Prior to that mutants were extremely rare.
Edited by M84 on Jan 31st 2019 at 5:14:07 PM
Disgusted, but not surprised

It was a future version of Thanos, one of which even the man himself was disgusted of.
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