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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Err House of X seems like something for the X-Men in film that can be handle later on. Considering we are reintroducing mutants on film that might seem too high of a bar to set with that storyline serving as the opening on the X-Men series. I do think it has great potential for a third installment.
Edited by Mizerous on Dec 1st 2019 at 9:07:15 AM
Just Makima.So it'd just be normal dudes and robots fighting superhumans?
Seems kinda unfair.
One Strip! One Strip!
You heard right.
If you know about the big twist of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, then note that that's the exact point where the first seasons picks up.
Hell, I still remember watching that episode, then watching Winter Soldier and being glad I did. Back then, there was definitely a stronger connection between the movies and the show...even if it was still somewhat one-sided.
One Strip! One Strip!Bastion's kind of an interesting villain since he starts out as "just" a Sentinel carrying out his programming. But by the end, he's trying to wipe out Mutants because he genuinely hates them and wants them dead.
"We are not programmed to hate you. We have grown beyond our programming."
Disgusted, but not surprisedIn X Men, the Seige Perilous is a artifact that can unfold into a mystical doorway and anyone that steps through it will have their memories erased so they can have a second chance at life
The X Men used it as a non lethal way to dispose of their enemies for a while but when the Reavers showed up, Psylocke decided that the X Men had no chance against them and mind controlled the X Men to walk through the Seige Perilous so they wouldn’t die
Anyway, prior to that the X Men were fighting super sentinel from the future Nimrod and they couldn’t stop it so Rogue wrestled Nimrod through the Seige perilous, sacrificing herself to stop the Sentinel
Except not. Rogue is a weird special case so the SP sent Rogue to the Savage Land and then took the Carol Danvers echo in her brain and gave her her own body but then split Rogue’s life force between the two of them so they were both dying
Comics are weird.
Edited by Bocaj on Dec 1st 2019 at 11:24:23 AM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIs the X-men the single most impenetrable arm of the Marvel universe? XD I think it might be.
Actually, we were talking about Dr Strange a few days ago, and now I'm curious: Are there any really good Strange stories that people would recommend? Preferably something that's relatively standalone that works without needing to know a huge amount of backstory?
Edited by GNinja on Dec 1st 2019 at 4:40:21 PM
Kaze ni Nare!I've never read about it, but there's a story called Triumph and Torment where he works alongside Dr. Doom.
One Strip! One Strip!

I just hope the MCU doesn't get carried away with its scale in the future.
The big thing that turns me off of reading comics is really the gargantuan scale that things can escalate to. I never find it as impressive as I'm supposed to, and it gets kinda alienating.
So far the MCU has done a really good job of keeping things mostly personal and framing even the far reaching things (like the Blip) from a comprehensible perspective.
Edited by GNinja on Dec 1st 2019 at 12:32:22 PM
Kaze ni Nare!