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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Bullseye has also lost to DareDevil more than he has won.
Edited by Bullman on Jan 1st 2020 at 8:05:55 AM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadWell, natch. He's a comicbook villain. He's going to lose repeatedly to the guy whose name is on the cover.
One thing that sets him apart from Hawkeye is that Hawkeye has gone up against genuinely superpowered beings repeatedly. Bullseye rarely does. And for good reason — one of the few times he did try to attack a superpowered human, American Eagle, he got utterly thrashed even before his nanochain was activated.
The beatdown American Eagle gave Bullseye was one of the most satsifying comic book moments ever. Both the physical one and the verbal one.
"Pick your targets carefully, don't you? Like some schoolyard jerk, looking for the little kids to kick around. You spineless little bag of crap."
Edited by M84 on Jan 1st 2020 at 10:29:31 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedBullseye is usually pretty smart in that regard. He knows his limits.
I think he makes it a habit to avoid Spiderman for that reason, since the latter is essentially Daredevil with Super-Strength.
One Strip! One Strip!I can't stop smiling at how similar this name sounds to a certain other Barney that Maria Hill may or may not know.
Edited by alliterator on Jan 1st 2020 at 7:47:05 AM
I mean, I'm pretty sure Bullseye wouldn't rob a bank, but that's one of those things that's funny enough that you can ignore any Fridge Logic on it.
One Strip! One Strip!Especially since Bullseye doesn't need money. He's got a ton of cash saved up from assassination jobs because he rarely ever spends it. He's a hired killer because he finds killing fun. In fact, he kills people so often that the authorities have trouble figuring out whether his latest victim(s) was someone whom he was hired to kill or someone whom he killed solely for the shits and giggles. Which may also be a major reason he's hired — it makes it harder to trace the victims back to the ones who hired him.
Edited by M84 on Jan 2nd 2020 at 1:35:44 AM
Disgusted, but not surprisedI don't know if I made (read: copied) this joke here before, but thanks to Mr Sunday Movies I can't not call Wanda Vision "Long Division" now.
Self-serious autistic trans gal who loves rock/metal and animation with all her heart. (she/her)Hmm.
Arcade does have cred as a Spidey villain as well as an X-man villain. He could be a good opponent for the third movie.
Edited by HandsomeRob on Jan 2nd 2020 at 9:01:51 AM
One Strip! One Strip!Arcade's shtick might be too similar to Mysterio though. Its played a different way but the murder funhouse illusions nothing is as it seems stuff might overlap too much.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI'm surprised Arcade and Mystery never teamed up in fact.
Then again, maybe both are too Prima-donnaish for that. I can picture them clashing on some aesthetics.
Plus Beck was dead for a few years in universe.
One Strip! One Strip!Mysterio is all about style and spectacle, Arcade doesn't really give a shit about anything except getting paid. It's a Performer Versus Technician deal but where they're both supervillains so probably end up literally fighting each other.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."
I think it got mentioned once he broke even by renting them out to villains to train themselves and their henchmen.
It was also mentioned he throws himself huge birthday parties every year but the only reason people show up is for the free food.
See, he’s perfect for the MCU shows. I’m glad Fox didn’t use him.
Which makes sense if you think about it.
One does not build a murder theme-park with death-carousels and massacre-pinball because one is interested in pragmatism. Arcade read The Most Dangerous Game once, thought it was the coolest shit he'd ever read, and promptly misinterpreted the word "Game" in the best possible way.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jan 2nd 2020 at 12:35:35 PM
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Bullseye has been beaten by Daredevil, though. And I'd say that Daredevil and Hawkeye are pretty much on par with each other.