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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Lets not act as if Hela being Thor's sister (or her entire character period) was even a planned thing back then.
But yeah, it was built up quite fittingly.
Edited by Forenperser on Mar 1st 2020 at 11:27:57 AM
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianSometimes things work really good in retrospect thanks to retroactive continuity
Picking up plot crumbs and making something of them is a writing skill as well.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThere's a lot of stuff in the first Thor that is almost scary in how well it fits with the revelation in Ragnarok. Namely Laufey's entire character acquires a different, more tragic light and the scene near the end where Thor talks about how he wants to be just as good king as Odin and a very forlorn Odin responds he hopes he'll be better.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Meh. I still say that if he was truly afraid of his sons turning out like his daughter then he did a really shit job of curbing it before they got out of hand. He didn't seem at all horrified when little Thor talked about killing all the monsters to be just like daddy, only gently admonishing him to not seek out a fight.
I mean, Odin is kind of a shit, even in his old age.
Edit: Granted, talking about something else once in a while might help integrate you into the forum.
Edited by fredhot16 on Mar 1st 2020 at 8:09:15 AM
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.I talk about things besides Star Lord.
And I only half mock Tony. It's fun to pick on him for everything, even the stuff that isn't his fault.
....so....when will Mantis learn Kung Fu?
We need her to become the proper Celestial Madonna. Kung Fu Bug Lady needs to happen.
One Strip! One Strip!Do weeee?
Everything about the Celestial Madonna prophecy was pretty bad except Mantis finishing it and going “oh cool i can live my life now”
Forever liveblogging the Avengers....I don't really know the details.
I just know she knew Kung Fu. Add that to her empath powers, and people get rekt.
One Strip! One Strip!She also had a double wedding with the Scarlet Witch.
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To make a short story long: Mantis was a half-Vietnamese, half-German woman born in Vietnam and left by her father (the supervillain Libra) in the hands of the Priests of Pama, a Kree sect who believed that she was the Celestial Madonna who would eventuallyn mate with the eldest Cotati (tree being) on Earth and give birth to the Celestial Messiah. But they decided she needed to do some...stuff first, so they mindwiped her and sent out out in the world, where she became a prostitute (yikes) and the fell in love with the Swordsman. After a bunch of adventures with the Avengers, the Swordsman dies, though, before Mantis is told, again, that she's the Celestial Madonna and then she gets married to the Cotati who inhabits the Swordsman's dead body (double yikes) and then she leaves Earth. Next time she's seen, she has a son named Sequoia and her skin has turned green and she's grown antennae due to...living in space or something.
Oh, yeah, and she knew kung fu before all of that because she learned it from the Priests of Pama. I think. Look, her entire life was just a ton of Asian women stereotypes plus weird space mysiticism.
Edited by alliterator on Mar 1st 2020 at 10:11:59 AM

The Hulk has bled a few times in prior films, so it's not impossible to cut his skin, it's just really hard.