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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
And then the marriage got utterly torched during Avengers vs. X-Men.
Yeah, it was kinda thrown together, but nobody really did anything with it, plus having one of their members as the Queen of an entire nation would have actually been pretty beneficial for the X-Men.
Something good could have probably come out of the idea, but now that's done with.
One Strip! One Strip!There's also the fact that she shows up in during the Wakanda segment in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order rather than the X-Men segment. A very clear nod to her former status as queen.
One Strip! One Strip!I tend to perceive taking Storm away from her own series, goals, agendas and built-up identity and throwing her together into Black Panther so she could be T'Challa's trophy "strong black wife" as emblematic of all the problems with Hudlin's approach to BP, and typically my primary example when people respond "what's so bad about making BP as cooler than everyone else?" to some of Hudlin's other ideas.
It's a move that inherently cares less about who Storm is as a character than what she represents a status symbol. And Hudlin was like that with freaking everything.
I've always taken the fact that their marriage falls apart the moment an issue comes up that actually addresses something Storm is passionate about that T'Challa doesn't as an implicit dig at the expense the marriage had on Storm's agency as a character.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Sep 6th 2020 at 10:07:02 AM
Hudlin is probably BP's most famous Dork Age.
For some reason it was also that very same run that Marvel decided to make a pseudo cartoon (more like a glorified motion comic) out of. It did have the sickesst opening ever though:
Even more impressive given it's not just gibberish they're shouting but apparently a Wakandan conlang based off Bantu created by the lyricist Stephen James Taylor.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Ugh, out of all the trends, Motion Comics was definitely the one I understood the least.
Like.....why? Either make a full-fledged cartoon or don't.
But not these horrible animations with the cheesy voice work.
Edited by Forenperser on Sep 6th 2020 at 7:27:34 PM
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianRegardless of how the Milestone comics turn out, at least it indicates that he legal troubles plaguing the characters are finally over.
So we might see Static & co in shows & movies now. Really fucking hope Static gets into Injustice 3 considering he was originally planned to appear in Injustice 2.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."The real reason there's no cure for cancer in the Marvel universe is Reed Richards Is Useless. We can't just have these super geniuses and magic solve all our real world problems like diseases, starvation and climate change, because the world has to remain like ours.
Edited by FGHIK on Sep 7th 2020 at 2:31:50 PM
Silliest part is that they argue they aren't willing to share it because they're mad at other countries for creating cigarettes and because they think they'd use the cure for cancer to make weapons out of it. Somehow.
Honestly sometimes I kinda wish they'd let superhero universes have the characters share all their technological and scientific marvels with everyone to improve it. Sure, it would make the world drastically different from ours, but that'd make for great world-building.
Fair enough. -throws hands in the air in a fit of rage-
Oh my god this guy actually exists.
The cure would somehow turn people into dinosaurs. Dinosaurs that respond to laser pointers that you can point at enemies to make the dinosaur attack them.
Edited by FOFD on Sep 7th 2020 at 6:31:09 AM
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Spider-Man has had to deal with a lot of shit.
And speaking of that Jurassic World plot point, in the time you aim a laser to get a dino to kill your enemy, you could have just used a regular gun.
Edited by RedHunter543 on Sep 7th 2020 at 6:51:51 AM
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"Real talk though, Gobby is a chemical company businessman, not a tech guy with most of his stuff implied to be stolen from Stromm, so making a cure for cancer would rake in the millions BUT he could make more suppressing the cure and instead offering even more expensive treatments over the years that doesn't actually cure it but just makes it less painful.
And this is the same guy who when asked by a guard on how to cure his terminally ill wife, gave him advice that just made her die painfully.
Edited by RedHunter543 on Sep 7th 2020 at 6:57:17 AM
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"That's what makes people like Luthor and Norman so awful. They could solve so many problems, but they don't because they don't really care about said problems.
Contrast with Reed Richards, who contrary to the trope named after him, has contributed a lot to the Marvel verse in a bunch of little ways. He actually pays for his family's superhero expenses by inventing useful little gadgets and patenting them.
And no, Reed not having a cancer cure isn't due to lack of trying on his part. He and a bunch of other superheroes actually tried to figure out a cancer cure when they found out Captain Marvel was dying of it. They were also ashamed that they hadn't tried to do so sooner for the rest of the world.
They failed though. Cancer is just that difficult to reliably cure even for someone of Reed's caliber.
Edited by M84 on Sep 7th 2020 at 10:35:57 PM
Disgusted, but not surprised

Coates however does write some good Storm and T’Challa chemistry
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