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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
It's pretty interesting thinking Infinity War is responsible for most of Thanos' Memetic Badass reputation. Before then he was just "the guy who sat on a chair all the time."
The Nullifier is basically Marvel Comics' go to weapon for dealing with cosmic threats that the writers have no other means of defeating that have too much cosmic power to be defeated by any other means, which includes but is not specifically limited to Galactus. Galactus was the first character who was threatened with it, but he was not the last.
It's never been used on Kang, but it was once used on this guy
, another evil future bad guy (albeit the evil future version of a guy who, in the present, is already extremely powerful).
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jul 16th 2021 at 1:54:02 AM
When it's used sparingly, sure, but when they all sound like that, it loses whatever little "zing" of "subverted expectations" you were trying to achieve.
My various fanfics....We haven't really had much in the way of non-serious villains, though? Ultron had quips but that's about it. Everybody else has been pretty dour, with a few moments of levity or snark here and there.
I for one welcome Kang being a bowl of mixed nuts, assuming the conqueror version(s) we're getting are anything like the one we've already seen.
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I'm not sure that would work since Immortus is scared of Kang because he is so much worse than anything he can imagine. As he stated that while many of him were harmless scientist, others were people willing to wage war against all of creation just to have it for themselves.
...I mean, WandaVision revealed that Wanda's had her hex powers her whole life and the Mind Stone experiments simply strengthened them, and implied it was the same for Pietro, so the "first mutant" claim may change depending on future retcons.
Edited by lbssb on Jul 16th 2021 at 3:20:52 AM
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Thanos looked pretty lame back in the day too.
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