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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Only under Pak. Other writers thankfully don't pay attention to this. I mean even for comic books, that is just plain dumb. Especially considering that most of the time, Hulk just isn't intelligent enough for something like that.
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianIn fairness Peter already has some great superpowers. A tricked out suit is garnish at best
In other fairness, the iron Spidey suit was supposed to be for when he was an adult and he’s only wearing it because he was asphyxiating in space.
In not fairness, Tony was definitely going to give it to him when he was Homecoming years old and like everybody in his sphere of bad decision making also though this was a good idea
Edited by Bocaj on Oct 7th 2021 at 9:09:37 AM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersOn further thought, what if the suit isn't actually intended to enhance Peter but simply to protect him?
It basically has an autopilot feature and knowing how protective Tony is he probably designed it purely to keep Peter safe more than anything.
Which would make the black suit kind of an offensive counterpart since it actually does enhances Peter's abilities to make him stronger, faster, and with better regen but at the same time makes him more aggressive.
Edited by slimcoder on Oct 7th 2021 at 6:19:47 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."“So building a suit of armor around the world was a bad idea. But I’m definitely going to build a suit of armor around Peter”
Forever liveblogging the AvengersTo clarify what people are talking about what Venom 2: the ending has Eddie and his symbiote get beamed up by what fans believe may be Dr. Strange's spell in No Way Home.
Some people are convinced that this is going to permanently merge Venom into the MCU. However, I highly doubt any of the guest stars are remaining past the end of No Way Home, Venom included (if he even is included).
So if you aren't interested in the movie but are wondering why everyone is saying Venom is MCU canon now or whatever, that's what that's about.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I'm thinking about the mutants question, and I definatly do want Charles and Erik to have been people who operated in the 60s onwards, so the modern day is open for us to focus on the students and their coming of age experience.
But to explain how mutants hadn't become superheroes of note prior?
I'd probably just have the villain be Mr Sinister and say he's had the global mutant population forced under ground for the past sixty years because as soon as anyone uses their powers openly or outs themselves, he kidnaps them for exsprimenting.
Also I agree the mutant population could be tied to the infinity stones on earth. The Celestials do have ties to both mutant creation and the infinity stones. It also ties the Eternals to mutants in an interesting way. The initial sixties mutants were the result of fetuses being exposed to the use of the terract in world war 2.
And if you want a mutant population boom happening in the mid 2020s, the reality stone did the whole convergence thing over in Thor 2 in 2013. So ten years later in the modern MCU we'd be seing mutants from that event going through puberty and getting their powers.
In regards to mutants not becoming superheroes or X-Men, maybe it's possible that Xavier is an Adaptational Nice Guy and was merely focused on being a school more than setting up something like the X-Men to fight villainy. But perhaps something happens that forces him to create the group later on.
I'd be down for the Eternals and/or the Celestials becoming responsible for the creation of mutants in the modern day. It would also be cool if the Infinity Stones resulted in more mutants as well, but they're destroyed in the Sacred Timeline. Oh well. We saw what happened to Captain Marvel and the Maximoff twins after the Tesseract and Loki's Scepter affected them respectively. Imagine how cool it would be to have some of the other Infinity Stones turn other people into mutants. I wonder what powers the Time, Reality and Soul Stones would've given people if they were exposed to their effects in a different way...
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."Yeah, the whole "no mutant superheroes" thing could be explained by the mutant community simply being more focused on being a secret community than fighting. TBH, placing the X-Men during things like Jim Crow or McCarthyism would help enhance that: in a time period where people are intensely, violently hostile to anything different from them, the mutant narrative could work really well as a fight to simply exist without anyone knowing.
Also, there's the possibility that we could have superheroes unveiled in the past who were mutants, but didn't tell anybody about it.
Eh, it's not just Wolverine. I feel like Steve Rogers needs to rest for a bit. What If was fun, but outside of that, appearances from Steve would kind of overshadow everything else imo.
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Yeah, I agree with those ideas.
I know some people here have disapproved of this idea because it makes Charles' school seem like yet another Hidden Elf Village when Wakanda and the Mandarin's wife's village exist, but I honestly don't see it that way. The School for Gifted Youngsters always seemed like your typical private boarding school that primarily about learning than it was for hiding.
Edited by MatthewWayne on Oct 9th 2021 at 10:49:09 AM
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I don't know if they'd be able to do that in live-action without a narmy amount of Fake Shemping for Chris Evans, but I could easily see that as a future What If.
Edited by lbssb on Oct 9th 2021 at 10:49:34 AM
Disney100 Marathon | DreamWorks MarathonI've always really wanted them to make a movie about the Invaders (Cap, The Original Human Torch, Namor) set during Cap's WW 2 days, but yeah. Now that Evans is out that ain't happening. Maybe they can replace Cap with Wolverine.
But the more I think about it, the more I really want an MCU 60's-70's era series. You could have Hank and Janet adventures, you could put the early X-Men there, and I still think it would be a fun nod if we there was a plot where Wenwu went up against Howard Stark.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Oct 9th 2021 at 10:55:23 AM

I always figured Peter being up for killing Thanos's forces was a simple matter of "They're not human. Doesn't count."