#2: Feb 13th 2012 at 2:57:06 PM
They've always done that. They seldom gives the president's actual name - though it's happened once or twice - but the president always looks like whoever's president at the time the comic's written. LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, Sr., Clinton, and Bush, Jr. all showed up.
It's been done with foreign leaders, as well, but not quite as much, for obvious reasons. I remember seeing Tony Blair once in a while. Queen Elizabeth II, of course, who actually just cameo'd in Secret Avengers and has been shown before.
X-Statix almost brought in Princess Diana. After she died. That got stopped.
Might've happened with NYC mayors, as well, if I remember correctly.
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AgentRook
Since: Feb, 2012
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I read a dark reign tie ages ago that Norman Osborn saves Obama(or someone who looks A LOT like Obama) as a Xanatos Gambit to gain some influence and power(wich was what he did the entire dark reign basically).
Anyway, the problem is that the implication that a real person that isn't a historical "acceptable political target"(and sometimes even then) is both narmy and unfortunate to me. I'm not american and I tend to mostly ignore politics and discussions about it normally, so it's not because it offends me or anything but when you read about Obama asking Osborn about the "mutant problem" in other comic it's kind of too much for my willing suspension of disbelief.
I don't know if it's official marvel policy to put real world leaders(especially US presidents) but it feels a little wierd considering all kinds of conspiracies and general idiocy of the government(Like the above mentioned "mutant problem"). The Marvel Universe IS a crapsack world after all so it'd make more sense if they would do like most fiction and have generic fake presidents instead.
Can anyone who has more knowledge of the MU enlighten me on Marvel's presidents? And what do you guys think about this kind of thing?
:)