How It Should Have Ended

Eh, I don't know. It'd be a very different type of superhero story, probably a major deconstruction, but you could do it.

I actually had an idea pretty recently, inspired by numerous things^note The "Spider-sona" phenomenon, Kick-Ass, and Batman: White Knight, to name a few, where a city with a superpowered vigilante problem solves the issue by bringing them into the police force with all the rules and regulations that comes with that. So you have superheros wearing bodycams and requesting warrants and whatnot, and if they don't play by the rules they're subject to anything from fines to prison time.

Edited by Dirtyblue929 on Feb 19th 2019 at 5:28:58 AM

It's an interesting idea, but is that fun to read?

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On paper, that's basically what the Registration Act from Marvel's controversial Civil War event was supposed to be: effectively putting badges on superheroes and moving them from vigilantes to super-cops.

That, uh. That didn't go well. Partly because approximately 100% of Marvel's writers revolted at the idea of throwing standard superhero tropes out the window, and partly because the event's author a) mistakenly believed that all superhero fans would automatically agree that the Registration Act is a totes good thing and jump onboard it, defeating the purpose of a "complex, gray" conflict, and b) decided to splice some "much-need" ambiguity into it by making the Registration side into turbo-Nazis.

End result: basically every single comic about the SHRA wound up being dedicated to how the SHRA is a terrible idea, everyone involved in it is a terrible person, and Marvel should never do this again. Millar's idea spiraled out of control almost immediately due to horrible writing decisions and much worse editorial management, exploded into flames, and then became a kickass movie years later after fans had time to forget how awful that was.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Feb 19th 2019 at 7:44:26 AM

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That sounds very similar to what's going on in Arrow right now actually. The whole team got deputized. They even had an episode with a film crew following them around.

Ok, who let Light Yagami in here?

I believe there was a Comic Book about Superheroes who worked as cops. However, the story actually dealt with one of the Heroes going nuts after being unable to stand the horrific crimes committed by the criminals he's been arresting and not seeking psychological help, he becomes a secret vigilante killing all criminals while covering it up. Unfortunately, it ended with the police and his fellow police Superheroes discovering what he did, who are all disgusted since the way he kill them was not so different with how the bad guys did, his wife, whose also a police detective, whose heartbroken that her husband is a hypocrite since he was supposed to be the poster boy with standards that all heroes should be and one of his colleagues blaming him for her husband's death since his actions was what led to it.

Anyway, here's the newest episode.

×5 Isn't that what My Hero Academia does?

I mean, it's not unheard of even in mainstream superhero media. The MCU's version of the Avengers is, at least in concept, basically a superpowered SEAL team - a task force that answers to SHIELD, which in turn answers to the US government and later the UN security council. Granted, the plot almost always sees them going rogue and ignoring their superiors in one way or another, but still.

One of the inspirations I mentioned, Batman: White Knight, is even more blatant - one of the big shakeups is Batgirl and Nightwing ditching Bruce to form an official partnership with the GCPD, where they provide the police with Bat-tech and follow a set of regulations in exchange for official deputization.

Edited by Dirtyblue929 on Feb 19th 2019 at 8:25:07 AM

Not gonna lie, it's my favorite dinner scene.

Batman explaining the other Batmans via fries and describing TAS Batman in glowing terms was great

So, finally watched both How ITSV should have ended and How Aquaman should have ended.

In the case of the latter, I took note of some of those points (especially the part about moving inland).

Those I think even Atlanteans who can survive on land still need to go near water occasionally, so maybe that was the issue.

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Most towns and cities have running water.

Funny video, although I wish they'd given her more to say.

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They had Superman tell Carol to smile at the camera, and had a little girl wearing a shirt that reads "target demographic."

Also, yes, Fury should have just called Carol for the Chitauri, and I will hear nothing else.

Edited by Soble on Apr 24th 2019 at 5:25:25 AM

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I'm gonna assume we'll learn why he didn't when Endgame comes out.

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Yeah hopefully this question will be done and dusted by the time Endgame comes out.

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Listen man, Fury's getting on in years. He probably just forgot about the pager until the invasion had already started.

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!

Between the Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor, Fury probably assumed he had enough SMASH FACE power to deal with Loki.

It wasn't really a Captain Marvel situation until the sky portal opened. And that invasion lasted for like twenty minutes; I don't know how much time passes between Fury paging her in Infinity War and her arrival in the Captain Marvel stinger but I'm pretty sure those scenes do not take place in the same day.

Who knows? Maybe he did page her when the sky portal opened, and then sent another message half an hour later going, "nvmind we got this. ps goose litter box duty is a nitemare and u nvr warned me."

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Yeah. Endgame will probably confirm it, but we'd already theorized that the actual events of the Chitauri invasion went by too fast and since the Avengers were already on the scene preventing an entire army from spreading out with only six people, it can be fairly said the situation was under control.

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That said, the fact that Fury had Captain Marvel's pager in his back-pocket, metaphorically speaking, does make his ironclad position against the WSC's desperation nuke even more reasonable than it already was.

They're like, "THIS IS TERRIBLE AND WE NEED NUKES."

And Fury's standing there silently going, "Nukes? Did he just say nukes? F*cker, this isn't even bad enough to ring my secret super-pager yet."

He hasn't informed the WSC about it, but there's a degree of escalation between "Avengers handle it" and "Yeah, nuking NYC sounds like a good idea." that Fury had not crossed yet.

That being said, while the nuke is a terrible idea no matter which way you slice it, I have contemplated the benefits of a conventional missile strike. Specifically, a tactical strike on Stark Tower.

The portal generator is surrounded by an impenetrable shield. However, I'd be interested to know what would happen to the generator if the building it's standing on spontaneously ceased to exist. While the Tesseract itself would be entirely unharmed, I have difficulty imagining the machinery around it surviving a 1,000 foot drop. I imagine the generator plunging to Earth and then smashing into a million pieces against its own impenetrable forcefield as it hits the ground.

Even if that didn't happen, it'd still be unlikely for the pertinent emitters on the device to be correctly pointed upwards once it landed. Either way, the sky portal's probably getting shut down.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Apr 25th 2019 at 1:51:53 PM

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Honestly, there might have been a lot happened during the battle we just didn't get to see. Plus, the universe is huge. As fast as Captain Marvel is, even in the movie it is clear that she needed some time to arrive after the pager went off.

seems like the movie is missing.

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I mean, even a one armed Hulk is still a Hulk.

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Doesn't Hulk have somekind of regeneration ability?

Yeah, but apparently the severity of what happened to him negates it.

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