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This thread's for talking about the Marvel Comics line, whether the comics are decades old or brand new.

As well as the superhero tales of the Marvel Universe, that also includes all the other things Marvel's done (Epic Comics, Icon Comics, Star Comics and all the rest), as well as the older stories by Atlas and Timely, the companies that later became Marvel.

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A thread for all the miscellaneous Marvel discussion that doesn't have its own thread.

So apparently, they're making a Black Panther movie. Let's hope Hudlin is kept as far away as possible. On a related note, anyone think that the whole 'Super Hero that is also a King/Ruler' is kind of ridiculous? I mean where do heroes like Aquaman and T'Challa find the time to both lead a nation and go gallavanting on the other side of the globe?

Edited by Mrph1 on Sep 1st 2024 at 8:36:28 PM

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#37501: Jun 11th 2018 at 7:00:14 PM

Whaaaaaat

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#37502: Jun 11th 2018 at 7:17:55 PM

Kitty Pryde being queer is a bit of a stretch. Not because of the usual bullshit but because Kitty Pryde has been in groups where members were lesbians and bi without it ever being alluded to on her part.

The New Mutants had Karma as an out lesbian in the 80s.

It's a shame she was Demoted to Extra.

edited 11th Jun '18 7:18:17 PM by CharlesPhipps

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
Sircray Since: Apr, 2018
#37503: Jun 11th 2018 at 7:19:38 PM

[up][up] Jessica faked their marriage falling apart without telling Luke for some convoluted reason in her last series.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#37504: Jun 11th 2018 at 7:28:08 PM

Wolverine notably hit on Mary Jane Watson, Heather, and Jean Grey.

All redheads and in relationships.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
Blueace Surrounded by weirdoes from The End Of the World Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Surrounded by weirdoes
#37505: Jun 11th 2018 at 7:29:14 PM

So, who tried to do the same The Punisher did to him?

Wake me up at your own risk.
Whowho Since: May, 2012
#37506: Jun 11th 2018 at 7:30:48 PM

Dumb.

It frustrates me that writers seem think writing a character in a family is limiting. Serial story telling really should be about building on what previous writers have introduced.

I guess Reed and Sue is the only marriage which is sacred.

I wish I had a list of longest lasting marriages/relationships in Marvel publications.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#37507: Jun 11th 2018 at 7:45:45 PM

Yeah. Marriages get a bum wrap in comics.

Also, I just had a thought for a comic series:

There was the old Acts of Vengeance crossover where different villains deliberately challenged heroes they don't normally fight.

Why not extend that into a sort of Anthology series of heroes and villains who don't normally cross paths...crossing paths.

I bet it'd make for some fun interactions.

edited 11th Jun '18 7:45:58 PM by HandsomeRob

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Tiamatty X-Men X-Pert from Now on Twitter Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: Brony
#37508: Jun 11th 2018 at 7:58:00 PM

"Kitty Pryde being queer is a bit of a stretch. Not because of the usual bullshit but because Kitty Pryde has been in groups where members were lesbians and bi without it ever being alluded to on her part.

The New Mutants had Karma as an out lesbian in the 80s."

Kitty hasn't been on that many teams with bi or lesbian women. At least, open ones. Partly because the openly gay and bi characters tend to be from the past 15 years or so, so they're a bit too young for Kitty to interact with often.

Karma wasn't an out lesbian in the '80s. She wasn't out until New Mutants Vol. 2, though an issue of X-Force in the late '90s strongly hinted at it, and the Mekani X mini in the early 2000s all but shouted it. In fact, it came incredibly close to Kitty and Karma just making out.

Kitty's queer, the issue is it's always been subtext and there's no way the X-office would have the guts to actually let her be queer.

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Whowho Since: May, 2012
#37509: Jun 11th 2018 at 8:00:35 PM

Why did Storm and T'challa break up?

I always assumed that they dated mostly out of ego.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#37510: Jun 11th 2018 at 8:07:28 PM

Because Namor flooded Wakanda

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Whowho Since: May, 2012
#37511: Jun 11th 2018 at 8:11:24 PM

Some how in my soul I knew it would be Namor. The only person with an ego big enough to overcome a goddess and a king deciding to shack up.

Also, Wakanda is landlocked, how did Namor do that?

HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#37512: Jun 11th 2018 at 8:13:35 PM

Even by Anti-Hero standards Namor's... pretty awful. In addition to that he blew up a ton of alternate Earths in cold blood, serially creeps on married women, esp. Sue Richards, and in his early, Golden Age years he was essentially a straight-up Villain Protagonist who slaughtered people for committing minor offenses against the ocean.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#37513: Jun 11th 2018 at 8:15:51 PM

I find Namor genocide of alternate Earths to be out of character, even though it was a "him or me" situation.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#37514: Jun 11th 2018 at 8:17:49 PM

The first one he blew up was literally better than 616, even. The other Illuminati voted to destroy 616 so that one could live, but Namor pushed the Big Red Button anyway.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#37515: Jun 11th 2018 at 8:19:48 PM

Even if I lived on Earth-Paradise, I'd be inclined to agree with Namor.

Their responsibility is to their planet.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#37516: Jun 11th 2018 at 8:43:34 PM

Technically the others voted to do nothing which would have led to both universes being destroyed

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BigK1337 Since: Jun, 2012
#37517: Jun 11th 2018 at 10:45:25 PM

Considering how I always refered to him as “Kazuya In A Speedo”, it doesn’t really shock me that Namor will be a huge dick 99% of the time.

Eldritcho Since: Nov, 2016
#37518: Jun 11th 2018 at 11:33:40 PM

To answer a previous poster's question: Janet was recently in Unstoppable Wasp, where she served as a mentor to Nadia. It was quite enjoyable, if very short lived.

On a different note, has anyone picked up the first issue of the new Deadpool book by Scottie Young?

Whowho Since: May, 2012
#37519: Jun 12th 2018 at 12:10:41 AM

Couldn't they have evacuated the 616 into this better planet and then blow up the 616?

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#37520: Jun 12th 2018 at 7:42:02 AM

They wasted too much time fighting the Not Justice League because Namor got impatient and threw a trident at Not Batman

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GrigorII Since: Aug, 2011
#37521: Jun 12th 2018 at 8:55:26 AM

Do you remember Galactus the Lifebringer? Say goodbye to him. In Infinity Countdown #4 he's back to being the devourer of worlds, and the Silver Surfer is his herald.

Seriously, in the last years Marvel has been desperately trying to get rid of anything remotely new or interesting, and bring everything back to the way it was in the 60s or 70s, when most of us were not even born. All such things are either cancelled or reverted, or about to be. Even Groot talks again! I just hope they don't bring back Rick Jones' Teen Brigade, or I'm gonna scream.

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#37522: Jun 12th 2018 at 9:11:22 AM

Groot talking is sorta new and interesting in that nobody knows or cares about talking jerk Groot but I don't like it

Also someone stage an intervention for Norin Radd because he's in an on again off again relationship with Galactus and it's not healthy

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GrigorII Since: Aug, 2011
#37523: Jun 12th 2018 at 9:16:42 AM

Actually, a talking Groot was an Early-Installment Weirdness... and it should have stayed that way, just a trivia fact. Nowadays, it's just plain wrong, it's almost a crime against nature.

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windleopard from Nigeria Since: Nov, 2014 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#37524: Jun 12th 2018 at 9:19:05 AM

"I am groot" can get old really fast.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#37525: Jun 12th 2018 at 9:55:29 AM

His repetitiveness was his charm point!

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