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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
Technically, Tigra's powers aren't demonic in nature. The original Cat People were regular housecats a wizard uplifted with magic. Because that's the sort of thing you do when you're a wizard I guess.
While his fellow wizards were initially impressed with the Cat People, they were less impressed when they found out said Cat People still bred like housecats (meaning multiple litters) and were natural warriors. The Cat People also didn't like being treated like they were still housecats either.
So the wizards forced their creator to banish them to Hell. And this was after he talked them down from outright genocide.
Wizards are assholes.
Disgusted, but not surprisedFucking synergy strikes again.
Edited by slimcoder on Jul 23rd 2025 at 7:55:03 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."Who in the second issue was hunting down and shot at Skaar in his child form without hesitation due to her hatred of aliens and nonhumans.
When Surfer came into the scene Kelly Koh used child Skaar as a hostage to try to kill them both.
Edited by slimcoder on Jul 23rd 2025 at 8:32:09 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."I suspect another victim of synergy will be Doctor Doom. Thanos actually had a character arc before his appearance in The Avengers, then Marvel kept using him as generic conquerer or as the “final boss” of Marvel. One World Under Doom might be the start of Dr Doom being an event villain in all of his appearances instead of letting the Fantastic Four fight him from time to time
What are the odds on them turning Tony Stark into Doom ahead of the Secret Wars movie?
Have they? I haven't read any of Marvel's comics for a few years now (for financial reasons, mostly). I do remember Doom became Iron Man for a while, after Secret Wars. I don't remember hearing anything about Tony becoming Doom.
Jimmy Palmiotti and Dan Panosian will be following the current Black Panther The World to Come series with Marvel Knights: Punisher, set in the same Bad Future.
AIPT story here
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Marvel is doing a bunch of variant covers with the Muppets for their 70th anniversary. Source is Games Radar.
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.> Fucking synergy strikes again.
It'll be very funny if She-Silver Surfer (I forget her name) gets put out of commission somehow and then we see MCU Norrin Radd.
Wouldn't be the first time Marvel Studios did a bamboozle at Marvel Comics…note
Greg Land "drawing" the Swedish Chef doing a Wolverine cover pose is certainly a choice.
There's also completely changing America Chavez's origin (complete with a brand new sister who hasn't been seen since) in assumption the Doctor Strange sequel would have changed her origin.
Only for said movie to adapt her lesbian utopia universe pretty accurately.
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Damn after a year in hiatus Frank is back with not one but 2 series.
So the wizards forced their creator to banish them to Hell. And this was after he talked them down from outright genocide.
Wizards are assholes.
Actually, is there any magic user in the Marvel universe that isn't a massive tool? The only ones I can think of are Stephen Strange, Magik, Clea and Nico Minoru. And even the former two have some really unpleasant moments.
In the comics, Agatha Harkness has pretty consistently been a benign old dear. I don't know if that's changed for synergy to reflect the MCU version being a baddie.
On that note, it'd be hard to call Scarlet Witch a "tool", even on the occasions she's been a "villain" — in the early X-Men comics, she and Quicksilver are reluctant anti-villains, and in Avengers: Disassembled and House of M, she's crazy.
Edited by ClancyGardener on Jul 24th 2025 at 12:22:37 PM
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Agatha's been a lot more adversarial and manipulative in recent years. And I think there's a touch of that in some older stories too.
At least Hellstrom and Druid are still heroic, far less dickish magicians.
It's a recurring thing in Marvel that mastering magic poses risks to your morality. Even putting aside the temptation provided by the near limitless potential to alter reality, gaining magic often means bargaining with powerful and dangerous entities.
Doctor Strange is painfully aware of this having served as Sorcerer Supreme for as long as he has. He's had to deal with many a magic user who has broken bad, he's nearly broken bad, and he has to frequently deal with the above mentioned powerful and dangerous entities.
Even Nico Minoru made the spectacularly bad decision in the 2017 Runaways run to allow the wizard trapped in the Staff of One (who is also the source of its power) a little more access to her soul every time she used the Staff in order to keep using it. Though she at least realized it was a bad decision at the end of the run and gave the Staff to Karolina when she left Earth.
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And for those unfamiliar with Helstrom and Druid and why that's potholed to Humor Mode:
- Helstrom is someone who calls himself Son of Satan. And not only is he indeed the son of a powerful demon (not the Satan though), he very much lives down to the name. Curiously he's not always the villain when he shows up in a story.
- Doctor Druid's whole character concept is "Doctor Strange but an even bigger jerk."
Edited by M84 on Jul 24th 2025 at 10:48:27 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedMeanwhile, John Walker is wonder how it's possible to be worse than him, but also kinda relieved.

Tigra’s powers sort of come from a demonic cat soul that’s hot glued onto her own soul so. Yeah. This tracks.
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