During the investigation of recent hollers in the Complete Monster thread, it's become apparent to the staff that an insular, unfriendly culture has evolved in the Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard threads that is causing problems.
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It is not a super high level problem, but it has been going on for years and we cannot ignore it any longer. There will be a thread in Wiki Talk
to discuss the problem; in the meantime there is a moratorium on further Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard example discussion until we have gotten this sorted out.
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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
How dare you? Thanos is great in the comics!
Medusa, abstain Evil
I'll read Sleepy Hollow EP later
edited 20th May '17 3:39:25 AM by Silverblade2
I'm just going to ask, how long do you think the average EP should be? Sometimes I feel like mine are a little on the short side, but then you get ones like that Sleepy Hollow one... what's the sweet spot?
Also if you want there is a quote from Ego we could put in the Marvel Cinematic Universe page.
Malcolm and Jobe. Unless it'made clear that his victims are in an And I Must Scream state,
to Medusa. Will need to think more on Evil.
edited 20th May '17 5:18:29 AM by TommyFresh
I really hope they will deliver on Thanos. I'm also fairly sure we're gonna be cutting Ronan when he makes his appearance, as I am sure they will at least give us something in the way of 'You thought Ronan was bad? You haven't seen nothing yet'. It would be the perfect measurement to see how far Thanos is willing to go with the Infinity Stones at his hand.
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianFrom a heinous standard, we've probably already seen enough from Thanos to put him up (if we didn't know that Infinity War was coming). He's responsible for the Chautari invasion of Earth and Ronan's atrocities on a grand level, and on a personal level he's very clearly a bad boss (his threats to Ronan and treatment of Gamora/Nebula make that clear).
Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet should have little impact on whether Ronan stays; just because Ronan has a single Infinity Stone doesn't mean he has perfect control over it or even understands the full potential of what the stone could do, and the difference in the ability to use the Infinity Stones is a clear difference in resources.
Maybe he's heinous enough (That's a maybe thanks to Ego) but at the moment he's a Generic Doomsday Villain like Malekith and Dormammu. He doesn't really have a motive yet other than to destroy the universe with the Infinity Stones.
He had a stone and he wanted to use it to destroy a planet. Don't get why this should be a ressource thing, because Thanos will have all six stones?
Doesn't make that much of a difference, if Ronan only wants to destroy Xandar and Thanos the entire unvierse, I'd say he outshines him just fine. But that's all speculation now.
Oh I'm fairly sure Thanos won't count, but he still contributes to the standart.
edited 20th May '17 6:34:33 AM by Forenperser
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianWhether or not Thanos will count, it's worth discussing how he'll impact the heinous standard and if the difference in resources is enough to keep Ronan if Thanos outshines him.
Though thinking about it, wasn't there a cartoon of Guardians of the Galaxy that has Thanos as a CM?
edited 20th May '17 6:45:38 AM by Awesomekid42
Speaking of Marvel, the X-Men Film Series has five C Ms. That's the minimun requirement for a CM page, right?

Frankly, Thanos is probably going to be rather underwhelming, even though I'm sure they're taking that into account. He's not that great a villain in the comics, IMO.
Unsure on both Medusa and Evil.