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(500) Days of Spidey

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    a phd in shakin' it

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    Burden of ProofBurden of Proof You three boys picked a beautiful hill to die on. Registered User regular
    Hey, people who read Ultimate Spider Man, I have a Spider-Men related question.

    (Spoilers for Spider-Men, I guess? I dunno if anybody cares, but better safe than sorry.)

    So, what's the deal with Ultimate Mysterio? Apparently he has robots or something that do most of the heavy lifting?
    Ultimate Mysterio is normal Mysterio. Somehow he discovers how to travel to the Ultimate Universe. He sees a ridiculously under prepared world that he can play in with no repercussion so he uses a proxy body to trample around, take over the mob and then search for a powerful cosmic item of almost infinite power.

    That's silly.

    Comic books are silly.

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    awesome

    they are awesome

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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Quoth wrote: »
    The smartest ass

    Blake's ass has a phd

    When people called me that when I was young, I said a smart arse is when you sit on ice cream, you could tell what flavour it is.

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    Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    That doesn't sound different to me than any other religion, honestly

    The biggest difference I've always seen is that we were around to see the genesis of it from a science fiction author

    As for the things they actually claim to believe, it's just as batshit insane as all other religions, and there's certainly plenty of financial and PR shenanigans going on for other religions as well, even more so. Scientology just doesn't have the numbers or the funds to make it run as smoothly and seamlessly as the others do, combined with the fact that our parents were around to see the birth of it.

    But yeah, as an actor, though he'll always be a celebrity first in his roles - he'll never be able to disappear in his characters like Daniel Day-Lewis or Gary Oldman - he does a damn fine job with most of the things he's handed

    Scientology violently brainwashes its members, it uses financial means to prevent people from leaving lest they get hit with crushing debts that will completely destroy them, it uses fucking slave labour in the form of the Sea Org which, by the way, is also responsible for child neglect and abuse on a staggeringly huge scale, it runs actual torture chambers where people have died and it has used spies to try and destroy any government records that might be used to incriminate them.

    Anyone who says that Scientology doesn't sound much different from any other religion has no fucking clue as to what they're talking about.

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    LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    I mean if you want to see how crazy tom cruise is, check out holmes' story on how and why she got a divorce

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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    in my mind the deal with the clone saga is that some dudes thought it would be funny to clone spiderman a bunch of times and release the duplicates into the wild

    sometimes they flipped the 'evil' switch in the brain first, just to see what would happen

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Let me tell everyone what the clone saga is

    the clone saga is bad

    it is terrible!

    it is a dark, dark era of Spider-Man comics and we of the new age should bow out head in thanks that we no longer must suffer it's indignities, save in the form of a reasonably good Scarlet Spider book

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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    Solar wrote: »
    Let me tell everyone what the clone saga is

    the clone saga is bad

    it is terrible!

    it is a dark, dark era of Spider-Man comics and we of the new age should bow out head in thanks that we no longer must suffer it's indignities, save in the form of a reasonably good Scarlet Spider book

    so is the scarlet spider a clone or something

    i have never had any idea what that dude's deal is

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    LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    Solar wrote: »
    Let me tell everyone what the clone saga is

    the clone saga is bad

    it is terrible!

    it is a dark, dark era of Spider-Man comics and we of the new age should bow out head in thanks that we no longer must suffer it's indignities, save in the form of a reasonably good Scarlet Spider book

    so is the scarlet spider a clone or something

    i have never had any idea what that dude's deal is

    If this is a real question

    yes

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    LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    The Scarlet Spider is Ben Reilly, the clone of spider-man. During the clone saga it was all ohhh is ben actually the real peter parker or is peter parker peter parker who woke up first ahhhhhhh

    but then it was like nah ben reilly was the clone and now he's dead bye

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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Solar wrote: »
    Let me tell everyone what the clone saga is

    the clone saga is bad

    it is terrible!

    it is a dark, dark era of Spider-Man comics and we of the new age should bow out head in thanks that we no longer must suffer it's indignities, save in the form of a reasonably good Scarlet Spider book

    so is the scarlet spider a clone or something

    i have never had any idea what that dude's deal is

    While Langly is right, the editorial intent was, Peter shouldn't be married, so they replaced him with someone who was exactly like him, but not married.

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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Except he had BLONDE TIPS.

    BECAUSE IT WAS THE NINETIES.

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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Scarlett spidey was a pretty cool costume though.

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Well actually the current Scarlet Spider is Kaine

    aka Peter Parker if he was an angry, kind of amoral dude

    he's trying to do the whole "I'm a jerk but I want to be a hero" thing, which is cool

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    ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Except he had BLONDE TIPS.

    BECAUSE IT WAS THE NINETIES.

    nope

    he dyed his hair blonde to differentiate himself from peter

    also ben reilly is how they SHOULD have split up the marriage

    not this DEVIL DID IT bullshit

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    edited July 2012
    They should never have fucking split up the marriage

    especially given that Dan Slott then did his whole "what if Peter grew up and became, like, a responsible adult?" thing

    which makes that whole OMD attempt to bring Spider-Man back down to a more "relatable" level laughable

    Solar on
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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Honestly.

    The devil thing is dumb.

    But.

    It works better. Because this way it's very finite.

    The fact that went back to the status quo is proof that it wasn't very finite.

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    ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Honestly.

    The devil thing is dumb.

    But.

    It works better. Because this way it's very finite.

    The fact that went back to the status quo is proof that it wasn't very finite.

    well it was mostly becuase they had this massive, over-long story that nobody cared about and ben wasn't doing as well as they had hoped

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    ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    like it didn't really matter who was the real peter and who was the clone

    just go "this guy's spider-man now"

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Well people who been reading spidey for years and loved him

    were understandably a bit hacked off when they said HEY GUYS THIS IS THE REAL SPIDER-MAN OVER HERE

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    ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    like i said

    doesn't really matter who was the clone

    should've just said "shit who knows" and let people make their own assumptions

    it adds exactly nothing to the story, knowing who's the clone

    the important thing is that it gives peter a chance to live a normal life while still have a spider-man banging around punchin fools

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Yeah but that's not good enough for some people i.e. me

    I want to know who the fucking clone is

    because I do

    and anyway, the whole thing was crap

    so best to just say "Peter isn't a clone, now let's move on"

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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    But they said Peter was the clone

    But no one wanted Ben to be spiderman because he wasn't Peter.

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    pretty much

    and for good reason

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    ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    But they said Peter was the clone

    But no one wanted Ben to be spiderman because he wasn't Peter.

    people are stupid and dumb

    ben was cool

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    He was okay

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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Buttlord wrote: »
    Blake T wrote: »
    But they said Peter was the clone

    But no one wanted Ben to be spiderman because he wasn't Peter.

    people are stupid and dumb

    ben was cool

    It's the problem that they had with the lanterns.

    They keep replacing them and expected people to be happy with the new ones.

    And they never were.

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    King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited July 2012
    Spectre-x wrote: »
    That doesn't sound different to me than any other religion, honestly

    The biggest difference I've always seen is that we were around to see the genesis of it from a science fiction author

    As for the things they actually claim to believe, it's just as batshit insane as all other religions, and there's certainly plenty of financial and PR shenanigans going on for other religions as well, even more so. Scientology just doesn't have the numbers or the funds to make it run as smoothly and seamlessly as the others do, combined with the fact that our parents were around to see the birth of it.

    But yeah, as an actor, though he'll always be a celebrity first in his roles - he'll never be able to disappear in his characters like Daniel Day-Lewis or Gary Oldman - he does a damn fine job with most of the things he's handed

    Scientology violently brainwashes its members, it uses financial means to prevent people from leaving lest they get hit with crushing debts that will completely destroy them, it uses fucking slave labour in the form of the Sea Org which, by the way, is also responsible for child neglect and abuse on a staggeringly huge scale, it runs actual torture chambers where people have died and it has used spies to try and destroy any government records that might be used to incriminate them.

    Anyone who says that Scientology doesn't sound much different from any other religion has no fucking clue as to what they're talking about.

    Yeah it'spretty insulting. " I don't like organized religion so all religions are cults that scam idiots hurr."
    I could leave Catholicism tomorrow and I'm pretty sure only my mother would harass me in any serious manner. Then if I decided to become jewish or something they wouldn't charge me my entire income for a year and make me work in their salt mines while indoctrinating my children to not be able to survive in the outside world

    King Riptor on
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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    well some people were

    some people like Kyle because they never read Hal

    of course, some people like Kyle because Hal is awful, as is just and right

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    ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    Blake T wrote: »
    Buttlord wrote: »
    Blake T wrote: »
    But they said Peter was the clone

    But no one wanted Ben to be spiderman because he wasn't Peter.

    people are stupid and dumb

    ben was cool

    It's the problem that they had with the lanterns.

    They keep replacing them and expected people to be happy with the new ones.

    And they never were.

    the thing is you never need to replace a lantern, long term

    "they're a new dude in the corps" alright word

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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    And yet, he is awful, but people still preferred him!

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    CorporateLogoCorporateLogo The toilet knows how I feelRegistered User regular
    Kyle's biggest claim to fame is starting the whole Women in Refrigerators things

    Do not have a cow, mortal.

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    King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Solar wrote: »
    well some people were

    some people like Kyle because they never read Hal

    of course, some people like Kyle because Hal is awful, as is just and right

    The only episode of Brave and the bold I cannot watch is Hal Jordan's

    It's just so fucking boring. But the Wonder Woman teaser is in front of it so I have to risk accidentally seeing part of it.

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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    quick reminder that there is a new, arabic green lantern who wears a ski mask and carries a gun

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    ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    you know what's a detail i wish they would pay more attention to

    the way different lanterns make their constructs

    hal's a simple dude, all his shit is like "here's a thing doing it's thing wooooo"

    john's an architect, builds all his shit piece by piece like a blueprint

    kyle's an artist, comes up with wild shit

    and guy is guy

    either that or just everyone makes boxing gloves all the time

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    Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    Buttlord wrote: »
    you know what's a detail i wish they would pay more attention to

    the way different lanterns make their constructs

    hal's a simple dude, all his shit is like "here's a thing doing it's thing wooooo"

    john's an architect, builds all his shit piece by piece like a blueprint

    kyle's an artist, comes up with wild shit

    and guy is guy

    either that or just everyone makes boxing gloves all the time

    they used to do that all the time

    maybe they still do, i don't know, i forgot green lantern existed until just now

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    ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    they don't now that everyone's doing their own thing

    also

    throwing this out there

    the indigo lanterns are pretty cool

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    ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    also kyle is a stupid asshole

    the guardians are corrupted by the Entities and shut down the green rings

    so the earth lanterns are like "fuck let's use these rings from the other corps, and we'll fuck their shit up"

    kyle takes a goddamn blue ring

    blue rings are fucking useless without a green one nearby

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    LegbaLegba He did. Registered User regular
    There was a big two-page spread in Green Lantern Corps a while back that contrasted their various styles. I thought it was neat but apparently some people had problems with it? (Discontent on the internet: shocking revelation, I know.)

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