If Thor suddenly showed up and splatted the Winter Soldier all over the pavement with Mjolnir, it wouldn't have been much of a movie.
But, yes, the point is valid.
This canard while mitigated by your admission of the validity of the main point is a particularly silly defence and one
I thought you of all people would never stoop to.
conversely, that segmentation of the MU is what is currently letting it have great comics run alongside Hickman pressing the EVENT button over and over again, whereas NuDCU is dragging down all their stuff. so.
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If Thor suddenly showed up and splatted the Winter Soldier all over the pavement with Mjolnir, it wouldn't have been much of a movie.
But, yes, the point is valid.
I figure with Thor, he's like, off in his own dimension and they don't really have a good way to contact him. He just kinda shows up when something from his world leaks out into ours. And Banner is always off hiding somewhere, trying to remain calm and keep his shit together. So no Hulk is always plausible. Can't imagine he'd be a huge help or easy to contact either. But man, Stark would have fuckin' seen that shit going down!
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
Of all classic comic series, I think X-Men has by far the most interesting things to say.
Though, I would figure this might be a relatively uncontroversial thing to say.
I dunno, there are a lot of contenders
X-Men is very directly relevant to issues we are dealing with right now but there are also comics that have dealt very well with the issues of their day or just kind of with timeless personal themes
or even certain ethnic/cultural baggage in disguise, like all the little ways in which Spider-Man is more or less coded as Jewish
If Thor suddenly showed up and splatted the Winter Soldier all over the pavement with Mjolnir, it wouldn't have been much of a movie.
But, yes, the point is valid.
I figure with Thor, he's like, off in his own dimension and they don't really have a good way to contact him. He just kinda shows up when something from his world leaks out into ours. And Banner is always off hiding somewhere, trying to remain calm and keep his shit together. So no Hulk is always plausible. Can't imagine he'd be a huge help or easy to contact either. But man, Stark would have fuckin' seen that shit going down!
He was fighting PR battle as Hydra was using his shit to try and take over the world.
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I've never really read Domino though, so she isn't on the list
fuck gendered marketing
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If Thor suddenly showed up and splatted the Winter Soldier all over the pavement with Mjolnir, it wouldn't have been much of a movie.
But, yes, the point is valid.
I figure with Thor, he's like, off in his own dimension and they don't really have a good way to contact him. He just kinda shows up when something from his world leaks out into ours. And Banner is always off hiding somewhere, trying to remain calm and keep his shit together. So no Hulk is always plausible. Can't imagine he'd be a huge help or easy to contact either. But man, Stark would have fuckin' seen that shit going down!
Stark was probably on a chlorophyll bender, soaking up some rays.
Of all classic comic series, I think X-Men has by far the most interesting things to say.
Though, I would figure this might be a relatively uncontroversial thing to say.
I dunno, there are a lot of contenders
X-Men is very directly relevant to issues we are dealing with right now but there are also comics that have dealt very well with the issues of their day or just kind of with timeless personal themes
or even certain ethnic/cultural baggage in disguise, like all the little ways in which Spider-Man is more or less coded as Jewish
Lot's of superheroes are coded as jewish
probably due to the demographic makeup of the comics industry at the time
Of all classic comic series, I think X-Men has by far the most interesting things to say.
Though, I would figure this might be a relatively uncontroversial thing to say.
I dunno, there are a lot of contenders
X-Men is very directly relevant to issues we are dealing with right now but there are also comics that have dealt very well with the issues of their day or just kind of with timeless personal themes
or even certain ethnic/cultural baggage in disguise, like all the little ways in which Spider-Man is more or less coded as Jewish
As someone who basically only knows the 90s superhero cartoons and the modern movies, I don't understand how any of these universes, letalone the ones that have been joined together, manage to come up with plotline after plotline where there is a plausible threat on a planetary scale. There are too many people who are too powerful that should come out of the woodwork when the stakes get high enough.
The last Captain America movie was great but it was all the suspension of disbelief I could muster to try and forget that Tony Stark could have and probably should have been there helping out a bit.
Winter Soldier spoilers
They did need to clarify why the other Avengers weren't called. Anyway, there were reasons I gathered why Cap and Widow stayed in the shadows - Stark would have been monitored by HYDRA (He's too big a threat to not know where he is 24/7 or whose calling him, they can kill at him all they need is an opportunity when he's not in his suits, like from a sniper or poisoning his food/drink - when cap was being hunted they'd have made him a higher priority to neutralize/monitor asap). He would have been useful for destroying the Helicarriers, though.
Hawkeye is in Afghanistan, Pierce probably made sure he wasn't in America for this very reason.
They don't know Thor is on Earth and if they did had no way to contact him, he hasn't got a cell phone. However, Black Widow should know who Jane is and work from there.
They had no time. Things moved too fast too quickly, they can't risk going to Stark or Jane themselves since they were on a tight schedule.
Cap should have called Stark after his speech in the Triskelion, though.
doesn't the MCU imply that Cap and Stark meet only rarely, and only via their SHIELD-arranged club
which makes sense if they're the only two heavy hitters, rather than the Avengers literally having pages and pages and pages of reserve members and Cap and Stark sitting at the head by virtue of seniority. Handling all the EVENTS because everyone else can deal with the bank robberies or what have you.
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God, I read X-Force. That was such a blah book. Strong Guy? Feral.
Oh, and Generation X. All of those.
that whole thing happened a few years after i stopped comic books. i think i quit around 1986-88 or so.
then i would see all these liefeldian X titles in the supermarket with every character being some derivative of cable (the worst character this side of gambit btw) and it really made me not want to bother coming back
Cyclops
Kitty Pryde
Beast
Nightcrawler
Colossus
World-Weary Mohawk Storm With Knife-Fighting Action
Banshee
Psylocke
Cannonball (Nothin' Can Hurt Me When Ah'm Blastin')
Bishop
Rogue
am basically with you but whoa there bishop?
also if you are counting new mutants then colossus' sister was kind of a fun character.
psylocke seemed like she could have been cool but they just stuffed too much into her. she was a proper english lady with psychic powers who then three issues later somehow became an asian woman who was also a ninja and it was just kind of too much i thought. it felt like writers were fighting.
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Of all classic comic series, I think X-Men has by far the most interesting things to say.
Though, I would figure this might be a relatively uncontroversial thing to say.
I dunno, there are a lot of contenders
X-Men is very directly relevant to issues we are dealing with right now but there are also comics that have dealt very well with the issues of their day or just kind of with timeless personal themes
or even certain ethnic/cultural baggage in disguise, like all the little ways in which Spider-Man is more or less coded as Jewish
If Thor suddenly showed up and splatted the Winter Soldier all over the pavement with Mjolnir, it wouldn't have been much of a movie.
But, yes, the point is valid.
This canard while mitigated by your admission of the validity of the main point is a particularly silly defence and one
I thought you of all people would never stoop to.
it's not a bad defense if you can hand wave away their absence with a single line. it's not much of an objection if all they're really expected to do in a comic is say something like 'yeah thor is in some other dimension, iron man is on a bender somewhere and isn't checking his commlink and everyone else has a one liner that sounds appropriate. it's all up to you buddy.'
the reason thor wasn't there is because they didn't want him to be and also they didn't feel it was necessary to include a single line about his absence. natalie portman received this treatment in the avengers when they were like 'oh don't worry man she's on an island.' like that's somehow substantially better than her just not being in the movie
If Thor suddenly showed up and splatted the Winter Soldier all over the pavement with Mjolnir, it wouldn't have been much of a movie.
But, yes, the point is valid.
This canard while mitigated by your admission of the validity of the main point is a particularly silly defence and one
I thought you of all people would never stoop to.
it's not a bad defense if you can hand wave away their absence with a single line. it's not much of an objection if all they're really expected to do in a comic is say something like 'yeah thor is in some other dimension, iron man is on a bender somewhere and isn't checking his commlink and everyone else has a one liner that sounds appropriate. it's all up to you buddy.'
the reason thor wasn't there is because they didn't want him to be and also they didn't feel it was necessary to include a single line about his absence. natalie portman received this treatment in the avengers when they were like 'oh don't worry man she's on an island.' like that's somehow substantially better than her just not being in the movie
Jane wasn't going to save Cap in Winter Soldier, Thor is a different matter.
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God, I read X-Force. That was such a blah book. Strong Guy? Feral.
Oh, and Generation X. All of those.
that whole thing happened a few years after i stopped comic books. i think i quit around 1986-88 or so.
then i would see all these liefeldian X titles in the supermarket with every character being some derivative of cable (the worst character this side of gambit btw) and it really made me not want to bother coming back
Pockets and pouches and ginormous pistols for miles . . . .
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psylocke seemed like she could have been cool but they just stuffed too much into her. she was a proper english lady with psychic powers who then three issues later somehow became an asian woman who was also a ninja and it was just kind of too much i thought. it felt like writers were fighting.
God, I read X-Force. That was such a blah book. Strong Guy? Feral.
Oh, and Generation X. All of those.
that whole thing happened a few years after i stopped comic books. i think i quit around 1986-88 or so.
then i would see all these liefeldian X titles in the supermarket with every character being some derivative of cable (the worst character this side of gambit btw) and it really made me not want to bother coming back
Pockets and pouches and ginormous pistols for miles . . . .
Man I now kinda wish he influenced women's fashion.
I literally picked my jacket today because it was the only thing I owned that I could wear with the other stuff and yet had a pocket.
Cyclops
Kitty Pryde
Beast
Nightcrawler
Colossus
World-Weary Mohawk Storm With Knife-Fighting Action
Banshee
Psylocke
Cannonball (Nothin' Can Hurt Me When Ah'm Blastin')
Bishop
Rogue
am basically with you but whoa there bishop?
also if you are counting new mutants then colossus' sister was kind of a fun character.
psylocke seemed like she could have been cool but they just stuffed too much into her. she was a proper english lady with psychic powers who then three issues later somehow became an asian woman who was also a ninja and it was just kind of too much i thought. it felt like writers were fighting.
Bishop is a black policeman who accidentally traveled back in time from the cyberpunk future amd can absorb energy and redirect it as lasers from his hands. I like him because in his world being mutant is pretty normal and he's not super neurotic or hung up about it, so he uses no codename ("Bishop" is just his last name IIRC) and his identity is wrapped up in being a tough middle-aged cop guy instead. He gets a job as a private detective solving murders involving mutant powers.
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This canard while mitigated by your admission of the validity of the main point is a particularly silly defence and one
I thought you of all people would never stoop to.
I figure with Thor, he's like, off in his own dimension and they don't really have a good way to contact him. He just kinda shows up when something from his world leaks out into ours. And Banner is always off hiding somewhere, trying to remain calm and keep his shit together. So no Hulk is always plausible. Can't imagine he'd be a huge help or easy to contact either. But man, Stark would have fuckin' seen that shit going down!
/me bangs gavel
I dunno, there are a lot of contenders
X-Men is very directly relevant to issues we are dealing with right now but there are also comics that have dealt very well with the issues of their day or just kind of with timeless personal themes
or even certain ethnic/cultural baggage in disguise, like all the little ways in which Spider-Man is more or less coded as Jewish
He was fighting PR battle as Hydra was using his shit to try and take over the world.
Stark was probably on a chlorophyll bender, soaking up some rays.
Lot's of superheroes are coded as jewish
probably due to the demographic makeup of the comics industry at the time
Duh
I am intrigued. Please tell more.
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Hawkeye is in Afghanistan, Pierce probably made sure he wasn't in America for this very reason.
They don't know Thor is on Earth and if they did had no way to contact him, he hasn't got a cell phone. However, Black Widow should know who Jane is and work from there.
They had no time. Things moved too fast too quickly, they can't risk going to Stark or Jane themselves since they were on a tight schedule.
Cap should have called Stark after his speech in the Triskelion, though.
which makes sense if they're the only two heavy hitters, rather than the Avengers literally having pages and pages and pages of reserve members and Cap and Stark sitting at the head by virtue of seniority. Handling all the EVENTS because everyone else can deal with the bank robberies or what have you.
that whole thing happened a few years after i stopped comic books. i think i quit around 1986-88 or so.
then i would see all these liefeldian X titles in the supermarket with every character being some derivative of cable (the worst character this side of gambit btw) and it really made me not want to bother coming back
the beats in her songs are so good
they feel idyllic but still catchy
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
am basically with you but whoa there bishop?
also if you are counting new mutants then colossus' sister was kind of a fun character.
psylocke seemed like she could have been cool but they just stuffed too much into her. she was a proper english lady with psychic powers who then three issues later somehow became an asian woman who was also a ninja and it was just kind of too much i thought. it felt like writers were fighting.
Parker was Jewish in the Ultimate universe.
it's not a bad defense if you can hand wave away their absence with a single line. it's not much of an objection if all they're really expected to do in a comic is say something like 'yeah thor is in some other dimension, iron man is on a bender somewhere and isn't checking his commlink and everyone else has a one liner that sounds appropriate. it's all up to you buddy.'
the reason thor wasn't there is because they didn't want him to be and also they didn't feel it was necessary to include a single line about his absence. natalie portman received this treatment in the avengers when they were like 'oh don't worry man she's on an island.' like that's somehow substantially better than her just not being in the movie
I think my think with Psylocke is which Psylocke?
There is no other Storm outside of Mohawk storm.
I do have a love for Beast.
And his girlfriend the head of SWORD.
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Superman is Methodist, btw
its sold out : (
Jane wasn't going to save Cap in Winter Soldier, Thor is a different matter.
Pockets and pouches and ginormous pistols for miles . . . .
She died
She was awesome though
God what manner of nerd builds a computer and then makes this kind of rookie mistake.
there has to be an alternate way of getting in somehow
SYLVAN ESSO
TUNE-YARDS
FUCK
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
but he is also moses tho so
she can be all of those things
*pout*
Man I now kinda wish he influenced women's fashion.
I literally picked my jacket today because it was the only thing I owned that I could wear with the other stuff and yet had a pocket.
of course, the blandest of all religions
Bishop is a black policeman who accidentally traveled back in time from the cyberpunk future amd can absorb energy and redirect it as lasers from his hands. I like him because in his world being mutant is pretty normal and he's not super neurotic or hung up about it, so he uses no codename ("Bishop" is just his last name IIRC) and his identity is wrapped up in being a tough middle-aged cop guy instead. He gets a job as a private detective solving murders involving mutant powers.
i burned a bra in solidarity
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin