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Toshimo posted:Is that before or after he wrote a series of drunken love letters to Thor? Both. Notice in his series of "love letters" to Thor, he has Thor agree with the villain that Gods are unneeded and the universe would be better off without them.
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Mr. Maltose posted:Where's the lie. No universe would be better off without Hercules.
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Mr. Maltose posted:Where's the lie. I don't want to live in a universe without Steve Rogers.
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Gavok posted:Yeah, Bullet Points is essentially a What If world where different characters end up with different hero identities. Steve Rogers is Iron Man, Peter Parker is Hulk, Bruce Banner is Spider-Man and Reed Richards is Nick Fury. Then there's something in there about Stephen Strange being Wolverine, but that's immediately forgotten about and JMS figures he has enough story going on that he can stop creating new hero twists. I thought they were done with multiverse crap, or is it a one shot series?
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Infinitum posted:I thought they were done with multiverse crap, or is it a one shot series? Bullet Points is about a decade old
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Also they literally just announced they're relaunching Exiles.
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between ultimates, america, spider-gwen, usavengers, the new exiles, etc where did you get the idea that marvel is done with multiverse stuff
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When the hell did they say they were done with multiverse "crap"? They just decided not to have a line in a separate universe. (And even that's not really true given Spider-Gwen.)
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Getting rid of alternate universes would be such a bad idea.
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Lurdiak posted:Getting rid of alternate universes would be such a bad idea. I remember, when I was little, Marvel was the company that overused time travel and DC were the ones with a bajillion alternate universes. Looks like Marvel has switched gears.
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The problem with DC was never that they had too many alternate universes, it's that they used them so confusingly and destroyed/recreated them endlessly.
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Just wait until Rebirth 2: Electric Blue-galoo
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hiddenriverninja posted:Just wait until Rebirth 2: Electric Blue-galoo Rebirth already had a Superman Red/Blue storyline
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There was also a Red/Blue Superwoman story recently.
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Ya, beard-Superman and t-shirt-Superman were revealed to each be basically Red and Blue, so when they got smooshed back together, we got the broadly pre-New 52 Supes we have now.
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Lurdiak posted:The problem with DC was never that they had too many alternate universes, it's that they used them so confusingly and destroyed/recreated them endlessly. The fact that DC's go-to in relation to having confusing multiverses is to have a reality-changing event that involves every character from every universe ever crossing over, bringing in characters no-one's even thought about for years unannounced and using them in significant plot points, and doing so every couple of years will never cease to be funny. Final crisis had a bunny superman in it with a carrot on its outfit.
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Captain Carrot? e - He wasn't a mainstream character, but he was reasonably well known to the comics community. goatface fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Jan 19, 2018 |
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I know you're not talking poo poo about Captain Carrot
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purple death ray posted:I know you're not talking poo poo about Captain Carrot I heard that in order to achieve tumescence he needs to kick a puppy to death. In all seriousness though, the reason why that stood out so much to me was that after the jumbled mess of this, the umpteenth crisis event that was designed to simplify and streamline the universe somehow via layer upon layer of over complicated bullshit, was that during the grimdark finale of the final battle against the Grim dark powers of Grim Darkness, a loving bunny rabbit comes out of nowhere because why not at this point?
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Breetai posted:I heard that in order to achieve tumescence he needs to kick a puppy to death. The stuff involving Captain Carrot had been set up during Countdown to Final Crisis(indeed off the top of my head it's one of the only things from that awful bunch of comics to actually have any real relevance to Final Crisis as an event) Also DC had originally planned on pulling a New 52 reboot after Final Crisis(hence the name) but changed their minds drrockso20 fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Jan 20, 2018 |
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If I recall Final Crisis, weren't all the lanterns and the Zoo Crew showing up basically Superman summoning everything positive and silly in the DCU to kick the metaphorical representation of dark, toxic storytelling in the butt? e: Right after he brought existence back by whistling into a wish machine. The world being saved by corniness was the whole thing. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Jan 21, 2018 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:If I recall Final Crisis, weren't all the lanterns and the Zoo Crew showing up basically Superman summoning everything positive and silly in the DCU to kick the metaphorical representation of dark, toxic storytelling in the butt? quote:e: Right after he brought existence back by whistling into a wish machine.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Hell, Superman ultimately defeats Darkseid with the power of music. Ah, the old Ming-mei Strategem.
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Lurdiak posted:The problem with DC was never that they had too many alternate universes, it's that they used them so confusingly and destroyed/recreated them endlessly. "Was"?
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Injustice 2 #41 Ted Kord was killed by Ra's Al Ghul and the Suicide Squad. Booster Gold wasn't allowed to interfere and could only be there for him in his final moments. Ted's dying request was for Booster to go mentor Jaime Reyes. While training Jaime (via throwing a tire at him), the two were met with Ted's lawyer.    
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Gods above and below! That panel is so quintessentially Booster it almost hurts. Of course, it's even more quintessentially Ash Williams.
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I can't explain why, but somehow my thought jumped to Knight Rider. I have no clue why, especially since I have no actual memory of Knight Rider.
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I'm just really glad this seems to disprove that stupid article I read that decided Booster kissing his dead friend on the forehead meant they were a gay couple in the Injustice continuity. Also loving that Booster is living in a trailer. I can't see superheroes getting sponsorships and ad gigs in the Injustice universe so it makes sense. Now the Injustice universe just needs to give Booster his adopted daughter back. 
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dragon_pamcake posted:I'm just really glad this seems to disprove that stupid article I read that decided Booster kissing his dead friend on the forehead meant they were a gay couple in the Injustice continuity. Also loving that Booster is living in a trailer. I can't see superheroes getting sponsorships and ad gigs in the Injustice universe so it makes sense.
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Ted is a lovely boyfriend if he let Michael live in a trailer instead of marrying him and letting him live in the lap of luxury.  Daniel Sampere did a really good job of giving Ted a dad bod. Not many cape artists can do different body types that well. tom bob-ombadil fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Feb 21, 2018 |
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Why is Video Game Adaptation Injustice better than mainline DC?
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Toshimo posted:Why is Video Game Adaptation Injustice better than mainline DC?  My understanding of Injustice 2 is that it's mostly grimdark popcorn, but they actually addressed that Harley was in an abusive relationship with Joker, and gave her a fairly grounded and respectful arc involving dealing with that. Dunno how much that has to do with it, though.
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Toshimo posted:Why is Video Game Adaptation Injustice better than mainline DC? Because they're not beholden to the status quo, they can actually explore new and interesting ideas for characters. If they wanted to kill off Superman/Batman/whoever permanently they could. It's a universe with consequences.
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Toshimo posted:Why is Video Game Adaptation Injustice better than mainline DC? Probably because it is off in its own little corner which frees Tom Taylor from being micromanaged to death by corporate.
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Toshimo posted:Why is Video Game Adaptation Injustice better than mainline DC? A. it's being created by some people who are actually quite good, and B. they're beholden solely to the continuity that exists in a fairly-continuity-light video game series. They couldn't kill off, say, Superman (because he's in the game, you see), but beyond that they have a degree of freedom that just can't really exist within a mainline continuity - not least of which because it can be the vision of a singular group of creators rather than the continuity-by-committee approach that comics is necessarily forced into. There's no one else around to say "wait I have it I'm gonna make Guy Gardner a genocidal maniac too" that they have to accomodate.
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Toshimo posted:Why is Video Game Adaptation Injustice better than mainline DC? Because there are no rules other than, Superman is the villain and Batman is the hero. Everything else is up for grabs. As far as I understand it, it's not even really beholden to the lore of the first game beyond the basic premise. It's great because it has so much freedom and almost no one can say no. It's like a well written ongoing "What if" in the DCU.
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