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Alaois posted:1.) to gaslight her into joining the Massachusetts School by convincing her that because she got horny for Cannonball she lost control of her powers SiKboy posted:On the upside, hot buttered rum is legit pretty good on a cold winters evening. Oh gently caress. Edit: god that's a terrible snipe, I'll edit in the original post for context. Also, what is it with Marvel taking characters originally created for children's cartoons and giving them horrific loving backstories when they get folded into the main comics continuity? Laura/X-23/The better Wolverine was created for that X-Men Evolution cartoon and in the 616 her first appearance is as a teenage prostitute chained in a basement Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Mar 1, 2020 |
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Some writers insist it's still the 90s and that maximum grimdark is the secret to selling copies.
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If you look at it sideways, the characters deserve their amazing powers because they've suffered so much.
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It worked for spider-man and it's harder to think up new ideas, easier to just make the old ones more extreme to show you character is like this other character but more exciting.
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How Wonderful! posted:leading a team featuring the likes of the mighty Beef I'm days late and was going to ask if Beef was really the lamest mutant huge guy with an animal themed codename whose real name is also Buford, but yes he is. Turns out Razorback is secretly kinda fun and badass! Who knew?    He's drivin' a truck Drivin' a big ol' truck Pedal to the metal, hope he don't run out of luck Rollin' down the highway until the break of dawn Drivin' a truck with his Pig Mask on!
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PoptartsNinja posted:lamest mutant huge guy Hello I would like to nominate the extremely unfortunate Axe from that time the New Mutants went to visit Sunspot's dad. He's a mutant who works for the hellfire club as a mercenary and his power is: has an axe. 
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HE CANNOT DEFEAT ME! FOR I HOLD AXE'S SECRET WEAKNESS! A GUN!
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Johnny Aztec posted:HE CANNOT DEFEAT ME! FOR I HOLD AXE'S SECRET WEAKNESS! Because I stole it!
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Johnny Aztec posted:HE CANNOT DEFEAT ME! FOR I HOLD AXE'S SECRET WEAKNESS! The eternal truth.
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CzarChasm posted:This is from pages ago, but there was a what if that went a little OP with iceman's powers. Gavok can probably correct me on stuff I'm getting wrong. Nah. It was a little different than that. This was during that Dark What If time. Sentinels had killed.. everyone, using radiation. They killed even the humans, because humans would lead to more mutants. Avengers? Dead. FF? Dead. Years and years, Juggs wanders around killing the last of the Sentinels by himself, until.. ran into Magneto, to tries to kill him. Realizing someone is alive, Juggs is so happy. Magneto dies due to the radiation trying to ward off Juggs, and after the battle Juggs stumbles a path blocked off by Ice Man, who lets slip there are more people. In excited jubilation for seeing others, he doesn't heed Ice Man's words, crashes through.. and lets in the deadly radiation. He's kicked out of the settlement. Forced to wander alone, because nothing can stop the unstoppable juggernaut.
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you want the real honest reason the stories of the kids in the 90s were horrific? because most 80s kids had a horror filled childhood. kidnapping child molestation murders and illict activity within families was way way way too loving common in my childhood among friends. (myself having hit 3 of the 4 marks listed) so a lot of the kids were reading poo poo they related to. lotta dark family secrets back in the 80s
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AkumaHokoru posted:you want the real honest reason the stories of the kids in the 90s were horrific? because most 80s kids had a horror filled childhood. kidnapping child molestation murders and illict activity within families was way way way too loving common in my childhood among friends. (myself having hit 3 of the 4 marks listed) so a lot of the kids were reading poo poo they related to. lotta dark family secrets back in the 80s I was gonna balk at the idea that things have improved on this front, but i went and looked it up first, and whatta ya know? Child sexual abuse rates are down 40% from 1990, and presumably were as bad or worse than 1990 in the 80's. Something to genuinely feel hopeful about in our climatehell future.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:I was gonna balk at the idea that things have improved on this front, but i went and looked it up first, and whatta ya know? Child sexual abuse rates are down 40% from 1990, and presumably were as bad or worse than 1990 in the 80's. Something to genuinely feel hopeful about in our climatehell future. yeah but you have to look at it as writing for a generation so the stuff written in the 90s is relatable to the kids who grew up in the 80s and were now either old enough to read these comics or old enough to buy them on their own (turned 8 in 90 for example and started being allowed to travel unaccompanied)
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One More Fat Nerd posted:I was gonna balk at the idea that things have improved on this front, but i went and looked it up first, and whatta ya know? Child sexual abuse rates are down 40% from 1990, and presumably were as bad or worse than 1990 in the 80's. Something to genuinely feel hopeful about in our climatehell future. sorry if this isn't very comicbooks of me but isn't that one of those things that correlates with the end of leaded gasoline?
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One More Fat Nerd posted:I was gonna balk at the idea that things have improved on this front, but i went and looked it up first, and whatta ya know? Child sexual abuse rates are down 40% from 1990, and presumably were as bad or worse than 1990 in the 80's. Something to genuinely feel hopeful about in our climatehell future. I listen to True Crime podcasts and often they cover cases of people who serially abduct and abuse children. One thing that becomes apparent is before the mid 80s/90's was how unaware people were of the basics of this. Like how people didn't even understand the concept of paedophiles or that abuse could be going on inside family homes. It wasn't (as conservatives of the time and even now painted it) the result of some moral degeneration. It was a problem that had always existed but was only now being exposed. The figures reflect how there would have been more reporting against it. Followed by better techniques to watch out for it.
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LordSaturn posted:sorry if this isn't very comicbooks of me but isn't that one of those things that correlates with the end of leaded gasoline? It correlates with a bunch of things, and we (to go back to comicbooks) don't have access to alternate timelines for a proper comparison.
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Now I want a comic series that follows a bold team of superheroes trying to get good data from each alternate universe for analysis about different actions. Call em the R-squad.
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habeasdorkus posted:Now I want a comic series that follows a bold team of superheroes trying to get good data from each alternate universe for analysis about different actions. Call em the R-squad. I think there's actually a device that does something like this in the current run of Amazing Spider-Man.
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From today's Immortal Hulk #32. For background, the Silver Age badguy Xemnu, a telepathic yeti guy also occasionally known as The Hulk, has brainwashed the entire world into replacing most of their memories of superheroic feats with memories of him. A supporting character, the scientist Charlene McGowan, was shown in a previous part of this arc having her memories of encountering Daredevil overwritten with a false memory of encountering Xemnu.     Immortal Hulk has been a treasure for almost three dozen issues now and this scene got to me. Please read Immortal Hulk! Words by Al Ewing, pencils by Joe Bennett, inks by Ruy Jose & Belardino Brabo, colors by Paul Mounts.
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Yeah it was weird to have what I thought was going to be the stand-out scene of the issue immediately one-upped, but that's what happened. That scene was such an unexpected gem and it constantly amazes me how Ewing can rubberband from horror to uplifting so effectively.
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Never thought I would see the Mandella Effect being recognized in a comic, but here we go.
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Kalli posted:Hello I would like to nominate the extremely unfortunate Axe from that time the New Mutants went to visit Sunspot's dad. He's a mutant who works for the hellfire club as a mercenary and his power is: has an axe. New Mutants had lot of these guys, one's power was having a wooden stick if I recall right. Other had, wait a minute...four arms. Evolution truly running amok.
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DarkCrawler posted:New Mutants had lot of these guys, one's power was having a wooden stick if I recall right. Other had, wait a minute...four arms. Evolution truly running amok. And that guy's name? "Forearm"
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DarkCrawler posted:New Mutants had lot of these guys, one's power was having a wooden stick if I recall right. Other had, wait a minute...four arms. Evolution truly running amok. You had better not be talking poo poo about Black Tom Cassidy.
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The new X-Force book is pretty garbage, but ngl it's fun seeing Black Tom Cassidy getting a cool role
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How Wonderful! posted:You had better not be talking poo poo about Black Tom Cassidy. Didn't that dude literally do a canon 9/11 in-universe?
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DarkCrawler posted:New Mutants had lot of these guys, one's power was having a wooden stick if I recall right. Other had, wait a minute...four arms. Evolution truly running amok. The Mutant Liberation Front which Forearm was part of had another short lived member named Kamikaze.
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Juggernaut pushed over the towers in the 90s. Maybe other mutants have done it too?
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Kalli posted:The Mutant Liberation Front which Forearm was part of had another short lived member named Kamikaze. Do you have the extremely-Rob-Leifeld panel of them all where it's like every bad Leifeldian habit all in 1 panel?
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Doom only cries for 9/11.
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Toshimo posted:Do you have the extremely-Rob-Leifeld panel of them all where it's like every bad Leifeldian habit all in 1 panel? I think that's every panel involving the MLF. Comparatively few pouches though!  Man, googling for that reminded me that they had a fat guy named Sumo.
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Oh man, Reaper, with the power of having a scythe, and later having a scythe-hand.
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prefect posted:And that guy's name? "Forearm" I remember browsing the adult fan fiction archive, and someone had Forearm show up in a large, epic worldwide Marvel sex story. He had two penises in that and had sex with Elektra. A master of the written word so it was. A modern Hemmingway he was. My favourite MLF was Zero. He was just a teleporting robot who was Stryfe’s best friend. And continued the trend of members being named after Japanese WW2 aircraft.
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prefect posted:And that guy's name? "Forearm" Liefeld made a female version of that character for Bloodstrike. Her name was Fourplay, of course.
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Kalli posted:I think that's every panel involving the MLF. Comparatively few pouches though! Close, but no trash can. 
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Kalli posted:I think that's every panel involving the MLF. Comparatively few pouches though! Toshimo posted:Close, but no trash can.  (Doom Force #1)
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Endless Mike posted:Oh man, Reaper, with the power of having a scythe, and later having a scythe-hand. An Avengers level threat.
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Evil Mastermind posted:
Why does Flux have a bunch of sperm on her bodysuit?
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Also, who is Scratch hoping to scratch with that dildo claw?
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