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Random Stranger posted:At least Kent Nelson was a respected archeologist so he probably had a doctorate there, but he was one of those assholes who insists you call him "Doctor" because he has a PhD.
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There was that one arc in the Injustice comic where they try and get Fate to actually do some healing, and he's all "um, I'm not THAT kind of doctor" and has to be shoved out of the way by frickin' Harley Quinn because she actually did go to med school.
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Feb 10, 2021 03:24
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It was kind of dumb because as a joke it's clearly aimed at the kind of reader who would guffaw about Doctor Fate being named that despite not being a "real doctor", except at the same time Harley Quinn is often not medically trained because writers can't google the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist, and also that particular Fate, Kent Nelson, has canonically been a medical doctor since the 1940s.
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Feb 10, 2021 03:48
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Guys I am so angry. It's Doctor Kent Nelson. He didn't go to medical school just for you to call him Mr Fate.
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Feb 10, 2021 03:49
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So like if a lawyer put the helm on it'd be Fate, Esquire. Or Captain Picard? He'd be Sir Fate?
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Feb 10, 2021 05:46
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It is quite a coincidence that the big magic guy in both companies is a doctor.
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Feb 10, 2021 06:09
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What do you think they teach us in doctor school?? It's spells all the way down.;
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Feb 10, 2021 06:13
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Lurdiak posted:It is quite a coincidence that the big magic guy in both companies is a doctor. The original Dr. Fate wasn't a doctor and the ones that were doctors weren't introduced until well after Dr Strange premiered, if I'm reading the Wikipedia summaries correct.
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Feb 10, 2021 06:13
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How Wonderful! posted:What do you think they teach us in doctor school?? It's spells all the way down.; The first good case for grad school I've ever heard
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Feb 10, 2021 06:27
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Skwirl posted:The original Dr. Fate wasn't a doctor and the ones that were doctors weren't introduced until well after Dr Strange premiered, if I'm reading the Wikipedia summaries correct.   More Fun Comics #88, published February 1943
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Feb 10, 2021 06:37
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Thinking about it now both DC and Marvel have a Dr. Strange, but the DC one goes by his full name of Hugo Strange. There is also Adam Strange but I'm not sure if he got his doctorate in anything.
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Feb 10, 2021 06:51
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Madkal posted:There is also Adam Strange but I'm not sure if he got his doctorate in anything. Adam Strange has got a Doctorate in double-fisted rear end-kicking from Gardner F. Fox University, chump. (also possibly archaeology, and definitely a dozen or so diplomas on the Rannian sciences that he totally didn't just print out and give to himself)
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Feb 10, 2021 07:26
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to be fair Dr. Fate is only Kent Nelson like half the time, sometimes he's a ten year old boy merged together with his stepmom, or the stepmom trying to go it alone after the ten year old boy got killed, or Inza Nelson, or Hector Hall, or Kent Nelson's grandson who is also named Kent Nelson, or Khalid Nassour (who is at least a med student). my point is there have been a bunch of Doctor Fates (Doctors Fate?) and more of them have been non-doctors than not
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Feb 10, 2021 07:55
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and when was the last time that any of them was even seen at a fête, i ask you
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Feb 10, 2021 13:35
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Squizzle posted:and when was the last time that any of them was even seen at a fête, i ask you Definitely a surfeit of Fate at this fête, sir.
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Feb 10, 2021 17:11
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site posted:The first good case for grad school I've ever heard teg noisserped dna tbed!!
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Feb 10, 2021 20:50
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FilthyImp posted:So like if a lawyer put the helm on it'd be Fate, Esquire. No, He'd be Captain Fate. If Patrick Stewart put on the helmet, then it's Sir Fate
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Feb 11, 2021 00:32
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CzarChasm posted:No, He'd be Captain Fate. If Patrick Stewart put on the helmet, then it's Sir Fate And if Professor X put on the helmet he’d be Professor Fate. Or in the Amalgam universe he’d be Dr. Professor Fate X.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:And if Professor X put on the helmet he’d be Professor Fate. Or in the Amalgam universe he’d be Dr. Professor Fate X.  
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Feb 11, 2021 09:55
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Oh that’s right - I completely forgot about that reveal! I still have that issue too. Man, Amalgam was so weird and some of those names were so bad but I’m holding on to the ones I have because we’ll never see anything like it again.
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Feb 11, 2021 13:07
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Okay so my initial question was about how Dr. Fate is neither a doctor nor a person named Fate but now my question is how is someone named Dr StrangeFate not have the last name of Strange or Fate but Xavier.
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Feb 11, 2021 17:21
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Because he was created in the Modern Age of comics, after federal laws about nominative determinism in superhero naming were thrown out as unconstitutional. Edit: Also kind of wondering which Amalgam character had the largest number of Marvel and DC characters merged into one. maltesh fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Feb 11, 2021 |
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Feb 11, 2021 19:10
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Ghostlight posted:wikipedia is not a source!! i am loving steamed here!!!! So, when did Doctor Fate get his more recognizable version of his costume?
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Feb 11, 2021 19:14
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muscles like this! posted:So, when did Doctor Fate get his more recognizable version of his costume? If I remember correctly, he started with the version we're more familiar with, but switched to the half-mask and no cape version for a while in the mid-40s.
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Feb 11, 2021 19:21
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Selachian posted:If I remember correctly, he started with the version we're more familiar with, but switched to the half-mask and no cape version for a while in the mid-40s. Yep. I'm positive Roy Thomas has a story about why the helmet changed in some Earth-2 based comic, and if he didn't then he definitely had one planned.
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Feb 11, 2021 19:30
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He just looks like Guardian in that get up.
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maltesh posted:Because he was created in the Modern Age of comics, after federal laws about nominative determinism in superhero naming were thrown out as unconstitutional. one of the Magnetic Men was Tin, Snapper Carr, Toad, and Rick Jones. I think that's the most; there're a couple more that are three characters stuck together but that's the only one I remember hitting four
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Feb 11, 2021 19:32
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Selachian posted:If I remember correctly, he started with the version we're more familiar with, but switched to the half-mask and no cape version for a while in the mid-40s. Huh, I guess that's better than the time the helmet was turned into knives.
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Feb 11, 2021 19:35
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muscles like this! posted:Huh, I guess that's better than the time the helmet was turned into knives. as if anything an approach the high bar that was FATE
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Feb 11, 2021 19:37
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I forgot to mention the big face tattoo.
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Feb 11, 2021 19:40
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muscles like this! posted:I forgot to mention the big face tattoo. you also omitted the shredded cape holding his demon possessed arm in check.
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Feb 11, 2021 19:42
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melting down your iconic hat and making it into a knife? ah, he went to Jared
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Karma Tornado posted:melting down your iconic hat and making it into a knife? ah, he went to Jared quoting this because this needs all the attention
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yeah im not sure the timelines line up 100% but CHARLES XAVIER, DR STRANGEFATE came out around when the un-amalgamated status quos for each of the component characters were    so if anything, this golden-helmed benevolent sorcerer was a throwback
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Squizzle posted:yeah im not sure the timelines line up 100% but CHARLES XAVIER, DR STRANGEFATE came out around when the un-amalgamated status quos for each of the component characters were Doctor Professor StrangeOnslaughtFate
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Feb 11, 2021 21:06
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Selachian posted:If I remember correctly, he started with the version we're more familiar with, but switched to the half-mask and no cape version for a while in the mid-40s.
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IIRC it was because Nabu was being kind of a pain in the rear end and influencing his mind; when he went to the half-helmet he had less magical ability because he no longer had Nabu telling him what to cast and how, but he had had enough permanent enhancements over the years that he was basically bulletproof so he just went around punching people.
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Feb 12, 2021 00:39
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Zero Hour Fate sure didn’t last long. Although none of the Zero hour characters really did. Primal Force was taken from us way to soon.
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Were all 90s comics bad?
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SonicRulez posted:Were all 90s comics bad? Yes. Next question.
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