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Bucnasti posted:I was thinking of this exact thing recently. Like the cocaine villain from the 80s. Have any new villains been created recently based on current cultural ills? Like is there a social media villain out there? I remember a villain doing it for the views in Batgirl of Burnside.
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Bucnasti posted:I was thinking of this exact thing recently. Like the cocaine villain from the 80s. Have any new villains been created recently based on current cultural ills? Like is there a social media villain out there? 
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mercenarynuker posted:In the third Batman: Arkham Asylum game (the bad one, I don't remember what it's called), there was a collectivist anarchist villain who really seemed to leverage that schtick. I vaguely recall him being called like Vox Populi or something? The funny thing about Anarky is that he was based on Alan Grant's personal politics and that's why he's suddenly a libertarian when he got his own mini series.
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Mojo was the first one who did it for likes and subscribes.
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Mojo himself felt like a reaction to hyper-commercialised television programming and the increasing centrality of television to culture - which was a pretty popular theme for media made in the mid-80s, I think for similar reasons. A lot of literary critics talk about that period as a time where post-modernism went from a relatively niche artistic and philosophical concept to something that was suddenly central to the production of mainstream pop culture.
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Apr 16, 2021 02:42
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The heroes we need. Use the Jack Kirby method of dealing with nazis.
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What's up with the armpit-mounted grenades they all have?
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AIM Island invasion:  from All-New Marvel Now! Point One which has to be like top 5 most ridiculous comic book names I've ever read.
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https://twitter.com/Keffy/status/1382498091820007424
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Rip robin
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How Wonderful! posted:Ah yes, the "annoying mini-games in a pretty good game otherwise"-themed villain. I think the big misstep there was trying to make her the loving Riddler or Saw. She's supposed to be this dork one of the spiders beats up on page 3 of the first issue in an arc so we can have an action scene, not a serial killer.
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Alas, as the follow-up posts show, that's an edit (the Penguin was threatening to make Gotham Twinkieless in the original).
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 Shadow Comics #11 (1941)  Web of Spider-Man #9 (2010)
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Android Blues posted:Lol, actually, on looking it up, Asbestos Lady was not invented for that flashback but is in fact an original WW2 era Human Torch villain, because of asbestos' flame-retardant properties. That's actually really funny. I think they brought her back in a comic a few decades later and had her die from asbestos-related cancer, but I only remember that from an article I read about weird 1940s comics characters so I might be misremembering.
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 The Blue Beetle #15 (1942)  Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane #17 (2007)
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Is this - what on Earth is this?
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Nilbop posted:Is this - what on Earth is this? This is Nick Spencer's understanding of progressive politics.
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Darthemed posted:
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Apr 18, 2021 15:31
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Were the kids palestinian?
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A+X #14: Magneto and Superior Spider-Man (who is Doc Ock in Spider-Man's body) are raiding an AIM facility and having a conversation on the nature of supervillains   
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Magneto, didn't you used to deal with Omega Red? Why is a guy with metal tentacles so absurd to you? 
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I am 100% certain Magneto has, in fact, robbed banks.
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everyone quietly pretends that silver age magneto didn't exist. it's probably for the best.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:everyone quietly pretends that silver age magneto didn't exist. it's probably for the best. I don't see wh no- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5-JVvCrGC8 Okay yeah I see why. Honestly I'd just justify it as Magneto being an acid freak in the sixties.
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Magneto literally ran a group called The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
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Push El Burrito posted:Magneto literally ran a group called The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. there have been many mutually exclusive explanations for that name. none were terribly convincing.
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He didn't run a group called The Brotherhood of Robbing Banks.
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He also literally flew around in a circus wagon for one story. You know who uses circus wagons? Circus performers.
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Magneto once captured the x-men and put them in chairs that reduced them to the motor skills of infants and had a robot nanny care for them. There's no way he didn't buy that poo poo straight from MODOK.
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David D. Davidson posted:I don't see wh no- And keep in mind THIS WAS FROM THE LATE 70s. Well after Claremont had re-established him as a badass in Uncanny. That cartoon was ..... something.
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Maybe Magneto doesn't count any mutant activity as superhero/supervillain stuff.
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GPTribefan posted:And keep in mind THIS WAS FROM THE LATE 70s. Well after Claremont had re-established him as a badass in Uncanny. That cartoon was ..... something. I was curious about this because my wife is reading the Claremont run for the first time right now and it's been fun to hear about all the benchmarks and cool parts from a fresh pair of eyes. So, this episode aired in October 1978. The first time Magneto shows up in Claremont's run is Uncanny X-Men #104, which came out in April 77. Then he kind of just cameos a little bit for awhile and comes back for a big showy story in #111-113 which have cover dates of June-September 1978. I guess your mileage may vary but in #104 he still comes off as kind of a doofus, and I would say that the first really cool Magneto story is the second arc mentioned, and even then he's still pretty hammy-- as mentioned, tying people up and making them get treated like babies by a robot. On the other hand he looks completely sick drawn by John Byrne at the peak of his talents, which I'm sure helped a lot in elevating his profile. So there are little hints of Claremont turning him into something interesting by the end of 1978, but I think that if somebody from that year were to think that Magneto kind of sucks and is goofy they would not be totally unjustified. Actually, #104 is a little silly but Magneto does just show up and more or less beat everybody up effortlessly. He's not a very complex character in it but he is pretty cool. So I guess I take it all back.
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Hmm yes I don't truck with supervillains says the guy who SOMEWHERE picked up a helmet that blocks mind control rays. That was from either MODOK or Alex Jones Magneto, which was it?
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So I'm guessing Magneto doesn't know that he's teamed up with Otto Octavius and he just thinks it's regular (if more arrogant and self-serious than usual) Spidey?
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Phy posted:So I'm guessing Magneto doesn't know that he's teamed up with Otto Octavius and he just thinks it's regular (if more arrogant and self-serious than usual) Spidey?
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Woebin posted:Yeah, Superior Spider-Man generally didn't let on that he was a different person, although obviously some people figured it out. I don't remember if this book is the original "Ock in Pete's body" version or the newer version where he's got the body of Some Guy without much of a past.
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Nessus posted:I imagine a lot of people just thought Spider-Man must have grown up some, even if he's talking like a pretentious dick now. A reddit account, perhaps. I bet most of the superhero community was like "Ah gently caress Pete's doing a bit again. Remember when he talked like a loving pirate for a month solid? Or his edgy campus libertarian phase?"
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