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Coughing Hobo posted:You seem to be under the misconception that Doom would ever want to be less of a dick. Someone needs to post the pages from the old Damage Control series where they go to collect a bill from him.
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muscles like this? posted:My understanding of the Ultimate Nullifier is that it can destroy anything but it will almost certainly kill the user as well. Which is why they don't just bust it out at every threat. It's worse than that. You have to visualize what you want to destroy perfectly and exert your will to make it work, and the slightest slip in concentration can cause the blast to veer wildly out of control and engulf everything that's around, up to and including the entire universe. It's also fairly likely to destroy the user, simply because it's hard not to think about yourself at all.
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Am I understanding the joke correctly in assuming the watcher just made up the UN and it's some household item?
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^^^ e: no it's a real thing, it came from Galactus' secret base. The joke in that FF comic is that Uatu recognises that it's not the Ultimate Nullifier, and Scott knew he would, but he's the Watcher and can't stop interfering with humanity so he plays along with it because it gives him a solid alibi for helping if the Council try to get him therapy. Blaxploitation Cage aside, these panels are basically the distilled essence of a good Doom. Ghostlight fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Nov 17, 2013 |
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Nov 17, 2013 22:57
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Tremendous Taste posted:Am I understanding the joke correctly in assuming the watcher just made up the UN and it's some household item? I'm pretty sure the joke is that Lang has something that isn't the Ultimate Nullifier, but he and Uatu are pretending it is because the Watchers obviously can't blame Uatu for bowing to the demands of a madman with THE GREATEST WEAPON IN THE UNIVERSE.
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Nov 17, 2013 22:59
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Tremendous Taste posted:Am I understanding the joke correctly in assuming the watcher just made up the UN and it's some household item? There is an actual Ultimate Nullifier, that is not it.
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Mr. Maltose posted:I'm pretty sure the joke is that Lang has something that isn't the Ultimate Nullifier, but he and Uatu are pretending it is because the Watchers obviously can't blame Uatu for bowing to the demands of a madman with THE GREATEST WEAPON IN THE UNIVERSE. The best 'use' of the Ultimate Nullifier is in the Space Punisher book. I won't spoil it here.
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Uthor posted:I don't think it's anything. Or just a replica. Rereading it, I think Lang is just saying it's the Ultimate Nullifier so that Uatu has plausible deniability and just keeps repeating it until Uatu "gets it".
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The best 'use' of the Ultimate Nullifier is in the Space Punisher book. I won't spoil it here. Having just picked that up in trade, I second that. Such a great ending.
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Ghostlight posted:Blaxploitation Cage aside, these panels are basically the distilled essence of a good Doom. "My renowned good nature  "Oh Doom 
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Yvonmukluk posted:I think he only fought in the Civil War in the terribad Wolverine Origins movie. I coulda sworn he had a picture of himself and some soldiers, but then again I am not an avid comics reader, and the "history" of comic world is always incredibly fluid.
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Nov 18, 2013 00:21
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muscles like this? posted:My understanding of the Ultimate Nullifier is that it can destroy anything but it will almost certainly kill the user as well. Which is why they don't just bust it out at every threat. Mark Grunewald had it annihilate anything in the user's awareness. In theory a zen master could use the nullifier and only wipe out of existence what they want to wipe out, but I woudln't want to bet on it.
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Nov 18, 2013 01:00
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The best 'use' of the Ultimate Nullifier is in the Space Punisher book. I won't spoil it here. Does anyone have that Marvel Adventures Avengers page where Galactus is like, "You would never be bold enough to use the Nullifier!" and Spider-Man just casually presses it?
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Gavok posted:Does anyone have that Marvel Adventures Avengers page where Galactus is like, "You would never be bold enough to use the Nullifier!" and Spider-Man just casually presses it? 
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Nov 18, 2013 01:23
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Awesome. drat, that was a fun series.
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Soooo, uhhh, dare I ask how it didn't end all life as they knew it?
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Roxors posted:Soooo, uhhh, dare I ask how it didn't end all life as they knew it? Baseball.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Yeah, He is anywhere between 170 and 200(+?) years old at this point. He fought in the drat Civil War. Johnny Aztec posted:I coulda sworn he had a picture of himself and some soldiers, but then again I am not an avid comics reader, and the "history" of comic world is always incredibly fluid.
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Well, of course Origins is the current "canon" history. We're talking about a guy that took a nuke to the face and regenerated from a single drop of blood. They play rather fast and loose in regards to Wolverine(and his history)
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Nov 18, 2013 04:14
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All memories showing events prior to the time frame of Origin have been all deemed to be memory implants.
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I know we are talking about perfect Doom but that seems to be a perfect Spider-Man panel.
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Mooseontheloose posted:I know we are talking about perfect Doom but that seems to be a perfect Spider-Man panel. This is especially true if he used his Spidey Sense. What happens next?
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Endless Mike posted:Wolverine: Origin (the mini-series) established that he was born in the 1880s, which means he wouldn't have been born at the time of the Civil War. It's entirely possible something published prior to that showed him with some soldiers, but Origin is his official origin and hasn't been retconned to my knowledge. The big comic books have that roving continuity thing, don't they? Like, that's how Batman's always 35 or something? Maybe back when Wolverine was introduced decades ago, he was supposed to have been alive in time for the civil war, but now they've moved that up to more turn-of-the-century. In another couple decades, Wolverine will have cut his teeth on the Great War.
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Magneto Rex posted:This is especially true if he used his Spidey Sense. What happens next? Baseball.
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Dolash posted:The big comic books have that roving continuity thing, don't they? Like, that's how Batman's always 35 or something? Maybe back when Wolverine was introduced decades ago, he was supposed to have been alive in time for the civil war, but now they've moved that up to more turn-of-the-century. In another couple decades, Wolverine will have cut his teeth on the Great War. Wolverine's one of maybe 3 characters in the Marvel universe who can have his birth and origin stay in the same time period without really creating some kind of obvious dissonance (like Reed Richards yelling about beating the commies to space, for example).
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At this point you could probably retool the Fantastic Four to Reed wanting his private spacecraft to be the first one in orbit, and that's why he rushed the launch.
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CapnAndy posted:At this point you could probably retool the Fantastic Four to Reed wanting his private spacecraft to be the first one in orbit, and that's why he rushed the launch. How do you retool Magneto? WW2 will be 100 years old soon...
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^^ Magneto has been deaged and he has his daughter that can change his age. Lurdiak posted:Wolverine's one of maybe 3 characters in the Marvel universe who can have his birth and origin stay in the same time period without really creating some kind of obvious dissonance (like Reed Richards yelling about beating the commies to space, for example). I assume the characters are Wolverine, Magneto, Red Skull, Captain America, Fury, and the Howling Commandos?
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Mister Roboto posted:How do you retool Magneto? WW2 will be 100 years old soon... There are no worries about age as long as someone resorts to a "de-aging" machine.
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bobkatt013 posted:I assume the characters are Wolverine, Magneto, Red Skull, Captain America, Fury, and the Howling Commandos? Namor too, since Atlanteans age differently.
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Dolash posted:The big comic books have that roving continuity thing, don't they? Like, that's how Batman's always 35 or something? Maybe back when Wolverine was introduced decades ago, he was supposed to have been alive in time for the civil war, but now they've moved that up to more turn-of-the-century. In another couple decades, Wolverine will have cut his teeth on the Great War. On the other hand, Scrooge McDuck was born in 1867 and he died in 1967.
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CapnAndy posted:At this point you could probably retool the Fantastic Four to Reed wanting his private spacecraft to be the first one in orbit, and that's why he rushed the launch. Reed's goal to pioneer commercial spaceflight, like Virgin Galactic? Mister Roboto posted:How do you retool Magneto? WW2 will be 100 years old soon... Eastern European descendant of Holocaust survivors who experienced the Cold War in the Eastern Bloc?
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You're all missing the simplest answer for Wolverine. He's an avid Civil War reenactor in his down time.
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Knormal posted:You're all missing the simplest answer for Wolverine. He's an avid Civil War reenactor in his down time. "The South will rise again, bub." -Wolverine
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goldenoreos posted:There are no worries about age as long as someone resorts to a "de-aging" machine. Not to mention all they have to do is ~science~ up some loving reason that because he's the Master of Magnetism and iron is so important to human/mutant/earthling physiology, that he's able to keep the iron in his body super-purified to the point where his blood is the perfect antioxidant. Hence, slow aging...and the only reason he looks older is because he's quite literally the Angry Old Man of the Marvel universe and he's always stretching his entire face to SCREAM OUT HIS BELIEFS! Honestly, though - the -what the gently caress- about Magneto is for as near-permanently as he wears that helmet, he should be balder than Chuck.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Honestly, though - the -what the gently caress- about Magneto is for as near-permanently as he wears that helmet, he should be balder than Chuck. Why would that cause baldness? Lack of oxygen to the follicles?
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Mister Roboto posted:Why would that cause baldness? Lack of oxygen to the follicles? Compression of the head, lack of sunlight or yes, oxygen, the sweating that undoubtedly comes from wearing a helmet all the loving time... They've pretty much disproved that wearing *hats* often causes baldness, but helmets seem like they'd be another story.
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All these Magneto questions already have an answer: Secondary mutation. He always looks like that because of a very specific mutation.
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Crowetron posted:All these Magneto questions already have an answer: Secondary mutation. He always looks like that because of a very specific mutation. But then it starts raising all kinds of questions about things like how old his kids are, how he met Xavier, etc. Was he inactive for decades before his outings as a mutant terrorist, or were the X-men founded 50 years ago? Even the X-movies' timeline barely makes sense, and it's almost entirely because of Magneto's specific origin being impossible to detach from the character.
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