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The naming convention also suggests that "Captain" is a hereditary post which is a really odd method of military organization.
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Stagger_Lee posted:The naming convention also suggests that "Captain" is a hereditary post which is a really odd method of military organization. Nah, clearly "Captain" is just a first name, like "Mary" and "Uncle" and "Hill" and... um....
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Stagger_Lee posted:The naming convention also suggests that "Captain" is a hereditary post which is a really odd method of military organization. Eh, sale of officer's commissions wasn't too unusual even well into the 1800s, so it's a bad idea but not completely without precedent.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Nah, clearly "Captain" is just a first name, like "Mary" and "Uncle" and "Hill" and... um.... Maybe more like the one with the last name "Crunch".
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In the pre-reboot modern stories he's just Captain because Billy is a kid and calls himself Captain. One thing I actually really liked in The Power of Shazam is that Mary wasn't Mary Marvel, she was also Captain Marvel. When she showed up people would just refer to her as Captain Marvel or occasionally The lady/dame/whatever Captain Marvel.  Mary Marvel has very 90s feelings about that. (I don't know if it's funny enough for this thread but "Mary Marvel blows the T-1000 to pieces with incendiary shells" cracks me up.) The Power of Shazam although I can't recall the issue. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Dec 5, 2013 |
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Dec 5, 2013 17:58
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Think back to yourself when you were, like, eight. Would you have been any different? Me neither, but it is funny. You maybe hope that the genesis of any superhero in terms of people relating to them is some kind of positive trait, but the creators thinking "Kids are gonna love the idea that their friend would only be super kid while they are super DUPER kid" is great.
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Dec 5, 2013 18:08
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 from Dope Rider in "Loco Motive"
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Loved this cover for Uncanny X-Men #14
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Hakkesshu posted:Loved this cover for Uncanny X-Men #14
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Beast mode is flipping us off.
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Say Nothing posted:Is that the new guy with the chameleon-like face changing ability? Edit: spoiler just in case. Al Baron fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Dec 8, 2013 |
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Al Baron posted:Yeah, he's technically now the 616's Morph. Wait, what issue did this come up?
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I thought Changeling was Morph, and also dead.
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WickedHate posted:Wait, what issue did this come up? It's really good.
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Lurdiak posted:I thought Changeling was Morph, and also dead. Yeah, I already read that too. Or does this series have a villain slot open? It could be Mystique still.
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IUG posted:Yeah, I already read that too. Mystique is currently posing as Dazzler.
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 An era when Hitler was as bizarrely cute as he was threatening. Captain Marvel Adventures #28 Also from the same issue:  Hitler Radio. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Dec 8, 2013 |
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Dec 8, 2013 19:34
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ImpAtom posted:Also from the same issue: I love this picture so much. The concept should be utilized in today's comics. Infinity should have had a scene where Captain America talks to a picture of Iron Man to tell him how things are going.
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ImpAtom posted:
I firmly believe that the Hitler Radio sounds like one of those drive through boxes in McDonalds.
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I still find it ridiculous that people get shot in their vitals with arrows and don't die. There's that bad guy in Hawkeye #2 who got shot in the eyes, and Hawkeye calmly says he'll live.
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Underestimating Hawkeye? No-one makes that mistake twice... Though it's probably a special stooge-arrow for eye-poking. Stil not gonna beat Deadpool's tribute trick arrows, posted earlier in this thread.
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Schneider Heim posted:I still find it ridiculous that people get shot in their vitals with arrows and don't die. There's that bad guy in Hawkeye #2 who got shot in the eyes, and Hawkeye calmly says he'll live. Well they may die, but rebirth is something even the average person experiences with regularity. This is the primary cause of the sliding timescale. 
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Schneider Heim posted:I still find it ridiculous that people get shot in their vitals with arrows and don't die. There's that bad guy in Hawkeye #2 who got shot in the eyes, and Hawkeye calmly says he'll live. Yeah, that was weird, tone-wise. Traditionally, Hawkeye almost never uses normal arrows on people, and it's not like he had much of a reason to do so in that issue. It just seemed violent for the sake of violence.
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Lurdiak posted:Yeah, that was weird, tone-wise. Traditionally, Hawkeye almost never uses normal arrows on people, and it's not like he had much of a reason to do so in that issue. It just seemed violent for the sake of violence. Not to mention that a few innocent people clearly get mowed down in the background of that scene and neither Clint or Kate even seem to notice. Very weird, tone-wise.
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Didn't Kate ice a few dudes in issue 1 or 2? I seem to remember that.
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Schneider Heim posted:I still find it ridiculous that people get shot in their vitals with arrows and don't die. There's that bad guy in Hawkeye #2 who got shot in the eyes, and Hawkeye calmly says he'll live. I honestly took that as dry sarcasm.
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SirDan3k posted:I honestly took that as dry sarcasm.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Not to mention that a few innocent people clearly get mowed down in the background of that scene and neither Clint or Kate even seem to notice. Very weird, tone-wise. They were chilling in a hotel that was otherwise full of high-end criminals. Odds are pretty good they weren't "innocent."
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Schneider Heim posted:I still find it ridiculous that people get shot in their vitals with arrows and don't die. There's that bad guy in Hawkeye #2 who got shot in the eyes, and Hawkeye calmly says he'll live. To be fair, there are plenty of real-world examples of people going to the hospital, sometimes under their own power, with injuries that would appear to be fatal, and then making full recoveries. I've seen things like people who've had rebar pierce their eyesocket and enter the brain, or a man stabbed in the heart with a chef's knife(you could see the knife twitching with his heartbeat), so sometimes people can be surprisingly hard to kill. It's not a huge leap to make the assumption that a person with a comic book level of skill might be able to replicate such nonfatal injuries. Conversely, I sometimes think about how strange it is that you almost never see a comic book hero accidentally kill a person. It is entirely possible for even a single punch to cause a bleed in the brain which can be fatal. After years of punching people in the head it would be entirely possible someone like Batman would accidentally kill a man with a punch. Again, for the sake of the story, you just have to assume that the hero has a preternatural level of skill which prevents this from happening.
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DoktorVerderben posted:Conversely, I sometimes think about how strange it is that you almost never see a comic book hero accidentally kill a person. It is entirely possible for even a single punch to cause a bleed in the brain which can be fatal. After years of punching people in the head it would be entirely possible someone like Batman would accidentally kill a man with a punch. Again, for the sake of the story, you just have to assume that the hero has a preternatural level of skill which prevents this from happening. Spider-Man accidentally punched Wolverine's girlfriend to death.
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Andrew Verse posted:Spider-Man accidentally punched Wolverine's girlfriend to death. To be fair, that needs a little context - he was being approached from behind and thought it was Wolverine (who was fighting because reasons), so he lashed out with a full strength punch. She crumpled instantly and died within a minute or so.
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This is as good a time as any to point out that while the Hulk is rampaging, Banner's brain is used to full capacity to make sure that nobody accidentally gets hurt as he causes untold billions of dollars of property damage. This is canon. For content: Iron Man has to get Hulk really really mad. Low blow, man.  Indestructible Hulk Annual Strontosaurus fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Dec 9, 2013 |
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Strontosaurus posted:This is as good a time as any to point out that while the Hulk is rampaging, Banner's brain is used to full capacity to make sure that nobody accidentally gets hurt as he causes untold billions of dollars of property damage. This is canon. It needs to be shot out of a canon.
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Andrew Verse posted:Spider-Man accidentally punched Wolverine's girlfriend to death. Also wasn't she trying to die?
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DoktorVerderben posted:Conversely, I sometimes think about how strange it is that you almost never see a comic book hero accidentally kill a person. Isn't that a big plot point in Uncanny Avengers? Rogue takes someone's strength and punches a villain to death because she didn't realize the strength of the person she took her power from and/or assumed the villain would be tougher.
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bobkatt013 posted:Also wasn't she trying to die? Yes, this was exactly what she wanted to do. That was a hell of a story. Peter David, I think? Edit: Nope, it was Priest. 
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Andrew Verse posted:Spider-Man accidentally punched Wolverine's girlfriend to death. Where the gently caress did this happen? That sounds awful.
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Hakkesshu posted:Where the gently caress did this happen? That sounds awful. It sounds horrible, but it was a pretty great story. Blew my young mind. (Not that my mind was particularly amazing or anything.) http://marvel.wikia.com/Spider-Man_Versus_Wolverine_Vol_1_1  http://captaincomics.ning.com/profiles/blogs/retro-review-spider-man-versus-wolverine-1986
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