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Comics related: Marvel Puzzle Quest, where the Dark Avengers come up against the Hulk and Thor. 
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WickedHate posted:Volt in Irredeemable has a minor rant about this but I can't find the page.[/URL] I just stared rereading that on Friday.    
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May 27, 2014 12:27
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Senor Candle posted:What is the deal with black heroes and electric powers? I don't know when the Irredeemable comic came out, and I don't know what the deal is with the heroes themselves, but as far as I'm aware the observation goes back to this deleted, "overly specific" Wikipedia category. Here's what that category would probably contain if it did exist.
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May 27, 2014 13:06
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robziel posted:I just stared rereading that on Friday. I can't remember if she appeared in this or just Incorruptible, but there was a villain named Safeword who joined up with Max Damage and renamed herself "Hate Crime" ("...because I hate crime"), and I can't find scans of her, which sucks, because I found it ridiculously funny. Those two series had some crazy dark moments with hilarious stuff mixed in every once in a while.
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May 27, 2014 13:12
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qntm posted:I don't know when the Irredeemable comic came out, and I don't know what the deal is with the heroes themselves, but as far as I'm aware the observation goes back to this deleted, "overly specific" Wikipedia category. Here's what that category would probably contain if it did exist. Black Vulcans rant about it on Harvey Burdman Attorney at Law predates that by about 3- 4 years. It wasn't exactly a new observation then either.
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May 27, 2014 13:16
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Gavok posted:If only the This Character in Panels thread was still around. Spider-Man summed up. Someone should bring that thread back.
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May 27, 2014 13:58
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Why does he have Deadpool's bubbles?
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May 27, 2014 14:21
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Beerdeer posted:Why does he have Deadpool's bubbles? Because it's from the Deadpool Annual and it is Deadpool.
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May 27, 2014 14:30
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prefect posted:I can't remember if she appeared in this or just Incorruptible, but there was a villain named Safeword who joined up with Max Damage and renamed herself "Hate Crime" ("...because I hate crime"), and I can't find scans of her, which sucks, because I found it ridiculously funny. Those two series had some crazy dark moments with hilarious stuff mixed in every once in a while. Well I did just reread Incorruptible a few weeks ago, let me see what I can find.   I feel like there was another good page where she mentions wanting to be called Hate Crime but I couldn't find it.
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May 28, 2014 03:12
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 Hisako: It’s really shameful that a killer gorilla passes as teacher here. Wolverine: Since you do nothing but complain, aren't you shaming your ancestors?
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May 28, 2014 03:18
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That is really racist.
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May 28, 2014 03:27
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Seriously. Only Canadians get to call each other the g-word.
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May 28, 2014 03:35
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WickedHate posted:That is really racist. Armor is one of those characters which I wish I hadn't learned more about. "Her mutant ability is to create elaborate indestructible forcefields around her body, which is why she's called Armor." "Oh, that's cool. Sort of like a psycho-kinetic Colossus, then?" "They're powered by her ancestors because, y'know, she's Japanese. The more she venerates her ancestors, the stronger she is." "Why would you create a character like that." She's like Jubilee dialled up to 11.
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May 28, 2014 03:38
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At least it ain't samurai armor.
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May 28, 2014 03:39
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AnonSpore posted:At least it ain't samurai armor. They look like mecha. 
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May 28, 2014 03:40
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WickedHate posted:At least they didn't make a character who's power is to run fast black, right? 
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May 28, 2014 03:51
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All-New X-Factor #8: Cypher and the rest of X-Factor do a wonderful job selling a young mutant girl on the idea of joining the X-Men. 
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May 28, 2014 04:22
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Wasn't there some black guy who got into the Olympics on a technicality of some kind and had never skied before he started his event? He was pretty awesome as I recall.
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May 28, 2014 04:29
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WickedHate posted:That is really racist.   Seriously, this could easily be a picture of Hinata from the Naruto anime. 
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May 28, 2014 05:04
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American writers (edit: Joss Whedon and everyone after him) get that ancestor veneration is really more of a Confucianism thing, right? As in China, not Japan. This is probably a good place for that Avengers in China cover with a bunch of anime cliches.
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May 28, 2014 05:30
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Didn't Wolverine just exhibit an understanding of the Japanese language out of the blue in the 80s, and was expanded by the Miller/Claremont mini?
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May 28, 2014 05:38
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To be fair, he's no Night Thrasher.
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May 28, 2014 05:45
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Schneider Heim posted:Didn't Wolverine just exhibit an understanding of the Japanese language out of the blue in the 80s, and was expanded by the Miller/Claremont mini? 
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May 28, 2014 05:46
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Practical Demon posted:American writers (edit: Joss Whedon and everyone after him) get that ancestor veneration is really more of a Confucianism thing, right? As in China, not Japan. This is probably a good place for that Avengers in China cover with a bunch of anime cliches. Confucianism kinda spread through all of East Asia, which I guess contributes to the stereotyping we get.
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May 28, 2014 05:48
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Never mind the racist side of it. There are so many things jammed into one page here that I'm overloaded. He reminds me of those new superhero mash up toys they're selling that you can add various parts of different characters into one. I see Ironman, Magneto, a sentinel, Thanatos, Dr. Strange, and skis... Why do I see skis?  Do the poles somehow puncture the air and give him a push?Fake Edit: I can only hope that they somehow worked in a theme song of "Go ski'd racer.. Go ski'd racer.. Go" at some point.
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May 28, 2014 06:10
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AnonSpore posted:Confucianism kinda spread through all of East Asia, which I guess contributes to the stereotyping we get. It's also something that's pretty common to many, many cultures. Romans were extremely down with ancestor worship too for example. Once nobody remembers that great-great uncle Gaius used to beat his kids a lot more than usual, wasted all the families money and was drunk 23 out of 24 hours of the day he becomes a venerated ancestor, whose example every weak-rear end, whiny, spoiled, current generation Roman should aspire to.
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May 28, 2014 06:12
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DisMafugga posted:Never mind the racist side of it. There are so many things jammed into one page here that I'm overloaded. He reminds me of those new superhero mash up toys they're selling that you can add various parts of different characters into one. I see Ironman, Magneto, a sentinel, Thanatos, Dr. Strange, and skis... Why do I see skis?
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May 28, 2014 06:23
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Practical Demon posted:American writers (edit: Joss Whedon and everyone after him) get that ancestor veneration is really more of a Confucianism thing, right? As in China, not Japan. This is probably a good place for that Avengers in China cover with a bunch of anime cliches. Whedon may have invented Armor, but I'm pretty sure that he didn't create the "powered by ancestor worship" bit of her character.
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May 28, 2014 06:42
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What is the black racer's power set? He's cosmic powered, right? What does he do?
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May 28, 2014 06:47
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Drifter posted:What is the black racer's power set? He's cosmic powered, right? What does he do? He's Death for the New Gods. GorfZaplen fucked around with this message at 06:56 on May 28, 2014 |
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May 28, 2014 06:53
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Patrick Spens posted:Whedon may have invented Armor, but I'm pretty sure that he didn't create the "powered by ancestor worship" bit of her character. Nope, hell, I think he's the only write who brought that up. Now she justs pops the armor on.
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May 28, 2014 07:25
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I'd like to think she only thinks it becomes stronger that way. Sorta like a mental thing instead of actually ancestor spirit power.
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May 28, 2014 08:26
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Schneider Heim posted:Didn't Wolverine just exhibit an understanding of the Japanese language out of the blue in the 80s, and was expanded by the Miller/Claremont mini? The team's stopping over in Japan on their way back to America and when Wolverine knows the language they're all like, "I didn't know you could speak Japanese!" and he's all, "There's a lot of things you don't know about me." because I'm fairly sure this was back before Wolverine even had a first name.
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May 28, 2014 09:59
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WickedHate posted:That is really racist. Kitty Pride is Jewish. Her father owns a bank. The strength of her phasing power is determined by proximity to money lending.
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May 28, 2014 11:21
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If you will, a collage from Thor #22. Black Widow: Flycatcher 
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May 28, 2014 11:40
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Avulsion posted:You know what this character really needs to appeal to kids these days? A skateboard. 
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May 28, 2014 12:01
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Irish Joe posted:If you will, a collage from Thor #22. That's not Black Widow.
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May 28, 2014 12:36
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The Biggest Jerk posted:I'd like to think she only thinks it becomes stronger that way. Sorta like a mental thing instead of actually ancestor spirit power. There was an issue of Amazing X-men where she's in a fight and suddenly turns into a giant mecha, and it turns out she got a power boost because her dad or someone just died in a car crash at that very instant. This leads to an issue of X-TREME X-MEN! (better than it sounds) where an evil alternate dimensional xavier was using a lobotomized Armor to try and kill the protagonists, and to give her a quick power boost he had his henchmen round up her entire family and murder them. More dead ancestors = more mecha armor power.
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May 28, 2014 14:12
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Awesome. That's definitely how you greet your friends when they don't know the language. "What does that mean?" "It means honoured guests!"
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Avulsion posted:There was an issue of Amazing X-men where she's in a fight and suddenly turns into a giant mecha, and it turns out she got a power boost because her dad or someone just died in a car crash at that very instant. This leads to an issue of X-TREME X-MEN! (better than it sounds) where an evil alternate dimensional xavier was using a lobotomized Armor to try and kill the protagonists, and to give her a quick power boost he had his henchmen round up her entire family and murder them. Okay this sounds hilarious now.
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