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Chokes McGee posted:Actually that half blew up. Knowing S.H.I.E.L.D., they probably do.
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It took me way too long to get the new thread title 
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Sereri posted:It took me way too long to get the new thread title Obviously the group currently does not have the power of love.
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twistedmentat posted:And she is no doubt aware of the Abomination, Extremis and other super powered bad guy stuff that was just barely contained. Considering Extremis was part of the Centipede serum, yeah, I'd say she's pretty aware of it. XboxPants posted:Also the people that created the Inhumans made her dear boss Coulson crazy and almost killed him. Why does everyone keep forgetting the OTHER person that GH drove fucknuggets? 
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Mar 7, 2015 01:46
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Melchior posted:That being said, I was super disappointed with how low budget the alien city scenes were. Oh well. Yeah, I'm pretty much totally over super advanced civilizations which create wonders capable of warping the very fabric of existence using only the medium of heavily weathered sandstone.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Yeah, I'm pretty much totally over super advanced civilizations which create wonders capable of warping the very fabric of existence using only the medium of heavily weathered sandstone. Everyone has a budget, dude, even super advanced civilizations!
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Mar 7, 2015 06:55
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 Most advanced technology on Earth = Half a dozen poo brown columns and some dirt.
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Mar 7, 2015 13:33
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Gorilla Salad posted:Most advanced technology on Earth = Half a dozen poo brown columns and some dirt. A society so advanced they discovered gene splicing before sanitation. They never needed to clean up their own poo poo because they could just mist a resistance to dysentery into everybody.
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Mar 7, 2015 14:58
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Technically they were just in the foyer of the place.
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Irish Joe posted:A society so advanced they discovered gene splicing before sanitation. Sounds like an average game of Civ.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Yeah, I'm pretty much totally over super advanced civilizations which create wonders capable of warping the very fabric of existence using only the medium of heavily weathered sandstone. In their defense, the Kree made inhumans a looooong time ago. What looks like ancient poo brown primitive culture to us may actually be ancient poo brown primitive culture to the inhumans as well. Like, maybe Black Bolt has a spa somewhere where you can get massage, a week long retreat, and a little terrigenesis to firm up the ol' genetics.
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Its still a tv budget and they were only going to be there for two episodes ever so it makes sense that they didn't go all out.
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Mymla posted:Sounds like an average game of Civ.
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Mar 8, 2015 05:09
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Hahaha, I read about the episode after the next one and one of the characters is "David A. Angar". I hope he still looks like this:
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Gorilla Salad posted:
Yeah, it's almost like the Kree might have taken all their advanced tech with them when they left but forgot a few things. Seriously, instant resolution. Bam.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Yeah, it's almost like the Kree might have taken all their advanced tech with them when they left but forgot a few things. Except for "the temple," which had fully functional stone slab doors and a stone pedestal to activate the diviner. It was clearly designed that way. A better explanation is the Kree subcontracted the Goa'ould for all their construction needs.
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Mar 8, 2015 07:32
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Mylan posted:Except for "the temple," which had fully functional stone slab doors and a stone pedestal to activate the diviner. It was clearly designed that way. Ptah's services are highly sought after.
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Mylan posted:Except for "the temple," which had fully functional stone slab doors and a stone pedestal to activate the diviner. It was clearly designed that way. Hence why I qualified my statement with "forgot a few things". Also, are the Kree considered villains in the Marvel universe? I know you've got guys like Ronan running loose, but I don't tend to hear of Kree the same way that I do the Skrulls.
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All aliens are assholes in Marvel. Sometimes there are occasional periods of not being assholes when they owe Earth a favor or a non-rear end in a top hat leader takes over but they always return to rear end in a top hat. Ronan is a good guy in the comics. He's been one for a while.
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Pretty much all the aliens in the universe hate earth in the Marvel Universe. It's only because earth has all the superheroes that it isn't blown up. You sometimes have some sort of arrangement like the Kree with Mar-Vell and the Shi'ar with Professor X that makes them less hostile. And friendly cosmic brings like the Silver Surfer who like the place. But yeah, otherwise every alien hates the earth.
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Earth is strategically and economically very valuable; it sits on an intersection of multiple hyperspace lanes or something. Plus the Celestials have been messing with humanity for a long time so everyone wants to dissect humans with superpowers to give their super-soldier programs a boost. They keep getting punched out by Captain America or something before they can take over, which just makes all the aliens pay attention even more.
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This reminded me of something that bothered me about Guardians of the Galaxy. Is there a reason that there is an entire planetary civilization full of humans in space at a time when aliens back home on earth were still unconfirmed, or is it just "comics" coincidence that an alien species look exactly like humans?
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Slashrat posted:This reminded me of something that bothered me about Guardians of the Galaxy. Is there a reason that there is an entire planetary civilization full of humans in space at a time when aliens back home on earth were still unconfirmed, or is it just "comics" coincidence that an alien species look exactly like humans?
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Slashrat posted:This reminded me of something that bothered me about Guardians of the Galaxy. Is there a reason that there is an entire planetary civilization full of humans in space at a time when aliens back home on earth were still unconfirmed, or is it just "comics" coincidence that an alien species look exactly like humans? Grey Area posted:Those were Xandarians, who don't have anything to do with Earth people as far as I know. In the comics their planet Xandar was blown up and the survivors built space stations that also got blown up on three separate occasions. In the movies they went with a simpler back story, but they kept the part of an ages-long war with the Kree. I was confused about all that stuff as well, but yeah, they apparently just went Full Comics and had an alien race that looks exactly like humans with no explanation.
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Finally caught up! Honestly, they made a mistake calling it a city and showing the big holograms. They should've called it straight up a 'temple' or 'labyrinth' or something along those lines and described it as just tunnels, so we weren't built up to expect something more. I don't really care that much what Bobbi and Mack are up to as long as it doesn't get in the way of Mack and Fitz being bros. You hear me, Marvel? Although speaking of that, I always thought it was weird that they brought in the obscure Alphonso Mackenzie from the comics but that they had no similarities between the comic and show characters besides the name - so maybe he'll be CIA like he was in the comics. I can't see any other reason they'd have used an existing name. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 14:08 on Mar 8, 2015 |
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Lots of characters in the MCU bear little to no resemblance to their comic counterparts, or in the case of characters that have existed for decades, might be a combination of characters from different comic timelines. Daisy in AOS is at least partially Inhuman and had to go through that process for her powers to activate. In the comics she is born with her powers though strangely doesn't have an X gene. Have we heard anything about Graviton yet? I'm really surprised he's still out there and not been used.
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notthegoatseguy posted:Lots of characters in the MCU bear little to no resemblance to their comic counterparts, or in the case of characters that have existed for decades, might be a combination of characters from different comic timelines. Daisy in AOS is at least partially Inhuman and had to go through that process for her powers to activate. In the comics she is born with her powers though strangely doesn't have an X gene. I know, but there's usually at least one element of commonality. Daisy has earthquake powers, for example. And a dad named Cal who you wouldn't like when he gets angry.
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MikeJF posted:And a dad named Cal who you wouldn't like when he gets angry. And yet, we the viewers loving love him whether or not he gets angry.  Seriously, I could watch Kyle MacLachlan as Muad'dad for days and not get tired of it.
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The Kree are kind of weird in Marvel space stuff because they aren't outright villains but they are complete dicks a lot of the time. Like their race is very racist and xenophobic but they don't want to constantly destroy the Earth or anything like that.
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muscles like this? posted:The Kree are kind of weird in Marvel space stuff because they aren't outright villains but they are complete dicks a lot of the time. Like their race is very racist and xenophobic but they don't want to constantly destroy the Earth or anything like that. Sounds more like real life nations than most.
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Slashrat posted:This reminded me of something that bothered me about Guardians of the Galaxy. Is there a reason that there is an entire planetary civilization full of humans in space at a time when aliens back home on earth were still unconfirmed, or is it just "comics" coincidence that an alien species look exactly like humans? Grey Area posted:Those were Xandarians, who don't have anything to do with Earth people as far as I know. In the comics their planet Xandar was blown up and the survivors built space stations that also got blown up on three separate occasions. In the movies they went with a simpler back story, but they kept the part of an ages-long war with the Kree. I'm so used to so many fictional universes explaining away the majority of aliens being humanoid away as something like "blah blah the original spacefaring civilization of this universe resembled humans and they terraformed/seeded the stars to create earthlike conditions and spawn earthlike species all over the place" that I thought that was what was going on in the Marvel universe too.  What the hell is this guy? In the movie, he describes Xandarian civilization as his, so I thought maybe he was an actual native Xandarian and all the humans and pink humans are just the descendants of immigrants who outpopulated or displaced most of the natives.
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So Raina turned into a mole and Mockingjay turned out to be a mole in the same episode. Thematic storytelling!
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BreakAtmo posted:I was confused about all that stuff as well, but yeah, they apparently just went Full Comics and had an alien race that looks exactly like humans with no explanation. Most higher sentient life was created by space gods in Marvel so it's okay.
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Aphrodite posted:Most higher sentient life was created by space gods in Marvel so it's okay. Correct, Google "Celestials". It explains why most space races resemble each other in some way, and also why Earth seems to be a focus of space-rage, and why so many people on Earth have super powers. Apparently the Earth is an incubator (egg) for a new "God" (Celestial), and the people are its protectors; as threats escalate, their powers escalate.
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Barack HUSSEIN posted:
I interpreted it as Xandarian being a culture, not a species. Like being American.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:And yet, we the viewers loving love him whether or not he gets angry. I sure hope they don't kill him off by the end of the season 
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Xandarians are a species that look basically human, eye colours excepted. The Nova Empire has as bunch of aliens, although Xandarians and Krylorians (the pink people) are the most common. Xandar the planet is pretty cosmopolitan and it's common to see all sorts of species because it's the capital of the empire (and thus sometimes 'Xandar' is used to refer to the empire rather than 'Nova') The Broker guy you linked is presumably one of those aliens and just considers Xandar his home. Basically? Immigration. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Mar 8, 2015 |
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I was really disappointed that there wasn't a race of John C Reilly looking aliens which is basically my only gripe of GOTG.
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Darth Ballz posted:Apparently the Earth is an incubator (egg) for a new "God" (Celestial), Wasn't that only the deal for Earth-X? Then again, Franklin is pretty much an embryonic god.
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