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I like the story I've heard about one of Kirby's Fourth World ideas he never got to use, namely that Superman would eventually fight Darkseid and it would turn out that Darkseid is actually weak; he's all smoke and mirrors.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I like the story I've heard about one of Kirby's Fourth World ideas he never got to use, namely that Superman would eventually fight Darkseid and it would turn out that Darkseid is actually weak; he's all smoke and mirrors. That doesn't sound far-fetched and would explain a few odd scenes. Not that there are non-odd Fourth World scenes.
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Aug 5, 2015 12:16
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Rhyno posted:There have numerous in story moments where Thanos has become more powerful though. Thanos Quest started off with Thanos getting a big power boost from Death and deciding that wasn't enough to kill half the universe, so he needed a sparkly glove to complete the outfit.
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Aug 5, 2015 12:24
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prefect posted:Thanos Quest started off with Thanos getting a big power boost from Death and deciding that wasn't enough to kill half the universe, so he needed a sparkly glove to complete the outfit. Thanos is just an 80's kid at heart. We all wanted to be MJ.
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Aug 5, 2015 19:08
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10 Beers posted:Thanos is just an 80's kid at heart. We all wanted to be MJ. Mary Jane?
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10 Beers posted:Thanos is just an 80's kid at heart. We all wanted to be MJ. I wanted to be Max Headroom.
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Aug 5, 2015 21:25
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Jerry Cotton posted:Mary Jane? Nah. She didn't have a cool muti-zipper3d red leather jacket.
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Aug 5, 2015 21:28
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Jerry Cotton posted:Mary Jane? Well, if I had any artistic ability, I'd be making fan art of MJ dressed as MJ right now. You decided which MJ is which.
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10 Beers posted:Nah. She didn't have a cool muti-zipper3d red leather jacket.
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Aug 5, 2015 21:43
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Michael Jordan dressed as Milla Jovovich?
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Phylodox posted:Michael Jordan dressed as Milla Jovovich? Out of Fifth Element, obviously.
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Aug 5, 2015 21:55
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Uthor posted:Out of Fifth Element, obviously. I didn't think it needed to be said.
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Phylodox posted:Michael Jordan dressed as Milla Jovovich? What madness have I wrought?! 
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Aug 5, 2015 23:53
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Disharmony posted:In Preacher, who was Jonathan supposed to be? Up to now I still have no idea what Cassidy meant when he said "You're loving dead!" It has been a long time since I read Preacher, was Jonathan one of the Anne Rice vampires? Guessing without context Cassidy is just making a threat as in 'you are dead because I'm about to beat you to death'
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wizardstick posted:It has been a long time since I read Preacher, was Jonathan one of the Anne Rice vampires? Yeah, that was pretty much it. I believe Jonathan was the lovely poet he made eat his own poetry in the Blood & Whiskey special.
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Who are the six people smarter than Amadeus Cho?
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zoux posted:Who are the six people smarter than Amadeus Cho? Reed Richards, Dr. Doom, Bruce Banner, 3 other guys.
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Aug 6, 2015 15:10
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There's no set list but 3 of them are Banner, Richards and Pym. And also it's 7.
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Well, Pym claimed that with him back on Earth from Skrull captivity, Cho is the 8th, but that doesn't really track, since Skrull Pym *was* Pym as far as everyone was aware, so the list is something like: 1. Reed Richards 2. Doctor Doom 3. Hank Pym 4. Bruce Banner 5. Tony Stark 6. T'Challa 7. Amadeus Cho (Everything after 2 is just placed there randomly) EDIT: If you want to accept Pym's claim as accurate, then slot in Leader, Beast, or Xavier in there.
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Aphrodite posted:There's no set list but 3 of them are Banner, Richards and Pym. I thought he was the seventh smartest. Is Doom considered to be the #2 smart guy?
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zoux posted:I thought he was the seventh smartest. Doom is definitely #2, and Stark wouldn't have been on that list before his movies made so much money. 
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zoux posted:I thought he was the seventh smartest. There's one comic where Pym comes back to Earth from being in Skrull jail and says it now makes Cho the 8th.
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zoux posted:Is Doom considered to be the #2 smart guy?
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Endless Mike posted:Doom's intelligence is consistently portrayed as very slightly less than Reed's, yeah. DOOM IS SECOND TO NONE.
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Aphrodite posted:There's one comic where Pym comes back to Earth from being in Skrull jail and says it now makes Cho the 8th. This is dumb, though, because he would have been counted anyway since everyone thought Skrull Pym was Pym.
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We all forgot Valeria, who is either #1 or #2 depending on what age Valeria it is.Endless Mike posted:This is dumb, though, because he would have been counted anyway since everyone thought Skrull Pym was Pym. Yeah I don't know the context. Maybe it was a joke and Wikipedia took it too seriously?
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Endless Mike posted:Doom's intelligence is consistently portrayed as very slightly less than Reed's, yeah. That is just Richards propaganda  Pym is also the scientist supreme so of course he is high on the list
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Aphrodite posted:We all forgot Valeria, who is either #1 or #2 depending on what age Valeria it is.  Yeah sure Reed, whatever you say.
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Aug 6, 2015 15:19
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What about the head of AIM, or Wizard or Doctor Octopus? Doc Ock completely owned Tony Stark and made him retco...I mean erase a bunch of his past, basically committing suicide.
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bobkatt013 posted:That is just Richards propaganda Pretty sure that was just Loki loving with Pym.
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Aug 6, 2015 15:19
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It's something Richards and Doom agree on. Doom.
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zoux posted:What about the head of AIM, or Wizard or Doctor Octopus? Doc Ock completely owned Tony Stark and made him retco...I mean erase a bunch of his past, basically committing suicide. I think that happened after the mind wipe, but I'm not sure.
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Well, what you have to remember is that Amadeus's "Seventh Smartest Person on Earth!" designation was from a soap company, so anyone above him would have to be *reasonably* within the public conscious. Given this, Valeria was probably not one the six people they consider smarter, though, yeah, she almost certainly is.
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Endless Mike posted:Well, what you have to remember is that Amadeus's "Seventh Smartest Person on Earth!" designation was from a soap company, so anyone above him would have to be *reasonably* within the public conscious. Given this, Valeria was probably not one the six people they consider smarter, though, yeah, she almost certainly is. Wasn't the soap company's game show ultimately a setup to get ahold of Cho anyway?
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Endless Mike posted:Well, what you have to remember is that Amadeus's "Seventh Smartest Person on Earth!" designation was from a soap company, so anyone above him would have to be *reasonably* within the public conscious. Given this, Valeria was probably not one the six people they consider smarter, though, yeah, she almost certainly is. Doom Doom Doom Doom Valeria Doom Amadeus
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Endless Mike posted:Well, what you have to remember is that Amadeus's "Seventh Smartest Person on Earth!" designation was from a soap company, so anyone above him would have to be *reasonably* within the public conscious. Given this, Valeria was probably not one the six people they consider smarter, though, yeah, she almost certainly is. And beyond that it's not like they made a list when they wrote it. It was just a little hook for the character.
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True, but it's a hook that immediately makes you go "Who are the other six?" Like, at least when Mr. Terrific called himself the World's Third Smartest Man, you knew it was a concession to the fact that Batman and Luthor are never going to be less popular than him. Amadeus probably would've overtaken Pym if they'd let him.
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I don't think Valeria's super-intelligence had manifested when Cho got his title, so he'd have been dropped to 8th when she took the #1 spot and pushed everyone else down one.
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Lol at the idea of Batman being one of the smartest people in the world. Guy has trouble figuring out the Riddler sometimes.
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wizardstick posted:It has been a long time since I read Preacher, was Jonathan one of the Anne Rice vampires? That's Eccarius. Jonathan is the leader of Les Enfants who got his fingers shot and uses a katana to decapitate Cassidy. Senior Woodchuck posted:Yeah, that was pretty much it. I believe Jonathan was the lovely poet he made eat his own poetry in the Blood & Whiskey special. Roger was the poet who left long before that confrontation took place.
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