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major enemies: (former) thanos when does anyone ever stop being thanos' enemy?
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Mar 14, 2017 00:12
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When Thanos loses interest.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:major enemies: When they die. Dude loves skeletons.
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I always appreciated Eric Masterson's ground-level approach to Thor-style craziness. It was just a shame that he was saddled with '90s Tom DeFalco dialogue.
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One thing you can probably never take away from Eric Masterson: he's got a pretty solid AC/DC walk-up theme for those annual Avengers softball games. He's also not the Masterson with sexual assault allegations against him. vvvvvv oh poo poo, may have spoken too soon. Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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 Awwww yeah BUTT POUNDING TIME!! Paired up with Grimm's CLOBBERING TIME! Should team up with classic Power Man infiltrating Doom's fortress. 
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goatface posted:When Thanos loses interest. Him and America, buddy.
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X-O posted:Day 29: Thunderstrike Looking at his bio....Quicksand? The villain who made him and Thor join together was named Quicksand? And while I imagine the humor of Wizard probably has aged badly beyond the 90s, I always remember loving the recurring monthly feature called Mort of the Month. Hearing about D list villains like the Weather Men or some idiot named R U Ready was the best part of the magazine whenever my brother would get it each month. That said, I don't have any of the old Wizards anymore to look at those, I DO have the two old specials they made about the super villains. I might go look for those and maybe scan in some of the more dumb villains from the magazine. I doubt the humor would hold up through. Rirse fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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Mar 14, 2017 20:31
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What if Sandman was a chick
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Who the hel is Thor III?
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He's a Thor from the future that was tricked into going back in time to attack Thunderstrike so that a villain could use dual mjolnirs to power a time travel machine despite obviously only needing one mjolnir and him necessarily already having a time travel machine to pull off the scheme.
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Thunderstrike doesn't even had a Mjolnir! This entire plan sucks!
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I should've just said Masterson - this was pre-Thunderstrike but post-Odinson-banishment, so at the time he was 'Thor II' with Mjolnir.
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Day 30: Bird-Man I have no idea who this is. I've read these handbooks before years ago and I don't even remember this entry at all. I never knew this character even existed until right now.  
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Mar 15, 2017 02:58
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here's who he is: a guy with a great costume
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Yeah, I want to see more of that guy.
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Mar 15, 2017 03:19
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I believe he's an attorney at law.
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Mar 15, 2017 03:20
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Bird-Man of the Ani-Men! You may have sucked, Bird-Man, but you played a part in killing an X-Man, so that ain't nothin'.
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Bird-Man II was one of the bar full of D-list supervillains (and Turner D. Century) gunned down by Scourge in an issue of GruCap I just re-read. His murder apparently doesn't even warrant a mention in "significant issues" for the two Bird-Men, apparently. Possibly because literally the entire career of Bird-Man II (and the Ani-Men II) Daredevil #157: Burst through a window on the last page Daredevil #158: Ani-Men kidnap Matt Murdock for Death-Stalker. Bird-Man tries to fly away, but Black Widow rips his wings off and punches him out. Ape-Man and Cat-Man deliver Murdock to Death-Stalker, are handed some money, then are immediately murdered by Death-Stalker. Captain American #319: Bird-Man appears in a crowd scene, is promptly gunned down by Scourge. Captain America #320: Bird-Man's corpse is discovered in a big ol' pile by Captain America. Then he got resurrected in Remender's Punisher run, but did nothing of note other than appear in some group fights. I guess he's hypothetically still alive? Punisher explicitly re-kills about half of the gang, and Bird-Man doesn't appear in the back half of the storyline, so either he died or ran away off-panel.
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Alright, Bird-Man II died one county south of where I grew up!
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I remember those dudes (the Ani-Men) from Iron Man. Bunch of animal masks with antennas sticking out, that's about the only thing interesting about them.
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Props to Thunderstrike for being around long enough and during a sweet spot that got him featured in a video game, Avengers Galactic Storm for arcade. Also props for the sweet pony tail and lavender/silver #1 issue that got me to buy it as a kid.
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Alias: Henry Hawk.
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"Temporarily Superhuman Class 10 in upper portion of body" *Lifts really heavy thing with arms, legs collapse under weight*
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X-0, I know this isn't really a thread for requests, but can you post the rest of the Ani-Men please?Endless Mike posted:"Temporarily Superhuman Class 10 in upper portion of body" If his arms were that much stronger than his legs then when he tried to lift something really heavy beneath him, he'd pull himself into a faceplant and snap his legs on the way down. I'm guessing the strength just in his upper body has to do with his flight and anti-grav. He can only lift and carry things while airborne.
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Lobok posted:X-0, I know this isn't really a thread for requests, but can you post the rest of the Ani-Men please? Whenever he lands his legs just shatter from the impact and he has to use his now non-superhuman arms to crawl to a hospital. Seconding the demand for more Ani-Men. Please tell us about these characters so minor that writers literally did not care if they were dead or alive. You might read this as sarcasm but it absolutely is not.
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Particularly how Cyclops defeats Dragonfly in UXM #95, which is hilarious. EDIT: Can't find a pic on hand. Dragonfly goes after Cyclops and uses her hypnotic gaze, "MY WILL ISSSS YOUR WILL," you know the drill. It works. Cyclops stops what he's doing, goes slack-jawed, and his eyes become a wide-open dull stare. His eyes opening that wide automatically open his visor, and BEHOLD! OPTIC BLAST! when he's not even conscious. delfin fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Mar 16, 2017 |
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ImpAtom posted:I believe he's an attorney at law. drat you, I was going to say that!
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And there came a day unlike any other, when Earth's lamest animal heroes were revealed to the world! On that day the Ani-Men were killed! Day 31: The Ani-Men (Ape-Man, Cat-Man, Frog-Man) Brought to you by... wait... Wally Wood? Are you serious? Oh Wally, what have you done? Also the Frog is French. Because of course he is.      
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Weird coincidence: 8-Ball shows up for a panel in today's new issue of Star-Lord, so I guess there's another one now.
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Zdarsky loves his Ani-men, I guess.
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Ahem, that's Frog-Man II, who they EXPLICITLY TELL YOU NOT TO CONFUSE WITH FROG-MAN I. THEY ASKED YOU POLITELY BUT FIRMLY RIGHT IN THE MASTER EDITION.
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wait a sec, if i'm reading those right the first group had enhanced physiques for the one time they fought the xmen, but otherwise birdman was the only one with a suit that gave him any powers? frogman was naturally real good at jumping, the other two had those stasis beam things and they all had radios in their masks. i don't even know why they were animal-themed!
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Ape-Man, not to be confused with Black Panther villain Man-Ape.
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The Ani-Men show up at the beginning of the Frank Miller Daredevil Omnibus, so I actually recognize these ham n eggers. Thanks Frank!
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Are we to assume that all of the illustrations are of the brief time when they were mutated and powered? Because none of their bodies are human, with the exception of Cat-Man who I suppose could be wearing gloves with claws on them.
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And yet that's not the same Frog-Man form the Spider-Man comics.
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Ferrule posted:And yet that's not the same Frog-Man form the Spider-Man comics. Edge & Christian posted:Ahem, that's Frog-Man II, who they EXPLICITLY TELL YOU NOT TO CONFUSE WITH FROG-MAN I. THEY ASKED YOU POLITELY BUT FIRMLY RIGHT IN THE MASTER EDITION.
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My favorite thing about the Ani-Men has nothing to do with them. But immediately after Thunderbird's death there's a fantastically hilarious issue of X-Men where Cyclops is dealing with being a bad leader (since it was apparently his fault that Thunderbird jumped on a jet and punched it until it exploded to try and kill some guy in a vampire cape and monocle) and he's out wandering around in the woods when he has a little fit of emorage and blasts the forest with his optic beams. In doing so, for some reason, he shatters an ancient (I suppose) Native American ritual stone thing that releases an angry demon who comest to the mansion and tries to murder all the X-Men as they do. They fight him for a while and eventually defeat it and everyone just sort of goes "Huh. That was weird."
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