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Sabra was pretty awesome in the Union Jack limited series from a few years ago. I remember there was a bit of a flap a bit after that because it looked like she'd been killed off during "Ends of the Earth" in ASM, but I believe one of the writers came out and said she was okay.
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I believe the only groan-inducing thing involving Sabra (beside that original costume) was really forced tension between her and the Arabian Knight that was in the Union Jack series. Get this, they start out not liking each other, but then they grow to respect each other!
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Apr 20, 2017 01:58
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I just realized why the name is so familiar to me.
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Apr 20, 2017 02:18
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I would like to imagine it's not just poor wording but that the 'Other current aliases' section really is suggesting that she also goes by Sweet Prickly Pear.
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Apr 20, 2017 02:21
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Ghostlight posted:I would like to imagine it's not just poor wording but that the 'Other current aliases' section really is suggesting that she also goes by Sweet Prickly Pear. That was Luke Cage's catchphrase before he focus grouped it.
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Apr 20, 2017 02:23
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Wanderer posted:Sabra was pretty awesome in the Union Jack limited series from a few years ago. That was Silver Sable. How the gently caress is she 240 pounds?
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Apr 20, 2017 02:53
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Soonmot posted:That was Silver Sable. No, it was Sabra. It's in her Wikipedia entry. Crossbones shot her.
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Apr 20, 2017 02:59
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Sabra is actually almost always depicted as awesome and badass. The whole "she decided to dedicate her life to fighting crime and terrorism after her son was killed in a terrorist bombing" bit is a little cliche, but by and large she's pretty awesome. There's a bit in one of her first appearances in The Incredible Hulk where she's all "it has taken a monster to make her see this young Arab boy as a human being" which is pretty heavy-handed, too, now that I look. Also the whole "Sabra and the Arabian Knight have issues but end up respecting each other" hearkens all the way back to the original Contest of Champions. It was her in Union Jack, btw. As is probably inescapable, Sabra's ethnicity is almost always front and center - there was a teased plot (that got dropped) in New Warriors where she and Justice almost had a bit of a thing, essentially because 'well, they're both Jewish,' but there don't seem to be too many horribly offensive and/or stereotypical and/or poorly thought-out issues with her. Sabra is cool. People should like Sabra.
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Apr 20, 2017 03:01
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Wanderer posted:No, it was Sabra. It's in her Wikipedia entry. Crossbones shot her. welp, shows how memorable that was!
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Apr 20, 2017 03:03
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sabra has surprisingly little baggage for a mutant
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Apr 20, 2017 18:49
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I always think of that Simpson's bit where Bart is explaining to Lisa about the short-lived 'Itchy and Scratchy and Friends' show when I run into characters like Sabra or Shamrock or whoever. 'Well the book was called the Contest of Champions so... they needed some champions.' I would totally buy a book where Sabra battled Klu Klux Clam.
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Apr 20, 2017 21:41
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Day 56: Marvel Boy I had to do a double take because I was 100% sure this was Quasar from the character model and thought the name was printed wrong. But no, it's Robert Grayson aka Marvel Boy or pretty much the first Quasar. A character that dates back farther than even the Fantastic Four. If any of you are familiar with him it will be almost exclusively from Agents of Atlas or the mini series by Jeff Parker from several years back.  
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Apr 24, 2017 23:57
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He's from that weird forgotten era of characters Marvel technically owns from the 50s. A bunch of guys like him showed up during the Kree Skrull war as part of Rick Jones' imagination powers.
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Apr 25, 2017 00:10
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Yeah, Marvel Boy's bands later went to Quasar (EDIT: and IIRC in Quasar's first few appearances he flat out wore Marvel Boy's costume). He confused me so much when I came across his entry in a Marvel Superheroes RPG sourcebook.
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Apr 25, 2017 00:24
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Quasar literally debuted as Marvel Boy.
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Apr 25, 2017 00:53
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Justice also was a Marvel Boy
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Apr 25, 2017 05:25
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"the great video"?
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Apr 25, 2017 05:39
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It's Latin for "to see".
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Apr 25, 2017 05:50
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Marvel Boy was also a bad guy from a few issues of Fantastic Four in the 1970s (I'm guessing by Roy Thomas) under the name "Crusader".
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Wheat Loaf posted:Marvel Boy was also a bad guy from a few issues of Fantastic Four in the 1970s (I'm guessing by Roy Thomas) under the name "Crusader". Specifically Fantastic Four #164, according to the "significant issues" bit in the posted entry there.
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Apr 25, 2017 08:05
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Fantastic Four #164: Discover what Marvel Boy has been up to since the 1950s, than watch him go crazy, kill a guy, and explode!
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Apr 25, 2017 09:12
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It's me, I'm Marvel Boy.
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Endless Mike posted:It's me, I'm Marvel Boy. I like you sister more. Sorry, dude. :/
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Apr 25, 2017 22:18
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HitTheTargets posted:I like you sister more. Sorry, dude. :/ Everyone prefers Sister Boy.
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Apr 25, 2017 23:06
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Endless Mike posted:It's me, I'm Marvel Boy. Wendell! Wendell, it's Marvel. Your cousin, Marvel Boy. You know those new bracelets you've been looking for? Well, listen to this! [holds the receiver out] [explodes]
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Apr 26, 2017 01:02
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Ghostlight posted:It's Latin for "to see". maybe this is why the 90's Spiderman cartoon had Elektro as a russian dude. Like how in Pryde of the X-men, wolverine is australian because of one misreading of a joke
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Day 57: Krang Primarily a Namor villain, this guy doesn't really get a lot of play because Namor doesn't really get much that passes for his own stories these days. I know him primarily from the First Mutant series where he had a very different look.  
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I guess I'm between gigs right now, just making ends meet as I guess what you would call a "professional" criminal? But I was previously the warlord of Atlantis and the head of a movie studio so I think I've got some serious leadership skills to apply in the right position. Personal strengths? I'm literally superhumanly strong, ambitious, amphibious, and a long term planner. My only real weakness is perhaps that I have no weaknesses - oh, and I can't survive out of water for more than nine minutes.
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In a world where Atlanteans are running movie studios, I can only imagine that James Cameron's The Abyss was actually a romantic comedy.
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Apr 28, 2017 01:44
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Wait, Atlantis is a nation with a capital called Atlantis City? I'm used to DC where it's usually one and the same. How much more of the ocean do they control?
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HitTheTargets posted:Wait, Atlantis is a nation with a capital called Atlantis City? I'm used to DC where it's usually one and the same. How much more of the ocean do they control? Depends on their status quo at the time; they've had conquests and expansions and contractions and diasporas and such. This map is probably pretty out of date, but: 
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Apr 28, 2017 02:19
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Is Seaweed Man the name of a city, a hero rooted to the seafloor, or just missing a comma?
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Apr 28, 2017 03:01
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Ghostlight posted:Is Seaweed Man the name of a city, a hero rooted to the seafloor, or just missing a comma? Something better.
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Apr 28, 2017 03:18
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"And if you need anything, anything at all, just pull the cord and one of the staff will come up to your room."
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Apr 28, 2017 03:22
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That's clearly Gossamer miscolored.
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Apr 28, 2017 03:22
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Ghostlight posted:It's Latin for "to see".
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Apr 28, 2017 07:17
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I'm pretty sure if your name is "Krang" then "Warlord Kang" technically isn't an alias...
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Apr 28, 2017 07:43
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ha ha wtf? this minor namor villain at one point ran a movie studio, but the bibliography just talks about things other than his movie studio.
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dr dorcas must have had a rough time in middle school
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This guy's basically just a less interesting version of Attuma. And no one gives a poo poo about Attuma.
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