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Did Dr Doom actually help out or did he just show up to weep
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May 19, 2020 19:14
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christmas boots posted:Because I had a pun to make and also I didn't see it. I thought it was a good pun that summed up the stupid thing without continuing to litigate it, but that's probably about enough, folks!
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May 19, 2020 19:14
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purple death ray posted:Did Dr Doom actually help out or did he just show up to weep I like to think they all showed up just to point and laugh. Also, I think they retconned it to be a Doombot. Because that somehow makes it less stupid.
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May 19, 2020 19:17
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I like to imagine that there are not actually any doombots at all and Dr Doom just likes having an excuse if he forgets someone's name or gets caught in a lie
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May 19, 2020 19:23
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Sunswipe posted:I like to think they all showed up just to point and laugh. Also, I think they retconned it to be a Doombot. Because that somehow makes it less stupid. Ah yes, Doom's famous crying robots.
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May 19, 2020 19:54
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AceOfFlames posted:Ah yes, Doom's famous crying robots. Leaking hydraulic fluid Alternatively Doom was crying because all it would have taken to beat the FF was fly a plane at their building and he never thought of that
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May 19, 2020 19:57
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Dr Doom literally blasted the fantastic fours skyscraper headquarters into space or some comic book bullshit back in the wacky days Hell Juggernaut leveled the entire WTC at one point!
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May 19, 2020 20:03
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Is continuity really that big a thing in comic books? Just seems like something like that could be shrugged off in a year without an explanation.
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May 19, 2020 20:05
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Kingpin is the only one in that trio that would care and it would be more because they broke his stuff. So he would go after Osama with his laser cane.
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May 19, 2020 20:06
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Sunswipe posted:I like to think they all showed up just to point and laugh. Also, I think they retconned it to be a Doombot. Because that somehow makes it less stupid.  Edit: And for any superhero you see do something odd, or die, substitute "Life Model Decoy" from SHIELD.
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May 19, 2020 20:34
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DrBouvenstein posted:
"I'm not Xena, I'm Lucy Lawless!"
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May 19, 2020 20:38
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And ten years prior to this, the Juggernaut punched down a WTC tower.. At this point, though, thanks to the Marvel Sliding Timescale, the Fantastic Four's rocket trip initiates the modern superhero age sometime around 2005.
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May 19, 2020 21:01
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:"I'm not Xena, I'm Lucy Lawless!" "Wait a minute... Xena can't fly!" "I told you, I'm not Xena!"
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May 19, 2020 21:24
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Push El Burrito posted:Kingpin is the only one in that trio that would care and it would be more because they broke his stuff. So he would go after Osama with his laser cane. I remember talking with a friend about this back when and we decided Magneto would be mad about any innocent mutants who died working there.
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May 19, 2020 22:38
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It seems like if Magneto gave a poo poo at all he would have shown up and held the steel in the towers together. Unless jet fuel didn’t melt the steel beams 
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May 20, 2020 01:59
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Blue Moonlight posted:It seems like if Magneto gave a poo poo at all he would have shown up and held the steel in the towers together. I’ve always suspected the Juggernaut-Bitch
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May 20, 2020 03:08
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Ambitious Spider posted:I remember talking with a friend about this back when and we decided Magneto would be mad about any innocent mutants who died working there. I kind of figure that Doom wouldn't approve, partly because it's rather senseless violence with high collateral and he prefers something rather more direct against the people he hates (so he probably didn't mind the attack on the Pentagon), but also because he seems to generally be a ruler that values the people to some degree. So he could reasonably be pretty upset that so many people died before knowing the glory of a Doomocracy. Basically, there are perfectly valid reasons Doom would hate the WTC attack, but those reasons aren't especially selfless or empathetic.
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May 20, 2020 03:21
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Thing that won't age well: the first season of the Batwoman TV series because the lead actress has quit and now they have to recast.
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muscles like this! posted:Thing that won't age well: the first season of the Batwoman TV series because the lead actress has quit and now they have to recast. Jeopardy literally just had a clue about her lol
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May 20, 2020 04:08
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Columbo was a good cop. Oldish post but Columbo is as much a cop as Zeus was a swan.
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May 20, 2020 04:20
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:This reminds me of the GI Joe special where GI Joe and Cobra team up to stop a drug dealer because even Cobra Commander is disgusted and horrified at the scourge of drugs being sold to white suburban children. Or one of the old DC/Marvel crossovers where Joker and Red Skull are about to do a team up, until Red heils Hitler and Joker goes off about how he's a proud American.
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May 20, 2020 04:39
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the_steve posted:Or one of the old DC/Marvel crossovers where Joker and Red Skull are about to do a team up, until Red heils Hitler and Joker goes off about how he's a proud American. Was that before or after The Rocketeer had the same sequence?
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May 20, 2020 04:54
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Arbite posted:Was that before or after The Rocketeer had the same sequence? Several years after.
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May 20, 2020 04:55
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the_steve posted:Or one of the old DC/Marvel crossovers where Joker and Red Skull are about to do a team up, until Red heils Hitler and Joker goes off about how he's a proud American. I think like everything else, the Joker reacted that way because it was the funniest option. Mind you, the Nazis aren't well-known for their well treatment of the mentally ill, or their sense of humour. In general this kind of thing makes team-ups hard for the Red Skull. Doom is ethnically Roma, Magneto is a jewish Holocaust survivor, Kingpin is all-American capitalism and so on.
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May 20, 2020 04:59
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I think like everything else, the Joker reacted that way because it was the funniest option. Mind you, the Nazis aren't well-known for their well treatment of the mentally ill, or their sense of humour. I assume everyone’s seen this but 
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I think like everything else, the Joker reacted that way because it was the funniest option. Mind you, the Nazis aren't well-known for their well treatment of the mentally ill, or their sense of humour. Honestly, I don't think Joker did it for the lolz. I mean, beating a teenager to death with a crowbar is one thing, you're supposed to do that when you're a dangerous psychopath, but once you heil a Hitler, you're pretty much stuck forever as a Nazi, and that's a line too far.
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May 20, 2020 05:03
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Beating that teenager to death with a crowbar was democracy, though.
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May 20, 2020 05:11
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I think the gimmick of that comic was that each issue was written like it was from a different period in comics history, so that was a goofy 50s story with a silly, non-murderer version of the Joker who just wants to do pranks and pull boners etc.
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May 20, 2020 05:15
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I think the gimmick of that comic was that each issue was written like it was from a different period in comics history, so that was a goofy 50s story with a silly, non-murderer version of the Joker who just wants to do pranks and pull boners etc. Eh, funnier when the Joker is so unpredictable that he'll steal a kid's report card or kill his family in front of him depending on what he feels like.
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May 20, 2020 05:37
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Something good with the Harley Quinn cartoon is that the Joker actually makes jokes, not just random crimes. Some of them are even actually funny, like he pays a cashier at a smoothie shop to mispronounce Bane's name as "Bang" because Bane likes blowing stuff up. That's a funny idea, and it's not even that much of a crime, just a dumb joke. The main problem is that Bane has very thin skin, but that's not entirely on the Joker.
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May 20, 2020 05:52
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Eh, funnier when the Joker is so unpredictable that he'll steal a kid's report card or kill his family in front of him depending on what he feels like. There's a Thanos comic where it's revealed he has picked a single guy at random and every year on his birthday he shows up and tortures him. There's no reason behind this, he does it simply because he wants to. 
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May 20, 2020 06:09
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Grand Gigas posted:Oldish post but Columbo is as much a cop as Zeus was a swan. Unfortunately the existence of Mrs. Columbo starring a 24 year old Kate Mulgrew confirms that Columbo liked his women a little too young.
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May 20, 2020 06:10
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Push El Burrito posted:There's a Thanos comic where it's revealed he has picked a single guy at random and every year on his birthday he shows up and tortures him. There's no reason behind this, he does it simply because he wants to. https://imgur.com/gallery/FWN0yMv The first one is by far the pettiest and therefore the best
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May 20, 2020 06:12
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I'm reminded of the bit where someone comes home to find Darkseid on their couch. Comics Thanos is a lot more interesting than the movies. A big part of it seems to be that he's bored, desperately searching for a purpose to his existence, and both motivated and crippled by his self-loathing. Using incredible power to do incredibly petty things is a recurring theme with him. Like making Deadpool immortal to stop him from being able to be with Death. Actually, the comparison to the Joker reminds me of the closest equivalent scenario; BTAS episode Joker's Favor, where the Joker keeps tabs on one guy who had a case of road rage against the worst possible subject. Though it's handled much more interestingly as the Joker accidentally teaches his victim the value of leverage. Ghost Leviathan has a new favorite as of 06:33 on May 20, 2020 |
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May 20, 2020 06:25
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm reminded of the bit where someone comes home to find Darkseid on their couch. I love in that particular Joker story where the guy ends up cornering him in an alley with a bomb as he has nothing left to lose, and the Joker winds up shouting for Batman to come and save him. "Yes, very good Charlie.... BATMAN!" Then it turns out the bomb was a fake and Charlie was just making a joke at his expense, the most fitting revenge he could have come up with.
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May 20, 2020 06:45
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm reminded of the bit where someone comes home to find Darkseid on their couch. One way movie Thanos could have been improved was every scene he was in he would just be finishing a set and let the person know what he had lifted. Dr strange: yeah you’re definitely more of a Thanos Thanos: deadlifts. 1300 pounds. 4 10s. I take it the maw is dead.
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May 20, 2020 06:50
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christmas boots posted:Unfortunately the existence of Mrs. Columbo starring a 24 year old Kate Mulgrew confirms that Columbo liked his women a little too young. It confirms the wife chooses a younger form on this Earth.
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May 20, 2020 07:09
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Come to think of it, all the best Joker bits in BTAS are about how all his petty cruelty eventually comes to bite him in the rear end when people are eventually pushed to breaking point- he talks a big game about how 'one bad day' can make anyone like him, but he can never deal with the consequences.
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May 20, 2020 07:12
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christmas boots posted:Unfortunately the existence of Mrs. Columbo starring a 24 year old Kate Mulgrew confirms that Columbo liked his women a little too young. The creators of Columbo went on to emphatically deny that she was the actual Mrs. Columbo (rather the wife of someone else named Columbo) and even considered having Columbo state in the revival that there was “some crazy girl running around impersonating my wife”.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Comics Thanos is a lot more interesting than the movies. A big part of it seems to be that he's bored, desperately searching for a purpose to his existence, and both motivated and crippled by his self-loathing. Using incredible power to do incredibly petty things is a recurring theme with him. Like making Deadpool immortal to stop him from being able to be with Death. I thought it was the other way round - Death can be with Deadpool because he's the one living creature that she will never have to claim?
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