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CzarChasm posted:So can those soldiers understand her or not? Sword guy speaks English at the end, but everyone else is speaking <>. Can't blame them for not surrendering if they don't know that's what you are offering. Pretty much every non-american understand english to some degree.
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Phy posted:Oh hey I thought I recognized that art style. Livio Ramondelli has an... idiosyncratic way with his lineart, but I always liked his coloring. So, status quo has reasserted itself? Or is that not Megatron?
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Hulk Smash! posted:To be fair, according to the Marvel handbook, every non-powered person in the Marvel universe is listed as Olympic-level athlete, expert hand to hand combatant, and/or having 3 PhD's. I mean, Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau, I'll grant you.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:So, status quo has reasserted itself? Or is that not Megatron? Robots in Disguise was part of IDW's old TF continuity, although that is Galvatron (who was distinct from Megatron in that series).
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CzarChasm posted:So can those soldiers understand her or not? Sword guy speaks English at the end, but everyone else is speaking <>. Can't blame them for not surrendering if they don't know that's what you are offering. Kitty can speak fluent Russian because (iirc) Xavier instantaneously psychics the language into her brain when young, pre-demon-abduction Illyana is living at the mansion. He does it so that Kitty can look after Illyana, because she's just a little kid who can only speak Russian at the time. I'm not sure if Xavier ever does that again? Being able to instantly, permanently teach someone a foreign language would be insanely useful.
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Wait, is that the same sword? Because I am loving the overall outfit. 
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's intended to be the same sword. Pirate Kate is the best.
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Red Bones posted:Kitty can speak fluent Russian because (iirc) Xavier instantaneously psychics the language into her brain when young, pre-demon-abduction Illyana is living at the mansion. He does it so that Kitty can look after Illyana, because she's just a little kid who can only speak Russian at the time. They do it with the Krakoan language for sure
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Professor Xavier's 5-minute language course for the ultra-rich is how he could fund that school.
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habeasdorkus posted:Wait, is that the same sword? Because I am loving the overall outfit. this slaps extremely slappily
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Red Bones posted:Kitty can speak fluent Russian because (iirc) Xavier instantaneously psychics the language into her brain when young, pre-demon-abduction Illyana is living at the mansion. He does it so that Kitty can look after Illyana, because she's just a little kid who can only speak Russian at the time. He teaches Cyclops Chinese in Morrison's run, but they reference the fact that it slowly wears off
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Dawgstar posted:
Such a good page.
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Red Bones posted:Kitty can speak fluent Russian because (iirc) Xavier instantaneously psychics the language into her brain when young, pre-demon-abduction Illyana is living at the mansion. He does it so that Kitty can look after Illyana, because she's just a little kid who can only speak Russian at the time. Wouldn’t it make more sense to psychic English into Illyana’s brain so she can talk to everyone there?
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Retro Futurist posted:He teaches Cyclops Chinese in Morrison's run, but they reference the fact that it slowly wears off I mean that's an actual property of languages in the real world. Like, anyone who's learned a foreign language will tell you that disuse destroys fluency faster than anything.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Wouldn’t it make more sense to psychic English into Illyana’s brain so she can talk to everyone there? that would immediately remove the uniqueness of her only speaking russian and turn her into just another of the students, although yes it would  make more sense
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Flesh Forge posted:that would immediately remove the uniqueness of her only speaking russian and turn her into just another of the students, although yes it would I didn't realise this until I read the old claremont stuff earlier this year but at that point in the story Kitty is literally the only student in the entire mansion. Illyana isn't even a student, she's just being babysat iirc. It's just Kitty and the (entirely adult) team of X-men. For ages there's no students at all, then there's Kitty, and then a while after that the new mutants show up and the school has a grand total of about eight children studying there. I stopped reading before the story hit the big student body of mutants status quo that they have in the movies, so I have no idea when that actually shows up.
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Every week Xavier changes the language spoken throughout the entire school to amuse himself. Nobody has noticed yet. Right now they're all speaking Flemish.
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Rhaka posted:Every week Xavier changes the language spoken throughout the entire school to amuse himself. Nobody has noticed yet. Right now they're all speaking Flemish. Don’t be absurd! Nobody speaks Flemish, it’s just an ongoing practical joke on the French
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Rhaka posted:Every week Xavier changes the language spoken throughout the entire school to amuse himself. Nobody has noticed yet. Right now they're all speaking Flemish. It is a little funny how the school angle just totally disappears. I think before they get Kitty on board, the youngest X-Man is Piotr? And while he was, what, 16? 17? he was always presented as an X-Man(tm, c) full fledged, not the junior sidekick... helped of course that he was the size of a horse.
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Red Bones posted:I didn't realise this until I read the old claremont stuff earlier this year but at that point in the story Kitty is literally the only student in the entire mansion. Illyana isn't even a student, she's just being babysat iirc. It's just Kitty and the (entirely adult) team of X-men. For ages there's no students at all, then there's Kitty, and then a while after that the new mutants show up and the school has a grand total of about eight children studying there. I stopped reading before the story hit the big student body of mutants status quo that they have in the movies, so I have no idea when that actually shows up. Huh, I guess I am mixing it up with my memory of early New Mutants, I do remember when Illyana was introduced and you're right there weren't a bunch of other young characters around 
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Thaddius the Large posted:Don’t be absurd! Nobody speaks Flemish, it’s just an ongoing practical joke on the French As a native Dutch speaker, agreed.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Wouldn’t it make more sense to psychic English into Illyana’s brain so she can talk to everyone there? He does that eventually, after her trip to Belasco's lair and the subsequent age-up. I remember there's a Claremont/Cockrum issue at some point where she's having lunch with Xavier and says, "So, weird thing, I speak English now?" and he says he beamed it into her brain while she was asleep. Before she spent all that time in Limbo, Illyana was a really little kid, so that might have had something to do with it. No joke, Xavier's psychic instant-expert language courses are one of the major super-powers I would absolutely want to have.
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Emma Frost was language-dumping into everyone's brains a few times - I want to say once was one of the African adventures versus Doctor Crocodile or whatever that dictator's name was.
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I seem to recall that in Giant Size X-men #1, when we first assemble the new team, one of the narration boxes was "After a 5 minute crash course in English". Maybe that's short hand for getting Russian, German, English, and whatever language Storm spoke working together through mind whammy.
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If we'd like to get some good old Sapir-Whorf hypothesis up in this, how badly are the psychics messing up people with their language implants?
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They're psychics, you should always assume they're messing up people whenever they do anything.
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CzarChasm posted:I seem to recall that in Giant Size X-men #1, when we first assemble the new team, one of the narration boxes was "After a 5 minute crash course in English". Maybe that's short hand for getting Russian, German, English, and whatever language Storm spoke working together through mind whammy.
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Skwirl posted:Wasn't Storm born in New York? She was specifically raised in Egypt I believe, at least for most of her time in the comics. Maybe they changed it at some point.
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seaborgium posted:She was specifically raised in Egypt I believe, at least for most of her time in the comics. Maybe they changed it at some point. Storm's history's always been basically 'born in New York, raised in Egypt' if it helps. I think her dad was American and her mom Kenyan.
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Dawgstar posted:Storm's history's always been basically 'born in New York, raised in Egypt' if it helps. I think her dad was American and her mom Kenyan. Wow so reverse Obama.
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Dawgstar posted:Storm's history's always been basically 'born in New York, raised in Egypt' if it helps. I think her dad was American and her mom Kenyan. Ahh, ok. All I ever remembered was that she was a street urchin in Cairo.
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seaborgium posted:Ahh, ok. All I ever remembered was that she was a street urchin in Cairo. Understandable. That's what gets the most play, aside from the 'worshiped as a goddess' thing (which gets a lot less now).
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The only time I remember seeing the whole American part of her heritage played up was back in the XMEN Evolution cartoon in the early 2000s. She had a half sister who had a mutant kid who was the cool skateboarding dude invented for the show. Spyke never really took off though and got written out after a few seasons to become a Morlock.
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Reginald Hudlin also introduced her paternal grandparents and cousin, who I don't think have appeared at all outside of his Black Panther. Her grandparents are actually kinda cool; they're introduced beating the poo poo out of a HYDRA goon squad with a frying pan and rifle.
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iirc her backstory in the Claremont run is that her parents moved the family to Egypt when she was a baby, and then they got killed in the Suez Crisis when their apartment got hit by a missile or had a plane crash into it or something. I think it was the Suez Crisis, at least.
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That would be about right for the early run.
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I read a bunch of it earlier this year and the way you could really tell the period it was made in was really entertaining. The first time they fight Proteus he's possessing his own father, so the entire fight is with this middle aged guy with big 70's hair and a huge cardigan.
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