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A Strange Aeon posted:Who has Wolverine actually killed to justify him being the best there is at what he does? Thousands of nameless goons
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Sep 5, 2020 19:55
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A Strange Aeon posted:Who has Wolverine actually killed to justify him being the best there is at what he does? Wolverine is honestly extremely good at killing people who are not omnipotent giant cosmic deities. He kind of has the Spider-Man thing where it is treated as entirely plausible that if the story demands it he can kill almost anyone. He doesn't often get to because lol comic death but the combination of being able to cut anything and heal from anything tends to be a very potent mix. At its most extreme you get elseworlds stuff where Wolverine is shown to be able to kill almost every superhero or supervillain who exists. He's still going to lose in a fight with Galactus or whatever but they've generally established that Wolverine's killing credentials are top of the line. (Which is why he gets jobbed so often to show off how powerful a new villain is.) For a while Sabertooth's entire thing was "is like Wolverine but is so tough Wolverine can't even kill him" but that's kinda fallen way by the wayside these days.
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Sep 5, 2020 20:08
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ImpAtom posted:For a while Sabertooth's entire thing was "is like Wolverine but is so tough Wolverine can't even kill him" but that's kinda fallen way by the wayside these days. Isn't his current thing to torture Wolverine on his birthday, like Thanos does to that totally unknown human for no reason at all?
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Sep 5, 2020 22:13
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his current thing is to be buried alive under krakoa
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Sep 5, 2020 22:15
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Binary Badger posted:Isn't his current thing to torture Wolverine on his birthday, like Thanos does to that totally unknown human for no reason at all? That was a one off gag many years ago when Wolverine was the headmaster of the Jean Grey School.
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Sep 5, 2020 22:50
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Darthemed posted:
This reminded me that I'd been meaning to make a mod challenge thread for comic book inspired recipes and cooking. I'll put together an OP this weekend but lord I would love to see what that kung fu burger looks like in practice because I can not wrap my head around it.
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Sep 5, 2020 22:51
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Skwirl posted:That was a one off gag many years ago when Wolverine was the headmaster of the Jean Grey School. It was before that. I remember Jay and Miles mentioning it on an early appearance. He killed one of Logan's many girlfriends as a birthday 'gift' and IIRC just showed up to beat the poo poo out of him on another
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Sep 5, 2020 22:59
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ImpAtom posted:It was before that. I remember Jay and Miles mentioning it on an early appearance. He killed one of Logan's many girlfriends as a birthday 'gift' and IIRC just showed up to beat the poo poo out of him on another Oh, didn't realize it had been a recurring thing, I was thinking of the panels of him putting razor wire in the road then jetpacking away that's been posted a bunch in various funny panel threads.
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Sep 5, 2020 23:12
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How Wonderful! posted:This reminded me that I'd been meaning to make a mod challenge thread for comic book inspired recipes and cooking. I'll put together an OP this weekend but lord I would love to see what that kung fu burger looks like in practice because I can not wrap my head around it. The recipe looks weirder the more I study it. So it's ground beef and chow mein noodles and vegetables mushed together? And then you bake it for 25 minutes ... wouldn't that turn out dry as hell? Admittedly, I have no experience working with canned chow mein, which is probably the only form the average American would have been familiar with in 1977. Meanwhile, the Hulkburger just looks like a knockoff Big Mac.
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Sep 5, 2020 23:22
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Skwirl posted:Oh, didn't realize it had been a recurring thing, I was thinking of the panels of him putting razor wire in the road then jetpacking away that's been posted a bunch in various funny panel threads. I think it got established in 1987 in the backup to Classic X-Men #10, although looking back at it while it makes sense as the first appearance of the birthday thing, the story never actually says it's Logan's birthday. It's just a weird story about Sabretooth hunting him and beating him up. It's a neat story with beautiful John Bolton pencils but maybe not a clear-cut origin of this trope. I think Claremont really starts to solidify the idea in Wolverine #10 in 1989, which shows Sabretooth deliberately taunting and going after Logan's loved ones on two separate birthdays-- one in the past, in... Canada...? and one in the present in Madripoor. It's another really nice issue (Bill Sienkiewicz inking John Buscema!) and really spells it out that this is something Sabretooth does as a sick birthday present. It looks like there are a healthy amount of Sabretooth appearances between those two issues so I don't know, maybe Claremont plays with the idea a little bit more in between, but I think most of them are appearances with the Marauders or fights with non-Wolverine teams, so I'd be kind of surprised.
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Sep 5, 2020 23:40
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A Strange Aeon posted:Who has Wolverine actually killed to justify him being the best there is at what he does? They actually address this once! He killed Death. Or, like, one of Death's personal agents who goes after dying soldiers on the battlefield. It was also used to explain some stuff that was, then, recent yet inconsistent with Wolverine, like his healing factor being power creeped to hell, and was supposed to result in that being dialed back, but comic books.
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Sep 5, 2020 23:55
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A Strange Aeon posted:Who has Wolverine actually killed to justify him being the best there is at what he does? His kids
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Sep 6, 2020 09:37
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CzarChasm posted:No, it's not really. But, if I nearly murder Wolverine in the most painful way possible, in an event that starts a chain reaction that causes him to basically de-evolve and then go through another almost equally painful procedure to put all the metal back into his body, and he says we're square after upending a piss bucket onto my head, I'm not going to argue with him.
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Sep 6, 2020 10:09
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KaosMachina posted:They actually address this once! Weird, that doesn't get referenced much does it? It has the same patina of "okay but doesn't seem to stick to the character" as Frank Castle becoming an angel or whatever.
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Sep 6, 2020 13:17
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Selachian posted:The recipe looks weirder the more I study it. So it's ground beef and chow mein noodles and vegetables mushed together? And then you bake it for 25 minutes ... wouldn't that turn out dry as hell? Admittedly, I have no experience working with canned chow mein, which is probably the only form the average American would have been familiar with in 1977. I took a look and I am still not sure how it would work. It was apparently pretty popular in the postwar decades (Chun King was, of course, started by an Italian). To my pampered 21st century sensibilities, the idea of cooking 3 pounds of "family-economy" 1960s American canned chinese food makes me want to vomit, but what do I know.   I'm also not an expert on mixing minced beef with what is essentially canned pasta, but wouldn't all the liquid in the sauce just make the whole thing a soggy mess? Bonus terrible slogan: 
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Sep 6, 2020 13:57
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I had a bad feeling it would be precisely that, so if anybody wants to do the kung fu burger please feel free to do... an elevated or revised version or whatever doesn't require having to consume Chinese Chef Boyardee From Kennedy Times. Edit: The thread has been made if people want to continue discussing the kung fu burger here. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Sep 6, 2020 |
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Sep 6, 2020 16:12
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ImpAtom posted:Wolverine is honestly extremely good at killing people who are not omnipotent giant cosmic deities. He kind of has the Spider-Man thing where it is treated as entirely plausible that if the story demands it he can kill almost anyone. He doesn't often get to because lol comic death but the combination of being able to cut anything and heal from anything tends to be a very potent mix. At its most extreme you get elseworlds stuff where Wolverine is shown to be able to kill almost every superhero or supervillain who exists. What I'm getting from all this is Wolvie is Marvel's Worf.
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Sep 6, 2020 20:50
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Discendo Vox posted:What I'm getting from all this is Wolvie is Marvel's Worf.  Correct. (I'm sure this has been posted before but it's from Stark Trek/X-Men)
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Sep 6, 2020 21:03
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Discendo Vox posted:What I'm getting from all this is Wolvie is Marvel's Worf. And Ben Grimm is happy to have someone share the duties. Guy got knocked cold by Madrox in his first appearance.
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Sep 6, 2020 21:34
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Stark trek is the newest iron man mini
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Sep 7, 2020 01:43
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This is a super-minor detail but one I found really funny in Dark Knights - Death Metal Guidebook. If you are not familiar with DC's Death Metal event, it doesn't matter. Blah, blah, the world's a shithole overrun by evil Batmen, who cares. For the purpose of this, there's a frame narrative where Lex Luthor is going around taking notes about all the details of this hell world, and this page covers how Superman is trapped in Metropolis I love how Lex takes time to add "Hope. HA!" on his Superman drawing. Like Jesus dude, get over it, it's the end of the world. Anyway here's something more conventionally funny. Empyre - X-Men #2: A bunch of old botanist ladies have used plant pheromones to mind control the male members of the team. 
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Sep 7, 2020 07:03
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"sauceboat"
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Sep 7, 2020 08:28
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Sep 7, 2020 10:11
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Phy posted:"sauceboat" "What's the most offensive word we can put here, but still pass the censors and get it to print?" "I mean we could just say 'the size of the balls on this b****' and be done with it.." "What about 'sauceboat'?" "...go on"
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Sep 7, 2020 10:15
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Infinitum posted:"What's the most offensive word we can put here, but still pass the censors and get it to print?" Is this a recognized term or did the writer here just make it up for get-past-the-censors-reasons?
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Sep 7, 2020 15:38
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ManiacClown posted:Is this a recognized term or did the writer here just make it up for get-past-the-censors-reasons? It's not even a euphemism on urbandictionary.
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Sep 7, 2020 15:50
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i think the idea is that it is supposed to be inscrutable ancient slang but it doesn't really work
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Sep 7, 2020 19:26
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TwoPair posted:
That's an extremely tortured punchline.
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Sep 7, 2020 19:30
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The sauceboat line is obvious and hilarious, why would you be trying to urbandictionary that? Just stop being goony for 2 seconds.
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Sep 7, 2020 20:19
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Alhazred posted:That's an extremely tortured punchline. I know, I love it. Magik not quite getting snappy patter due to her upbringing is how I interpret it, and I greatly enjoy how it's clunky and yet still badass. 
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Sep 7, 2020 20:19
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Might as well post the funny stuff that leads up to it...
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Sep 7, 2020 21:01
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:i think the idea is that it is supposed to be inscrutable ancient slang but it doesn't really work It's not slang, there's just no rhyme or reason for the way some old people get around cursing. My mom has been calling people that piss her off 'a son of submariner' and 'flip the dog' instead of goddammit since I was a little kid.
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Sep 7, 2020 21:18
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:My mom has been calling people that piss her off 'a son of submariner' Did she also poison the water around Doma Castle?
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Sep 7, 2020 21:43
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Alhazred posted:That's an extremely tortured punchline. Thank God it's not just me.
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Sep 7, 2020 22:37
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The only person who wouldn't be able to understand what "sauceboat" is a euphemism for is Ben Shapiro.
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Sep 7, 2020 22:50
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h of an s-boat make that pull out game weak.
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Sep 7, 2020 23:05
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This is what I get for posting the follow-up panel after the joke
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Also someone oughta call Samus Aran and let her know some old lady with a can of bug spray is biting her style
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