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CzarChasm posted:I don't know. Is it bad that someone refers to Sue as having a "world class scientific mind", and my only thought is "Since when?" She has been generally written to be incredibly intelligent, just not Reedtellagent. Obviously discounting the early 'oh no I forgot I was a woman' days
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Zore posted:Is that Ben? I thought it was Bruce Banner. It's Bruce.
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Yeah its like the rooms full of 90th percentile scientific minds on earth and then reed waltzes in with his top .1% of science brains in the galaxy
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ImpAtom posted:She has been generally written to be incredibly intelligent, just not Reedtellagent. Obviously discounting the early 'oh no I forgot I was a woman' days Rigged Death Trap posted:Yeah its like the rooms full of 90th percentile scientific minds on earth and then reed waltzes in with his top .1% of science brains in the galaxy OK, cool. Admittedly I don't follow F4 closely, and most of what I remember Sue from she's not well written at all. It's either 60s "Women be shopping and pretending to think, ain't that cute" to "Supermom/Super hero den mother" to "Malice, because of the previous stuff".
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CzarChasm posted:OK, cool. Admittedly I don't follow F4 closely, and most of what I remember Sue from she's not well written at all. It's either 60s "Women be shopping and pretending to think, ain't that cute" to "Supermom/Super hero den mother" to "Malice, because of the previous stuff". In the Ultimate F4 series, she was considered a world-leading biologist, her and Reed met at the Baxter building which was originally a school for incredibly gifted teenagers.
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The Fantastic Four were a group that could have starred in a Thunderbirds-esque adventure serial even without superpowers. They were all absurdly competent, they were just all standing in the same room as Reed. If I remember right Ben was a test pilot who could "drive anything" and Johnny was a whiz mechanic/engineer? I might have those mixed up.
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Bruceski posted:The Fantastic Four were a group that could have starred in a Thunderbirds-esque adventure serial even without superpowers. They were all absurdly competent, they were just all standing in the same room as Reed. If I remember right Ben was a test pilot who could "drive anything" and Johnny was a whiz mechanic/engineer? I might have those mixed up. Depends on the continuity. In the original I think Johnny tagged along just because he was Sue's little brother and he was sort of the lovely teenager audience insert. I think the explanation was literally that she didn't have any childcare coverage so he had to come with them. Then that got retconned a few times to him being a mechanic, a NASA backup pilot and maybe something else? I know when they redo the origins in things like the Ultimate universe or the terrible movies they've usually had Johnny also be some kind of gifted kid with a wide variety of aptitudes instead of just 'teenager coming along for the ride'. Much like how Sue became a scientist in her own right instead of coming along because she was Reed's girlfriend. Reed and Ben were both war heroes from WW2 with Reed as a distinguished scientist and Ben as a test pilot. And they were originally on their space flight to beat the Russians to the moon because people were freaking out about Sputnik Zore fucked around with this message at 22:41 on May 20, 2022 |
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Yeah its like the rooms full of 90th percentile scientific minds on earth and then reed waltzes in with his top .1% of science brains in the galaxy Still love that when they wanted to recreate the Supreme Intelligence - a gestalt being powered by the collective minds of tens of thousands of the greatest Kree intellects in history - they did so by using THREE Alternate Universe Reeds 
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Jerusalem posted:Still love that when they wanted to recreate the Supreme Intelligence - a gestalt being powered by the collective minds of tens of thousands of the greatest Kree intellects in history - they did so by using THREE Alternate Universe Reeds How many people/worlds/universes died as a result of using Reeds? 
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MH Knights posted:How many people/worlds/universes died as a result of using Reeds? That depends, were they evil pragmatic Reeds, regular evil Reeds, or Fledgling Reeds who hadn't had the time to develop Reed Richards' rather peculiar morality system.
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Kwyndig posted:That depends, were they evil pragmatic Reeds, regular evil Reeds, or Fledgling Reeds who hadn't had the time to develop Reed Richards' rather peculiar morality system. Evil Pragmatic, and I think it was actually just two of them? They were the last members of the Council of Reeds.
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SimonChris posted:
It's funny that anyone is surprised given that so many Marvel characters gave themselves powers with science skills... speaking of, does anyone have that one bit where the Avengers are surprised at Peter's knowledge and he exasperatedly goes "why does nobody ever remember that I'm also really smart?"
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It’s been like twenty years since Spider-Man has been allowed to play with the Avengers, but it’s still fun to show that Spidey has a brain to back up the whatever a spider can. Spider-Man is turning 60 in August, but it was the last couple decades where he was fully acknowledged on the level of the Avengers and FF. The outcast thing was well played out by then.
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Argue posted:It's funny that anyone is surprised given that so many Marvel characters gave themselves powers with science skills... speaking of, does anyone have that one bit where the Avengers are surprised at Peter's knowledge and he exasperatedly goes "why does nobody ever remember that I'm also really smart?" Well I mean most of them gave themselves powers by accident though. Usually via something that really should've killed them if radiation wasn't just magic in the 60s
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or they know about the magic of TRANSISTORS
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Kurui Reiten posted:Evil Pragmatic, and I think it was actually just two of them? They were the last members of the Council of Reeds. That it was only two of them makes it even better. And yeah, from memory they were jerk rear end in a top hat evil Reeds so I shed no tears for them. 
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Argue posted:It's funny that anyone is surprised given that so many Marvel characters gave themselves powers with science skills... speaking of, does anyone have that one bit where the Avengers are surprised at Peter's knowledge and he exasperatedly goes "why does nobody ever remember that I'm also really smart?" I don't have it but that's a favorite of mine too, it's somewhere in Marvel Adventures Avengers
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Phy posted:I don't have it but that's a favorite of mine too, it's somewhere in Marvel Adventures Avengers I found it! It's #11  (this is the best quality I could find though)
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TwoPair posted:I found it! It's #11 I have a feeling I know why. 
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site posted:yeesh, snakes on a plane. that feels like a million years ago The tie-in song has been stuck in my head ever since then.
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Bucnasti posted:I have a feeling I know why. I always get mad at this because Peter explaining that he'd accidentally webbed his pants to his rear end and couldn't get them off should have immediately made the Avengers go,"Yeah, that's the real Spider-Man alright."
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This is what gets the Avengers sent to a life-changing Saturday detention
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Bucnasti posted:I have a feeling I know why. I always liked Spidey 2099's reaction to being told about SpOck. "Yeah, that sounds just dumb enough to be true."
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Bucnasti posted:I have a feeling I know why. 'Wait, are you newspaper Spider-Man?'
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Darthemed posted:
Thanos' strategy for beating this guy (he has the Power Stone from memory) in a fight is absolutely loving hilarious: he wipes out the planet/asteroid they're fighting on so they're floating in the vacuum of space and only Thanos can move, and he offers to help out in exchange for that pretty little stone he carries on his forehead that surely has nothing but decorative value right!?!
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It also has a very "The end of Commando" vibe to it. "Come on the Champion. You don't need to use the Power Gem on me. You have all the strength and skill you need. You want to kill me with your bare hands!"
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Libra posted:I feel sorry for that guy. Imagine being blessed with a luxurious mane of neon pink hair and then your space-hairline recedes to halfway down your skull. Why do you think he's so angry?
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Taika Waititi read the thread title.
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Push El Burrito posted:Taika Waititi read the thread title. Sheesh, they chain him up and still leave his hammer free? Amateurs.
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Push El Burrito posted:Taika Waititi read the thread title. he's picked up a huge back tat too, looks like.
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MikeJF posted:he's picked up a huge back tat too, looks like. I saw a good shot of it and it says "RIP LOKI" between Loki's horns
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