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Ultimate X Men had a decent issue where there's a kid that develops the power to involuntarily vaporise anyone near him and Wolverine gets sent to just kill him.
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Fil5000 posted:Ultimate X Men had a decent issue where there's a kid that develops the power to involuntarily vaporise anyone near him and Wolverine gets sent to just kill him. couldn't they just use a sniper or a drone strike?
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Apr 11, 2024 14:07
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Shard posted:couldn't they just use a sniper or a drone strike? But I dont think many people would have liked an issue of ultimate X-men that didnt have any X-men in it.
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Apr 11, 2024 14:35
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Shard posted:couldn't they just use a sniper or a drone strike? They didn't want the humans to know about it. A huge part about being an X-man is covering up the crimes of other mutants.
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Apr 11, 2024 15:06
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SiKboy posted:But I dont think many people would have liked an issue of ultimate X-men that didnt have any X-men in it. There must be a mutant called Drone whose powers either involve drones or are completely unrelated to drones of any kind.
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Apr 11, 2024 15:08
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Grendels Dad posted:There must be a mutant called Drone whose powers either involve drones or are completely unrelated to drones of any kind. maybe they meant dull/boring and droning on, much like your posting
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Apr 11, 2024 15:10
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T... turn your monitor on!
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Apr 11, 2024 15:12
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Fil5000 posted:Ultimate X Men had a decent issue where there's a kid that develops the power to involuntarily vaporise anyone near him and Wolverine gets sent to just kill him. It's pretty easy to find the issue online, it's reasonably well known and a good quick read.
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Apr 11, 2024 15:17
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Wolverine as angstily taciturn psychopomp is one of the best forms of Wolverine. A lot better than a grumpy old man calling everyone bub and raging out.
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Apr 11, 2024 15:20
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Grendels Dad posted:There must be a mutant called Drone whose powers either involve drones or are completely unrelated to drones of any kind. Maggot kinda had drones. God, how was MAGGOT a main character for any length of time?
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Apr 11, 2024 15:33
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Fil5000 posted:Ultimate X Men had a decent issue where there's a kid that develops the power to involuntarily vaporise anyone near him and Wolverine gets sent to just kill him. Thus demonstrating the overall theme of x-men, thst people who are different from you will kill everyone you know and love
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Apr 11, 2024 16:18
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Grendels Dad posted:There must be a mutant called Drone whose powers either involve drones or are completely unrelated to drones of any kind. He has a swarm of male bees that hump targets to death
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Apr 11, 2024 18:25
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Megillah Gorilla posted:They didn't want the humans to know about it. Mutants are cops
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Apr 11, 2024 18:51
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I think Nick Fury was also helping with the cover up, which was "the chem plant had a leak". also I think the last time this kid with the death field or death stink came up, most goons said that the minority metaphor breaks apart and power registration acts are "okay" given how some powers are just public hazards.
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Apr 11, 2024 21:10
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That ties into a IIMM for Xmen 2 where Iceman's mother (IIRC?) asks him if he's tried not being a mutant. I get that they're doing an allusion to homosexuality, but I hate that bit because homophobia is irrational while in universe fear of mutants is completely understandable given the power levels of people like Magneto. A random gay dude isn't an existential threat; someone that can kill you by thinking at you is.
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Apr 11, 2024 21:16
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Marcade posted:That ties into a IIMM for Xmen 2 where Iceman's mother (IIRC?) asks him if he's tried not being a mutant. I get that they're doing an allusion to homosexuality, but I hate that bit because homophobia is irrational while in universe fear of mutants is completely understandable given the power levels of people like Magneto. A random gay dude isn't an existential threat; someone that can kill you by thinking at you is. Xmen 1 starts with the fearmongering bigot senator asking in a speech, "What if a mutant with the power to walk through walls walks through the walls of the White House to assassinate the president?" Xmen 2 starts with a mutant with the power to teleport through walls teleporting through the walls of the White House to assassinate the president.
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Apr 11, 2024 21:27
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I call em muties
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Apr 11, 2024 21:35
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More like OldKittyPrideless.
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Apr 11, 2024 21:37
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Kitty Pride is famously racist.
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Apr 11, 2024 21:49
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FreudianSlippers posted:Kitty Pride is famously racist. More like Kitty Prejudice.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Kitty Pride is famously racist. A jewish woman being racist? Sounds like the realm of fantasy.
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Apr 11, 2024 22:39
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The 'Media that didn't age well' thread was subtitled 'Pryde and Prejudice' for ages
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Apr 11, 2024 23:19
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Phanatic posted:They could drug her up and have Colossus throw her at things. Wild Cards had a founding hero with the power to control his weight. Named "Fat Man" his gimmick was he was a big fat guy but was able to weigh as little as ten pounds and do floaty Luigi jumps. There was another hero with jizz powers (became like professor X during no nut November, could also ressurect dead ppl with his jizz or give sex partners goku powers by nutting in them). JRR Martin is a weird guy.
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Apr 12, 2024 00:33
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HopperUK posted:The 'Media that didn't age well' thread was subtitled 'Pryde and Prejudice' for ages It's still "more like Kitty Prejudice". Makes me laugh every time.
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Apr 12, 2024 01:11
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Great Lakes Avengers has Big Bertha, who is a big lady who beats up people and then throws up to become a slender supermodel. It's... problematic at best.
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Apr 12, 2024 01:24
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FreudianSlippers posted:Kitty Pride is famously racist.
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Apr 12, 2024 01:59
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Ommin posted:What's the story behind this? I must have missed it, I don't follow Xmen stories much. She's not actually racist but there are panels of her using slurs to equate them to anti-mutant prejudice.
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Apr 12, 2024 02:05
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Grendels Dad posted:There must be a mutant called Drone whose powers either involve drones or are completely unrelated to drones of any kind. Sentinels are basically drones There was one kid with technopath powers who had an Iron Giant riff going on with a Sentinel
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Apr 12, 2024 04:26
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In the new Godzilla movies when Godzilla is not on screen, all the other characters including the monsters should be asking where’s Godzilla
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Apr 12, 2024 05:19
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tbh most of the time the humans are asking that
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Apr 12, 2024 06:13
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They should shoot it like Jaws and spend the first 75% of the movie not actually showing Godzilla, just everybody's reactions.
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Apr 12, 2024 06:38
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Someone help me out with this. People keep saying that the asteroid attack in Starship Troopers was done by the humans because propaganda and it's crazy to assume the bugs would be capable of that. When they talk about this they never mention the scene where the asteroid (or is that a different one??) pops out of hyperspace (or something) and almost smashes a troopers starship. What's the point in smashing the starship with no witnesses, they could just make it disappear in other ways and then claim the bugs did it if they're just gonna lie for propaganda. Or was it an accidental almost hit because the genius pilot that barely dodged the asteroid that they couldn't have planned for also changed their route which they couldn't have planned for so that there was a witness for the asteroid being real that they couldn't have planned for?? Why bother launching the asteroid from so far away if nobody is gonna see it, or why even use a real asteroid at all anyway and not just nuke Buenos Aires from orbit and claim it was an asteroid (which some people online claim happened but also doesn't quite fit with the phone call scene) So call me crazy but the following points kind of made sense to me when I saw it as a kid and on still do rewatching the movie later: we have no reason to believe the humans can send poo poo into hyperspace (or something) without bigass engines the asteroid doesn't have there are psi powers in this setting the bugs are more advanced than thought there are bugs that are giant brains  I don't know guys, one of the two options sounds a lot more likely to me and it doesn't seem to be one that's popular online on rewatching the scene I suppose it's never stated that the asteroid was in hyperspace (or something) and I may have misinterpreted what's shown on the screens? But it very much looks like it to me, and for it to suddenly show up and then be so slow would be hard to explain otherwise.
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Apr 12, 2024 06:45
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I've always seen it interpreted less as "the Federation did it" and more as "the Federation allowed it to happen to get people behind the war effort" which was also prescient for 1997~
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FFT posted:I've always seen it interpreted less as "the Federation did it" and more as "the Federation allowed it to happen to get people behind the war effort" which was also prescient for 1997~ Yeah, but that's only because time is a circle. I imagine there are always going to be conspiracy theories about such things, like the ones about Pearl Harbor.
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BiggestOrangeTree posted:Someone help me out with this. People keep saying that the asteroid attack in Starship Troopers was done by the humans because propaganda and it's crazy to assume the bugs would be capable of that. When they talk about this they never mention the scene where the asteroid (or is that a different one??) pops out of hyperspace (or something) and almost smashes a troopers starship. You do realize when Rico says he’s from Buenos Aires and to kill them all, he’s not talking about the bugs?
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I've said before but it's implied the so called psychics in Starship Troopers are glorified state sponsored palm readers.the holy poopacy posted:They should shoot it like Jaws and spend the first 75% of the movie not actually showing Godzilla, just everybody's reactions. That's also already a shitload of Godzilla movies.
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Apr 12, 2024 07:33
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They should stage it like Waiting for Godot. Waiting for Gojira.
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Apr 12, 2024 07:34
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I've said before but it's implied the so called psychics in Starship Troopers are glorified state sponsored palm readers. Doogie Houser could communicate telepathically with his ferret, though.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Doogie Houser could communicate telepathically with his ferret, though. The Ferret was telepathically communicating with him obviously. If the spacefleet or what ever it's called, was more competent the SS pys corp would of been just Ferrets, but bigotted space humanity wouldn't allow it.
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PhazonLink posted:I think Nick Fury was also helping with the cover up, which was "the chem plant had a leak". I dunno if the powers being deadly makes registration acts "ok" but yeah for sure, if you're using mutants as a metaphor for the persecution of minorities, then it DOES fall down because there's no reason whatsoever to be afraid of people with different sexuality, skin tone or religion to you. There IS reason to be afraid of the guy who has to wear special glasses or he'll fire unstoppable beams of force out of his eye sockets, or the various people that can accidentally read your thoughts. Actually have comics ever got into how destructive powers interact with the second amendment?
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