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For what it's worth, yes the art makes Manslaughter look like a 14-year-old ninja on Halloween, but he was lots of fun in his first couple of appearances. Sort of a love child of Deadpool and Arcade long before Deadpool even existed, he took gigs to kill people and came up with too-clever-by-half deathtraps, nearly killing off the whole Defenders team in his debut. Unless you were looking straight at him, he was invisible to sight and telepathy, so any distractions let him vanish without a trace. He was also somewhat batshit.  The most fun part of this Handbook project will be when we get to the Books of the Dead and see how long some of those lasted.
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"Null is a mystic life-form created over the ages from the collective unconscious of the 500,000 members of the extinct S'Raphh race, and as such has an unlimited ability to manipulate the forces of magic." First appearance: "Null terrorizes the town of Christianboro, Virginia." Way to really flex those mystical muscles and pick worthy targets, there, Null
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Well, thanks to the wonderful resource that is The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe, we know of an Earth-20051 counterpart to Null the Living Darkness that is... different.
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Particularly how Cyclops defeats Dragonfly in UXM #95, which is hilarious. EDIT: Can't find a pic on hand. Dragonfly goes after Cyclops and uses her hypnotic gaze, "MY WILL ISSSS YOUR WILL," you know the drill. It works. Cyclops stops what he's doing, goes slack-jawed, and his eyes become a wide-open dull stare. His eyes opening that wide automatically open his visor, and BEHOLD! OPTIC BLAST! when he's not even conscious. delfin fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Mar 16, 2017 |
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Deptfordx posted:Dr Spectrum. The Knock-off Green Lantern from the Squadron Supreme is the only one I can think of who that rule doesn't apply too. The close-enough-to-be-the-exception is Dr. Simon Ecks, aka Doctor Double X.
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Mark Gruenwald was a complicated man. Also, Crossfire hired the Death-Throws a couple of times, only to get tired of them and replace them with... the Death T.H.R.O.W.S. (Which weren't nearly as cool, but ten points for the callback.) AND the Death-Throws took on a provisional member named Throwdown... on STILTS.  "Ever since she was a little girl, the woman who would become Throwdown wanted to become a juggling-themed super-villain."
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