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Both Ming the Merciless and Yellow Claw are pretty bald-faced knockoffs of the ur-Yellow Peril villain Fu Manchu, right down to sexy and evil (but conflicted and potentially redeemable) daughters. There’s unfortunately no shortage of those in Marvel canon alone - they have straight-up Fu Manchu running around with Yellow Claw and The Mandarin, as well as about a dozen more thankfully lost to time.
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Setting aside the question of why Kingpin and the Golden Claw are doing this (Kingpin is already pretty much the top dog, and this whole operation is frankly beneath the Claw's usual caliber of villainy), why are they going about it in this way? Their plan is to gather the various mob bosses and gun them down while they're gathered, at no point does this require standing on an open stage in front of them and telling them the whole plan.
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Jun 9, 2022 10:25
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As a reminder, Pete’s entire involvement in this plan was due to “I don’t care about the criminals that much, but I want to save the theater that MJ’s play is running in, can’t let Kingpin blow it up”. The theater that’s now blown up, because he crashed a helicopter into it.
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Jul 30, 2022 05:22
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MonsterEnvy posted:Werewolf time appearntly. While unlikely, I sincerely hope that the werewolf is just Lugo Belogi in a fursuit.
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Sep 18, 2022 13:48
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The second dumbest thing about that storyline was that NSM seriously thought it would work. The dumbest thing about it by far was that it actually did.
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Oct 27, 2022 06:06
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If only he had some kind of superpower that lets his hands and feet stick to any surface. Or, failing that, the ability to shoot some kind of sticky substance from his unoccupied left hand to keep him anchored. I like how the main dramatic conflict of this arc has gone from 'a villain with mind-control powers has ordered them to fight to the death' to 'everyone involved now has the physical coordination of a baby and is now wildly flailing about'.
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Dec 14, 2022 10:09
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The NSM-verse seems to be wildly inconsistent about exactly how much pre-established history there is from comic to comic. In the Purple Man storyline, both Peter and Luke Cage seem to be utterly flabbergasted by the fact that A: there's a purple man, and B: he has mind control powers. Meanwhile Kilgrave immediately knows who they both are and what they're capable of within seconds of recovering from total amnesia. Then MJ saves the day by pulling out a special bedsheet designed to perfectly counter Kilgrave's powers from a previous conversation with Daredevil, which Peter claims to have been present for.
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Dec 29, 2022 03:27
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I feel like if you had Spider-Man trapped in an enclosed steel cage with no way out, you could probably kill him in more efficient ways than 'wait over 24 hours for him to fall asleep, then seal it off with airtight plastic and pump poison gas in'. Hell, if he can't get out, why bother with the 'wait for him to fall asleep' part? Then again the plan began with 'hire a skywriter to lure Spider-Man to the airport, then hire another guy to give Spider-Man a note to lure him to another location' so efficiency is not their strong suit.
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Jan 19, 2023 09:41
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"So, whaddya make of this, sarge?" "Well, he died of asphyxiation in a sealed train car in the middle of nowhere rigged to be an inescapable deathtrap, so I'm going with 'natural causes' for this one."
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Jan 20, 2023 14:59
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I feel like if the Chameleon knows enough about bank executives and movie stars to impersonate them flawlessly, he could embezzle money much more efficiently than just pointing a gun at people and going "gimme everything in the till". On the other hand, maybe the money is a bonus and he just likes loving with rich people's reputations, which is an entirely understandable motivation.
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Mar 6, 2023 03:02
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Calling himself "Goldmint" would move him into a higher tax bracket, and he can't have that. He doesn't pay taxes but it's the principle of the thing.
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Mar 15, 2023 03:26
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I feel like there were easier ways to resolve that than by causing an international incident, but that's why I'm not Spider-Man.
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Mar 29, 2023 06:36
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It occurs to me that a suit that can climb up walls, while good at high-rise burglaries, isn't really going to give you any significant advantage over Spider-Man. You already know he can climb up walls, so you're not going anywhere he can't reach, and now he's obligated to stop you since you're stepping on his turf. The fake Spider-Man who just walked into stores and robbed them while wearing a Halloween costume at least had a gun.
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Apr 20, 2023 04:49
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It would probably have been a more dignified loss for Spidey if it had just been Norman Osborn walking through the door and beating him to a pulp with his bare hands. I hope this entire storyline is all about Spidey repeatedly trying and failing to impress this increasingly bored and incredibly jaded kid.
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May 13, 2023 19:37
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I remember reading an old Human Torch story about that. A standard-issue Disgruntled Scientist decides to turn to crime, and immediately starts fantasizing about all the cool crime inventions he's going to come up with and the fortune he's going to make off it. He then tries his hand at some light burglary and fumbles immediately because he doesn't know how to deal with a burglar alarm. He realizes he needs the help of experienced criminals to teach him the basics, but after the approach of walking into a seedy bar and going 'How do you do fellow criminals, would you like to do crime together' fails, he decides on an even better plan: dress up in an asbestos suit with an asbestos lasso and challenge the Human Torch to a fight, on the basis that once he wins he'll have successfully established his criminal credentials well enough that goons will be lining up in droves to work under him. Not a high bar to clear, but I expect NSM to trip over it anyway.
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Jun 8, 2023 10:11
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Pete has had to work through this entire train of thought about thrice in this story arc, while forgetting every time that the main reason he keeps his identity a secret is because if it was public, angry villains would go after Peter Parker and his loved ones, regardless of whether he was currently Spider-Man or not. I guess it's not his main motivation for hanging up his duds this story arc, so he just forgot that was a thing.
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Jun 16, 2023 15:07
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To be fair, if I was shooting point-blank at a superhero, and he dodges my bullets and jump-kicks the gun out of my hand, I would probably also assume that regular punches are out of the question. Granted this is NSM, so they absolutely would, but the thugs don't know that.
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Jul 12, 2023 02:21
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I hope this arc just keeps escalating and Spidey eventually ends up threatening New York with an army of stolen nuclear-powered battle robots or something, while going 'boy, sure hope Hammerhand doesn't leak that contextless photo of me standing in an empty office, or I'd be accused of the thing the papers are already accusing me of doing'
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Jul 25, 2023 07:21
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So I guess one of two things is happening: - One of Hammerhand's goons (I keep typing Hammerhead) is sympathetic to Spidey and is 'helping' him by releasing his incriminating photos to the press in advance, so Hammerhand has no leverage against him - Hammerhand himself is releasing those photos to the press because ???, thus completely undermining his entire plan Either option is very dumb, but this is a very dumb storyline.
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Sockser posted:What the gently caress This whole storyline revolves around the threat of 'Hammerhand is going to send the picture to the Daily Bugle, thus ruining Spider-Man's reputation forever', which only works if neither of them are familiar with the fact that the Bugle would run a picture of Spider-Man napping on a park bench as a front page article titled 'WHAT NEFARIOUS SCHEMES DOES THIS MENACE PLOT IN HIS DREAMS' Except...Hammerhand seems to be familiar enough with the Bugle to know of his growing reputation and to target Robbie Robertson personally, and Pete certainly knows it because his entire livelihood relies on turning in mediocre photos of himself to the Bugle on account of the fact that Jameson will pay top dollar for literally anything Spidey-related. E: and that's not getting into the fact that he personally showed up just to go 'yes, I am the one blackmailing Spider-Man into doing these crimes for me, and to prove it I brought the hostage whose life I am threatening' Inadequately fucked around with this message at 10:34 on Jul 31, 2023 |
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Jerusalem posted:Dr. Curt Connors looking at the list of applicants and seeing Peter's name: Another failure! I’ll give this to Pete, it takes confidence to show up at an interview for a position that you literally just got fired from and go “hey, I know you just fired me, but…” Maybe not intelligence, but confidence nonetheless.
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Aug 14, 2023 15:04
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To be slightly fair to Pete, he didn’t know he’d have the afternoon off, he thought he’d be spending the whole day mucking about in the swamp till Connors tossed him the keys and told him to gently caress off. Of course, this means that he definitely barged into the theater and seated himself without a ticket, but given that he abandoned a rental car in the middle of the highway and is currently using his spider powers to break into the backstage rooms, that’s probably the least egregious of his crimes so far.
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Aug 24, 2023 13:38
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It really doesn't seem like it takes much to convince the average New Yorker that any rando in a Spider-Man suit is secretly Spider-Man. The last guy to do it just walked into stores and went 'Give me all your money or I'll shoot you with my web-gun' and the storekeepers went 'sounds legit, that is a thing that Spider-Man is well known for doing'. And he didn't even use any gyroscopes.
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Sep 8, 2023 07:20
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- Yeah, my play was cancelled because of the damage, so now I'm out of a job, I can't pay my rent, and I'm missing out on a role I really wanted to play - I'm not sorry for you at all! 
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Sep 20, 2023 06:12
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Would grease really do anything? Doc Ock's tentacles aren't clinging to handholds, they're straight-up embedding themselves into the brick wall (and he mentioned as much in an earlier strip). Also yes, what is Peter trying to prove with this fight? Doc Ock hasn't done anything notable since he was released from prison, so as far as anyone knows Pete is just trying to murder an old man who was paroled. Heck, even Pete doesn't know for sure that it was Doc Ock trying to frame him, he just got word that he was being suspected for armed robbery and immediately jumped to 'I bet it's the guy loving my aunt' with no real evidence for that reasoning.
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Sep 27, 2023 02:26
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Is there a strip missing? There wasn't any confession in the previous one. Looking at the dates, the grease trap one was 3-7 and this one is 3-10, so yeah, there may be a couple missing.
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Sep 28, 2023 09:07
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It's not going to happen, but it would be darkly funny if after all the illusion bullshit Mysterio's been doing to discredit Spider-Man, replace him as a superior hero, and lure him into a trap, he just pulls out a real gun and loving shoots him in the head.
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Oct 26, 2023 07:51
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Having straight-up mind control powers does seem a little out of his usual wheelhouse. If he can just make people think what he wants them to think, why mess around with illusions and trickery at all? Feels like the writer was too lazy to look up/come up with an explanation on how he managed to pull off realistic illusions like the truck, so they just went with 'he straight-up messes with people's minds' as a cop-out.
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Oct 27, 2023 04:55
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I assumed that all the criminals Mysterio stopped were hired to take a fall for him, because the alternative is that a group of armed robbers decided to storm a restaurant in broad daylight for whatever cash JJJ happened to have in his wallet at the time, and then when he had none immediately decided to escalate to taking him hostage and holding him for ransom.
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MorningMoon posted:
Aunt May, watching a colossal wrestler pummel the dust out of a man with an injured arm: https://twitter.com/wattpadcomment/status/1171351160499757057?s=20
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Nov 2, 2023 04:50
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I wonder if this was timed to coincide with an X-Men movie or something, which is why the Mysterio arc felt oddly truncated - not much in the way of a climax or denouement, just 'we broke his magic helmet, he's powerless now, moving on'.
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Nov 3, 2023 02:26
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It's still largely ambiguous, but it's entirely possible the writer forgot he isn't actually a human robot and just a shithead ex-cop pretending to be one for a gimmick.
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Nov 8, 2023 05:41
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I like how NSM Wolverine constantly feels the need to remind everyone around him that he is...A WOLVERINE! Honestly, NSM Spidey should take a page out of his book, maybe he'd remember his own superpowers more often that way.
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Nov 10, 2023 02:58
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I love how after spending so many days on a completely extraneous "Spidey gets arrested and has to prove himself in court" subplot, the main villain from the beginning of the story has to come bail him out, otherwise the story wouldn't go anywhere.
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Nov 25, 2023 05:36
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So if the manager admits Destructo is just straight-up murdering his star wrestlers in the ring, why is he still letting him wrestle? Even on the off chance the crowd is eating this up, sooner or later you're going to run out of wrestlers.
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Dec 28, 2023 15:28
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The Owl is a fairly old villain - in fact, he was Daredevil's first original villain, appearing in Daredevil #3 (Issue 1 was his origin story, and in issue 2 he fought Electro.) He's introduced as a sort of proto-Kingpin, a crooked businessman who's also a mob boss and sort of a supervillain (he has the power to, uh, slowly glide through the air). He only appears fairly sparingly in the original Daredevil run after that, since there wasn't all that much interesting about him - he gets more owl-like powers and fake claws and such on occasion, but he's still never really much of a threat, and once Kingpin is introduced as Daredevil's nemesis he becomes almost entirely redundant, though nowadays when he shows up in more modern-day stuff the writers play into it by writing him as a second-rate Kingpin who would really like to be at that level, but can't quite hack it.
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"I'll just do acrobatics in the air in the middle of this heated gunfight until they run out of bullets, while all these wildly fired shots go straight into the windows of the apartment buildings behind me. This is definitely the quickest and easiest way to handle the situation."
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You know, when this storyline started, my immediate assumption for where it was going was 'JJJ foists Jeremy off onto Pete to get him out of his hair and Pete has to spend the day babysitting him, turns into a comedy of errors when he has to ditch him and change to Spidey while still keeping an eye on him'. I don't think I would have guessed anywhere close to where this was going.
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