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... until you decide you love your aunt more and make a pact with Mephisto to undo our relationship.
by Dr Archeville
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You're sorta missing my point -- "it's steroids and radiation" is as much rubber band comic book pseudoscience as "it's a virus that re-writes his genetic code." They're both equally implausible (from a Real World Perspective).
And there were at least two people active at that time who would indeed have those DNA rewriting capabilities -- the High Evolu
by Dr Archeville
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It's not a stretch, though -- that Illuminati-Skrull was there spying on them the whole time, reporting back to it's masters. I say it's a stretch to say it wouldn't have reported the Extremis as soon as Stark got it, and a stretch for it not to take a sample for itself as soon as it had the opportunity. And as far as I know it's never been said the Skrulls are exclusiv
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Yeah, that's what I meant, that the presence of Mutant Skrulls is a retcon. And is one that's here to stay, it seems. Again, I don't mind.
And I'll take the Mutant Skrulls saying they're Mutants at face value -- one of the rules of comicdom, anything shown/told you is true unless and until explicitly countered at some future point.
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Eh, I don't mind Skrulls being genocidal madmen seeking to keep themselves "pure" by killing off that which is different in them. Fits in well with the whole "metaphor for communists/terrorists" thing they've had ever since they were first introduced. (Plus, they're shaepshifters, so it's not inconceivable that their genome is unstable enough to allow Mut
by Dr Archeville
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Well, then, it's another retcon, because there've been natural Mutant Skrulls in the X-Men comics within the past decade or so, during 2000's The Twelve arc, where Apocalypse had a bunch of Skrulls working for him including some Mutant ones, and during the 2001 Maximum Security story arc, where we saw that the group of Mutant Skrulls Xavier had been leading -- Cadre K -- had been f
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The only advanced area of tech I've seen from Skrulls (that pertains to power armor) is the fact that they have spacedrives (and the funky shapeshfiting handcuffs they used on Cap once, back when they were again trying to secretly invade Earth), and the power-beaming and teleportation satellites. I've seen no evidence of any sort of miniaturization techniques that Stark's armor ha
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Oh, and, all that being said, Schlock Mercenary is one of my favorite webcomics. Nice find :)
by Dr Archeville
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How is "it's a virus" more implausible than "it's steroids and radiation"?
by Dr Archeville
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This is taken from Newsarama, and I'm just gonna add some tags to make it a bit clearer who is saying what.
There’s no doubt whatsoever that “One More Day” has been the most controversial Spider-Man story for fans in decades, dwarfing even the reaction to 2006’s unmasking at the end of Civil War #2.
As readers who’ve followed the story behind the story know, that controversy even exte
by Dr Archeville
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A shame Parker forgot all that in "One More Day."
by Dr Archeville
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Actually, it was a simple case of (Super-)steroids, originally. Which is why Marvel retconned the SS Serum into a retrovirus that affected him on a genetic level in the 90s (in part due to the War on Drugs, and in part b/c any traditional drug would've been metabolised out of his system after a few months).
The new Cap -- Bucky "Winter Soldier" Barnes -- will indeed be carrying
by Dr Archeville
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I'm not neglecting that. Marvel is. The Super-Illuminati-Skrull was controlling tech from afar the same way Stark does. (At least, this is what I've heard; I have not personally seen the issue where "Black Bolt" revealed his true green colors and threw down with the other Illuminati.)
And calling Stark's tech "relatively primitive" may be wrong, too, at leas
by Dr Archeville
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Oh, Stark does indeed have powers, via the Extremis nanites/technovirus in him. He can wirelessly access any computer or cell phone or satellite. It also lets him remotely control his armor(s) from up to 100 miles away, enhances his recovery time (not as good as, say, Logan's, but far better than your typical human), enhances his reaction time while connected to the armor (since the armor&
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Makes as much sense as Black Bolt having really been a Skrull for the past 15-20 years (ever since the Kree/Skrull War ended, as revealed in the Illuminati miniseries).
And I thought keeping things "fresh" was the entire point of the ULTIMATE line?
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If his cry can go up to Class 1000, it means the Skrulls are nastier than we've thought.
(Apparently the Black Bolt we've all thought we knew has been a Skrull ever since the end of the Kree/Skrull War, as revealed in the Illuminati miniseries. A Skrull with the powers of Black Bolt, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Mister Fantastic, Namor, and Xavier.)
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Good to know there are still some constants in life ;)
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"Welcome"? I've been here a lot longer than you, I should be welcoming you ;)
And do please note that everything I posted was from the message sent to me by another, so I didn't really say anything, I'm just re-posting it here. (And I'd be willing to bet that the guy who sent this to me uses "original MSH RPG" to refer to everything TSR published under
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Steven Schend was one of the original contributors/editors of the Marvel Super Heroes Roleplaying Game (as can be seen here), and he's still active in both game design and in promoting the Marvel RPG. Per a message I recently received on another messageboard:
QuoteThis past Thursday was the last of 10 sessions I had of a course called "World Building for Writers." The instructo
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According to Joe Quesada, no, since Magic can do anything and follows no real rules, so a mage already has all powers/power stunts.
According to most everyone else, yes, since Magic does follow it's own rules, just like Mutation or Super-Science/Super-Technology.
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Inspired by comic books, ordinary citizens are putting on masks to fight crime
QuoteSuperheroes in Real Life
By Ward Rubrecht
Geist's breath fogs the winter air as he surveys the frozen Minneapolis skyline, searching for signs of trouble. His long duster flaps in the breeze as his eyes flick behind reflective sunglasses; a wide-brim hat and green iridescent mask shroud his identity fr
by Dr Archeville
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I remember this game.
I hated it. Could never get over how broken the system was. (IIRC, being able to stretch your body 200 feet cost the same as being able to throw your voice 10 feet.)
by Dr Archeville
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No Green Lanterns? Sure, most are male, but there are female members, and they're powers are defined by their will.
Or is this a Marvel-only thing?
(And since when's Madrox been strong-willed enough to be in even the top 50, much less a top 10?)
by Dr Archeville
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An evil one. And one that knows that 1/100 = 0.01 = 1.00% (i.e., multiply the fraction by 100 to get the percentage).
18 million goes into 5 billion 277.78 times. (Or, 5,000,000,000 / 18,000,000 = 277.78).
1 / 277.78 = 0.0036 = 0.36%
Or, the shorter and more direct way -- 18,000,000 / 5,000,000,000 = 0.0036 = 0.36%
by Dr Archeville
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He'd help if it meant he got something greater in return. Like, say, when he helped deliver Valeria, and in the process turned her into his familiar, able to see & hear through her.
by Dr Archeville
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I've not seen "Bobby can do kinetic stuff" in any comic. Sounds like fanwank. I have seen comics hinting that he's not just generating cold, but can actually generate ice from nothing, even if there's no ambient moisture. His whole "can't really be killed as long as there's ice, water, or even water vapor around" is an Omega thing, too -- Omega-leve
by Dr Archeville
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Warren Ellis @ Wikipedia.
by Dr Archeville
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Yes, I know, hence the wording of my question. Earth X was basically Marvel's version of DC's Kingdom Come (both feature very dystopian futures), and some things from that were folded into the mainstream DCU Continuity (as shown here). I was wondering if anything similar happened with Earth X.
by Dr Archeville
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I know Earth X "revealed" that Thanos's mother was a Skrull (hence his Skrull-like chin ridges) -- anyone know if that was ever folded into the mainstream continuity?
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She's all growed up....
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