I just read the newest issue of FF, and this illustrate's Powersurge's point exactly. Reed and Ben go to a school for superhero appreciation day or something, and Reed tries to teach a class of elementary school kids the physics of Galactus' armor, for an hour and a half, and then tries to segue into how 9 of the world's richest nations should share the costs of the resources
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Sure, there are certain missions where Reed is probably better suited to spearhead. But the thing where Reed is lacking, is that the group that accompanies him is a small select circle of people that can handle the way Reed relates to them. If it's just a mish mash of whoever you can get to fill a roster, Reed is not going to be able to connect the way a leader should, and the mission coul
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Well Taarna, you did make the assertion that Reed is a better leader than Cap because of Reed's encounters with Galactus, et. al. I felt I needed to point out how much leadership quality Cap brings to the table.
Now, back to Reed.
He /barely/ keeps his family together. He put a mutant inhibitor in his kid, and darling Sue took off to live with Namor. Thing's left the FF more ti
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Nightmask makes some great points, but let's look at something for a second.
Captain America has successfully been the leader of Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, and the Thing, as all of those characters have had stints on the Avengers while Steve Rogers was in charge. Can Reed say that he's handled teams with Black Panther, Quicksilver, Hawkeye, or iron Man on the roster? Not even
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Taarna,
No direspect, but you don't actually address any of the points I brought up. All you say is that 'you see it this way' or 'you see it that way'. I don't mind you debating my opinions, i encourage it. i like a good argument. But if you want to debate with me, address the points i make and actually give some sort of evidence or example as to why i'm
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I've been meaning to comment on this thread for a while now. mainly because i've never liked the Fantastic Four. Although I am giving them a shot since Millar and Hitch are the creative team, and they're my favorite creatvie out there. Anyways...
I do believe that the FF do have a decent theorhetical knowledge about things like electronics, engineering, computers, etc becaus
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In fairness, since 1999, Marvel totally turned their business around and made it super profitable. After the collectors glut of 90 - 93/94, and the subsequent crash of comics, which caused Marvel to file Chapter 11, Marvel turned the tables.
Since 1999, Marvel comics have been selling in the best numbers they've had since the collector's glut crash, not even mentioning video games a
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Before I chime in, I want to make clear a division between certain forms of continuity.
The first is there are two types of continuity one should address. The first is issue-to-issue continuity, and the second is editorial initiatives. These things need to be looked at seperately because they are handled in different ways and impact issues in different ways.
Issue-to-issue continuity is p
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That simply ins't possible. Every family of titles has different editors. Also, an issue in a comic can equate to an hour, a day, 4 weeks, or months worth of time. Plus comics acknowledge changes in presidency and things like that, which can't be fit into an indistinct timeframe for each issue. If every issue were 24 hours like in 24 that might be possible, but it's not.
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There is no official date by date timeline. You'd have as much luck finding the fountain of youth.
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the closest you'll get to anything official is the space launch that Reed Richards and his companions took that led to their gaining abilities of the Fantastic Four happened 13 years ago in continuity, and everything else that happened after that occurs on a sliding scale.
There are other benchmarks though that are firm historicly:
Captain America fought in world war II
Punisher fo
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Well as long as it's marvel zombies, Steve Rogers could always be captain america.
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well ambidexterity isn't a talent...
Remarkable Agility seems high. She's much fater than a typical person, but seems about as nimble and quick as t-virus dogs that seem to top out at excellent at best.
I've only seen RE: Apoc and RE: Extintion one time, and they were such unwatchable crap i've kind of forgotten what she could do in those films.
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Well Cap was only intermitantly a private citizen. For much of his post-iceberg career, he was still a government agent, and right up until Civil War was a high ranking agent of SHIELD.
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought the only thing Steve Rogers is at this point is a corpse. Except in the Ultimates, which is getting ruined with every issue as helmed by Jeph Loeb.
If Jeph Loeb ever reads this, you're a hack buddy. Learn to write.
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Steve Rogers is dead, has been for almost a year now.
Captain America is James Barnes.
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Super strong is a bit much. She does some impressive feats but she does have limits. For instance she doesn't get them out of the lab filling up with water that has unbreakable security glass. That's why I gave her Good strength as opposed to Poor. She's definately as strong as a supremely well conditioned man, but she's not bending steel bars by any stretch of the imagina
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Sorry to disappoint you, but Captain America Carried a Gun in his first appearance. And di so throughout world war 2. Captain America is a soldier. kind of like Nick Fury and the Punisher. So if you don't think Captain America should carry a gun, then you must not be very familiar with his first appearances. It's not like he was just knocking Nazis out to help win the war...
Bes
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There's not much to alice really...
F - In [40]
A - Ex [20]
S - Gd [10]
E - Ex [20]
R - Gd [10]
I - Gd [10]
P - Gd [10]
Talents
Martial Arts B,D,E
Guns
Sharp Weapons
Military
Detective/Espionage
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First Captain America was not the first substance abuser. Cultures as ancient as the Egyptians and Sumerians partied using various herbs and liqours. oddly some mummies have been found to have trace residues of coca leaves in their digestive tracts which is strange because the coca leaf is only found in south america natively, which might suggest some improbable trade between the ancient egypti
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Blue feats... god i hate the homebrew table. Anyways.
Cap's richochet throw is resolved on one throw, as it's Cap's power stunt. He can hit multiple targets using one of his declared attacks, which he could easilly get 3 in a round automatically with his fighting being AM and getting the weapon specialist talent. Cap shouldn't get penalized for having to use all of his
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Iron Lad and Vision are sort of the same character. Iron Lad was actually a teenage Kang that didn't want to become his adult conquering nasty version. So he used the iron lad armor to go into the past to recruit a team of Young Avengers to help combat a scheme of the Adult Kang's Iron lad downloaded the Vision's Operating system, allowing him access to a bunch of Avengers file
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Marvel is having a surgence of sorts of 'sidekick' like characters. However they aren't traditional sidekicks, paling around with their adult counterparts. It's more like legacy characters that are following in the footsteps of the adults that came before them.
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Taarna Wrote:
> >>>>Capo,
>
> I agree with you that the Hulk vs Thing movie will
> not be made in the next five years, and I only say
> this because I never saw a hint of production in
> it.
>
> I disagree with you if you think it would not make
> any money. Is there one fan of Marvel movies who
> does not know who the Hulk and Thing are?
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I'll bet you green money that a Hulk vs. Thing movie doesn't get made in the next 3 years. Even the next 5. Hell even then next 15. Freddy v. Jason, as well as Aliens v. Predator first do several things. Both of those movie franchises draw on other movie franchises that have been in existence for over 20 years each and try and rejuvinate them by creating crossover.
Marvel's
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I don't see 'vs.' movies getting made any time soon.
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Shang-Chi
Classic Kung Fu action at its best.
Luke Cage: Hero for Hire
Blaxploitation with modern sensibilities, supertough Luke Cage beats down lots of drug dealers with lots of guns. Shaft meets Superman meets Bad Boys
Ultimates
Just do ultimates volume one as a movie. Then follow it up with volume 2 for the sequel.
Devil-Slayer
Forget this Defenders reject. Just take th
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Galactus most decidedly does /not/ use magic. he uses the Power Cosmic. As we saw in Infinity War, if Galactus needs assistance with something clearly mystical, even the Devourer of Worlds calls on Dr. Strange.
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I think that 'Evil' was more represented in the Norse Mythos in characterizations of monsters and demons. Though what our culture considers 'evil' and what vikings considered 'evil' are probably vastly different. But creatures like the Midgard Serpent and some of the Giants and Trolls guys like Thor and Tyr fought were supposed to be more allegorical to an evil
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