Eh, as long as we're all civil towards one another ;)
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No on your second (as far as I can tell), and technically correct on the second (it's not exactly what I was looking for, but it's close enough I'll give full credit).
Oh, and G.A.W. also gets partial credit on the "hot pants" thing -- again, not something I was looking for/had in mind, but it is most likely true.
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No (though, since that is quite likely, just not one of the two things I was looking for, I'll give you half-credit for it, capo).
No, I believe he did use some thought balloons at some point in that decade-plus.
And, sadly, no, no nougat center.
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Okay, time's up.
The answer is: All of the characters mentioned -- Nora Fries, Mercy Graves, Harley Quinn, Livewire, Lock-Up, Renee Montoya, and Roxy Rocket -- all appeared in the DC Animated Universe before appearing in the mainstream comics.
Nora Fires first appeared in Batman: the Animated Series when they revamped Mr. Freeze's origin/backstory, and it was so well-received that
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Just a few more hours left to get in answers/guesses....
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I'm thinking Thor would've been Anti-SHRA, both on a personal level and on a non-personal one.
On the personal level, "what needs a god to follow mortal laws? The laws of Odin hath guided me for eons, and shall guide mine hand evermore."
On a wider one, I'd imagine Thor -- and other supernatural/mystical folks -- would be against the SHRA due to the mystical power
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Retcons can work, sure, but they fail almost as often as they work well.
SW actually removed all speculation of what MM could do.
As for not understanding LoSH -- have you ever even tried? Since it's had the most reboots, it's the easiest title to get in on, since everything that's happened before doesn't really matter to the current story. A new reader doesn't ne
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Well, guess I'll go ahead and give the answer.
Captain America.
In the late 60s, Marvel came out with their first prose books featuring their comic book characters. The first one featured the Avengers, and was written by Otto Binder. The second book, though, starred Captain America, and was written by Ted White.
Captain America: The Great Gold Steal featured a truly unique take on
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capocastillo Wrote:
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> But that just underscores my point. The past in
> comics exists, but can and will be altered to fit
> the needs of the story.
Altered, sure, that's fine. Blatantly ignored, or acting as if it never happened, not so much.
And your statement about you not being the same person you were a decade a
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Ah, I stand corrected. *checks status of spare back-up brains*
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I think it was Cap that Emma had speaks with, when he asked her & the X-Men to help his Anti-SHRA forces.
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Some extradimensional god-like entity arranges for Joe Quesada to be kicked out of Marvel and for you to be put in charge (and everyone is okay with it). You can set policy, fire & hire anyone you wish (though whether they'll come work for you is ultimately up to them), institute retcons to do away with/fix/introduce some new thing, and basically do whatever you want with any and everyt
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I'm not sure it'd be so much a case of writers not knowing as not caring. Writers, unless doing some big Crossover Event, tend to write just for their titles. Avengers do Avengers stuff and fight Avengers foes, X-Men do X-Stuff and fight X-Foes, and so on, and never the two meet (except, as mentioned, in big Crossovers, or in rare cameo appearances).
It's an odd situation, and
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When I read X-Statis, it did feel like an insult to my intelligence, the exact same way most all reality tv does. Some of the names made my brain hurt, too (U-Go Girl? Phat? Doop?)
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> "A shared universe, like any fictional construct, hinges on suspension of disbelief. When continuity is tossed away, it tatters the construct. Undermines it."
>--Peter David
Continuity and good characterization can -- and should -- go hand-in-hand. Continuity is a character's past, and without ties to one's past, one cannot make any progress, or be consistently wr
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Because that would require Marvel's various titles to recognize one another, something Quesada & Co. seem reluctant to do, save in Big Events like Civil War.
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Not him. Bullseye was intro'd two years after Wolverine, and he got his metal-y skeleton some time after being introduced.
Not Deathlok, either, he first appeared the same year as Wolvie.
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Silverman would not count, since he was introduced only five years before Wolvie, and I think he didn't get any metal bits in/on his skeleton for some time after his introduction.
Hammerhead was intro'd only two years before Logan, and only his skull is metal-y. The character I'm thinking of has metal in/on his entire skeleton.
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The Summers & Grey family isn't that confusing or convoluted, IMO. Yes, DC's CoIE and Zero Hour and Infinite Crisis made/make for some truly wonky continuity (which is what I was referring to).
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Wolverine was not the first Marvel Comics character to have a metallic skeleton -- a prominent character had one about six years before Wolverine was introduced (though, technically, the story in which this was shown was non-canonical/not part of 616 continuity). Who was it?
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To put it another way, I'm sure most here would consider themselves "lovers of comics." Does that mean they love all comics? That there are no comics they wouldn't tear up or burn? I know there are some I have torn up/thrown away, because they displeased me.
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"Lover of art" can means lots of things. And the painting he destroyed displeased him, which fits perfectly with his arrogance (he may not have considered the offending painting to be "art").
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Oddly, it seems the current Wolverine title is dropping hints that Logan's original intended origin -- that he's an Uplifted Wolverine, not a Mutant Human -- is his actual origin.
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capocastillo Wrote:
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> There's nothing intrinsic to Rogue nor
> Cannonball's persona that requires they be white.
If being Southern is (though Cannonball seems more Midwest to me, but YMMV), then being white is a big factor due to the history of black/white relations in the South, and the continued segregation in some pa
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Yup. It's "Super-Hero trivia," not "Marvel Super Hero trivia." In fact, second sentence even says "preferably from Marvel and DC".
Not ironic re: Doom letting frank go for not destroying a painting -- it must've been one Doom liked. If it was one he didn't (like the Renoir he'd destroyed), he wouldn't have cared.
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Punstarr Wrote:
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> Dr Archeville Wrote:
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> > Oh, and Hawkirl isn't solidly Earth-based. In
> > current continuity, she's a reincarnation of
> one
> > of her human ancestors (just like Hawkman), but
> > their line of ancestors is
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If being Southern is a defining characteristic of Rogue and Cannonball, then changing them from Caucasian/White to Black does definitely change the character, due to the (at times vast) differences those two "races" have faced (and in some parts continue to face) in the South.
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A-yup.
In late 1979, Soviet forces invaded Afghanistan. The United States saw this as a gross diplomatic violation, and President Jimmy Carter threatened the USSR with the following diplomatic ultimatum - pull their forces out of Afghanistan by February 20th, 1980, or the United States would boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics, which were being held in Moscow.
The USSR did not pull their force
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