The Official Stupid Question Thread: Marvel Edition - Part 3

[runawayboulder]

I remember his solo series right after Secret Wars I, when he stayed on the Beyonder's planet because he was able to change back and forth at will. I loved that series.

 

[Varient]

Was a cure for the Thing and the Hulk found yet?

Yes.
In Things case,.. the "current" cure is to be human a bout a week a year,.. With him only aging during that time.

Holy Spit,..
52 weeks in a year, average lifespan for a human three score and ten,
Figuring Ben is in his 30's

Benjy - barring accident is good for two thousand eighty years.

Heh,.. Give him a shot of what Fury's been using, and it would get scary.

 

[Varient]

Was a cure for the Thing and the Hulk found yet?

The hulk has had too many cures that should've been permenent.(sp)

 

[Mulholland-Jr]

How powerful is Franklin Richards at this point? Like... could he just go all "House of M" at any point?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Nah, I believe his older self claimed that both he and young Franklin burned out most of their power stopping the evil Celestials. He's powerful but he's not "tear the universe apart with a stray thought" powerful.

 

[Anubis]

Which is a decent level for him to be. Why people have trouble with writing him that way is beyond me.

Like most writers inability to write Marriage.

 

[Mulholland-Jr]

That's okay. I really don't understand his powers anyway.

 

[Anubis]

He can alter reality.

 

[Mulholland-Jr]

Yeah, I know. It's just so vague I can hardly wrap my mind around what that includes.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Everything, basically. It's been implied that the only limits on Franklin's powers when he's at his peak are in his own mind.

 

[Anubis]

Turn Coke into Pepsi, chicken wings into a turkey leg. Exactly what alter reality implies. The difference is of course, scale. Can he transmute simple items, or create a pocket universe? That's basically the problem people seem to be unable to agree upon. If he's more full metal alchemist minus the rules of alchemy, I'd say that's a good level. As opposed to say, turning galactis into the staypuft marshmallow man.

 

[runawayboulder]

Turn Coke into Pepsi, chicken wings into a turkey leg. Exactly what alter reality implies. The difference is of course, scale. Can he transmute simple items, or create a pocket universe? That's basically the problem people seem to be unable to agree upon. If he's more full metal alchemist minus the rules of alchemy, I'd say that's a good level. As opposed to say, turning galactis into the staypuft marshmallow man.

I'd rather that kid be not so overpowered. Having someone like that in the Marvel Universe scares the hell out of me because it leaves the barn door wide open for some hack to create a clusterf**k.

Look at what happened with Wanda for crying out loud. The most power she ever displayed was resurrecting Wonder-Man and Busiek wrote it off as her more of her love for him being so strong her powers played off it. Somehow, her powers evolved into her declaring war on the Avengers, creating an alternate timeline and wiping out a race.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

What's so secret about the Secret Avengers? Do people really not know about them? And if they don't...why the secrecy?

 

[runawayboulder]

What's so secret about the Secret Avengers? Do people really not know about them? And if they don't...why the secrecy?

They're a team used for espionage and preemptive strikes. I think the other Avengers know there's a team out there but not specifically what they're up to.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

So they're like the Avengers' version of X-Force? That seems very un-Avenger like.

 

[javi1024]

They're not a hit squad.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, they don't assassinate people or anything. They're just a more proactive covert team, keeping on the down-low and trying to stop threats before they threaten the whole damn planet. They take care of things like secret societies who operate mainly out of the shadows while the main Avengers are busy saving Earth and 13 alternate realities from Kang's meddling with all of time and space.

I also don't think they're a secret from the other Avengers, actually. They're secret in that the general public is not aware of their existence, so they can operate without as much scrutiny as the main team. They're still Avengers, though, so they don't abuse that.

 

[DawnWarrior]

I read all the way up to the end of War of Kings, which had left the Shi'Ar, the Kree, and all the other cosmic heroes pretty shaken up after the war with Vulcan. What titles pick up those story threads?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Guardians of the Galaxy, Nova, and The Thanos Imperative. That last one pretty much caps off the cosmic stuff, with the former two having been canceled prior to it. The Inhumans/Kree subplot is continued into Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic Four and FF. The Shi'ar are referenced a bit in Wolverine and the X-Men, but it's not really a continuation, per se. Gladiator and some others just show up because Gladiator's son winds up at the X-Men's new school.

 

[javi1024]

I read through Brubaker's Captain America through trades and I only have two left before it switches to Captain America and Bucky. Are those stories still part of his proper run? Are they worth buying or can I walk away knowing I completely read Cap vol. 5?

 

[chamber-music]

Scarecrow King is right about the Secret Avengers being like X-Force just not the current kill squad version. The old Cable and Pete Wisdom version were proactive covert team, keeping on the down-low and trying to stop threats before they threaten the whole planet.

I'd rather that kid be not so overpowered. Having someone like that in the Marvel Universe scares the hell out of me because it leaves the barn door wide open for some hack to create a clusterf**k.

Look at what happened with Wanda for crying out loud. The most power she ever displayed was resurrecting Wonder-Man and Busiek wrote it off as her more of her love for him being so strong her powers played off it. Somehow, her powers evolved into her declaring war on the Avengers, creating an alternate timeline and wiping out a race.

You know one day some writer is going to do a Akira with Franklin.

Jamie Braddock Psylocke and Captain Britains brother has superpowerful reality warping powers as well.

Jamie's reality-warping power is immense in scope, limited only by his imagination and fluctuating sanity. He can create portals out of ordinary objects that can transport him across the planet or into other dimensions instantaneously, transform living beings into entirely different forms, grant others various superhuman abilities (though they tend to fade over time), and can even resurrect the dead.

 

[KevanG]

Does Cyclops have a secondary mutation?

 

[runawayboulder]

Not unless you want to count him being a dick.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

Secondary mutations are stupid anyway.

 

[runawayboulder]

I didn't think so. It just seems like they've been tossed to the wayside. Marvel artists can't seem to ever get on the same page regarding Beast's look.