The Official Stupid Question Thread: Marvel Edition - Part 4

[Panthro]

Can I ask hypothetical questions on this thread? If so, what would a Frank Miller take on Iron Man, Thor, , Hulk and Spider-Man be like? Me and some friends were joking about Frank Miller makes poorly written parodies of his characters(All Star Batman & Robin) and were wondering what if Frank Miller did *insert character here*. So I was wondering what you guys think.

It would a non-stop contest of "I'm The Goddamned Iron Man!" vs "I'm The Goddamned Thor!" vs "I'm The Goddamned Daredevil!" vs "I'm the Goddamned Captain America!" and so on and so forth.

 

[Shockdingo]

Lots of ****es.

Gamma ****es even!

 

[smallville fan]

It would a non-stop contest of "I'm The Goddamned Iron Man!" vs "I'm The Goddamned Thor!" vs "I'm The Goddamned Daredevil!" vs "I'm the Goddamned Captain America!" and so on and so forth.

Wouldn't Cap be a poorly written parody of a government stooge like Miller's Superman?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Probably even more so. Come to think of it, we kind of already got a Miller-esque, jingoistic parody Cap with Mark Millar's Ultimate Captain America.

 

[smallville fan]

I assume Tony Stark would be the biggest alcoholic constantly surrounded by goddamn ****es with Pepper as his favorite yes? And of course the relationship between Rhodey and Tony would have a lot of racist undertones and Tony despising him cause he works for "the man".

How's that for a Miller-esque Iron Man?

 

[runawayboulder]

It's Heroes Reborn level of bad.

 

[KevanG]

We can get Greg Land and Rob Liefeld to do the 'art' for the books. It'll sell like hotcakes [BLACKOUT]in hell[/BLACKOUT].

 

[Scarecrow_King]

How many heralds has Galactus had?

 

[runawayboulder]

How many heralds has Galactus had?

13 according to Wikipedia.

Fallen One, Silver Surfer, Air-Walker, Firelord, Destroyer, Terrax, Nova (female), Morg, Red Shift, Invisible Man (aka Human Torch/Johnny Storm), Stardust, Praeter and the current one is apparently Gah Lak Tus in the current Hunger miniseries. I can't explain the last one. I thought Gah Lak Tus was the Ultimate version of Galactus and was a giant cloud. I don't read Ultimate stuff so maybe someone else can shed some light.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

I was flipping through Hunger at the comic shop and that's what prompted the question. Apparently when Galactus broke through to the Ultimate Universe, he merged with Gah Lak Tus and started using them as a herald.

Ultimate Surfer and Ultimate Rick Jones were trying to stop him, though.

Offshoot question, where did Ultimate Rick Jones first pop up? He was funny, I liked him from what I read.

 

[JewishHobbit]

I read the first 3 or 4 years of Ultimate X-Men and the first two volumes of Ultimates before leaving the Ultimate Universe. But I did read the Ultimate Extinction trilogy and liked that Galactus tale. The idea of Gah Lak Tus being the herald to 616 Galactus is intriguing. Not enough for me to buy the book, but interesting.

 

[The Squirrel]

What's the significance of the "M" tattoo that some of the X characters have?

 

[runawayboulder]

What's the significance of the "M" tattoo that some of the X characters have?

It meant mutant in Bishop's alternate future. It was a tattoo they put on people in the prison camps.

 

[Manic]

Multiple Man and Butterfly have them too because they briefly* traveled to the future and got put in the same camps as Bishop.


*I say "briefly," but Butterfly got stuck there long enough to finish puberty.

 

[Havok83]

I hated that Madrox got one and it remained.

 

[Anubis]

I like it. It fits him. M for MADROX.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

If/whenever they remember Elixir exists, he can heal the tattoos off their faces

 

[Anubis]

Can he do that? I mean, it's not like it's a scar or anything, it's ink pressed into his skin.

 

[Manic]

When Jamie and Layla got the tattoos, the people at the prison mentioned something about them being coded into their DNA so they can never be removed.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Elixir could still heal that. He gave Vanisher a tumor for Pete's sake. I'm guessing his level of manipulation could be at the genetic level.

 

[Havok83]

Elixir could still heal that. He gave Vanisher a tumor for Pete's sake. I'm guessing his level of manipulation could be at the genetic level.

He manipulated his own DNA to change his skin color from white to gold to black and back. Manipulating the color of a small part of the body of someone else doesn't seem impossible for him

I like it. It fits him. M for MADROX.

or Multiple Man. The M fits him better than others for sure

 

[JewishHobbit]

Elixir could still heal that. He gave Vanisher a tumor for Pete's sake. I'm guessing his level of manipulation could be at the genetic level.

Not just any tumor. A tumor shaped like (but not flashing)

 

[Varient]

If/whenever they remember Elixir exists, he can heal the tattoos off their faces

Well that is true. His power would be able to purge something as simple as the dye in a tattoo.

Meh,.. I'm not sure who's "really" writing the X-men, (There was a time when I discovered that the writers of some comics don't have editorial control to tell stories the way they want within canon.), but too many powerset are underutilized to make stories.

And don't get me started on the character shifts for no good reason.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Can anybody tell me if therr is a direct connection between the Eternals and the Olympians? Is Mentor related Zeus? I don't recall that being the case. Am I mistaken?

 

[Anubis]

Nope, no relation, though the fabled Gilgamesh was an Eternal.