The Official Stupid Question Thread: Marvel Edition - Part 6

[Vartha]

okay, what did I miss?! S.H.I.E.L.D. was on THREE just before Secret war started....HOW the HECK did it get to NINE?

 

[WolfCypher]

Being a godparent isnt a legal matter. Its a religious status devoid from any legal institution. All it takes is a parent saying a person is a godparent and a baptism to make it official

Far as I know, the kids know Peter is Spider-Man. I'm pretty sure there were a few issues after the Torch 'died' where he was talking to Franklin unmasked.

As for Doom being the godparent, 1) He's Doctor Frigging Doom and if he wants to be your kids godparent he will be and 2) He's literally been a god more than once and therefore has far more experience in the role than pretty much any other godparent ever.

Also, he saved the life of Valerie and 'requested' to be the godparent. I imagine Reed was feeling generous at that moment and wasn't interested in causing a scene. Besides, Doom takes his roles very seriously and if he's a kids godparent then pity any man, monster or god that tries to hurt them.

Okay, that's just stupid (not you guys, just this concept). How do you go from hating each other to letting said arch-enemy be the potential guardian of your kids? And how does Doom get those duties before and over their uncles, Johnny and Ben??

"Well, Doom may be the most dangerous man on the face of the planet who has tried to kill us all countless times, but goddamn it if I can't see anyone else raising our kids if we both die, Sue."

Let me have a man or woman I hate more than anyone I've ever encountered, a person who has done me serious criminal acts, and see if I even want them eye-balling my kids let alone raising them after my death, over my sister or family taking those duties.

Hitler may be a horrible person, but sure, he seems like the perfect surrogate for children. Lets just ignore everything he's done.

And I'm sure there has to be some legal channels you have to go through to establish someone as a godparent, otherwise wouldn't family have the right to take in any of the kids? You can't just say "Hey, I'm Joe. Before Sam & Diane died, we talked once and they wanted me to be the godfather. So...I know you're the aunt and uncle of little Becky, but I'm...yeah, taking Becky now..."

Like seriously, I've been all wtf Marvel before, but W.T.F., Marvel?!

 

[KevanG]

Well like I said, it's a genius idea for Reed to let it happen. If anyone hurts her then they have a guy who has taken down Elders of the universe and has everyone on the planet afraid of him coming after them.

Reed knows that people should think quite a lot before going after a kid of the FF and the godchild of Doom so there's kind of a double measure of security.

Is it smart to let your child be around a known murderer, super villain, wrecker of your **** and the man who has attempted to murder you several dozen times? No. No. **** no.

As for the godparent law thing, the godparent is more supposed to teach the child about morals, religion and whatever back when and now it's more about making sure they don't get hooked on anything but the good drugs and make sure they don't knock up/get knocked up. So like the cool uncle/aunt idea. Should it be put through proper channels then they could take care of the child should anything happen but in Dooms case, having attempted to murder the parents every few months, I'm pretty sure that doesn't work like that for him.

So am I the only one to find it weird as **** with Doom shooting the Baxter building into space? You could blow it up, teleport it into the sun or send it back in time but you shoot it into space? That seems a tad weird even by Dooms standards.

 

[Docker2.0]

Did Inspector Gadget ever figure out how Klaw looked? Did he ever even confront him?

 

[WolfCypher]

Seriously?

...Well I've heard that that SNES inspector Gadget game actually reveals his face if you beat the game.

 

[Docker2.0]

I am serious. I know it's not a Marvel question but that has always urked me! They have never let(as far as I know of)Inspector Gadget meet Klaw, see his face or even see what his powers are. Never understood that crap!

 

[Webhead2006]

Hey all I looking for info on a old book if any one can help me on. I read online there was a book the spectacular spiderman #-1 back in the day. But I never been able to find info or pics on. Can any one help me out.

 

[KevanG]

The minus books were all just what happened before in whatever series it was. They had them for lots of books for a few months in the late 90's.

Google 'marvel minus 1' and you can find a list of them. I had a few when they came out. I remember one X-Men one dealt with the Trask family when they were building the Sentinels and had Rachel Summers come back in time to stop a time paradox or something.

 

[Webhead2006]

Ok got a stupid question. Did secret wars civil war #3 come out already. If so when was it.

 

[Lobo]

What's a good Mole Man story?

 

[KevanG]

All of them. Especially the Ultimate Mole Man. Everyone loves seeing him and his moloids in a dress.

 

[Lobo]

OK haha.

Has there ever been a Moon Knight vs Daredevil fight?

 

[KevanG]

Yep. DD called him a psycho and they beat the hell out of each other. I can't remember the issues though. I think they fought during Shadowland.

 

[KevanG]

So why have the FF ever had money problems? They know exactly where to go to get a field of fricking diamonds. They've known about it since issue #1 when they met the Moleman.

 

[Lobo]

Yep. DD called him a psycho and they beat the hell out of each other. I can't remember the issues though. I think they fought during Shadowland.

Who won?

 

[KevanG]

I assume DD since it was his book.

 

[Mike Murdock]

Well, if it's Shadowland, Daredevil wasn't exactly Daredevil (and didn't exactly win at the end). I don't recall those two directly fighting. I thought Moon Knight fought the Hand ninjas DD sent after him. But I could be wrong.

 

[Mike Murdock]

Random question: Not that it's particularly likely anymore, there's still talk about an X-Men/Fantastic Four Fox crossover. Can anyone think of a particularly noteworthy X-Men/Fantastic Four crossover? For purposes of this, I'm not counting Jean Grey's resurrection, which wasn't really a story in its own right but just something necessary to launch X-Force.

 

[Havok83]

Random question: Not that it's particularly likely anymore, there's still talk about an X-Men/Fantastic Four Fox crossover. Can anyone think of a particularly noteworthy X-Men/Fantastic Four crossover? For purposes of this, I'm not counting Jean Grey's resurrection, which wasn't really a story in its own right but just something necessary to launch X-Force.

FF/XMen stories tend to suck as the teams just dont mesh well IMO. The best crossover was Onslaught but that involved most of the MU. The main story was X-men, Uncanny X-men, FF and Avengers, with the effects felt in other titles.

 

[Mike Murdock]

Oddly enough, just as I asked the question, I saw one of my favorite podcasts - Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men are covering Fantastic Four vs. the X-Men, which seems a little more plot significant.

 

[KevanG]

I remember reading that and it was basically an excuse plot to have them meet up. Nothing really worth anything.

 

[Mike Murdock]

Well, it's important for the Kitty Pryde storyline at the time, which is better than nothing.

 

[JewishHobbit]

And didn't Thing and Rogue have a good scene in there? I remember Franklin Richards/Aunt Petunia raving about it.

 

[KevanG]

Am I thinking of the same one? It's where four x-men, Emma Frost, Gambit and some others get zapped by the same radiation as the FF did and they go nuts?

 

[Havok83]

Fantastic Four vs. the X-Men took place in the 80s

X4 took place in the 00s

Two different stories involving two different teams of X-men