The Official Stupid Question Thread: Marvel Edition

[TheCorpulent1]

Aren't they effectively full-time teachers too?

Yes. Yes they are.

Are they? Are they really? When's the last time we saw any X-Man teach a kid to do anything other than sacrifice their moral code or lose their innocence?

 

[Anubis]

Well, that's pretty standard curriculum for Public School.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Fair point.

 

[sdc10]

Daredevil's identity is once again a secret right, due to Iron Fist running around as him?

 

[Franklin Richards]

I think he made a deal with Mephisto.

 

[Varient]

Is there any Marvel character who died years.. decades ago.. and you guys are still surprised he hasn't come back yet..?

Sync.
Genis
Jim Wilson
Gwen Stacy

Uncle Ben.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Genis really ought to come back.

 

[TheDarkKnight08]

I was recently reading this article: http://io9.com/5405696/the-15-dumbest-superhero-retcons-of-all-time and was kinda confused in redgards to the Wolverine section of it. Is Wolverine really a Lupine that evolved or an actual mutant? Until this article, I'd never heard of this.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Ask Jeph Loeb. Only he knows or cares.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Sync.
Genis
Jim Wilson
Gwen Stacy

Uncle Ben.

Synch.... Why won't he come back?

 

[TheDarkKnight08]

Ask Jeph Loeb. Only he knows or cares.

Of course. Was this during that "Evolutions" run with Simone Bianchi? I only caught the last issue with Logan cutting Sabrettoth's head off, whic was only slightly gratifying.

 

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Genis

Genis really ought to come back.

Are you talking about Genis Vell ?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Absotively.

 

[Anubis]

Daredevil's identity is once again a secret right, due to Iron Fist running around as him?

Eh, no. He's still in the same predicament he's been in since Out. He denies it, but most people still think he'd DD.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Stupid questions:

Why did Sentry join Dark Avengers, knowing they were all bad guys to begin with? Wasn't it the good-guys that not only saved him and shown him his wife was never really dead? Is this how he repays them?

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Osborn manipulated him. I think it was Dark Avengers 2. Pretty cool scene actually. Talking about the Void n all that. To be fair to Osborn no one else has spoke to Sentry directly about the Void like that before.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

But he knows what he's doing is wrong, right?

 

[Lucien]

Two completely unrelated questions:

In Earth X, what happened to Blackbolt's face? They made some point about it just as he died but it went completely over my head.

And in Busiek and Ross' "Marvels", when the Atlanteans invade New York in the last chapter, two of the silhouettes in the flying crab look remarkably like Night Owl and Silk Spectre. Was that a purposeful homage to Watchmen?

 

[Ace of Knaves]

He has questioned it. But Osborn is a master manipulator. Trust me read issue 2. The scene where Normie and Sentry are talking is pretty sweet. Probably some of the best writing Bendis has done in the Dark Reign.

 

[Jordacar]

Osborn manipulated him. I think it was Dark Avengers 2. Pretty cool scene actually. Talking about the Void n all that. To be fair to Osborn no one else has spoke to Sentry directly about the Void like that before.

That, and the stability. That's the impression I got from the first issue. Being on the run from Osborn with the other New Avengers would not play well on his psyche.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Hmmm maybe. But I don't think being with Osborn is to good for his psyche either. I mean, he knows something is wrong, he knows he shouldn't be with Osborn and co. But Osborn says he can help him with Void so he's sorta stuck.

Trust, something big is gonna happen with Sentry soon. He'll probably explode again and come back as Void or something and everyone will be ****ed.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

It's issue 3, if I believe, I really loved reading it.

 

[JewishHobbit]

And in Busiek and Ross' "Marvels", when the Atlanteans invade New York in the last chapter, two of the silhouettes in the flying crab look remarkably like Night Owl and Silk Spectre. Was that a purposeful homage to Watchmen?

Yes it was. It was mentioned in the Marvels hardcover I used to have.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I was reading a Thor comic, it was during the Avengers: Disassembled arc.

And he turns into....a horse? lolwhat?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

He doesn't turn into a horse, that's Beta Ray Bill. He's an alien (a Korbinite, if you want to get specific) whose home planet was destroyed. His people went into hibernation while a sentient ship named Skuttlebutt searched for a new home for them. Bill was appointed their protector and had his consciousness transferred into a powerful body that was a combination of robotics and the most ferocious creature on their old planet, which happened to resemble an Earth horse.

Skuttlebutt skirted a bit too close to Earth and Thor did Nick Fury a favor by going out to investigate. He and Bill fight and Bill proved himself worthy of lifting Mjolnir, so Odin held a deathmatch to determine who would get the hammer. Bill won (although Odin kind of rigged the fight) but saved Thor's life in the process, proving that his power was tempered by mercy and he really deserved Thor's power. So Odin created Stormbreaker, a duplicate of Mjolnir with all the same powers, only it magically enabled Bill to return to his natural Korbinite body as well (he hated being the cyborg but accepted it to protect his people), and he and Thor developed a strong, almost brotherly bond.