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The DCU has no continuity and is comparable to someone eating a few crap stories and tacky comic art and vomiting it onto glossy paper. The DCU is soulless and would not be around today if Superman and Batman weren't successful. The DCU has characters like the Elongated Man and Despero and that starfish villain. It also had twelve different Hawkman's with the same name and different histories. A Vertigo thread perhaps but one dedicated to Booster Gold and Green Flame and the rest of that man glue...maybe not.
Thanks for the advice! I will be burning all my DCU comix promptly and immersing myself in the hi-lit of Marvel Secret Wars.
Good, a convert...
FYI: the Secret Wars was nothing more than a franchising ploy on Marvel's part to attract more readers and to expose their characters to a wider audience, if you saw it as anything more than that well then that's a problem (if it wasn't for that very Secret War, I would never have become the True Believer I am today).
No, he didn't. He's trying to be witty, he's Scott's oldest enemy trying to be tongue in cheek. The bastard!
I'm probably just being too picky but you know when the Xorn/MAgneto thing was revealed , I just wanted to see whether it all fitted together... and as I had never heard of Xorn before and it seemed Scott had ...
No, I also did some back tracking when the "shocking truth" about Xorn was revealed. Some of it seems to correspond but most of it looks like it was just some cheap plot device to pave the way for Planet X
What is Scarlet Witch's tie to a golden age character named the Whizzer?
I don't really know the answer to this.
It was an injection of Mongoose venom that made Robert Frank into The Whizzer, the fastest man on Earth. For a time, Wanda and Pietro thought that he was their natural father, due to a complicated maguffin.
For details, check this shit out:
Secret origins of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch
Eventually, Bob Frank met his death at the hands of an "old enemy". This was in the Bill Mantlo penned 4-issue series, The Vision and the Scarlet Witch, which in the UK was reprinted along with parts of the Claremont-Byrne X-Men run in Might World Of Marvel. The first issue I picked up (aged 8 or so) was the issue where the Whizzer gets it, and I still remember the cover tagline: "No matter how fast the Whizzer runs, he can't escape the past!" and then off to the side "This issue: X-Men: Everybody dies!" as indeed they (sort of) did.
Thanks for that. I've always wondered what the deal was with the Scarlet Witch and all her parents. If I've got this right then it seems like Wanda has/had more than six different "parents" all together.
Dads:
1) Django Maximoff (Adoptive)
2) Bob Frank (Adoptive)
3) Erik Lensherr (Father Figure/Biological)
Moms:
1) Django's wife (Adoptive)
2) Bova (Adoptive)
3) Magda Lensherr (Biological)
4) Mrs. Frank (Adoptive)
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5) Agatha Harkness (mother figure) Does she count?
Can Cyclops run out of energy? I recall an Excalibur annual where a young, time-displaced Cyclops zapped Captain Britain continuously until his beam fizzled out. But as I understood it, he's continuously firing his beam at the inside of his visor all the time as long as his eyes are open.
How come Siryn and Polaris are, like, the only mutants ever to inherit their parents' powers exactly?
I must have missed the bit where Polaris finally finds out that Mags is her dad. So, it's official? Polaris is the Mistress of Magnetism? Who was the brilliant writer that connected those dots? Oh, look Emma Frost has telepathy, so that means she has got to be Xaviers daughter, because he's also got telepathy. Genius.
Uatu the Watcher was stripped of his rank and power in Fantastic Four #400 -- not for the crime of interfering in events, but for killing another Watcher.
I'm unsure if he ever got his position back, but -- man, by the standards of the Watchers' race, Uatu must be one scary motherfucker.
Yeah, watch out! It's a giant, bald, balloon-head with a knife!
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