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Frank Cross's TV network is doing "A Christmas Carol" when he gets visited by his own three spirits. Karen used to watch "A Christmas Carol" on TV as a kid. Yet neither of them recognize they're getting, for lack of a better word, Scrooged. Karen's 'Jacob Marley' even has a name that's only a few letters and a gender off from the original, her name is Jackie Morley.
And how would they react seeing (and hearing) about cybertronians unintentionally dragging a non-warp/FTL capable race (Humans) in the war? And how would they react seeing them (Cybertronians) helping humans achieve Warp drive or Space Bridge?
And for the sake of it, I would say depend on what continuity we're talking about (Gen 1, Unicron, Bayverse, and etc... although, in this case AOE and TLK are non-canon)..
Have I been thinking about it wrongly? Is Kryptonite more of a radioactive rock like uranium in krypton? Instead of like the dirt or pebbles you find near a lake?
Because the way it was presented I thought of it like the literal rocks we find everywhere (except it’s Krypton’s rock”).
I think if he was at the epicenter of the blast even he would die, though he likely wouldn't be completely vaporized like a normal human.
What's the limit?
I know the Silence makes you forget them whenever you're not looking, but the Vision and Ultron aren't natural life, they're AI. They have digital memory banks. Would those get wiped too?
So, I'm currently working on a fanfic rewrite of Invincible for a larger fan-fiction project and I have encountered an issue: That being, there does not seem to be any coherent chronology for the events of Invincible other than the implication that Issue #144 takes place some 500 years after issue #143.
In Invincible's canon, a timeline is not really important to the story but for my project it absolutely is and I'm wondering if anyone could provide a realistic estimate for how much time passes between the 1st and 143rd Issues of Invincible.
My version of Invincible starts in 2051 and I'm hoping that I can fit the events of Issues 1-143 into minimum period of 6 years to 2057 or a maximum period of 10 years to 2061. Any more time would be non-ideal.
Anyway, is there any information in the comics that could provide a time estimate for the aforementioned issues?
I was looking into Thunderbolts and saw the scepter and started thinking
Let's say somehow you were miraculously able to tap a politician with the scepter and force them to resign or put you in power and they schedule an appearance on TV to do so publicly.
Would people catch on that something is off or not notice for a while?
I am thinking that since they act differently and their eyes turn bright blue it would be pretty noticeable.
Could they just possibly say they got contacts lenses or maybe make them wear sunglasses?
Would it even be worth it using it on someone who has to be in the spotlight so much?
So, Heir is locked up in some sort of prison.
And he is helping our protagonist and resurrecting him because he wants us to free him from the prison with the three keys.
But... after the prison is open he is still resurrecting us?
And then he kills us for some reason and sends us to the shadow realm?
And he could always just not do it, but for some reason he needs us to show him the manual so he does this?
I don't understand his agenda at all
So, going back over Kingdom Hearts, I realised something like this happens. Sora was never the Chosen One, Riku was... and the first thing he did when given the responsibilities was consciously choose to make the situation significantly worse.
But there has to be other instances of this, right? The Chosen One basically being the absolute worst choice when finally expected to step up and show their worth.
Edit: Doesn't need to be a god, expressly. Just the chooser of the Chosen One.
I guess my question is really “how evil is Lex?” because I know the whole jealousy angle (& the old school baldness blame) but I swear some adaptions play into the “Lex does what he does for the greater good/just doesn’t like Superman” angle, & so if that is the case, then I feel Superman of all people could surely sit down & get him on side through a lengthy “come on man what’s the beef here” talk?
Everything in Terraria is carnivorous and incredibly aggressive. The surface is overrun with carnivorous slimes, buzzards attack you on sight, antlions aren't eating veggies with those mandibles, bats want to drain your blood etc. Even the water is filled with piranhas or hungry jellyfish. Predators are so ubiquitous that you can kill hundreds of them in a single day and the likelihood that you get mauled by one when you step outside the next day is entirely undiminished.
If you go underground it's even worse, despite being no herbivores of any kind, the caverns are even more filled with hostile carnivores, including entire caves full of predatory man-sized spiders.
It's a well known ecological principle that herbivores need to outnumber carnivores by quite a bit for carnivores to survive, so what are all these predators eating? They never seem to try to eat each other, and the occasional bunny/frog/turtle is not sustaining the legion of hungry predators that roam the world at all times of day, let alone an underground ecosystem even more carnivorous than the surface.
From what the dialog seems to imply, the guy experiences time between wishes as unconsciousness. Is there a reason why he doesn't like being awake? Does he have the same kind of mindset as a mr. Meseeks in Rick and Morty?
Do most agents see action or are the majority of them desk jockeys and support staff?
So, in WHF there exists a whole lot more gods than there are in 40k. The chaos gods very clearly come from the warp, and the old ones are clearly magical space lizards, but what of all the other kinda of gods that are clearly real? The nehekaran gods of the underworld, the elven gods, gork and mork? What about Sigmar or Ulric? Hashuts and the Horned Rat are clearly chaos gods, but Are all of the others also warp gods shaped by human/elven belief in the warp, or are they created by the old ones for these races? Or do they exist outside of the warp? Seems like atleast Hashuts realm you can reach if you just drill far enough down and do some magical mumbo jumbo, but that might just open a portal to his realm. I know the dwarfs have their ancestor gods too, but those just seems like great dwarf heroes whose spirit and power linger on, and not real gods.
Also, I know Sigmar was a man when he lived, but by the end times he is clearly as much as a god as the rest of them. Did he take of residence in thw warp, or did his spirit just linger in the real world? Or did he basically ascend like a demon prince but on his own, without the help of the chaos gods?
Since Daniel Hall become both Dream‘s successor and kinda fused together, (he‘s kinda both the original Dream and a new) or Daniel became a part of him? . He once appeared in a Justice League story and acknowledged Wonder Woman and he are sorta related (though she was an alternate version of Lyta’s mother).Those that mean that Wonder Woman (and maybe her mother, her siblings and Ares) is now protected by the ancient rule that the Endless do not spill blood?
The rule not only applies to the siblings but also their children, grandchildren, nieces,nephews etc (Rose, Chad, Orpheus)
If yes those mean that every version of her is protected or just the version that is Lyta‘s mother?
Does everyone get them? If the answer is no, then why not?
The movies seem to flip flop between the Asgardians being gods and just being aliens. Thor 1 and 2 suggested he was just an alien with advanced tech/abilities, then Thor 3 and 4 goes back to the idea that they are gods after all, even introducing more "gods" into the world.
Which is it? Am I missing something?
The way Hwaslt hates jugo as his nickname as something his uncle calls him. All the bruises om his arm . His flat affect and subdued personality especially after he says his uncle died. The way the uncle talks to him callong him his "adorable jugo"
Like apparently jugram and Bazz B are 1000s of years old ???? If they grew up on earth before the first time Ywhac attacked the soil society. Are all the Stern Ritter a least a 1000 years old or more ? Or were many of them all born and grew up in the shadows under the soil society?
Were the Stern Ritter army still making families and raising kids in the shadow world ? No one knew about this large hidden population of ancient Quincy?
Think about it.
In marvel or DC, are you sure you can't bring people back from the dead, are you sure you can't magically create stuff from nothing? Are you sure you can't put curses on people?
The boys kind of gets it right in that religion seems bigger in that universe. How can Jesus or even Thor not be real when we got homalnder flying around breaking the laws of Physics.