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SpikeyIceman
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Subject: Character "deaths" **FF Spoilers** Avengers related.
Posted Wed Jan 26, 2011 at 10:12:31 am EST (Viewed 527 times) |
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I think the only thing worse, and more insulting to fans, than the revolving door deaths the industry is a fan of in the last decade or so is when the company hypes a character death ... and it isn't one.
Let's look at some recent Avenger deaths.
Hawkeye - BLOWN UP!! later "undone" by Chaos magic
those are deaths.
Jack or Hearts - BLOWN UP!!
Ares - TORN ASUNDER!!
Human Torch - fighting bugs... ...
No corpse = no death.
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Unstable Molecule
Location: Calgary, AB Canada
Member Since: Sat May 17, 2008
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Subject: Re: Character "deaths" **FF Spoilers** Avengers related. [Re: SpikeyIceman]
Posted Wed Jan 26, 2011 at 12:27:27 pm EST (Viewed 344 times) |
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Agreed. I feel the same about the Wasp's "death" too. She'll be back.
Heck, Captain America was shot to death in the chest, leaving a corpse, and even he came back. Death has to be one of the weakest abstract entities in the Marvel Universe, when you think about it.
"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices." – Albus Dumbledore
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David Medinnus
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Subject: How is this Avengers related? [Re: SpikeyIceman]
Posted Wed Jan 26, 2011 at 12:42:13 pm EST (Viewed 387 times) |
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Johnny Storm is about the only hero in the Marvel Universe who hasn't been an Avenger. To say this is Avengers-related is tantamount to saying all the traffic on the FF board is Avengers-related, but at least Reed, Sue, and Ben have actually BEEN Avengers... 
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SpikeyIceman
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Subject: Re: How is this Avengers related? [Re: David Medinnus]
Posted Wed Jan 26, 2011 at 03:15:59 pm EST (Viewed 329 times) |
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I gave examples of how at least in the Avengers books they do death right. They blow up and otherwise destroy the bodies of their members.
Which I prefer - therefore - myself being an Avengers fan.
I'm saying that The FF book isn't as good because all it did was tease. It didn't even have the guys to actually kill off one of it's main characters.
Avengers books do this every 4 years or so.
I prefer an actual death (however short lived) to a death tease.
Wasp being the most recent Avengers exception I think.
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SpikeyIceman
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Subject: Re: Character "deaths" **FF Spoilers** Avengers related. [Re: Unstable Molecule]
Posted Wed Jan 26, 2011 at 03:18:56 pm EST (Viewed 293 times) |
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At least with Cap he was shot in the chest, pronounced dead, had a funeral.
With wasp and now the human Torch, it's not even a death.
The publisher announces they are killing the character and then...they're put in a situation no more dangerous than they find themselves in every other issue.
I think Marvel has Death and Missing/ Death and Inactive confused.
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The Black Guardian
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Location: Paragon City, RI
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Subject: Re: Character "deaths" **FF Spoilers** Avengers related. [Re: SpikeyIceman]
Posted Wed Jan 26, 2011 at 03:42:16 pm EST (Viewed 355 times) |
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Frankly, every time a character dies, I'm extremely offended. It doesn't matter how "good" they try to make it. They're never good. The only reason I'm buying the damned books it to read about the characters cheating death. To read about them dying is like a punch in the face.
Thankfully, there's always resurrections!!!
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fan4
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Subject: Re: Character "deaths" **FF Spoilers** Avengers related. [Re: SpikeyIceman]
Posted Sat Jan 29, 2011 at 12:44:56 am EST (Viewed 226 times) |
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His body was in the two-page spread, on the second page.
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