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Post by brutalis on Nov 24, 2021 14:33:08 GMT -5
Remember when it was fun figuring out who was a member of the teams (heroic and villainous) you liked? Nowadays it is easier to say who isn't on which team and many are on multiple teams.
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Post by tartanphantom on Nov 24, 2021 16:29:27 GMT -5
Remember when it was fun figuring out who was a member of the teams (heroic and villainous) you liked? Nowadays it is easier to say who isn't on which team and many are on multiple teams.
At one point in the 70's both the Avengers and the Defenders membership looked somewhat like a revolving cast of thousands from Ben Hur. You couldn't keep up, even with a scorecard.
DC got away with it better, but only because they tended to throw more clearly defined character team subsets together in the same story-- JLA, JSA, Freedom Fighters, Seven Soldiers of Victory, etc. For the most part, you could tell who belonged to which group... but then again, there was the whole Earth-1/Earth-2/Earth-X/Earth-S confusion on similarly named characters from different Earths.
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Post by badwolf on Nov 24, 2021 16:32:27 GMT -5
Well the Defenders was usually described as a non-team where people came and went all the time (though there were certainly regulars who stuck around.)
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Post by brutalis on Nov 24, 2021 17:16:46 GMT -5
At least in the 70's a main core group was fairly standard protocol. These days it all has a feeling of ANY hero or villain is automatically part of teams and ANY hero or villain can be utilized just to suit the plot point of stories. Also it seems to me that EVERY team is in a constant state of flux with rotating teams or a group pulled together with a reason which hold them together momentarily/temporarily until they quickly separate, going their way.
Feels like ALL TEAMS are the Defenders now. Has to be something in the water? Almost like an Iron Chef competition by the writers: create your own team and see which Non-Team will reign supreme?
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