shaxper
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Post by shaxper on Aug 18, 2022 0:53:59 GMT -5
A thread for plot ideas that someone probably should have used by now (and maybe they did, but we don't know about it!).
I'll start with a few examples:
Have we ever had a story where a villain, aspiring villain, or mad geneticist combs the area after X-Men battles, looking for blood and tissue samples?
Hasn't billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne ever had a stalker? And if so, wouldn't that stalker be likely to uncover his alter ego?
Has anyone ever tried to hold the U.S. military financially liable for damage inflicted by The Hulk ("Have you or a loved one been injured by The Hulk? You may be entitled to compensation!")?
Whatever happened to the spider that bit Peter Parker?
If Superman can hear pretty much everything, how is he able to put that on the back burner and lead a dual identity as Clark Kent while people are constantly in trouble?
Doesn't Matt Murdock ever overhear private conversations the opposing attorney is having with their client? How does he handle that?
With enough practice and knowledge, could Jean Grey perform emergency surgery with her mind?
What kind of inspections/audits does Professor Xavier's School for the Gifted have to undergo in order for students to attend there? When the New Mutants disappear for a year at a time, is no one checking their attendance or wondering why their standardized test scores haven't been submitted? Is Professor X falsifying all of this?
How much does it suck to live next door to Avengers Mansion?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2022 2:23:01 GMT -5
A thread for plot ideas that someone probably should have used by now (and maybe they did, but we don't know about it!). I'll start with a few examples: Have we ever had a story where a villain, aspiring villain, or mad geneticist combs the area after X-Men battles, looking for blood and tissue samples? Isn't that essentially what Mr. Sinister does? And there was something like that in Hickman's X-Men where they harvested bits of Domino to infuse others with her luck powers through tissue grafts or some such. I think they've established that the same spider bit Cindy Moon aka Silk and then she and her brother were kept ina bunker somewhere for observation, eventually escaping to be a super-hero (I've only read a couple of Silk stories and never her origin, just picked up the gist of it (I think) from those stories. -M
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Post by foxley on Aug 18, 2022 2:41:13 GMT -5
I think they've established that the same spider bit Cindy Moon aka Silk and then she and her brother were kept ina bunker somewhere for observation, eventually escaping to be a super-hero (I've only read a couple of Silk stories and never her origin, just picked up the gist of it (I think) from those stories. -M And after that, Carl King--one of the bullies who used to pick on Peter--had seen Peter being bitten and connected it with the subsequent appearance of Spider-Man. He broke into the facility, found the dead spider, and ate it; hoping to gain superpowers. His body began to break down over time, mutating him into a swarm of a thousand spiders sharing a single consciousness known as the Thousand.
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Post by zaku on Aug 18, 2022 2:55:31 GMT -5
I think they've established that the same spider bit Cindy Moon aka Silk and then she and her brother were kept ina bunker somewhere for observation, eventually escaping to be a super-hero (I've only read a couple of Silk stories and never her origin, just picked up the gist of it (I think) from those stories. -M And after that, Carl King--one of the bullies who used to pick on Peter--had seen Peter being bitten and connected it with the subsequent appearance of Spider-Man. He broke into the facility, found the dead spider, and ate it; hoping to gain superpowers. His body began to break down over time, mutating him into a swarm of a thousand spiders sharing a single consciousness known as the Thousand. One of the few "straight" Ennis' superhero stories.
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Post by Dizzy D on Aug 18, 2022 2:59:12 GMT -5
>What kind of inspections/audits does Professor Xavier's School for the Gifted have to undergo in order for students to attend there? When the New Mutants disappear for a year at a time, is no one checking their attendance or wondering why their standardized test scores haven't been submitted? Is Professor X falsifying all of this?
There was an issue of a school inspection visiting the the school (I think it was during Jason Aaron's run when it was the Jean Grey School). Things didn't go well, but some amnesia (not even done by one of the many resident telepaths) to forget a supervillain attack and Hank McCoy turning on the charm managed to get them through the inspection.
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Post by foxley on Aug 18, 2022 3:36:56 GMT -5
Hasn't billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne ever had a stalker? And if so, wouldn't that stalker be likely to uncover his alter ego? I knew this one had been done, I just had to check when it was.
In 1995-96, the Bat-books acquired a character named Madolyn Corbett; created by Doug Moench and Kelley Jones. She was a close associate of Bruce Wayne, who was obsessed with him. Her fascination with him led her to begin stalking him outside his house. After he rejected her offer of marriage, she soon killed herself and tried to frame Bruce for it.
The Moench/Jones run on Batman was pretty good (IMO), but I know that Jones art is an acquired taste for some people.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 18, 2022 3:41:07 GMT -5
What could happen when Krypto takes a poop in the woods or lawn on Earth? What's the effect of Kryptonian fertilizer to plant life?
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Post by berkley on Aug 18, 2022 3:45:56 GMT -5
A thread for plot ideas that someone probably should have used by now (and maybe they did, but we don't know about it!). I'll start with a few examples: Have we ever had a story where a villain, aspiring villain, or mad geneticist combs the area after X-Men battles, looking for blood and tissue samples? Hasn't billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne ever had a stalker? And if so, wouldn't that stalker be likely to uncover his alter ego? Has anyone ever tried to hold the U.S. military financially liable for damage inflicted by The Hulk ("Have you or a loved one been injured by The Hulk? You may be entitled to compensation!")? Whatever happened to the spider that bit Peter Parker? If Superman can hear pretty much everything, how is he able to put that on the back burner and lead a dual identity as Clark Kent while people are constantly in trouble? Doesn't Matt Murdock ever overhear private conversations the opposing attorney is having with their client? How does he handle that? With enough practice and knowledge, could Jean Grey perform emergency surgery with her mind? What kind of inspections/audits does Professor Xavier's School for the Gifted have to undergo in order for students to attend there? When the New Mutants disappear for a year at a time, is no one checking their attendance or wondering why their standardized test scores haven't been submitted? Is Professor X falsifying all of this? How much does it suck to live next door to Avengers Mansion? Have we ever had a story where a villain, aspiring villain, or mad geneticist combs the area after X-Men battles, looking for blood and tissue samples?
No idea, but I think it's a good scenario. Has Warren Ellis ever written the X-Men?
Hasn't billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne ever had a stalker?
Don't know.
And if so, wouldn't that stalker be likely to uncover his alter ego? Yes, and along these general lines I think Frank Miller did a great job with the idea of someone really putting their mind to uncovering a superhero's secret identity in the double-length Daredevil issue where Bullseye was the hard-boiled detective, complete with first-person narration, trying to solve this exact problem - and succeeding.
Has anyone ever tried to hold the U.S. military financially liable for damage inflicted by The Hulk ("Have you or a loved one been injured by The Hulk? You may be entitled to compensation!")?
If the damage was inflicted by the Hulk, wouldn't this be like suing your own armed forces for losing a war? Oh, wait, I see what you mean - the Hulk resulted from a military program gone wrong. Yeah, good question. Perhaps the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki could sue the US military. No, that's not quite it either since most of the Hulk's rampages take place within the US. This is one I feel might have been addressed already by the newer Marvel Comics
Whatever happened to the spider that bit Peter Parker? I think he became Man-Bat over at DC. If Superman can hear pretty much everything, how is he able to put that on the back burner and lead a dual identity as Clark Kent while people are constantly in trouble? Doesn't Matt Murdock ever overhear private conversations the opposing attorney is having with their client? How does he handle that?
This seems like more or less the same question flipped around: Superman is asked why he doesn't use his knowledge for good, Matt Murdock is asked how he refrains from using his knowledge for evil, or at least unethical behaviour. Not sure about Superman/Kent but I think Matt Murdock was so busy keeping his Mike and Matt civilian identities straight, everything else was background noise.
With enough practice and knowledge, could Jean Grey perform emergency surgery with her mind?
Yes. I remember an early X-Men story where she was disassembling and then re-assembling a complex piece of machinery, just as a school exercise, so by comic book logic she should be able to do the same with the human body. But she'd have to spend years of study and practice.
What kind of inspections/audits does Professor Xavier's School for the Gifted have to undergo in order for students to attend there? It's been a long time since I read the old 1960s X-Men but I think my idea at the time was that all this was accounted for by Professor X's telepathic screening.
When the New Mutants disappear for a year at a time, is no one checking their attendance or wondering why their standardized test scores haven't been submitted? Is Professor X falsifying all of this?
No idea, New Mutants must have come after my time, so I don't have the faintest, etc.
How much does it suck to live next door to Avengers Mansion? Or to the Baxter Bldg. This is a good one. When did the Avengers Mansion become a thing? Kirby and Lee very early on made the Baxter Bldg an object of neighbourhood comments and complaints, if my impression is right, but off the top of my head I don't recall seeing any similar scenes involving the Avengers Mansion until Englehart's last few issues. But I have a feeling I'm either forgetting or just missed something earlier, because it seems like the kind of thing Roy Thomas would have done in his Avengers run.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2022 5:59:15 GMT -5
Picking up on a point raised here, what about the itinerary at Xavier’s school? Have any tutors been shown, or is Professor X covering everything from algebra and English to history and physics?
I remember reading how Xavier gives homework assignments to everyone who joins the school. Does this include Wolverine? Can’t imagine him wanting to do homework…
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 18, 2022 7:22:22 GMT -5
In Civil war ( the first one) Stark took up hair samples from Thor back when the original Avengers assembled. It was used to make the clone that eventually killed Black Goliath.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 18, 2022 7:26:46 GMT -5
This might be the most original thread in years on this forum. It’s like a trivia contest for the history of comics. I love it.
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 18, 2022 8:00:27 GMT -5
What could happen when Krypto takes a poop in the woods or lawn on Earth? What's the effect of Kryptonian fertilizer to plant life? To quote Jesse Jackson, the question is moot. Kryptonian metabolisms are so efficient, their bodies produce neither solid nor liquid waste. Saves Clark a fortune on TP.
Cei-U! I summon the total elimination of skid marks!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2022 8:13:10 GMT -5
A thread for plot ideas that someone probably should have used by now (and maybe they did, but we don't know about it!). Have we ever had a story where a villain, aspiring villain, or mad geneticist combs the area after X-Men battles, looking for blood and tissue samples? I'm not sure, but there was some kind of trans-human group in Morrison's X-Men run that, I think, "improved" normal humans with technological accessories and mutant DNA, which might have been obtained from non-consenting mutants. But maybe they were just kidnapped for access to their DNA.
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Post by badwolf on Aug 18, 2022 8:52:16 GMT -5
Picking up on a point raised here, what about the itinerary at Xavier’s school? Have any tutors been shown, or is Professor X covering everything from algebra and English to history and physics? I remember reading how Xavier gives homework assignments to everyone who joins the school. Does this include Wolverine? Can’t imagine him wanting to do homework… When the school became big during Grant Morrison's run, the adult X-Men took on teaching roles. I think that, after the original, teenage X-Men, "homework" consisted mostly of training.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 18, 2022 9:46:02 GMT -5
Has anyone ever tried to hold the U.S. military financially liable for damage inflicted by The Hulk ("Have you or a loved one been injured by The Hulk? You may be entitled to compensation!")? There's actually two fairly interesting separate issues in this question. Initially, the Supreme Court's decision in Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005), could probably be applied to the military by analogy, which would indicate that they have no duty to actually stop The Hulk and his rampages. More interesting is that many (possibly most) of the military's actions against The Hulk are probably illegal. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 (as amended in 1956 and 2021) severely limits the power of the federal government to use the military to enforce domestic policies in the United States. Crime prevention is very much a domestic policy.
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