Right all the way. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:59:51 +0000 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Xmen question I remember that! "Heroes Reborn" and "Heroes Return" was good stuff. There was a young girl who became Captain America's sidekick in that alternate reality. If I remember correctly, that alternate Earth was brought into our reality and put into an orbit the same as Earth's, but on the opposite side of the Sun, like the old Counter-Earth? I have that right, don't I? At any rate, that young girl is now on the main Earth, going under the name Nomad. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2010 3:25:47 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Xmen question Keith, my favorite Ultron scene has him just standing there. It's out of the post- "Heroes Reborn" Avengers reboot, when Ultron has invaded a small Balkan country, killed all of the people there and turned them into cyborg zombies. The Avengers split up into teams to try to get to Ultron from multiple fronts, and one team, consisting of Iron Man, Wonder Man, Thor, Scarlet Witch and Cap, wins through thousand of the cyber-zombies, getting seriously dented in the process. When they reach Ultron, Thor, his costume half ripped away, stands in the doorway and says, "Ultron, we would have words with thee." I was standing in a Circle K when I read that, and my laughter scared the water out of some woman nearby, at the ATM, *literally*. She yanked her card out of the machine and ran into the bathroom. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:29:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Xmen question Right, I have that ish with Graviton. He's truly one of the most powerful beings in the MU. Nefaria's powerful too. Is he still active? Ultron is a trip, always coming back. I think he's coming back again right now in Mighty Avengers. Henry Pym created the "Infinite Avengers Mansion", a complex built in a pocket universe that effectively allows it to stretch into infinity, and provide dimensional transit points to anywhere on Earth. He integrated the android Jocasta into the system; she can function as guide by moving her consciousness into one of her millions of body's. Last ish, one of them evidenced that trademark Ultron look. Uh-oh! My fav Ultron scene was years ago when the Avengers and FF were fighting him, and he had the Human Torch by the throat. Captain America was nearby and told the Torch to go Nova, which he didn't want to do with Cap near. He did it, and there's a really cool panel showing the entire area turn into a ball of fire, and Cap, this one small figure, deflecting the fire around him with his shield. Reminds me of the scene in "Dragonslayer" when the dude hides behind the shield when the dragon blasts him. The Torch couldn't dent Ultran's adamantium body, but the heat he generated broke some of his internal circuitry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "B Smith" <daikaij...@yahoo.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 11:48:09 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Xmen question Absorbing too much mass once turned Graviton into a living black hole...but he got better. I always loved the Avengers rogues gallery. My favorite Avengers villain was Ultron. When he murdered the entire nation of Slorenia and nearly killed the Avengers was one of my favorite storylines. And in his last incarnation he became ruler of the Phalanx and took out the Kree Empire. Another powerhouse villain that I loved was Count Nefaria. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@...> wrote: > > Yeah, he's awesome. I'd take Graviton's powers first, though, because he > could deflect even Magnus' powers by simply manipulating spacetime. At his > height, he can detect all objects on the planet. Just to test his powers, he > honed in on a lady in Australia, then sent a pebble through her brain from > thousands of miles away--just to prove he could. Graviton can levitate whole > cities--several at once, and is well nigh invincible...physically. I believe > Moonstone used her twisted psychological skills to jack with his > self-confidence, his only Achilles' Heel. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@...> > To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 3:51:37 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Xmen question > > > > > > > I'd take Magneto's powers as well. He could stop anyone's blood flow, if it > struck him. > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody > hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > > > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > From: keithbjohn...@... > Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 23:29:25 +0000 > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Xmen question > > > > > > > In the original Handbook, it was posited that Magneto might be living proof > of a Unified Field Theory, because he could do things that weren't strictly > related to manipulation of metal. > Mags is one of the Marvel characters whose power i'd like to have were such a > thing possible. It's range of uses, offensive/defensive capabilities, and > sheer power are impressive. Others whose abilities I covet would include > Storm (that lightning/tornadic wind ability is devastating), Graviton (like > Magneto, vastly powerful, and able to warp spacetime due to his power), and > Sue Storm (that forcefield power has way more potential than shown even to > this point) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@...> > To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 3:50:47 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Xmen question > > > > > Mr Worf, the question's been answered several time sover, but I can't help > but wonder, as a physicist, why Mags can't manipulate his eyebeams in some > fashion. If the Theory of Everything that's been posited by studies holds > true, then Mags' magnetic powers should be able to do something with them. > But then, it's something I've never considered, being more an FF fan than an > X-fan. > > > > Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. 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