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Post by Nutcase65 on May 5, 2007 16:06:38 GMT -5
I like the fact that Tony is getting more practical about the running of SHIELD and what it actually takes to run the agency.
Like several of us have speculated, it looks like extremis is about to be re-introduced.
possible spoiler
What in Hades were they doing to Mandarin? Does it look like they were making the rings a part of his 'operating system'? I wondered how they were going to boost his power levels. I only wish we would've seen more of him.
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Post by Alchemist-X on May 6, 2007 18:38:26 GMT -5
It seemed like they were fusing the rings into his spine. (Or at leasts thats the impression that I got) so it could be very likely that his goal is the have the rings a part of him in similar fashion to Iron Man and extremis. (If IM gets a power boosts, so should the Mandarin. )
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Post by Nutcase65 on May 6, 2007 20:12:44 GMT -5
Alchemistx that was exactly what I was thinking. Since they made such a point of stating that Iron Man had been boosted, his arch-foe has to get boosted too. I think it's gonna be a good fight.
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Post by balok on May 6, 2007 21:21:09 GMT -5
What happens when all the petty criminals are in jail, and all the master criminals boost their powers to match their opponents' now boosted powers? Past a certain point the only criminals at large will be those able and willing to undergo such augmentation.
Those battles will be epic in scale. The next Stamford could well be a city...
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Post by Nutcase65 on May 7, 2007 14:30:23 GMT -5
I really hope that the company decides not to start elevating everyone. That would get pretty boring pretty quick.
and you're right, not only could the next blow-up be an entire city but the probability of that is pretty high.
But then again they've already blown up DC and large portions of New York. I wonder how many that affected
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Post by Doctor Doom on May 7, 2007 15:06:46 GMT -5
I demand you rename this thread to match the ones I made of 15 and 16, to show off the awesome new title. I'm sorry, I still get excited when I see:
Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Solid eough issue, but mostly filler. As next issue will be. This will all be Mandarin build-up, then two probably rubbishy WWH tie-ins after which nothing will be any different, THEN we get our mandarin boy!
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Post by Nutcase65 on May 7, 2007 15:13:21 GMT -5
I demand you rename this thread to match the ones I made of 15 and 16, to show off the awesome new title. I'm sorry, I still get excited when I see: Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. :PNo, I don't wanna, that's what you get for going away for a few days.
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Post by balok on May 7, 2007 17:05:53 GMT -5
I really hope that the company decides not to start elevating everyone. That would get pretty boring pretty quick. They've already done it to a few characters: Spider-Man is tougher and has more powers following "The Other" and Iron Man is tougher and has more powers following "Extremis." They've killed a normal powered character and they've turned Ares into a good guy, sort of, and added the Sentry to their stable. They're still not as tough as DC, but the fight would be more interesting. and you're right, not only could the next blow-up be an entire city but the probability of that is pretty high. I'm going to guess you meant "pretty low" here because otherwise the sentence doesn't make much sense to me. I agree the probability is low, because they only blew up Stamford to change the status quo. They'll only blow up another city to change it again in some fashion. And to be consistent, such a catastrophe would have to move Marvel further towards totalitarianism, not away from it. I hope they're not contemplating that. This kind of destruction will happen, like it did before Stamford, and people will lose their lives, like they did before Stamford, but we won't hear about their complaints because Marvel won't need to exploit them as they did to create The Initiative.
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Post by Nutcase65 on May 7, 2007 18:41:53 GMT -5
I mean that the probability of it happening is pretty high. With more higher powered bad and good guys floating around the chances of a major city getting kablooied would go up.
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