Marvel announces one of the Fantastic 4 will die. - Page 3

Fifthfiend · 01-30-2011, 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Marc v1.0

Reed seriously needs to die to keep the world safe from him.

Seriously, like 90% of every What If? story that ends in the world being destroyed is because Reed's super fucking Ego gets bruised and he throws a bitch fit and fucks everything up.

Or he attempts to commit genocide on some other race of people or some stupid bullshit like that.

It wouldn't help because basically every single possible Marvel Universe future is a horrifying dystopia ruled by EITHER whichever given hero's arch-nemesis OR whichever given hero's evil future self.

Get rid of Reed and you just end up with a world ruled by the Mandarin, or Apocalypse, or Evil Hulk, or Evil Tony Stark, or Evil Tony Stark and the Mandarin but really the Mandarin brainwashed Tony into being evil.

Hell this is all assuming that killing Reed isn't what causes the future where we're all the brainwashed slaves of Doctor Doom. WHICH IT IS.

Amake · 01-30-2011, 04:02 AM

Every time I hear from Marvel comics, it makes me want to not read them more. I'm already not reading any of them, but now I wish there was some way to make them twice as not read.

Fascinating, my desire to not read this comic is too great to be expressed with proper grammar. I guess at some point of ultimate disinterest language just breaks down.

Fifthfiend · 01-30-2011, 05:12 AM

In fairness the story in which Johnny dies is actually pretty decent. I mean it's still Another Trivial Comics Death but the story doesn't treat it as anything more than that, like you don't even actually see Johnny die on-screen, they won't even have to resort to any particularly exotic bullshit to bring him back.

The whole thing is like, one plot beat in a pretty decently told story with a decent amount of fairly interesting Fantastic Foursy shit going on (Sue Storm becomes queen of a race of prehistoric mutant Atlanteans, Reed leads an enraged Galactus to a counter-Earth populated by timeline refugees that killed his future self, Ben Grimm feels bad about being a rock-person).

For whatever reason the Marvel marketing team decided to seize on this particular plot point and make An Event out of it but in this case I'm not gonna say that's the fault of the actual comic or the story it's telling.

Magus · 01-30-2011, 10:40 AM

They only need three members anyway, haven't they seen Batman Beyond?

Aerozord · 01-30-2011, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

It wouldn't help because basically every single possible Marvel Universe future is a horrifying dystopia ruled by EITHER whichever given hero's arch-nemesis OR whichever given hero's evil future self.

Get rid of Reed and you just end up with a world ruled by the Mandarin, or Apocalypse, or Evil Hulk, or Evil Tony Stark, or Evil Tony Stark and the Mandarin but really the Mandarin brainwashed Tony into being evil.

Hell this is all assuming that killing Reed isn't what causes the future where we're all the brainwashed slaves of Doctor Doom. WHICH IT IS.

I prefer the "all eaten by zombies" one personally. Get alot more closure when its universal genocide

PS and yes Reed is one of the main reasons this happens

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Fifthfiend for all seasons Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 19,409	In fairness the story in which Johnny dies is actually pretty decent. I mean it's still Another Trivial Comics Death but the story doesn't treat it as anything more than that, like you don't even actually see Johnny die on-screen, they won't even have to resort to any particularly exotic bullshit to bring him back. The whole thing is like, one plot beat in a pretty decently told story with a decent amount of fairly interesting Fantastic Foursy shit going on (Sue Storm becomes queen of a race of prehistoric mutant Atlanteans, Reed leads an enraged Galactus to a counter-Earth populated by timeline refugees that killed his future self, Ben Grimm feels bad about being a rock-person). For whatever reason the Marvel marketing team decided to seize on this particular plot point and make An Event out of it but in this case I'm not gonna say that's the fault of the actual comic or the story it's telling. __________________ check out my buttspresso Last edited by Fifthfiend; 01-30-2011 at 05:19 AM.

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