Monday, June 18, 2007

51st?



In the Marvel Universe of today, as a result of a lengthy and boring story that claimed to be a civil rights metaphor but was actually about Iron Man and Captain America punching each other, super-powered people in the US have to register with the government or face prosecution. Those who register get the chance to join The Initiative, an organisation that lets Marvel sell yet another Avengers titile stations a government super-team in each of the fifty US states. So Minnesota gets a team, Hawaii gets a team, and so on.

Here are the members of The Initiative:

The good guys... apparently

But wait. Who's that towards the back?

Captain 51

Why, it's Captain Britain, a British superhero, from Britain.

Which of the fifty US states is he representing then?

Stupid Marvel.
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8 comments:

  1. CalvinPitt18/6/07 10:08 pm

    Well, I think there was a scene in Black panther where Captain Britain pretty much said the U.K. is in agreement with America on registration and so there's a chance he's on loan?

    Yeah, I don't buy it either. So yeah, stupid Marvel.

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  2. thekelvingreen18/6/07 10:22 pm

    In Black Panther? Because that's clearly the most appropriate place for Captain Britain to pop up and discuss international politics. As opposed to, for example, Excalibur, or Wisdom, or even Union Jack, in which British government types commented on how silly superhero registration was... um...

    Stupid Marvel.

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  3. Anonymous22/6/07 9:34 pm

    No, no, no. You see Machine Man, Elsa Bloodstone, and The Captain in the back? They represent the 51st state. Its invisible and flies, and was run by devil dinosaur until Nextwave killed him. If you read nextwave you'd have called england the 52nd state as is proper.

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  4. thekelvingreen22/6/07 9:54 pm

    That's a fair point. I can only put it down to me not wanting to admit that something as glorious as nextwave has anything to do with something as stupid as The Initiative.

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  5. CalvinPitt25/6/07 10:45 pm

    I was just looking at the picture again, and I could swear I see the Scarlet Spider, pretty far back, to the left of Misty Knight, and in front of the blonde with the bubble gum.

    Red mask, big white eye holes, I think it's Ben Reilly. So I guess Stark has made a clone of Spider-Man, just like he did of Thor. Criminy.

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  6. thekelvingreen26/6/07 8:27 am

    I don't know, there's a hint of a mouth there, so it looks like it might be Carnage. Which isn't any better, of course...

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  7. Anonymous27/6/07 9:17 pm

    Might be toxin.
    I only know he's not a villian, looks kinda like carnage, and is on wikipedia.

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  8. thekelvingreen27/6/07 9:23 pm

    Oh, good call Anonymous. Yes, it's Toxin, I think. It's quite plausible that he'd join the Initiative.

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