Originally posted by bluewaterriderSource: Uncanny X-Men #117
Circa: January 1978
Spoiler:
It was ridiculously awesome to see this scene faithfully reproduced on "Legion" episode 2x03 (shown from Xavier's POV, so that only Farouk was seen). Shows the writers have done their research.Probably not many caught this easter egg, so it should count as a "little known fact", too. 😛
Originally posted by SquallX
Why are you hiding your texts? Anyone who enters this thread should know spoilers is inevitable.
I'm largely with you, and, in all but the rarest cases, think a truly good work proves itself by being just as good if not better on repeat viewings, but, consider something like Star Wars.
Would you really want to know, for instance, that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's fat-- ... uh, fated opponent?
Just imagine how your appreciation of the series might change if you knew that!
J'onn J'onnz can increase his size, strength, and durability while in contact with the Earth virtually at will. Because of one notable instance of doing this, and confusion with a Manga artist's creation, he is known as The Jade Warrior in part of Japan.
Source: Martian Manhunter #2
Circa: January 1999
Actually, strangely enough, J'onn doesn't even need identifiable contact with Earth to gain size.
He apparently can just do it when the need arises:
Imagine ... an unassuming man who can become green, bigger, and much stronger in times of crisis. Seems a shame no one save Ostrander really seems to have expanded on this idea ...
KMC has a significant following in India!
I should make clear:
Jonn'z did not kill anyone in the Antares encounter.
The crew had died long, long ago. Millions of years prior, in fact.
This was a telling of Ancient Alien Visitors, quite prevalent in Justice League stories.
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As for the entry that followed that, while OneBigMob rightly divined my comment as a gentle poke, the demographics of KMC, according to that page linked above, DO surprise me. I mean, the prevalence of characters like Pr, OneAngryScot, and DarkSaint, make United Kingdom no surprise, but ... ahead of Canada?
And TAIWAN at #2? Ahead of Canada and the UK, with heavily populated China not even on the list?
Stats are everything but predictable, I guess ...
Batroc, the Leaper, like the Sub-Mariner before him ("Roman" spelled backwards = Namor, hence "Imperious Rex", etc) derived his name from clever word play.
Source: The Unbelievable Gwenpool #3
Circa: 2016
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batrachia
" The Batrachia are a clade of amphibians that includes frogs and salamanders, as well as the extinct allocaudates, but not caecilians. The name Batrachia was first used by French zoologist Pierre André Latreille in 1800 to refer to frogs, but has more recently been defined in a phylogenetic sense as a node-based taxon that includes the last common ancestor of frogs and salamanders and all of its descendants ... "
taxonomy = wut?
Originally posted by bluewaterrider
KMC has a significant following in India!
Lmao
Originally posted by SquallX
In regard to J’onn, how does he accomplish said feat?
I'm not 100% sure of what you're asking.
Is it the feat of beating Antares?
All thoughts of conventional fighting are shelved after various methods have met with varying degrees of success and unsuccess and a time bomb inside Antares is tripped. Then J'onn focuses exclusively on once again growing bigger and stronger and getting Antares clear of the hapless city's population.
If you mean, "How does J'onn get bigger?", well, again, he apparently can do that at will either as an aspect of shape shifting when near any source of borrow-able matter.
Here's another instance, f'r instance, though on a lesser scale due to J'onn being SEVERELY injured a little prior:
Source: Martian Manhunter #8
Circa: July 1999
Originally posted by bluewaterrider
Batroc, the Leaper, like the Sub-Mariner before him ("Roman" spelled backwards = Namor, hence "Imperious Rex", etc) derived his name from clever word play.Source: The Unbelievable Gwenpool #3
Circa: 2016https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batrachia
, but has more recently been defined in a phylogenetic sense as a node-based taxon that includes the last common ancestor of frogs and salamanders and all of its descendants ... "
" The Batrachia are a clade of amphibians that includes frogs and salamanders, as well as the extinct allocaudates, but not caecilians. [b]The name Batrachia was first used by French zoologist Pierre André Latreille in 1800 to refer to frogstaxonomy = wut? [/B]
😂
I like this scene. Gwenpool sure had her moments.
Originally posted by bluewaterriderIt's abhi.
KMC has a significant following in India!
Joking aside, if you look on that webpage, though it breaks down data mined from literal thousands of participants, it conspicuously notes, after calling KMC a "trustworthy site with mostly negative reviews", iirc ...
... exactly ONE down vote in its visual thumbs up/thumbs down section.
If, as I suspect, they LITERALLY based worldweb judgement of KMC on that lone review, Abhilegend representing India might not be QUITE as improbable as we're all imagining ...
