S'what I get for posting a thread too close to All Fools' Day.
I'll know better than to post anything I want actual good responses to on April 1st, April 2nd OR March 31st in the future now.
Riv, if there's anything you want explained, let me know and I'll do my best to answer.
Anyway, continuing.
Captain America's shield versus Count Nefaria:
... and for better context:
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Originally posted by Galan007
wtf is happening here?
The thread is essentially a "Material versus ____" thread.
For instance the 1st post features Silk's webbing versus Hulk-level strength.
Surprisingly, Silk's webbing wins, and is able to bind the "Life Model Decoy" or LMD of Hulk. The average reader, though apparently very few of the people responding here, might reasonably wonder "Wow! What in the world could Silk's webbing be made of that it can stop a character that can kick a bank vault door down? That's insane!"
Note that my other submissions follow this model.
Count Nefaria, for instance, is arguably stronger than Hulk-level opponents like Thor used to be, and demonstrates a portion of his strength by casually uprooting a 40-story building. He thinks his ability to lift thousands of tons of concrete and steel should enable him to crumple Captain America's shield with ease. Surprisingly... it doesn't. Again, a case where people, in or outside of the story, would reasonably react with "Wow. What in the world could that be made of to stop THAT level of strength?"
Now unfortunately I created the present thread right after April Fools' Day AND after trying to help a poster understand her sister's reaction to a gift given her little nephew. The sister apparently identifies as some sort of Jehovah's Witness or Protestant, the poster asking what we thought she should do does not.
You can find my post and that particular discussion here:
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=362941&pagenumber=15372
As you can see when you read that, someone decided to make fun and link to one of the many threads I titled to be Google-searchable, though arguably the single most controversial I've ever posted owing nearing exclusively to ONE word used in the title.
Most respondents are made fun of in the thread I linked you to above.
For whatever reason, people are trying to carry my roast over here, perhaps because I'd never posted in the other thread I just linked you to anytime before then, and haven't since then.
Maybe this is my initiation.
Certainly has the FEEL of a rush week ...
Anyway, that's the information you need to make the most sense of what you're seeing in this thread.
Originally posted by One Big Mob
Blue is an awesome poster. He posts so much different stuff from comics, that you know he actually likes the stuff. I was just laughing at the title of the thread personally. The thread itself is interesting.
Material science/phenomena/etcetera are big in the world of Spider-Man readers. Finding the answer to this thread's title question concerns Pete in more arcs than you might realize. Perhaps the most well-known case originated with Marvel's original Secret Wars series:
Sources: Secret Wars #7, #8, and #9, Volume 1
Circa: 1985
The costume turns out to be alive.
And, disturbingly, parasitic. It is, in fact, an alien symbiote that must combine with a host and take over it in order to live.
Reed Richards manages to free Spider-Man and safely contain it , but, this is comics, so the thing escapes of course and manages to recombine with its favorite "other" ...
Source: Web of Spider-Man #1
Circa: 1986
Somebody called it already, though it will take a retcon, for with the help of a Vulturion, one of 4 wonderfully colorful villains who I unfortunately never saw after Web of Spider-Man #3, the saga of Spider-Man's "black costume" ends with a strangely beautiful sacrifice:
Source: Web of Spider-Man #1
Circa: 1986
One note to ward off confusion:
NOT every time you see the black Spider-Man outfit is it the symbiote.
In point of fact, Peter's girlfriend at the time, one Felicia Hardy (bka The Black Cat) actually sewed a replacement for him, a fact I as a reader stumbled upon very early on in my 2nd or 3rd Spider-Man book ever (the last of the 3 sets of submissions in the following scans)
Source: Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #99
Source: Amazing Spider-Man #263
Source: Amazing Spider-Man #267
