Re: Next year's big mega-crossover --

"High Priest of Tarquin Biscuitbarrel, Esq." <Iam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Behold, thus spake Tarquin!
"Tony" <TonyJ1675@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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With all the alien invasions and various world conquering baddies out
there, it would be foolhardy for any world leader in the MU to support
eliminating heroes.

Just as it would be foolhardy to continue to trust untrained, anonymous
men and women initiating first contact with these species on earth's
behalf, and speak for humanity when we have elected leaders we actually
/chose/ to do that kind of thing.

How true are your words All-Wise-One. How CAN we trust these unknown
personages? Just because they may have powers that mimic your own, that
in no way makes them able to understand and use them. On the other hand,
our democratic republic form of government is indeed a fool proof way of
choosing leaders to approach newcomers. President Bush alone merits high
praise for the fear he would strike in the hearts of these would-be
intergalactic thugs.

Bush may be a fool, but he's the fool a majority of Americans have elected
to represent them, for better or worse.

As it stands now, the Marvel U. has got a bunch of anonymous vigilantes in
masks speaking on behalf of earth before intergallactic communities. So far,
this worked because it's always ended up being Reed Richards or Steve Rogers
making first contact... but what if it had been Doom or Magneto?

The superhero community as a whole is built on a very fragile house of
cards. It works as long as the stars remain perfectly aligned and no one
sneezes. But the more you dig into the question, the more you realize how
silly it is that masked American vigilantes be allowed to speak for the
planet, and the Governments of the world simply trust them to be as good in
politics as they are stopping the Hulk.

No one knows how many of these masked heroes have criminal records. Have
killed in cold blood. Have snapped, gone insane, or had serious drug
problems in their pasts. Americans won't even elect a President who isn't
male, white, married with children, non-smoking, and never got a jaywalking
ticket.

I'd understand the FF getting the green light to represent the world... but
the Avengers, X-Men, or anyone else? Not as much.

Tarquin B.
--
JLB: "I've flipped through some Essentials. I
didn't like that many of them. You want to have
some idea of what I liked from Marvel?"

"Not really. I was just making conversation."


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