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I will. Thanks.

They are.

Hooray for boobies.

Crossover events are one of the most basic phenomena in comics. Nowadays, it's virtually impossible to have a year go by without both of the Big Two having one. They vary greatly. Some are considered legendary, hallmark comics. Others, absolute dreck. Some crossovers are viewed as great milestones, so important they become bywords for world-changing events. In DC's case, the textbook example would be the Crisis on Infinite Earths. For Marvel, I propose it's Civil War. Civil War was huge. It was one of those very rare crossovers that lives up to the hype. I recall reading in a comic, months before, in some editorial, fourth-wall-breaking captions, that it was going to 'rip the fandom in two', and that is precisely what happened. The concept - as always with great works - is simple. Many years earlier, the X-Men had had to deal with the 'Mutant Registration Act', legislation which would require of all people with mutant powers to register their identity with the government. Now, the 'Super-Human Registration Act', SHRA, was proposed, which would require all super-powered Americans to register their identity and powers, and to get a license to use their powers in public. Some people, especially young, inexperienced superhumans, would be required to attend a training camp to get the license. This seems invasive and paternalistic, bordering on fascistic according to some, logical and responsible according to others. After all, people are required to have a license to drive a car or own a fire-arm and those can often do far less harm than certain super-powers. About half the super-heroes tended to agree, about half opposed, with the vast majority not 100% sure which side to pick... and therefore picking based on who was leading the opposing parties. The heroes who opposed registration and ended up going 'underground', even posing violent resistance from hiding, were led by Captain America. The heroes who supported registration, by Iron Man. In the months that led up to the story, it was becoming clear that the government would sign the bill into law. Tony Stark lobbied for all that he was worth to stop this from happening, aided by his protegé Peter Parker, but then disaster struck: a group of young heroes, the New Warriors, who were filming their own reality TV-show, happened upon a group of supervillains who had been among the dozens who had escaped the super-prison the Raft months earlier. They engaged, but in the battle, one of the villains - the psychotic Nitro, who has the ability to explode and re-form himself at will - detonated with such tremendous force that over 600 people, including the New Warriors (with one survivor) and almost a hundred children were killed in the blast. A horrified Congress passed the bill almost immediately... and Tony Stark now had to work to get the law accepted by the superhero community. As said, this failed; about half of the heroes refused to accede, leading to basically a nationwide manhunt for Captain America and his allies. In the event - comprised of a main series, several accompanying mini-series, one-shots and crossovers with regular series, making it possibly the most massive example of its kind in Marvel history - Tony was the face of the pro-registration side. And he suffered for it. Some fans agreed with him, many others denounced him as a fascist bully-boy fighting to oppress everybody. While ostensibly neutral, in fact the comics fairly consistently depicted him as unreasonable, blinkered, and his methods brutal; superheroes who got arrested were sent to '42', a prison in the Negative Zone which was shown to be a deeply unpleasant place, akin to a Soviet gulag. About halfway through the event, Spider-Man decided he could no longer side with the pro-Registrationers, and defected (this led straight into the events of 'One more day', probably one of the most despised Marvel comics of all time), leaving Stark even more alone and abandoned. In the end, Pro-registration won, with Captain America being arrested and, just before his trial, assassinated by order of the Red Skull. The superhero community was and remained deeply divided for years, and the Marvel landscape was profoundly changed. And at the heart of it all was Iron Man. This, I have to say, was what broke the hero. This was the cut-off point he never really recovered from. The issues of his own comic dedicated to 'Civil War' were a two-issue story; in the first one, the villainous Spymaster broke into Stark Industries to assassinate Tony Stark, ensuring chaos and more profit for him, while also taking revenge on his hated enemy. It went differently; Happy Hogan managed to stop him, and while the villain got away to lick his wounds, Happy was left severely injured without anyone even knowing who had been the perpetrator. In the second issue, Happy was in hospital in a persistent vegetative state, life support systems keeping his organs going; there was no hope of recovery. Pepper told Tony that Happy, a former boxer (if you recall) once told her that that was no way to live; some old friends and idols of him, great fighters in their time, were little more than vegetables after they retired. Iron Man confronted Cap's side, including Spider-Man, and demanded to know if they were in any way responsible for what had happened; satisfied with their vehement denial, he let them go. The issue ended dramatically: Happy died, it being heavily implied that Tony had used his Extremis abilities to shut down his life support functions, rather than letting him live on as a living dead man. From here on out, things were never quite the same.

The concept isn't THAT strong. And we never really got any delving into the psychological and philosophical ramifications of the story. Most of it is just monster battles with regular upgrades.

Strength in Guyver is really iffy. Take the infamous image of a Gregole on X-day, lifting an Abrams tank - which weighs more than 50 tons - overhead.

Then there's this beautiful piece of crap...

I honestly don't see how this is going to work. ...No, I take that back. Still, it's strange to divorce it entirely from the Spider-Man connection.

I don't have A particular favorite, I have several ships I love; but one of them surely is the Heart of Gold. Powered by the unique Infinite Improbability drive, the ship travels by having the ship's computer calculate precisely how improbable it is for the ship to -be- in the desired location and feeding it into the engine, the matchbox-sized, eponymous Heart of Gold - which itself only exists because someone had a finite improbability calculator work out how improbable it was for something like it to exist. The genius of the move led to the death of its creator when he was lynched by outraged scientists who hadn't thought of it before. There is, in practice, nothing the ship can't do and nowhere it cannot go, since, in principle, nothing is truly impossible; just improbable to a varying degree. Unfortunately the side effects of having something in your ship that makes literally any concept a possible reality are unpredictable (at least without the ship's computer) and lead to some peculiar situations.

I mean what is the point of Dragonball at this stage. Of course you could say that about the franchise for at least the last 15 years. Originally it was a fun take on Journey to the West, but what even is it now?

What is even the point of the series.

The Gigasmasher could lay waste to an entire city, I do not doubt. Only god knows what the Exceed's Gigasmashers ('Terasmashers?' Exasmashers?) could destroy. An entire planet?

Talk about a kiss of death.

He was the big bad from 'Heir to the Empire', the main sequel to 'Return of the Jedi' from the expanded universe novels. Interesting character. I wonder if the show could do him justice.

No it didn't, where the heck did I get that?? So we've never seen the gigasmasher hit a solid target.

Well, it seems that 'The Last Jedi' managed to kill 'Solo'. After seeing it, I decided to boycott Star Wars movies until I read a review that made me feel there was a purpose to seeing the movie in question. And it seems I wasn't the only one. Rumor has it Disney put the side movies on hold now that 'Solo' may very well turn out to be the first Star Wars movie not to make a profit. But Rian Johnson's getting to make a new trilogy of his own. So... I am done. This franchise is dead to me.

I don't know if they'll be able to top this one... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bWwZ5o-7r0

I always assumed Archanfel wanted to show his masters that Earth was NOT a failure. Bring them a mighty army under his command and tell them he is ready for any command they have for him. Let's face it, the Ark is not going to cut it as a weapon against the Advents. It's just one ship and they have fleets of those. The Zoanoids are useless for a space battle, they are infantry, marines, air support and artillery, not space warriors. Again I wonder just what they needed them for.

You got: The Soul Stone The most mysterious and perhaps the most powerful of the Infinity Stones, this is the Stone most driven by emotion and personal sacrifice. In order to win and wield it, you have to sacrifice something you love; a soul for a Soul. You're often driven by your emotions, but that doesn't mean you're weak — on the contrary, what greater motivator is there than love? You're capable of greatness, but you'll reach a point when you have to choose between your greater goals and your personal happiness. Choose carefully.

Chaosavratheos: It would be nice if they had incorporated more of that into the movie. I don't know if I would call Thanos 'harsh but fair'. He could have made it more difficult for life forms to reproduce, thereby attaining what he intended, just a little later. Thanos is not just someone who does what is necessary... he is also cruel and destructive. Tora Tan: It certainly seemed that way, the Gauntlet was practically destroyed. They're gonna have to make a new one.

I can't imagine it will be a huge jump. The Gigantics were already more than a match for the Zoalords. Several at a time, if need be. If the Gigantic is dozens of times more powerful than a Guyver, which is over half its height... even proportionally the power increase would be completely insane. A Guyver's megasmasher blasts through hundreds of feet of concrete or rock like a ray of light through a glass pane. We've never really seen what the gigasmasher does to a solid target, except it blasted a skyscraper-sized dragon into atoms with no trouble at all. If the... "terasmasher", I guess? is just a hundred times more powerful again... Well, a cadre of scientists estimated a megasmasher blast to be equal to more than a hundred megawatts, so a gigasmasher blast would be at least ten gigawatts. That's more than the output of the world's most powerful nuclear reactor. If a 'terasmasher' is merely a hundred times that, instead of far more based on the size discrepancy, it would put out over one terawatt. That is more energy than the entire human race generates (biologically, that is. It's still a lot less than the annual energy requirement of the United States). That seems rather a lot, if it's focused on something for a few seconds.

Yes, the Gems do seem more limited in the cinematic universe. Perhaps that is why he didn't go all-out with their power in the battles.

It was amazing. The moment Thanos realized what the Soul Stone would cost... he hadn't planned it, and it wouldn't work if he didn't care... and you could tell he felt no triumph.

That is damned well-written.

The old one was better in certain ways, especially how it did not hold back the violence (the Enzyme battle... what a contrast) - Guyver is about violence. Humanity's identity in any form is shaped by violence. Not just the human race, but all forms of life on Earth were created for this purpose; and our freedom was gained when our creators wanted to see whether we could be made even better at violence, and we turned out to be too good at it! Warfare appears to be the rule in this universe, with conflict stretching across hundreds of millions of years. Not to mention how people's inner self, or what they believe it to be, is violated, bent and hammered to violence. Sho, an ordinary kid, is turned into the deadliest thing in the world, perhaps the universe. Mizuki and her brother - and Natsuki - being the obvious exceptions. If Mizuki ever uses force, even to defend herself, it will truly be a milestone moment. Natsuki being a Christian, I wish I knew more about Japanese Christianity. I suspect it has a lot in common with Buddhism. Anyway... the old series better in certain ways, but obviously the new one being superior in others. The animation, for one. And while it takes liberties with the manga timeline, it evidently improves the story and allows for more character development. The original... The remake.