Salkafar

Interesting. Interesting. Zebediah Killgrave (aka the Purple Man, not so purple now it seems - canonically one of the worst bastards in Marvel, even though he is low profile); Jessica 'Jewel' Jones; and unless I am very, very mistaken, Luke Cage (yay!).

Well, technically speaking... This was from Amazing Spider-Man Annual 1986, set five years - from his point of view - before his first appearance. It goes a long way to explaining why he's such a coldhearted bastard.

Nope. 'Sick' being defined as something which causes you to change your plans.

Scattered, fighting amongst itself and ineffective, in other words. Chronos is Chronos because of the Zoalords. Without the council, there is no ideological basis. The organization only ever existed to serve the purposes of Archanfel. Without him, Chronos would fall apart. Hell! Chronos is falling apart with him! The knowledge is now widely available. Without unquestioning loyalty imposed by Zoalord control, Chronos would desintegrate into any number of smaller organizations, each with their own purpose. Now that the fact that Zoanoids exist is global knowledge, it would be a matter of time before any number of non-Chronos organizations figure out how to create Zoanoids. Which would lead to endless complications, because the process is more than a physical change. And, again, no unquestioning loyalty to a Zoalord. Zeus' Thunderbolt knows how to create a Zoalord, so presumably they would. Now there is a new organization to take control of the world's Zoanoid population... ...This Earth really is a world without hope. It's either chaos or oppression.

I'd disagree there. Even taking out the Council will not end Chronos. What is Chronos without the Zoalords?

The Rotten Tomatoes critic rating is now 9%. The audience score - ie, out of the people who already paid to see it - is 20%. On IMDb, it's 4.1/10. Expected loss for the movie is between 80 and 100 million dollars. I think it's safe to say you are too kind.

Yeah.... Zenkerb is spelled the same as Derzerb, basically, but somehow becomes 'Zencrebe'. That spoils the whole 'newer, better version of the product line' vibe. I wish we knew anything about the creative process vis-á-vis Zoanoid names. How does Takaya come up with them? Legend has it Terry Nation was sitting at his desk and thinking about a name for his new alien monster species, and his eye caught the spine of a dictionary: DAL-EKS.

The problem here is processing. Once somebody is processed, that's it. They are inducted into Chronos and there's nothing you can do about it because this is what mankind is supposed to be. Humans are supposed to be controlled by Zoalords. Chronos currently opts for voluntary processing (Was there ever fall-out from the Tokyo incident, when thousands of processed people were killed by Cablar?) but there is no reason why they should in the process of conquering a hostile world. Just grab as many prisoners as you can and process them as quickly as is feasible. We know they are capable of running facilities where thousands of people can be processed at the same time. And every convert is one more soldier. Not to mention still also the person they used to be. ...The 'street heroes' would be in deeeeep caca. The big heroes could destroy Chronos by taking out the Zoalord Council. But these guys? ...Well, actually, Cloak might. For those not in the know: Cloak and Dagger's powers are mystical in nature; his are dark, hers are light. The Zoalords have no amenable defenses against them; they are all incredibly strong and I must assume they are also mentally powerful individuals. But Cloak's power comes from what amounts to the Devil's clinically depressed nephew. If he takes people into his dark dimension (not to be confused with the Dark Dimension, the realm of Dormammu) their souls are exposed to the naked space of the astral underworld. It drags your mind through its worst, lowest point of despair, alienation and terror. I just don't think any of them measure up. Although Mizuki and Sho probably would, I suspect.

I am Dutch, so all I will say is: This is the payoff for driving SUVs.

Luke Cage is stronger than any known Zoanoid. And Iron Fist, Cloak and Dagger have unquantifiable powers. But the Punisher? That guy is so... overplayed. He is a factor in the Marvel universe, and boy, he really shouldn't be.

Let's say Thanos does not have the Infinity Gems, since he is invincible when he has them. The only reason he was defeated the one time he was wielding them when their power was allowed to work in unison - which they have not been for a long time thanks to the Living Tribunal, severely curtailing their power - was that Adam Warlock was already inside one of the gems and managed to snatch the power from Thanos from within. But even without the Gems, Thanos might be the most dangerous individual in the Marvel universe. To explain just what or who he is, I need to go deep for a while. In the Marvel universe, Earth is populated by a range of intelligent races. However, most of them are related as they are ultimately descended from a species of human - probably Homo Ergaster. About a million years ago, representatives of a race of alien gods, usually called the Celestials, came to Earth to experiment on the natives. They took some early humans and genetically altered them, creating three groups: the Deviants, genetically unstable beings who look like monsters and demons to human eyes; human beings, who are unassuming, but possess the capacity to develop a vast array of super-powers; and Eternals, who are immortal and possess immense, god-like abilities. Anyway. A yonks age ago, a group of Eternals left Earth after a civil war and established a colony on Uranus. Later, some of them left, but crashed on the moon Titan, establishing a new colony. Much later, another Eternal (A'lars, later known as Mentor) left Earth, to avoid a civil war this time, and decided to seek out the Eternals who had left Earth before. But he discovered the colony had died out (Yeah, turns out that immortality thing didn't fully develiop until later) except for one single woman called Sui-San, whom he married. They had kids (I am guessing they had other Eternals join them, too) and everything seemed just peachy. Here's where we get to the meat. The first son of Mentor and Sui-San was deformed. He carried the 'Deviant gene' (which makes no sense, but whatever) and looked ugly and brutish compared to the other Eternals, especially his younger brother, Eros. The older son was named Thanos. His mother tried to kill him the moment she lay eyes on him, claiming he would destroy them all. Well. Thanos grew up normal enough at first, despite his odd looks, because Eternal society was advanced and stable. But gradually he developed an unnatural and unhealthy fascination for death. Or, rather, for Death - because in the Marvel Universe, the phenomenon Death has an actual embodiment. She usually looks like a female (sic) skeleton in a deep purple hooded cloak and almost never speaks. I wouldn't say she's evil. She's a necessary part of existence. But sometimes she gets a little tetchy when she thinks her interests are threatened. Anyway, Thanos fell in love with her, and decided he would do anything to make her happy, which unfortunately meant he was going to kill lots and lots of people. He left Titan, travelled the galaxy, gathered an army around himself and eventually returned to his ancestral home and dropped a nuclear bomb on it. Some say Sui-San was killed in the bombardment, others that Thanos found her alive and vivisected her to discover why he was different from the other Eternals. It never really got better from that moment on. Thanos loves Death and will do anything to win her favor. His most ambitious project was obtaining the six Infinity Gems and uniting their power in his famous gauntlet, which allowed him to manipulate reality as if he were God - or Eternity, anyway. He could control everything in the universe. On this occasion the Living Tribunal did not interfere because Thanos only wanted to supplant Eternity's position. Anyway, he failed, and he's never done anything on that level ever again. He did undergo a personal evolution, becoming more about soul-searching and less about killing everybody, even attaining finally what he always wanted: to be at Death's side. Unfortunately it became necessary to return him to life and make him immortal, and Death has spurned him ever since, driving him to murderous madness once more. His latest project involved killing all his living offspring in the universe in another desperate attempt to regain her affection. Thing is, it's been called into question whether Thanos really has a relationship with the (very much real) embodiment of Death, or whether it's all in his head. Thanos is a very interesting and complex character. As for power: Thanos has strived his entire life to make himself as powerful as he possibly can be. And he was born an Eternal. He has undergone biochemical, cybernetic and mystical enhancement, and has mastered pretty much any kind of technology, including magic. He's as strong and invulnerable as the Hulk, extremely intelligent and capable of various radiant energy attacks (all Eternals are). By comparison, Apocalypse seems outclassed. Born in Egypt, about 5000 years ago, he was one of the first manifested mutants (and mutants are people in which the genetic changes by the Celestials, which create super-powers, have become active). His power was basically that he could change his shape and that he was immortal (There are a bunch of naturally immortal mutants. These guys are known as X-Ternals, as a reference to the Eternals. Cute.) . However, after a few years or centuries, on his journeys, he discovered something extraordinary - a crashed alien vessel, which activated upon his entry, and greatly enhanced his abilities. The space ship was another artifact of the Celestials and it contacted them; and he, in return, managed to broker a deal with them, to receive great power in return for his servitude. Just what this servitude entailed is not clear, but it might have something to do with his life philosophy: he believes in natural selection, that the strongest should survive and that circumstances have to be arranged so that only the strongest survive. That was his thing. He kept plaguing the X-Men, got killed almost every time and inevitably returned time and time again. His biology is such that if even a single drop of blood of him remains, he will survive. Even his disembodied consciousness is capable of survival inside a suitable host. He's really powerful, but I don't think he's on Thanos' level. He's a lot older, I should think, but he hasn't learned nearly as much. He remains a simple thinker, who mainly uses brute force and base cunning to force a situation in which the strong must fight to survive. His arena is planetary, at most, while Thanos' is all of reality. But in a one-on-one battle? ..I'd still give it to Thanos, but it'd be a hell of a fight.

Most likely Shinto. Most Japanese people are.

Something just occurred to me. What if Galenos' power is radioactivity? Guyot controls gravity, one of the four basic forces. Purgstall controlled electromagnetism (well, electricity, anyway). Why not the weak nuclear force? Might also explain the reticence to field him: a battle against him would be scorched earth, no matter who won or lost. (And I am not sure how a power based on the strong nuclear force would work. Transmutation? Thermonuclear fusion? Creating strangelets?) Purgstall's power was pretty cool to me, but that is because I love me an electrical arc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GiIVze2Tac

I'll have my mate take a picture of me with my volumes. That should make for an interesting shot.

My money's on Blomkamp. What happens when movie directors return to the franchise that made them famous has already been demonstrated by George Lucas... twice over.

I did something similar, actually. I still use him as my stock villain on Furaffinity.

Quark-yoghurt and muesli.

Why do you want to create a god so badly?

This is getting a little too much like W'Kar to me.

I own the entire series. I've been following it for many years. The original was better in some ways, but the newer series has more exposure and some nice new concepts. 'Last Order' ended with some loose ends. Fortunately a third series has started which I expect to make it to English. A trilogy seems very nice. Kind of amazing, but it's more brutal and bleak than Guyver.

...Maybe this will lead to some good after all. Change is the only constant. And if it was putting a lot of stress on you, Jess, then that maybe should be enough now.

The one that is most like the Guyver, so the Bleeding Edge armor. 'Bleeding Edge' is stored in Tony Stark's body in its entirety. It also simulates clothing, normally. It can deploy in under a second. It can also form complex structures, such as specific weapons systems. The thing is, it's about ten times as physically strong as a Guyver.

Just have people order the book, take a picture of them with the book, and let them have the translation.

If that is the case the rogues might be on the receiving end of a surprise attack by the loyal Zoalords. ...Those that are left.

None of the sequels needed to happen.