Salkafar

I don't think Guyver is that sort of manga. What do we know about our protagonists, even after all this time? Almost no details from their personal life at all. It's all drama. Even Mizuki, who is as normal as it gets in Guyver, is rarely if ever shown doing anything that is superfluous to the story. Have we ever seen anyone read a book, watch television or play a video game? This suggests Zoalords have down-time, too (After all, the only real problem they ever deal with is Guyver-related... well, and now Apollyon-related) and I doubt they spend it all standing around as clothesracks for enormous capes and shoulder armor. We just never see them do whatever it is they enjoy. Dr.Barcas: Likes to putter in his bonsai garden. Shin: Reads. Recently finished 'Cien años de soledad'. Yentsui: Amateur stage player. Waferdanos: Liked to fly. Guyot: Predictably, he used to love competitive sports, especially tennis. Unfortunately those are out now because none of the other Zoalords play. He's trying chess now. ...Is the sort of thing I mean. That being said, there are several female protagonists in Guyver, the one closest to being a separate main character being Valkyria. And, again, we only ever see her in action or when she is reflecting on occurrences in her life that are relevant to the main story. Could you imagine her putting on make-up? It's just not that sort of manga.

It has been suggested that Hank Pym is actually a mad doctor who accidentally became a hero. Also: http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2013/08/10-great-ultron-stories.html I wouldn't compare him to Brainiac per se. Brainiac (except for the animated version) tends to be more involved... and yet more aloof. Whereas Ultron is always, despite his features being perpetually frozen in that Jack-O'-Lantern scowl, is a ball of furious, passionate hate.

Travel back to Sarajevo, June 28 1914, and stand behind Gavrilo Princip. Then, as he prepares to shoot, grab him and stop the whole attack. That, to the best of my knowledge, is the single action with the biggest effect. Perhaps the first world war was inevitable, but then again, perhaps it was not. Say that the first world war did not take place, or at least did not take place then. No first world war. No Russian revolution. No German revolution. The US' role as major world power is reduced. Austro-Hungary remains the dominant power in the Balkan region. The Ottoman empire lingers on for longer, perhaps Mustapha Kemal never reforms Turkey. The second world war never happens. The nuclear bomb is never built. No jets. No rockets. No cold war. No communist revolution in China. No space race. No moon landing. Japan becomes the dominant power in Asia. The European nations maintain their colonies for longer. And all that is just broad strokes. At the very least, it would significantly slow down the history of the twentieth century.

If we ever make it to outer space, we are going to absolutely dominate them. Like sapient bacteria. Comparatively it's like a species that is born, is fully grown and educated an hour later, and dies before nightfall of the same day, having produced a newer, more advanced generation. We evolve into new species over a week's time, and go from the wheel to airplanes in an afternoon. Again: no wonder they are scared. Add to the already-frightening mix a G-unit... and you're looking universal extinction in the eye. We're weaponized smallpox, we are replicating nanomachines; we're the dreaded superbug. We are air-borne Ebola. Earth is the shattered petrie dish... the broken test tube. Are the Creators really a metaphor for research into biological weapons?

Holy crap. That makes it even far worse than I thought. They really suck at this. The first appreciable signs of life on the planet appear at least 3.3 billion years ago. Three. Billion. Years. If they could afford to wait that long... what kind of feeble-ass beings are the Creators anyway? They have every reason to be afraid of us. We are the Singularity. The Celestials were also said to have messed with humanity, but they did it 600,000 years ago.

To my chagrin, Transformers - Age of Extinction is raking it in by the f*ckton at the box office, despite easily being the worst installment in an already-lousy movie series. Such an ugly, ugly movie.

I don't think the world can go back to normal ever again. People know now that there is something inside them that can be stirred awake - something monstrous, powerful and violent. There will always be people trying to find ways to become a Zoanoid or turn others into them.

No, when bioboosted, the host's obsolete organs 'shrink' away.

"Must point out, while we have DNA that we can study and manipulate, they had nothing in the start. All DNA, or genetic variables, genetic strengths and weaknesses were made from scratch and manipulated by them." I don't think I agree with this. All depictions of the Creators' manipulations consistently show early life forms from the Cambrian or late Precambrian - long ago, but much closer to our time than to the actual beginning of life. If the Creators had actually created life on Earth, the 'time vs. progress' issue become even worse, because life has existed on Earth for at least 3.3 and possibly 3.8 billion years... and maybe even longer than that. For most of that time, life was single-celled. My personal view is that they started to take interest in Earth around the Ediacaran, and that the first living things they created were beings like Dickinsonia... perhaps the first organism that preyed on another, and possibly the first organism that was capable of moving by itself.

Red Peril, standing by!

What we know of the Advents suggests that they were unbelievably bad at technological progress. They needed organic warriors, for a war - and it took them about six hundred million years to get them. Because instead of using genetic engineering, they just let evolution take its course. Humans discovered just the molecular structure of DNA, let alone how to fiddle with it, no more than 60 years ago, and we're manipulating it already. I don't think they did anything with the control medallion. I think the whole concept of competition was alien to them. After all, they were believed to be a coalition of races. That 'war' they spoke of... what if it was something completely different from what we imagine? When you think about it, infantry - which is what Zoanoids are - should be completely irrelevant to an interstellar conflict. Perhaps direct clashes - deep space battles - were not a part of it at all. Perhaps it was more like a chess game - they'd try to colonize a world, and their 'enemies' tried to colonize a world, both by dropping their life forms on it, but there would be absolutely no direct confrontation between the 'warring' parties at all. No wonder we scared them. If that is what happened, we must seem indescribably brutal to them. Perhaps they evolved past physical conflict a billion years ago themselves.

Aptom can probably cannibalize his own tissues to survive, so he might shrink but that's okay, so long as he gets away... there's no shortage of Zoanoids.

The Sentry is actually not a very good character to use in an ongoing comic because his power level is so insane. His evil counterpart the Void can easily defeat the Hulk. The Sentry himself fought Galactus to a standstill. When the Absorbing Man attempted to take his power, he exploded instead. But the price of all that power is his sanity. He was very effective in his original mini series when it is 'revealed' that he might be the very first super-hero of the Heroic Age, inspiring the Fantastic Four and the Avengers and continuing to be a role model for many other heroes. Unfortunately his nemesis, the Void, was a constant menace, until one day he realized he and the Void were the same being. And the only way to stop him for good was to forget he was the Sentry and, what's more, make everybody else in the world forget as well. It was a ballsy concept, and it worked... and then they felt the need to introduce him in the Marvel universe proper. And nobody really knew what to do with him. He should logically end every battle the moment he entered it because he's completely invincible. He's Superman, only twice as strong but without Kryptonite. Mind you. The time period between his introduction and his 'death' in Siege was one of the most interesting periods in Marvel history.

The Sentry - I repeat - can't be killed. His power is literally impossible to gauge, and while he has been defeated in the past, it was either because he let the other person win (The Hulk, Thor) or because he was confronted with a power he hadn't encountered before, or had forgotten - namely Morgana le Fay's sorcery, and the Molecule Man's transcendent control over matter. They both destroyed him completely. And in both cases, he simply reappeared again within minutes, out of thin air. Thor, after 'defeating' him, dropped him into the Sun, and he supposedly died in there. But in his mini series, he had already discovered that he had tried to kill himself that way before... and nothing happened. In recent issues of 'Uncanny Avengers', the Sentry has once again returned... and explains that he died and was resurrected in the sun over and over again. He is now completely psychotic and delusional. Oddly enough, the Wasp 'defeated' him by having him swallowed by a giant alien worm. This seems... kind of ridiculous. He had literally pulled his head in two, exposing his brain, earlier in the fight, to pontificate more effectively, restoring himself with no effort at all.

The Sentry flat-out can't be killed. He only goes down when he wants to, or when he is in the process of breaking down mentally. I personally suspect he is in fact the Beyonder in yet another incarnation.

Superman and Thor are really not. How strong is Superman? Well... I know of no Marvel character with that level of raw strength. Not even the Hulk at his maddest. And definitely not Thor.

Yeah, that was a crossover from actually just over ten years ago. Pretty good, as such things go. In the second issue, Superman defeated Thor. The character who precipitated the crossover might be a candidate for the 'worst villain' thread: Krona. http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/2/28028/785546-krona011.jpg I wouldn't say he's evil for evil's sake, but there is literally nothing he won't do to get the answers he seeks. And since the questions he asks are of the 'Why do we exist', 'What is the meaning of life' and 'How does reality work anyway' variety, and his method is essentially reductionistic, you'll understand that whenever he appears, it's a mess.

No, Wonder Woman is not brutal at all. And she definitely has 'qualms' about killing. But she does kill in battle when she has no other choice (which is rare, because she's so powerful). And Superman 'definitely worthy'? Not of wielding Mjölnir. As for Sho: what is a warrior? A warrior is one who fights for what he believes is worthwhile - one who enters a battle from which he may not return, because his loved ones are in danger. What is Sho, if not a warrior?

Hmmm. Usually, only Thor and Odin himself can lift the hammer Mjölnir, but in case of dire emergency the spell "Whoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall have the power of Thor" is activated. But very few people are worthy. Beta Ray Bill, the Korbinian champion, was worthy and could wield Mjölnir (He has another hammer called 'Stormbreaker' which is the equal of Mjölnir now). Captain America has lifted the hammer, but did not gain Thor's power. Superman was unable to lift the hammer, whereas Wonder Woman not only could lift it, but was given the power of Thor. Of course, she is worthy... I have wondered what the criteria are set by Odin, and I think they are that you have to be a warrior (which is why Superman can't lift it. He refuses to kill, and I don't think Odin would approve); you have to be courageous; and you have to be honorable. Two out of three is not enough; but Wonder Woman meets all three. So... what I am getting at is... would Sho be able to lift it?

The Uni-Mind? But that's not the Asgardians, but the Eternals. Odin once drew the life force of all Asgardians into himself and then into the Destroyer (including his own). Only Thor wasn't involved. The Destroyer - normally about eight feet tall - grew to 2000 feet, the size of a Celestial, and drew the Oversword from its scabbard (an act which was prophesied to precede the end of the world) to confront the Celestials. Hence this pic. Unfortunately, the Celestials destroyed him and the Oversword with little effort. That is to say they reduced the giant robot to a puddle of molten slag. Much later, it was reactivated and restored its own form, though. So I guess that kind of redeems it. Outside of the Celestials, though, it has never been defeated.

The movie version, I assume. The comic book version of the Destroyer cannot be defeated unless you're a Celestial. Every time Thor faced the Destroyer, he got busted up. Except when he actually wielded the Odin-Power, but since the Odin-Power is what originally created the Destroyer (well... partly), this is not surprising.

'Rouge' is also the Dutch word for 'blusher'.

Ultron is a superintelligent artificial being who has one motto: "Death to humanity". And he always comes back. Usually deadlier than before. Nobody knows why he has such a beef with humanity. He just does. I guess something about us annoys him. Make no mistake, though. He is in the top five of most dangerous enemies of the Avengers - and the others are the likes of Kang the Conqueror, Loki of Asgard, Doctor Doom and Thanos. He once exterminated the population of an entire country... in an afternoon. And when the Avengers and the UN invaded, he sent the cybernetically animated corpses of the people to stop them. He took on all the Avengers at once, defeating all of them (including Thor) and only going down when Hank Pym layed the smackdown with Antarctic Vibranium (a unique material which dissolves all metals on contact). In the comics, Ultron was originally created by dr. Henry Pym, one of the founding Avengers. But because they told the story differently in he movies, I suspect Ultron will instead be an evolved artificial intelligence created by Tony Stark. After all, Tony intends to reduce his activity as Iron Man for Pepper's sake (and Robert Downey jr's sake, I imagine); but he can't leave the Avengers high and dry. Now, I guess he could ask War Machine/ Iron Patriot, but James Rhodes (again, unlike in the comics) is a USAF officer, and that would link the Avengers directly to the US government and create a conflict of interest for Rhodey. So what does he do? Well, he already has created several artificial intelligences - think of Dummy and Butterfingers, his lab assistent robots, and JARVIS, the AI who runs his household and regulates his armor systems. Why not create an artificial Iron Man? That might explain why Ultron is apparently kind of ambiguous - not so purely evil and determined as in the comics (Honestly, Ultron is very centered. It's "kill humanity" 24/7 with that guy. Well, that and outshining his creator). He feels demeaned by the attitude of the other Avengers, who are not comfortable having an artificial entity on the team, and tries to prove he is better than any of them... and then better than all of them. He wants to prove himself. Perhaps he even creates the Vision to prove he is better than his own creator. At least that is what I think. The teaser, after all, involved an Iron Man helmet becoming Ultron's head.

I would fight evil. A lot. There is a lot of evil to be fought, even in a way as simple as eradicating it.

Actually I bet he does. I bet he has at least one and possibly more back-up selves, just lying low - quite possibly all over the world. He can fly and Zoalords can't detect him. He can go anywhere in the world.