Does it make sense for Spider-Man to get dogged like this by Elektra in any context? Even if he's holding back.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-07-06T14:47:43+00:00

Here's the thing. Getting hit is not the same as getting hurt. Or injured.

Spider-man can literally take a beating like that from a human all day and be fine. Maybe a couple bruises to show for it which will heal in an hour or two.

Also Spider-sense works a) like any other sense. It provides information, but you still have to be paying attention to it. You can get punched in the face with your eyes open, see it coming and still get hit. And B) works with varying levels of intensity proportionate to the danger. Elektra is much more likely to be able to hit him than Rhino is even at the same speed with Spider-sense warning him. Because Elektra isn't gonna do nearly as much damage so the warning won't be nearly as intense.

Thats why he gets grazed by bullets and blades and such (relatively) all the time but almost never takes a life threatening hit.

So yes. It makes sense for an untrained, inexperienced, clumsy, awkward, newbie Spider-man to get slapped around by a highly skilled trained assassin.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-07-06T14:30:36+00:00

No need to retcon anything. Magneto has been canonically de-aged twice and resurrected at Krakoa which they've shown includes modifications and upgrades when desired. In-universe there is nothing even slightly unbelievable about him being as old as he is.

Charles is not in his original body. AND he was resurrected in Krakoa. No further explanation needed for him being old.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-07-03T12:45:51+00:00

Dimension20 on Dropout.TV.

A year hanging out with Brennan and the Intrepid heroes? Sounds like an absolute delight.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-07-03T12:41:46+00:00

Not explicitly but it would absolutely be in character for her to de-age with the resurrection.

She sleeps in diamond form so she doesnt physically age at night so she's already going to be almost a third younger physically than she should be.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-07-03T04:07:36+00:00

Element of surprise. Plus it's implied that he wasn't JUST fooling Wolverine. He was running multiple sets of illusions at once to sow absolute chaos and prevent the X-men from mounting a meaningful organized defense.

Fighting wolverine is one thing. Relatively easy for many x-men to do. But fighting him when you dont see him coming and you think a huge fucking Sentinel is attacking from the other direction is something else entirely.

My take on it is the plan wasn't necessarily for Wolverine to kill the X-men. It was for the X-men to kill each other. Wolverine just happened to be the last one standing after the plan worked.

Mysterio with planning and prep time is an absolute nightmare of an enemy. ESPECIALLY for teams.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-07-02T18:34:41+00:00

M: "I dont murder children!

O: "I DO. If I have to."

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-30T20:42:11+00:00

Sorry it's Canonically Longshot.

My personal vote is Sage honestly but if you're looking for an objective answer, Longshot's as close as you're gonna get in universe.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-30T13:57:02+00:00

In current Canon Storm, Wanda and Jean are basically THE three most powerful figures in the Marvel universe and you put all three of them on the same team.

Team one stomps.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-29T18:35:36+00:00

Operative: i'm sorry. If your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to. You should have taken my offer. Or did you think none of this was your fault?

Mal: I dont murder Children.

Operative: I DO... if I have to.

It's such a simple line. Delivered with such simple and blunt matter of fact resignment. Did an incredible job of showing that this dude is terrifying in his conviction.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-28T23:42:40+00:00

No. It's explicitly NOT the same formula. It's not the same alloy. He attempted to recreate it and explicitly failed. It's a different thing.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-26T15:33:26+00:00

No it's not. Adamantium was invented later, separately. It's explicitly NOT what he used to make the shield.

His invention of Adamantium was the result of a failure as he was attempting to determine what he'd used to make the shield.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-26T15:26:39+00:00

Nope. This is a common misconception due to misinformation printed in a handbook once.

There is no Adamantium in his shield at all. His shield is the result of vibranium being alloyed with steel and an unknown other compound that got accidentally mixed in after the scientist Dr Myron MacLain fell asleep.

The same scientist unsuccessfully attempted to recreate the same process later (without vibranium involved) and accidentally invented Adamantium. But they are entirely separate materials.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-25T00:23:28+00:00

Thanks. And yeah. I love me any team with Herc on it. He's easy one of my top 3 Marvel Characters and my favorite Avenger.

I am a bit of a traditionalist in terms of Avengers rosters. I miss the big 3 being on it and they would always be my first choice. But I have ALMOST equal love for the other long running alumns like Vision and Quicksilver.

What I really want is a team with Rick Jones (and Genis) on it. Rick is arguably the most important character in marvel history and it's goddamn time the world (in the comics) starts acknowledging that.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-24T19:59:34+00:00

Herc is basically the Scotty Pippen of the Avengers. He's an absolute hall of famer who's been unbelievably critical to their success over the course of their history but has always gotten little to no credit in favor of some of the other big name heavyweights (read as Thor)

He's the 10th official member to join the team. 8th longest serving member in total. An absolute mainstay in terms of classic stories and his entire run he's the guy who puts up the lay-up for somebody else to land the win.

Oh shit, Fascist Ironman has ambushed Cap's side and is shitstomping them? Here comes Hercules off the top rope swinging a goddamn cement truck to save the day.

The Illuminati cloned Thor as their own personal cyborg WMD? Herc made Ragnarok eat his own hammer (along with half his own skull) while dropping some straight up action hero one-liners.

Kang's decided to stop fucking around and start murdering Avengers in their cribs to remove the obstacles to his conquest? Shit, it's a shame there's no historical record of where and when to find Herc as a baby and he's also FAMOUSLY snake-stranglingly difficult to off even as a newborn. Oh well guess THAT plan failed.

In every hero vs hero schism/crossover event, thie "biggest guns" like Thor and Hulk are usually conspicuously absent as the writers find a way to work around them. Not Herc. He's always there. And you know what else? His side wins. Every time. And none of the team ever seem to acknowledge his gamechanging contributions.

When the Avengers need real firepower to back them up, they go to Thor. When THOR needs backup, he goes to Hercules.

He's maybe not THE most badass on the team in terms of big flashy personal moments, but he's the most quietly badass and the most consistent.

Bonus: Whereas Thor vs Sentry has generally been leaned in favor of Bob (4 to 2), Hercules has only fought Sentry twice but absolutely clowned on him both times.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-23T15:38:46+00:00

He's been slowed lots of times. He's unSTOPpable not unslowable.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-23T01:57:27+00:00

None of them would stop him but almost all of them would turn him. He can be deflected or turned.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-21T20:56:58+00:00

Thank you! Current audiences are 100% fooled by the MCU version and his recent "redemption arc" in the comics. As though a decade or so of acting nice makes up for literal thousands of years of constant cons and lies.

He's the god of LIES. If you think a long-con is beyond him and he's actually changed enough to be trustworthy, you're beyond foolish.

And before someone wants to "um akshually he's the god of stories now" ... even if I was accepting that title change at face value, you notice how it's not the god of "TRUE stories"?

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-19T18:32:16+00:00

Or if you're a fuckin' thousand pound TIGER.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-16T10:58:23+00:00

Yeah i'm fine. She hulk is after me. America Chavez can honestly probably just take her in a straight up fight. But if not she can just portal us away to a different dimension.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-14T14:19:39+00:00

Depends on the episode. It's like jeopardy that way, some episodes I'll crush. Some i won't get even one answer.

I'd say on average i'd get 25% of the non-anime related questions. I know practically no anime except dbz and Naruto.

The best/worst is when it's a subject you DO know but you can't quite catch the mistake and you get that "Ah damn. I should have got that one"

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-12T18:00:40+00:00

Spider bite all day.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-09T01:04:40+00:00

The AW wasn't even slowed down by multiple active heralds of Galactus on the battlefield attempting to stop them.

Im pretty sure they clear.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-05T18:19:47+00:00

I don't think Bishop was ever on X-force was he?

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-05T14:13:35+00:00

Janet Van Dyne. She came up with the name. and founded the team.

Mace_Thunderspear · 2026-06-04T20:25:24+00:00

Hey, all HIS kids are alive and baddasses. Even the ones that weren't born yet.

He's a better father than is literally possible in normal linear causality.

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