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ParanoidObsessive 05/12/17 8:22:18 PM #23:	ernieforss posted... I love how bucky and uncle ben are the two people that can't come back from the dead. Well bucky is back. Now we just got to wait for uncle ben return. I know he came back for a couple of issues. The old axiom in comics used to be "No one stays dead in comics except Uncle Ben, Bucky, and Jason Todd." And then two of those three came back. It's always funny when, every few years or so, both Marvel and DC go through a phase where they're like, no, we have to make death meaningful again, and they basically tell all their writers they're not allowed to bring anyone back any more. And that mandate usually lasts about 2-3 years before they drop it and go back to the status quo of constant resurrections and returns. DC was adamant that "death is final now!" in the aftermath of Blackest Night, and that lasted until the New 52 reboot. And Marvel was pretty firm on the "no bringing anyone back!" rule back in the early 2000s (which pissed off Joss Whedon at one point), but they pretty much gave up after Decimation/Civil War. The irony is, a lot of that recent trend of bringing everyone back from the dead started with Jean Grey, and she's probably the one character who's actually STAYED dead for the last decade or so (well, at least until they introduced her time-displaced past self into the mix). wolfy42 posted... I was actually surprised they didn't eventually make an alternate reality Uncle Ben into a Villian eventually, they did just about every other freaking thing you can imagine in the spiderman comics, but not that. Ben is apparently moral and upstanding in every conceivable universe he exists in. But there were at least a couple of What If? comics where he survived but Aunt May died (or they both survived) where Spider-Man tended to turn out worse. The implication being that it isn't just Ben's advice or paternal influence that gives Spider-Man his moral center, but his literal death. Spider-Man without a dead Uncle Ben isn't Spider-Man. dragon504 posted... Uncle Ben becomes Spiderman after Peter is horribly murdered. Hey, it worked for Batman. Alternate universe Thomas Wayne who becomes Punisher-Batman after Bruce dies in Crime Alley was pretty cool. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:878992015] in Do the X-M... [t:75337828]...</cite> <quote><cite>ernieforss posted...</cite> <quote>I love how bucky and uncle ben are the two people that can't come back from the dead. Well bucky is back. Now we just got to wait for uncle ben return. I know he came back for a couple of issues.</quote> The old axiom in comics used to be "No one stays dead in comics except Uncle Ben, Bucky, and Jason Todd." And then two of those three came back. It's always funny when, every few years or so, both Marvel and DC go through a phase where they're like, no, we have to make death meaningful again, and they basically tell all their writers they're not allowed to bring anyone back any more. And that mandate usually lasts about 2-3 years before they drop it and go back to the status quo of constant resurrections and returns. DC was adamant that "death is final now!" in the aftermath of Blackest Night, and that lasted until the New 52 reboot. And Marvel was pretty firm on the "no bringing anyone back!" rule back in the early 2000s (which pissed off Joss Whedon at one point), but they pretty much gave up after Decimation/Civil War. The irony is, a lot of that recent trend of bringing everyone back from the dead started with Jean Grey, and she's probably the one character who's actually STAYED dead for the last decade or so (well, at least until they introduced her time-displaced past self into the mix). <cite>wolfy42 posted...</cite> <quote>I was actually surprised they didn't eventually make an alternate reality Uncle Ben into a Villian eventually, they did just about every other freaking thing you can imagine in the spiderman comics, but not that.</quote> Ben is apparently moral and upstanding in every conceivable universe he exists in. But there were at least a couple of What If? comics where he survived but Aunt May died (or they both survived) where Spider-Man tended to turn out worse. The implication being that it isn't just Ben's advice or paternal influence that gives Spider-Man his moral center, but his literal death. Spider-Man without a dead Uncle Ben isn't Spider-Man. <cite>dragon504 posted...</cite> <quote>Uncle Ben becomes Spiderman after Peter is horribly murdered.</quote> Hey, it worked for Batman. Alternate universe Thomas Wayne who becomes Punisher-Batman after Bruce dies in Crime Alley was pretty cool. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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