tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250269071385467004.post1764200114840440105..comments2024-01-23T19:26:48.882-05:00Comments on Julian Perez Conquers the Universe!: Agents of Atlas: Wha...huh?Julian Perezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16276143599750947248noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250269071385467004.post-91298166242509245012010-07-10T13:03:30.964-04:002010-07-10T13:03:30.964-04:00"What-Ifs are often criticized for being dead..."What-Ifs are often criticized for being deadly and murderous, and to that I answer...yeah. Yeah, they are because they should be."<br /><br />true. Although it can turn into a running joke where because something did or did not happen, EVERYBODY DIES!!!!!!<br /><br />Of course when we're talking body count, you can't higher than "What If Korvac had beaten the Avengers?" He wiped out the whole bloody universe. Uatu narrates that thanks to Korvac, the multiverse is now one number less than infinite. Yeouch.Eduardo M.http://www.myspace.com/edfreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250269071385467004.post-27339363207431860022010-07-10T07:00:40.860-04:002010-07-10T07:00:40.860-04:00What-Ifs are often criticized for being deadly and...What-Ifs are often criticized for being deadly and murderous, and to that I answer...yeah. Yeah, they are because they should be. <br /><br />For instance, there was one called "What if Rogue had the power of Thor?" In her first battle with the Avengers, after leeching off Carol Danvers' powers, she touched Thor and used his energy to escape. What if instead of running she just kept on draining the Power of Thor? <br /><br />Okay...think about that. Can you imagine a situation where the above scenario WOULDN'T result in a body count? <br /><br />And sufficed to say, the heroes failing to rescue the brides of the Serpent in Atlantis Attacks! would have been, as Peter Venkman put it, "bad."Julian Perezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16276143599750947248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250269071385467004.post-18681107999389144722010-07-10T06:56:53.330-04:002010-07-10T06:56:53.330-04:00Right you are, Eddie. The idea of a female Thor in...Right you are, Eddie. The idea of a female Thor in comics has been used over and over and over since that What-If.<br /><br />The idea that if Bucky had lived, he would have adopted the Captain America identity, incidentally, was another thing that originally showed up in a What-If.<br /><br />The thing I always liked about What-Ifs, and the reason I preferred them to say, Elseworlds, was while Elseworlds are mostly superhero versions of that Simpsons episode where Bart plays Hamlet, Marvel Elseworlds always begin with a single point of divergence from reality. Something goes left instead of right, and everything is extrapolated from there. What if Professor X got to the Crystal of Cyttorak first in Korea, instead of Cain Marko? What if Wonder Man chose to turn good a moment earlier instead of a moment later and so didn't die? Etc.Julian Perezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16276143599750947248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250269071385467004.post-73042458745078013752010-07-04T14:37:56.751-04:002010-07-04T14:37:56.751-04:00amazing to think this all started because of an is...amazing to think this all started because of an issue of What If. That book has been the unlikely springboard for quite a few ideas in the mainstream MUeduardo M.http://www.myspace.com/edfreynoreply@blogger.com