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Tweak says, "Sweet Zombie Jesus!"

neuhallidae (neuhallidae) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-30 15:37:00

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char: immortus/kang the conqueror, char: thor, char: wasp/janet van dyne, char: wonder man/simon williams, creator: kieron dwyer, creator: kurt busiek, group: avengers, publisher: marvel comics, title: avengers

"There Are No Words"
Or, silent movies in comic form.

Seven scans from Avengers vol. 3, #49.

Kang has once again launched an offensive against Earth, after weakening the Avengers by putting them through battle against old enemies. In an attempt at retaliation, a group lead by Captain America and Iron Man launch a space attack against Kang's fortress and another entity called the Triple Evil, but wind up stranded in space after the fight against the latter. Kang, claiming that by attacking his fortress, the Avengers have removed the fight from "fair battlefields", decides to stop being benevolent and start eliminating civilian targets. One of his forcefield rings has enveloped Washington D.C., keeping all civilians and politicians from escaping as Kang attacks with Sentinels he commandeered from the US military. A small team of Avengers made up of Thor, Wasp, Wonder Man, and Firebird make it into the shield to take out the Sentinels, only to find out that while Kang's image is holographic enough that they can't hurt him, the reverse definitely isn't true. Wasp comes across a downed helicopter full of Secret Service and the President, and Thor uses Mjolnir to open a portal to get them out. He can't open one big enough for the entire populace, though, so their only chance is to stop Kang. Thor orders Wasp and Firebird through the portal, since he and Wonder Man can survive anything Kang might throw at them.

They still weren't expecting this.

Faced with the prospect of Kang doing this to every other major city on Earth, and having run out of defenses, the governments have no choice but to surrender.

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	daningram 2009-08-30 09:45 pm UTC (link)
	In all fairness though, this was caused by an outright major villain who overcame the Avengers. Stamford was a sting gone wrong, done for ratings (Fucking Millar...) who's main victims were children. Pulls at the heart strings more. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-08-30 09:57 pm UTC (link)
	Up to a point yes, but continental/world devastation on the order that Kang pulled off WOULD innure the population to such things to some degree or another, especially when, and I can't repeat this often enough, the New Warriors did NOT blow up Standford, the supervillain recruited to cause trouble, and with the power to consciously detonate, did. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

daningram
2009-08-30 10:10 pm UTC (link)

I know Nitro did (Lord do I hate Millar's depiction of the Warriors, much less defending it), but the Warriors pretty much screwed up from the word go.

They were doing it for ratings, they allowed themselves to be seen and failed to control the situation. The Warriors...sigh...hold a good deal of responsibility for what happened. It can't all be blamed on Nitro. Law enforcement, naturally, is held to a higher standard of conduct than criminals, and always should be.

That's why there are rules with police chases these days. Because risking dozens of lives trying to catch a guy who might have only stolen a radio simply isn't worth it.

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	xandertarbert 2009-08-30 11:21 pm UTC (link)
	From what they all knew of Nitro, he normally had the detonation strength of around a hand grenade. So having an entire school bus (and half the engine wrapped around him) should have protected all of the students. They didn't know he was hyped up on the mutant drug. It was like having someone pull out a handgun, and it somehow fired an RPG. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	daningram 2009-08-30 11:45 pm UTC (link)
	So? The point remains, the Warriors jumped the gun and people died as a result. Had law enforcement actually been involved, then that would have been someone's career and head. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

xandertarbert
2009-08-31 12:50 am UTC (link)

That had info on everyone in the house. They were shown knowing the powers, and that they could deal with them. The only one who was any kind of super-dangerous was Nitro, so the strongest member of the team went after him. Sending someone with Namor-like abilities is even overkill for Nitro's threat level. In law enforcement, this would have been public apology and voluntary retirement. The fact all of the team but one died would have resulted in the harshest known crackdown on villains and villain suppliers like Tinkerer.

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daningram
2009-08-31 02:01 am UTC (link)

I'd actually say that Speedfreak was the most dangerous, as he absolutely mauled the Hulk a few times.

And Namorita was by no means overkill for Nitro. Even before he got amped up, he threw down with Captain Marvel and held his own against an early Genis and did some damage to Iron Man.

The problem with comparing it to law enforcement, is that the Warriors *weren't* law enforcement. They were a reality TV show, looking for ratings and allowed themselves to be compromised before they had a set plan.

Police, in a situation like this would get more leeway, because it would be understood that while they are trained and professional (ideally), shit happens. A private citizen screws a situation like this up, everyone would ask why they were in the situation in the first place.

Though, freakin' hell, the Warriors should have been shown as professionals and not glory hogs. Millar, as ever, went with the easy route.

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