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*** He decided that it was just fine to threaten a suicide bomber in a plane full of innocent civilians who would die if the suicide bomber decided to set off the bomb. |
*** He decided that it was just fine to threaten a suicide bomber in a plane full of innocent civilians who would die if the suicide bomber decided to set off the bomb. |
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*** Suicide bombers tend to, y'know, die. It's not like he was going to hold still while Iron Man patiently disarmed the bomb, one-handed, in the middle of a jetstream. |
*** Suicide bombers tend to, y'know, die. It's not like he was going to hold still while Iron Man patiently disarmed the bomb, one-handed, in the middle of a jetstream. |
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*** This is ''Tony Stark'' we're talking about. If he can't disarm a bomb in midair then there is some serious character derailment going on. |
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* [[Grant Morrison]]'s ''New X-Men'' - The twist that Xorn (a superpowered being who was locked up in a Chinese prison for having a black hole contained in his head) was Magneto. That specific plot twist was built up for two years, and was interesting and unexpected. You can't believe you didn't see it coming. The Man from Room X turning out to be the X-Men's biggest enemy was critically-praised and was the most interesting thing to happen to the franchise in years. The problem is how it was handled after that. It turned out that it wasn't Magneto. No, Xorn just thought he was and looked just like Mags. Oh, and {{spoiler|Xorn has a brother with the same powers and the personality he pretended to have as one of the X-Men, just so that they'd still be able to use either character}}. [[Status Quo Is God|The status quo IS God, huh]]? |
* [[Grant Morrison]]'s ''New X-Men'' - The twist that Xorn (a superpowered being who was locked up in a Chinese prison for having a black hole contained in his head) was Magneto. That specific plot twist was built up for two years, and was interesting and unexpected. You can't believe you didn't see it coming. The Man from Room X turning out to be the X-Men's biggest enemy was critically-praised and was the most interesting thing to happen to the franchise in years. The problem is how it was handled after that. It turned out that it wasn't Magneto. No, Xorn just thought he was and looked just like Mags. Oh, and {{spoiler|Xorn has a brother with the same powers and the personality he pretended to have as one of the X-Men, just so that they'd still be able to use either character}}. [[Status Quo Is God|The status quo IS God, huh]]? |
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** Even worse was the way [[Fan Nickname|"Xorneto"]] ''acted'' upon [[The Reveal]]. Trashing Manhattan? OK, Magneto's done it before. But drug use? [[Moral Event Horizon|Herding innocent]] [[Muggles]] [[Moral Event Horizon|into crematoriums?!]] The reason he got ''INTO'' villainy in the first place was being a victim of {{spoiler|[[Those Wacky Nazis|the Holocaust!]]}} While this was all relatively in line with Magneto's original characterization, it doesn't match what the character had evolved into since then. The [[Retcon]] that Magneto had nothing to do with Xorn's actions was a critical [[Author's Saving Throw]]. |
** Even worse was the way [[Fan Nickname|"Xorneto"]] ''acted'' upon [[The Reveal]]. Trashing Manhattan? OK, Magneto's done it before. But drug use? [[Moral Event Horizon|Herding innocent]] [[Muggles]] [[Moral Event Horizon|into crematoriums?!]] The reason he got ''INTO'' villainy in the first place was being a victim of {{spoiler|[[Those Wacky Nazis|the Holocaust!]]}} While this was all relatively in line with Magneto's original characterization, it doesn't match what the character had evolved into since then. The [[Retcon]] that Magneto had nothing to do with Xorn's actions was a critical [[Author's Saving Throw]]. |
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