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Post by travis on Mar 10, 2018 21:59:51 GMT -5
I'm going with changing one major event. Maybe something along the lines of Heroes Reborn, where instead of Franklin putting all the doomed heroes into a pocket dimension inside of a playball, maybe he drops them off into one of his oversized storybooks, melding the MU with some classic stories, like Peter Parker in Treasure Island, Johnny and Sue as Hansel & Gretel, Sam & Josh as Tom & Huck, Tony Stark as Gepetto, and so on. This one is tempting...
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Post by DD Doyle on Mar 10, 2018 22:56:01 GMT -5
So that was my vote. I’m just less interested in a future setting, although I agree that whichever idea occurs, it should shift the characters we know and love to that setting directly. If future does get the majority, you know you could still do your Captain Britain story. In this cyberpunk future he could simply be an old soul chosen specifically for that reason to represent the last bastion of true British tradition in a Clockwork Orange world... or something, lol.
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Post by Gavin McMahon on Mar 11, 2018 7:13:53 GMT -5
So that was my vote. I’m just less interested in a future setting, although I agree that whichever idea occurs, it should shift the characters we know and love to that setting directly. If future does get the majority, you know you could still do your Captain Britain story. In this cyberpunk future he could simply be an old soul chosen specifically for that reason to represent the last bastion of true British tradition in a Clockwork Orange world... or something, lol. That story has moved on into its own thing. The shared-continuity Alternate is looking like one part of the branch, Captain Britain will be standalone. My vote was cast with the knowledge I’d have to come up with a new idea anyway 😂 I just don’t find the future as interesting as the past or a dystopian world.
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Post by DD Doyle on Mar 11, 2018 8:19:08 GMT -5
I was thinking if we go with future we should use roughly the same amount of time of Captain America's original "sleep". Saying he was frozen in 1945 and was awoken in what? Roughly 2009 by the current Marvel timeline? That would shoot us 64 years into the future. With a modern day soldier (perhaps Steve is deployed in Afghanistan or something?) being put into stasis and waking up in the year 2082.Image a Tony Stark or Reed Richards born in the 2040's? If the general populace has ready access to tech way beyond ours there innovations would even further beyond that!
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Post by claypot on Mar 11, 2018 15:20:47 GMT -5
Thoughts?
You know a certain superhero movie sequel is coming this Summer...No, not that one. I'm talking about The Incredibles, as this would be the great time to have the Parr family visit the Marvel Universe and maybe meet the F4 or Spider-Man and fight a major Marvel villain.
Bonus: Howard the Duck meets The Ducktales gang and Darkwing Duck. Kim Possible and Agent K work for SHEILD along with Perry The Platypus. Gizmmoduck team-up with Iron Man. The Gargoyles teaming with other Marvel urban heroes.
Maybe a darker reboot of The Punisher Meets Archie, where Frank kills somebody in Riverdale to shatter the normality of Archie Comics.
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Post by goncet on Mar 11, 2018 18:04:30 GMT -5
I was thinking if we go with future we should use roughly the same amount of time of Captain America's original "sleep". Saying he was frozen in 1945 and was awoken in what? Roughly 2009 by the current Marvel timeline? That would shoot us 64 years into the future. With a modern day soldier (perhaps Steve is deployed in Afghanistan or something?) being put into stasis and waking up in the year 2082.Image a Tony Stark or Reed Richards born in the 2040's? If the general populace has ready access to tech way beyond ours there innovations would even further beyond that! I also kind of dig the idea of SHIELD being a corporation of it's own. Nick Fury is a former solider turned owner of this very large mercenary contractor company. Their most elite squad is a group known as The Avengers (probably not including Cap, Stark or Thor at the start) who are used in highly risky and volatile jobs. I imagine Stark still follows a similar path, he's a massive corporate overlord who is captured by a revolutionary group and must work to free himself. Deciding to right the wrongs of his company by using his technology to help the people below the high rises and skyscrapers once he's escaped.
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Post by Gavin McMahon on Mar 11, 2018 18:27:58 GMT -5
I also kind of dig the idea of SHIELD being a corporation of it's own. Nick Fury is a former solider turned owner of this very large mercenary contractor company. Their most elite squad is a group known as The Avengers (probably not including Cap, Stark or Thor at the start) who are used in highly risky and volatile jobs. I imagine Stark still follows a similar path, he's a massive corporate overlord who is captured by a revolutionary group and must work to free himself. Deciding to right the wrongs of his company by using his technology to help the people below the high rises and skyscrapers once he's escaped. That’s a really strong idea for an Avengers series. Military personnel rather than heroes, at least at the outset until they became a brand of their own. It also gives leeway for a few small teams (domestic on the East and West Coast and then the global team that intervene in war torn countries). I imagine the X-Men’s main shtick of being outcasts could carry through too if they were a repercussion of global contamination.
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Post by DD Doyle on Mar 11, 2018 19:11:44 GMT -5
That’s a really strong idea for an Avengers series. Military personnel rather than heroes, at least at the outset until they became a brand of their own. It also gives leeway for a few small teams (domestic on the East and West Coast and then the global team that intervene in war torn countries). I imagine the X-Men’s main shtick of being outcasts could carry through too if they were a repercussion of global contamination. Taking it a step further if this future is as dark/cyberpunk-y as had been expressed perhaps SHIELD takes on a more aggressive form? Not sinister at least in intent but perhaps "overprotective" lol as the name even would imply. Maybe the Nick Fury of this time acts and carries himself more as the nigh-immortal he actually is rather than clinging to his rough and tumble past. Having seen the terrors of the world maybe he uses everything in his power to protect it, even when the world doesn't want it...
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Post by Gavin McMahon on Mar 11, 2018 20:19:01 GMT -5
With the future timeline idea looking set to win, I have only the vaguest idea of a story. It’s not sustainable in the long term but it’s a miniseries idea with Lorna Dane (but not as Polaris).
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Post by DD Doyle on Mar 11, 2018 20:47:28 GMT -5
If we're putting our cards on the table:
I have a pretty great idea for a cyberpunk/dystopic future version of the classic Defenders lineup (Strange, Hulk, Namor, Valkyrie, Nighthawk, Hellcat, Hellstrom and Gargoyle) taking the idea that these characters and this "team" have always represented the misfits of Marvel the ones who really don't fit in anywhere else and putting them in a world where they'll be even stranger, even more dangerous and even more lost. Note: I purposefully left Surfer off the list as to leave him to anyone who wants to take up "Fantastic Four 2082" (or whatever, lol) and retell the Galactus story in a new timeline. Should anyone want to do that I'd be open to talking about maybe sharing him after they're done but that is putting the cart way before the metaphorical horse, heh.
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Post by C William Russette on Mar 12, 2018 23:13:25 GMT -5
I'm sticking with changing one major event. There are a bunch of ways to try this out. This interests me most.
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Post by claypot on Mar 13, 2018 9:57:07 GMT -5
I did a What If story about Spider-Man joining the X-Men, and the twist of Cyclops becoming Venom was a great idea I had. If I redid an event in comics it would be Secret Empire with Doc Ock as the main villain gathering all the villains together to take over. It would be a direct sequel to Dark Reign with Otto as a major threat.
As for Dark Reign itself, I would give the Dark X-Men the time to shine than just being butt of joke. I would see Mystique leading the Dark X-Men to fight the Dark Avengers for bitch slapping them out of the Battle of Asgard. This is why I didn't like AVX, as the X-Men have been not mentioned by other people who call out The Avengers and the F4.
If I do an X-Men series, I get to use them as heroes within the other heroes and get praised.
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Post by brawl2099 on Mar 13, 2018 10:34:09 GMT -5
I feel like there's a lot of love for the future story being dystopian, but why not go the other direction? I mean dystopian futures are a dime a dozen. Why not go utopian?
Shining ultra-advanced cities powered by repulsor tech.
The Negative Zone being used as a near instantaneous travel hub.
The X-Men being peaceful defenders of the successful integration between humans and mutants.
Spider-Man still experiencing the Parker Luck. :-)
Yes, there are still bad guys. Yes, there is still conflict. And you can bet your ass there are dark sides to the utopia. Picture Star Trek by way of DS9.
I'd be much more interested in reading that than yet another dark and grimy dystopian future.
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Post by DD Doyle on Mar 13, 2018 20:29:53 GMT -5
I'm sure it could be done but I'd imagine the X-Men would just kind of feel like all the other superheroes without the aspect of bigotry and persecution hanging over them, wouldn't they?
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Post by goncet on Mar 16, 2018 17:29:57 GMT -5
Okay, well it seems like voting is pretty much done. A future setting seems to be the pick. I just want to get a quick show of hands for those who would be interested in contributing to a future-set universe. I'll set up a group message for all of us to world build together.
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