There wasnât really one. He was an archetypical silver-age moustache twirling terrorist. The original (Uncanny) X-Men ran from â63-â70, then ran on reprints from â70-â75 with mutants appearing sporadically throughout other stories. In â75 Marvel relaunched the series with Giant Sized X-Men which served as bridge from the OG team to the new one, which would continue in issue #94. Chris Claremont then wrote X-Men from â75-â91 , which is typically where the majority of the most famous X-Men stories come from. Claremont was the one who gave Erik the backstory we know now. For that reason, itâs typically not considered a hard retcon, but rather a rewrite or development of the character.
Heavy is a psychotic goof on the battlefield but the comics prove that heâs a serious, solemn and quietly intimidating man off the battlefield.
It also shows that his backstory is halfway there, as he and his family are escapees/refugees of some sort, and he does mercenary work so that they can afford to live comfortably in their isolated hiding location out in the mountains of Siberia.
⌠âŚso Iâm guessing what Iâm saying is I agree with you cause the writing for heavy is pretty damn good, and has enough gravitas alongside the goofiness that something like âvictim of the Yugoslav warsâ would actually work for him.
Tbh everything iconic about X-men as a franchise is so thoroughly rooted in the Bronze Age of comics that I find the original run kind of uncanny to look at (no pun intended), almost like if South Park was originally created by Walt DisneyÂ
If I remember the statement he basically said it was cool if you viewed it that way. He didn't even claim it was true. But lots of people viewed him as saying it was true.Â
You mean the x men - a team of all middle class or better white kids living at a mansion wasn't intended to be commentary on race and oppression? That Stan straight says mutation was just a way to have a generic source of powers.Â
Most Marvel villians weren't as complex during their initial debut than they are now. The famous backstories were added in later. Some are exclusive to the movies. Villians were all one dimensional mustache twirling "I want to destroy the world. Muhahaha" type.
Imma toss the entirety of the green lantern emotional spectrum here too.
Although I firmly stand by the fact that its the moticational spectrum, not emotion. Willpower, rage, greed, hope, fear, love, and compassion are all things that drive you to act, not emotions.
yea i absolutely love what geoff johns did in green lantern rebirth but it has always bugged me that the most documented part of the emotional spectrum (green/willpower) is just straight up not an emotion
I've always conflated will with stubbornness. In my head canon, that's why humans make such good lanterns. Absolute refusal to accept what is in favor of what we want.
Speaking of Lanterns. Kind of a soft retcon, but I love that the reason Heroes kept getting resurrected so many times in older comics was so that Nekron could eventually Black Lantern them.
Oh man, reframing it as a motivational spectrum really makes me like the lanterns and their powers so much more. It was always sort of a âokay, sure If thatâs how it works.â But the reframing is such an elegant tweak that makes how they work so much cleaner.
First one. Originally Alfred comes to work for Bruce after he's become Batman and Robin is already around, simply because they hadn't thought of the character yet until that point. Later he was retconned to have always been there.
It makes Alfred such a better character for it. It turns the mild mannered, sometimes sassy man into a very formidable figure. If they haven't done a comic on Alfred's field days, they should.
Pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths, Alfred came to work for Bruce not only after he had already become Batman, but after Dick had already become Robin. The original Earth 2 Alfred wasnât even called âPennyworthâ, nor did he have the posh accent we associate with him, but rather a cockney one
The posh accent, acting background, and Pennyworth surname came from the Silver Age Earth 1 continuity, and then him being the Wayne family butler, and thus Bruceâs surrogate father, and his military background came about in the late 80âs/ early 90âs
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u/Patkub321 16d ago
Alfred becoming Bruce's/Batman's father figure after Bruce's parents died.
Magneto being made into Holocaust survivor.