General Marvel Legends

MagnusPrimal said:
Back in X-Factor, he got a power boost at some point (I think Loki was involved). It was so extreme he couldn’t control his powers. I think the belt helped to keep his power at a level he could manage.
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Sorry, I was being a bit facetious. They did it, like, once before.

But yeah, I remember that story. I don't *think* big techno belt Iceman is my preferred Iceman, but I guess if you're going specifically for Fall of the Mutants era X-teams, that's your guy.
 
SDcomics said:
Spider-Man's a popular, A list character. I think we can all agree on that.

I think part of it has to do with Spidey's rogues gallery. He has some of the coolest vllains in the Marvel Universe. Heck, in all of comics. Spider-Man baddies are a lot of fun. The boundless imaginations of Steve Ditko and John Romita Sr have a lot to do with that.

It's nice that a great many of them have been made in Legends. But so many of them have been made that ... now we're down to the likes of Slyde and Hypno Hustler.

The "Non-Stick Super Villain" and "Spider-Man's Grooviest Disco Villain."

I mean ... how deep are we gonna go here?

Don't get me wrong. I love it. Hypno Hustler is from the Bronze Age and Slyde is from the Copper. They go back years. I'm all in for both of them.

But I have to wonder ... how obscure are they willing to go?

Crime Master? Enforcers? Living Brain? Looter? Kangaroo? Grizzly? Big Wheel, for heaven's sake?

And then there's this guy:

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"Beware the Basilisk, my son!"
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Keep going deeper until I get my Paste Pot Pete, Owl, and Lobo Brothers.
 
Just a quick point of parliamentary procedure:

Yes, the Imperial Guard was created by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum in 1977 as an homage to DC's Legion of Super-Heroes, a book that was also drawn by Cockrum a few years earlier.

HOWEVER ... The Imperial Guard were all adults and not teenagers. Gladiator is therefore an analogue of Superman, not Superboy. In fact, the title of FF 249 is "Man ... and SUPER-MAN!" (Marvel likes hyphens)

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And yes, I can tell you that Gladiator is an analogue of Superman, and not Mon-El.

One last useless little factoid: Marvel's Hyperion of the Squadron Supreme is also a Superman analogue. I don't know if Hyperion and Gladiator ever actually met but it would be interesting.
 
SDcomics said:
One last useless little factoid: Marvel's Hyperion of the Squadron Supreme is also a Superman analogue. I don't know if Hyperion and Gladiator ever actually met but it would be interesting.
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And a quick google search later:

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I forgot all about that. I guess that's what happens when you've read thousands and thousands of comics over the course of 60 years. 😊
 
altcunningham said:
I would like them to make an Iceman based off of the 95 Iceman II. Madureira/Roger Cruz inspired look from when Emma amped him.

Had the cool frosted paint, nice face sculpt with icy 90s hair, clip on ice fists
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Yes please. With an extra AoA head and then color him in that blue/silver crystalline paint that we just got with Gamerverse War Machine.


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I never liked Gladiator as a character. One of my favorite books is the Lobdell/Madureira issue of X-Men where Cannonball knocked him out.
 
A little bit of a segue, but it just occurred to me that with the release of the revised Silver Surfer, it seems like there's a greater chance the Prime Sentinel and/or the Haslab version of Bastion (because I'm sure we're getting another version at some point with '97) might actually see a single card release now. That'd be kinda cool.
 
BasilElks said:
Aren't Owl and Cardiac rumored to be in a Spidey wave?
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Cardiac first appeared just as I was getting into super hero comics. I love the design, love the character. One would guess this is not a character you could easily phone in, so baring any major Hasbro snafu, I'm all-in when that figure drops.
 
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The only possible way I could see Cardiac getting messed up is if he were some strange modern design nobody cared about... but given their obsession with making as many 90s trading cards as possible into real figures, I just can't see that happening.
 
Wasn’t there some licensing hang up with the creator of Cardiac? Was it Erik Larson? I’m not fully familiar with the character.
 
JakeEkiss said:
A little bit of a segue, but it just occurred to me that with the release of the revised Silver Surfer, it seems like there's a greater chance the Prime Sentinel and/or the Haslab version of Bastion (because I'm sure we're getting another version at some point with '97) might actually see a single card release now. That'd be kinda cool.
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The male and female Prime Sentinels with alternate deco heads (to not be straight re-releases from the HasLab) would make for a nice army builder set from Pulse, if they ever wanted to revisit that.
 
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