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Pound the Table | An X-Men Self-Insert

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Aineko said:
Even before that, I have to think this story's JJJ wasn't nuts enough to do things like, oh, create a supervillain by dosing a guy with mad science serum.
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Yeah, that whole thing was caused by JJJ's frustration at Gargan not being able to catch a link between Spider-man and Parker - so he thought "ARGLE-BARGLE! I'll just buy him Scorpion powers so he can sneak past spider-senses!"... and then Scorpion powers turned out to be massive physical mutations and insanity, rather than just the magic sneaky power JJJ argle-bargle'd it to be.
In this case though, JJJ now "knows" the connection there and isn't likely to be as obsessed about it, so Scorpion (at least via JJJ) is unlikely to happen.

October Daye said:
At LEAST one person who has been named in the last five chapters, if not specifically shown, will be dead.
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No! Not Jacques Canter! I can't remember anything about him!
 
Re: Galactus... I don't think it's going to shift the nature of Noa's plotlines in any meaningful way. Given the nature of the story, it's definitely courtroom drama-centered.

That said, crisis events that involve the entire globe can't be glossed over. This includes an eldritch abomination showing up, saying 'what's good', and trying to eat the planet. At least for the near future, Galactus is going to cast a shadow over the story as Something That Happened.

Historical Events! They shape the global sociopolitical landscape!
 
You know... I just realized something. This is 1990.

That means Family Matters just started, and a lot of those shows back then had like, a month turn around between writing and broadcasting. Galactus arriving is the kind of insane madness that will even effect television and radio shows. It is possible that Steve Urkel will have an episode dealing with the fall out of this.
 
Galactus is far enough above Noa's grade she can't do anything. But how do you do business as usual when you know that destruction literally looms above the world? The world's greatest heroes are working on it, but how much do you trust them? And how aware is the general populace? I assume there's some kind of "there's some aliens of unknown alignment near earth; don't worry, top men are on the task" cover-up on all media to prevent the absolute CATASTROPHE that would come from widespread knowledge of what Galactus is and plans to do. Assuming most people are even aware...this is a situation where ignorance would be bliss.
 
VirtualFox said:
"The court has postponed all hearings and trials until we can redistribute judges to the intact courthouses and from there new calendars will be set"

Osborne into more legal limbo due to the World ending event of the week
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"All cases have been postponed until such times as the claims and issues arising from this international emergency have been sufficiently resolved as to reduce the workload to merely double, as opposed to quintuple."

Lunaryon said:
You know... I just realized something. This is 1990.

That means Family Matters just started, and a lot of those shows back then had like, a month turn around between writing and broadcasting. Galactus arriving is the kind of insane madness that will even effect television and radio shows. It is possible that Steve Urkel will have an episode dealing with the fall out of this.
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Luckily for Noa, the one show she cares about still won't start airing for another three years.

Also. A cookie for whoever can guess what show that is.
 
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Cobalt-60 said:
Galactus is far enough above Noa's grade she can't do anything. But how do you do business as usual when you know that destruction literally looms above the world? The world's greatest heroes are working on it, but how much do you trust them? And how aware is the general populace? I assume there's some kind of "there's some aliens of unknown alignment near earth; don't worry, top men are on the task" cover-up on all media to prevent the absolute CATASTROPHE that would come from widespread knowledge of what Galactus is and plans to do. Assuming most people are even aware...this is a situation where ignorance would be bliss.
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I could be wrong, but you're mistaking the duration of the Galactus situation.
 
October Daye said:
I believe a cookie is in order.

… now where did that recipe go…

EDIT: Here it is!
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I was going to say power rangers XD.

Edit: hmm. Mutants existing would change both Star Trek and Power Rangers a *lot* I trust DS9 not to be mutant phobic but Voy and Ent a lot less so given Rick Berman's... everything. Dude was a bigot about everything else no way he wouldn't be a mutant hater too.
 
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LilyWitch said:
Edit: hmm. Mutants existing would change both Star Trek and Power Rangers a *lot* I trust DS9 not to be mutant phobic but Voy and Ent a lot less so given Rick Berman's... everything. Dude was a bigot about everything else no way he wouldn't be a mutant hater too.
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Didn't Rick Berman serve as executive producer for the entire run of DS9? Well, he did the same thing with all the other Star Trek series of that era.
 
LilyWitch said:
hmm. Mutants existing would change both Star Trek and Power Rangers a *lot* I trust DS9 not to be mutant phobic but Voy and Ent a lot less so given Rick Berman's... everything. Dude was a bigot about everything else no way he wouldn't be a mutant hater too.
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I wouldn't be too sure.
Picture "Dear Doctor" in the context where the X-Gene is spreading with each human generation.

Or maybe you're right and that episode simply won't exist in this timeline.
 
LilyWitch said:
Dear Doctor is an Ent episode not a DS9 episode. and was indeed one of the many -isms I was accusing Berman of.
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I know it is ENT.
My point was that the moral of that episode, "Let species A die out in order to give species B a chance to replace it", sounds very pro-Mutant when in the context of the Marvel universe, where the proportion of Mutants is supposed to be increasing with each generation.

Or, maybe if we place Berman (as you've described him. I don't know enough to judge or care enough to research) in the context of Marvel, maybe instead of "Dear Doctor", ENT would have an episode about the evils of Augmentation that is clearly code for X-Gene Mutation.
 
buli-buli said:
I know it is ENT.
My point was that the moral of that episode, "Let species A die out in order to give species B a chance to replace it", sounds very pro-Mutant when in the context of the Marvel universe, where the proportion of Mutants is supposed to be increasing with each generation.

Or, maybe if we place Berman (as you've described him. I don't know enough to judge or care enough to research) in the context of Marvel, maybe instead of "Dear Doctor", ENT would have an episode about the evils of Augmentation that is clearly code for X-Gene Mutation.
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Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
 
buli-buli said:
Doctor Phlox is the one from ENT.

Look this is getting off topic. I'm sorry.
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No worries.

On a more topical note, and still relevant to TV shows…

It got pointed out to me that much as it hasn't really affected her, Noa IS kind of the most famous lawyer in the country at the moment, for as famous as a lawyer can realistically get before the days of Cochran and the OJ trial.

And both Fred Rogers and Steve Irwin are still alive and kicking…
 
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