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cap_ironman2008-12-21 05:08 pm
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::raises hand:: Question for y'all, concerning the series of shortfics I've been working on.
I can't make polls, so tallying comments will have to do. Based on post-SI, who do you
A) think is most likely
or
B) prefer
to be the one to help Steve tackle the problem of trying to revive Tony's mind from the Extremis?
ETA: Thanks, guys! It looks like the current frontrunners are Pepper and Peter, and I may try to work others in, depending on how the next couple of chapters go.
I can't make polls, so tallying comments will have to do. Based on post-SI, who do you
A) think is most likely
or
B) prefer
to be the one to help Steve tackle the problem of trying to revive Tony's mind from the Extremis?
ETA: Thanks, guys! It looks like the current frontrunners are Pepper and Peter, and I may try to work others in, depending on how the next couple of chapters go.
Re: This is not what you asked, but...
Lol the only POC genius I could find was Eliot Franklin.
Re: This is not what you asked, but...
I've been going through the character bios on the official Marvel site, searching for characters with an official intelligence rating of 7 (the super-geniuses). Since there doesn't seem to be a way of searching by rating, my hunt has been pretty random. As it turned out, so have the ratings.
- Reed Richards, Tony Stark, Doctor Doom, Hank Pym, Hank McCoy, Emma Frost, and T'Challa all have an official intelligence rating of 7. So do Steve Rogers and Thor. (WTF?)
- Bruce Banner, Peter Parker, the Terrible Tinkerer, MODOK, Arnim Zola, and Magneto are all sixes.
- M, Charles Xavier, the Mad Thinker, and the Wizard are fives.
- Janet van Dyne, Doc Samson, and the Red Skull are fours.
- Sam Wilson, Bucky, and Wanda are threes.
- Eliot Franklin, Madame Hydra, and Moonstone are ones, although that's misleading, since it looks like they haven't been rated at all; one seems to be the default.
Marvel's got problems dealing with gender, race, sexual orientation, etc. This is disappointing but unsurprising, since Marvel comics are artifacts of a civilization that has problems with all those issues.Re: This is not what you asked, but...
I discovered M through her wiki bio, which fascinated me in a train-wrecky kind of way. Her mutation is perfection? She's got super intelligence, strength, speed, health? She's an EX-MODEL and rich and tragic? Friends have told me she's somehow NOT an annoying Mary Sueish character, though, idk I'd have to see it to believe it lol.
Indeed. I go back and forth on being annoyed and amused. It grows kind of pointed, too, in how Marvel's adopted mutants as their pet discriminated party and then kind of ignore every real life one. GASP HANK MCCOY COULDN'T GET AN AWARD BECAUSE HE IS A MUTANT SO TRAGIC, and yet, the only super talented characters in their universe are overwhelmingly white and male, even today. (But then the super flawed ones tend toward white and male as well)
I could see mutants as, maybe, a blanket attempt to cover all bigotry in a fictional, not too heavy way, if they even bothered to show some sort of diversity in the group but they do not. They've introduced thousands of characters since the universe's conception and you can still count the notable black characters by hand.
I am pleased with their recent attempts though, with high billed characters like Alex from Runaways and Billy from Young Avengers. Hopefully the trend will grow, as these are real, fleshed, interesting characters, not at all tokens. (At least in my opinion, I know some people disagree with Billy)
lol wow this has gone waaaay off topic. I will answer the OP's question since I feel rude now. D:
Maya is #1 in my mind -- which could be a very interesting event if you have Steve ~willing to bust her out of jail perhaps in an illegal way, oh perhaps she refuses to help unless he does?~
Reed #2, this isn't his area but I mean he is Reed Richards and he and Tony are pretty close.
Hank #3, there's anger there but I do believe he would be there in a pinch, and this would be up his biological knowledge alley.
My opinion would be to go with a group in either case, the problem you're presenting is unprecedented, would get people's attention even if they don't care about Tony, and brain storming/group thinking is traditionally how heroes solve these problems.
I personally would shy away from both Pepper and Peter idk they are just really not in this league. Peter is a genius but an out of practice genius and Pepper is very efficient but. yeah.
i am so sorry I have rambled on for five years D:
oh also, also, I really think you should mention Dr. Strange. Magic is something I think they would check out even if it proves to be worthless
why can't i stop talking