Why BATMAN, SUPERMAN, SPIDER cannot be part of X-MEN ???  so unfair !!!?
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this is some realy deep politcal sh*t now.
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Uh, right.  First of all, I cannot accept that a regular human, no matter how highly trained, would be able to take out the superpowered beings.  Sure, he's Marvel's version of the Batman, but even going up against the X-teams and the Fantastic Four, I'm SURE that those who were together would give even Batman a hard time, and Punisher sure isn't Batman.  \n\nGranted, most heroes stand by the "thou-shalt-not-kill" credo that the heroes do, but Punisher, as an anti-hero, does not.  While that would give him a bit of an advantage at times, there are other anti-heroes who would stop him, if they chose to.\n\nBesides, where were the psionic and psychic folks in all this?  Did they just play dumb or just didn't read his mind to figure out what the heck he was going to do?\n\nAnyway - no, I haven't read that particular story arc, but I, for one, do not buy it - I wonder who the heck came up with THAT turkey.
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can superman beat the x-men? vote http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1...
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Wow. The answer to your question is TOTALLY subjective, but you know this, yah? So anyway, I'm going to weigh in with Marvel, but only by an inch. Story-wise, most comics are relatively crappy, so you really have to judge on concept. For example, Spider-Man: cool powers, neat costume, good villains, annoying alter-ego sub-plots (nosy aunt, over-exposed film, guilt over dead uncle, etc). Overall, though, a winner. Now, do this with all the characters from both companies, and my opinion is that, conceptually, the Marvel characters tend to: a. Have more diverse and original powers and origins and b. Marvel characters tend to LOOK cooler (the "Batman" characters and Hawkman being the notable DC exceptions). So I'm going with Marvel.\nAs far as stories go, I think DC has focused more (at least in the last 10 years) on telling marginally readable stories than has Marvel. The X-Men may LOOK really cool, but have you tried READING an issue? For the most part, REALLY bad. At lest the DC books have SOME kind of coherency going for them. But nowdays, the companys are pretty evenly matched, so its now just a matter of what your tastes are. Me, I prefer the "Ultimates" (Marvel) over DC's lame "Infinite Crisis," for example, but again, thats just my opinion. \nOn a side note, without a doubt Marvel has better villains than DC, by a MILE, which I think also helps contribute to Marvel's stories and concepts being more easy to relate to.
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Let me clarify and/or refute the points everyone else made.\n\n"Novels have a realistic story, comics are about superheroes or talking animals."  No, it's not exclusive to either.  Graphic novels can be about superheroes, and comic books can be realistic!\n\n"Graphic Novels are for adults, comics are for kids."  In a sense, this is true - books like Sandman, Violent Messiahs, The Watchmen should not be read by kids - however, this doesn't mean that there aren't any novels that kids can't read, and that adults don't read comic books!\n\nBilltucker is correct in his assessment.\n\n"The two words mean the exact same thing."  Oh, no they don't.  There are lots of subtle differences between the two, and some have already been mentioned.  \n\njcmahal is also correct.\n\nAnd now, my two cents:  It is true that graphic novels are self-contained stories and that they can be stand alone, but keep in mind that sometimes graphic novels can be a reprint of a storyline in a comic book.  Like say, the "Maximum Carnage" story that spanned 12 issues of various Spider-man titles.  The graphic novel would have all 12 issues bound into one book - thus making it simpler to read the story; saving you from having to grab all 12 issues to find out what happened!  I also have to point out that in this case it's not self-contained - obviously, there were other issues of Spider-man before the Maximum Carnage story, and there are more issues that came out afterwards.  \n\nSometimes Graphic Novels can be of comic books that were printed; but the comic book was a limited series or had a small series of issues.  Case in point - "Preacher" or "Watchmen".  While these graphic novels did indeed come out in comic book form, they had a beginning and they had an end in their print run.  If you had bought the graphic novel, you would have the entire story.  (Or 8 books in the case of "Preacher".)  You couldn't do that with a comic book-based graphic novel like those of Spider-man or Wolverine.
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Back in the day, when comic characters were created, there were frequently multiple artists writing the character, each adding different parts to it.  Spider-woman seems to have been created with nothing more than the mandate to make a female Spider-Man, and so pesky little details like "origins" were made up on the fly.  Today, Jessica Drew seems to have been given the attention she deserves, and has an origin that seems to make some sort of sense.
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I would definitely want to have Phoenix's powers.  Not only is she incredibly powerful and hard to stop, but her powers also have everyday uses.  Wolverine's claws and healing factor are nice only if you spend your free time cutting steel plates or hospitalizing soldiers.  My second choice would probably be Nightcrawler.  Not as powerful as Jean Grey, but awfully useful.
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--Attention--\n\nMovie spoilers ahead!\n\nIf you have not seen the X3 movie, please do not read on!\n\n- - - - -\n\nIf they plan on making another movie it will most likely be one of these ways. A prequel - to explain more about the origins of the X-Men. They could continue with the current cast and take the movie in a whole different direction; either by ignoring the characters who have since passed on, or by using Xavier and Jene as more passive characters rather then major characters, in which the powers of telepathy would influence the existing characters like Storm and guide them on their way. Who's to say Xavier is completely gone!?! After all, Xavier has walked the halls of time and space before! They could resurrect Xavier and the other two making them major characters yet again (nothing is impossible in the movie industry.) Or they could do spin-offs like Wolverine. I don't think any of the other characters are spin-off worthy. Wolverine is a story in and of himself and would do well on his own.\n\nJust think about it - we barely get a glimpse of Jubilee in X2, we have yet to see Gambit make an appearance, we just briefly get so see the Sentinels in X3 and there is still the story of Apocalypse. There are so many things that they have yet to touch on. They would not willingly kill the story and lose a million dollar movie opportunity! However, they might want to make it appear that way so that they are not "chained to the beast" so to speak, giving them the option of doing it more then one way. After all, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are getting older. Who’s to say one of them won’t kick the bucket any time soon!?! I’m sure they want to play it safe and not make any promises that they can’t deliver.\n\nMark my words - the fans will cry out for another X-Men movie!!! Whether it be with Xavier or not, we will demand another movie to satisfy the burning itch/scar that X3 left in our hearts and minds! They chose to mess with our minds, so they must satisfy the public voice and tie-up all the loose ends that they left with the last movie. We demand to know how the story really ends!!! \n\nWho ever said the "cure" was permanent!?! That's what they thought, but that doesn't make it so! After all, Magneto got a huge dose of "the cure", and yet his power still remained. I mean, Beast returned to normal after being in the same room with the boy. Who’s to say the cure was ever a permanent solution!?! If this is all true and the cure never really was a cure, that means characters like Mystic and Rogue may yet return. Which begs the question - when does Rogue get her super human strength and her amazing flying abilities. Are they going to tie her down and domesticate the great Rogue!?! We want Jubilee and Gambit to fight on the forces of good! Where is Cable, Bishop, and Mister Sinister!?! We want to see the memories of our Saturday morning cartoons come to life again! We want the X-Men (as a whole) back again to bask in their former Saturday morning glory.\n\nIt was cool how Wolverine stopped Jene, but I still don't know why they didn't have enough sense in them to have "the boy" face up with Jene. It all could have been over and done with like that, had the boy faced up to her. Then maybe she would still be alive! \n\nXavier always believed that Jene was the most powerful mutant alive, even more powerful then himself (as was proven in the movie.) Unfortunately, the movie left us with unfulfilled visions. We wanted to see Jene turn in to the Phoenix and fly around the skies in her wonderful and terrible glory. We wanted to see the Sentinels kick some mutant butt. We wanted to see more of a superhuman explosion with Magneto and his minions. But instead, they gave us never before seen or thought of events, which shocked our systems and put a whole new swing on things.\n\nThey (the movie industry) are suppressing a blockbuster monster and domesticating the
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HE HAD SCHEDULE CONFLICTIONS AND IS UNABLE TO APPEAR IN  IT. jUST GET THE XMEN-III the video gamefrom activision and It will explain why Nightcrawler isn't in the movie. Or so the developers-writers say.
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Apocalypse is the all powerfull mutant that all X-Men fear. I find it strange though that they never even mention him in any of the movies... :-?
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Uh, I can tell you THIS - in the comics, Pete Ross is NOT black. His negro manifestation on Smallville is a product of... whatever. There IS no "chloe" in the comics, either. Lana Lang was a pawn of intergalactic rogue police called Manhunters (the predecessors of the Green Lantern Corps [yes, there is/were more than one Green Lantern...many, many more])and tried to get Clark Kent killed. I am NOT making this up. She went crazy, but is apparently "ok" now. Clark Kent, or Superbman, is married to Lois Lane. Lois got all pissy and separated from Clark for a while, but I'm pretty sure they got back together. Clark's old buddy/arch-nemesis Lex Luthor is the wealthiest man living in the imaginary world of DC comics, and was recently elected President. Seriously. Superman pretty much keeps doing the same old boring $#!T he's been doing for the last 60 years, but with better art. Hope this helps you some.
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ok, this is off the top of my head, with no help from the net or anything else!!!\nprofessor x - charles francis xavier, strongest telepath on earth, wheelchair bound, x-men\njean grey - also known as phoenix, marvel girl, married to cyclops, telekinetic, telepathic, sometimes inhabited by phoenix force, possibly dead, x-men, x-factor and hellfire club\ncyclops - scott summers, fires optic blasts from his eyes which are powered by the sun, powers dont work on brother havok, father is leader of starjammers, x-men and x-factor\nwolverine - logan/james howlett, enhanced senses, healing factor, bone claws, adamantium laced skeleton, been part of different organizations (cia, weapon x, alpha flight), x-men\nbeast - hank mccoy, incredible agility, dexterity, strength, intelligent, mutated to be covered in blue fur, recently mutated again, found cure for legacy virus, x-men, x-factor, avengers\ncolossus - ptior rasputin, strength, could transform his skin into organic metal, x-men, died in order to make cure for legacy virus\nstorm – ororo munroe, can control the weather, was a thief, is badly claustrophic, x-men\ngambit – remy lebeau, can charge objects with kinetic energy, favourite weapons playing cards and bo-staff, thief, x-men\nrogue – ability to absorb peoples energy and mutant powers, very strong, can fly, practically invulnerable, x-men\nnightcrawler – kurt wagner, used to be in a circus, can teleport, is blue with a tail and 3 fingers and toes, been part of x-men and Excalibur\njubilee – jubilation lee, can create bright globes of plasma, member x-men and generation x\nbanshee – sean cassidy, can create sonic blasts from his vocal cords, enables him to fly, x-men and generation x\nwhite queen – emma frost, telepathic, telekinetic, can transform her body into diamond hard substance, generation x, x-men and hellfire club\niceman – bobby drake, can turn his body into solid ice, create ice shards and ice structures, x-men, x-factor\npsylocke – besty braddock, conscious transferred to body of ninja, telepathic, telekinetic, power formed as psychic knife, x-men, dead?\narchangel – warren worthington III, also known as angel, originally feather wings, became apocalypse’s horseman, death, wings turned to metal, eventually turned back to feathers, bones hollow like a birds, x-men, x-factor\napocalypse – en sabah nur, oldest mutant known, multiple powers including strength and shape shifting, always has horsemen\nmystique – raven darkholme, shapeshifter, foster mother to rogue, mother to nightcrawler and graydon creed (son of sabretooth)\nsabretooth – victor creed, enhanced senses, mutant healing factor, similar past to wolverine, still possible they’re related\ngraydon creed – son of mystique and sabretooth, human, dead\nforge – ability to create and invent absolutely anything\nmoira mctaggert – human, ran research facility muir island, died from legacy virus\ncable – nathan christopher charles summers dayspring, son of cyclops and madelaine pryor, infected by techo-organic virus by apocalypse, sent into the future, telekinetic and telepathic\nstryfe – clone of cable, same powers but no virus, insane, created legacy virus\nmadelaine pryor/goblin queen – clone of jean grey created by sinister\nmr sinister – nathanial essex, practically invulnerable, obsessed with genetics and summers line, shapeshifter of sorts\nx-man – nate grey, from an alternate reality (age of apocalypse), powerful telekinetic and telepathic\nmagneto - magnus/erik lensherr, can control any metal with magnetism, x-men, brotherhood evil mutants\ntoad - mortimer toynbee, can jump great distances and heights, has extra long tongue can use as a weapon, can spit acid\nblob - fred j. dukes, immense size, practically invulnerable, absorbs energy\nhavok - alex summers, not sure of his exact power, I know it’s solar powered and doesn’t work on cyclops, think it’s something like concussive blasts\npyro - st. john allergy,
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I just got back from seeing the movie.  I was disappointed.  I loved the first two films, especially the second one.  It is true, that we do not know for sure if Scott is really dead.  Maybe Jean was killed off because she was just too powerful.  And what was with Angel?  They started off well by introducing the anguish he went through as a child trying to hide the fact that he had wings, and then he rebles against his dad and decides he does not want the cure.  It was as if they were leading up to create him to be a major character, but it never happened.  Everyone and their dog seemed to get written off in the new film and that pissed me off.  I think the problem is with the whole script.  Bryan Singer directed the first two films and he abandoned X-3 to direct Superman Returns.  Two of the screenwriters from the first two X-Men films did not work on X-3 because they wanted to work with Bryan on Superman Returns.  So I guess that means the real behind-the-scenes talent of the first 2 X-Men films all left for Superman, so that probably means that Superman will be a really good film.
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X3 is the last in the trilogy, but they're making a Wolverine spin-off. I want to see Gambit, dammit!
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Come on people, read the comics for crying out loud! Magneto has ALREADY DEFEATED Thor in the comics before. As it turns out, Uru is ferromagnetic, and Mags literally deflected Mjolnr away with one EMP! Plus, Magneto's force fields made him impervious to Thor's "God blasts"! Man, doesn't anyone ever read the comics before asking who would win in a showdown?\n\nAnyway, Magneto's force fields have held off against Phoenix and even Galactus, so a puny little asgard is no match for him. True, Thor may be a so-called "God", but his powers are way below the omnipotent level. After all, Asgard "gods" are nowhere near the power levels of cosmic beings like Galactus or Eternity, but Magneto can easily manipulate blasts of cosmic energy directed towards him as seen in the comics.\n\nSorry about the rant, but longtime fanboys like me just can't stand the blatant ignorance of these people's answers. Plus, I worked at Marvel for quite a while, so I should know what Magneto is capable of.
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I don't like Superman. I think he's lame, I mean, what's the point if he can just do EVERYTHING. Now, the Green-Lantern, that's my fave. I feel bad for him, no one likes that guy.
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there are a lot more x-men than superman, however they may not have kryptonite available....